Natalie B. Hogg

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  • Year Four

    My early efforts at blog writing were somewhat sporadic, but I did mark some key moments during my PhD, in the posts Year Two and Year Three. In the former, I reflected on the major review that every Portsmouth PhD student must pass in order to progress to their second year. In the latter, I […]

    Natalie Hogg

    September 28, 2020
    PhD
    cosmology, lockdown, organisation, PhD, physics, project, student, time management
  • Keeping a lab diary as a theorist

    Making a daily log of my thoughts and things I tried saved the final year of my PhD.

    Natalie Hogg

    August 28, 2020
    Academia, PhD, Reviews
    lab diary, notion, organisation, PhD, productivity, student, time management, to do, work diary
  • How asking a question on Stack Exchange kick started my career in research

    I did my undergraduate degree at Aberystwyth University in Wales. I took the astrophysics course, which ran in parallel to the plain physics degree for the first two years, covering all the basics such as mathematical methods, classical mechanics, waves, optics, thermodynamics and so on. In the third year the astrophysics became the main focus, […]

    Natalie Hogg

    July 27, 2020
    Academia, PhD
    cosmology, independent, initiative, masters, PhD, physics, question, stack exchange, student, study
  • Thesis off-cuts: the ancient history of general relativity

    I have recently been thinking a lot about what introductory and background material I want to include in my PhD thesis, as my self-imposed December deadline continues to hurtle towards me at an alarming speed. Concurrent with this thinking, I’ve also recently been enjoying a fantastic book called The Poincaré Conjecture by Donal O’Shea, all […]

    Natalie Hogg

    June 27, 2020
    PhD, Science
    cosmology, general relativity, gravity, perelman, PhD, physics, poincare, thesis, thesis off-cuts, topology
  • Travelling during the pandemic

    This week has been a particularly exciting one, and not just due to the XENON experiment result that has set both the arXiv and cosmology Twitter abuzz. Fate finally smiled on me and the Spanish borders have reopened to non-residents, thereby allowing me a small window of opportunity to return to Madrid to collect the […]

    Natalie Hogg

    June 25, 2020
    Academia, PhD, Travel
    coronavirus, flights, madrid, pandemic, PhD, spain, study abroad, Travel
  • The joy of journal clubs

    Presenting papers in journal clubs is one of my least favourite things to do. While I enjoy reading in general, I find reading academic papers a chore, especially if the writing is uninspired or the results obscured by reams of unfamiliar theory. However, papers are the currency of academia and, to stretch the analogy, journal […]

    Natalie Hogg

    May 12, 2020
    Academia, PhD
    cosmology, journal club, papers, PhD, physics, publishing
  • An update from lockdown

    At first I refrained from writing about “the situation we currently find ourselves in”, as it has come to be so coyly referred to. I am lucky in that, while I was driven to leave Madrid and return to the UK, the pandemic has not affected my life in any great measure. Only one person […]

    Natalie Hogg

    April 16, 2020
    PhD, Travel
    coronavirus, cosmology, covid19, lockdown, pandemic, PhD, quarantine
  • Homeless due to COVID19! Madrid week nine

    I’ll admit it’s a bit of a clickbait-y headline, but yes, on Tuesday I was made homeless due to the coronavirus pandemic. Let me explain. I’m currently living in Madrid, on long-term attachment from my home university of Portsmouth in the UK. I’ve been here since January to work with a collaborator of mine. We […]

    Natalie Hogg

    March 12, 2020
    PhD, Travel
    airbnb, coronavirus, covid19, europe, homeless, lta, madrid, pandemic, PhD, spain, study abroad, Travel, wfh
  • Show time: Madrid week eight

    On Friday last week I boarded a late morning flight from Madrid to London. Three hours later I was speeding south on the familiar train from Waterloo, looking forward to my long weekend in Portsmouth. The main purpose of my trip was to see the annual University of Portsmouth Dramatic and Musical Society (DMS) show. […]

    Natalie Hogg

    March 4, 2020
    PhD, Reviews, Travel
    lta, madrid, offenbach, orchestra, orpheus, PhD, study abroad, two show day
  • Paper day! Madrid week seven

    Today my first paper as first author came out on the arXiv! You can check it out here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10449. In this work, we reconstruct a coupling function between dark matter and vacuum energy. Such models are generally motivated as solution to problems such as the Hubble tension, so we were keen to update our previous […]

    Natalie Hogg

    February 25, 2020
    PhD, Science, Travel
    cosmology, dark energy, dark matter, lta, madrid, paper, PhD, physics, publication, spain, study abroad
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