fMRI class

They require students to turn in a written assignment at the first class....

Dear Prospective 9.71 Students-

If you would like to take 9.71 you must come to the first class, and you must turn in the written assignment at or before the beginning of the second class (Sept 13). Anyone who misses the first class or fails to turn in the written assignment on time will not be able to stay in the class. No exceptions.

The assignment itself hasn't been published, but I guess it's something time-consuming to me because I didn't take a few prerequisite classes. Should I take this class?

Back to Boston~~

With about twelve hours of flight & transfer, I'm finally back in Boston. I took Continental airlines, and luckily it only delayed for twenty minutes from Newark to Boston. Two weeks ago some other people from the same group took the exact same flight, and they are delayed for 6 to 8 hours I believe. My flights from Boston to Geneva two months ago were also heavily delayed and I had to change to plan completely and transferred once more. I don't think I would want to fly with Continental airlines again....

CMS visualization

Iguana is a CMS visualization tool. It's very cool. One can see the particle tracks and detectors in 3D. Animation is also doable. I took an electron shooter and fed the result into the program, and got a lot of nice-looking plots. I also plotted some standard proton-proton events. Some of the plots are uploaded to my album. The movie files unluckily are not uploaded due to technical problems. I tried before, but the quality became very low. Maybe I forgot to set something in picasa...

Oops, blog deserted already

I completely forgot about here for a long time ^^" Anyways.

Life here is too busy, and I was trying to accomplish at least some things in the last few weeks. I didn't want to come back from CERN and say that I haven't done anything except supporting others for their research. Luckily the heavy ion Z search went okay. I'm still not satisfied, but that's about it. I'm leaving on Wednesday, and there's no time left.

My web album has updated a lot in the mean time. I traveled to Paris and Lausanne. I wanted to go also to Rome, but unluckily I was fighting with the Z particle and didn't want to go away for a few days and do nothing.

The firework in Geneva festival was very nice. I was really moved. This is my first time watching a firework that has a theme. What makes things better is that they match firework with music. In this way a lot more can be expressed. The aura is also better. It's too bad that my camera ran out of memory very soon.

Maybe I'll have a summer review post some time soon.