Friday, September 04, 2009
Baby Bryce is Here.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
alphajet et mirage 2000
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Crazy Mountain Bike Downhill
Sunday, July 15, 2007
More Wedding Photos
Well I've now successfully defended and turned my dissertation in, so I thought I'd post some more wedding photos. Luckily my uncle, Paul Hersey, is a professional and so he did the photography for us. The first is a collection of shots from the evening before when we all went out to eat -- Katie seems to be having a good time. The next is a wide angle view of the ceremony, followed by a shot of all the family members. The final shot is of Katie and I under a huge Magnolia tree (it's a very neat, and very large tree -- the central trunk has low-lying branches that dive back into the ground to form sattelite trunks, some of which had satellites themselves, and even a couple of those had their own satellites -- I didn't know that magnolias did this). The wedding was held at the Horace Williams House in down town Chapel Hill -- it's a historic building that also serves as an art museum. Oh, and I thought the wedding went quite well too :-).
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Let's see here, where was I...
Right then, picking up where I left off, I finished the papers later in the summer of 06, but my advisor decided that we should also investigate eccentric binary inspirals, which turned out to be quite interesting. That brings us through the winter of 07, and then it was time to write my dissertation. Well, I've just finished it and here we are, one year later. I'll defend in a few days, on July 10th. And oh yeah, I got married to Katie on May 19th, and I also got a postdoc starting this fall at LSU :-).
Friday, June 30, 2006
Gravity Wave Course
Hmmm, the blogging around here has been, uh, rather light for a while now - but fear not, this blog hasn't been abandoned! I'm working on my first scientific papers which should go out before all too long - the code is fast, stable, and accurate. I'll blog about them after they go up on the arxiv. In the mean time here is a nice online gravity wave course from Caltech.
Friday, March 31, 2006
Neural Nets
Here are a couple of neat videos that my friend David pointed me towards: Modeling the Neocortex, and Hacking the Brain. I also talked with Vincent recently about the tricky problem of figuring out the algorithm that directs how synaptic strengths are modified in the brain. I'm a bit tired from frisbee today, so I'll talk about it in a lot more depth tomorrow.
