Author Archives: Ian

Thesis now online

I passed my viva examination a few months ago, and after very helpful suggestions from my two examiners I submitted the final version of my PhD thesis to the QMUL authorities a month ago. The paperwork all went through so I have now completely finished my doctoral training. All that remains to be done is [...]
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Simon Singh wins appeal

Congratulations and well done to Simon Singh who today won his appeal for the right to use a “fair comment” defence in his case against the British Chiropractic Association. Jack of Kent is going to give his analysis of the ruling over the weekend, starting here. This is only one case however and the need [...]
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Customising Beamer Presentations

Someone asked me how I achieved the effects on my slides in the talk I gave at QMUL, so having written them an email outlining all the customisations I usually make, I thought the subject might be worthy of a blogpost. I use the Beamer package for LaTeX which is a great way to include [...]
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Relativity and Cosmology Seminar

Yesterday I gave my first seminar as a postdoc in the regular Relativity and Cosmology series at QMUL. People seemed to engage with the material and there were quite a few questions at the end. The slides for the talk are available as a pdf or through the embedded widget below. My style for talks [...]
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-22

Pic of me doing some actual astronomy yesterday! Solar observations as part of school outreach during #NSEW http://twitgoo.com/kw1ms #
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