Category Archives: Tools

Minor Tick Labels in Matplotlib

By Ian | Published: February 28, 2011

This is a slightly more technical post than usual but having figured out how to do something quite esoteric in Matplotlib I thought I would write it down to save me remembering. I have been making quite a few plots recently for a paper which should hit the arXiv very soon. The Python plotting package [...]

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Inspire Beta: New Interface to SPIRES database

By Ian | Published: October 12, 2010

A colleague mentioned today that the front page of the venerable SPIRES database of High Energy Physics papers is now promoting the new Inspire interface which was announced a few years ago. The website for the current beta phase of the project is http://inspirebeta.net. It is unclear to me whether “Beta” is part of the [...]

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ArXiv app for Android

By Ian | Published: August 19, 2010

I don’t regularly look up new papers on my phone, preferring the ease of checking them on my desktop at work. However when travelling or attending a conference it can be very handy to be able to quickly pull up some paper you half remember in the middle of a conversation. As an Android user [...]

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Customising Beamer Presentations

By Ian | Published: March 25, 2010

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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Cosmo09 conference

By Ian | Published: September 1, 2009

The annual Cosmo conference for all branches of cosmology is taking place next week 7th-11th September in CERN. I will be attending and giving a talk in the inflation session on Thursday afternoon. After last week’s Science Online London 2009 conference which I attended, I have been thinking about how to get fellow cosmologists to [...]