I am going to Europe.
For the last few months my supervisor has wanted to organise a visit the 3. Physikalisches Institut of the Universität Stuttgart, where there is a there is a research group that does very impressive work on the NV centre in diamond (our own field of study). In the last week things have fallen into place, and I have a flight to Germany booked for early March. Read the rest of this entry »
Jan 24
Over lunch today I read a short news report in Nature about origami and mathematics. The article reports on a recent presentation by Taketoshi Nojima that describes folding a surprising range of “tubes, conical shells, circular membranes, movable/shape-changeable models and highly rigid 3-D cores” from flat sheet materials. Scroll through to the last few pages of the presentation manuscript to find pictures of some very serious origami indeed.
An example is this “pine cone” that neatly folds flat. This sort of research could lead to applications ranging from foldable drink bottles to “light sails” and antennae on spacecraft. Read the rest of this entry »
When I was young, my family had a tradition of camping at Myall Lakes for a few days before Christmas. A few weeks ago we relived this custom with a twist. Instead of camping at Johnson’s Beach, or Violet Hill, or Mungo Brush, we visited them all – on a houseboat.
We embarked on our voyage on Monday (Dec 17), and Clansi and I left on Thursday. I had my GPS recording our path for almost all of the trip.
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We’re back online after a few weeks of intermittent internet during the change over to Iinet’s Naked DSL. I apologise for this site being down during this time, and am excited to announce that everything should be back on air now.
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An example is this “pine cone” that neatly folds flat. This sort of research could lead to applications ranging from foldable drink bottles to “light sails” and antennae on spacecraft. 