personal and professional notes from a chemistry graduate student
Oct 21st 2005laughter & nerd alert
My advisor suggested, the other day, that I experiment with digital filters to remove the fluorescence background (very broad) and the noise (very narrow) from my data (in the middle).[1] I wasn’t terribly excited, because
(1) I look nothing like a signal processing expert,
(2) I had other things planned for this week, and
(3) I’d tried [...]
Oct 10th 2005General & nerd alert
First full day of conference stuff. Highlight of the morning was Max Diem’s talk on infrared imaging of cells (skin and cervical); mostly spectral stuff about the need to target individual cells and where the spectral variance actually comes from, but some stuff on how to collect and prepare cells that’s relevant to a [...]
Oct 9th 2005General
Flew out this morning, about an hour late thanks to Northwest deciding to swap planes on us instead of fixing the original one. Quebec stamped my passport (Ontario never has), so that’s no longer blank.
I entered my poster in the student poster awards session this evening, mostly to get a bit more exposure…. I [...]