Author Archives: Robert George

So yeah, that’s my name on the microchip which will head into the sun’s atmosphere. It’ll be great to see what comes out of ‘touching the sun’. “The primary science goals for the mission are to trace how energy and … Continue reading →

I just wanted to state my backing of our lecturers in their current and future strike action over the changes to their pension schemes. I think it’s outrageous and unfair how much they are set to lose if the proposed … Continue reading →

In December 2017 I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS). December’s edition of the Astronomy and Geophysics was very interesting. In particular I enjoyed reading Ian Crawford’s article about why we should build a moon village. … Continue reading →

So I spent this week at the University of Leeds for a combined Computational MHD Workshop and Conference in honour of Professor Sam Falle. I had a great week and enjoyed playing around with the HPC system provided by DiRAC … Continue reading →

So the first paper I co-authored has now finally been published in Fluid Dynamics Research! My contribution to this paper was based on a numerical code I wrote to compute a range of topological and geometrical properties of superfluid vortices, … Continue reading →

So today was my first day of my PhD at Newcastle University. I had my induction and first official meeting with Dr P Bushby and Dr C Guervilly and am looking forward to getting to stuck into a new project. … Continue reading →

So this week I attended the introductory summer school run by the STFC, hosted by Northumbria University at Jury’s Inn. It was a great week where I learned a lot of new things and met fellow STFC-funded PhD students. In … Continue reading →

So today I graduated from Newcastle University with a 1st in my Master’s. I was also pleased to receive an award for my academic achievement including a year’s Associate Membership to the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. I had … Continue reading →

So yesterday my final set of exam results were released. I achieved 84% for my MMath project, 70% in Differential Equations, Transform Methods and Fields and 77% in both Differential Geometry and General Relativity and Number Theory and Cryptography. I … Continue reading →

So that’s it, my final exams of my undergraduate degree are over. Number Theory and Cryptography wasn’t too bad it’s just the numbers we were given for performing things like RSA encryption were especially large making many questions very time … Continue reading →