Random thoughts about conducting scientific research, supervising students and «toys» that make creative activities even funnier…
This semester I thought an undergraduate laboratory to last year engineering students. These will be entering the job market (or pursue graduate studies) in a
Seth Godin has written an very interesting (and free) manifesto about the US school system (though the birth of Canada school system is very similar
In a discussion with a postdoc of mine, she was telling me that she observed that advisors are of three types: opener, middle cruncher and
Update May 2nd: This video shown the famous theoretical physicists Michio Kaku on the very same topics 3D transistors technology will help Intel to pack even more
Final result in…I got promoted to full professor, effective June 1st. At that date 21 years ago, I was just starting my grad studies 😉
For any one who is following PhD Comics, either religiously or occasionally, the Piled Higher and Deeper movie is available!
In the previous post, I was directing interested students to the free book Organizing Creativity. There are a few more excellent resources on the web
The majority of graduate students that I had the chance to supervised (yes I consider student supervision as a core mission of being a researcher
Computers have become a key tool for the acquisition, analysis and processing of data in scientific research. Furthermore, the value of computer simulation in our
Here it is. About two years ago, I decided to start a blog about scientific research, student supervision and related topics. While topics are abundant,
