Proud (co!)supervisor moment
Alan Duffy
Proud (co!)supervisor moment here with 3 incredible students graduating across a range of disciplines… Dr Tom Graham, Dr Adam Ussing, and Dr Renee Key.
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Matt is a 3MT world winner!
Alan Duffy
I’m beyond thrilled to celebrate our Space Institute PhD student Matt Shaw and his incredible win at the 3MT APAC international finals. Against entries by 54 universities from around the region his work on mining the moon to provide metals for constructing moonbases (seriously how cool is his Thesis) was found the most engaging - considering you have just Three Minutes(!) to explain three years of work, his efforts to connect with the audience are nothing short of amazing
Read More"Model Dispersion with prism: An Alternative to MCMC for Rapid Analysis of Models" - vd Velden (2019)
Alan Duffy
Published in the highly ranked ApJS and JOSS (as well as being available on arXiv for free) the “Probabilistic Regression Instrument for Simulating Models” package PRISM was a massive undertaking by my PhD student Ellert vd Velden. He built a brand-new open source MPI-capable Python package that can take ANY model from a user and map out the entire parameter space for regions that can explain the data.
Read MoreHawking is my PhD 'great-grandad'
Alan Duffy
A website tracks PhD supervisors to find your 'academic genealogy' and none-other than Stephen Hawking is my Great-Grandad! Meaningless but hilarious.
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