Part 4 physics presentations

Missed the first presentation.

Anna Yang - Mechanical model of the breast

• Aid clinicians
• Cancer research
• Segmentation of regions from MR images
• Three interests: Air, skin, fat
• Using active contour models to find a 3D model from a series of pictures.

Matthew Walbran - All fibre Coherent Anti-stokes Raman Scattering

• CARS for spectroscopy
• Multiplex CARS to cut down tuning time.
• Fibre being an optical fibre.

Ihab Ramadaan - Investigating the use of "colour" spectral CT

• Imaging modality
• Distinguishing different oragans/tissues
• Current techiques use markers but triple xray doses and time. Also dual energy scans but again double the time and xray. Also spectral CT works like RGB
• LHC = Large Hadron Collider
• Testing spectral CT and acquisition developed in collaboration with the university of Canterbury.
• Stopping power determined by the sensor layer.

Yukti Srivastava - Construction of an EDFA for use in an adavance lab

Speaker is crazy with the laser pointer. She needs a light saber!

• Amplification of light in long fibres.
• Connectorised components of the lab equipment.

Pratik Raval - LED as replacements to traditional lighting.

• Light is confined in LEDs because of internal reflection. Angle of illumination is small as well.
• Thermal management of LEDs due to thermal output over a small component size.

Poor guy. Not sure what his contributions were.

Jason Kuo - Bacterial tagging with optode

• Using labview and a single fibre probe
• Ended up a two fibre probe to compact coupling issues causing an irregular peak.

Amy Lin - Construction of a femtosecond Kerr shutter

• Need to combact "chirp" in super-continuum production
• Super-continuum source
• Optical delay line
• Polarizer
• Kerr medium
• Orthoginally, a femtosecond pulse source
• Analyzer

Kaidi Liang - Super-continuum generation

• Making tapers for super-continuum generation
• Third order effects most prominent in super-continuum generation
• Taper = heating a fibre and stretching under control.

Terminology issue: core

Neil Alan Campbell - Determining iron loading using MRI T2* decay curves

• Iron loading is the amount of iron in tissue.
• MRI for determining iron loading without having to take biopsies.

Writing for academic publication

Gina Wisker

Why publish:

• Finish PhD
• Confidence in writing skills
• Stop head spinning
• Connecting with community
• Sharing your research
• People need to know your idea
• Get feedback
• Peer reviewed

What is stopping you:

• Lack of confidence
• Discourse
• Not ready or fully developed thoughts
• Fulfilling other obligations
• Being a perfectionist

What helps you:

• Deadlines with consequences
• Presentation to colleges - views - ideas
• Reading others' work
• People supporting you for the effort
• Teaching in anyway - coherent communication

What is appropriate to write and publish now?

• Initial results and PhD direction

What you have been working on?

• Getting familiar with tools to develop on top.

Who are you doing it for?

• Supervisor: So they know I'm on track
• Myself: Marks the first start of my PhD research
• Community: Thoughts and feedback

Main issues to explore

Theories to use

Research to be done

What's done already by me?

Someone else

Outlet

Momentum

Calls to papers

What do the publishers like?

What do the editors like?

How does it contribute? What does it contribute? Why does this matter?

Publication / Conference

• Publications are shorter
• Conferences written in speech
• Catch the butterflies in the conference and write them in the publication

The invisible thread

Kevin Prohl

• Eye contact, engaging story, gestures, relation, variation, tone; for the audience.
• Imagery
• Vocal variation, pause, volume, pitch.
• Pictures, colour.
• Have a lesson; a triad - in threes.
• Take something away - "take away".
• Impact openings - attract attention.
• Convection, sincerity.
• Connect to the audience.
• Making that connection to the audience - the invisible thread.
• "Ready, Aim, Blame"
• "Hiss"
  

Ray Avery

Went to MIT guys for advice on making incubator. They suggested a car part model. That seemed useless because repair would be very hard to do since each part would be custom made and very hard to service in a third world country.

The ideal would be to make something that did not require any repairing, at all.

• Incubator - costs nothing and requires no replacement.
• Snap fitting - no screw driver likely to be found in third world countries.
• Making things indestructible - physically and electronically.
• "Life Raft"
• Eventual incubator can be sold in third world countries but also first world. "It is not a cheap knock off".

The baby generates the bugs (source). The air needs to be cleaned from within. Using UV LEDs to kill the bugs. LEDs also serves as an impromptu heating element. Air filters can be made self cleaning through periodic reversal of air flow into the incubator.

MikesBikes MCC Competition Final Results

MCC 2014 Scoreboard
From: help@smartsims.com
Sent: Monday, 28 September 2009 10:39 a.m.

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Hi Company Managers,

The final rollover for the MikesBikes competition was processed over the weekend. Attached is the Scoreboard report showing all Firms' end placing ranked by Shareholder Value (SHV).

Congratulations to the teams below who placed in the top 3 spots for SHV:

1st - Meritocratic Society $92.41
2nd - OGC $86.50
3rd - Bradford Says Smack $82.14

We noted that the level of competition and decisions were quite high across the board this semester. There were many interesting decisions and gambles which paid off. Business by nature is risky, and the winning teams made calculated risks where other chose to play it safe or missed opportunities. We were also pleased by the decisions and results of the following teams, who we commend for succeeding to reach a high SHV:

OnePlusOne

iBike Pro

Storm of Action

FlowerPower

FlowerPower

Ring a Ling Bikes

We've also created an MCC news page to display previous winners and the current results. You can access this by following the link given below:

http://www.smartsims.com/news/mcc

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Kind Regards,

Danny Master
SmartSims International

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Industry	Firm	SHV	Profit	Sales Revenue
Asia	Meritocratic Society	$92.41	$12,515,588	$36,546,794
North America	OGC	$86.50	$8,463,745	$26,985,872
Europe	Bradford Says Smack	$82.14	$7,948,173	$26,671,502
North America	OnePlusOne	$55.95	$4,050,075	$29,585,905
Europe	iBike Pro	$54.10	$5,837,377	$20,613,120
Europe	Storm of Action	$51.36	$5,788,154	$27,711,565
Asia	FlowerPower	$35.12	$3,349,417	$21,416,569
North America	Vivo tinto	$34.28	$3,443,477	$18,749,716
Europe	Ring a Ling Bikes	$24.77	$2,100,923	$15,166,398
Asia	Sir McJoffalot	$12.74	$1,461,955	$8,151,000
Asia	S & D Corporation	$12.74	$1,461,955	$8,151,000
North America	Tavron	$9.55	$197,243	$5,166,590
Asia	AD & JD Group	$6.39	$107,530	$16,129,164
North America	Juggernaut	$3.97	($816,215)	$13,127,800
Europe	Vans	$3.71	($141,349)	$11,427,176
Europe	Phoenix Bikes	$3.40	($1,984,644)	$4,537,650
North America	lance's bikes	$1.97	($3,930,810)	$10,200,944
Asia	LIFO	$0.29	$45,717	$10,292,546

A refined sensor-ability: Applying process algebra to sensor network analysis

Allan McInnes

Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP): mutually consistent denotationally; operationally; and algebraic semantics.

Refinement can provide verification.

Node modeling. Example node:

• TinyOS: programmed in nesC; component-based; Event driven.

• TinyOS concurrency: Interrupts (asynchronous) and Task scheduling (synchronous). Task scheduling done with a FIFO queue.
• Model executed on FDR2.

Network modeling:

• Time Flooding Synchronization protocol: same time base (only says all nodes will have the same time, whatever it is).
• Model maxed out at seven nodes.

Further refinements:

• Network level models against node models. High -> Low level.
• Check fault tolerance in a network.

ECE Part 4 project on an intelligent online tutoring system

The Felder-Silverman model

• Facts
• Discover relationships
• See it
• Hear it
• Logical steps
• Random order
• Try it out
• Think it through

Testing -> Learning -> Application

• What type of questions can be asked to students?
• Notion of time to measure stress levels or improvement?
• Rephrasing a question?

• Active/Reflective
• Sensing/Intuitive
• Visual/Verbal
• Sequential/Global