Self-Sabotage

Patterns of behaviour

• Overcommitting
• Never saying no
• Getting distracted
• Perfectionism (measuring against)

Impostures syndrome

• One step away from being found out as a fraud
• Keep being an impostor
• Others are also impostors

Saying no

• Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs)
• More Accurate Thoughts (MATHs)
• ANTs ... and so ... MATHs

It's the thought that counts

• Depends what you do with the thoughts.
• Event -> Beliefs (intervening probabilities) -> Feelings

Twisted thinking (wrong conclusions -> wrong actions)

• All or nothing
• Over generalisation
• Mental filter
• Discounting the positives
• Jumping to conclusions
• Magnification
• Emotional reasoning (feelings as facts)
• Shoulds (assuming how things should be)
• Labelling
• Personalisation and blame

Procrastination

• Avoidance strategies
• Action -> Motivation -> Action -> More action
• Break into smaller pieces
• Procrastinators: Leaders of Tomorrow

Time management

• Velcro fingers
• The three D's
• Do it
• Diarise
• Ditch it
• Pareto principle (80/20)
• 20% of the work leads to 80% of the output

Circles of influence

• Core: Can control
• Inner circle: Can influence
• Outer circle: Can't control

Writing is not recording, it is thinking

Lunar Surface Systems: International and Technology needs

Dr. Michael R. Lowry

• James Webb Telescope (2014): Successor to Hubble Telescope.
• Kepler Telescope (2009): JPL + NASA. Has photometer. Searching Earth sized planets. Higher signal to noise ratio than ground based telescopes.
• LCROSS (October 9 2009): Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite. Threw up 90 litres of water into the air. Recoverable water. Anomaly: Communications black out. IMU star tracker failover. Ping pong between control deadband. Lack of sensor resolution. Insufficient full failure mode analysis. Software patch uploaded.
• Aircraft like design of Low Earth Orbit spacecrafts. Longest runway. $1.5 billion amortised cost for every use.

• Constellation: Solid rocket booster carrying occupants. Altair Lunar Lander (heavier). Pad abort test (new capsule).
• Augustine Commission: Budgetary considerations. Mars exploration. Launch alternatives. "Flexible path".
• Interplanetary Flotsam and Jetsam: 4.5 billion year old rock from Mars. Fossil evidence. Primitive Martian life.

• Getting to Mars
• Preliminary Lunar Surface System. International guidance.
• South poles are good. Always sunny. Use solar panels perpendicular to the ground.
• Space transportation: Rocket equation. Carry mass (fuel) to and from Mars/Earth. Launch window, Flexible Path, Aero braking, Production of fuel remotely, Ion propulsion.
• Rover: Radiation protection, dust mitigation, guidance matching terrain maps, teleoperated navigation.
• Communication: Space certification, disruption, QoS, reconfigurable networks.
• High efficiency, high recovery ECLSS (Environmental Control and Support System).
• Light weight structures.
• Smart home systems: iPhone application.
• Planning done at Mars and only call back to Earth when help is needed.
• Safety certification: Class A mission standards.
• Plug and play certification of open architectures.
• Interoperability.
• Extend human civilisations

• Ancient systems for radiation resistance.
• Mars: A death cemetery for robotic explorations.
• Contracting out parts of missions.

Michael.R.Lowry@nasa.gov

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