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Publisert Legg igjen en kommentar til Happy outline….eeehm – Monday!
It was actually good for me to have a plan last week, so I´ll continue to share my PhD plan/goal(s) of the week:

I worked more than 50 hours last week, but I didn´t get all the way to where I wanted, which was to make an outline for my thesis. Of course I do have an outline now, but it´s far from finished, and nothing I can show anyone yet - so my main goal this week is to finish and discuss it with supervisor-Sunniva (I will show her what I got, no matter how I feel about it on Wednesday, like my plan says 😉 ).
I also need to prepare the trip for Paris (experiment) next week, but the main goal is (I´m repeating, I know): OUTLINE OUTLINE OUTLINE - THESIS OUTLINE! (Yes, i think it´s difficult, and I don´t know where to start - so I change my mind all the time, and, yes, I feel insecure and stupid, and I actually started crying just before I was going to bed on Friday - had been drinking, though - but I felt like "this is something I just can´t do" :P)
Anyway; I feel much better now (I can do it!), and I just want to wish all of you a great start a new week!
PS: I want it to be hard too, because when you (I?!?) manage to do something really difficult, it´s so much more worth it  - so let´s just do this <3

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Publisert 2 kommentarer til I have a plan…
...sort of...
I have to work on it - but I´m going with the "a not so detailed plan is better than no plan" 😉
So now I´ve told you, and then it´s so much worse if I fail; I have one month to write the first draft of my thesis, and in less than 11 months I have to submit the entire thing!
Of course I should make a better plan as soon as possible, but today was the day when I suddenly got that feeling that I just had to do it - had to get my thoughts out 😉 When I make an updated thing I´ll show you again.
Guess there are a lot of people with plans and deadlines out there; for example all high school students who are finishing high school this spring and applying for the universities - good luck to all of you!
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Publisert Legg igjen en kommentar til Who´s the scientist?
The doctors and the lawyers are (at least in popular culture) successful, nice, good looking people who help others and make good money...but who´s the scientist?
Today I´ve been in Hamar (at Hamar Katedralskole) talking about "my story", and physics and science and scientists and why it´s important and a profession I love <3 Can´t complain about the view from the train either 😉

Publisert Legg igjen en kommentar til #pengerogpoeng – pictures
It´s been a long day, and now I´m really tired, and just want to go to bed...but it´s also been a good, interesting and inspiring day, so before I go to sleep I just have to share some pictures 🙂
Thank you so much for all the nice comments I got on Twitter, btw!
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Ole Petter Ottersen
me - in action 😉
Jørn Hurum 🙂
Jill Walker Rettberg and me after the conference
...and then I was home, and it felt great ...

Publisert Legg igjen en kommentar til Nervous
I guess some (many?) believe I don´t get nervous before I give talks, since I do it "all the time" - and I don´t think I normally seem very nervous...well, I do get nervous. I´m nervous right now. Nervous about my talk tomorrow - feel like I have nothing smart to say. Nothing to contribute to the conference.
It´s probably "healthy" to feel like this from time to time, but it´s NOT fun :/
Of course, the rational part of me tell me it´s not entirely true that I have nothing, but, well, feelings...:P The best thing I can do right now is probably to go to sleep; so that´s exactly what I´m planning on doing in just five minutes 😉
Wish me luck, please <3
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Publisert Legg igjen en kommentar til Which paper is cooler
Einstein versus Chadwick.
E=mc2 versus the neutron.
1905 versus 1932.


I´m trying to decide on which paper I should present in the Article club in two weeks. I´ve "claimed" both Einsteins "Does the inertia of a body depend upon its energy-content?" (energy equals mass times the speed of light squared) and Chadwicks "Possible existence of a neutron" (the discovery of the neutron). Both papers are short and sweet (except I don´t believe they really are sweet, they just look like it 😉 ), both really basic and important for my field of science...
Which paper is cooler? 
I must admit I get the feeling I like Chadwicks paper a liiiiitle bit more than Einsteins - but I´m not sure yet.
Which paper is YOUR favourite?

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Publisert 3 kommentarer til Back at the office
I really love that feeling of a fresh start - a new year, where you haven´t made any mistakes (yet 😛 ), and you´re just a good PhD student (or whatever 😉 ). Today´s my first day back at work after christmas, and I´ve started a real recap of the work from before the Berkeley trip - I´ve actually spent several hours on going through logbook stuff, and tomorrow I´ll continue together with supervisor Sunniva.
As you can see I´m wearing a white shirt - like I said I would do more often this year...all in all it´s a good start 🙂

Publisert Legg igjen en kommentar til Number 18
So, in the calendar today there are gammas (gamma radiation) - I´m giving you an ALFNA matrix 😀 xD <3
The ALFNA matrix/plot is a sort of 3 dimensional plot where there is the excitation energy of some nucleus (we don´t know which one - and this is what we/I try to figure out) on the y-axis, and on the x-axis is the energy of the gamma(s) the nucleus sends out. The thing is that when a nucleus is hit by a particle, the nucleus is excited, or sort of heated - it gets some extra energy, and to get rid of that extra energy it sends out  gamma radiation. 
From earlier experiments that have been done (the bible is here) we know quite a lot about what kind of gammas (which energies) the different nuclei will emit when they are excited to this and that energy. In this particular ALFNA matrix we believe that we have oxygen-17 (there is always some oxygen 🙂 ) and beryllium-10 (the backing of the uranium foil/target is made from beryllium). The oxygen-17 peak for example, is supposed to emit a gamma ray with an energy of 870 kilo electron volts (keV), and here it is at around 1300 keV - which means that we are quite off, and everything needs to be calibrated (which is exactly what I´m working on now 😉 ).
So this is the plot I´ve been staring at today (together with my supervisor, Sunniva <3). 
...and I´m staring even more now (pretending to have a really huge brain) - looking like this 😛