First Simulations
Several months have passed since I last wrote a research log entry. I should probably write these a bit more frequently. Much has happened since the previous entry!
- My HST Cycle 19 Theory proposal was accepted and all of requested funding has been provided!
- I became the first physics graduate student at UCR to be an instructor for a course (rather than just a teaching assistant). I taught Physics 40A during the summer session.
- I got married!
- I finished writing my first paper. The paper is still being reviewed as I write this, so it’s technically not finished because it hasn’t been revised, resubmitted, and accepted for publication yet.
- I compiled P-GADGET-2 and ran several small simulations on Crunch.
- I’ve written a code in C++ to read, analyze, manipulate, and output GADGET-2 snapshot files. The code is very basic at the moment, but it should be mostly finished in a few months. I’ll use this code for the non-Sunrise component of my thesis project. I plan to write another research log entry describing the first application of the code: quadratic spline interpolation of snapshot files for purposes of making animations.
- I’ve built a GADGET-aware version of IFrIT. This was somewhat more time-consuming than it should have been since there were no explicit instructions on how to build the GADGET plugin into IFrIT. I also managed to get SPLASH to read and analyze / visualize my GADGET-2 snapshots. I still haven’t managed to get Splotch to read my snapshot format though…I’m going to move on to working with Sunrise now. I’ve heard that successfully building Sunrise takes some effort.
- I’ve started reviewing the core of theoretical physics and I’ve finally started learning some elementary particle physics / quantum field theory.
November 22nd, 2015 at 6:18 am
We should probably write these a bit more frequently. Much has happened since the previous entry.