Elsevier Journals – The QMUL Figure
A few weeks ago I reblogged Tim Gowers’ post about the cost of Elsevier journals. I noticed that my own institution (QMUL) had deflected his Freedom of Information request. Curious to learn more, I did...
View ArticleCounting Microstates with Lateral Thinking
I’ve spent some time this morning stuck on the following undergraduate problem Consider a quantum system with distinguishable particles, each of which can have energy . Show that the number of...
View ArticleUsing Thunderbird Client with Office 365
I’ve just wasted a good half hour trying to migrate my email to an Office365 SMTP server. It seems that QMUL have decided to discontinue their in-house email server, but have not provided sufficient...
View ArticleCollabor8 – A New Type of Conference
Next month, I’m running a day-long conference here at QMUL. The meeting is intended to give early career researchers the chance to seek possible collaborations. Despite living in this globalised age,...
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