Week 4
I am giving this summary work another shot, along with the new structure of the daily/weekly obsidian notes.
I still feel exhausted. I am running out of ways to treat it, other than sleeping more
and more sunshine
.
Maybe it is just January.
Summary
Project asterism
: I have changed the implementation of population_alphaMLT
and heliumenrichmentlaw
to a version where each only have two free parameters.
I have tested this MLM and the results look great!
I am concerned that if I give narrowly sample the hyperparameters, I do not recover them as neatly as I would like.
I am trying with more warm-up and if this does not work, I’ll switch strategy.
I am yet to look at the surface correction. I’ll prioritise it for next week.
Project PBJAM2.0
: I am reading the draft and giving comments.
Project Rogue and Hennes
: Referee report came back.
Project emmas catalogue
: Referee report came back.
PLATO
:
- Martin and I gave a talk on PLATO work in the UK Wednesday.
Teaching
:
- I am teaching Tuesday and Thursday afternoon.
- This week there was no additional teaching things to do.
- I am supervising ~1 hour Tuesday and then helped out with debugging Tuesday afternoon for both students.
Postdoc rep
:
- I had a meeting with Anjali and made a plan for upcoming events. She helped me with room bookings.
- I have send out a
Thank you for your survey feedback + Exciting news for 2025
to all postdocs with the summary of what to come.
- I have planed the February postdoc coffee and booked rooms/sent out invitations for the March Jamboree.
Other
:
- I did SOC work this week.
- I helped other people with
- Obsidian
- lost files
- references for the precision on stellar ages using different methods
- gave input to a talk by giving them my take on what the biggest challenges in Galactic Archaeology are currently.
- I planned a writing session and booked a room for it.
Admin
:
- I cleaned my directories, my notes, and re-organised my work life. I am not done, but it is a work in progress.
Key things
- In
asterism
, I am happy with the model now. I am still testing it and I am yet to implement the surface correction.
- I have done other things this week and teaching has taken up more of my time this week compared to last week.
- My inbox currently only contains one request/”to-do” email. That is a nice feeling.
Challenges for next week
- Next week I would like to prioritise my work in
asterism
. I would like to write. I would like to implement the surface correction.
- I have open Monday, Wednesday and Friday next week. I am considering working from home one of those days.