A couple of posts ago, I mentioned how making a few simple improvements to your presentation technique could set you a few paces ahead your colleagues. Simply put: combing your hair, using your both your verbal and non-verbal languare in…
Presentation Skills
Why and how to give an awesome presentation I’m feeling productive today, so here’s another post – this time a shorter one! Many academics are not very good presenters. Or can you say you’ve never attended a boring lecture or…
More tips for productivity
In my earlier post, I gave some productivity tips that I’ve personally found very useful. Now’s the time for some more. 4. Todo lists Lists are nice in more ways than one. They help you not to forget stuff. Duh.…
My first experiences on social media marketing
This February, we (as in my research group and I) finally took our heads out of our collective backsides identified a problem. Specifically, we had a personnel survey in our department, and everybody was asked to list some weaknessses that…
Computing the Fourier series of a matrix
It’s funny how you never know what kind of knowledge you are going to need in your work and life in general. For instance, the Spring I was making my Master’s Thesis (-13), I casually took a course on data…
Wireless transfer of electricity
Two days ago, the local newspaper Karjalainen of my birth region ran an April-fools’ piece about wireless electricity transfer. According to the “article”, the entire country would soon be switching to the new technology, permanently ridding us of blackouts and transmission…
Our generator – plus us in a brand new video!
Check out the new dead-serious promotional video we made for our research group! It features us and our dear old heavy-as-frak generator! You can even see me there in the very beginning, close to the end, and here-and-there in the…
Matlab2Tikz
Today’s post begins with some background ranting. If you want to skip it, feel free. For quite a while, I’ve been thinking about moving my plotting a bit further away from Matlab. And why is that? Well, let’s just say…
ICEM and EPNC papers
Phew, the last two weeks have been somewhat busy. Last Sunday, I finally finished and submitted my 7-page conference paper for ICEM, one of the biggest conferences on electrical machines. Immediately after that, I scribbled together a shorter two-page synopsis…