Month: November 2014

PLACE: An Open-Source Python Package for Laboratory Automation, Control, and Experimentation

A paper by Jami L Johnson, Kasper van Wijk, and Henrik tom Wörden was recently published in the Journal of Laboratory Automation describing the Python package we’re developing. The package is open-source, freely available, and designed for all things experimental: instrument automation, data acquisition, and data analysis.  Check out the paper or contribute to the project!

Dr. Ludmila Adam awarded a 2014 Marsden Grant

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Dr Ludmila Adam (Mila) was awarded one of the very prestigious 2014 Marsden grants from the Royal Society of New Zealand for her proposed research on rock physics of the Alpine Fault. The title of her work is “Getting inside the earthquake machine: fine-scale imaging of the Alpine Fault zone,” and her collaborators are Dan Faulkner, Virginia Toy and  John Townend. Congratulations to this team!

A Guided Tour of Mathematical Methods for the Physical Sciences

In January 2015, The third edition of “A guided Tour of Mathematical Methods for the Physical Sciences” will be available in stores! This book, written by Roel Snieder and Kasper van Wijk, aims to teach mathematical physics by doing lots of fun exercises on a variety of applications in (geo)physics. Roel and Kasper thank all our friends, family and colleagues who contributed in one form or another. Many of them are PALs.

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