Jul 7, 2013

First Bachelor thesis student finished

Last Friday, my first bachelor student Sander has successfully defended his bachelor thesis.
I am very happy to work with him, and together with him and other colleagues we are able to demonstrate an idea I proposed.
He is both curious and diligent, reminding me of the famous phrase of Zen: 'Never forget the beginner's mind'(in chinese: 不忘初心).

Jul 2, 2013

Nice book by Jean Bladel: Singular electromagnetic fields and sources

Electromagnetic theory is a quite broad research area, and forms the basis in understanding a wide branch of scientific phenomena, and consequently you can find lots of books using EM theory as their theoretical basics, and the main topics can diverges drastically.
Interestingly, this book by Jean Bladel: Singular electromagnetic fields and sources, aims to summarize a group of problems one may encounter in this area, the 'source/geometrical singularities', one common example is the Green's function which no one can escape when jumping into this area.
It is a very nice companion book as it aims, which provides with a nice read, and I would like to share with you.