Just got back from a holiday — yes an actual holiday, not a conference trip — to Ecuador, and I thought I’d share a few photos and discoveries here. Why Ecuador, of all places? For me the best holidays have to involve hiking in the mountains, but South America and the Andes were so far…
I was lucky enough to be an invited speaker at the Second Roman Juszkiewicz Symposium, which took place the last week of September at the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre in Warsaw, Poland. The conference was packed in right before the start of term, and online attendance was an option. But weary of online talks, I…
So this is an actual thing: once a year, in the busiest part of London, The Worshipful Company of Woolmen (yes, really) drive sheep over London Bridge. It’s apparently part of a historic tradition and represents the right of the common man to do business. Or something like that. It’s totally bonkers: cue large numbers…
11th September I’m on the train from London to Cardiff, for my first real-world meeting of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration — i.e., us folks behind the ground-based gravitational wave detector network. All LVK meetings since I joined the collaboration in January 2022 have been online, an after-effect of the Covid-19 pandemic. So I’m looking forwards…
The code presentation paper for Hi-COLA is released today! Hi-COLA is a code that simulates cosmological large-scale structure under modified laws of gravity. The name stands for “Horndeski in COLA”: Horndeski is the name of a very general class of gravity models. COLA stands for ‘COmoving Langrangian Acceleration’, and refers to the particular variety of…
Finally I got round to making some major upgrades to this website. This includes new pages devoted to the SHADE project, news updates, outreach materials, and just an all-round sprucing up. Hope you like it; if you come across any broken links or misbehaving content, do drop me a line to let me know (see Home for…