Manila Observatory’s Brown Bag Lectures: Some suggestions for topics on Jan 27, 2012 in Uncategorized Brown Bag Lectures Built to Last business process cost cutting Duct Tape Marketing Getting Things Done internet backbones jeffrey liker Jerry Porras Jim Collins John Jantsch Just-In-Time production library technology management finance Manila Observatory Philippine internet backbone program budgets quality improvement small business guide stress-free productivity Toyota Way visionary companies W3C web standards Since most of the speakers would be talking about scientific stuff in Manila Observatory’s Brown Bag Lectures, for a change, I would like to give a talk on some things I learned from books that may be useful to Manila Observatory. Here are so...
Rebranding Padre Faura’s Notebook as a management blog: a review of my other blogs on Jan 15, 2012 in Uncategorized Ateneo de Manila University Catholic blogs Department of Physics Ionosphere Research Building Manila Observatory physics blogs I haven’t blogged on Padre Faura’s Notebook for quite a while. The reason for this is that its former functions were taken over by my other blogs. My blogs/websites are roughly divided according to three types: Catholic, Physics, and Pe...
Study guide for Jackson’s Classical Electrodynamics: Electrostatics 1.1-1.4 on Jun 22, 2011 in Uncategorized Angeles University Foundation Ateneo de Manila University Ateneo Physics Department Classical Electrodynamics Coulomb force Dirac delta distribution electric field electric susceptibility electrostatics Gauss law Gaussian distribution John David Jackson physics education Stokes divergence theorem by Dr. Quirino Sugon Jr. Physics Department, Ateneo de Manila University J.D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics, 2nd ed. (John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1965), pp. 27-33. At the start of a 3 hour Saturday class, the students will be quizzed regar...
Course Syllabus Ps 11.1: General Physics for Life Sciences on Jun 16, 2011 in Uncategorized Ateneo Physics Department Course Syllabus IEEE Laboratory report Physics for Life Sciences COURSE SYLLABUS Course Number: PS 11.1 B Title: General Physics for Life Sciences, Laboratory Department/Program: Physics School: SOSE Semester and School Year: 1st Semester, SY 2011-2012 Instructor: Dr. Quirino Sugon Jr. Schedule: F 0830-1030 Room:...
FMCW radar problem: Index exceeds matrix dimensions on Mar 28, 2011 in Uncategorized There is a problem in the FMCW radar Matlab window. It reads: Melted 20110328062800.ion ??? Index exceeds matrix dimensions. Error in ==> f_rd_radarinf_v3 at 32 time=time(1:5) Error in ==> manila_startup2 at 59 r_inf=f_rd_radarinf_v3(tmp_di...
Phivolcs List of Philippine Earthquakes for February 2011 on Mar 4, 2011 in Uncategorized Philippine Earthquakes PHIVOLCS 28 Feb 2011 – 09:11 PM 13.37 122.51 029 2.8 075 km S 83° E of Boac (Marinduque) 27 Feb 2011 – 05:02 AM 06.47 123.95 602 ...
FMCW radar: failure observation thread start on Feb 16, 2011 in Uncategorized FMCW radar Dear Dr. Ikeda, The last recorded data was 27 Jan 2011. The SKSONDE Management software says: “failure: obs thread start”. Shall I restart the system? Sorry, I misplaced my radar notebook and I forgot the details on how to restart. What d...
Phivolcs: Philippine earthquakes for Jan 2011 on Feb 16, 2011 in Uncategorized Philippine Earthquakes From Phivolcs (Philippine Volcanology and Seismology): 31 Jan 2011 – 05:55 AM 15.03 119.49 025 3.3 063 km S 58° W of Iba (Zambales) 31 Jan 2011 – 03:58 AM 08.78 124.14...
Search for the School of Science and Engineering (SOSE) Dean of Ateneo de Manila University on Nov 23, 2010 in Uncategorized Ateneo de Manila University Dr. Gregorio Tangonan Good to Great ISI Jim Collins National University of Singapore School of Science and Engineering Silicon Valley Stanford University University of the Philippines I. FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR SOSE Jim Collins, in his book, “Good to Great”, said that for a company to grow from good to great, one of the things the company must do is to identify the common denominator for its economic engine. I think...
Research Problems for the SERC Subcenter on Nov 17, 2010 in Uncategorized Manila Observatory geomagnetic field Fr. Daniel McNamara S.J. NOAA earthquakes geomagnetic storms SERC Subcenter Ateneo de Davao University MAGDAS magnetometers earth tides orbital mechanics Lagrangian point PHIVOLCS USGS Interplanetary magnetic field ACE Satellite magnetic reconnection 17 Nov 2010 Dear Fr. Dan, Below are four research problems that may interest your students. The problems are mostly data analysis. I’ll look for other problems if you still need more, depending on your students’ research interests. Rese...
