Projects
I have several projects that I’ve worked on with varying levels of effort.
Physics related
UCSD Physics Qualifying Exam Solutions website – The website that I created after I passed my PhD qualifying exam. There was no central repository for past quals and past qual solutions. I hope to one day integrate the material into my personal website, while (possibly) slowly converting the material into searchable text and equations. I have to decide the best way to do that and whether it even makes sense.
Investment related
I created and co-developed a code base that uses David Swensen’s investment strategy as outlined in his book: Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment. The program sends an email to me each day with an asset allocation summary and alerts me if an asset class has moved beyond my tolerances and is triggering a rebalance of my portfolio. I hope to get everything squared away and in a clean enough state to release the code someday soon if anyone else is interested in this stuff.
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Multi-element optical telescope opion question. If a 16 inch telescope is better than a 3 inch one, how about using several smaller mirrors set up in a five point (star) configuration to create a synthetic appature. I know that each of the smaller mirrors would need to be ground in such a way that their curves would match the (bend) that you would have on a single glass element. (I think I might have to CAD it out.) I'm thinking that the blanks would need to be mounted on a frame to maintain alignment but that the actual grinding time would be only slightly less. The object is to get a large appature without having to do Interferometry, and all that cost.
So you made an email-sending investment program too…such is the life of bored graduate students, huh? Mine incorporated more traditional methods of technical analysis, drew charts, and sent emails running as a cron job on Linux. It was written in Python. Fun project. Anyway, hope things are going well for you.