decidedlyodd

Today I had a lot of classes and a couple meetings. The good news is that COMP 206 (Architecture) looks like it’s going to be a pretty ok class. The instructor is pretty upbeat or at least it seemed that way since I didn’t almost fall asleep in class. Also, I now have a better of what I need to get working on for my research assistantship. I’m working on a collaborative project between nano and gamma involving simulation of some elastostatic objects at nano-scale. Strangely, conceptually it’s not really that far from the stuff I was working on before at the MPI. Get some visual and force measurements of deformable objects, build a model, simulate it. Just different objects with a different potential application. For now, I get to dive back into the world of spring-mass systems, although things are looking to be elastostatic like before (no oscillation).

Earlier this evening I finished my COMP 202 (Algorithms) homework. I still don’t think I really got one of the problems, which of course I spent like 90% of my time on, but oh well, such is algorithms. On the positive side of things, I did get my brain much more into dealing with randomized algorithms and I managed to meet several nice collaborators in the process of trying to figure out solution strategies.