Its a chemical equilibrium. The tinting reaction is catalyzed by UV. One of the major downsides of those glasses is that the reaction is also hindered by heat, and so they're not as effective on hot days.
I'm also an experimental physical scientist.
My experience tells me that I have absolutely no idea what kind of meta-data I'll want to keep track of in the future, and I only know what I want to keep track of now, which is probably a small subset of what I'll want to keep track of in the future.
Every sample that I make is assigned a unique serial number (Experiment N Sample M Piece Q etc). All the master data is in my lab notebook which I keep anal retentitively. Any metadata that I know now that I want to keep track of is contained in there. Any analysis I do on any sample I make is also filed under this serial number.
Now I just need to convince my boss to let me switch to an electronic notebook (like Microsoft OneNote) so that I can assign each sample or each experiment its own tab so I don't have to jump pages back and forth in my paper notebook.
This poster has a great idea. You should definitely go to talks, especially if you're near a large university, especially if its prestigious. One of the most efficient ways to learn a field is to go to talks. Theres a really steep learning curve, but its my experience that researchers (professors, graduate students) LOVE talking about their work, with anyone at any time. Ask for their slides if you liked the talk, email them questions. Email the people who wrote their citations questions. If you're near a public university, you have access to any of the many or all journals they inevitably subscribe through the library. And because most journals are now electronic, it is incredibly efficient to do literature searches and dig up cited papers.
I'm working on my PhD in Chemistry, I used to be a theoretical student and have transferred to experiment.
One thing I've learned lately is that theory has gone in a really different direction than its heyday in the early 1900s. There was alot of unexplained observations and, frankly, Einstein was fucking brilliant. Special/General relativity were entirely thought up in his own head, with no experiments to back them. On the other hand, quantum mechanics had been begging for discovery since the photoelectric effect.
The 1900s were a massive period of consolidation for physics and science...we're in an exploration period again. These days, theoretical people tend to focus on new algorithms to solve 3 body problems, and frankly, working out the massive consequences of everything we've achieved in the past 100 years. Think the period after Newton's Principia before Maxwell's equations. Right now, we're looking for the equivalent to Langrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, Hooke's law, etc etc. We're getting there with things like density functional theory, but theres a LONG way to go.
Wouldn't really matter. If it ends the solvent evaporation step as silicon dioxide, its silicon dioxide. And this step seems unlikely to me too because they claim that its completely non-toxic...no solvent that evaporates that fast is non-toxic.
I'm a PhD chemist. I work on the absolute cutting edge of extremely thin glasses.
To say that a glass is a solid or a liquid is a mischaracterization. Solids and liquids are thermodynamic phenomena. Glasses are not thermodynamic. They are liquids that are prevented from crystallizing because molecular motion is inexorably slow.
Also, this company is full of crap. Thin film silicon dioxide doesn't flow like a liquid.
I've got a friend who just graduated in physics with a 2.85. You know what phrase gets him to work? "Cleanup on aisle 6." Thats right, he's a janitor at the Wal-Mart next to campus (Purdue).
Granted, physics is slightly different as a field than CS. So heres another argument. Someone mentioned this: Tuition of 20k + lost wages of 60k for one year of school is an opportunity cost of 80k. Well, if you want to work for a top company like Procter and Gamble (where I'm currently working) those extra GPA points will probably get your resume to the top of the stack. Why is that important? Because P&G recruits what they proclaim as the "Best of the best." And they really do. Forbes didn't rank P&G's employees #1 in the world for having a reputation for innovation and intelligence for shits and giggles. Regardless of your GPA, you'll start at the same salary, but first you've gotta get that far.
As it turns out, the company I am working for this summer wasn't even there. And I'm probably not going to wind up working for a company anyway, I want to work in academia. Industry internships just pay for the necessities, like eating. I do academic research during the year so I can actually get published.
As someone who is working on a second internship with another very large, successful company, I can tell you exactly what attracts my eye and what'll probably get the attention of other really bright kids too. If you want to get high performing people, you need a couple things: 1) Free stuff. I know its stupid, but free stuff really will get you some attention. But DON'T go overboard. Example: Abbott Labs at Purdue University's Industrial Roundtable (the largest job fair on campus all year) had a massive booth, probably about 20 feet wide. And every person in line for an interview got this little back of free shit that I didn't really want. I just wanted a job. The only thing I still have from that bag is a magnetic chip clip that I use for my tortilla chips. For the record, I'm not working for Abbott this summer. Oh, they did give me some bandaids though. An example of doing it right: Los Alamos National Labs. Los Alamos gave away two things at the Industrial Roundtable. They gave away little folders with contact information of the right people, business cards, and brochures. They also had a list of deadlines. As a nice little freebee, I got a bobblehead pen with an alien on it. I don't know where it is anymore, but I remember it. I'm not working for Los Alamos this summer because they weren't looking for anyone in my field, but I was really excited to work for them. 2) A professional looking booth. You could probably get away with a couple of mounted posters made down at the copy shop, but you want to attract good people. It'll be pricey, I'll bet, but find professional booth designers. About half the companies I talked to at the Industrial Roundtable were just random companies I saw and said "Hey, that booth looks interesting." Dow Chemical was one of those (Not working for them, their representative was rude as hell. It seems like a small thing to judge a whole company on, but he was so rude he wouldn't even take my resume or tell me how to apply). 3) Make sure whoever is representing your company behaves professionally. This means a couple things. Don't be a jerk. It'll be tough depending on the venue (the IR this year was inside the Purdue Armory, which was insanely hot. The event was rained indoors), but this person is the face of your company. You don't want to risk turning away that one random engineer that might come up with the idea that turns your company into a multi-national. It seems like long odds, but like I said, if you're really looking to hire the best... 4)...and along those notes, you're a small company. Your pay probably won't be the same that, say, Boeing might offer (not working for Boeing, they didn't tell anyone they were going to be on campus and limited their information session to the first 20 people to show up. Don't do those either) so you need to make sure this person can make your company sound exciting, innovative and unique because thats pretty much all you've got to offer. 5) Make sure your people know to take resumes. It doesn't matter if they just build a pile in the back of the booth and look at 3 of them. Just take the damn things, you never know what you might see and like. Also make sure they are prepared to give on-the-spot interviews. Thats half the reason to go to a jobfair. It lets people know you're taking their interest in you seriously, and that you like what they have to offer you. If you say you'll get in touch with someone, actually do it. And please, please, don't after an instant-interview say "Allright, now that you've just regurgitated all your qualifications to me, please apply on our website at www.IJustLostInterestInThisCompany.com." Go to the website is recruiter for, "Leave me alone, you're not interesting." If the laws require you to make sure they submit an official application, ask them to do so after they have interviewed or something. 6) No booth babes. Don't be stupid. Unless you're working for Hooters, having 'booth babes' just means no one will take you seriously. 7) One of the best ways to attract attention is to have a massive line infront of your booth. Rolls Royce had a line that was probably over 300 people long. Granted, thats hard to do without name recognition. But on the same note, don't make an artificially long line. That just results in frustration.
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Its a chemical equilibrium. The tinting reaction is catalyzed by UV. One of the major downsides of those glasses is that the reaction is also hindered by heat, and so they're not as effective on hot days.
I'm also an experimental physical scientist. My experience tells me that I have absolutely no idea what kind of meta-data I'll want to keep track of in the future, and I only know what I want to keep track of now, which is probably a small subset of what I'll want to keep track of in the future. Every sample that I make is assigned a unique serial number (Experiment N Sample M Piece Q etc). All the master data is in my lab notebook which I keep anal retentitively. Any metadata that I know now that I want to keep track of is contained in there. Any analysis I do on any sample I make is also filed under this serial number. Now I just need to convince my boss to let me switch to an electronic notebook (like Microsoft OneNote) so that I can assign each sample or each experiment its own tab so I don't have to jump pages back and forth in my paper notebook.
This poster has a great idea. You should definitely go to talks, especially if you're near a large university, especially if its prestigious. One of the most efficient ways to learn a field is to go to talks. Theres a really steep learning curve, but its my experience that researchers (professors, graduate students) LOVE talking about their work, with anyone at any time. Ask for their slides if you liked the talk, email them questions. Email the people who wrote their citations questions. If you're near a public university, you have access to any of the many or all journals they inevitably subscribe through the library. And because most journals are now electronic, it is incredibly efficient to do literature searches and dig up cited papers.
I'm working on my PhD in Chemistry, I used to be a theoretical student and have transferred to experiment. One thing I've learned lately is that theory has gone in a really different direction than its heyday in the early 1900s. There was alot of unexplained observations and, frankly, Einstein was fucking brilliant. Special/General relativity were entirely thought up in his own head, with no experiments to back them. On the other hand, quantum mechanics had been begging for discovery since the photoelectric effect. The 1900s were a massive period of consolidation for physics and science...we're in an exploration period again. These days, theoretical people tend to focus on new algorithms to solve 3 body problems, and frankly, working out the massive consequences of everything we've achieved in the past 100 years. Think the period after Newton's Principia before Maxwell's equations. Right now, we're looking for the equivalent to Langrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, Hooke's law, etc etc. We're getting there with things like density functional theory, but theres a LONG way to go.
Wouldn't really matter. If it ends the solvent evaporation step as silicon dioxide, its silicon dioxide. And this step seems unlikely to me too because they claim that its completely non-toxic...no solvent that evaporates that fast is non-toxic.
I'm a PhD chemist. I work on the absolute cutting edge of extremely thin glasses. To say that a glass is a solid or a liquid is a mischaracterization. Solids and liquids are thermodynamic phenomena. Glasses are not thermodynamic. They are liquids that are prevented from crystallizing because molecular motion is inexorably slow. Also, this company is full of crap. Thin film silicon dioxide doesn't flow like a liquid.
I've got a friend who just graduated in physics with a 2.85. You know what phrase gets him to work? "Cleanup on aisle 6." Thats right, he's a janitor at the Wal-Mart next to campus (Purdue).
Granted, physics is slightly different as a field than CS. So heres another argument. Someone mentioned this: Tuition of 20k + lost wages of 60k for one year of school is an opportunity cost of 80k. Well, if you want to work for a top company like Procter and Gamble (where I'm currently working) those extra GPA points will probably get your resume to the top of the stack. Why is that important? Because P&G recruits what they proclaim as the "Best of the best." And they really do. Forbes didn't rank P&G's employees #1 in the world for having a reputation for innovation and intelligence for shits and giggles. Regardless of your GPA, you'll start at the same salary, but first you've gotta get that far.
As it turns out, the company I am working for this summer wasn't even there. And I'm probably not going to wind up working for a company anyway, I want to work in academia. Industry internships just pay for the necessities, like eating. I do academic research during the year so I can actually get published.
As someone who is working on a second internship with another very large, successful company, I can tell you exactly what attracts my eye and what'll probably get the attention of other really bright kids too. If you want to get high performing people, you need a couple things: ...and along those notes, you're a small company. Your pay probably won't be the same that, say, Boeing might offer (not working for Boeing, they didn't tell anyone they were going to be on campus and limited their information session to the first 20 people to show up. Don't do those either) so you need to make sure this person can make your company sound exciting, innovative and unique because thats pretty much all you've got to offer.
1) Free stuff. I know its stupid, but free stuff really will get you some attention. But DON'T go overboard. Example: Abbott Labs at Purdue University's Industrial Roundtable (the largest job fair on campus all year) had a massive booth, probably about 20 feet wide. And every person in line for an interview got this little back of free shit that I didn't really want. I just wanted a job. The only thing I still have from that bag is a magnetic chip clip that I use for my tortilla chips. For the record, I'm not working for Abbott this summer. Oh, they did give me some bandaids though.
An example of doing it right: Los Alamos National Labs. Los Alamos gave away two things at the Industrial Roundtable. They gave away little folders with contact information of the right people, business cards, and brochures. They also had a list of deadlines. As a nice little freebee, I got a bobblehead pen with an alien on it. I don't know where it is anymore, but I remember it. I'm not working for Los Alamos this summer because they weren't looking for anyone in my field, but I was really excited to work for them.
2) A professional looking booth. You could probably get away with a couple of mounted posters made down at the copy shop, but you want to attract good people. It'll be pricey, I'll bet, but find professional booth designers. About half the companies I talked to at the Industrial Roundtable were just random companies I saw and said "Hey, that booth looks interesting." Dow Chemical was one of those (Not working for them, their representative was rude as hell. It seems like a small thing to judge a whole company on, but he was so rude he wouldn't even take my resume or tell me how to apply).
3) Make sure whoever is representing your company behaves professionally. This means a couple things. Don't be a jerk. It'll be tough depending on the venue (the IR this year was inside the Purdue Armory, which was insanely hot. The event was rained indoors), but this person is the face of your company. You don't want to risk turning away that one random engineer that might come up with the idea that turns your company into a multi-national. It seems like long odds, but like I said, if you're really looking to hire the best...
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5) Make sure your people know to take resumes. It doesn't matter if they just build a pile in the back of the booth and look at 3 of them. Just take the damn things, you never know what you might see and like. Also make sure they are prepared to give on-the-spot interviews. Thats half the reason to go to a jobfair. It lets people know you're taking their interest in you seriously, and that you like what they have to offer you. If you say you'll get in touch with someone, actually do it. And please, please, don't after an instant-interview say "Allright, now that you've just regurgitated all your qualifications to me, please apply on our website at www.IJustLostInterestInThisCompany.com." Go to the website is recruiter for, "Leave me alone, you're not interesting." If the laws require you to make sure they submit an official application, ask them to do so after they have interviewed or something.
6) No booth babes. Don't be stupid. Unless you're working for Hooters, having 'booth babes' just means no one will take you seriously.
7) One of the best ways to attract attention is to have a massive line infront of your booth. Rolls Royce had a line that was probably over 300 people long. Granted, thats hard to do without name recognition. But on the same note, don't make an artificially long line. That just results in frustration.