http://christinecorbettmoran.com Christine Corbett Moran Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:24:36 +0000 http://christinecorbettmoran.com en http://www.christinecorbettmoran.com/Modified-Gravity http://www.christinecorbettmoran.com/following/christinecorbettmoran.com/Modified-Gravity Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:24:36 +0000 Christine Corbett Moran 5065519 Modern cosmology strives to explain the late time acceleration of the universe. The commonly accepted candidate is dark energy, appearing as Λ on the matter side of the Einstein equation. However dark energy leaves several unresolved questions and other popular candidate explanations include modifications to the geometrical portion of Einstein's equations such as f(R) gravity in which the Einstein-Hilbert action becomes a general function of the Ricci-scalar. To match solar system tests, f(R) gravity can be formed to be a function with a density dependence such that General Relativity is restored in high density environments while yet producing modified on large scales of low density to be able to cause the desired accelerated expansion. Due in part to the transition region, this formation is highly non-linear, and the model must be very carefully compared with ΛCDM on these non-linear scales in order to distinguish between the two models. <img src="http://payload138.cargocollective.com/1/5/178500/5065519/Screen Shot 2013-02-26 at 4.19.30 PM_640.png" width="640" height="177" width_o="655" height_o="181" src_o="http://payload138.cargocollective.com/1/5/178500/5065519/Screen Shot 2013-02-26 at 4.19.30 PM_o.png" data-mid="27166660" border="0" align="left"/> Thus, methods to explore the non-linear regime in f(R) gravity are of the highest theoretical importance. Yet, due to the enhanced difficulty solving the coupled scalar field and modified Poisson equations, only in recent years has it become possible to numerically explore the consequences of f(R) gravity on the cosmological scale approaching the resolution of cosmological N-body simulations in ΛCDM. In this work I build upon the work of Li 2012 and use ECOSMOG for the first time to perform a zoom simulation, enabling exploration of the effect of f(R) gravity models on halo properties at the cluster scale in a cosmological environment to unprecedented accuracy. Modern cosmology strives to explain the late time acceleration of the universe. The commonly accepted candidate is dark energy, appearing as Λ on the matter side... http://www.christinecorbettmoran.com/Sports http://www.christinecorbettmoran.com/following/christinecorbettmoran.com/Sports Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:12:01 +0000 Christine Corbett Moran 4967988 I try my best to keep in good shape to be ready for any adventure, mentally and physically. I do a number of adventure sports, pushing myself out of my comfort zone. I'm PADI certified and have been diving in Qatar, Egypt, the Bahamas and Hawaii, where I had the chance of a lifetime to dive with 25+ manta rays feeding at night. My next diving trip is to the Philippines where I hope to get my advanced open water certification. I currently primarily enjoy skiing, climbing, hiking and running. I'm training for a half-marathon and running my first race–a team relay race, in Switzerland in May, 2013. Since 2012 I have been involved in roller derby, and beginning in 2013 I have been a proud member of the Zurich City Roller Girls, skating under the alias Supa Kollida, number 33. Roller derby is a full contact, traditionally female sport, and combines athleticism with a community spirit. I train twice a week in preparation for our matches or "bouts" upcoming around Europe. I'll also be teaching the beginner's or "rookie" course in Fall 2013. Myself and my team were recently featured on Swiss national TV. Check us out! <img src="http://payload133.cargocollective.com/1/5/178500/4967988/Supa2-1.jpg" width="480" height="480" width_o="480" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload133.cargocollective.com/1/5/178500/4967988/Supa2-1_o.jpg" data-mid="26603297" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload133.cargocollective.com/1/5/178500/4967988/supa3_640.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="960" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload133.cargocollective.com/1/5/178500/4967988/supa3_o.jpg" data-mid="27164235" border="0" align="left"/> In the past I've studied a number of martial arts, including kung fu, jiu-jitsu and aikido. I've also had the chance to skydive, do an olympic ski jump into a pool, and go snorkeling in Iceland in the winter. <img src="http://payload133.cargocollective.com/1/5/178500/4967988/skydive.jpg" width="500" height="281" width_o="500" height_o="281" src_o="http://payload133.cargocollective.com/1/5/178500/4967988/skydive_o.jpg" data-mid="27174195" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6002/5890990322_94c7c09e7d.jpg" width="374" height="500" alt="Pretty sure risk is worse than when I skydived and snorkled in Iceland, combined"> <img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5081/5346566579_668ddde4d6.jpg" width="374" height="500" alt="Snorkeling in Iceland in the Winter"> I try my best to keep in good shape to be ready for any adventure, mentally and physically. I do a number of adventure sports, pushing myself out of my comfort... http://www.christinecorbettmoran.com/Speeches-Interviews-Workshops http://www.christinecorbettmoran.com/following/christinecorbettmoran.com/Speeches-Interviews-Workshops Sat, 13 Oct 2012 16:57:52 +0000 Christine Corbett Moran 4250845 I regularly give technical or motivational speeches, workshops, trainings and interviews on any of my principal areas of expertise and experience: iOS/Android mobile development, entrepreneurship, astrophysics, high performance computing, artificial intelligence, software engineering, computer science, and women in computing. I'm also happy to be invited to and to attend world class events around the globe. Please Contact Me with further speaking and event invitations. I fully consider invitations with full reimbursement for travel, at base. Invited Talks, Workshops and PanelsUpcomingGoing Mobile, June 5, 2013 Founders Fund F50, June 21-22, 2013. PastSwiss Big Data User Group, May 13, 2013. RealtimeConf Europe, April 22-23, 2013. Open Whisper Systems, Spring Break of Code, March 23-31, 2013. TEDxEHL, March 14, 2013. Google@HEC, HEC Paris, 2012. Women's Business Conference - Hochschule Luzern, 2012. MIT Startup Bootcamp, 2012. TEDxSummit, 2012. Ignite Zurich, 2011. EuroPython, 2011. Foo Camp, 2010. BerlinSides, 2010. 23th Chaos Communication Congress, 2006. Events AttendedSandbox Global Summit, 2012. TEDxZurich 2010, 2011. DEFCON, 2010. PH-Neutral, 2010. SXSW, 2008. Burning Man, 2007. Chaos Communications Congress, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011. Selected Talks Selected InterviewsRadio interview with The Hard Drive, 97.5 FM Zurich. I regularly give technical or motivational speeches, workshops, trainings and interviews on any of my principal areas of expertise and experience: iOS/Android... http://www.christinecorbettmoran.com/Blog http://www.christinecorbettmoran.com/following/christinecorbettmoran.com/Blog Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:10:53 +0000 Christine Corbett Moran 2445222 Since 2009 I have kept a blog called Cosmic Rays. It's primarily about physics and personal productivity and has received over 20,000 visitors. <img src="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/5/178500/2445222/Screen Shot 2011-12-12 at 2.19.16 PM_640.png" width="640" height="534" width_o="1166" height_o="972" src_o="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/5/178500/2445222/Screen Shot 2011-12-12 at 2.19.16 PM_o.png" data-mid="12320785" border="0" align="left"/> Since 2009 I have kept a blog called Cosmic Rays. It's primarily about physics and personal productivity and has received over 20,000 visitors. http://www.christinecorbettmoran.com/Publications-Talks-Conferences http://www.christinecorbettmoran.com/following/christinecorbettmoran.com/Publications-Talks-Conferences Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:54:24 +0000 Christine Corbett Moran 2445098 Publications: AstrophysicsStructure Finding in Cosmological Simulations: The State of Affairs, Knebe, Alexander; Pearce, Frazer R.; Lux, Hanni; Ascasibar, Yago; Behroozi, Peter; Casado, Javier; Corbett Moran, Christine; Diemand, Juerg; Dolag, Klaus; Dominguez-Tenreiro, Rosa; and 25 coauthors, Submitted to MNRAS, 2013. AstroViz: A Parallel Visualization Tool for Astrophysical Applications, Christine Corbett Moran, University of Zurich, Master's Thesis, 2009. Computer ScienceName Aware Speech-to-Speech Translation for English/Iraqi, Rohit Prasad, Christine Moran, Fred Choi, Ralf Meermeier, Shirin Saleem, Chia-lin Kao, Dave Stallard, Prem Natarajan, IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology 2008. Recent Improvements in BBN's English/Iraqi Speech-to-Speech Translation System, Fred Choi, Stavros Tsakalidis, Shirin Saleem, Chia-lin Kao, Ralf Meermeier, Kriste Krstovski, Christine Moran, Krishna Subramanian, Rohit Prasad, Prem Natarajan, IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology 2008. Moses: Open Source Toolkit for Statistical Machine Translation, Philipp Koehn, Hieu Hoang, Alexandra Birch, Chris Callison-Burch, Marcello Federico, Nicola Bertoldi, Brooke Cowan, Wade Shen, Christine Moran, Richard Zens, Chris Dyer, Ondrej Bojar, Alexandra Constantin, Evan Herbst, ACL 2007, demonstration session, pdf. Invited Talks:MIT Astrophysics Graduate Student Lunch, 2012. Harvard Astrophysics Department, 2012. ETH/UZH Galaxy Formation Group Meeting, 2012. Astrosim Davos, 2012. CSCS User's Day, 2011. Conferences, Workshops, Schools:UpcomingRadiative transfer treatments for astrophysical applications, May 27-31, 2013. Exascale Computing in Astrophysics, September 8-13, 2013.PastNew Horizons in Computational Astrophysics, 2012. Subhaloes Going Notts, 2011. Halos Going MAD, 2010. ASTROSIM Summer School On Computational Astrophysics, 2010. Prospects in Theoretical Physics program, Institute for Advanced Study, 2009. Service/Outreach:Radio interview with The Hard Drive, 97.5 FM Zurich. PhD student representative, Promotions Committee. 2012. PhD Student Representative, Institute for Theoretical Physics. 2011, 2012. NASA Space Apps Challenge Hackathon. 2012, 2013. Reviewer, MIT SWE Scholarship. 2012. Reviewer, NCWIT National Scholarship. 2011-2012. Publications: AstrophysicsStructure Finding in Cosmological Simulations: The State of Affairs, Knebe, Alexander; Pearce, Frazer R.; Lux, Hanni; Ascasibar, Yago;... http://www.christinecorbettmoran.com/Event-Organization http://www.christinecorbettmoran.com/following/christinecorbettmoran.com/Event-Organization Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:26:57 +0000 Christine Corbett Moran 2445067 TEDxZurichI am proud to have been on the organizing team of TEDxZurich 2011 and 2012. With the help of great sponsors, including the Swiss National Television Network, at which the event was held, amazing speakers and performers, and a full house of 450 attendees, we celebrated and shared “ideas worth spreading”. In 2011, I was on the speakers committee, moon lighted with a bit of tech help, and the day of was rushing around making sure all the speakers were happy and prepared for their big moment on stage. For the 2012 event I was more heavily involved on the technical production end. Blog post with videos here. <img src="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/5/178500/2445067/tedx3.jpg" width="300" height="200" width_o="300" height_o="200" src_o="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/5/178500/2445067/tedx3_o.jpg" data-mid="12319835" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/5/178500/2445067/tedx2.jpg" width="300" height="200" width_o="300" height_o="200" src_o="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/5/178500/2445067/tedx2_o.jpg" data-mid="12319836" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/5/178500/2445067/tedx1.jpg" width="300" height="200" width_o="300" height_o="200" src_o="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/5/178500/2445067/tedx1_o.jpg" data-mid="12319838" border="0" align="left"/> For the 2013 event I have past on my hat to the next generation of organizers and will enjoy being part of this special event once more, this time as a participant. International Space Apps ChallengeFor the 2012 event I helped to organize speakers, topics and participants for the Lausanne site and attended the hackathon as a participant and mentor myself, working a bit with the talented Krusi brothers on a platform for processing lunar data in order to find optimal landing sites for spacecrafts. 2013 I will be attending as a participant only.<img src="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/5/178500/2445067/687474703a2f2f7331342e706f7374696d6167652e6f72672f697532356f686167782f636f6c6f725f53686f745f6865616465722e706e67_640.png" width="640" height="208" width_o="871" height_o="283" src_o="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/5/178500/2445067/687474703a2f2f7331342e706f7374696d6167652e6f72672f697532356f686167782f636f6c6f725f53686f745f6865616465722e706e67_o.png" data-mid="28988828" border="0" align="left"/> TEDxZurichI am proud to have been on the organizing team of TEDxZurich 2011 and 2012. With the help of great sponsors, including the Swiss National Television... http://www.christinecorbettmoran.com/Wikileaks-Research-Project http://www.christinecorbettmoran.com/following/christinecorbettmoran.com/Wikileaks-Research-Project Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:41:29 +0000 Christine Corbett Moran 2444919 Concept: I hatched a plan to educate myself in a more structured manner on what exactly Wikileaks stands for, its history, and its possible futures with the idea of developing a more concrete and informed opinion. As part of this project, I read every single source cited in the Wikileaks Wikipedia article circa November 2010, and developed some code along the way to help me aggregate and analyse this information. I gave a talk about the project at Security BSides Berlin 2010. Blog Posts:Final Report Initial ConceptCodeOpen sourced on Github <img src="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/5/178500/2444919/newyorker_6_closeup-tiff.png" width="640" height="574" width_o="760" height_o="682" src_o="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/5/178500/2444919/newyorker_6_closeup-tiff_o.png" data-mid="12318961" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/5/178500/2444919/wikileaks-research-project-024-001.png" width="640" height="480" width_o="1024" height_o="768" src_o="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/5/178500/2444919/wikileaks-research-project-024-001_o.png" data-mid="12318962" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/5/178500/2444919/wikileaks-research-project-016-001.png" width="640" height="480" width_o="1024" height_o="768" src_o="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/5/178500/2444919/wikileaks-research-project-016-001_o.png" data-mid="12318966" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/5/178500/2444919/wikileaks-research-project-015-001.png" width="640" height="480" width_o="1024" height_o="768" src_o="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/5/178500/2444919/wikileaks-research-project-015-001_o.png" data-mid="12318967" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/5/178500/2444919/quotesf-001.png" width="640" height="360" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/5/178500/2444919/quotesf-001_o.png" data-mid="12318970" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/5/178500/2444919/quotesf-002.png" width="640" height="360" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/5/178500/2444919/quotesf-002_o.png" data-mid="12318971" border="0" align="left"/> Concept: I hatched a plan to educate myself in a more structured manner on what exactly Wikileaks stands for, its history, and its possible futures with the idea... http://www.christinecorbettmoran.com/Teaching-and-Advising http://www.christinecorbettmoran.com/following/christinecorbettmoran.com/Teaching-and-Advising Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:28:33 +0000 Christine Corbett Moran 2444891 Teaching: InstructorMIT MEET, Y2. Computer Science, Introduction to Java, Summer 2007.MIT MEET, Y3. Computer Science, Android Application Development, Summer 2013. MIT Global Startup Labs: University of the Philippines Diliman Program, Lead Technical Instructor, Summer 2013.AssistantElectricity and Magnetism, ESG MIT, 2004.Mathematical Methods for Physicists I, Fall 2010 This course covered a broad swath of mathematical concepts: elementary calculus, linear algebra, vector calculus, Fourier series and transforms, ordinary differential equations, calculus of variations, tensor analysis, functions of a complex variable and more. We largely followed the excellent text by Prof. Mary Boas which I wholeheartedly recommend. Switching off with my co-assistant, the excellent Lucia Hosekova who has helpfully assisted the class previously, I prepared homework assignments, graded them, and gave a weekly review session. In addition, I gave a lecture on the gamma and beta functions and the Bromwich integral method of finding the inverse Laplace transform. Finally, I prepared the review sheet for the final written exam, helped give the review sessions, and prepared the final exam in consultation with both the professor, Professor George Lake and my co-assistant. Mathematical Methods for Physicists II, Spring 2011This course took up where MMP I left off, including Sturm Liouville theory, a few more special functions, complex analysis, integral equations, group theory, nonlinear dynamics and chaos.Astrophysical Dynamics, Fall 2011Stars, planets, black holes, dark matter and more. This graduate course followed the canonical textbook in the field, Binney and Tremaine's Galactic Dynamics.Advanced Computational Science, Spring 2012Software Engineering.Quantum Mechanics I, Fall 2012 This course covered an introduction to non-relativistic single-particle quantum mechanics. In particular, the basic concepts of quantum mechanics, such as the quantisation of classical systems, the description of observables as operators on a Hilbert space, and the formulation of symmetries were discussed and illustrated with generic examples. We followed the Feynman Lectures III and Sakurai's Modern Quantum Mechanics. Continuum Mechanics, Spring 2013 Stress. Deformation. Strain. Elastic deformations. Stress modulus and stability of the material. The Navier equation. Elastic waves. Seismic applications. Waves in beams. Dislocations. Fluid kinematics. Conservation laws. Energy equation. Real, ideal and incompressible fluids. Helmholtz decomposition. Divergence, curl and circulation theorem. The vorticity equation. Bernoulli theorem. Sound waves. Jeans instability. Gravity wave. KH and RT instabilities. Quasi-linear waves. Shock. Velocity potential and stream function. Complex potential. Elementary solutions.Blasius formulae. Joukowsky transform. Kutta condition. Kutta-Joukowski theorem. General equations and boundary conditions. Planar, Couette and Poiseuille flows. Viscous non stationary interface. Viscous drag on a sphere. Pressure gradients. Turbolence. The equations of Magneto-Hydrodynamique. Generation of magnetic fields. Dynamics and conservation of magnetic flux. Magnetic stress. Alfven and magneto-sonic waves. Magnetic Reynolds and Pradtl number.Advising:Bachelor's Thesis, Rafael Küng, Fall 2010 Rafael worked with me to integrate some visualization and analysis capabilities specific to tracking halos in a cosmological simulation over time into AstroViz. He developed an additional module to AstroViz which can read in halo track information from an SQLite database of a standard format and visualize it in several interesting ways controlled by the user from the ParaView GUI. The final portion of the project integrated the ability to highlight tracks which experience collisions along their path as well as plotting capability for various physical quantities as a function of their collision history. Master's Thesis, Michael Dimmler, Summer 2013Michael is working with me to consistently simulate the upcoming merger between Andromeda and the Milky Way. We will be deploying novel visualization techniques appropriate for a simulation of this resolution, creating a high resolution 3D movie tracing the merger, and will attempt to "fast forward" time into the far far future, when Milkdromeda itself dissipates to get a glimpse of the end of the Galaxy. Teaching: InstructorMIT MEET, Y2. Computer Science, Introduction to Java, Summer 2007.MIT MEET, Y3. Computer Science, Android Application Development, Summer 2013.... http://www.christinecorbettmoran.com/20-minutes-of-fame http://www.christinecorbettmoran.com/following/christinecorbettmoran.com/20-minutes-of-fame Sun, 11 Dec 2011 04:23:46 +0000 Christine Corbett Moran 2439545 Myself and my roller derby team were featured on Swiss national TV. I was featured in Evonik Industries 2012 magazine. Circle Of 6 has gotten a bunch of great press including from the White House, MTV, New York Daily News, Cult of Mac, Yahoo, Christian Science Monitor, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, etc. Phygg.com was featured on MIT's Technology Review. My machine translation work at BBN was referenced in The New Yorker and the New York Times. I was featured on Make Magazine's blog for my Halloween costume, a giant LED. I was interviewed on Geek Entertainment Television. I was featured on the Popular Science blog for my talk at the CCC. I was featured in a Mexican Newspaper, as the "hermana guapa" of my brother, then an exchange student. Mid MIT semester, I took it into my head to attend a conference on Women in Engineering in New Delhi, India and was featured in a Myself and my roller derby team were featured on Swiss national TV. I was featured in Evonik Industries 2012 magazine. Circle Of 6 has gotten a bunch of great... http://www.christinecorbettmoran.com/Photography http://www.christinecorbettmoran.com/following/christinecorbettmoran.com/Photography Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:07:48 +0000 Christine Corbett Moran 2437796 Alternative Process I have a produced series of alternative process prints from my original photographs, including a series from a garment factory in Meerut, India. Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR. Photojournalism I photographed for MIT's oldest newspaper, The Tech and had a few front page photographs featured. Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR. Alternative Process I have a produced series of alternative process prints from my original photographs, including a series from a garment factory in Meerut, India....