Anthony's Journal: Geology and Maths

Had a chat with Steve Cox yesterday about where I'm going and where I want to be. I talked about my Maths exploits and he discussed his latest maths travails. He struggled with modelling with Mathematica, but is making headway with Matlab at the moment. He's working on modelling involving Bessel functions and (from his description) Dirac Delta "functions" related to fluid transport in fault events. He gave two pieces of good advice. 1. Wait until 6 months before the end of the pass degree (2007 for me at this part-time rate) then start visiting potential supervisors. 2. If I have to do Honours part-time, try and do a block of full-time for the writing phase. A lot of time is lost winding up and winding down if there are frequent interruptions.