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Congratulations! What was the title of the thesis?
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Kerr/CFT correspondence  I reviewed the original article, and additional articles on the subject (looked for various boundary conditions, metric perturbations, that would give me the correct central charge for calculating the entropy). I wish my mentor actually worked on this subject, that way I could have gone beyond the scope of the basics (even tho the basics were something I've never encountered in my studies :S). But he never did anything like this, so working with him has been kinda difficult. Plus I didn't find any new boundary conditions that would give the correspondence. So that's kinda sad, but I did learn a lot on that subject.
And in the end it all worked out
Plus I don't think I'll stay in science. These past 5-6 years were hard. I can only imagine what the PhD looks like, doing actual science.
I think I'll try to find a job in finance somewhere. I have a friend who studied mathematics and is now looking for job in that sector, and I can always ask her for some pointers
"Quantum mechanics is actually, contrary to it's reputation, unbeliveably simple, once you take the physics out."
Scott Aaronson | chiv wrote: | | thats true you know. newton didnt discover gravity. the apple told him about it, and then he killed it. the core was never found. |
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| Posted: Fri, 21st Feb 2014 10:40 Post subject: |
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| Atropa wrote: | That sounds like a typical master thesis. You set out to derive new and groundbreaking stuff and end up reviewing articles  . I did the exact same thing atleast. The Phd can only really be compared to your last year( if you've done a full year thesis). Except that if your supervisor doesn't know the subject he will probably contact somebody else you can work with. It is really a waste of money to have a phd trying to reinvent the deep dish.
As for the job in finance. The few people I know of in finance all sit around doing correlation functions on data which they plug in to a preconfigured theory packages :/. |
Yeah, I ended up contacting the authors themselves for help xD My mentor deals with Chern-Simons theory in general relativity, and this is something totally different, so...
And I wouldn't mind pluging stuff in computer if I got nice pay xD At least for the beginning, until I get on my feet to do something I like. And in the free time I can still do what I like (design and stuff)
At this point, and in this time, I have to be practical...
"Quantum mechanics is actually, contrary to it's reputation, unbeliveably simple, once you take the physics out."
Scott Aaronson | chiv wrote: | | thats true you know. newton didnt discover gravity. the apple told him about it, and then he killed it. the core was never found. |
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RatKing
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| Posted: Fri, 21st Feb 2014 10:44 Post subject: |
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That's awesome, congrats man! 
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Morphineus
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| Posted: Fri, 21st Feb 2014 12:44 Post subject: |
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But but we need less talent lost towards finances :/
Science or ban! 
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| Posted: Fri, 21st Feb 2014 13:44 Post subject: |
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| MORPHINEUS wrote: | But but we need less talent lost towards finances :/
Science or ban! |
Science is hard  Cool but hard :\
Plus I'd had to go out of the country to do science, and I have a bf here, I cannot just leave him and say: I'm going, byeee :S
Also I really don't think I'd succeed in getting a PhD (not only getting in somewhere, actually finishing it). So, I'll be happy if I can find a job (first things first), then earn some money to move out and find my own place
"Quantum mechanics is actually, contrary to it's reputation, unbeliveably simple, once you take the physics out."
Scott Aaronson | chiv wrote: | | thats true you know. newton didnt discover gravity. the apple told him about it, and then he killed it. the core was never found. |
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