The comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is nicely visible from central France. The best time to observe it currently is shortly after 20:00 CEST, i.e. about 50 minutes after sunset and roughly 30 minutes before it sets.
It becomes visible in the West at low elevations above …
more ...We had the Fête de la science 2024 science festival at the CNRS research campus in Orléans this weekend, 5 - 6. October. Each of the institutes on the CNRS campus presented itself and its research activities to the public in a simplified and (hopefully) entertaining way.
The LPC2E institute, which …
more ...As of 2024, emails are typically received through Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) servers, where the individual emails are kept in a centralised storage. This has the advantage that you can access them from several email clients or devices and always see the complete set of emails in the same …
more ...For future reference, the following recipe works well to get CNRS Eduroam WiFi access working on a Macbook Pro.
Eduroam configuration website.
The linked website provides a “mobile profile” setup file, including the right certificate that will be installed under System Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Other -> Profiles -> User -> eduroam. You will …
more ...I recently submitted the following three photos to the 2024 CNRS photo competition called “Regarde la science”. Please see the images and their descriptions below.
Caption: Overview of the Nançay Radio Astronomical Observatory. The photo shows the three main radio telescopes that our research group uses to observe radio pulsars …
more ...Here is a recent group photo of the CNRS Orléans/Nançay pulsar and Fast Radio Burst team as of February 2024. The two PhD students were present for the photo, but the 2024 Master’s students had not yet arrived. Other team members who are primarily based at the Nançay …
more ...So far, I have always maintained my publication list manually as a LaTeX file, adding new publications as they were accepted or made public. However, doing so was an extremely tedious and frankly dull task, more so because some application processes require you to submit separate lists that include all …
more ...I recently started a new academic research position at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the Université d’Orléans in the beautiful city of Orléans, France. I will work on pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts as part of a more extensive multi-wavelength collaboration and with several radio …
more ...Over the last week or two, I performed a general overhaul of the website, adding tags throughout the news section, updating and polishing the front page, and expanding my research page significantly. In particular, I extended the descriptions and added links to my publications that you can look at for …
more ...Today I relocated the website from its old location on Swinburne University’s webserver to a new server. The move simplifies a couple of technical details behind the scenes and allows for faster access for European and US visitors. Apart from the move, nothing has changed.
more ...Today I switched the website to HTTPS secured access by default. The main benefit for the visitors is that the data transmission in now authenticated, as well as encrypted.
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