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  1. 🏅Congratulations to Michail Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis (Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA), University of Colorado) for receiving the GENCO Young Scientist Award!

    🏅 Our warm congratulations also go to the new GENCO members Catalin Borcea (IFIN-HH, Romania), Magdalena Górska (GSI) and Béatriz Jurado (LP2I Bordeaux, France), who received the FAIR-GENCO Membership Award.

    More 👉 gsi.de/en/start/news/details/2

    © GSI/FAIR
    #science #award #physics #nuclearphysics #nuclearchemistry

  2. #EngineerChallenge Day 002 :calculator:

    Today was a little bit better than yesterday as the afternoon was not blindingly bright nor hot & humid. The rain that came in the morning plus the cloudy weather helped to alleviate some of the annoyances I had yesterday.

    I continued reading Bettelheim's Chapter 3 #NuclearChemistry and was fascinated about the various \(\alpha, \ \beta,\) and \(\gamma\) radiation. I almost went into a #Wikipedia rabbit hole of particle-beam weapons and research into grasers (\(\gamma\)-ray lasers).

    On a tangent, I noticed that while reading the first few chapters of Bettelheim, these chapters are more of an introduction that I already know. To be blunt, it's incredibly boring since I've come across these concepts a lot of times now and feel like I'm "overlearning". After reading, when I look at the end-of-chapter (EOC) problems, it makes me not want to do them given the difficulty (and not a lot of equation solving there which I mostly need).

    Maybe I could try a different approach of reading a few chapters first for the understanding, skipping the EOC problems, and then returning back after a while to answer them in a batch to minimize context switching, do interleaving, and actually have a better grasp at the big picture view. This might only apply to the easy or concept-heavy subjects in Day 1/PCP subjects. For Day 2 (CHE) and Day 3 (GEN) subjects where page progression is slower and there are a lot of problem-solving (and mastery of concepts naturally come with the problem solving), the conventional answering of EOC might be more preferable to provide immediate feedback.

    P.S. Music with little/without lyrics such as Video Game/Movie BGM seem to work the best for focus.