Durham University PhD astrophysics research student Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro talks about how her studies have led her to learn a lot about machine learning statistics and Artificial Intelligence, skills that can be applied to other fields like healthcare and natural language processing.
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The collegiate system
For those of you who don’t know, Durham is a collegiate university with seventeen different colleges, which means that once you’re allocated a college this is where you stay for first year (unless you live out) and this becomes a kind of community for the rest of your time at university. For the…
For the 2020-21 academic year, I was due to travel to Switzerland for a year abroad at HEC Lausanne. Unfortunately, COVID-19 meant I lost the first term entirely and have resorted to doing a few modules in the second term online. Whilst two replacement projects from Durham have given me something extra to do, I still found…
When I started my PhD, I imagined that in four years time I would become a highly specialised researcher in Cosmology, and would not learn much about anything else. However, since I started my studies at Durham I have worked in widely different fields such as epidemiological simulations, Astrophysics and Natural Language…
Last year I completed my PhD on planetary giant impacts in the Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham University, and am happily continuing to work on similar things. Our solar system used to be a much more violent place, with early planets crashing into each other to create the worlds we see today. Since we can’t…
Hi There! I am Giorgio and I am an astrophysicist, and guess what? Today I’m here to speak about… babies. Yes, you heard it right, and it’s not a cool way to name galaxies or stars but I am referring to actual babies! More precisely a few hours old babies. Curious, about why? Well, I am here to explain. Trying…
In my PhD, I research quasars, which consist of a supermassive black hole at the centre of galaxies surrounded by a disc of matter that is so bright it outshines the entire galaxy. Most quasars are very blue, but there is an important subset that are much redder which we call “red quasars”. These red quasars could be an…
We’re celebrating Durham University’s strengths in astronomy and cosmology research. Here PhD Researcher Vicky Fawcett, in our Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, talks about her research on quasars, a supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy surrounded by a disc of matter that’s so bright it outshines the entire…
Like many of you, I have watched a lot of films and TV shows that depict university life. Many of them being American, such as Community or Gilmore Girls. I knew a lot of these shows would not be realistic in their portrayal of American colleges, let alone UK universities. Yet I still found myself building my expectations about…
