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søndag 27. november 2016

Oppdatering: Jeg er i Paris

God søndag alle fine lesere ♡
Da har jeg litt ekstra tid til å gi en lite statusoppdatering igjen; i skrivende stund sitter jeg på et hotellrom i Paris, og har "fri" frem til i morgen tidlig. ("Fri" betyr at jeg er her alene, og at jeg ikke har noen direkte avtaler før i morgen, men jeg har jo hele tiden to artikler og en avhandling som skal skrives ferdig over meg.) Denne uken (som strengt tatt begynner i morgen, selv om jeg på en måte føler den begynner i dag, siden jeg er på jobbreise nå) skal jeg nemlig delta på mitt siste eksperiment mens jeg fremdeles er doktorgradsstipendiat. Vi skal gjøre et eksperiment på plutonium-239, og studere hvordan det oppfører seg når det fisjonerer *spent*.
Det er flere (gode 😉) grunner til at jeg drar til Paris denne uken: For det første så er det et spennende eksperiment, som dessuten passer veldig fint inn sammen med den siste artikkelen jeg har jobbet så mye på i det siste (den handler også blant annet om plutonium-239 som fisjonerer), for det andre så skal mange av de viktigste medforfatterne på denne artikkelen også være der denne uken så dette er en kjempeanledning til å få diskutert resultatene våre ansikt til ansikt - som er ca 1000 ganger bedre enn over mail. Denne uken blir også den siste gangen jeg får mulighet til å treffe veileder-Jon før jeg leverer fra meg avhandlingen, og her gjelder også det med at det er mye mer effektivt å snakke ansikt til ansikt enn mail/telefon/skype.

Deilig med litt tid til å bare slappe av å lese på flyet i dag - liker faktisk Sophie Elise sin bok veldig godt, og får bare mer og mer sansen for den dama!


Bor rett ved Luxembourg denne gangen; da er det enkelt å komme seg ut til labben, siden det bare er å ta ett tog (RER B) fra denne stsjonen og ut til Orsay (der labben er). Det tar ca 40 minutter med tog, men det er ingen bytter, og da liker jeg faktisk ganske godt å sitte stille og tenke, eller lese.

Speil over sengen. Mange!

Måtte ut å rusle en bitteliten tur, og skimtet plitselig Notre Dame ♡

Har vært ute og fanget snacks til hotellrommet 🍷😋😄

I dag er det den 27. november (vet det er mange som er opptatt av at det er 1. søndag i advent i dag, og det ville nok jeg ha vært om jeg var hjemme og ikke i innspurten på doktorgaden og, men her jeg er nå så er det ingenting som minner om noe annet enn at jeg er på et hotellrom - det kunne være når som helst på året akkurat her inne), og det betyr at hvis jeg ikke skal jobbe med doktorgrad i romjulen så er det bare 26 dager igjen.
Omg. OMG. O.M.G!
Det som gjenstår for meg å gjøre er å skrive ferdig to artikler, og å skrive avhandlingen som skal binde de tre artiklene sammen, og gi bakgrunnsinformasjon om det vi/jeg har gjort. Innrømmer lett at avhandlingen er ganske langt unna å være ferdig... Og sånn som ting ligger an akkurat nå så tror jeg at jeg kommer til å ha én artikkel som er ferdig og sendt inn til journalen der den skal publiseres (den som skal diksuteres og skrives ferdig denne uken), og én som er nesten ferdig (såkalt "to be submitted to PRC"). I tillegg har jeg én artikkel fra før (om thoriumbrensel i en lettvanssreaktor, og hvilke fordeler det kan gi).
Det er jeg som er hovedforfatter på alle disse tre artiklene, så så lenge ingen mener at kvaliteten på arbeidet ikke er god nok, så burde dette holde. Det ER så skummelt å tenke på at nå begynner det virkelig å nærme seg - på EKTE! Jeg har jobbet mot dette målet så lenge nå, og nå kan jeg snart lukte det...!

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"Rakettforsker og rosablogger" <-- denne dukket opp i Facebook-feeden min her om dagen, forresten, og det måtte jo bli mitt nye profilbilde 😄 Aner ikke om Laila Shakira er inspirert av meg, eller om det bare er en tilfeldighet - uansett så syns jeg den passer meg ganske bra, og jeg fikk meg en god latter midt oppi stive skudlre, vonde armer og tårer.

fredag 15. april 2016

Abstract accepted! (#phdlife)



The week after Easter, just before we went on vacation, I got a very nice email. It read as follows:

Subject: ND 2016 - Decision on your abstract
Dear Mrs. Rose,
The organizers are pleased to note that your abstract ND/793 was accepted as a regular contribution to the conference. The slot allocated to your contribution is 20 minutes: 15 minutes for your presentation and 5 minutes for questions.
To confirm your attendance please complete at your earliest possible convenience your full registration for the conference at www.nd2016.eu (General Information, drop-down menu: Registration). You will be entitled to submit a regular paper for the proceedings.
Yours sincerely,
Arjan Plompen,
On behalf of the Organizing Committee

I have quite some work to do before this, but now I just definitely have to do it; so it's a good thing :) The abstract I submitted for the International Conference on NUCLEAR DATA FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY is this:


Prompt fission gamma ray emission from the (d,p)-induced fission of 233U


Prompt fission gamma-ray spectra have been measured in an experiment at the Oslo Cyclotron Laboratory (OCL), using a 12.5 MeV deuteron beam on a 233U target.Charged particles were recorded with the SiRi particle telescope, in coincidence with γ-radiation in the CACTUS γ-detector system,  and fission fragments were recorded with the NIFF PPAC-detectors .  CACTUS consists of 28 5”5” NaI(Tl) crystals,  mounted on a spherical frame;  with a total efficiency of 15%.

The (d,pf) reaction has been used as a “surrogate” reaction for the (n, f) reaction, and characteristics such as the prompt fission gamma ray spectra, and the γ multiplicity have been studied. Both characteristics have been extracted as functions of excitation energy, in the energy range 5-10 MeV, in the fissioning nucleus. The results are compared to a similar experiment from the OCL on the 239Pu isotope.

The setup enables us to study the nuclear level density and the gamma ray strength function, and these properties have also been extracted for the 234U isotope, from the same experiment. These results will also be presented.​


It will be a nice experience where I'll be presenting basically half of the results from my PhD - which is a good exercise for the thesis defence that will (hopefully) be a couple of months after this conference...
Writing this blogpost actually reminded me that I haven't registered to the conference yet - on the TODO-list! Brussels, here I come! (Ok, not yet, but in September, I'll be there :) )




tirsdag 12. april 2016

Aldri mer ByTaxi

I dag må jeg nesten komme med et "antitips":

Da vi kom hjem fra Tenerife i går nærmet det seg kvelden. Vi var alle slitne etter flyturen og så frem til vår egen seng. Flyturen gikk overraskende bra og Alexandra satt rolig hele turen (bortsett fra litt virrevandring på slutten, men det er jo lov). For å komme oss hjem fra Gardermoen tenkte vi å ta taxi (vi hadde ikke spart veldig mye på å ta flytoget uansett).

Vi gikk bort til taxikøen på Gardermoen og litt smånaive (slitne!) tar den første taxien som kommer. Vi har flere ganger tatt taxi fra Gardermoen tidligere og fått den normale fastprisen som blant annet OsloTaxi har (759 på hverdager på dagen og 959 i helgene). Men denne gangen ble det ByTaxi.
Før vi i det hele tatt rekker å ta på setebeltet (også på Alexandra...) begynner han å kjøre mens Anders holder kaffekoppen min (pluss hans egen). Vi hadde ikke sagt hvor vi skulle eller noen ting. Han blir så smått irritert fordi Anders enda ikke har tatt på setebeltet (bilen piper jo og klager på det) og sier "kan du ta på deg beltet?". Anders holder jo her to kaffekopper og det er vel strengt tatt han som burde vente med å kjøre til alle har fått på seg beltene og at han vet hvor vi skal. Det virket som han med overlegg ville få turen raskt i gang ut på den enveiskjørte veien ut fra ankomstterminalen.

Etter at Anders da fikk på seg beltet sitt sa han hvor vi skulle og spurte han om hva fastprisen er. Sjåføren kunne da fortelle at det har de ikke. Han anslo at prisen ville være 1400-1500 kroner - altså 500 kroner mer enn fastprisen til OsloTaxi! Det er jo ikke ukjent for sjåføren at mange selskaper har nettopp fastpris og at kundene forventer dette. Det er noe han burde nevne. 

Sånne ting setter vi ikke spesielt pris på. Anders sa til ham at han umiddelbart skulle snu bilen og dra tilbake til flyplassen slik at vi kunne ta en taxi fra et annet selskap. Sjåføren ble smått irritert og sa "kunne dere ikke spurt om fastpris på forhånd?" - jo, det kunne vi - og det kommer vi til å gjøre fremover - men vi forventet vel egentlig at priskonkurranse burde virke som normalt. 

Anders ga taxisjåføren muligheten til å matche OsloTaxi sin pris, og vi endte med å få 1090 som fastpris - 130 kroner mer enn hva vi kunne fått hos f. eks. OsloTaxi. Det ville tross alt kostet mer å returnere til Gardermoen for å bytte taxi...

Da vi kom hjem Googlet vi "ByTaxi fastpris" og fikk denne linken som treff nummer 2: http://www.bt.no/reise/Du-blir-fladd-fra-Gardermoen-28013.html. Dette er tydeligvis strategien til ByTaxi. Jeg misliker sterkt selskaper som har som forretningsmodell å håpe på at kunden ikke legger merke til at de har blitt lurt før det er for sent...jeg vil ikke kalle det svindel, men hvor går egentlig grensen?



Jeg liker best å komme med hyggelige tips, men dette antitipset måtte jeg også dele :)


fredag 30. oktober 2015

Friday Facts (or something): Top 10 places to visit...

Today's Friday Facts are not really facts (they are just highly my opinion...;) ), but my list of the top ten places to visit around the world, as a nuclear/reactor physicist. I'm not sure about the order, so that's quite random (except I think to me Chernobyl really is number one - I can't believe we didn't manage to go there when we were in Kiev two years ago).

1. Chernobyl - Ukraine
2. La Hague - France
3. Sellafield - UK
4. Olympic Dam - Australia
5. Olkiluoto - Finland
6. Fukushima - Japan
7. Three Mile Island - USA
8. Los Alamos - USA
9. Hirsohima - Japan
10. CERN - Switzerland

Now you know where to go when you're planning your next vacation ;)


The only place I can cross off the list is Hirsohima. I went there when we made Sushi and Nuclear last year. It was actually quite emotional to go there - it felt a little bit like a continuous punch in the stomach, to walk around the A-bomb Dome, which they left as it was after the bombing.


So, do you agree on my list? Or should some of the places be replaced?


tirsdag 27. oktober 2015

TEDxBergen: Nuclear weapons and thorium and stuff


Finally, the video from the TEDxBergen conference is now on-line!
The subject of my talk was Could nuclear weapons save the planet? , and you can watch the entire thing here:



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Since I talked about how to dress as a female scientist in my last blogpost, I just have to show you a close-up of the shoes I wore. These shoes from Nelly ended up as my "statement" for this talk - which I felt that I needed, since the rest of the outfit was quite simple; just tight jeans, a loose shirt, and my hair in a bun (not the tightest, but not very messy either):


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One of the really great thing about this trip to Bergen (almost a month ago already!) - besides being allowed to give my third TEDx talk - was that Anders came and spent the weekend with me <3 There's nothing like sharing experiences like this with the one you love, and having Anders in the audience made me feel so much better and more secure than if I had been there all by myself... He was a great supprt!

perfect evening: I was dead tired after  a long day -  I do get really stressed before I'm giving a talk like this. We were thinking about either go to the after party with the rest of the people from the conference, or maybe go out in Bergen... But instead we stayed in the hotel; we took a looong bath (where we drank two bottles of Prosecco), before we ordered pizza to the room, ate it in bed and watched several episodes of the Big Bang Theory. It was just perfect <3
 



onsdag 19. august 2015

No place like HOME

...or, the  University, as I also like to call it ;) 

Yes, it's actually true, the University really is like a home (or at least my second home) to me - and after one week in Berkeley, one week when Alexandra was sick with chickenpox and couldn't go to kindergarden, and one day in Stavanger, it feel fantastic to be back on track in Oslo! It's so awesome to see my (second) home full of new, and old, students again, and I feel so privileged to have a job that I can call home. Love it <3 <3 <3
So I'm just back in my (messy) office, and back with my beloved uranium (pep talk with supervisor tomorrow morning). I should really write more about what I'm working on right now - only problem is that it takes time...and I also want to share some of what I said in my speech at the University in Stavanger on Monday (very honored to be the mains speaker at the opening this year!) - maybe I have to do that tomorrow?

Anyway, it's soon bedtime here - I have to be much better at getting enough sleep, and to get up early in the mornings, which means going to bed early ;)
Here are some snap shots from the Stavanger trip :)

follow me on snapchat @ sunnivarose <3

Stavanger speech outfit 
 
leaving beautiful Stavanger



torsdag 6. august 2015

Pure joy!



Good morning everyone <3 Day two of this California/Berkeley trip has just started, and so far I'm very happy :)

Yesterday I "finished" the first part of the uranium analysis (which is to find the nuclear level density of uranium-234) - that I wrote about in my last blog post - and started the second part of the analysis (which is to find the gamma ray strength function of uranium-234). The picture above show the very first result of my gamma ray strength data (the squares - both black and white) plotted together with different data from the big nuclear data bases. When I wrote "plot" and this appeared I actually screamed with excitement and joy, and hugged Cecilie, who was sitting next to me and helping me, because it looks soooo pretty - even before I've started to "tweak" my data to fit with the ones from the data bases (the ones on the right side of the plot - the little triangles). 

The goal of this trip is btw to put these two properties of the nucleus (the nuclear level denisty and the gamma ray strength function) into simulations of different reactors (that uses thorium based fuel) and see if they affect the results of the simulations - when we compare to standard simulations where we don't do anything about these nuclear properties :) *excited*

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Below are a couple of pictures from yesterday and today. The first one, of Anders, is probably more like what you would imagine when I say "pure joy"...;) He has just rented a nice car and is on his way to Palo Alto as we speak - he is also excited. (Actually kind of wish i could go with him, but I'm on my way to the lab now, with Cecilie - and that will of course also be fun...but in a quite different way :P )


beautiful morning at Berkeley campus

cutest squirrel at Berkeley campus

Cecilie and Darren discussion something important (I'm guessing ;) ) at Jupiter, where we had dinner yesterday - and the day before, when we'd just arrived

Jupiter <3

Jupiter <3


tirsdag 4. august 2015

Berkeley next

Listen to "Going to San Francisco" - check
Packing - check (but in a hurry, so not really sure if I'm bringing everything I want to...)
Passport - check
ESTA - check
Print of tickets (yes, I'm old school) - check
Print of hotel booking conformation (still old school) - check
Wearing comfortable clothes - check





I think we're ready for Berkeley/San Francisco, and a week of PhD life on the other side of the Atlantic, now <3

Below is what I did yesterday, as part of my preparation for this trip - on the first picture, the dotted line is not in agreement with the black squares, but on the second picture, it's like a perfect fit :D This means that the first part of my uranium analysis is coming to an end (if you ever can say that anything in science is "coming to an end" - I guess you actually really can't...:P), and I'm really excited about this trip!






mandag 6. juli 2015

Wedding in Toledo!



- Toledo working outfit ;) -


Happy Monday everyone! 
As you know, I came back home from my very sweet colleague Lucia’s wedding in Toledo, Spain, on Saturday.

Toledo is a town about one hour from Madrid (where Lucia is from), and according to my friend Google.com it is "one of the Spanish cities with the greatest wealth of monuments. Known as the 'city of three cultures', because Christians, Arabs and Jews lived together there for centuries, behind its walls Toledo preserves an artistic and cultural legacy in the form of churches, palaces, fortresses, mosques and synagogues. This great diversity of artistic styles makes the old quarter of the city a real open-air museum, which has led to it being declared a World Heritage Site."
Unfortunately I didn’t experience anything of Toledo this time, I just watched it at a distance :P But I know, after what Lucia has told me, and after driving through it on our way back to Madrid on Saturday, that this is a place I have to come back to. Maybe like September, or something? We’ll see what the Man has to say (cause next time I’m not going on my own, like I ”had to” this time, since he’s in Asia – yes, I still miss him :) ).

Anyway; I loved every single part of those 24 hours I spent in the Hotel Cigarrel El Bosque, where I stayed, and the party was! From sitting outside my room at my balcony, in the shadow, looking at the old town of Toledo, drinking ice cold water and writing, to sneaking out to the pool with Cecilie at 2 AM, and sitting there with our tired feet in the water and discussing nuclear physics <3

As I’ve promised; here are some pictures from Lucia and David’s wedding in Toledo – including my choice of outfit, of course :D




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I couldn't decide whether to wear my red/pink roses dress, or an apricot thing, but when it turned out that my underwear showed through the apricot dress,  the decision was quite easy ;)



- someone sent a bottle of sparkling wine to the room, and I have no idea who did it -





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Today I'm back at the office again, writing. It's pretty quiet here at Blindern now - not sure if I prefer it like this, or with a lot of other people...

PS: I still miss Anders - just 22 more days to go, now...


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