MOSAIX: a tool to built large mosaics from GALEX images

Large sky surveys are providing a huge amount of information for studies of the interstellar medium, the galactic structure or the cosmic web. Setting into a common frame information coming from different wavelengths, over large fields of view, is needed for this kind of research. GALEX is the only nearly all-sky survey at ultraviolet wavelengths and contains fundamental information for all types of studies. GALEX field of view is circular embedded in a squared matrix of 3840 x 3840 pixels. This fact makes it hard to get GALEX images properly overlapped with the existing astronomical tools such as Aladin or Montage. We developed our own software for this purpose. In this article, we describe this software and makes it available to the community.Comment: 7 pages, including 8 figures, accepted by Astrophysics and Space Scienc

“A Cascade of Shifts in the Brain”: Kay Ryan’s Poetics

In 2015, Kay Ryan wrote in her private journal that “I don’t feel that my poems have really been enjoyed yet, although they have been rewarded” (May 3, 2015 6:29 AM). This essay uses Ryan’s papers, acquired by the Beinecke Library in 2018, to develop an understanding of the poetics of this much-rewarded, but underappreciated two-term poet laureate, MacArthur fellow, and Pulitzer Prize winner. This essay is the first to use Ryan’s archives to analyze her poetic work. Two poles of the Beinecke’s Kay Ryan Papers ground my discussion: her self-published 1983 debut collection, Dragon Acts to Dragon Ends, few copies of which were ever printed; and the private journals she began keeping after the death of her wife, Carol Adair, in 2009. Together, Dragon Acts and Ryan’s more recent journals reveal her career-spanning interest in the cognitive workings of poetry, shedding new light on her underexplored poetics. Ryan’s papers offer the writer’s own perspective on her distinct poetic voice and intricate aesthetic aims. In particular, Ryan’s journals record an ongoing act of poetic self-formation at the height of her career, as she recreates in their pages the literary conversations she had shared with Adair. Reading her poetry alongside her papers builds a critical approach to her work congruous with her own conviction that “it is not in isolation that a thing is most eloquent”—that an understanding of a poet’s thinking and preoccupations puts pieces across their career in illuminating conversation (September 20, 2016 6:49)

JaxoDraw: A graphical user interface for drawing Feynman diagrams. Version 2.0 release notes

A new version of the Feynman graph plotting tool JaxoDraw is presented. Version 2.0 is a fundamental re-write of most of the JaxoDraw core and some functionalities, in particular importing graphs, are not backward-compatible with the 1.x branch. The most prominent new features include: drawing of Bezier curves for all particle modes, on-the-fly update of edited objects, multiple undo/redo functionality, the addition of a plugin infrastructure, and a general improved memory performance. A new LaTeX style file is presented that has been written specifically on top of the original axodraw.sty to meet the needs of this this new version.Comment: 17 pages, 1 figur

Introduction to Zoom for Teaching

This document presents an introduction to the basic tools of teaching with Zoom

Feasibility study of using augmented reality in geotechnical site inspection

Landslides are the most widespread geological event. They can cause big amounts of deaths as well as economic losses. There are several processes of monitoring, although the visual inspection in the early stages of the movements should be enhanced. On the other hand, the construction industry is at the edge of digitalisation and emergent technologies are being developed and implemented, such as Augmented Reality, BIM and 3D printing. This thesis, hence, aims to propose an Augmented Reality app with the objective of enhancing visual geotechnical on-site inspections in order to make them more effective and mitigate future risks