October 2006


I had to write this before getting warmed up… Yes, warmed up.

We had a serious winter storm yesterday (10/26) that dumped a lot of snow. But the sun had come out in the late afternoon. So this morning when I saw a ‘bright and white’ morning, riding to work became an obviously uninformed obvious choice. (more…)

Ref: Ozgur Ergul and Levent Gurel, “Enhancing the accuracy of the interpolations and anterpolations in MLFMA,” to appear in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (Abstract and pdf files are available from the journal website at IEEE.org)

I was talking to my two year old nephew, Kannan, the other day. We were discussing some of the most recent developments in the field of fast algorithms in computational electromagnetics. Well, he is not exactly an expert in this field, but as soon as I mentioned this paper to him, he asked “Uncle Sanjay, is it not what Drs. Song and Chew developed over ten years ago and what a lot of people have been using since then? I think it sounds like mommy taking grandma’s recipe for chicken curry and claiming it to be her own.” (more…)

It was a gorgeous autumn day. The weather was supposed to be in the low 80s and nearly clear sky. It would be a criminal waste if I didn’t get on the bike… or so I thought.

So by 10:30AM I was out of the house. The plan was to do about 65-70 miles of ‘plains’ riding. That meant going east. So I went east. (more…)

What a ride! What a ride!

Rick and I started riding around 10:00am from Masonville, CO, a few miles south of Fort Collins. We rode over Horsetooth reservoir. There were three short but very steep hills that made our hearts beat faster than the latest Intel Core-Duo processors! But the reward was that the views of the lake to the west and the town to the east were fantastic. (more…)