Ms –> PhD

Since the last day 21 I’m a doctor in physics. My thesis defense was really entertaining. I was not worried with not being approved so I went to the defense keeping in mind what I could learn from the examiners. You can find my presentation here (PDF, Portuguese, my first presentation with Beamer). [...]

MikTex 2.5 and Hyperref

Just now I upgraded my old 2.4 version of MikTeX to the 2.5 version. The details of the new version can be found in the last link. Those who already have version 2.4 installed may use the MikTex Update Wizard.
There was a change in the default option of hyperref, it was changed from hypertex to [...]

Some news: thesis, previous E. Witten speech, D. Gross, D. Shostakovich etc.

Almost three weeks since the last uptade, I have a lot of things to comment.
1. Thesis. My thesis is ready since the last week. The defense will be in 21/09/06, now I’m working on its presentation (and listening my new CD’s).
2. An old order of mine finally arrived. Just to cite the titles (some [...]

The boring part of writing a thesis

Now I’m translating from English to Portuguese some papers which were mostly written by my self to include them in my thesis. This really sounds to me as a waste of time. I wish I could simply bundle the papers in English with the introductory part and conclusions written in Portuguese.
Offtopic: Magma (the French group) [...]

LATeX: inputenc, babel, hyperref e color.

Para os usuários de LATeX . Não sou nenhum expert nas macros e comandos do LATeX, sei aqueles que preciso para criar as equações que uso. Recentemente conheci umas macros úteis que talvez não sejam conhecidos por alguns dos poucos leitores deste blog. As 4 macros listadas acompanham o MikTex completo. Enquanto escrevia minha tese, finalmente aprendi que [...]

Two deaths of great personalities today

Today died one of the greatests Brazilian physicists: José Leite Lopes ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Leite_Lopes). He has done important contribuitions to the unification of electromagnetic and weak forces and had a leading role in the establishment of two Brazilian researches centers (both in Rio de Janeiro): CBPF (Brazilian Center for Researchs in Physics) and the Physics Institute of "Universidade Federal [...]

Greve dos auditores fiscais

E a greve dos auditores fiscais continua e ainda sem expectativa de término…
09/06/06 – Greve continua forte no Rio de Janeiro
Cerca de 3 mil contêineres com cargas de importação estimadas entre 80 e 100 milhões de dólares se acumulam nos portos do Rio de Janeiro e Itaguaí e no Aeroporto Internacional Tom Jobim (Galeão) desde [...]

Some diverse and interesting links

A.M. Bach or J.S. Bach? AMG – An interesting article in All Music Guide about the possibility that some works of J. S. Bach have actually been made by his second wife.
Peter Svrcek and Edward Witten – Axions in String Theory (hep-th/0605206). Each time a read a paper by Witten I become more convinced that everything is very well [...]