2008 ua physics undergraduate research symposium robert j. rose, esq. b.s., m.s., j.d
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2008 UA Physics Undergraduate
Research SymposiumRobert J. Rose, Esq.B.S., M.S., J.D.
Answers are not as important as the questions
you ask
How you frame your question determines the
answer.
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A simple candle
What is research?
•Informed play
•Correlation observation
•Hypothesis
•Testing
•Tool building
•Causation confirmation
Pattern or No
Pattern?Watch closely . . .
Pattern?Now?
Pattern?Do you see it . . .
Pattern?Clearer?
Contact eBay!
We are all toast.
correlation is not causation
Your experience is proportional to the equipment
you ruin.
Computer GUI for Segmentation of Nerves During
Ultrasound Guided Anesthesia
Play andCorrelation observation
Hypothesisthe MCN can appear in a variety of forms, either as hyperechoic or hypoechoic
regions, but in most instances it appears echoically distinct from the surrounding tissue.
This suggests that segmentation techniques can assist in acquisition and
visualization of these nerves.
Testing: Tool Creation
Confirmation
New HypothesisThere will be an observable correlation between the isotropy of the spatial frequency
spectrum of imaged nerves, and nerve injury. So, the tool, modified to produce
a spatial frequency spectrum, can be used as a
diagnostic tool to confirm nerve injury.
24Affine Transformations
Image PerspectiveImage PerspectiveIssue: A method for correcting perspective so that viewer could see a scene in “virtual reality” with correct perspective, with viewer and projector at different locations.
25Affine Transformations
One Way: Ray TracingOne Way: Ray Tracing
26Affine Transformations
Different Way:Affine Transformation
Different Way:Affine Transformation
Straight lines remain straight after warp
27Affine Transformations
Simulated RenderingSimulated RenderingView From Camera Simulated Virtual Camera
Pre-distorted
Image Being Sent
to Projector
to Compensate for Dome & Pilot POV
Reference Line
Lines Straighter
Lines straighterFOV close to correct
Lines curve left
All lines straightFOV correct
Read books
•Edward Tufte
•Visual Explanations
•The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
•The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within
•Biographies of Scientists
•Einstein, His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson
•Anything about Richard Feynman
•Stories by Scientists
•The Quark and the Jaguar, by Murray Gell-Mann
•Anything by Richard Feynman
•Expand your horizons
•Freakonomics, A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
•Prisoners, A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide, by Jeffrey Goldberg
•Why People Believe Weird Things, by Michael Shermer and Stephen Jay Gould
The “bookstore” test
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