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Remembering Spring 2020: virtual teaching and research life

The Office: #tent-teaching

Heated and totally sound proof relative to the 3 other Zoomers in the house.

I bought this awesome 10'x13' tent in early March and spent spring break making a space in the garage to teach the rest of my class remotely.

Thermal sanitizer project

Given the shortage of protective masks, I decided to design a low-cost thermal insert for a standard Coleman or foam cooler to allow folks a way to heat sanitize their own masks via current best practice guidelines. Here's my workbench and the final version. Alas, best practice is really hard to determine based on real science. I've included some links below. Should you be interested in making your own, below should give you enough details to build your own unit ($50 - $100 depending on what you have about your house and options). Disclaimer: this is totally DIY and not approved/sanctioned by anyone but pretty easy to build and use even for kids.

More instructions to follow soon? ... need to work on my class.

TentSim

Since I couldn't actually work in my lab, TentSim is a series on 4 Matlab routines that simulate and analyze flourescence burst data obtained from particle flow measurements. The core idea is based on the original BAS work from 2008 but this work folds in multiple color channels, noise simulation, and better uncertainty analysis. Still a work in progress but now from my real office :) Some of the results of this work can be found here:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33831389/

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