Colloquium held at BAM in Germany

Posted by Janne Käpylehto on December 20th, 2011

We spent a whole day at BAM (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung) in Berlin and also gave a lecture on advanced reconstruction methods in which the focus was Statistical Inversion. The colloquium was held in the Ludwig-Erhard Hall in BAM’s headquarters. BAM’s history stretches back to 1871. The selection of Computer Tomography (CT) devices on display was fascinating: a total of 26 units with the largest able to make measurements through more than a metre of steel and the smallest used to study insects.

For every non-trivial problem there is an explanation which is short, easy to understand and completely wrong

Posted by Janne Käpylehto on July 5th, 2011

I’m currently working with radar measurement data from a friendly Finnish institute and I’m teaching our software to cope with all the oddities that comes from real-life measurements. Also, the sailing season has begun and I’m reading sailing blogs and equipment tests.  How are these related? Well, this is about a pet peeve of mine: Bad sailing science.

For every non-trivial problem there is an explanation which is short, easy to understand and completely wrong

Posted by Janne Käpylehto on July 5th, 2011

I’m currently working with radar measurement data from a friendly Finnish institute and I’m teaching our software to cope with all the oddities that comes from real-life measurements. Also, the sailing season has begun and I’m reading sailing blogs and equipment tests.  How are these related? Well, this is about a pet peeve of mine: Bad sailing science.

Holidays are over, it’s business as usual

Posted by Janne Käpylehto on July 5th, 2011

In Finland, July is notoriously a slow month, with many people packing the family off to the summer cottage for a well-earned rest.  It can sometimes feel that the world has stopped, indeed the international edition of Helsingin Sanomat claims that in politics and business, Finland is more or less “closed”.

Ripples of a stone thrown into lake Kilpisjärvi