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Rob Knop earned a PhD in Physics from Caltech in 1997, and did a 5-year post-doc with the Supernova Cosmology Project, and contributed to the discovery of the accelerating Universe. He was an assistant professor of Physics & Astronomy at Vanderbilt for 6 years before scattering out of academia. He now works for Linden Lab, the producers of Second LIfe. (Note: this is not an official site of Linden Lab! Although I work for Linden Lab, all content in this blog is posted without the review or approval of Linden Lab. All statements and opinions expressed here are my own.)
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Category: Big Bang & Cosmology
Hello from England! Last night was the award ceremony for the 2007 Gruber Prizer in Cosmology. It was good to meet up with the members of the SCP again, many of whom I haven't seen in several years. Picture below...
Posted by Rob Knop at 10:50 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Self
I overstimulate fairly easily. This is a serious social disadvantage. I may even be what is known as a "Highly Sensitive Person," if you happen to be one who believes that such a category really exists. Read on to find out just what the heck I'm talking about.
Posted by Rob Knop at 12:26 AM • 30 Comments •
Category: Self
I'm off on 2 weeks+ of travel. At the moment, I'm sitting in the Nashville airport, waiting to take off on a two-day flight to New York for FNORD. I come back Sunday, and Monday I leave for a 2-week...
Posted by Rob Knop at 11:15 AM • •
Category: Self
It's been a few days. I was out in West Virginia last weekend watching my cousin get married. After driving back Monday, I started the new job with Linden Labs, and that has been occupying most of my focus. I've...
Posted by Rob Knop at 9:55 AM • 11 Comments •
Category: Academia
A while back at this blog's former site, I wrote a post entitled A Career and a Life. Now that my career is on the precipice of undergoing a tremendous change, I thought it might be interesting to revisit that post.
Posted by Rob Knop at 5:05 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: Academia
A couple of years ago, I went to a meeting for junior faculty at Vanderbilt about the tenure process. The ostensible goal of the meeting was to help us feel more comfortable by letting us better understand the process. The...
Posted by Rob Knop at 12:29 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: Astronomy Science
This is really cool. Several years ago, the Gruber Foundation established a prize in cosmology. Last year (2006) the award went to John Mather and the COBE team; you may recall that Mather was one of the two winners of...
Posted by Rob Knop at 9:00 AM • 18 Comments •
Category: Science & Religion
So that people don't feel the need to threadcrap in other threads, I open this thread here for people to make their flames, comments, insults, dismissals, expressions of support, and so forth. I have said before that I'm a Christian....
Posted by Rob Knop at 12:35 PM • 46 Comments •
Category: Academia
Loved the teaching. Loved the science. Couldn't take the politics. Couldn't take the tenure stress. That about sums it up. I am sending off today a signed offer letter for employment with Linden Lab, the folks who create and run...
Posted by Rob Knop at 12:35 PM • 67 Comments •
Category: Random & Gratuitous
It occurred to me this morning that recently I've been living like a college student. I don't mean that I've been going to beer-saturated frat parties, having meals made for me at a cafeteria, and futilely trying to sleep through...
Posted by Rob Knop at 12:43 PM • 10 Comments •
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