Hi everyone, I'm far from my thesis and I have no idea about what my field of research will be so I'll only explain my three-year course degree. I'm studying European Literature which is an interacademic faculty between the faculty of Letters and the Foreign Languages one. European Literature includes literature in many languages, for example, I'm obviously studying Italian literature (modern and contemporary) but also English, Anglo-American and Scandinavian literature. Honestly, I don't like literature very much but we study English quite well in this course and that's what I looked for. People often ask me why I didn't choose Foreign Languages and my answer is because I'm only interested in English but not in languages in general. In the future, I'd like to translate books for children but if I'll get tired of studying translation I wish I could become an English teacher (even at the CLI would be wonderful!). I hope I've been quite exhaustive! See you tomorrow!
I'm studying for the computer science technologies master degree. My thesis focuses on network monitoring and in particular on traffic measure. Traffic measure is very important in big networks where you must guarantee service level agreements balancing traffic, reacting to network failures and mitigating denial of service attacks. If you don't know what's happening on your network you don't know how to avoid slow downs which have an economic impact for either network providers and network users. As Lord Kelvin said: "If you can not measure it, you can not improve it." Measures are pretty simple in slow networks like LAN but is challenging on high speed networks where the speed increase to 10 gbit/s and more. Handling so much data requires expensive hardware which can cost hundreds of thousands euro. The subject of my thesis is to find a way to measure high speed networks using common PCs which are relatively very cheap.
I study Law in Pisa and my field of specialisation concerns the International Law.I chose this field because it represents a very fascinating world in its every single aspect.Since I was at High School I have had the dream of travelling all over the world doing a job which could allow this.So I always dreamt to work in the diplomacy world or to be involved in the international aspects of law.This kind of choice reflects the two distinct legal disciplines complying with the International Law.The first one is the Public International Law,which rules the relationships between states and between states and international organizations,the second one is the Private International Law or Conflict of Law, regarding questions about which legal jurisdiction may be heard and which national law has to be applied in non involvement cases(cases with elements regulated by different jurisdictions and national rules).I well know the first path,which concerns the chance of working in diplomacy, is very hard to take for a lot of reasons but it always remains my dream and even if everyone tells me that it's an impossible way I think I have at least the right to dream.The second option is probably what I shall be,I mean a lawyer.And choosing that,I will probably work as a legal in some banks or in some law offices.Meanwhile,I'm studying for passing the last exams and I'm starting to work on my thesis,about the theory and the functions of the International process.
Hi. I want to talk you about my studies and my research interests. I want to state in advance that speaking about theoretical physics in a very specialistic way needs a deep knowledge of various mathematical issue and may be obscure and boring for anyone that isn't physicist and not so useful to improve my written English. For this reason I try to introduce here, in a very general way, the main problems in my field of reseach trying, if it is possible, to stimulate your interest. Theoretical physics is a large branch of physics in which you can do a first distinction between field of research considering different energy scale. In fact we know that the physicl behaviour of a system change changing on the energy scale or the temperature, for this reason phyiscal theories that are good at a certain energy can't be used to describe the same systems at higher energy. In general we can suppose that low energy theories can be obtained by the higher energy ones in the low energy limit, avereging phyisical quantities. So we can consider HEP more fundamental in some sense. The main purpose of HEP is to investigate the possibility to construct a fundamental theory able to describe all physical interactions and so make a prediction af all physical process. The famous “theory of everything”. Nowadays at high energy level we are able to describe particle and their interaction using QFT, in which we have put togheter the dinamical structure of Quantum Mechanics with the rigid geometrical description of space-time governed by Einsten's theory of SR. QFT was discovered approximatively in the '30 of XX century that was the Golden Age of theoretical physics. The zenith of this intensive season of phyisical research was the formulation of SM in 1967 by S.Weinberg and A.Salam. SM can describe three of the four interaction known in nature, classifing in a very simple form the various foundamental particles like quarks and leptons. Various experiments have confirmed the validity of SM by which we can predict various features of electromagnetic, weak and strong process using a standard way of calculation, based on Feynman's diagram. But by chance there are further problems to solve. Otherwise I will not have an employment at all! In fact SM is our best way of describing phyisical process, but it is not mathematically consistent and requires to assume the existence of Higgs bosons, a particle that can gives mass to all the other particle. M. Hack, a famous italian phyiscist, says that Higgs boson in physics is likes God in religion, because gives something to everyone. But beleve me when I'm say that Higgs boson is something more than a religious belief. In fact it is hoped that the LHC at CERN will find the Higgs, and allow physicists to determine its properties. If it's not?No problem. Theoretical physicists have already developed a lot of model without Higgs boson! The other main problem of SM, and this is my particular interest, is its mathematical structure that gives rise to a lot of divergences in calculation. By a particular technology named renormalization, we can reabsorb divergences in the unphysical quantities leaving finite the physical ones. This is not always possible. For example if you try to construct a quantum version of GR you will obtain a divergent and meaningless theory. In general there are two ways to solve this kind of questions. The phenomenological point of view, that avoid completely this strange ideas, bypassing them in the strong convinction that you can study and interpret only, or above all, what you can directly test by experiments. The theoretical point of view for which those are the greatest quest of scientific community. I agree with the second one. And in my thesis I try to investigate the possibility to construct extension of SM as high energy theories that violate the SR geometrical structure, named Lorentz invariance, requiring an extra simmetry named supersimmetry... Ops! I have run away with my thoughts, but this is because I really love what I do. Forgive my pedantry. See you tomorrow.
Hi! I'm Sonia and as I said in my previous post I'm in my 5th year of Telecommunication Engineering. It's very difficult to explain my field of research and so before talking about it I'll try to give you an overwiew of this faculty and the reason that took me to choose it. First of all, I'd like to underline what "telecommunication" really means: it means to transmitt data over a distance for purpose of communication. I think that this definition is a not so romantic way to define an ancient common dream of people that is to be able to communicate everything that runs in our mind to people that are far away from us as they wuold be here, in front of us. In every age of History, people tried to do it: primitive populations with pictures on the walls of their caves, American Indians with smoke signals.And more, in Middle Age beacons were commonly used on hilltops as a mean of relaying signals..then the telegraph and the Morse alphabet, without forgiving letters. Today we have changed the way to communicate but the dream is still the same, also using our mobile phones or Internet applications. We are only faster than our predecessors! And these are the bases of telecommunications, but I think that is important to underline that there are other fields, that serves to make us able to understand what usually doesn't use our language to speak. I'm referring to the environment and the systems that can help us to understand if there are any signs of pollutions or something similar. These systems are named RADAR (RAdio Detection And Ranging) and in our mind they are often associate with military purpose, but it is wrong. They are used in airpots, for example, to keep under control air traffic and avoid impacts between planes. In particular, OTH radar , where OTH means Over-The-Horizon,are systems able to reach by their signals regions far away from the site where they are placed, using skywave propagation via reflection by the ionosphere. This is also the main field of my research for my thesis and I choose it because this kind of systems can be used to keep under controll dangerous or unreachable regions for man-kind without any dangers for people. I think there are no else to say without becoming more technical and boring about this topic so I wish you goodnight.. See you tomorrow! Byebye!
Hello everybody! I'm in the second year of my master degree in Ingegneria Gestionale! It is a branch of Industrial Engineering that deals with firm's organization and productive processes management. There are two areas of specialization, the former dealing with Logistic and production, the latter dealing with Informative systems: i'm into the second one, that is concerned with the design and development of informative systems used by firms and great companies. Typical subjects of my studies are Matematical analysis, probability calculus, statistic, operations research and systems theory, that provides strong basis in maths. Furthermore i study subjects like electronics, telecommunications and information technology. With such a formation, Ingegneria Gestionale creates a particular kind of manager, very requested because of his various skills in production, IT and economy. So if graduated in Ingegneria gestionale you can work in big companies, consultancy or public administration.
Now it's time to say goodnight everybody couse i'm running very late...see ya 2morrow!!!
Hello everybody, I'm attending a Master Degree in Computer Science. I have not decided what the subject of my master thesis will be yet; it is an important decision, because you generally choose as subject the one you want to work on after graduation. Probably I will choose a thesis on Information Retrieval. I will try to explain what Information Retrieval (IR) is avoiding technical jargon and running the risk of being slightly inaccurate. Archiving and finding information have always been important tasks to accomplish. However, it was only with the advent of computers that it became possible to store large amounts of information. It is vital to find useful information from such data collections; otherwise, they would be useless. These are the problems IR tries to solve. The most visible IR applications are web search engines, like Google and Yahoo!. Let's try to point out some relevant IR issues looking at search engines. The query (i.e. the search string) entered into a search engine does not uniquely identify a single object (for example a web page) in the collection (the Web). Each object in the collection matches the query with a certain degree of relevance. The search engine must rank them according to relevance and show the top ranked ones to the user. Besides it's impossible to deal with the exponential growth in the amount of information available relying only on hardware improvement; so new clever algorithms for storing and retrieving information must be conceived. I only scratched the surface about IR, but I think it was enough: I don't want to bore you! ;) Byebye, Roberto
My current research field is Papyrology: it is a rather young science, born only when a huge number of papyri has started to come to Europe from Egypt’s sand; this happened in the second half of the XIX century after a first approach provoked by Napoleonic campaign and the curiosity of some Europeans diplomatics. Papyrology’s main object for study are papyri, as the word say, or, more exactly, Greek and Latin texts written on several different writing materials (sheets of papyrus, ostraka – that is, sherds of broken pottery, made from fired clay – wax and wooden tablets, bones, parchment, flax), dating from the beginning of the IV B.C. to the XI century. Papyrus was used as a writing material for nearly 4000 years, the most ancient one dates back to 3000 B.C. We did not find out only Greek and Latin papyri, but also hieroglyphic, hieratic, Coptic (written or spoken languages of the Ancient Egypt), Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic ones, and each ancient language has a specific Papyrology which studies its texts. The main aim of Papyrology is preserving, describing, writing down, translating and interpreting an ancient text, in order to make it available to other scholars; a papyrologist needs the help of other sciences to reach this obiective: Paleography, History and Scholarship at least, because interdisciplinary is one the most fascinating characteristic of this science (or especially for me!). So I hope to be able to continue my studies although people often think Papyrology is not so useful to the world… I know that Papyrologists can’t save the world from destruction but I believe that every knowledge (even the tiniest one) contributes to rescue ourselves from (self)destruction.
I'm attending my second year of specialization in Business Engineering, an interdisciplinary field of engineering that focuses on how complex businesses should be designed and managed. Business engineering circumscribes the domain of designing new business fields. Unlike business development, business engineering does not only include marketing related tasks, but also most of the other business administration tasks. Financial and operational tasks are of equal importance, for example. Business engineering includes all activities that are necessary to develop and maintain an independent line of business. Most likely, the output of business engineering substitutes known forms of supply, in existing markets. Therefore business engineering aims to establish new, future oriented forms of businesses but with reference to existing or emerging needs. I hope I gave you a good description of my field of studies! See u later!
Hello! I'm studying Biomedical Engeneering and now I'm in my 5th year of university. Biomedical Engeneering is an application of engeneering tecniques to the medical field, and I think it is very important for the future. Biomedical Engeneering involves the use of any kind of prosthesis, from artificial heart valves to dentures and also from the artificial eyes to artificial legs and arms, creation of artificial tissues and progettation of complex hospital instumentation, like electrocardiograph and electroencephalograph and also sometthing more. Now the use of complicated istrumentation is grown in Medicine and I think it will increase more in future. The activity that interests me most of the others is the developement of diagnostic instrumentation. I'm a myopic person and mine is a high myopia, so ophthalmology instrumentations interests me very much. Now it is only an interest but I hope it will become my work.
My field of study is about Radar remote sensing techniques. Remote sensing technique permits the recovering of physical features of large portions of Earth, and this can be useful in many application such as sea-temperature monitoring, classification of vegetated area or weather forecasting. Actually, i'm studyng advanced techiniques of radar remote sensing, that are named "multidimensional imaging techniques". Those techniques , by coherently combining two or more images of the same scene from different point of view, permit the recovering of the height or of the "velocity" of the scatterers that are in the scene. Application of those techinques are: tree height estimation, forest classificatiom, landslide and earthquake analysis.
Hi! As I said last time I’m studying construction engineering, the name of my course is exactly: building engineering - architecture. Also only from this name it is easy to understand that my field of studies is very extensive. Someone criticizes the mix of two different courses (engineering and architecture), they say that at the and I will not be a good engineer nor a good architect, but I don’t agree, in fact I have the same exams of building engineering and the most important of architecture. In my opinion this type of studies gives the opportunity to have the biggest view of all problems connected to design of living space: houses, towns, streets … To design in a good way it is necessary to be able to understand the needs of the community and to carry them out in respecting what already existed . The three most important subjects of my studies are: the design of urban space, the design of buildings and restoration. The last year students have to choose a specialization in one of these three; I chose to attend the course about building preservation, because I think this is a very complicated and important theme, especially in Italy! Anyway I’m also very interested in new methods of construction. I think it’s necessary to look forward, without forgetting the past! And for this reason my thesis will be, probably, about designing a new face for an existing building. I hope this message is not too boring to read!
Well, my field of study is Bacteriology, in fact I’m attending a Microbiology and Genetics PhD course. In particular, for my PhD research project I’m studying a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), aetiological agent of human tuberculosis (TB). Briefly, TB in humans is commonly seen as a lung infection or pneumonia. While infection of other organs such as the brain, bones, intestines, and kidneys also occurs, these are rare. TB is spread through the air, when people who have the disease cough, sneeze, or spit. Most infections in human beings will result in asymptomatic, latent infection, and about one in ten latent infections will eventually progress to active disease, which, if left untreated, kills more than half of its victims. The WHO (stands for World Health Organization) estimates that about 10 million new cases of TB and about 2 million deaths for TB occurred in 2007 all over the world. For this reason it’s urgent to develop both an effective vaccine to prevent the infection and new drugs for TB treatment.
My research purpose is to find out new bacterial targets that are key to designing new antibiotics. Drugs must target process that are critical for bacterial growth or survival during infection. So for this reason I need to study the physiology and genetics of bacterium.
My work is divided into two parts: study of scientific literature and performance of experiments on Mtb. Right now my experiments are based on the mutation of three of Mtb genes to evaluate the effect that their inactivation has on bacterium physiology (for example on its growing or infecting skill). I was very lucky because I discovered these genes or at least one of them are “essential genes” , by accident. “Essential” term suggests genes that are absolutely required for bacterial survival. Thus, the genes that encode important functions for bacterial growth or survival during infection represent the complement of possible antibiotic targets.
Next step is to find out the exact function of these gene studying the rule of the proteins encoded by them. The knowledge of these processes will allow us to decide which molecules are good at stopping bacterium metabolism and synthesize new drugs more effective than existing antibiotics.
Hi! I'm attending my second year of the master degree in History of Art at Pisa's University. So I'm studing various subjects such as history, history of art of every age, art criticism, theory of restoration and "museology", that is history of collections and museums to understand the best way to exhibit a collection in a closed space. Most of people thinks that history of art is really useless. But I think is important to know and keep safe our great cultural heritage, especially in Italy, a country so rich of art works and historical buildings. Often public but also private administrations are insensitive to the problem of protecting and restoring cultural property, but is necessary a change of mind to defend our artistic or architectonical heritage and landscape heritage. My studing qualification doesn't ensure a guaranted employment. At the moment I don't Know what will be my specialisation in a future work. I hope to have a job which allows me to be in touch with people and use my knowledge to communicate with them. See you soon! Isabella
Hi guys ,I study Telecommunication engineering,I'm in the my last year. In this faculty you must do a choice just in the last year. There are four options: Telecommunication Networking, Electromagnetic Compatibility, Transmission System and Technical Radar. I chose Transmission System which talk systems like wireless, not all apparatus but just the receiver and transmitter. How the signal are generate and how the signal are received, all through the error probability (Pe). So for this application you need to know about calculation probability. In fact when you have a transmission data there are many negative variables that condition the received, finding a way to limit this variables is the target of this specialization. Obviously that it was a very simplified explanation ( because I didn't want to bore you).Which is the reasons for this choice? I think don't know how to explain it neither in Italian....maybe because I like some professor or some topic. However I think won't be this choice that will change my future, after all the subjects of the last year are a lot of similar among them. Bye bye
Hello everyone, I'm attending a Bachelor's Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures. It's too early to think at my field of specialisation because I'm in my second year ,I have no idea what exactly it will be. I was indecisive about choosing this facolty ,but now I'm sure I did the right thing .At the moment I'm studying French and English ,I really like languages ,but I can't say the same thing about literatures.Beside languages I'm also studying other matters like Italian literature,General Linguistics,Literary Theory,Epistemology.Some of these are really interesting but I think we should focus more on languages ,for exemple we have only two lessons of ,Lettorato inglese'a weak what I consider not enough. I'm concentrating more on English than on French.I'm going to give you a little presentation of my English course at university. The main objective to achieve is natural speach .There are two differents aspects of speach:a SEGMENTAL LEVEL -STRESS-( concern pronunciation )and a SUPRASEGMENTAL LEVEL-INTONATION-(concern information).But to establish the correct placement of stress mean to establish also the hierarchy of weak and strong forms .We are also dealing with the placement of stress in words in isolation (MICRO LEVEL)and words in phrases (MACRO LEVEL). In linguistics ,stress is the relative emphasis that may be given to certain syllables in a word .The word ,accent'is sometimes used with this sense.Some languages have fixed stress(it is always placed on a given syllable),but in English the sress is unpredictable.We say that the stress shifts ,like in the word ,photograph'(the stress is on the first syllable ) and ,photographer'(the stress is on the second syllable). I find this course particularly interesting and very useful and I hope I gave you little information which could interest you. See you tomorrow.. Bye
Hi! I'm studying Telecommunication Engineering. At the beginning of the 5th year my studies had to take a direction because there were four different curriculum available for Telecommunication course. In my case I chose the one named "Signal Processing for Remote Sensing". To give a more general explanation of what Remote Sensing is, we can say that it embraces all systems and methods which allow people to acquire informations about an object on small and large scale using devices which are not in physical contact with the object itself. These systems can be mounted directly on the ground or can be installed on aircrafts or spacecrafts. Concerning above all with Earth Observation, the RS systems can be used for many purposes. Some examples are: monitoring pollution in critical areas, global climate changes, monitoring deforestation, providing data about chemical concentrations in atmosphere, collecting geodetic data for geological and hydrological studies. There are many other fields of applications, both militar and civil, but I have mentioned only the ones linked with Environmental purposes because I'm interested above all in them. At the moment I haven't yet started to study nothing very specific, in fact I'm studying subjects which cover in outline all kind of Remote Sensing systems, without referring to a particular application. I hope to start my thesis soon in order to give my contribution to something useful for health of nature. I'd like to tell you other informations about my field of study but it is getting late. See you soon. Nighty night.
As i told you in my previous presentation i'm studying Computer Science. I have one exam left plus master's thesis. My major subject is Artificial Intelligence but actually i'll have the Degree in "Information Technologies" in general. In fact until last year, after the bachelor's degree a computer science student could choose the specialization in "Computer Science" or in "Information Technologies", this last option cover many major subjects like "Data Base" or "Communication Technologies" or for example mine "Artificial Intelligence". Choose the major subject means that a student must have at least 18 credits in that area but for me means that master's thesis argument should be in that area too (that's not a duty). I've asked to my teacher in Robotic Perception about thesis and she proposed me some interesting projects; i'm still waiting for feedback from her at the moment so my thesis is not decided yet but i can tell something about the project that i'm most interested in: the Octupus. The Octupus Project is an European Project with the aim to build up a robot inspired by the octupus, based on its anatomy and with similar performance in terms of speed, flexibility and control. The octupus is a marine invertebrate, its body has no rigid structures and it is able to move 8-arms in different diractions and tortions, it has an infinite number of degrees of freedom into its arms. All these characterstics are very interesting from an engineering point of view, moreover a biological study is needed to delve into its complex control system. Approximately, what a computer science researcher have to do is to formulate, in collaboration with biologies, a model of its control system able to response to stimuli with specified conditions in the same way as the real model can do with the same conditions to use on the bio-inspired robot. This is the work that i'll like to do.
Hello folks! I'm attending my master degree course in art history. In particular I chose to study the modern period. So my field of study is about paintings, sculptures and builndings made between the 15th century and 18th century. My thesis was about neapolitan landscape paintings of 18th century. I tried to prove that images were almost always realized by foreign artists and bought by foreign collectors. Naples gave hospitality to many painters but there was no cultural change because Italian people thought that landscape paintings weren't important. So many foreign intellectuals kept their stereotypes about Italy and put them again in their operas. Goethe said that he had seen flowering lemon trees near Milan on november! Last year I did an internship at the Museum of the cathedral of Prato. I worked to make clear the symbolic meanings of animal figures in medioeval and reinassance art. So now I occasionally go there to teach lessons in primary and secondary schools. Further I sometimes guide visiting tour of the museum. I hope to find a real work but it's very hard! Good night! See you tomorrow!
Hello! I’m attending my 2nd year of master degree in Biomedical Engineering. This is a modern science which links skills of engineering to biological problems; this could be thought by two ways: both applying technologys to management of health and watching to nature as an inspiration for new antropomorph robots. I haven't already begun to work on my thesis, but I'm very fascinated by the field of this science called "physiologic cybernetic": it concerns the chance to study the human body and all its physiological activities as an automated system based on the negative feedback control (a theory born during the Second World War and it is the foundation of the Automation Engineering). The development of phisiologic cybernetic would make better methods of medicine and pharmacology , mainly because we could foretell their effects and make treats more careful. I further won't bore you with these subjects, see you at lesson!
Hello! Actually I think I can't talk about my field of research, because as I've already said, I'm only in my first year of the master degree in Computer Science and Networking and my lectures started only one month ago! But surely I can tell you why I chose the course which deals with networks. I have always been fascinated by this matter since I got my very first lectures in my first-level degree. I was thinking: 'I always use networks to communicate but I really don't know how this happens at the very bottom level'. Really we often don't care about it: it suffices the network works and let us communicate. But what happens when something gets wrong? Why our skype calls are sometimes worse and sometimes as good as traditional phone ones? What'smore, how is it possible that data 'flow' through the air for example in wireless networks? And finally let me tell you this 'romantic' thought: when people used to send the old-fashioned letters they knew more or less the path the letter will follow to reach the addressee. When we send an e-mail we can't imagine which path it will follow, and very often it is the least natural one. Isn't interesting to find out this path? And what about if we discover that anybody would be able to catch our messeges that go throughtout the network breaking this way the certainty that those writings belong only to the sender and to the receiver? Isn't all this amazing? Anyway, apart from the questions that let me find networking interesting to study, of course my master degree is going to give me skills in computer science field and not only in networking one. That's why we have many other interesting exams such as, for example, 'algorithm engineering': in this course we study, design and analyze advanced algorithms and data structures for the efficient solution of many problems involving all basic data type, such as integer, strings, and so on. For example one of the most frequent problems is sorting issue. It's really attractive to study how a computer reaches the solution because its tecnique is always so different from the human mind's approach! I know I've said quite nothing of what I'm studying but I think I stop here. For further information... I'll be in class later! ;-) Bye!
Hey there! What about my field of specialization? Well, I’m attending a master in Exploration and Applied Geophysics. Geophysics is the mean to investigate Earth indirectly, without being invasive. This is useful for mining, oil exploration, ecology, civil protection and so on. I find this branch of science interesting and fun! I’m very motivated at that! At the moment I’m working on my thesis in Inverse Problems: what I have to do is to write a model of propagation of body waves considering the topography effect; this in order to better interpret seismograms acquired either by active or passive (earthquake registration) techniques. Hoping to do a good job, I greet you all Byebye mara
I have been working in tertiary education and foreign language teaching for over 16 years. My professional areas of interest are Language Awareness, Tandem learning, Learner Counselling, Cross Cultural communication and language learning in multimedia environnments including Second Life.
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ReplyDeleteI'm far from my thesis and I have no idea about what my field of research will be so I'll only explain my three-year course degree. I'm studying European Literature which is an interacademic faculty between the faculty of Letters and the Foreign Languages one. European Literature includes literature in many languages, for example, I'm obviously studying Italian literature (modern and contemporary) but also English, Anglo-American and Scandinavian literature. Honestly, I don't like literature very much but we study English quite well in this course and that's what I looked for. People often ask me why I didn't choose Foreign Languages and my answer is because I'm only interested in English but not in languages in general. In the future, I'd like to translate books for children but if I'll get tired of studying translation I wish I could become an English teacher (even at the CLI would be wonderful!). I hope I've been quite exhaustive!
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I'm studying for the computer science technologies master degree. My thesis focuses on network monitoring and in particular on traffic measure. Traffic measure is very important in big networks where you must guarantee service level agreements balancing traffic, reacting to network failures and mitigating denial of service attacks. If you don't know what's happening on your network you don't know how to avoid slow downs which have an economic impact for either network providers and network users. As Lord Kelvin said: "If you can not measure it, you can not improve it."
ReplyDeleteMeasures are pretty simple in slow networks like LAN but is challenging on high speed networks where the speed increase to 10 gbit/s and more. Handling so much data requires expensive hardware which can cost hundreds of thousands euro. The subject of my thesis is to find a way to measure high speed networks using common PCs which are relatively very cheap.
I study Law in Pisa and my field of specialisation concerns the International Law.I chose this field because it represents a very fascinating world in its every single aspect.Since I was at High School I have had the dream of travelling all over the world doing a job which could allow this.So I always dreamt to work in the diplomacy world or to be involved in the international aspects of law.This kind of choice reflects the two distinct legal disciplines complying with the International Law.The first one is the Public International Law,which rules the relationships between states and between states and international organizations,the second one is the Private International Law or Conflict of Law, regarding questions about which legal jurisdiction may be heard and which national law has to be applied in non involvement cases(cases with elements regulated by different jurisdictions and national rules).I well know the first path,which concerns the chance of working in diplomacy, is very hard to take for a lot of reasons but it always remains my dream and even if everyone tells me that it's an impossible way I think I have at least the right to dream.The second option is probably what I shall be,I mean a lawyer.And choosing that,I will probably work as a legal in some banks or in some law offices.Meanwhile,I'm studying for passing the last exams and I'm starting to work on my thesis,about the theory and the functions of the International process.
ReplyDeleteHi. I want to talk you about my studies and my research interests. I want to state in advance that speaking about theoretical physics in a very specialistic way needs a deep knowledge of various mathematical issue and may be obscure and boring for anyone that isn't physicist and not so useful to improve my written English. For this reason I try to introduce here, in a very general way, the main problems in my field of reseach trying, if it is possible, to stimulate your interest. Theoretical physics is a large branch of physics in which you can do a first distinction between field of research considering different energy scale. In fact we know that the physicl behaviour of a system change changing on the energy scale or the temperature, for this reason phyiscal theories that are good at a certain energy can't be used to describe the same systems at higher energy. In general we can suppose that low energy theories can be obtained by the higher energy ones in the low energy limit, avereging phyisical quantities. So we can consider HEP more fundamental in some sense. The main purpose of HEP is to investigate the possibility to construct a fundamental theory able to describe all physical interactions and so make a prediction af all physical process. The famous “theory of everything”. Nowadays at high energy level we are able to describe particle and their interaction using QFT, in which we have put togheter the dinamical structure of Quantum Mechanics with the rigid geometrical description of space-time governed by Einsten's theory of SR. QFT was discovered approximatively in the '30 of XX century that was the Golden Age of theoretical physics. The zenith of this intensive season of phyisical research was the formulation of SM in 1967 by S.Weinberg and A.Salam. SM can describe three of the four interaction known in nature, classifing in a very simple form the various foundamental particles like quarks and leptons. Various experiments have confirmed the validity of SM by which we can predict various features of electromagnetic, weak and strong process using a standard way of calculation, based on Feynman's diagram. But by chance there are further problems to solve. Otherwise I will not have an employment at all! In fact SM is our best way of describing phyisical process, but it is not mathematically consistent and requires to assume the existence of Higgs bosons, a particle that can gives mass to all the other particle. M. Hack, a famous italian phyiscist, says that Higgs boson in physics is likes God in religion, because gives something to everyone. But beleve me when I'm say that Higgs boson is something more than a religious belief. In fact it is hoped that the LHC at CERN will find the Higgs, and allow physicists to determine its properties. If it's not?No problem. Theoretical physicists have already developed a lot of model without Higgs boson! The other main problem of SM, and this is my particular interest, is its mathematical structure that gives rise to a lot of divergences in calculation. By a particular technology named renormalization, we can reabsorb divergences in the unphysical quantities leaving finite the physical ones. This is not always possible. For example if you try to construct a quantum version of GR you will obtain a divergent and meaningless theory. In general there are two ways to solve this kind of questions. The phenomenological point of view, that avoid completely this strange ideas, bypassing them in the strong convinction that you can study and interpret only, or above all, what you can directly test by experiments. The theoretical point of view for which those are the greatest quest of scientific community. I agree with the second one. And in my thesis I try to investigate the possibility to construct extension of SM as high energy theories that violate the SR geometrical structure, named Lorentz invariance, requiring an extra simmetry named supersimmetry... Ops! I have run away with my thoughts, but this is because I really love what I do. Forgive my pedantry. See you tomorrow.
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ReplyDeleteI'm Sonia and as I said in my previous post I'm in my 5th year of Telecommunication Engineering. It's very difficult to explain my field of research and so before talking about it I'll try to give you an overwiew of this faculty and the reason that took me to choose it.
First of all, I'd like to underline what "telecommunication" really means: it means to transmitt data over a distance for purpose of communication. I think that this definition is a not so romantic way to define an ancient common dream of people that is to be able to communicate everything that runs in our mind to people that are far away from us as they wuold be here, in front of us. In every age of History, people tried to do it: primitive populations with pictures on the walls of their caves, American Indians with smoke signals.And more, in Middle Age beacons were commonly used on hilltops as a mean of relaying signals..then the telegraph and the Morse alphabet, without forgiving letters.
Today we have changed the way to communicate but the dream is still the same, also using our mobile phones or Internet applications. We are only faster than our predecessors!
And these are the bases of telecommunications, but I think that is important to underline that there are other fields, that serves to make us able to understand what usually doesn't use our language to speak. I'm referring to the environment and the systems that can help us to understand if there are any signs of pollutions or something similar. These systems are named RADAR (RAdio Detection And Ranging) and in our mind they are often associate with military purpose, but it is wrong. They are used in airpots, for example, to keep under control air traffic and avoid impacts between planes. In particular, OTH radar , where OTH means Over-The-Horizon,are systems able to reach by their signals regions far away from the site where they are placed, using skywave propagation via reflection by the ionosphere. This is also the main field of my research for my thesis and I choose it because this kind of systems can be used to keep under controll dangerous or unreachable regions for man-kind without any dangers for people.
I think there are no else to say without becoming more technical and boring about this topic so I wish you goodnight..
See you tomorrow!
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Hello everybody! I'm in the second year of my master degree in Ingegneria Gestionale! It is a branch of Industrial Engineering that deals with firm's organization and productive processes management. There are two areas of specialization, the former dealing with Logistic and production, the latter dealing with Informative systems: i'm into the second one, that is concerned with the design and development of informative systems used by firms and great companies.
ReplyDeleteTypical subjects of my studies are Matematical analysis, probability calculus, statistic, operations research and systems theory, that provides strong basis in maths. Furthermore i study subjects like electronics, telecommunications and information technology.
With such a formation, Ingegneria Gestionale creates a particular kind of manager, very requested because of his various skills in production, IT and economy. So if graduated in Ingegneria gestionale you can work in big companies, consultancy or public administration.
Now it's time to say goodnight everybody couse i'm running very late...see ya 2morrow!!!
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ReplyDeleteI'm attending a Master Degree in Computer Science. I have not decided what the subject of my master thesis will be yet; it is an important decision, because you generally choose as subject the one you want to work on after graduation. Probably I will choose a thesis on Information Retrieval. I will try to explain what Information Retrieval (IR) is avoiding technical jargon and running the risk of being slightly inaccurate.
Archiving and finding information have always been important tasks to accomplish. However, it was only with the advent of computers that it became possible to store large amounts of information. It is vital to find useful information from such data collections; otherwise, they would be useless. These are the problems IR tries to solve.
The most visible IR applications are web search engines, like Google and Yahoo!. Let's try to point out some relevant IR issues looking at search engines. The query (i.e. the search string) entered into a search engine does not uniquely identify a single object (for example a web page) in the collection (the Web). Each object in the collection matches the query with a certain degree of relevance. The search engine must rank them according to relevance and show the top ranked ones to the user. Besides it's impossible to deal with the exponential growth in the amount of information available relying only on hardware improvement; so new clever algorithms for storing and retrieving information must be conceived.
I only scratched the surface about IR, but I think it was enough: I don't want to bore you! ;)
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Roberto
My current research field is Papyrology: it is a rather young science, born only when a huge number of papyri has started to come to Europe from Egypt’s sand; this happened in the second half of the XIX century after a first approach provoked by Napoleonic campaign and the curiosity of some Europeans diplomatics. Papyrology’s main object for study are papyri, as the word say, or, more exactly, Greek and Latin texts written on several different writing materials (sheets of papyrus, ostraka – that is, sherds of broken pottery, made from fired clay – wax and wooden tablets, bones, parchment, flax), dating from the beginning of the IV B.C. to the XI century. Papyrus was used as a writing material for nearly 4000 years, the most ancient one dates back to 3000 B.C. We did not find out only Greek and Latin papyri, but also hieroglyphic, hieratic, Coptic (written or spoken languages of the Ancient Egypt), Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic ones, and each ancient language has a specific Papyrology which studies its texts. The main aim of Papyrology is preserving, describing, writing down, translating and interpreting an ancient text, in order to make it available to other scholars; a papyrologist needs the help of other sciences to reach this obiective: Paleography, History and Scholarship at least, because interdisciplinary is one the most fascinating characteristic of this science (or especially for me!). So I hope to be able to continue my studies although people often think Papyrology is not so useful to the world…
ReplyDeleteI know that Papyrologists can’t save the world from destruction but I believe that every knowledge (even the tiniest one) contributes to rescue ourselves from (self)destruction.
I'm attending my second year of specialization in Business Engineering, an interdisciplinary field of engineering that focuses on how complex businesses should be designed and managed. Business engineering circumscribes the domain of designing new business fields. Unlike business development, business engineering does not only include marketing related tasks, but also most of the other business administration tasks. Financial and operational tasks are of equal importance, for example.
ReplyDeleteBusiness engineering includes all activities that are necessary to develop and maintain an independent line of business. Most likely, the output of business engineering substitutes known forms of supply, in existing markets. Therefore business engineering aims to establish new, future oriented forms of businesses but with reference to existing or emerging needs.
I hope I gave you a good description of my field of studies!
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Hello! I'm studying Biomedical Engeneering and now I'm in my 5th year of university. Biomedical Engeneering is an application of engeneering tecniques to the medical field, and I think it is very important for the future.
ReplyDeleteBiomedical Engeneering involves the use of any kind of prosthesis, from artificial heart valves to dentures and also from the artificial eyes to artificial legs and arms, creation of artificial tissues and progettation of complex hospital instumentation, like electrocardiograph and electroencephalograph and also sometthing more.
Now the use of complicated istrumentation is grown in Medicine and I think it will increase more in future.
The activity that interests me most of the others is the developement of diagnostic instrumentation.
I'm a myopic person and mine is a high myopia, so ophthalmology instrumentations interests me very much.
Now it is only an interest but I hope it will become my work.
My field of study is about Radar remote sensing techniques. Remote sensing technique permits the recovering of physical features of large portions of Earth, and this can be useful in many application such as sea-temperature monitoring, classification of vegetated area or weather forecasting. Actually, i'm studyng advanced techiniques of radar remote sensing, that are named "multidimensional imaging techniques". Those techniques , by coherently combining two or more images of the same scene from different point of view, permit the recovering of the height or of the "velocity" of the scatterers that are in the scene. Application of those techinques are: tree height estimation, forest classificatiom, landslide and earthquake analysis.
ReplyDeleteHi! As I said last time I’m studying construction engineering, the name of my course is exactly: building engineering - architecture. Also only from this name it is easy to understand that my field of studies is very extensive. Someone criticizes the mix of two different courses (engineering and architecture), they say that at the and I will not be a good engineer nor a good architect, but I don’t agree, in fact I have the same exams of building engineering and the most important of architecture. In my opinion this type of studies gives the opportunity to have the biggest view of all problems connected to design of living space: houses, towns, streets …
ReplyDeleteTo design in a good way it is necessary to be able to understand the needs of the community and to carry them out in respecting what already existed .
The three most important subjects of my studies are: the design of urban space, the design of buildings and restoration. The last year students have to choose a specialization in one of these three; I chose to attend the course about building preservation, because I think this is a very complicated and important theme, especially in Italy! Anyway I’m also very interested in new methods of construction. I think it’s necessary to look forward, without forgetting the past! And for this reason my thesis will be, probably, about designing a new face for an existing building.
I hope this message is not too boring to read!
Well, my field of study is Bacteriology, in fact I’m attending a Microbiology and Genetics PhD course. In particular, for my PhD research project I’m studying a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), aetiological agent of human tuberculosis (TB). Briefly, TB in humans is commonly seen as a lung infection or pneumonia. While infection of other organs such as the brain, bones, intestines, and kidneys also occurs, these are rare. TB is spread through the air, when people who have the disease cough, sneeze, or spit. Most infections in human beings will result in asymptomatic, latent infection, and about one in ten latent infections will eventually progress to active disease, which, if left untreated, kills more than half of its victims.
ReplyDeleteThe WHO (stands for World Health Organization) estimates that about 10 million new cases of TB and about 2 million deaths for TB occurred in 2007 all over the world.
For this reason it’s urgent to develop both an effective vaccine to prevent the infection and new drugs for TB treatment.
My research purpose is to find out new bacterial targets that are key to designing new antibiotics. Drugs must target process that are critical for bacterial growth or survival during infection. So for this reason I need to study the physiology and genetics of bacterium.
My work is divided into two parts: study of scientific literature and performance of experiments on Mtb.
Right now my experiments are based on the mutation of three of Mtb genes to evaluate the effect that their inactivation has on bacterium physiology (for example on its growing or infecting skill). I was very lucky because I discovered these genes or at least one of them are “essential genes” , by accident. “Essential” term suggests genes that are absolutely required for bacterial survival. Thus, the genes that encode important functions for bacterial growth or survival during infection represent the complement of possible antibiotic targets.
Next step is to find out the exact function of these gene studying the rule of the proteins encoded by them.
The knowledge of these processes will allow us to decide which molecules are good at stopping bacterium metabolism and synthesize new drugs more effective than existing antibiotics.
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ReplyDeleteHi! I'm attending my second year of the master degree in History of Art at Pisa's University. So I'm studing various subjects such as history, history of art of every age, art criticism, theory of restoration and "museology", that is history of collections and museums to understand the best way to exhibit a collection in a closed space.
ReplyDeleteMost of people thinks that history of art is really useless.
But I think is important to know and keep safe our great cultural heritage, especially in Italy, a country so rich of art works and historical buildings.
Often public but also private administrations are insensitive to the problem of protecting and restoring cultural property, but is necessary a change of mind to defend our artistic or architectonical heritage and landscape heritage.
My studing qualification doesn't ensure a guaranted employment. At the moment I don't Know what will be my specialisation in a future work. I hope to have a job which allows me to be in touch with people and use my knowledge to communicate with them.
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Isabella
Hi guys ,I study Telecommunication engineering,I'm in the my last year. In this faculty you must do a choice just in the last year. There are four options: Telecommunication Networking, Electromagnetic Compatibility, Transmission System and Technical Radar. I chose Transmission System which talk systems like wireless, not all apparatus but just the receiver and transmitter. How the signal are generate and how the signal are received, all through the error probability (Pe). So for this application you need to know about calculation probability. In fact when you have a transmission data there are many negative variables that condition the received, finding a way to limit this variables is the target of this specialization. Obviously that it was a very simplified explanation ( because I didn't want to bore you).Which is the reasons for this choice? I think don't know how to explain it neither in Italian....maybe because I like some professor or some topic. However I think won't be this choice that will change my future, after all the subjects of the last year are a lot of similar among them.
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ReplyDeleteI'm attending a Bachelor's Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures. It's too early to think at my field of specialisation because I'm in my second year ,I have no idea what exactly it will be. I was indecisive about choosing this facolty ,but now I'm sure I did the right thing .At the moment I'm studying French and English ,I really like languages ,but I can't say the same thing about literatures.Beside languages I'm also studying other matters like Italian literature,General Linguistics,Literary Theory,Epistemology.Some of these are really interesting but I think we should focus more on languages ,for exemple we have only two lessons of ,Lettorato inglese'a weak what I consider not enough. I'm concentrating more on English than on French.I'm going to give you a little presentation of my English course at university.
The main objective to achieve is natural speach .There are two differents aspects of speach:a SEGMENTAL LEVEL -STRESS-( concern pronunciation )and a SUPRASEGMENTAL LEVEL-INTONATION-(concern information).But to establish the correct placement of stress mean to establish also the hierarchy of weak and strong forms .We are also dealing with the placement of stress in words in isolation (MICRO LEVEL)and words in phrases (MACRO LEVEL). In linguistics ,stress is the relative emphasis that may be given to certain syllables in a word .The word ,accent'is sometimes used with this sense.Some languages have fixed stress(it is always placed on a given syllable),but in English the sress is unpredictable.We say that the stress shifts ,like in the word ,photograph'(the stress is on the first syllable ) and ,photographer'(the stress is on the second syllable).
I find this course particularly
interesting and very useful and I hope I gave you little information which could interest you.
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ReplyDeleteI'm studying Telecommunication Engineering.
At the beginning of the 5th year my studies had to take a direction because there were four different curriculum available for Telecommunication course. In my case I chose the one named "Signal Processing for Remote Sensing". To give a more general explanation of what Remote Sensing is, we can say that it embraces all systems and methods which allow people to acquire informations about an object on small and large scale using devices which are not in physical contact with the object itself. These systems can be mounted directly on the ground or can be installed on aircrafts or spacecrafts. Concerning above all with Earth Observation, the RS systems can be used for many purposes. Some examples are: monitoring pollution in critical areas, global climate changes, monitoring deforestation, providing data about chemical concentrations in atmosphere, collecting geodetic data for geological and hydrological studies. There are many other fields of applications, both militar and civil, but I have mentioned only the ones linked with Environmental purposes because I'm interested above all in them. At the moment I haven't yet started to study
nothing very specific, in fact I'm studying subjects which cover in outline all kind of Remote Sensing systems, without referring to a particular application. I hope to start my thesis soon in order to give my contribution to something useful for health of nature.
I'd like to tell you other informations about my field of study but it is getting late.
See you soon. Nighty night.
As i told you in my previous presentation i'm studying Computer Science. I have one exam left plus master's thesis.
ReplyDeleteMy major subject is Artificial Intelligence but actually i'll have the Degree in "Information Technologies" in general.
In fact until last year, after the bachelor's degree a computer science student could choose the specialization in "Computer Science" or in "Information Technologies", this last option cover many major subjects like "Data Base" or "Communication Technologies" or for example mine "Artificial Intelligence".
Choose the major subject means that a student must have at least 18 credits in that area but for me means that master's thesis argument should be in that area too (that's not a duty).
I've asked to my teacher in Robotic Perception about thesis and she proposed me some interesting projects; i'm still waiting for feedback from her at the moment so my thesis is not decided yet but i can tell something about the project that i'm most interested in: the Octupus.
The Octupus Project is an European Project with the aim to build up a robot inspired by the octupus, based on its anatomy and with similar performance in terms of speed, flexibility and control.
The octupus is a marine invertebrate, its body has no rigid structures and it is able to move 8-arms in different diractions and tortions, it has an infinite number of degrees of freedom into its arms. All these characterstics are very interesting from an engineering point of view, moreover a biological study is needed to delve into its complex control system.
Approximately, what a computer science researcher have to do is to formulate, in collaboration with biologies, a model of its control system able to response to stimuli with specified conditions in the same way as the real model can do with the same conditions to use on the bio-inspired robot.
This is the work that i'll like to do.
Hello folks! I'm attending my master degree course in art history. In particular I chose to study the modern period. So my field of study is about paintings, sculptures and builndings made between the 15th century and 18th century.
ReplyDeleteMy thesis was about neapolitan landscape paintings of 18th century. I tried to prove that images were almost always realized by foreign artists and bought by foreign collectors. Naples gave hospitality to many painters but there was no cultural change because Italian people thought that landscape paintings weren't important. So many foreign intellectuals kept their stereotypes about Italy and put them again in their operas. Goethe said that he had seen flowering lemon trees near Milan on november!
Last year I did an internship at the Museum of the cathedral of Prato. I worked to make clear the symbolic meanings of animal figures in medioeval and reinassance art. So now I occasionally go there to teach lessons in primary and secondary schools. Further I sometimes guide visiting tour of the museum.
I hope to find a real work but it's very hard!
Good night! See you tomorrow!
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ReplyDeleteI’m attending my 2nd year of master degree in Biomedical Engineering. This is a modern science which links skills of engineering to biological problems; this could be thought by two ways: both applying technologys to management of health and watching to nature as an inspiration for new antropomorph robots.
I haven't already begun to work on my thesis, but I'm very fascinated by the field of this science called "physiologic cybernetic": it concerns the chance to study the human body and all its physiological activities as an automated system based on the negative feedback control (a theory born during the Second World War and it is the foundation of the Automation Engineering). The development of phisiologic cybernetic would make better methods of medicine and pharmacology , mainly because we could foretell their effects and make treats more careful.
I further won't bore you with these subjects, see you at lesson!
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ReplyDeleteActually I think I can't talk about my field of research, because as I've already said, I'm only in my first year of the master degree in Computer Science and Networking and my lectures started only one month ago! But surely I can tell you why I chose the course which deals with networks. I have always been fascinated by this matter since I got my very first lectures in my first-level degree. I was thinking: 'I always use networks to communicate but I really don't know how this happens at the very bottom level'. Really we often don't care about it: it suffices the network works and let us communicate. But what happens when something gets wrong? Why our skype calls are sometimes worse and sometimes as good as traditional phone ones? What'smore, how is it possible that data 'flow' through the air for example in wireless networks? And finally let me tell you this 'romantic' thought: when people used to send the old-fashioned letters they knew more or less the path the letter will follow to reach the addressee. When we send an e-mail we can't imagine which path it will follow, and very often it is the least natural one. Isn't interesting to find out this path? And what about if we discover that anybody would be able to catch our messeges that go throughtout the network breaking this way the certainty that those writings belong only to the sender and to the receiver? Isn't all this amazing?
Anyway, apart from the questions that let me find networking interesting to study, of course my master degree is going to give me skills in computer science field and not only in networking one. That's why we have many other interesting exams such as, for example, 'algorithm engineering': in this course we study, design and analyze advanced algorithms and data structures for the efficient solution of many problems involving all basic data type, such as integer, strings, and so on. For example one of the most frequent problems is sorting issue. It's really attractive to study how a computer reaches the solution because its tecnique is always so different from the human mind's approach! I know I've said quite nothing of what I'm studying but I think I stop here. For further information... I'll be in class later! ;-) Bye!
Hey there! What about my field of specialization? Well, I’m attending a master in Exploration and Applied Geophysics. Geophysics is the mean to investigate Earth indirectly, without being invasive. This is useful for mining, oil exploration, ecology, civil protection and so on. I find this branch of science interesting and fun! I’m very motivated at that! At the moment I’m working on my thesis in Inverse Problems: what I have to do is to write a model of propagation of body waves considering the topography effect; this in order to better interpret seismograms acquired either by active or passive (earthquake registration) techniques. Hoping to do a good job, I greet you all
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