Teaching

Started my teaching duties for this acedemic year. Maths supervision for a reasonably slow group of first years. This involved marking their work, then in theory working through it with them. In practice that's a bad idea. It's virtually impossible to get them to talk, like "pushing molasses up a sandy hill" to quote the West Wing. The only way to approach it is as an effort to point out where they went wrong, and what they should have done.

Also heard from someone whom my work was sent to. She was complimentary, and suggested publishing as an A&A research note (which they don't seem to do) or as a conference paper, suggesting a conference in Flor-ee-da in early November. Not sure I want to do that. Have to talk to W I guess.