My First Paper (Meghan Gray)

My First Paper (Meghan Gray) - Sixty Symbols

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Professor Meghan Gray discusses her first academic paper - pointing a telescope at Abel 2219.
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Professor Mike Merrifield discusses HIS first paper: • My First Paper (Michae...
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Infrared observations of gravitational lensing in Abell 2219 with CIRSI: arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0004161
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@sixtysymbols Жыл бұрын

More videos with Professor Gray: bit.ly/Meghan_Playlist Professor Mike Merrifield discusses HIS first paper: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b7yPYJOIx9q3gJc.html

@Bibibosh Жыл бұрын

Meg's initials are M.E.G.

@TanksInSpace_ Жыл бұрын

My first real job as an electrician (1982) was drilling cable holes for the new Kapteyn Institute building in Groningen So I worked a small tiny mini bit on this paper too. 😀😁

@Mercury-Wells Жыл бұрын

How is that fun?

@SolarWebsite Жыл бұрын

@@Mercury-Wells Wow, THAT's what you had to respond to that comment? Someone peed in your crispies this morning? I agree it's fun. Fun for the person posting it, I can imagine seeing your work featured in a YT video is fun. And fun in the bigger picture, it just shows we're all connected!

@Ceelvain Жыл бұрын

Well, this makes me genuinely smile. I love seeing the importance of the smallest technical job to the big scientific discoveries. There are 8 names on that paper, but hundreds, if not thousands of people were necessary to make it happen. And seeing someone who participated in making it happen, here in the youtube comments... it's really heart warming. It really makes it more real.

@mastershooter64 Жыл бұрын

haha man that's awesome!

@NotMurkan 9 ай бұрын

That's really cool! When I say Kapteyn Institute I also immediately paused the video. The Geography department and its lecture halls are in the same area (partly different building though) and I would walk past it quite often, and also the cafeteria of the Zernike complex is in the same building as the Kapteyn Institute.

@dlanska Жыл бұрын

Thoughtful and humble. A role model for any up-and-coming scientist.

@OvidiuHretcanu Жыл бұрын

12:02 "grant you, immediately, the sum of" - this is pure class. Is always the little things that pushes us forward in life. Thank you for sharing this!

@narendraaditya8 Жыл бұрын

More videos like this please! It is so inspirational for current PhD students to see

@evanherk Жыл бұрын

Wish you made videos more frequently, because they are always excellent.. Go prof Gray!

@gasdive Жыл бұрын

I love that it's modeled as a spherical cluster in a vacuum.

@Heleous281 Жыл бұрын

This was sooooo insightful and inspirational! Great work. Would love to see more of these brilliant origin stories!

@mettanotation Жыл бұрын

This is a great video on two levels. First it sheds light on how science works behind the scenes (always interesting), and secondly it inspires and shows the way for future scientists. Thank you for sharing Professor Gray.

@BillMSmith Жыл бұрын

As always, terrific and insightful content. I was touched, as I think Dr Gray is, by her appreciation of the support from the instrument makers guild. Sometimes little things, small encouragements, can make a huge difference to someone.

@_vicary 7 ай бұрын

Professor Gray is always pleasing to watch.

@Sinnistering Жыл бұрын

Oh, I absolutely loved seeing the raw research data folder! Thank you saving that and sharing it with all of us.

@jackielinde7568 Жыл бұрын

1:22 Apparently one of the benefits of being a PhD student at Cambridge University is they issue a Cat Box attachment for your desk.

@QirnsChannel Жыл бұрын

I love the expression "first light"

@imager8763 Жыл бұрын

Meghan's videos are always great! Thank you (and Brady) for all your efforts!!!

@fishnsyd Жыл бұрын

This is so inspiring! More of these with the profs please!

@Richardincancale Жыл бұрын

Fabulous interview!

@Bibibosh Жыл бұрын

I love the content! This channel is one of my favorites. LOVE IT GUYS! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!

@zzzaphod8507 Жыл бұрын

Outstanding to hear reminiscences and words of wisdom from Dr. Gray.

@ryanwaege7251 Жыл бұрын

Lovely trip down memory lane with Professor Gray.

@ianhodgson9779 Жыл бұрын

Great video! I really enjoyed it. It was great to see all the stumbling around that goes on behind the scenes of scientific advances. More of these "First Paper" videos please

@benjhabert Жыл бұрын

That was such a lovely and inspiring interview ! It was really interesting to hear about what professor Grey's first year as a phd student what like. Of course the experiment did not work the first time around! I am glad it did eventually! Thank you for sharing the feeling of being a pioneer, doubts and all

@JohnSmythe-od4gk 10 ай бұрын

It’s just such a pleasure to come back to this channel every once in a while and see how you all are getting on. I was so addicted to this channel when I was a student back in 09-11.

@stub1116 Жыл бұрын

This video is one of the best that I've seen on "Sixty Symbols"; not because of the expertise, but because of the tenacity showed by the "Star".

@bryanerdmann 7 ай бұрын

What a lovely video and story! Thank you for sharing!

@RGLove13 Жыл бұрын

I'm Canadian doing my PhD (in carbon capture) in Scotland so it was cool to hear about another person with a similar story (and a happy story at that :))

@deeprecce9852 Жыл бұрын

Heartwarming video!! Thanks for sharing!❤️

@Bibibosh Жыл бұрын

wait?wat? how do u share a video?

@dftba4us Жыл бұрын

This video is absolutely brilliant. Such insight, so much advice for younger students.

@Olhado256 Жыл бұрын

Such a fascinating video! I love the behind the scenes stuff in astronomy

@MrMas9 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic video thoroughly enjoyed it!

@muzikhed Жыл бұрын

Nice interesting talk, nice to catch up with you again. All the best Meghan and Sixty Symbols team for 2023 !

@Rattiar Жыл бұрын

This is an amazing glimpse into life as a young PhD student. It sounds exciting and terrifying. Thanks, Dr. Gray!

@gquijano Жыл бұрын

Very inspiring. Thanks so much for sharing

@craigcollings5568 Жыл бұрын

Wow. That is an inspiring story. The doubt. The anxiety. The success! The work!

@DC-id2ih Жыл бұрын

Great video Brady! Was wonderful hearing about Dr Gray's first paper.....this reminds me a lot of your Numberphile2 podcast/channel where you share the backstories of the Mathematicians that appear on Numberphile....maybe u could have a similar podcast for the astronomers/astrophysicists that appear on SixtySymbols 😉

@BruceGrembowski Жыл бұрын

Gray-te video! I loved seeing Dr. Gray's file on the paper, especially the FORTRAN code.

@edgeeffect Жыл бұрын

I thought that might be Fortran, but I only ever had an aged Fortran 1966 textbook... that later version "has a whiff" of Pascal about it... what with procedure calls and not a line number in sight, etc.

@BruceGrembowski Жыл бұрын

@@edgeeffect The 'C' in column 1 leads me to think FORTRAN rather than Pascal.

@danielcook1271 Жыл бұрын

The uncertainty of getting results within the 4 year PhD course and the need for multiple lines of research was particularly evident in my chemistry PhD to the extent that in immense frustration at the lack of results I would fire a plastic crossbow dart at the periodic table to decide which element to look at next..! But it did feel very good when the results started to come... by the third year! #LongSentence

@herblapp6134 Жыл бұрын

Yes doing science means dealing or coping with great uncertainties and not losing the faith one needs to preserve and not give up!!

@Wanttofanta Жыл бұрын

Since this is a video of your first paper, had to go back and watch the video you first appeared in on this channel. Can’t believe it’s been 13yrs! Let’s keep it goin even longer :D

@robertma6068 Жыл бұрын

It's wonderiful to see the beginning of a project, a paper, to see the guts of it, so to speak. It's also fascinating to see the older ways of keeping data. It really gives one a sense of things. I'd have been terrified, personally, of losing those tapes, or of something happening to them, if I had something like that with me while doing such an extensive project!

@Veptis 7 ай бұрын

I really want to do ground based infrared observations one day. Uncooled microbolometers for the 8-12μm range.

@homayounabtahi5832 Жыл бұрын

Professor , I admire your deep knowledge and your hard work as well. By the way you look so great with this beautiful natural colour of hair.

@christophermclaughlin8899 Жыл бұрын

Always enjoyable, but more so when we get to hear a bit of the personal origin story.

@umbrellajack Жыл бұрын

So exciting! I'm so jealous. Do you think a 34 y/o chef could switch professions and dive into academic astronomy/cosmology?

@yeet1337 Жыл бұрын

Of course

@Mercury-Wells Жыл бұрын

Probably not. There's a lot of maths.

@MK-13337 Жыл бұрын

@@Mercury-Wells anyone can do maths if they put the effort in.

@lindagates9150 Жыл бұрын

Why not make a list of the pros and cons weigh the options and follow your dream in reality or vicariously

@danielkerr4100 Жыл бұрын

@@MK-13337some people just can’t, some people have trouble learning some thing no matter what

@patrick247two Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@RobertDeloyd Жыл бұрын

The video was very interesting for me to see the accomplishments through the years of a young bright-eyed astronomer who later became a professor at a major university.

@ddogg9255 Жыл бұрын

What a lovely story

@rtpoe Жыл бұрын

I have a bit of a 'proprietary' feeling towards a celestial object, too. Though I didn't make it as an astronomer, my name is still on two papers. I dug up and crunched some numbers for observations of a binary star in the Hyades, that my advisor used to tweak the distance modulus to that cluster. Funny, though the system should be readily visible in binoculars, I don't think I've ever went to look for it.....

@bilalphysics4872 Жыл бұрын

Congratulations madam

@tinyderppotato5410 Жыл бұрын

now you have to make a video with the people that made CIRSI

@adrien5568 Жыл бұрын

Research is truly a family story in the end.

@LWPC7 Жыл бұрын

very cool

@CalvinLXVII 7 ай бұрын

Qué historia más deliciosa. Me ha encantado la gratitud de esas 200 libras. Esta mujer me tiene fascinado por la musicalidad de su voz. Disfruto enormemente sus videos y sus charlas. Saludos!

@angustin6590 Жыл бұрын

Nice

@ThePrimevalVoid Жыл бұрын

OMG Groningen represent!

@Afraithe Жыл бұрын

Was this instrument used (or followup versions) for other discoveries after this initial paper or was this a one-off?

@dahemac Жыл бұрын

I was just thinking of Professor Gray the other day. I hope her beautiful christmas cactus is ok. It was not where I expected to see it.

@theultimatereductionist7592 Жыл бұрын

1:22 Do all desks in the UK come with cats in their top left drawer?

@olamarvin Жыл бұрын

Should have checked with the Lieutenant Colonel at Apothecaries' Hall right away IMHO, pretty obvious!

@ricardoabh3242 Жыл бұрын

I wonder, if CIRSI was build these days, what if any would be the results benefits? And any thing that JWST can do? 🇨🇦

@IanKjos Жыл бұрын

@9:20 is that Fortran code?

@LiamDennehy Жыл бұрын

I got a bit emotional at one point. Lovely story, and I've even viewed that telescope, through a telescope, from the observatory on neighboring Tenerife.

@Bayerwaldler Жыл бұрын

Me too. It 's the picture of the proud young researcher together with proud mom and dad.

@LiamDennehy Жыл бұрын

@@Bayerwaldler Interesting... For me it was the spontaneous generation of a cheque, providing financial support, simply because someone demonstrated competence, passion and asked nicely :)