Tuesday@Marin: day of coding

Several more people joined our group overnight. Fresh blood brought novel ideas. We had a long initial discussion about what we could do. At long last we decided to write down the equations.


Then some of us almost started coding, but a faulty overhead projector turned attention away. Someone else then started writing a matlab code just before lunch. After lunch Piet showed up and explained a very nice idea how to reduce the number of constraints. He also proposed to start with a simpler problem and subsequently correct for the difference between the hard and the easy problem. By this time the matlab code was producing output. Great joy overwhelmed us and some people were temporarily deflated because it all seemed "too easy". Then a couple of us decided to go sightseeing in Amsterdam. The other ones finished the day by writing down a list of things we should do tomorrow. Among other things, we need to deal with the nasty issue of not choosing all physical quantities to be unity.