Recent content by humphdogg

Dude just call up the accommodation office if you're so worried.

Stop trying to guess examples. Use the fact that pax^{p-1} must be equal to a^{1/p} x^{1/p}. Solve for the possible values of p by comparing exponents of x. Then solve for a by comparing coefficients. This will give you an answer.

The extracurriculars thing is bullshit. If you get above 99 (especially if you get well above 99), you'll get in. Obviously they want olympiad people, or people who have been high achievers in some way, but it's not mandatory. They take about 30 kids a year for PhB science, and there's only so...

You don't need to be good at English - and many scientists aren't. I just said that it's beneficial. They had those when I was there (in fact, I think they've had those since about the year after the PhB was first introduced). As a mathematician, these were pointless; even most physics students...

That may be so for PhB Arts, but for PhB Science around 40-50 are offered a place and only about 30 or so of those actually end up enrolling. There's no second round of entrances: if you turn down a place, they don't offer someone new in your place. Mind you, I was under the impression that it...

Each year, ANU accepts many more people to the PhB program than actually enroll (as people end up choosing a closer university, or get scholarships elsewhere). The people who miss out usually miss out because ANU doesn't think they'll cut it, not because ANU doesn't have enough places.

Yep, you can transfer into the PhB, though not usually later than first semester of second year. The scholarships aren't particularly for accommodation; they're just general scholarships.

What are you on about? When would you ever write up reports for those not familiar with science? My ASC reports were only ever read by maths professors, and presented to mathematicians and fellow maths students. And PhB is a science degree (well, the PhB Science degree is, as opposed to PhB...

This chick surely be trolling.

If by currently, you mean flying over to the US tomorrow to begin, then yes :wink:

Yep, it was pretty good. My supervisor was originally Andrew Hassell, but then changed to Jim Borger when I changed from a PhD to an MPhil.

You missed a good conference in Vienna then last month :wink:

I moved from Melbourne to Canberra because of the PhB, and it was definitely worth it for me. However, I did get a scholarship that meant financially it wasn't too difficult. It can be quite difficult to support yourself financially just with a part time job and not much parental help.

I work on this kind of thing in my research ;) and by work, I mean I have to assume that the Riemann hypothesis is true for any of my results to work...

I guess I'd call it a hypersurface integral.