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Well, its been about a month now here in Pennsylvania, about a third of the way through my research internship under Dr. Lakhtakia at Penn State University. We have been trying to observe a [content suppressed for the time being :)]. With the physics part being mostly done, the numerical analysis remains, and this is what is causing a few hiccups here and there. Nonetheless, I had a wonderful day today at work, with my program finally finding some (loads really, its swinging now :) ) solutions to a deviously eluding multivariable complex function. Problem is that this non-explicit function is nowhere analytic, well not even continous or even defined at places. Hence, convergence programs fail most of the times. What I have tried to do though is to fill in these gaps to form atleast piecewise continous parts, helping me to run a Newton Rhapson algorithm in some form. I am also looking at using a zero crossing method that switches between real and imaginary parts till a simultaneous crossing is found. Nevertheless, this blog post is a tribute to the wildlife here in Pennsylvania so we should focus on that now! On my customary evening walks with my uncle here who is also a professor at Penn State University (and its so pleasant, occasionally mild downpour at about 25 degree centigrade) , we found that cute guy above trying to cross the road. For your information, there are 2 fresh water streamlets running on either side of the road!



As I watched it in its struggle to cross the road, a guy whisked past me in his, toyota was it ?,only to stop , wheel back, and park his car at the side, to have a look for himself. What I found more amusing was that, this guy, whose picture you can see above, decided to stand in the middle of the road for the next 15 minutes or so, so as to warn any cars of the threat they could be to the turtle! Realising this was taking just too long, he tried helping the turtle on by trying to poke at it and push it with his foot, but the turtle wagged its mouth at him in a loud hiss of self-defense to warn him off! Finally, the man gathered enough courage to pick the little beast off and drop him at the stream nearby :) . I was, ofcourse, content in watching the action unfold at a safe distance (yeah, you have to be saying, "this guy, scared of a turtle?") , oh and I had to run back to my place and back to the scene of action to get the camera in the meantime. About half a mile, so could have been about 4-5 minutes.


Well, for some things, you just got to love America. :)