Apr 2009
Gordon Research Conference!
I’ve been asked to give a talk at the Gordon Research Conference this year on X-ray Science! This is one of the most prestigious science conferences and I feel very, very honored and fortunate to have been invited. Gordon conferences are international in scope and given for particular subjects only once every couple of years.
The work they wish for me to discuss deals with my surface coherent scattering project (or x-ray speckles from metal surfaces). I suppose I should get back to work on the analysis! We’re still debating exactly what our results mean.
However, aside from my relatively junior status as a researcher, this is very appropriate in at least a couple of respects for a GRC talk. It’s a new demonstration technique, and we don’t know it all yet! Part of the tradition of the Gordon Conferences is to present new, unpublished work. Everyone is supposed to respect that new work means “don’t run out and try to scoop someone else,” and things like recording devices are prohibited.
All in all, even just attending such a conference is a great chance to meet and talk with some really great people. Being asked to speak at the conference is just incredible and I’m very excited to have this opportunity.
Getting datapoints from Matlab figures
11/04/09 22:27 Filed in: Matlab Tricks
Sometimes it’s necessary to get the data-points out of a matlab figure (though it typically happens years after the original was made and with no scripts to rerun). I can never seem to remember how to do this. I found a good description posted elsewhere on a blog called Memming’s Inconsistency. Since I’m not sure how inconsistent that source will be in the future, I’ll put the commands here too.
Basics :
>>axes_loc =get(gcf,’Children);
>>info=get(axes_loc(1),’Children&rsquo
;>>get(info)
will then provide a huge list of the properties in the 1st plot on the figure.
x_data = get(info,’XData&rsquo
; y_data = get(info,’YData’that’ll do it. For plots with multiple curves, you’ll need to pull them out from arrays, but by this point it’s within my ability to remember. The above is what I can never seem to recall and always resort to Google searches to find.