From: W. Trevor King Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 19:28:38 +0000 (-0400) Subject: blurb/acknowledgments.tex: Flesh out acknowledgements X-Git-Tag: v1.0~228 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=807439e;p=thesis.git blurb/acknowledgments.tex: Flesh out acknowledgements Thank people :D. Also add contact info and link to the Git repository for people who only stumble across the dead-trees version of this thing. --- diff --git a/src/blurb/acknowledgments.tex b/src/blurb/acknowledgments.tex index 7e9cf20..345ea32 100644 --- a/src/blurb/acknowledgments.tex +++ b/src/blurb/acknowledgments.tex @@ -1,4 +1,39 @@ \begin{acknowledgments} +\epigraph{If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of + Giants.}{Isaac Newton\citep{turnbull59}} + +Newton's competitive spirit gives the heroic phrasing in the quote +above, but I don't see the need to use giants (\cref{fig:ants}). Any +furtherance of knowledge due to my research is due to consolidating, +reorganizing, and tweaking the work of those that came before me. To +all of you in the rest of this innumerable bundle, thanks! + +On a professional level, my high school physics teacher Tom Hoch +started this whole experience with a very engaging class, and I +continue to use his block counting analogy for energy conservation +when teaching new students. Since then, I have been privileged to +work under Joe Amato, Dan Schult, Jeff Buboltz, the late Marc Feldman, +and the late Guoliang Yang, all of whom have helped mold me into the +scientist and person I am today. Prof.~Yang deserves extra credit, +and his ability to shift topics from force spectroscopy to geopolitics +and back in a minute helped keep things fresh. Thanks to Louis Cruz +Cruz for shepherding me through the final stages of my thesis. My lab +partners Marisa Roman and Runcong Liu provided lively discussions and +a (mostly) willing audience for smoke testing my software. + +On a personal level, my wife Emily and broader family and friends have +kept me sane throughout this process. Thank you all. + +Thanks to my committee members---Jian-Min Yuan, Jun Xi, Michel +Valli{\`e}res, Som Tyagi, and Prof.~Cruz---for helpful criticism and +review. Also thanks to Mom, for lots of pro bono editing! Any errors +that remain are clearly my fault, and corrections are +welcome\footnote{% + Write me at \href{mailto:wking@tremily.us}{wking@tremily.us}. You + can browse the thesis source at + \url{http://git.tremily.us/?p=thesis.git}. +}. + This work was produced using the following open source software projects: \begin{description} \item[\href{http://www.tug.org/texlive/}{\TeX live}/% @@ -21,8 +56,18 @@ This work was produced using the following open source software projects: Operating system and distribution. \end{description} and many, many more. I am deeply indebted to all of the smart, -generous people who produce such wonderful tools. +generous people who produce such wonderful tools. Besides providing +the tools, they also provide very supportive communities to help haul +complete newbies like me up the learning curve. \sawsim\ work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants R01-GM071793. + +\begin{figure} + \begin{center} + \includegraphics[width=4in]{figures/binary/ants} + \caption{A raft of 500 fire ants, reproduced from + \citet{mlot11}.\label{fig:ants}} + \end{center} +\end{figure} \end{acknowledgments} diff --git a/src/packages.tex b/src/packages.tex index 6de9418..3191a36 100644 --- a/src/packages.tex +++ b/src/packages.tex @@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ % Nicer references with \cref, \Cref, etc. \usepackage[capitalize]{cleveref} +% Epigraphs (chapter-leading quotations) +\usepackage{epigraph} + \usepackage{makeidx} % Indexing \makeindex \usepackage[intoc]{nomencl} % Abbreviation indexing diff --git a/src/pyafm/main.tex b/src/pyafm/main.tex index fd70d73..23843c6 100644 --- a/src/pyafm/main.tex +++ b/src/pyafm/main.tex @@ -1,6 +1,13 @@ \chapter{Experiment control software, \pyafm, and related packages} \label{sec:pyafm} +\epigraph{Civilization advances by extending the number of important + operations which we can perform without thinking about + them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle + they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and + must only be made at decisive moments.}{Alfred North + Whitehead\citep{whitehead11}} + Velocity clamp experiments have been carried out since the initial work by \citet{rief97a}, so I was somewhat surprised that there weren't already community-driven packages for carrying out and diff --git a/src/root.bib b/src/root.bib index 1e841c0..1c7b88b 100644 --- a/src/root.bib +++ b/src/root.bib @@ -435,6 +435,7 @@ @string{THowland = "Howland, T."} @string{BHsiao = "Hsiao, Benjamin S."} @string{CKHu = "Hu, Chin-Kun"} +@string{DLHu = "Hu, David L."} @string{BHuang = "Huang, Baiqu"} @string{HHuang = "Huang, Hector Han-Li"} @string{MHubain = "Hubain, Maurice"} @@ -686,6 +687,7 @@ @string{SMinoshima = "Minoshima, S."} @string{IMitchell = "Mitchell, Ian"} @string{SMitternacht = "Mitternacht, Simon"} +@string{NJMlot = "Mlot, Nathan J."} @string{CMobarry = "Mobarry, C."} @string{NMohandas = "Mohandas, N."} @string{SMohanty = "Mohanty, Sandipan"} @@ -735,6 +737,7 @@ @string{NJP = "New Journal of Physics"} @string{DBNewell = "Newell, David B."} @string{MNewman = "Newman, M."} +@string{INewton = "Newton, Isaac"} @string{SNg = "Ng, Sean P."} @string{NNguyen = "Nguyen, N."} @string{TNguyen = "Nguyen, T."} @@ -810,6 +813,7 @@ @string{PBPMB = "Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology"} @string{PS = "Protein Science"} @string{PROT = "Proteins"} +@string{RSUP = "Published for the Royal Society at the University Press"} @string{EPuchner = "Puchner, Elias M."} @string{VPuri = "Puri, V."} @string{WPyckhout-Hintzen = "Pyckhout-Hintzen, Wim"} @@ -996,6 +1000,7 @@ @string{BTiribilli = "Tiribilli, Bruno"} @string{TTlusty = "Tlusty, Tsvi"} @string{JTocaHerrera = "Toca-Herrera, Jose L."} +@string{CATovey = "Tovey, Craig A."} @string{AToyoda = "Toyoda, A."} @string{TASME = "Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers"} @string{BTrask = "Trask, B."} @@ -1009,6 +1014,7 @@ @string{ZTshiprut = "Tshiprut, Z."} @string{JCMTsibris = "Tsibris, J.C.M."} @string{LTskhovrebova = "Tskhovrebova, Larissa"} +@string{HWTurnbull = "Turnbull, Herbert Westren"} @string{RTurner = "Turner, R."} @string{AUlman = "Ulman, Abraham"} @string{UltraMic = "Ultramicroscopy"} @@ -1057,6 +1063,7 @@ @string{MWen = "Wen, M."} @string{JWetter = "Wetter, J."} @string{EPWhite = "White, Ethan P."} +@string{ANWhitehead = "Whitehead, Alfred North"} @string{AWhittaker = "Whittaker, A."} @string{HKWickramasinghe = "Wickramasinghe, H. K."} @string{RWides = "Wides, R."} @@ -1067,6 +1074,7 @@ @string{CCWilliams = "Williams, C. C."} @string{MWilliams = "Williams, M."} @string{SWilliams = "Williams, S."} +@string{WN = "Williams \& Norgate"} @string{MWilmanns = "Wilmanns, Matthias"} @string{GWilson = "Wilson, Greg"} @string{PWilson = "Wilson, Paul"} @@ -10014,3 +10022,76 @@ functional states, and inter- and intra-molecular interactions can be derived.}, } + +@book{ turnbull59, + editor = HWTurnbull, + author = INewton, + title = {The correspondence of Isaac Newton}, + year = 1959, + publisher = RSUP, + volume = 1, + numpages = 445, + url = {http://books.google.com/books?id=pr8WAQAAMAAJ}, + note = {The ``Giants'' quote is on page 416, in a letter to Robert + Hooke dated February 5, 1676.}, +} + +@book{ whitehead11, + author = ANWhitehead, + title = {An introduction to mathematics}, + year = 1911, + publisher = WN, + numpages = 274, + address = {London}, + url = {http://archive.org/details/introductiontoma00whitiala}, + note = {The ``civilization'' quote is on page 61.}, +} + +@article{ mlot11, + author = NJMlot #" and "# CATovey #" and "# DLHu, + title = {Fire ants self-assemble into waterproof rafts to survive floods}, + year = 2011, + month = may, + day = 10, + address = {Schools of Mechanical Engineering, Industrial and + Systems Engineering, and Biology, + Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30318, USA.}, + journal = PNAS, + volume = 108, + number = 19, + pages = {7669--7673}, + issn = {1091-6490}, + doi = {10.1073/pnas.1016658108}, + url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21518911}, + language = {eng}, + keywords = {Animals}, + keywords = {Ants}, + keywords = {Behavior, Animal}, + keywords = {Biophysical Phenomena}, + keywords = {Floods}, + keywords = {Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions}, + keywords = {Microscopy, Electron, Scanning}, + keywords = {Models, Biological}, + keywords = {Social Behavior}, + keywords = {Surface Properties}, + keywords = {Time-Lapse Imaging}, + keywords = {Video Recording}, + keywords = {Water}, + abstract = {Why does a single fire ant \species{Solenopsis invicta} + struggle in water, whereas a group can float effortlessly for + days? We use time-lapse photography to investigate how fire ants + \species{S.~invicta} link their bodies together to build + waterproof rafts. Although water repellency in nature has been + previously viewed as a static material property of plant leaves + and insect cuticles, we here demonstrate a self-assembled + hydrophobic surface. We find that ants can considerably enhance + their water repellency by linking their bodies together, a process + analogous to the weaving of a waterproof fabric. We present a + model for the rate of raft construction based on observations of + ant trajectories atop the raft. Central to the construction + process is the trapping of ants at the raft edge by their + neighbors, suggesting that some ``cooperative'' behaviors may rely + upon coercion.}, + note = {Higher resolution pictures are available at + \url{http://antlab.gatech.edu/antlab/The_Ant_Raft.html}.}, +}