Profile: Björn Keil

Your personal background.
I am the eternal student. A little to lazy, though not untalented studying for quite a while now, studying at the University of Applyed Siences Cologne.

I am interested in music - I even have an Ibanez RG 470 E guitarr those most who heard my playing begged me to stop - RPGs and of course astronomy and physics. Though that on a "Universe in a Nutshell" level. I tend run and hide when it comes to formulas. I am not bad in mathematics but seem to be clueless when it comes to using them for physics.
Your opinions about Einstein@Home
What brought me to Einstein@Home was that I was looking for some I kind of research to donate processing time...

SETI@Home was a funny thing, but I find it rather unlikely they really find anything. While it is still unlikely that Einstein@Home finds a pulsar, it is way more likely they do than that SETI find aliens.

I don't know what the practical advantage of finding a pulsar would be, but it might be a huge leap forward in fundamental physics and our understanding of the universe, thus I gladly help performing Fourier Transformation after Fourier Transformation on data LIGO collected. Who knows, maybe there's a pulsar's trace recorded in the data my computer processes right now?
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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant NSF-0200852 and by the Max Planck Gesellschaft (MPG). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the investigators and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF or the MPG.

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