Sydney D'Silva

Biked more than 10,000 miles. Hiked more than 5,000 miles.
Sydney D'Silva
 
Contact
email: sdsilva@comcast.net
Ph: (703) 346-7306
 
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Interests
 
Astronomy
 
Computer Science
Demo of ppower4

A Presentation

PHP

Slideshows

NMNH Museum


DEMOS


Time-distance helioseismology is a method to study the interior of the Sun by computing travel time of individual acoustic wavepackets as they travel through the Sun between two spatially separated locations on its surface. I have contributed to the theoretical development of this field.
eg.  Theoretical Foundations of Time-Distance Helioseismology


Helioseismic tomography is a form of the tomographic techniques adapted to image the interior of the Sun from observations of the acoustic oscillations at the surface. The important adaptation is the computation of travel time through time-distance helioseismology. I have contributed in the aspects of its adaptation and improvement.
eg.  A Note on Helioseismic Tomography


This study involves the dynamics of their progenitors -- magnetic flux tubes --- from the region
of their origin (200,000 km beneath the solar surface) through a highly turbulent convectively unstable region. We modeled the flux tube to be a one-dimensional string with all properties of a magnetic flux tube allowed to move in the three-dimensional space of the convection zone. We could successfully explain a number of dynamical and morphological properties of sunspots if the magnetic field strength of the flux tubes at the region of their origin were of the order of 100,000 G. This is order of magnitude larger than the field that would be in energy equipartition with the turbulent motions.
A Theoretical Model for Tilts of Bipolar Magnetic Regions


Publications in Solar Physics and Biology.



Biking
My Specialized Tricross hybrid has taken me over nearly all bike trails of Northern Virginia and DC. One of my best is the Rock Creek Park trail in DC. This is about a 30-40 mile round trip from . I started tracing my path on the Every Trail site using my Google phone and the Every Trail app. The Every Trail site uses Actionscript and renders the trail in Flash. I thought it would be better to have it using JavaScript because currently (as of July 2009) Flash has not yet come to iPhones, though Adobe had announced that it was in the making. So I wrote my own JavaScript by putting together the GoogleMaps API and Jquery. Here you will see my biking trails overlapped on Google maps.

See the latest trails at http://sdsilva.us/trails/biking

 
My Bike Trails Overlayed on Google Maps
Trails Overlayed on Google Maps
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Viriginia Bike Trails
Maryland Bike Trails
Washington, DC Bike trails
If you want to see your GPS trails overlayed on Google maps, upload it here:
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Hiking
We hiked a total of 653 miles in 2010.

See the latest trails at http://sdsilva.us/trails/hiking

If you want to see your GPS trails overlayed on Google maps, upload it here:
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Ecuador's Rain Forest

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The Rain Forest

Quito, Ecuador

 
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