Motor Maths

I finished the Motor Systems course today. Well, i still have to write 2 reports but I do not have to show up anywhere anymore. Today we discussed to models for arm movements. The most important one describes hand and arm movements with no regard to the neural system but on a higher level based on miniziming the jerkiness of a movement. It states that movements are made as smooth as possible. Than we tried to use the model to calculate the trajectory of the hand of a dart-player when throwing darts.

It took me 4 pages of math, but I managed to solve this system of equations with 6 (!!) variables. I was pretty proud..

Well I am back home now and in a while I will have a nice meal with my girlfriend Sita, watch the dutch soccerteam PSV hopefully beat AC Milan in the semi-finals of the Champions League. Then we will sweat the laziness away with an hour of squash and we will end the night in bar.

Tomorrow morning I will have to be present at the Neuroscience symposium at 9 am and I am scheduled for the afternoon poster session. I am looking forward to discuss my experimental results and see what others have done. In the evening I will go to Amsterdam to watch a play, one of my roommates acts in. But first we will go out for dinner in Amsterdam with some people...