User:Novice

Hi all,

I am Krishnaprasad Akkineni, a resident of Alspaugh Dormitory. I am thinking about a BME/ECE double major. I like almost everything about Duke, notable exceptions being the food at the Marketplace and the amount of homework. I like solving math puzzles, reading books and playing tennis. I am a big fan of Federer. I am also taking Math 107, Organic Chemistry, Intro to Jazz and Intermediate Yoga this semester.

My article discusses the efforts taken by the Chinese government to make solar energy economically viable. China Racing Ahead of the U.S. in the Drive to Go Solar, Keith Bradsher, New York Times, created 24 August 2009, accessed 23 September 2010 (Make Solar Energy Economical)

My full name is Krishnaprasad Akkineni. I go by Krishna. I think thinking of Krishna as Chrishna helps with the pronunciation(There is no particular stress on any syllable.) I like the "Viewing the Penny" demo. The demo displays various images of the penny including the three dimensional surface plot. I like the pseudocolor plot the most because I have never seen anything of that kind before. I didn't understand all the terminology. For example, the pseudocolor plot had the brightness proportional to the Laplacian of the height. Nevertheless, the graphs were really interesting and inspiring. I hope I can write the program for such a cool graph one day.