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Antonio Pino
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== A: An introduction == | == A: An introduction == | ||
* Please describe yourself in three sentences, one of them regarding your current studies. | * Please describe yourself in three sentences, one of them regarding your current studies. | ||
I am Antonio Pino Robles and I am currently an undergratuate student at the University of the Basque Country, in the Basque Country | I am Antonio Pino Robles and I am currently an undergratuate student at the University of the Basque Country, in the Basque Country, Northern Spain, atlantic French border. Thus I an a native Basque and Spanish speaker, I can express myself in French and Italian (after a year long stay in Piemonte, Italy), besides being fluent in English. | ||
I have always enjoyed literature and math, which are things I like to do when I enjoy the heavy rain pouring in my hometown. | |||
* What's your overall background? | |||
As an ungergrad I am following a programme that leads me to a major in Electronic Engineering and a minor in Physics, that means that I have expirience in subjects such as Control Theory, Signal Analysis on one side, and Quantum Physics and Thermodynamics on the other; all with a strong mathematical background. | As an ungergrad I am following a programme that leads me to a major in Electronic Engineering and a minor in Physics, that means that I have expirience in subjects such as Control Theory, Signal Analysis on one side, and Quantum Physics and Thermodynamics on the other; all with a strong mathematical background. | ||
* Why do you want to participate in the Google Summer of Code? What do you hope to gain by doing so? | * Why do you want to participate in the Google Summer of Code? What do you hope to gain by doing so? | ||
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Last year, I took two courses the relied heavily on the matrix exponential (Control Theory and Non-linear dynamics) to solve systems (or approximate them) by | Last year, I took two courses the relied heavily on the matrix exponential (Control Theory and Non-linear dynamics) to solve systems (or approximate them) by | ||
<math>\dot{x}=A\cdot x</math> | <math>\dot{x}=A\cdot x</math>. | ||
Needless to say, they tried to push Matlab to all the students, and I got by with Gnu-Octave, for which I am thankful to the whole developer team. | Needless to say, they tried to push Matlab to all the students, and I got by with Gnu-Octave, for which I am thankful to the whole developer team. | ||