Welcome to Philip Delff's personal website!

Presentation of the site

This is just another personal website, mainly of interest to myself, and when I'm travelling to my friends and family. There are, though, a few things that may be of others' interest, too.

First of all, I have made the site on numerous calls from people I have met during my travels - and especially during the last one which was a bicycle ride across the United States. You could say it makes it up for the fact that I don't have an account on any social networks on the web (except for Couchsurfing).

Travels

"To travel is to live", the Danish writer Andersen is supposed to have written somewhere. I have no clue what it means, and I'm quite sure I would disagree if I did, but I like both traveling and living. What I'd like to use this site for is sharing traveling experiences and inspiration. If you have a good idea for a trip and search for a traveling buddy, or if I can help you out in some way in Copenhagen, let me know!

On December 12th I finished a bicycle ride from New York to Los Angeles. Check out NYCLA in the menu! I'm trying to get some information written down to help others to plan a similar trip. You will see that I didn't plan a lot, actually.

I'm trying to collect some information about some of the other travels, I have done, too. Travels are an important part of my life, and I myself appreciate when others share information about theirs. It is just very inspiring. I just had a glance at some pictures from trips to Iran and India, and they will soon be uploaded. Moreover, the blog is about my travels, too.

Research and Studies

My current occupation is a Ph.D. in statistics at IMM, DTU. The subject is dynamical modeling (stochastic differential equations) of energy flows in low-energy houses with focus on arctic areas.

In march 2009 I became a master of science in engineering at IMM-DTU. I have studied energy and mathematical modeling. My major is applied mathematics, namely statistical modelling.

I wrote my bachelor thesis together with Jakob Skårhøj. It's about modelling of electric fields in organic photovoltaic cells. We continued our work, and the results are published and can be purchased from ScienceDirect.

My master's thesis is about simulation of combined wind-storage systems, and optimization of the storage strategies using Monte Carlo simulation. You can read it and take the reference from here.

Reading-on-screen version in pdf
Print version in pdf
Bibtex reference

Bacher/Delff Graphics

If you are an R user you can check out the BD Graphics package. It is a collection of functions to control plots for a default setup and was intended to make plots fit into Latex documents.

BD Graphics svn access:
http://svn.imm.dtu.dk/svn/bdplot/bdgraphics
If you prefer to download from here (not guaranteed to be the newest version),
bdgraphics_0.03_20100428.tar.gz. Since binary packages would have to be compiled for several different R versions and architectures, none is available.

The package is fairly well documented and intuitive to use since it uses the same syntax as the plotting functrions it builds upon. Comments and ideas are very welcome.

Contact info

My email address is my first name on this domain:

If you want to send me encrypted emails, my public key is here.
I encourage everyone to use encrypted emails. The first who writes me an email encrypted with this key will have an ice cream!

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