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Free Sample Personal Statement in Space Science
General Introduction
I began my undergraduate study in the Department of Physics at Central
China Normal University in September 1998. During the four years, I
devoted myself to the mathematics, physics and computer coursed such as
advanced mathematics, classical mechanics, quantum mechanics,
statistical mechanics etc. It was my hop that I would be able to build a
solid foundation for my future research. My undergraduate study was very
successful and my overall GPA was among the top 5% in my class.
Academic Performance
After graduation in 1992,I was admitted by Peking University to pursue a
Master’s Degree in Space Physics. The three-year graduate study at
Peking University was fruitful. I took a number of coursed, such as
Solar-terrestrial Space Physics, Space Plasma Physics and Ionosphere
Physics, etc. In order to enlarge my knowledge background and to satisfy
my curiosities to modern science., I audited and elected many other
courses for other majors like General Relativity, Group Theory and
Partial Differential Equations Simultaneously, I frequented the library
to refer to different kinds of professional journals, such as Physics
Review, Journal of computational Physic, Journal of Geophysical
Research, Solar Physics, Astrophysics, etc. I kept myself well informed
of the latest developments in this field, and developed my abilities to
read and write English. To get a better understanding of academic
research, I attended space physics academic communication meeting in
1992, and Geophysics Annual Conference in 1993 where many scientists
delivered academic reports. I realized that undertaking the research
work offers many interesting challenges, and I need to expand my
knowledge in my field.
Because of my outstanding grades and academic performance, I was honored
scholarship in two consecutive years, one is Subject Prize in the
1992-1993 academic year, the other is Guanghua Prize the highest
scholarship at Peking University, in the 1993-1994 academic year.
Teaching Experience
At Central China Normal University, I took general education coursed,
such as Psychology, Education and Teaching Methods. At the last
semester, I began my teaching internship at high school. I taught my
students clearly in aid of modern experiment instrument, and was widely
welcomed by the students.
I became a teaching assistant in FORTRAN LLANGUAGE for undergraduate
students at this semester at Peking University. In addition to the
necessary FORTRAN 77 taught by the major teacher, I presented the
students a variety of computer knowledge in C language, computer program
design and computer software. I felt very pride when most of my students
can operate computer expertly at the end of this semester.
Scholastic Aptitude
At my second year graduate study, I began to work as a research
assistant of Professor Chuanyi Tu, a famous scientist in Space Sciences.
He proposed the energy-cascading theory in a new solar wind model, and
was awarded VIKRAM SARABHAI prize by COSPAR and ISRO. I modified his
theory by considering the dissipation mechanism of the Alfven waves for
heliocentric distance R 10R sun and developed a two-fluid model. The
mechanism of solar wind acceleration is the basic problem in solar wind
model. The purpose of my recent work is to explore the mechanism of
solar wind acceleration and heating, and the mechanism of the heating of
the corona. I want to establish the energy-cascading heating effect
tow-fluid solar wind model by Alfvenic fluctuations, which can describe
the radial evolution of power spectrum of Alfvenic fluctuation. The
model includes the solar wind equations and power spectrum equation in
the spatial and temporal. The FCT (flux-corrected-transport) methods are
used to treat the mass equation and the momentum equation. The heat
conduction equations as well as the power spectrum equation are treated
by an implicit scheme. I devoted myself to the research and have solved
most of the established problems independently.
This work is collaborated with Professor Hu at University of Science and
Technology of China (USTC). This October and November, I took the
opportunity to come to USTC to work directly under the guidance of
Professor Hu, who is second to none for his achievements in the field of
Magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) numerical simulation in china. We discussed
many questions about research theories and numerical methods.
To determine whether a steady state is reached in the temporal evolution
of the low, we need to examine some conserved quantities inherent in a
steady-state solution to see if they are conserved throughout the
domain. Through several weeks’ hard work in the Space Physics Laboratory
of USTC, I achieved satisfactory solutions. The mass flux, momentum flux
and energy flux are constant within 5%, 0.5% and 3%. In addition, I also
participated in their seminar about nonlinear dynamics, and audited some
coursed like chaotic dynamics. I realized that my collaboration with
other university especially with USTC will give me a more solid and
broad background on mathematics and Physics, and may make it easy for me
to go into these fields of my later research.
Now, having experienced success and failure in my research work and
studies, I have possessed the capacity of carrying research
independently and developed my own working habit that somehow we seem to
be successful. I believe I hold adequate potential to be further
developed. I enjoy my present study and work, which are challenging and
desirable. However, I am very eager to further my study in my chosen
field up to the most advanced level in your institute. I love the
research work and have aimed at a life time career in science for a long
time. Upon completion of my study, I will return and make contributions
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