This is the first day I officially move in the lab. My boss assigned few papers for me to read.

• The strongest cosmic magnets: Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters and Anomalous X-ray Pulsars
• Magnetars: properties, origin and evolution
• Formation of very strongly magnetized neutron stars: Implications for Gamma-ray bursts

the first two papers are review papers of magnetars, which is probably the first subject I will work on. The last paper is the first paper suggesting the existing of magnetars.

I spent whole afternoon deleting and reinstalling computer system. Ubuntu 15.10 was installed. But I was told that this version of Ubuntu wouldn’t upgrade anymore. Reinstalling of Ubuntu 16.4 is on the to-do list.

A tiny tip of reinstalling system: be sure to copy some important info of previous system, like DNS service, IP Address. Rookie mistake was made by me XD