There should be some description in here a long time ago, but anyway, better late than never.

I'm supposed to say something here about myself. First of all I really like Maths, I think it's because of the experience I had with Add Maths in Sekolah Menengah that I decided to major in Maths (luckily dapat). 

I'm Norhaslinda, and so my first degree is in Maths, awarded by Indiana University in Bloomington, USA. After graduating, I worked as a lecturer at a private college in Ipoh (2 years), teaching Maths to Diploma students (they were awesome then).

I felt that I should pursue a higher degree in Maths to make up for my BSc in Maths but somehow I ended up doing Master in Atmospheric Sciences at University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. There, we studied something on ozone, and I knew then that I was just interested in it. And thus, my PhD was about ozone, stratospheric ozone, which I did it at Cambridge University, UK. Cambridge is kind of a unique city where you find the departments and colleges buildings situated in the city itself (better than Oxford city, I think). So, if you are bored or stuck in the lab, you can just take a walk down the road and the next thing you know you have arrived at the Next store (window shopping is a good therapy).

I'm bonded with USM (7 years), they paid for my MSc and PhD studies, and Yayasan Al-Bukhari also helped funded my PhD study. I'm grateful.

So, majoring in Maths but ended up at School of Physics, it's a long story, but I like it here, at Physics.

My research interest is on atmospheric sciences,  more specifically on stratospheric ozone, trying to focus on ozone in the tropical regions, studying ozone trends by statistical analysis.

But, recently, we have done something on aerosols.

I was entrusted by the then Dean, Prof. Abdul Aziz Tajudin, to teach ZCT 219 Mathematical Methods, a course on I would say, Partial Differential Equations, including some very interesting special equations and special functions.

The next semester I was assigned to teach ZCT 210 Complex Analysis and Differential Equations, consisting of the two parts Ordinary Differential Equations, mostly looking at the methods of solving ODEs, and the second part is Complex Analysis, looking at theorems used to evaluate complex integrals, including the one and only Cauchy's Residue Theorem. This course is only taught in Semester 1. I also got to teach ZCA 110 Calculus for one semester and mostly it was ZCT 210 in first semester, for more than 20 years.

Taught ZCT 219 in the second semester for couple of years and then I was assigned to teach ZCT 112 Linear Algebra and Vector Analysis for a few years.

Most recently, I got to teach ZGT 285 Introduction to Meteorology. So it's a course on Meteorology, which also look at the science behind several atmospheric phenomena (awesome), including topics on greenhouse gases and the greenhouse effect and also a bit on ozone.

I have supervised and am supervising undergraduate students for the Final Year Project, and also PhD students.