Very interesting conversation today with Rajeev Mehajan Dr. Rajeev Mehajan who talked about SERB from the other side.

India's scientific landscape is transforming, and not necessarily for good. If we keep working in mirco-communities, without any long-term objectives, we head nowhere.

Doing science is easy, doing budget is hard. #academic_grants

The Genetic Dynasty in Foundation is the most intriguing Sci-Fi concept on TV I have ever seen.

Lee Pace is 👌

I will be teaching ‘Nuclear and Particle Physics’ next semester. I need some textbook recommendations for the Nuclear Physics part.

The idea is to bring the course to current times, and spend some time on Nuclear Astrophysics as well.

True utopia is where I don't have to charge my electronic devices.

Filing the tax return successfully feels like an achievement in the first year!

Them: how's the work going?
Me:

I have used TexStudio for compiling my latex for as long as I can remember. After nearly 10 years, I changed the setting from hard-wrap to soft-wrap.

For 10 years, I was manually removing the unnecessary line breaks before submiting to arxiv.

I asked #ChatGPT to write a python code for my Mathematica workflow. With a little debugging, I could get the code running time from ~5 hours to sub-minute.

Me: I’ll work when I get home

Me when I immediately get home:

My brain at 3pm

We are entering the age of AI - Artificial Information.
Cite sources, check sources.

The Age of AI is here, and staying. Adapt and survive.

My file management and version control is horrible. It's one of those issues that only get worse with time.

Tips welcome!

If you are a leftie and use fountain pens for writing, you need special quick-dry inks. Otherwise you smudge!

(assuming you write from left to right, like in english)

SNO
Super Kamiokande
ATLAS & CMS
Planck (with hon. mention to COBE & WMAP)
LIGO

The greatest physics discoveries of 21st century have been done by large groups!

I have accepted a faculty position at BITS Pilani, India. It was a tough decision based on optimising multiple parameters and variables.

I am excited to start a new phase of my academic life.

In a colloquium style informal talk, I am planning to talk about fun-to-know neutrino related stories. One of them is the not-yellow submarine of SNO. Any other pointers?