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Postdoc in Theoretical Cosmology at @KavliIPMU University of Tokyo. Emmy Noether fellow at @Perimeter . PhD in Theoretical Physics. Club EFT. Outreach #cosmo4all

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3 months
I'm delighted to announce that I've been awarded an Emmy Noether fellowship at Perimeter Institute! Over the next two years, I'll have the privilege of making lengthy visits to PI. This is remarkable opportunity for my professional development and growth as a researcher! 😀🥳
@Perimeter
Perimeter Institute
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Meet seven remarkable early-career physicists whose fresh perspectives and enthusiasm we’re excited to have at Perimeter Institute in the coming year! Learn more about the 2024 Emmy Noether Visiting Postdoctoral Fellows:
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Brilliant acknowledgment 😂🤣
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Brilliant! Physics-Mathematics dictionary 😁
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2 years
The Mastodon user manual 🙃
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I finally understood RGE (renormalisation group equation). All that it says is that a theory is invariant under redefinition of the scale of the theory (or lattice spacing) as it can be compensated by a change in the couplings. At the fixed point (βi(Λ) =0) we get a CFT.
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4 years
Physicists using pertubation theory....
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Who's the Dr. ?! I am the Dr.! Just passed my VIVA!!! And yes I was wearing slippers!
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5 years
Movie titles: I see 2) Matrix, 14) Gravity.. Which ones you see?! 😂
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2 years
on arXiv today: The EW horizon problem - No, it's not. 😄
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1 year
The dust has settled, I have accepted a postdoctoral position with Misao Sasaki at IPMU KAVLI in Japan. I am absolutely over the moon, very excited! 🤩 Thank you to everyone that has supported me so far ❤️
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2 years
Effective field theory 🤪
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We went to see Yukawa’s office today 😄
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@welt_woman @dieworkwear There are things we will never unsee because we follow the menswear dude 😆
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2 months
The Japanese are a meticulous and thoughtful people. I lost my keys while out running 2 weeks ago. I had lost any hope of finding them again. I went back for a run today and lo and behold, someone must had placed them by the sign so if I pass by, I will see them. Amazing! 🤩
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6 months
Smuggled some souvenirs with me back from Korea! 😇 This will last me for years 😂 although the idea is to give them around to people as they are so cheap to buy in Korea
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2 years
My dad died today. I have not seen him since I was 17 year old. Never mind, it’s all in the past now. Rest In Peace dad 😢 I am OK.
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9 months
I started packing today. Moving to Japan in 2 weeks where my postdoc life is going to be for the next 2 years. My house looks like it has been raided by carton boxes 🥲
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2 years
I gave a talk @Perimeter today. Finally, I was the proud owner of the hokey stick! 😈 🤩
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1 year
False alarm!!! Minus sign in place, all my calculations work. This is a special moment 😭
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1 year
Typical day in a theorists life.. after a long calculation I get a close enough but not entirely correct result. Let the chase begin (you pesky little minus sign baggers I’ll get you!! 😡)
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1 year
Well, I just got a rejection for one of my papers I feel is unfair. I mean they might as well ask me to solve quantum gravity while I am on it. Anything else? Well, such is life. I guess I regroup and resubmit somewhere? 😢
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@MMylova
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10 months
Well, well, well… we appealed to the editor with full force. The paper was reviewed again and this time passed with flying colours. Paper accepted! I am very happy with this result. There is justice in the world 😁 Thank you anonymous referee for such a great report!
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1 year
Well, I just got a rejection for one of my papers I feel is unfair. I mean they might as well ask me to solve quantum gravity while I am on it. Anything else? Well, such is life. I guess I regroup and resubmit somewhere? 😢
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Gave my talk in the last day of the workshop to a wonderful crowd. I do prefer workshops more than conferences as it is so much easier to approach people to discuss physics 😄 It has been an amazing week at Yukawa Institute 🤓
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8 months
The IPMU photographer got a good shot of me while in action :D Maybe is time to change my profile picture. Credit: KAVLI-IPMU
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3 months
I had a few photos taken today by the KAVLI-IPMU photographer! This is the winner! Time to change my profile picture, you think? 🤩
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1 month
After several trips to the vet and treatments this month, my beloved cat was diagnosed with blood cancer. He was in a very bad state so I had to say goodbye to him today and held him in my arms for one last time. I am gonna miss him so much. Rest in peace my baby 💔💔💔😭😭😭
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It’s not going well. I have been syringe feeding him since Wednesday but he is very dehydrated. He is staying at the animal hospital tonight to get IV fluids and proper care. I can only pray now 🙏🏻 😢
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7 months
Announcing my new paper with @nafshordi in the arXiv . I’ll start by saying, I feel this paper is a bit ahead of its time😇 Don't @ me!😄 The question we are trying to answer is how does one construct an EFT for a non-dynamical degree of freedom?
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1 year
Typical day in a theorists life.. after a long calculation I get a close enough but not entirely correct result. Let the chase begin (you pesky little minus sign baggers I’ll get you!! 😡)
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2 years
I must have died and gone to heaven! Working at the bistro patio @Perimeter 🤩
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1 year
No, you are both clearly wrong! Nanograv clearly solved the Riemann hypothesis
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Mario Santos
1 year
Sorry, this is wrong. Nanograv measured the 21cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization. A clean detection.
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9 months
Courier transform 😂
@VergaraLautaro
Lautaro Vergara 🇺🇦
9 months
A bit of humor.
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2 years
This is my last night at @Perimeter , had a great time saying goodbye to everyone and got loads of paraphernalia. What an amazing experience! This is such an inspiring place 🤩
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9 months
I arrived at IPMU and it’s like l have been hit by an administrative storm in the last 2 days 😅😅 Hopefully everything will settle soon and I can go back to doing physics. Very excited to be here!
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25 days
Describe theoretical physics in 5 words: 👇 😂
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Thomas Van Riet
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@CburgesCliff @einfeyn @WKCosmo Confusion is our business model
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2 years
Happy New Year! 🤩 (at a bar in Seoul drinking 2022 away) 🎉
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2 years
I am back at the Postdoc market! Please share with me any useful sites or ways for finding places to apply to. 3 years ago I used academic jobs online and inspire hep jobs. Anywhere else I should look? I am interested in theoretical cosmology and related subjects. Thanks! 🙏🏻
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1 year
My work on parity violating graviton non-Gaussianity has been updated in the arXiv to address the story of Helicity Conservation in the folded/flattened configuration for gravitons and finally has been submitted for review!
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4 years
Don't make fun of children who believe in Santa, when there are adults who believe that we will find a Theory of Everything 🙃
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1 year
Spontaneous what… say that again?? 🤣
@higgsinocat
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1 year
Spontaneous Human Combustion rules out all standard candidates for Dark Matter. (arXiv:2304.00319v1 [hep-ph]) relevance:100% #darkmatter
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2 years
So from now on we will have to tolerate all those ( + - - - ) people 🙄
@elonmusk
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I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means
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Thread: So I have been tasked to discuss the latest paper on the cosmological principle story by Secrest, Sarkar and others in the next Journal Club, so I thought to make a thread about it. I am not astro so my understanding may lack, be kind! 1/
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3 months
For someone working on primordial gravitational waves, this is a wonderful reminder! It's a challenging pursuit, yet the promise of unlocking unparalleled insights fuels our determination. Persistence is key! We’ll strive until it becomes a reality.
@QuantaMagazine
Quanta Magazine
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Raman Sundrum, a theoretical particle physicist University of Maryland, is part of a cadre of particle physicists who hope to establish a connection between gravitational wave signals and high-energy particle physics.
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9 months
The battle is over! Our paper has been published! And they also included a footnote I wanted to add in the last minute :D 🥳
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6 months
We agree to disagree 😂
@cosmobasu
Basundhara Ghosh
6 months
Courtesy: Peter Coles
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2 years
Paper alert: General Effective Field Theory of Teleparallel gravity in collaboration with J. Levi Said and E. Saridakis. A few words about this work: General Relativity (GR) and TEGR (the teleparallel equivalent of GR) are known to have the same EOMs 1/
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1 year
Today I bicycled to Viet Hai village through the Vietnamese countryside, drunk snake wine (yes really!) and went kayaking at Lan Ha Bay 😄 I can’t get enough of this place, just raw natural beauty!
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Look who is here at Yukawa Institute!!! 🤩 We are attending the last of the long term workshop on Gravity and Cosmology!
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3 months
That’s another one of the photos the IPMU photographer took the other day. I like it more and more by the day. So #NewProfilePic it is
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2 years
That empty feeling when you’ve done a very long calculation and the result is zero… 🤨
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Cosmo22 dinner party! Physicists are sexy as hell! 🤩 YES you are missing out!
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1 month
Thank you all for your messages. My beloved cat Archie has been over 14 years with me and have lived in many countries. He was my loyal friend throughout my undergrad , Masters, PhD and postdocs. I loved him to pieces. It hurts so much that he is gone 💔
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After several trips to the vet and treatments this month, my beloved cat was diagnosed with blood cancer. He was in a very bad state so I had to say goodbye to him today and held him in my arms for one last time. I am gonna miss him so much. Rest in peace my baby 💔💔💔😭😭😭
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2 years
I have arrived at @Perimeter The weather is so beautiful I can’t concentrate to work. I just want to go out and sunbath by the lake 🤩 ( don’t ask me what happened in this picture, PI works in mysterious ways!)
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2 years
RIP my mentions! It’s interesting how manipulative are people on the internet. First time I experienced this
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8 months
Today I moved to an apartment (which I have to furnish with the basics during the weekend 🥵) and gave a talk at a joint event for cosmologists in Tokyo and went to dinner. I still have not catch my breath since I got to Japan 😂 still loads to do till I settle but getting there
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In Shinkansen (bullet train) heading from Tokyo to Yukawa institute at Kyoto for the first in a series of 5 workshops. This thing is bloody fast!! 🤩The legroom is nice too 😎
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Woohoo! Nanograv did not rule out the possibility of the signal being primordial! We are still game! Go go go Nanograv! :D Well done with getting the HD, amazing work!!
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I solved a minus sign problem and finished a paper. I deserve a day off now, right??? 😆
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Spend the day on boat trip and kayaking around Halong bay - Vietnam. It is a place of stunning natural beauty! 🤩
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Paper alert! New shape of parity-violating graviton non-Gaussianity in collaboration with Jinn-Ouk Gong and Misao Sasaki! We calculate graviton NG in exact de Sitter with α-vacuum initial conditions. There are several new results: (thread)
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After two years I finally booked myself a holiday to visit Vietnam! First stop Hanoi - old quarter. It’s a crazy place! 🤩
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My work on the EFT of teleparallel gravity has been accepted! 😀 It took 5 months and a couple of back and forth with the referees but now is done! The referees did a very diligent job, thank you!
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Caught in action! Today I gave my talk at the NRF-JSPS workshop at Jeonju. I do seem to move my hands a lot when I talk, like a typical Mediterranean 😆
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4 years
Got my contract! Will be starting my Postdoc at Ewha Womans University (private University for women!) on the 1st of November. This is a fantastic environment for me. So excited!
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@WBrianLane
W. Brian Lane (PF2 Infinite Master)
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My lectures appeal to every student's learning style.
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I really need to stop procrastinating and write that bloody introduction 🙃 yes, I am procrastinating by writing a tweet about procrastinating 😖
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2 years
Paper accepted! 🥳 thank you anonymous referee for your helpful comments!
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2 years
Today I gave a talk on a project I have been working for some time now, developing the EFT of Teleparallel Gravity. The IPMU gravity workshop has been fantastic and the crowd is very inquisitive and friendly (the best kind!)😀
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1 year
Here I am dressed in hanbok again 😄 at the palace yesterday while the weather was being kind to us
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1 year
Good news!!! My abstract was accepted for Cosmo 23 in Madrid!!! 🤩 Now to get everything organised, I am so going to Spain
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2 years
Does anyone know a good book on Thermal Quantum Field Theory (perturbative). Thanks!
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Paper accepted - thank you anonymous referee for your wonderful feedback 🤩
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Grateful beyond words for Kavli-IPMU's press release about my Emmy Noether Fellowship at @Perimeter ! Blessed to work in such a supportive environment. Now, I get to experience the best of both worlds and do research at two incredible institutes 🤩
@KavliIPMU
Kavli IPMU
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Congratulations! Kavli IPMU's Maria Mylova has been named a 2024 Simons Emmy Noether Fellow, it was announced on April 25 by the Perimeter Institute.
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Obligatory selfie 😊
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Fixed it! How physicists roll in Copacabana 🤩🍹🌴 #postdoclife
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@MMylova something is missing on the table. Caipirinha Cocktail.
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Flying to korea to attend a workshop on cosmological collider with a pretty good line up! Looking forward to an exciting week of physics at IBS headquarters in Daejeon
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I am at a parity violation workshop held at ASIAA in Taiwan. Several exciting talks this morning including @stephstem @cyrilcreque and @DD_Baumann
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The university is completely deserted. It is a big holiday in Korea; Moon calendar New Years Eve, so here is a picture of me working 😁
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Another exciting update! Our paper on the Effective Cuscuton Theory with @nafshordi is now published in JHEP! Accepted without corrections, and the referee praised it as very well written! 🎉 Pat in the back 😀
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I gave an invited talk at the joint IBS-PNU workshop in particle physics and cosmology at Busan, a hot summer destination in Korea! It’s lovely to be here! #PostdocLife
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I will be giving a Copernicus seminar online in about 2 hours on my latest work on the cuscuton. It is my first time giving such international seminar! 😁 I hope I’ve prepared well.
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1 year
Visiting Gyeongju in Korea. Very beautiful place with a lot of Korean history. I rang the bell! They thing is pretty heavy! Always wanted to do this 😁
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2 years
Our perturbative expansion is valid assuming we can ignore the effects of…
@AgathaChocolats
Agatha Chocolats
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In six words or fewer, write a story about this photo. #sixwordstory #WritingCommunity
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It would be a crime to not share this clip. 😳😳 Me eating sashimi, recently, at Jeju island. “Oh f*ck, WTF!” 😆🙈
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Went for my first hike in Seoul at one of the 330m peak of mountain in Bulgwang. It was great fun, very rocky place! #korealife
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It’s this time of the year again! Took my cat to the river near my house to see the Cherry Blossoms 🌸 😻 It’s very beautiful
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I am in Korea this week for a workshop, run by my former boss. Big part of it involves sampling the local delicacies 😆
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9 months
My tweeter feed has become very political. I don’t know if it is because of all the evil that is currently happening in the world or because people left or because of whatever algorithm is running in the background. I’ll go back to doing calculations and pray for world peace 🙏🏻
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1 year
Current status: staring at a calculation 😐
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2 years
I got my first grant rejection. Some good feedback! It was a well written and solid project, a couple of downsides I.e. , results not measurable yet with experiments. Overall, I found it to be a great experience, I am still only doing my first postdoc so I will try again 😁
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This is getting worse. We ordered the octapus dish. It’s bloody moving 😱😱😱
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To address extreme levels of tensor gymnastics we’ve applied the following temporary limits to MTW - Gravitation: - 1973 version readers to 6000 words/day. - 2017 version readers to 600 words/ day - PDF readers to 300/day
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Vidit Nanda
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To address extreme levels of birational geometry and intersection theory, we’ve applied the following temporary limits to Hartshorne: - Verified readers are limited to reading 6000 words/day - Unverified readers to 600 words/day - New readers to 300/day
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10k done baby! It felt amazing! I am not afraid of long runs anymore 😄 Today I realised I need some warm up exercise before the run (or maybe I was running a bit faster than I should, but I was having fun 😁) Anyways, not bad for a newbie.
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At a workshop in Jeonju this week, eating lots of Korean bbq 😁
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2 years
Day 1 @Perimeter obligatory selfie and view from my office! 🤩
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It's an absolute classic! New Order @bluedotfestival @jodrellbank #bluedot #BD19
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It is Cherry blossom season in Seoul! These beautiful short lived flowers are a sight to behold 😀
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I am in Kyoto where will be staying till the end of July for a workshop I have been invited to give a talk. The situation is crazy outside my hotel. There is a festival this month and there are parades and myriad of people! Ps: why the Japanese put hard beads in the pillows!? 😱
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I had an amazing week in the UK visiting Swansea university and the university of Nottingham! Had many productive conversations and learned so much and shared my work with others! Wish I had time to stay longer but now I need to hop to Spain for cosmo23. 🤩
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2 years
Why no one is talking about photons? They are obviously yellow! ☀️
@WKCosmo
Will Kinney
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@Claire_Lee Electrons are white, neutrons are green, and protons are red. This is not up for debate.
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I have decoupled this week, writing a grant proposal! Deadline is next week 😱 Wish me luck! If I get it I will have a lot more money to travel for the next 2 years 😁
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