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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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! 😀🥳
Meet seven remarkable early-career physicists whose fresh perspectives and enthusiasm we’re excited to have at Perimeter Institute in the coming year!
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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.
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 ❤️
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! 🤩
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
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 🥲
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!! 😡)
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? 😢
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!
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? 😢
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 🤓
At
@Perimeter
we can opt for weekly yoga classes. Just finished one and I am now working outside enjoying the warm summer temperatures and the sound of running water. Visiting PI is like going to an academic retreat 😁🧘🏻♀️ Love it!
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?
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 💔💔💔😭😭😭
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 🙏🏻 😢
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!! 😡)
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 🤩
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!
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!
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! 🙏🏻
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/
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.
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.
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/
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!
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
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!!
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!)
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 💔
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 💔💔💔😭😭😭
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 😎
At the 50 years of Horndeski conference
@Perimeter
where the man himself is attending! Of course I did not miss the opportunity of having a photo with Horndeski and Anne Davis 😄
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)
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!
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 😆
The accommodation at
@Perimeter
is amazing!! I have walk-in wardrobe, 🤩 En-suite with loads of space to put my skin care and make up 😍 spacious living room and kitchen. And view to the newly renovated lake
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!
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!)😀
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 🤩
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
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 😀
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
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.
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 🙏🏻