Any oscillator — a pendulum, a spring, a firefly, a human heart cell — wants to match up with its neighbors. Mathematicians recently showed that synchronization is inevitable in expander graphs, a type of network found in many areas of science. quantamagazine.org/new-proof-show…

BREAKING NEWS The 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

Congratulations to Emilia Favuzzi, PhD(Emilia Favuzzi), Tristan Geiller, PhD(Tristan Geiller), & Abhilasha Joshi, PhD(Abhilasha Joshi, PhD), on winning the Peter & Patricia Gruber International Research Award in Neuroscience! Special thanks to the The GruberFoundation for sponsoring this award

Interacting with school teachers is always special. It was one such opportunity yesterday. Thanks Azim Premji University for this webinar based on my article इबारती सवालों की भाषा का सवाल. youtube.com/live/4tKptfJLP…

An honour to confer "Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur" on distinguished Indian space scientist Dr. V. R. Lalithambika. This award recognizes her trailblazing achievements and contribution to 🇫🇷🇮🇳 space cooperation, particularly in human spaceflight. 🚀🛰️

A new Tata Institute of Fundamental Research initiative to help students/ postdocs with planning their careers tifr.res.in/~academics/car… Illuminating videos by TIFR alumni who sought non-research-faculty jobs, offering a glimpse of their journey, challenges, rewards, reflections, advice. Super useful.

Terry Tao and I are pleased to announce the "Prime Number Theorem and Beyond" project, which you can find here: github.com/AlexKontorovic… with blueprint here: alexkontorovich.github.io/PrimeNumberThe… and dedicated stream in the Leanprover Zulip chat. The initial goal is to get the Prime Number

India Today anchor Preeti Chaudhary does her job for 5 minutes and Shiv Aroor, BJPs pet almost ran away. What spine this anchor has, incredible.

One of my favourite letters, insightful & humane, from Richard Feynman to a former student who was having a rough time I was reflecting on it as an argument in favour of scope insensitivity, or even in favour of smaller problems:

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It is *very* addictive!! Come on, you know you want to try the Natural Number Game adam.math.hhu.de/#/g/leanprover… Just the first few levels, see if you like it... :)

LTCG to Loot Middle Class | How will removing indexation in calculating LTCG tax affect everyone? Today, FM Nirmala Sitharaman reduced Long Term Capital Gains (LTCG) Tax on properties to 12.5%, but cleverly removed indexation, which adjusts the property price at the time of sale, to

Dear All, Income Tax India, under the capable leadership of Nirmala Sitharaman, is trying to convince everyone that the reduced LTCG rate of 12.5% without indexation is beneficial. Yes, they are correct, but only if you make windfall gains. A quick look at this example will reveal the

We are excited to have Dr Abhilasha Joshi on our campus! We look forward to the contributions from her lab! Check out more about her work at: neuroact.in

Once together pursuing different degrees IISER Mohali now faculty at different IITs. Keshav Keshav was doing a BS-MS when I was pursuing PhD in IISER Mohali. He is now a faculty IIT Bombay & me Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur. Proud #iisermohalialumni

Met another gem from IISER Mohali: Abhilasha Abhilasha Joshi, PhD who is a newly minted faculty at NCBS National Centre for Biological Sciences. We talked about all the wonderful memories that we shared in our IISER days IISER Mohali network rocks!!

The video of the Institute Colloquium at IIT Bombay IIT Bombay (co-hosted by Infosys Prize) by Professor Peter Sarnak on Tuesday, 07 January 2025. Title: Ramanujan and Expander Graphs youtube.com/live/UU3zIHYix…