I am offering a 4 year PhD position to work on quantum algorithms for many-body problems, to stat in Winter of 2025. Please do forward the announcement to potentially interested candidates! ift.uam-csic.es/en/jobs/phd-po…

I am looking for a doctoral student in quantum foundations. Please pass the info on to people looking for studentships mattleifer.info/2024/10/28/doc…

A wide-ranging interview in the Pratidhvani series from G V Pavan Kumar. A personal view of growing up as an Indian scientist.

La section 6 deviendra dans la nouvelle mandature la section 2 (et la section 7, section 3), sans changement de périmètre. Attention à vos inscriptions futures sur les listes électorales (et au renouvellement du choix des sections pour les chercheurs CNRS).

Thanks to The Hindu Sneha Khedkar for this nice coverage of our work (Uma Ram Uma Ram , Leelavati Narlikar, Chandrani Kumari Chandrani Kumari, Gautam Menon Gautam Menon) on birth weight prediction. thehindu.com/sci-tech/scien…

Here is a copy of the full book: LILAVATI'S DAUGHTERS coedited by Rohini Godbole & Ram Ramaswamy archive.org/details/A0560I… Internet Archives zindabad!

Apple released a hearing aids feature for the AirPods Pro a while ago. I bought a pair for grandma, but then realized that the feature was geoblocked in India So we at Lagrange Point decided to unblock it. It ended up involving a leaky microwave and building a Faraday cage:

Our review on semidefinite programming in the study of quantum correlations is out on American Physical Society Reviews of Modern Physics! We compile over 600 references on the subject. Check it out! journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/1… UNIGE_en Faculty of Science | UNIGE Swiss National Science Foundation Lunds universitet Gabinete de Comunicación Universidad de Valladolid Télécom Paris

The proponents of generative AI (including in academia) are trying to sell you a lot of unbelievable sci-fi bullshit, but *this* is the actual main result of these technologies, entirely foreseeable and now plainly there for all to see. Just say no. theintrinsicperspective.com/p/here-lies-th…

The reason is that, if d is a divisor of (positive) n, then n/d is also a divisor. Thus, for each divisor you can always find another and the total number is even… except when d = √n is an integer, because in that case d = n/d.

Sat with Ted Chiang at NeurIPS Conference lunch ytd & someone in AI brought up democratizing art-making. It was a candid chat so I was like, hey, can I just say something?—I really hate the word "democratize" used this way. Just say "automating art-making." It’s more accurate. 1/

"When you give generative AI a prompt, you're making very little choices. If you use a 100-word prompt, you're making 100 choices. If AI generates a 10k word story based on the prompt, it has to fill in for all the choices that you are not making." 5/

“An artist needs to have control of every aspect of a painting. A writer needs to have control over every sentence in a novel. And you simply cannot have control over every sentence in a novel if all you gave was a pretty short text prompt.” —Ted Chiang npr.org/2024/12/09/g-s…

Back when the BBC was based... Lebesgue integration on live TV 😱! Link right below ⤵️

PRA Letter: Qualitative equivalence between incompatibility and Bell nonlocality go.aps.org/4fmi9Sp Ravi Kunjwal

Interview with Thayyoor K. Radha, one of the earliest women of color at IAS (Princeton), about her life and career also discussing her time in Chennai and IMSc founder Alladi Ramakrishnan: ias.edu/ideas/rediscov…

Announcing #IMScConvo: "Who Needs the Past? Rethinking Muziris, ancient India's gateway to the world" by P. J. Cherian (PAMA Institute for the Advancement of Transdisciplinary Archaeological Sciences) . imsc.res.in/outreach/Convo… 24 Jan, 16:30, Alladi Hall, IMSc

Science at the Sabha 2025 is on 9 Feb 2025 at Music Academy, Chennai. For full program details and registration: imsc.res.in/outreach/scisa… #sats2025

Announcing #IMScConvo "In search of language X" with Peggy Mohan (writer-in-residence, Manipal Institute of Technology) about the evolution of language on 14 March, 16:30, Alladi Hall, IMSc.

Can you recognize the physicist standing between Dirac and SN Bose in this picture? She is Purnima Sinha, one of the first women PhDs from India. Sinha was Bose's PhD student. Although Bose was famous for his theoretical work(Bose statistics), he was also a keen experimenter.