Associate Professor, Theoretical Particle Physics.
Riverside, CA
Joined May 2013
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One of this year's igNobels went to the discovery that some mammals can breathe through their anuses.
I've been to plenty of faculty meetings with mammals that speak through their anuses. None those cases showed evidence of stopping to breathe.
newscientist.com/article/244…
Ahead of Saturday's Indie @BookstoreDay celebration, I want to thank @cellardoor_12 for hosting our Phy-Sci book club for the 8th year running! Here's the 2024 line up.
sites.google.com/ucr.edu/phy…
Here was our 2023 line up. Our book of the year selection was @RKassinger's Slime, published by @HarperCollins.
And our 2022 line up. The book of the year was a tie between @nicoleperlroth's This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends (@BloomsburyPub) and @ByDavidFrance's How To Survive a Plague (@MacmillanUSA).
Congrats to @hannkeziah, @CelineCalpo, and Ananya
Agustin Malhotra, Filipina members of the 2024 @PDSoros fellowship class! Welcome to the fam.
"First class of Fellows to include 3 Filipino Fellows, bringing the total number of Filipino Fellows to 10."
pdsoros.org/meet-the-class-o…
One of my favorite publications, the American @JournalPhysics, has an open access resource letter on dark matter. It's a great place to get started when looking to navigate the review literature in the field.
pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/articl…
Flip Tanedo retweeted
We are excited that the Pollica Physics Centre in collaboration with the Galileo Galilei Institute in Florence has been awarded the prestigious Simons Foundation Targeted Grant to Institutes!
read more here:
pollicaphysics.com/26-ppc_aw…
Applications for TASI 2024 at @CUBoulder are due March 1st. It's another excellent line up!
colorado.edu/physics/TASI/
The @nytimes highlights @CERN as one of the "52 places to go in 2024."
nytimes.com/interactive/2024…
I'm still riding the wave of new research ideas from the @KITP_UCSB Neutrinos '22 workshop. I was a bit of an outsider, and as a result came to appreciate several "new to me" ideas that I look forward to adapting to ongoing collaborative work.
kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/neu…
#UCSBGiveDay (Apr 7) is a good time to reflect on the excellent visit and the impact of the @KITP_UCSB on the physics community and the broader society around it.
A 1.5 years later: Delighted to be back at @KITP_UCSB for a follow-on program to continue collaborations initiated at Neutrinos '22!
It's been rainy outside, but the staff and the physicists are just as warm and lovely as they always are. Feels like being #HomeForTheHolidays.
Flip Tanedo retweeted
On #WorldPhilosophyDay, read the free introduction to @myishacherry‘s Failures of Forgiveness, which promises to transform how we deal with wrongdoing in our lives, opening a new path to true healing and reconciliation.
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For those interested in a career in #scicomm, check out this Social Media Specialist position at @argonne. You also get the benefit of working with @kyurkewicz!
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For those considering consulting careers outside of academia, check out @cientificolatin's Consulting Preparation Program #CLCPP.
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Many thanks to graphic designer Rachel Darmody for sharing this graphic based on a line in my interview with @Ologies earlier this year! I've been re-using this phrase in my colloquia and now have an image for it.
Check out her other work here:
racheldarmody.com
The deadline for the @APSphysics J. J. and Noriko Sakurai Dissertation Award in Theoretical Particle Physics has been extended to October 17. Please consider nominating your theory PhD students who defended between Sept. 1, 2022 and Aug. 31, 2023.
aps.org/programs/honors/priz…
Here's an application of birdtrack notation to prove a curvature tensor identity. It is identical to the [abstract] index notation, but I find the diagrammatic proof easier to follow once I picked up the rules.
This is a solution to exercise [14.10] in Penrose's Road to Reality.
For example, we applied the torsion free assumption with the following diagrammatic rule: two circles around something with no lines is zero if the lines on each circle are antisymmetrized with each other.
The indices in the corresponding expressions are understood to be written with respect to abstract index notation. In this sense, they are coordinate free. Thus I do not think a more manifestly coordinate-free notation would be significantly clearer.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstra…