Vivek Sah

An important life update, I have joined the University of Pennsylvania @Penn as a PhD student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering @MSEatPenn. I will be working under the supervision of Prof. Ritesh Agarwal. Looking forward to meeting new set of amazing people..

@Venmo I have been trying for an year now. Your app does not verify my bank account . I am not able to sign up.

@rishikperugu Congratulations 🎉

@gunsnrosesgirl3 Learning not to take things personally, Realize more often than not people do you wrong because of incompetence rather than malice Also practice daily gratitude, yes even when you don't feel grateful, that's the point

@rishikperugu Best of luck! Achieving many things already.

New in #npj2dmaterials @Nature_NPJ: Maity et al. present an efficient atomistic method to solve exciton properties in twisted WS₂/WSe₂, accurately predicting low-energy optical peaks and interlayer states. #nanomaterials #2dmaterials nature.com/articles/s4169…

Some screenshots from my lectures on optoelectronics and magnetooptics, which are being recorded at @IISERPune

@2dMaterArora @IISERPune Will it be available online on NPTEL or some other platform? Would love to learn from you!

Today's tutorial is on 'Mott transition', a celebrated phenomenon in physics, propouneded by Sir Neville Mott a long time ago. There are many versions of Mott transition, and people use the terminology uncritically extensively because scientists like appealing to authorities!

The first word my daughter learned to speak was ‘book’. With wide eyes, she would point at a book and say ‘boo’ in a voice full of glee. We began taking her to a nearby Crossword bookshop (in Aundh, Pune) when she could barely walk. Our trips soon became a cherished daddy-daughter tradition, where we would visit once every month and buy three books for her. She chose two and I chose one. A friendly employee once told me, his face beaming with pride, that this was the biggest Crossword in India! Four floors full of books felt like a heaven. But then they converted one floor into a kids play area. Another surrendered to a toy shop. Then cafes. Then stationery. Then an event space. The book shelves, once brimming with finely curated collections, became crowded with cheap campus romance and badly written historical fiction. Yet, we continued our tradition. 3 books a month! Yesterday, we went there to find the doors shut. A man on a ladder was ripping out the Crossword sign. Slowly. Methodically. As he pulled out one letter after another, I felt a physical sensation of pain. My daughter had tears in her eyes. A glowing light somewhere was snuffed out, and the world became slightly darker. And some of my faith in humanity died forever! A society that does not read is a society that does not know itself. We used to turn pages and paint stories with our imagination. Now we endlessly stab screens till our thumbs hurt, our minds numbed by the dopamine drip of likes and reels. We have become slaves to our devices, consuming whatever they decide for us, our thoughts hijacked by algorithms, our souls starved for meaning. If you want your children to read, don’t tell them. Show them. Children hate listening to adults, but they love imitating them. Pick up a book yourself, and they will do the same! P.S.: I verified the claim. The largest store of India’s most beloved chain of bookshops has indeed shut down.

@H_H_Hydrogen @J_A_C_S @Moumita_CHEM @IISERPune Congratulations man 🎉

@HumansNoContext Oui

@QuantumYakar Quantum shit posting

I can’t be the only one seeing a superconducting quantum computer, right?

@MauriceAshley Qb2 from my peanut brain

What absolutely beautiful move does Black have here to equalize the game?

Happy World Meditation Day to all! 🧘🧘‍♂️🧘‍♀️ #WorldMeditationDay

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Day 325 , see you in New York :)

@sana_khalili88 @UofSCPharm Congratulations 🎉 and the throne looks too good!

How arguments/fights between adults affect a child

18th @ 18!

@eliistender10 Better than yesterday

What's your best advice in 4 words or fewer?

@Kaju_Nut Nobel prize

What are the most interesting applications of ML to physics?