Protyush Nandi

Prof. Subinay Dasgupta and I recently published a paper on a 3D topological model which shows a rich phase diagram consisting of six phases. The striking feature is Phase I contains flat band surface states encompassing the whole kx-ky plane.

CBSE - Destroyed UGC - Destroyed NEET UG - Destroyed NEET PG - Destroyed It’s high time the Education Minister resign from the post. This is a matter concerning the future of billions of students.

25 papers retracted from one university in India "amid integrity and AI concerns." indiatoday.in/education-toda…

I'm not gonna lie, the @Meta layoffs are some of the most dystopian I've ever seen. They got told to work from home, they were sent the emails at 4AM in the morning. Those who weren't impacted have software on their computer that tracks their every move, preparing AI to take their job as well. They're literally training the AI that will eliminate their position as well. Meanwhile, Meta is raking in RECORD PROFITS. I am a massive, unapologetic AI enthusiast. Yet, this is NOT the future I had in mind. I wish for Meta to crash and burn. This is not the way. Literally nobody benefits from this.

@NTA_Exams @dpradhanbjp @EduMinOfIndia Please abolish yourself. Shut it down.

NTA is being strengthened. Four senior officers from the Government of India have been posted to NTA — two at Joint Secretary level, who will be designated as Additional Director Generals, and two at Director level. Three specialist leadership positions — CTO, CFO and GM (HR) — have been advertised. 🧵

@WKCosmo @Kaju_Nut Gangs of Wasseypur 1 & 2.

OK Indian friends: I want a new Bollywood/Tollywood movie to watch. No classics, recent. My knowledge is not deep, but movies I really love are: The Border. Rock On. RRR. (I view Rajamouli as an auteur at the level of Sergio Leone or Quentin Tarantino.) First season of Sacred Games. (The second failed to hold my attention.) Big and stupid is good. Go.

Stop centralized exams. Bring back state level engineering and medical exams. Take the exams in local language. Leaks and coaching mafia in one state is affecting everyone.

Our new paper got published in PRA Letters. Do give a read.

PRA Letter: Disappearance of measurement-induced phase transition in a quantum spin system for large sizes @protyushqmb go.aps.org/4cxnBDU

📢I just signed this petition.✍️ Physicists, we all should. The University of Nottingham is about to see 30% of its physicists lose their jobs. ✍️ nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter/

Physicists: please consider signing this open letter of support: nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter/ The University wants to cut a third of academic and related staff from the School of Physics and Astronomy. As well as astronomy & particle cosmology, we also do world-leading research in cold atoms, condensed matter and medical imaging, and were 2nd only to Cambridge across the last 3 REFs.

This is a true story. A professor in India's premier educational engineering institution caught a student cheating in the exams and suspended him. Next day morning, the boys father who was a senior bureaucrat landed at his home and requested that the matter be forgotten and closed. When the requests and pleadings failed, The professor was warned of consequences. The academic that he was, the professor stuck to his guns. The harassment started. Within a week an income tax notice was served on him seeking details of his foreign travels. A few days later, police landed up investigating a house purchased by the professor in his home town. Later the income tax investigated the sources of funds for that home. In the process of scrutiny, they questioned a few more 'source of funds'. For a professor working in a remote corner of India, this was all too much. He contemplated giving it all up and taking another job. The notices, hearings, responses and harassment continued for about 20 months. Luckily the professor was clean. His foreign travel was official. The house was in a new housing society set up by a group of academics. The management was supportive. 'For 20 months, they robbed me of my sleep', says the professor. On prodding if he would take a similar stand again, he painfully says 'I doubt'! If you indeed want to fight corruption, the starting point has to be the source of corruption - the discretionary powers, arbitrariness and their abuse. It is rampant and completely normal. Remove the discretionary powers and 98% honest people will not worry of harassment when they do what is right! @suchetadalal This story is being retold. Our education ecosystem is subsumed by corruption. And it is normal too..

If you haven't studied from the top IIT/IIMs or govt university, your degree is absolutely next to nothing.

@lokesh_v04 What is this phrase "3 times bigger than Nobel prize"? Everything is about pride to some people.

Can these nutsos not refer to academics by their actual names instead of invoking "IITian" anywhere and everywhere

@rishdotuk @leftitcita Not if you are a non-vegetarian and a humanist.

@leftitcita Ahmedabad. Atleast the newer part of the city around Vastrapur/Thaltej etc.

which Indian city is the best to live in wrt safety, environment, infrastructure, rents; all signs and my research has been pointing towards leaving india but paisa nahi hai so looking for ideas😮‍💨

@readswithravi The hitchhiker's guide to galaxy- Douglas Adams

What’s a book you’ll never stop recommending?

Anyone can email me at protyush18@gmail.com regarding this paper.

The phases II, III, IV, V also flat band surface states since these are topological nodal line phases. Phase I is a topological insulator phase while Phase VI is a trivial insulator. The link of our paper is iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

Prof. Subinay Dasgupta and I recently published a paper on a 3D topological model which shows a rich phase diagram consisting of six phases. The striking feature is Phase I contains flat band surface states encompassing the whole kx-ky plane.

Steven Weinberg always had excellent advice for everyone not just for young physicists.