Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Engineer, applied mathematician, physicist; a life-long learner

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I was pleased to discover three tweets of congratulations. In these crazy times, I suppose everything like this is worth celebrating (if only in spirit). Best wishes to all.

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Would like to begin the new year with Abdus Salam's quote that "Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind". (He meant to include women but people were not sensitive to it at that time.) We should rejoice that science is a grand unifier.

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Happy New Year to all. Let's all create a better environment around us. The world will take care of itself, despite the set backs.

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My colleague, David Holland, estimates that in just five days from July 31 - Aug 4, more than 58 billion tons of Greenland ice melted. Seth Borenstein said that it is like leaving the Earth's refrigerator door open. Denmark should have allowed Trump to buy Greenland after all!

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A colleague and good friend of mine, Bruno Eckhardt, 59 years of age, just died unexpectedly---reminding me, yet again, about how fragile Life is, and how the only way to live is to show love to all those you care about, and not let negativity create blocks in your pursuits.

[Monica Lewinsky (she/her) @MonicaLewinsky]

hi everyone!
my birthday is next month.
(hint, hint)
♥️ me

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I didn't attend the graduation ceremony for the first time in many years this year, but was thinking about how joyous the occasion has always been. My sincere congratulations to the entire graduating class! Live well but remember others who are less fortunate than you.

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I just received the sad news that Stephen Weisenholtz, the former HR director at NYU Tandon just passed away. Heartfelt condolences to his family.

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Outgoing University of South Florida President Judy Genshaft gave $20 million to her school to build a new honors college. How uplifting!

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In Freedom’s Laboratory, JHU Press (2018), science historian Audra Wolfe explains that many American scientists in Cold War era denounced State control of science behind the Iron Curtain while enthusiastically promoting the Cold War policies of the US government. Read it.

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Congratulations to NY City on the Amazon deal that got announced. It should be good for the City, which is why NYU Tandon supported it. I am doing this because of my earlier work but further communications, if any, will come from the Dean's office at Tandon.

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Train rides to Princeton give me some time to reflect. Only personal gratitude will lift us from the dolldrum of taking things and people for granted. The feeling of gratitude can be very powerful for personal growth.

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I just finished writing a biographical article on E.C.G. Sudarshan, a great physicist of his time (died at 86 last May), well known for his work on V-A intercations, Tachyons, diagonal representation of quantum optics, etc. Very moving life!

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@SUDHAsreenivas1 welcome to twitter

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I am reading Tsurezuregusa Kenko's "Essays in Idleness" and found this: "They say that a good carver uses a slightly dull knife. Myokan's knife cut very poorly." Myokan was probably a sculpter of the 7th century. What could Kenko have meant by this? I am not sure.

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I used to think that the most important ingredient of success in life is the mastery of problem-solving skills. I have begun to wonder if life is more a set of accumulated experiences.