Subhroneel Chakrabarti

Theoretical Physicist (string theory, QFT) from 🇮🇳. Wandering postdoc, married. Love playing and watching football. Love reading, (He/Him).

[Subhroneel Chakrabarti @SubhroneelC]

Physicists when they find a theorem that disproves their result (I don't know who created this meme, but if anyone knows please tell me, I'll love to credit them)

[Nirmalya Kajuri @Kaju_Nut]

Physicists when they find a theorem that proves their result

[Subhroneel Chakrabarti @SubhroneelC]

@Kaju_Nut @maph1994 ... that restores the Susy. So I would say for critical supersyrings, spacetime Susy is indeed a symmetry of the theory, but not necessarily of the vacua about which we are expanding the theory. (2/2)

[Subhroneel Chakrabarti @SubhroneelC]

@Kaju_Nut @maph1994 I would say it's more nuanced than that. Green-Schwarz has no Susy on worldsheet, but in spacetime. Even with RNS, the correct definition would be the SFT built out of RNS, and it's known there that even if you have a vacua that breaks Susy, there could be one nearby...(1/2)

[Subhroneel Chakrabarti @SubhroneelC]

@bcubeddd Happy to help!

[Subhroneel Chakrabarti @SubhroneelC]

@Kaju_Nut 🤣🤣🤣

[Subhroneel Chakrabarti @SubhroneelC]

@modularform That too!

[Subhroneel Chakrabarti @SubhroneelC]

@Kaju_Nut Exactly! The original book was way better and it was very influential and formative for me in 11-12th as well!

[Subhroneel Chakrabarti @SubhroneelC]

@Kaju_Nut Now I want to see the whole email exchange and the bargaining process :D

[Subhroneel Chakrabarti @SubhroneelC]

@Kaju_Nut Why is Manu looking older than Alok? 😀

[Martin Bauer @martinmbauer]

Someone would’ve done it based on consistency arguments and they would’ve been attacked for working on theories without confirmed predictions. Similar to string theorists today

[Nirmalya Kajuri @Kaju_Nut]

We are happy to announce Women in Theoretical High Energy Physics: a one day virtual conference on 28 March.

Organised almost singlehandedly by my student Arundhati Goldar.

Register here to receive the link. Website with talk schedule 👇

[Subhroneel Chakrabarti @SubhroneelC]

@YuDai_Tsai @ThomasVanRiet2 I agree :)

[Subhroneel Chakrabarti @SubhroneelC]

Don't know whether to laugh or cry at this 🥲

[Thomas Van Riet @ThomasVanRiet2]

6 papers after a phd and 3 postdocs? This guy must work on string field theory....

[Subhroneel Chakrabarti @SubhroneelC]

@YuDai_Tsai Nothing's wrong about working for food. My reaction was to @ThomasVanRiet2 's quote tweet, which is taking a good-spirited poke at the fact that people working on SFT usually publish too few papers compared to most other hep-th researchers.

[Subhroneel Chakrabarti @SubhroneelC]

@Kaju_Nut Wow! 😳

[Subhroneel Chakrabarti @SubhroneelC]

@Kaju_Nut Surely this can't be right?!

[Thomas Van Riet @ThomasVanRiet2]

If you can't solve the harmonic oscillator, you can't solve real life physics problems. If you can't understand supersymmetric field theories, you won't understand generic field theories. Similar statement might hold for strings & quantum gravity. Stop the anti-science bullying

[Joel David Hamkins @JDHamkins]

This is the trade-school theory of what education is for. Why don't you now analyze literature? And the arts? Perhaps you will wonder why musicians train so long, when they could instead just skip it and start productive work right away. Your theory completely misses what many people value about their education, namely, that it is part of what makes life worth living.

[Kaneenika Sinha @kaneenikasinha]

A chance meeting between a mathematician, Hugh Montgomery, and a physicist, Freeman Dyson, led to a revolutionary interface between random matrix theory and number theory. The mathematician who orchestrated this meeting was Sarvadaman Chowla. Here's the story (and more)