Drona Vatsyayan

Postdoctoral Researcher @Carleton_U | @McDonaldInst Theory Fellow || Physics Beyond the Standard Model

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

It's fascinating that three of the most important developments in Indian science happened not in a laboratory or lecture hall, but in the most unlikely of places, on board a ship on an ocean voyage.
The first was in 1893, on a voyage from Yokohama to Vancouver, when Swami Vivekananda met Jamsetji Tata & inspired him to create an institute that merged the humanism of the east with the science and Technology of the west. That's how the Indian Institute of Science started.
In 1930, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar won a scholarship to study at Cambridge & while aboard the ship to England did the bulk of the work on the Chandrashekhar Limit for stars, for which he would later be awarded a Nobel Prize. This was, amazingly, before his 20th birthday.
And in 1921, 9 years earlier, CV Raman, returning home from Oxford on a sea voyage was dazzled by the deep blue of the Mediterranean and decided to study the scattering of Light. The 'Raman Effect' won him a Nobel Prize in 1930.
Raman was so confident of getting the Nobel Prize after missing out in 1928 and 1929 that he booked his ocean voyage tickets to Sweden months before he knew he had won.
137th birth anniversary of CV Raman today.

[Drona Vatsyayan @dronavatsyayan]

@RandomCricketP1 Thank you so much for such kind words! We've come a long way from where we started, it's been really heartwarming to see the RandomCricket community grow and thrive.
I am always on the look out for my namesakes and have found a few. I hope to live up to the name 😁

[Tsinghua University @Tsinghua_Uni]

Prof. Chen Ning Yang, a world-renowned physicist, Nobel Laureate in Physics, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor at Tsinghua University, and Honorary Director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Tsinghua University, passed away in Beijing due to illness at the age of 103. His life stands as a timeless chapter in human history—one that shines not only for China but for the global community of thinkers and innovators. His legacy will live on forever.

[Drona Vatsyayan @dronavatsyayan]

@AvelinoQuantum @IFICorpuscular @UV_EG @jherrero_86 @carambolos Thanks a lot! 😄

[Drona Vatsyayan @dronavatsyayan]

The 'Dr'🎓 in the name finally became official yesterday after 4 years at @IFICorpuscular and @UV_EG. Huge thanks to Juan @jherrero_86 for being an amazing supervisor, and to the fantastic tribunal: Arcadi, Laura, and Nicolás @carambolos

[Drona Vatsyayan @dronavatsyayan]

@IFICorpuscular @UV_EG @jherrero_86 @carambolos And to the incredible @NChitrangada for designing one hell of a PhD cover. What a stunning way to wrap up this journey! Front: A noodle mix of Greek letters for neutrinos, dark matter & baryon asymmetry; Back: a window frame from La Lonja, Valencian Baroque

[Nirmalya Kajuri @Kaju_Nut]

JVN was a brilliant physicist, teacher and mentor. One of the few Indian "public scientists", JVN had few peers when it comes to the spreading of scientific temper. He wrote several books of popular science and sci-fi, organized workshops and stood firmly against superstition and astrology.

[Drona Vatsyayan @dronavatsyayan]

Beautiful thread on how the weak force could be connected to the evolution and life on the Earth:

[Martin Bauer @martinmbauer]

The weak force is the only known force in the Universe that distinguishes between left and right. W bosons completely ignore right-handed particles, similar to how electromagnetism only affects charged particles.

But are there any macroscopic consequences of this property? 🧵

[Drona Vatsyayan @dronavatsyayan]

Cosmological bounds on the sum of neutrino masses keep getting stronger and stronger, and significantly in tension with the bounds on the same from the laboratory. We present a mechanism to reconcile the two in our latest work: https://t.co/mRObRcXDva

[IISc Bangalore @iiscbangalore]

With great sadness, we mourn the passing of Prof Rohini Godbole. An exceptional scientist, mentor and leader, she won many accolades for her research and championed the cause of women in science.
Her vibrant presence will be greatly missed.
https://t.co/H1sUaLZ15W

[Drona Vatsyayan @dronavatsyayan]

Hopeful about this new initiative but what's with this Chai Tea Latte naming?

[MyGovIndia @mygovindia]

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐰𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐞𝐫𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 (𝐀𝐍𝐑𝐅)!

Today, PM @narendramodi leads the Inaugural Governing Board Meeting of the ANRF.

Here are some of the groundbreaking announcements that will revolutionize the research landscape in India.

#ANRF
#NewIndia
#AnusandhanNationalResearchFoundation

[Drona Vatsyayan @dronavatsyayan]

Cries in Academia
@duolingo

[Paul Halpern @phalpern]

The 80th birthday cake for British theoretical physicist Peter Higgs, famous for the Higgs boson, was most extraordinary, featuring particle diagrams showing some of the modes by which his eponymous particle might be produced in collisions, along with the 'sombrero potential' associated with spontaneous symmetry breaking.

[Drona Vatsyayan @dronavatsyayan]

What a read!
https://t.co/pZa6yH1fbR

[Drona Vatsyayan @dronavatsyayan]

Then we construct new seesaw models associated with these operators, which lead to more testable scenarios at the current and future experiments than the usual seesaws in https://t.co/yFP8IkXT7k (2/2)

[Drona Vatsyayan @dronavatsyayan]

Today was a double arXiv update day: With @jherrero_86 and collaborators from Rome, we discuss new Weinberg-like operators with TeV scalar multiplets and study their phenomenology in https://t.co/JMxK6Q8nC8 (1/2)

[depths of wikipedia! @depthsofwiki]

The "Ship of Theseus" article has been edited 1792 times since it was created in July of 2003. At present, 0% of the phrases in the original article (seen below) remain.

[Drona Vatsyayan @dronavatsyayan]

'Indeed' also deserves a spot under Chaotic Evil

[Anthony Bonato @Anthony_Bonato]

A quick guide to math writing.

[Drona Vatsyayan @dronavatsyayan]

Welcome to the Dark Side ×
The Many Sides of Dark Sectors ✓
Had the opportunity to give a full length seminar for the first time in the beautiful city of Freiburg!

[Drona Vatsyayan @dronavatsyayan]

Spotted Gauss enjoying a couple of beers with Weber, somewhere in Gottingen