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T Abraham

1:36 AM

this is so hilarious!!! facebook.com/notes/particle-physics/…

T Abraham

3:44 AM

dmckee

5:34 AM

@ACuriousMind How are you downloading them? All of mine have names like "1210.1910v1.pdf" which is not very informative, but at least the format tells me where I got it and when to go for better metadata.

hwlau

@ACuriousMind It is not the arxiv default name. The name looks like md5sum hash, so it may be your downloader problem to rename it like this.

Simha

5:50 AM

Hey guys and guyettes (if that exists), I posted an answer to this question on my tab : http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/153797/does-irregular-reflection-form-images

For some reason, the images got placed around in the answer hapazardly, easily qualifying for the prize "Most poorly formatted answer" . What san I do to correct this ? (Thought I'll post it as a question on meta, but not sure it'll be well received)

JamalS

6:39 AM

@Simha: What works for me when that happens is to insert the same image, but instead use paint or some other photo editor to make a rectangular white image with the image in the center, the same width as for SE answers. That way, the alignment works.

Simha

7:04 AM

@JamalS Thanks !

:)

deostroll

10:32 AM

What is the safe range for ultrasonic sound waves for pets...?

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Danu

11:32 AM

^lol

@ChrisWhite Lol Kip Thorne

JamalS

12:30 PM

Under an infinitesimal transformation, the stress-energy tensor of a CFT with central charge $c$ behaves as, $\delta_\epsilon T(z) = 2 \partial \epsilon(z) T(z) + \epsilon(z) \partial T(z) + \frac{c}{12}\partial^3 \epsilon(z)$. What would be the easiest way to obtain the finite form of the transformation from this?

Simha

@deostroll If memory serves me right, the pain threshold level for dogs is approx. 32k hertz frequency-wise, although a more practical answer would be justin beiber's voice, which holds for all animals.

Gowtham

@Simha lol

Simha

So what do you do, @Gowtham ?

Gowtham

masters in Material science 2nd year ongoing now

now back at home(India) for break

Simha

2-year course ?

Gowtham

12:46 PM

yes , but most complete thesis by 5th or 6th semester i think . since getting funding is pretty difficult

Simha

Ah. Within asia ? Indian parents normally don't prefer sending their sons too far. Most of those who do go out, never come back. (Not generalising, but by and large)

Gowtham

i came for a short while. I am doing masters at Pennstate , USA . yeah people usually dont come back till finishing , but i came for some personal reasons . last year indian graduate students just going to usa increased by 15%(or something close) i think :P

Simha

:-) I've heard that German universities give generous scholarships to foreign students over those in other countries, increasing foreign student inflow by a staggering amount (I'm not sure how much tho)

In addition to that, most of them have removed German as a compulsory medium of instruction, replacing with english, dutch, etc.

Gowtham

1:03 PM

German universities usually dont fund masters , but they dont have a Tuition fee or very minimal like 500 euros per semester. FOr PhD there are more scholarships from DAAD i think and also from universities itself. I actually did an internship at Stuttgart :) but i felt that learning german is going to be impossible for me :/ and without knowing german getting a job there is next to impossible.

Also doing PhD in german is also very difficult , i dont think many universities offer PhD in german (i maybe wrong here)

i mean english not german hehe . i have this habit of actually trying to mean something and writing/speaking the opposite :P

Simha

In the US, I've heard it's the other way. While you have to get a score above 1000 in the SAT for any scholarship, scholarships are given for moderate GRE scores...

Gowtham

what about you @Simha ? what are you studying

nah , for International students scholarships are very minimal , and its usually funding in the form of TA/RA/GA but only provided after 1 or 2 semesters .

Simha

I'm a freshman doing statistics at IITM

Danu

@JamalS what do you think of my attempt to interpret the LSZ reduction formula: physics.stackexchange.com/questions/152967/…

Simha

*They call UG as freshman here..

Gowtham

1:12 PM

esp for masters they dont fund students right away during admission atleast for average or above average students. only for really good profiles like (high CGPA , high GRE , 2 or more publications etc ) i think , but this is just from my experience.

JamalS

@Danu: Reading the addendum now.

Gowtham

do you mean IIT , Madras ? O.o

JamalS

@Danu: Well, I certainly like the last words :)

Danu

@JamalS I wonder whether there is some kind of change of picture that one can perform to achieve a simplification

...what about the rest? :P

Simha

@Gowtham I'm a touch and go ranker, so it's not so great.. :-)

JamalS

1:15 PM

@Danu: Although it's hand wavy, I think you've done a good job of ascribing a physical interpretation to the operators.

@Danu: Do you have any suggestions for my CFT question in chat?

Gowtham

@Simha what do you mean by touch and go ranker ? 1 or 2 rank below the topper ? and also do you study at IIT , Madras or does IITM mean something else ?

Danu

@JamalS Link?

Simha

Actually, I was really interested in the BS program at IISc, but couldn't clear the KVPY in the first two attempts. And unfortunately, I can't write it again because I' m a B.mat student..

My real interest is astrophysics

@Gowtham

Gowtham

@Simha thats unfortunate, i actually did my B.Tech in Metallurgy and Material science from NIT Trichy :)

also my inherent interest was to go into aerospace or astrophysics too :P i couldnt attend an interview at NISER Bhubaneshwar due to floods at that time . so there went my dream .

@Simha since parents were skeptical about sending me to Punjab university which is the only good university(apart from IITs and MIT,chennai) that offered Aerospace. i had to just bury my dreams and go for MME at NIT , life goes on , but i stay connected to physics through things like SE :)

Simha

1:30 PM

If possible, I'm changing to physics BS at IITM itself.. statistics is really not my cup of tea.. and too boring.. I don't know if the change is possible yet, however. My proffessors are gonna blast me ! :)

About the physics.se part, me too

:)

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Simha

Panjab University got all that rep simply because the Bose of 'bos'on once worked there

Gowtham

@Simha haha , yeah the system here in india is not flexible which is the most frustrating thing, i wished i could study atleast mechanical at NIT , but apparently quotas and state quotas means if i dont get a good rank i cant pursue my course of liking :/

Simha

And talking about quotas, the previous gov regime was gonna apply it to private sector businesses as well.. So, yeah, you can say it's pretty screwed up..

Gowtham

@Simha i actually heard about Punjab as i was going through Kalpana Chawla's history. i dreamt of becoming an astronaut but having 80% vision in one eye is a very good source of discouragement :/

Simha

1:37 PM

So, you gonna stay on and pursue Ph.D ?

astronaut at ISRO or NASA ? ;-)

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