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@ACuriousMind @0celo7 Hiii

@AliCaglayan Yes

hardcore subject

QM + GR + fluid mechanics in fact

@BernardMeurer white boards suck

idk why they thought that would be a good idea

and it's really loud because everyone is out there

but the blackboards are all in an open space

except they have blackboards and offices

@ChrisWhite yeah they did that with the theory floor in the physics building too

what's new?

@BernardMeurer hey dude!

so I guess you'll mainly be in that new astro building?

@ChrisWhite oh ok

@ChrisWhite do you have to teach at all?

I'll probably be spending most of my time in the theory center in Le Conte

I'm going to get there early August to get a head start on research

@ChrisWhite sweet we'll be able to hang out!

you said you'd be starting at Berkeley in September right?

I absolutely fell in love with Berkeley

@ChrisWhite yeah visiting places in person made a HUGE difference

@Danu It's on the relationship between BMS transformations and entanglement entropy

head starts are always nice

so yay

@Danu Bousso gave me a project idea to think about

@Danu officially committed to Berkeley! :)

@BernardMeurer <3

@Danu do you know about horizon supertranslations and near Killing horizon metrics by any chance?

how was Gary's talk anyways?

and I like what Bousso does quite a bit more than what Gary does

only Gary is taking students

which is why they accepted so few hep-theorists this year

but the groups are pretty much all saturated as far as grad students go

and they're getting 3 new postdocs the coming fall, one of them is Strominger's student and another is Bousso's student

It's really sweet, their gravity group is insanely big

as for UCSB

@ChrisWhite cool

@Danu he said I can definitely join his group

@0celo7 dude I can't I checked it

@ChrisWhite is this the GR@100++ conference?

yay back in Ithaca

:)

I think he sold me; Berkeley it is

I loved talking to him

@Danu Bousso is so awesome!

I always thought it was a stupid and close-minded motto anyways

Yeah idk what became of the search

What search?

@skillpatrol yeah I know him

and yes the intersection between quantum information/entanglement entropy and quantum gravity (specifically black holes) is what I'll be working on