Abdus Salam — a great thinker and a humble person. Happy Birthday! :) Here is a story in his own narrative, from an article that used to be a ‘must read’ for us, when I was at college.

The notorious Problem 6 in International Mathematics Olympiad.

Today in the 'Cavendish Quantum Colloquium', we had Prof. Seamus Davis from Oxford, telling us about 'Scanned Josephson Tunneling Microscopy'. It was a wonderful talk! : )

Reminder for young people like me. Someone once told me, "Before getting a permanent position, treat each of your presentations, as an interview-talk. You may give great talks all the time, but it might just happen that people will remember you for the worst talk you ever gave."

"A carpenter may look at the sky, and think that the sky is made of wood. Because, wood is all he knows and cares about". This is an approximate translation of what he used to say --- one of my favorites that keeps me away from my dogma and prejudice.

We also had talks from Mehedi Mehedi Hasan on our work with triangular optical lattices and Georgia Georgia Nixon on periodic driving of lattice sites. All the team had a great time presenting our posters on the kagome and quasicrystal lattices, and applications of machine learning!

Today at the Cavendish Quantum Colloquium, Prof. Immanuel Bloch (ibloch) gave a beautiful talk. It was a great pleasure to listen to him discussing many-body systems involving atoms, and photons with infectious passion!

I had an exciting time presenting at ICQSIM (Paris). The conference started with a fantastic talk by L. Tarruell (Ultracold quantum gases at ICFO) and ended (for me) with a beautiful talk by C. Salomon. Later, I got to discuss with Frederic Chevy (Fermix Lab) -- that was an amazing part of the day.

Some things never gets old even after many repetitions -- the Doppler-free spectrum of Potassium, on a CoSy. 😊 😊 Another laser for a part of our experiment.

The demise of a giant in representation theory — I am sure the world will miss you. Rest in peace!

Congratulations to the team! ✌️✌️✌️

It is truly unfathomable how this kid would come from a country with no chess culture and not only become World Champion, but inspire generations of Indian kids to push chess forward. The legend, Viswanathan Anand! Huge congratulations to India for winning the FIDE!

Today, we had the first of three Scott Lectures by Misha Lukin, at the Ray Dolby Centre (Cavendish Laboratory) — a fantastic talk outlining the 'nonlinear' roadmap. In the 📷: HoD Mete Atature (Mete Atature) introducing Misha.

Dyson interjected, " Wait! I want to hear more about electroweak theory. "

Niels Bohr was well-known for his quick & witty responses. This thinly veiled reference to the usefulness of quantum mechanics is one of my favorites.

This is one of the many fairy tales about Sidney Coleman -- a confluence of quirk and creativity.