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Professor of Physics @IISERPune; Light-Matter Interaction, History & Philosophy of Physics; Scientist+Writer+Podcaster; Humanizing Science+Open Source On my own
Pune, India
Joined September 2009
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G V Pavan Kumar retweeted
🚨Our Review in Nature just got published on "Designing physics experiments with artificial intelligence"
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Experiments are our way to ask questions to the Universe. Using AI, we have now enormously powerful techniques to find new questions that are too unintuitive and "weird" for humans to find based on their experience and intuition. AI however can explore the space of all possibilities in a completely different way, thus can discover very different solutions.
We overview this ability in vastly diverse the fields of physics: quantum optics, light & electron microscopy, gravitational wave physics, high-energy physics, neutrino physics, matter wave physics.
For myself this is very special: 12 years after building the first automated design algorithms in quantum experiments, being able to overview the development of the field with my group and friends was an exciting opportunity.
Thank you a lot to @PhylomatX for spear-heading this! Thanks a lot to @soerenarlt @cruizgo_ @carlardrguez96 @GuXuemei Philipp Haslinger, @pietrovischia Christian Haack, Yehonathan Drori, @RanaXAdhikari Markus Arndt, Michael Kagan, @lukasheinrich_ for helping developing this Review, bringing insights from so many different directions of physics. So excited about what will happen in the next years!
#AI4Science
"What develops is a portrait of a restless young scholar, prone to diving deep into a subject only to lose interest, until a letter, a conversation, or a visit would rekindle his interest."
looks interesting...
press.princeton.edu/books/ha…
G V Pavan Kumar retweeted
@IiserMohali is inviting applications for Assistant Professor in all departments. Detailed advertisement is available at iisermohali.ac.in/files/arch… with instructions to apply at iisermohali.ac.in/faculty-po… Please share with potential candidates.
G V Pavan Kumar retweeted
My @QuantaMagazine podcast with @JannaLevin, THE JOY OF WHY, has been nominated for a Signal Award in the category "science and education".
Please consider voting for us! vote.signalaward.com/PublicV…
Worth reading...
This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it late at nigh, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic.
#Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #Book
G V Pavan Kumar retweeted
#ResearchFrontiers initiative by International Relations and Outreach #IRO, #IISERPune, in collaboration with #ANRF+, showcases research from #IISERPune. In 1st episode, watch Dr Tejas Kalelkar from #MathDept unravel Knot Theory! 🔬🪢
youtube.com/watch?v=KYbJCHLW…
#ANRFPlus @ANRFIndia
G V Pavan Kumar retweeted
Since all sorts of people have asked me, I decided to write down my current thoughts on "What's the Future for Pure Math Research in the Age of AI?"
writings.stephenwolfram.com/…
Work done by my colleague Ramana @IISERPune and coworkers
phys.org/news/2026-09-astron…
I am at #iitdelhi
Will be speaking tomorrow on our recent work on rotational jamming of optically bound plasmonic matter..look forward to talks, posters, interaction & dillli food 😄
G V Pavan Kumar retweeted
My most recent paper, accepted today in the Astrophysical journal, examines an unusual population of quiescent galaxies at a time of furious star-formation. The work was led by Vaidik Prasal of @IISERPune working with me, for his master's thesis project. yogeshw.github.io/blog/blog/…
G V Pavan Kumar retweeted
One for the Nobel Laureaute Rudy Marcus Tribute!!! I had great time connecting ET theory from Photosynthesis to things we do currently in the lab! @TIFRScience @PrincetonChem
thank you @BiologicalWater @SumanPhysChem youtube.com/watch?v=anr0fPNB…
Good to see support for the true open access in science..
arXiv has received a 17.2 million investment from three leading philanthropic organizations. Thank you to Simons Foundation International, Siegel Family Endowment, and XTX Markets for your support of arXiv!
Read more: blog.arxiv.org/2026/09/23/ar…
G V Pavan Kumar retweeted
Hiren Kakkad gave four lectures on "An On-Shell Approach to Massless Quantum Field Theories: Scattering Amplitudes and Quantum Anomalies" at IITM that I recorded with his permission. The course has a webpage sgovindarajan.wikidot.com/am… This has other material from the lectures.
A scientist connecting to another scientist, at an intellectual ground state, is a human connecting with a fellow human being.... an underappreciated aspect of doing science
Many years ago, Rafael Sorkin was visiting RRI Bangalore. I was a PhD student at the time. I travelled from Chennai to Bangalore to talk quantum gravity with him. When I met them, his wife Fatma greeted me with "Oh you are the guy who travelled all this way to meet Rafael!" I thought: who would not, to meet a genius!
Rafael was very generous with his time and over the next couple of days we had a long conversations about causal sets, other approaches to quantum gravity, and foundations of quantum theory. Rafael was a deep thinker and it was an amazing experience.
G V Pavan Kumar retweeted
If you’ve ever produced a tone by blowing a stream of air across the mouth of a bottle, you’ve used what’s known as a Helmholtz resonator. Now researchers have found a way to harness that resonance effect to propel miniature boats and aircraft. #physics #acoustics
physicstoday.aip.org/news/ti…
A small experiment...where I turn one of my blogs into a video-based reading platform, along with some music...
created on a pptx file with open-source music
youtu.be/LH72HKYhty4
