updates

Married!

On the 19th of October 2019, I got married to my girlfriend. We’d been in a relationship since 2013 and it feels great to be married. We both have been...

Array Pair Sum

A problem statement from Arden Dertat’s “programming questions” series: Given an integer array, output all pairs that sum up to a specific value k. The first method need not be...

Better late than never

While I still havent started using the full Visual Studio package (which is much more advanced than VSCode), I feel this is a tool that every programmer has to have....

Career plans

I feel like I have finally come into terms with what I want to do with my career after the PhD. Although a postdoc won’t hurt, I am not very...

Academic Fatigue?

Pretty straight forward with this title here. Is there such a thing called academic fatigue? This is a phenomenon (not really but just realised from personal experience that there could...

Stolpersteine.

Alright so it’s been sometime since I wanted to post something meaningful. This one is about a “brass cladding” aka Stolpersteine that you can easily spot in most European towns...

Working in France

Today I complete 2 continuous years of being in France as a researcher/student. I first came to France in 2015 to do a semester in the University of Strasbourg as...

Energy levels.

This post is from an old draft. Last year this time was the most crucial time of my academic career. I had started my master thesis and had to write...

Mendeley chrome importer issue [solved]

I started using Mendeley as my default bibliography manager from early 2017. Recently I came across this web importer tool from Mendeley, that can be added to chrome to directly...

Polymer Science

Introduction to Polymers From the chemical side From the physical side, George Phillies on Polymer Dynamics Books on Polymer Physics Theory of polymer dynamics (course notes) Polymer solutions Polymer physics...