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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Moron alert

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Overheard the following conversation between two academics, a man and woman from two European countries: M: So, how long are you her...
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Saturday, June 13, 2015

Home is where the office is

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I am now a resident member of IISER Pune.   I’ve been longing for this day ever since I first stepped into IISER Pune and saw th...
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Sunday, May 31, 2015

If I could survive the next two weeks..

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The next two weeks are going to be a handful. By Saturday, I have to finalize a paper and lecture notes for a series of lect...
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Thursday, May 28, 2015

On motivation and competence

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A commenter to the previous blog post, Aravind asks the following question: “From my experience of a KVPY interview, I understand that...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

More on student interviews

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Mathematics @ IISER Pune is all set to start an Integrated PhD programme in the coming autumn semester. We finished interviewin...
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Friday, May 22, 2015

The young supervisors

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My former advisor Professor Ram Murty is visiting IISER Pune.   While he was waiting in front of the coffee machine, a cleaning...
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Monday, May 18, 2015

Ranking guest houses

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What are your favourite guest houses among those at academic institutes in India?   I have been to exactly 10 of them so far (ye...
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Kaneenika Sinha
Pune, Maharashtra, India
I am an Associate Professor of Mathematics at IISER Pune. Until January 18, 2013, this blog was written pseudonymously. In all entries before that, IISER Pune was called New1 and IISER Kolkata, my former workplace, was called N1.
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