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Manki

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5 months

I received my first rejection email for my second postdoc application. As a celebration, I updated my cv of failure

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2 years

how come David Tong knows so much about so many different things? I am reading his lecture note on gauge theory, and I am learning so much from it..

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1 year

I think we should normalize including a section or at least a paragraph in research papers that is devoted to what the authors tried and how they failed for the people who come next

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1 year

A new paper day! Thanks to my amazing collaborators, we have made a very impressive progress on computational aspects of mirror symmetry. This progress essentially allowed us to navigate through the complicated string landscape. This paper will appear tonight on arxiv.

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1 year

oh shit, my green card is finally approved... all the agony related to my status is finally over..

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4 months

I am legally 30 now. I hope to make less embarrassing mistakes this year.

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17 days

My high-school teacher once said I am too dumb to do physics. Look at where I am now! I might be still dumb, but I am doing physics still

Thomas Van Riet

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17 days

High school teachers can have much bigger impact on young people's lives than university professors. We forget that sometimes. I just received a photo of my geology teacher in high school. I never went to study geology, but this man has been a great inspiration to me.

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Manki

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1 year

Research is difficult

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Manki

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2 months

I think it is super cool that serious mathematicians have discussions on math overflow constantly. wish we also have that in physics

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1 year

A paper alert* I made some progress on computing the string one-loop correction to the Kahler potential in 4d N=1 compactifications of string theory. The paper will appear 8:30pm EST on Thursday. Stay tuned for my paper

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4 months

It would be amazing if there is an equivalent of a permanat postdoc. Just doing research full time is something that is too beautiful

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6 months

*A paper alert We have found a solution in SFT that corresponds to GKP type of flux compactifications on toroidal orientifold compactifications. We also included a very concise summary of the paper. The paper will appear tomorrow on arxiv :) Stay tuned for our paper!

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1 year

this paper looks extremely important

Non-Supersymmetric AdS from String Theory

We construct non-supersymmetric AdS3 solutions of the O(16)xO(16) heterotic string. Most of the backgrounds have a classical worldsheet definition but are quantum string vacua in the sense that...

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5 months

it would be very nice if there is a culture of young researchers having guts to follow their nose and risking careers in academia

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1 year

My colleague gave me an idea to include failed/stopped research projects in my CV of failure, which I think is a great idea. So I updated my CV of failure.

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2 years

It's my birthday people

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1 month

I seriously don't understand the point this guy is trying to raise. The non-perturbative string theory is often used as a synonym for the ultimate final answer for quantum gravity. If we admit that we don't know how to solve everything, that is out of honesty.

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

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“You may have heard there’s a crisis in physics!! No there’s not.” - @seanmcarroll (Mindscape 263 intro) This has gotten beyond ridiculous. Read this quoted tweet. WTF? What next? “String theory is Planck scale physics that just happened to fall into the ElectroWeak regime.”…

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10 months

It seems wise to avoid profs who would be triggered by how students/postdocs start writing emails as described

Andrew Akbashev

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10 months

In your application letter for #PhD / postdoc, NEVER ever say: "Hi prof" "Hello" "Dear Professor" "Greetings of the day" If you do, your email will be immediately deleted by 99% of professors. ▫️ Only start your applications with “Dear Prof. [second_name],” And don’t…

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1 year

Anyhow, at 8:30PM EST tomorrow my new paper will appear on arxiv. It's another one step closer to the explicit computation of the non-perturbative terms in the superpotential in low energy theories of type II string theories on Calabi-Yau orientifolds.

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Manki

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2 years

Our new paper will appear on arxiv tomorrow night. This paper contains so many exciting new results, you should check it out.

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2 years

Stay tuned for my new paper. It will appear tomorrow.

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Manki

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11 months

In the field of string phenomenology, we need more people who are computationally capable. The problems have gotten too complicated to work on with pens and papers only. Without computational efforts, it seems rather hopeless that we can explore a good chunk of the landscape

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3 months

this paper is a true gem. I wonder how Ashoke does al this by himself

String Field Theory as World-sheet UV Regulator

Even at tree level, the first quantized string theory suffers from apparent short distance singularities associated with collision of vertex operators that prevent us from straightforward...

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1 year

I like this library so much

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11 months

I finally got a copy of this book

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6 months

this advice is really great. I couldn't count how many times I read this

Four golden lessons

Nature - Advice to students at the start of their scientific careers.

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Manki

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2 years

hooray I got an invitation to give a talk at Caltech about my recent paper I will give a talk !!in person!! next Friday

D(-1)-Instanton Superpotential In String Theory

We study the non-perturbative superpotential generated by D(-1)-branes in type IIB compactifications on orientifolds of Calabi-Yau threefold hypersurfaces. To compute the D-instanton...

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Manki

@Zugzwang_Sor

1 year

Postdoctoral students...????? Am I reading it right?

The New York Times

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Postdoctoral students and academic researchers at the University of California said they will return to work on Monday after ratifying a new contract. But workers who help teach undergraduates and assign grades remain on strike.

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What I've learned so far in my somewhat short academic career is that if some established senior researchers think that I am wasting my time on a meaningless research, oftentimes I am on the right track

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2 years

My profession is to be confused about the same things over and over again

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2 months

so much happened in theoretical physics during 80's and 90's

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Manki

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2 years

A new paper alert* Patrick and I have made very interesting progress on computing superpotential in F-theory computations with Sen limits. The paper will appear on Monday night. You should check it out!

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2 years

and of course his ability to explain things in such clarity is breathtaking

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Manki

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1 year

I made more progress on computing string loop corrections to the Kahler potential in 4d N=1 vacua of string theories. This paper will appear on arxiv at 8:00 pm EDT on next Monday.

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12 days

there should be a textbook like string field theory for dummies

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Manki

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1 year

yay my new paper is online

On one-loop corrected dilaton action in string theory

This manuscript concerns string one-loop corrections to the Kahler potential in 4d N=1 vacua of string theories, and it largely consists of two parts. In the first part, we compute the string...

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Manki

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2 years

My paper () is accepted to jhep. This is a very meaningful paper for me in that this is my first solo paper that went through the peer-review process.

D(-1)-Instanton Superpotential In String Theory

We study the non-perturbative superpotential generated by D(-1)-branes in type IIB compactifications on orientifolds of Calabi-Yau threefold hypersurfaces. To compute the D-instanton...

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Manki

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1 year

It would be nice if citing good physics or math stackexchange posts become norm

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Manki

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11 months

It's great time to astrophysics

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Manki

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11 months

드디어 영주권 받았다.. 이제 비자서류 뭉치 안 들고다녀도 여행 할 수 있는거지?

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I started doing string theory as I wanted to do cosmology, but I have been stuck at supersymmetric compactifications for too long.. I should really escape this rabbit hole as soon as I can

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Manki

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3 months

I finally found some time to read this paper What a tour de force computation! I think the numerical metric technology may really yield many amazing results

Computation of Quark Masses from String Theory

We present a numerical computation, based on neural network techniques, of the physical Yukawa couplings in a heterotic string theory compactification on a smooth Calabi-Yau threefold with...

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10 months

Hot weather is much much more unpleasant than cold weather seriously

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Manki

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3 years

String field theory is so cool. I think everyone should learn it

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Manki

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1 year

this review is awesome

Liouville Field Theory -- A decade after the revolution

We review recent developments (up to January 2004) of the Liouville field theory and its matrix model dual. This review consists of three parts. In part I, we review the bosonic Liouville theory....

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Manki

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2 years

string theory textbook by Blumenhagen, Lust, Theisen is great!!

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Manki

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1 year

I like being a stupid person, and I don't quite mind exposing that I don't know much as I can learn much more after doing so in general. But, it is oftentimes difficult to find a place where I can be really honest without being laughed or judged at (or maybe it's just my feeling)

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1 year

I am very fortunate to have a great ph.d advisor

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Manki

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7 months

There are many theory faculty jobs this year. It would be nice if I could land on one

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Manki

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2 years

In my first year of ph.d I had pretty rough time. I can undoubtedly say that my struggle was enhanced by unreasonable ta assignment enforced by cornell on an international student who doesn't understand cultural differences

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4 months

Santa Barbara is beautiful

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2 months

probably I should write computer programs to do string field theory computations... it just takes too much time to do all that with pen and paper

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2 years

ooh my single author paper just got accepted. Excited!

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1 month

The hardest part of any long calculations is to set a consistent convention.. it is so easy to miss factors of i, 2..

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Manki

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11 months

Starting salary at quant firms are crazy high 👀👀👀

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Manki

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4 months

Topological string theory is a subject that keeps on giving

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Manki

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26 days

I will start a research group

François Fleuret

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People with research jobs, if tomorrow you win $100m, would you still do research?

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3 months

🤣

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1 year

Some papers in 80's and early 90's are really mysterious. They do very complicated computations without saying how actually did them.

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Manki

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3 years

Stay tuned for our 3 upcoming papers. They will all appear tomorrow night EST.

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Manki

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2 months

I think at certain point we should adopt the attitude of "shut up and calculate" to put an end to the debate. Arguments and debates cannot close the deals, but only serious computations can

Thomas Van Riet

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2 months

The problem with the never-ending discussions on a de Sitter landscape in string theory is the bias with a certain camp: "We believe we observe a positive cosmological constant & we like string theory --> so string theory should have dS vacua". Reality is that we don't know yet

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3 months

Very nice talks at the KITP workshop by Liam. It was very satisfactory to see a talk that includes both the vision and technical advances

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2 years

yay! my new paper is posted

D(-1)-Instanton Superpotential In String Theory

We study the non-perturbative superpotential generated by D(-1)-branes in type IIB compactifications on orientifolds of Calabi-Yau threefold hypersurfaces. To compute the D-instanton...

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I just attended a thesis defense of Atakan at MIT. it was such an impressive talk

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4 months

as one good friend of mine once said, maybe string theorists should have a mindset of mathematicians in that we should recognize that the problems we are facing are big and experiments are not guiding us so we should follow rigor patiently..

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5 months

As expected, waiting for a postdoc offer is quite painful..

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2 months

string field theory is very nice and useful. I don't know why more people don't use string field theory

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6 months

Given that string field theory is the only known way to systematically compute string amplitudes in generic backgrounds, sft should be really taught in string theory courses

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Manki

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7 months

@_ @ I started submitting applications for jobs.. Let's see how things turn out

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8 months

I think I love this city

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Manki

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9 months

having a regular group meeting with people who share some similar interests in physics would be just so amazing.. it would feel so good to share excitements I have with colleagues. kind of miss cornell environment now a little

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11 months

String field theory seems to be an extremely strong framework to describe string vacua.. I wonder why not so many people use string field theory?

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maybe I have too thick of a skin, but I do this all the time. If people are too busy to work with me that's too bad, but I lose nothing (as long as I don't annoy people I am contacting.) And, if I am lucky, I get a new collaborator!

OptimizedFuzzball

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What do my academic colleagues think of cold contacting people for collaboration, especially at early stages of your career. What are some useful tips for this? Such as how much details should one mention in an email.

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Manki

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3 months

string pheno 2024 web page is up

String Phenomenology 2024

The 23rd String Phenomenology conference is jointly organized by the Department of Physics and Astronomy "G. Galilei" of the University of Padua and the INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics....

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Manki

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2 years

Stay tuned for our new paper which will appear on arxiv tomorrow :)

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2 months

this github thing looks too complicated.. how should I use github?

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1 year

Oh, I forgot to advertise my talk I gave at IAS a few weeks ago

Exponentially Small Cosmological Constants in String Theory - Manki...

IAS High Energy Theory SeminarTopic: Exponentially Small Cosmological Constants in String TheorySpeaker: Manki KimAffiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Tec...

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Manki

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1 year

It would be nice if there are more young researchers who have almost none to zero regard for authoritative figures

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Manki

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2 years

looks like a great review!

The Weak Gravity Conjecture: A Review

The Weak Gravity Conjecture holds that in a theory of quantum gravity, any gauge force must mediate interactions stronger than gravity for some particles. This statement has surprisingly deep and...

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11 months

I have a tremendous respect for people who can develop formalism.... how do you build something so concrete out of nothing?

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4 months

Being exposed to west coast physics will hopefully teach me how to ask interesting questions out of boxes

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Manki

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2 years

This is a breakthrough paper in computational algebraic geometry. It is not an overstatement to say that the results that are behind this paper completely reshaped how I do my research. Many congrats to the authors.

CYTools: A Software Package for Analyzing Calabi-Yau Manifolds

We provide a user's guide to version 1.0 of the software package CYTools, which we designed to compute the topological data of Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces in toric varieties. CYTools has strong...

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4 months

While I was googling Freeman Dyson, I was led to this page which then led me to this nice essay by Freeman Dyson "Unfashionable Pursuits"

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4 months

I think it would be a good idea to just have fun for three more years with an assumption that very much likely I won't get a permanent job in the us

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Computing four graviton amplitudes in a cosmological vacuum of string theory will be spectacular

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Manki

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1 year

In 2022, I tried very hard to be an independent researcher. I think I didn't do a terrible job. A possibl3 downside is that maybe I worked on too niche topic that not so many people in the broader community care so much.

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this paper is a badass

R^4, purified

We derive, using the pure-spinor formalism, the complete -- including the fermions -- four-point effective action of both type II superstrings to all orders in $α'$, at tree level in string...

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1 year

And what the heck, I have a green card now... so I can just work in any industry without worrying about visa..

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3 months

I saw the meme!!

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2 years

Look at the beautiful sunset

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1 year

I really like this article. Should take more risk

Taking "The Road Not Taken'': On the Benefits of...

It is common practice among young astrophysicists these days to invest research time conservatively in mainstream ideas that have already been explored extensively in the literature. This tendency...

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3 years

Hooray! Now you can call me doctor kim

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Trustworthy de Sitter compactifications of string theory: a...

We attempt to review all trustworthy and well-controlled de Sitter compactifications of string theory.

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11 months

Maybe I should work on string field theory for the rest of this year

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A valuable lesson I learned from Korean education system is it is better to ignore advice and comments from wise people lol.

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1 year

I forgot which QFT text I enjoyed the most. The most vivid memory related to QFT is struggling a lot to understand what the heck is going on most of the time. I think it took me at least 3 years to internalize the most basic concepts of QFT...

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3 years

So these “fermion zero modes”, are they in the room with us right now?

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2 years

I wish I have strong physics intuition

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2 years

I am also one of them. In my undergrad, I was exposed to a strong anti string theory environment. (I think my undergrad institution has changed by a lot since then) That's why I decided to do particle pheno, more precisely neutrino and flavor physics, for my PhD.

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this paper looks like an interesting read

The Top 10^{500} Reasons Not to Believe in the Landscape

The String Landscape is a fantasy. We actually have a plausible landscape of minimally supersymmetric $AdS_4$ solutions of supergravity modified by an exponential superpotential. None of these...

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