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Bahram Shakerin

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PhD in hep-th/ph. Interested in Theoretical Physics, Fundamental Physics, Philosophy, Art & Aesthetics. I am an Existentialist. #QuantumGravity #Physics

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Bahram Shakerin @bahramshakerin.bsky.social · Mar 14

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Theoretical Physics Events - 2025
(Schools, Conferences, Workshops, Lectures)

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Bahram Shakerin @bahramshakerin.bsky.social · 29d

Jonathan L Rosner
1941–2025

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Jonathan L Rosner 1941–2025 – CERN Courier

Jonathan L Rosner, a distinguished theoretical physicist and professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, passed away on 24 May 2025.

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Bahram Shakerin @bahramshakerin.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, influential physicist who forged new paths to understanding the universe, dies at 92

MIT Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, a renowned experimental physicist and Nobel laureate whose groundbreaking work on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) confirmed a longst...

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · Aug 26

GGI workshop: Advanced School on Precision Cosmology and Dark Matter, Aug 25-29

Available now, more upcoming

Julien Lesgourgues: CMB and linear theory, 3 lectures

Hongwan Liu: Cosmology beyond ΛCDM, 1 lecture

playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

website: www.ggi.infn.it/showevent.pl...

Training Week - Advanced School on Precision Cosmology and Dark Matter - YouTube

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · Aug 26

In the spirit of sharing previous materials on the topic by you & others that are still available online:

10 Qs www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2014/10...

Tenerife conf: www.youtube.com/user/Philoso...

UCSC conf: hipacc.ucsc.edu/IPC2013.html

Bibliography: www.philcosmo.uwo.ca/bibliography...

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · Aug 18

I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

I’m an award-winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding.

The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Bahram Shakerin @bahramshakerin.bsky.social · Aug 13

Wow!

Bahram Shakerin @bahramshakerin.bsky.social · Aug 1

Mary K. Gaillard, 86, Physicist Who Probed the Subatomic Universe, Dies

Katrina Miller
(July 31, 2025)

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/s...

Mary K. Gaillard, 86, Physicist Who Probed the Subatomic Universe, Dies

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Bahram Shakerin @bahramshakerin.bsky.social · Jul 23

Thinking Effectively about Gravity
The view from below

Cliff Burgess
(July 15,2025)

youtu.be/p-VZ0GzUAv4?...

Modified Gravity (the View from Below)

YouTube video by Physics For Bangladesh

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J R D M B @jrdmb.bsky.social · Jul 19

Recordings from the Multiverse from Home 2025 conference are now available at this playlist. The event was held from June 3 - 6. #cosmology

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...