Personal - Riddhiman

Intro

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I thought having a webpage was fun, and hence the current unfinished webpage. I initially hoped to start building a professional webpage, but I soon realized I am too young to have one. Having a lot of free time meant I wanted to do something cool, and I still ended up in a middle ground, having a webpage, but a personal one.

I am a physics undergrad at IISER Pune, India. I am a biophysics enthusiast, which is unusual given I know very little about biophysics. I would try to redeem myself by narrating how I actually got interested in it.

Time for a mandatory quote :

“Therefore the task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, so much as to think what no one has yet thought in that which everyone sees.”

The website's still being created but if you wanna chat about biophysics or life in general, do drop me an email!

Work

In Progress ...

On a sidenote, I translated the original paper of Alfred Cornu describing Cornu's method of measuring elastic constants of deformable body from French to English, kudos to Google Translate and some inputs from my friend Koustav! This was mainly inspired while writing a physics lab report about the same. Here's the translated paper. There's also an article by H. T. Jessop, which you might want to check out. However, as useless it might seem, this seems to be the only English translation of the original paper on the Internet.

I also wrote an article on Nash Equilibrium for our college’s science magazine Helicase in the short summer of July 2023 (our 1st yr), but sadly due to some logistical issue, Helicase 2022 never got published in any format. Here’s the pdf. I wanted to preliminary learn about Nash Equilibrium but the internet resources were a bit confusing, and hence the idea of an article. Do check it out!

Yeah, update from the previous paragraph. Seems like Helicase 2024-25 might get published, and hence another contribution. This time, the article is about the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024. David Baker (known for Rosetta), Demis Hassaabis (co-founder of DeepMind) and John Jumper (of AlphaFold team) were awarded because of their contributions to protein folding in general. This is a topic close to my heart and yet I hadn't found opportunity to learn and dig deeper into it, especially when it's a very rich interdisciplinary field. What's better than to write an article about it? I really have put in a lot of effort trying to make this as accessible as possible, and I think with good scientific aptitude, anyone should be able to read it. However, this is not intended to be a one-time read, rather, since it goes deep into the mechanism and network architecture, I would probably suggest taking time and revisiting it often. There are also bits of info which I don't expect people of all domains to understand, but still have included so that people from specific domains could have a bit fun reading and learning extra stuff. The original version was written in a Google docs file, and I plan to have a neat LaTeX version of the same sometime soon. It also differs significantly from the edited version (which is supposed to be on the magazine) primarily because it's huge. However, I feel this version would feel coherent and complete even if it might test a little bit of patience. I also have plans to revisit the network architecture section of AlphaFold and rewrite it more lucidly - but for now, please enjoy Article on Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024. Oh! The references list is a good resource on it's own, so do check it out!

Hobbies

I love to photograph, more of a casual photographer. Trying to figure out how to display pictures in HTML. I love to cycle and enjoy the campus when I am too stressed out or the weather seems nice. I am learning to play table tennis, terrible but slowly improving. Other cliche hobbies is to read detective fiction, but haven't had the relaxing atmosphere to read one since long. Currently enjoying Hercule Poirot novels and Deep Kaku. As a not cliche recommendation, you can try reading Max Carrados by Ernst Bramah. Just to pique your interest, he's a blind detective

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Elements

This is a page for understanding how to format things. Just enjoy scrolling!

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