CAM Diaries: Post Lecture Learning

 While the actual learning in the lectures have almost came to a stall, I still have learned a lot here. First of all I was wrong, one can't lump Bengaluru with Delhi, it is an ideal mix of Delhi and Odisha. It is a metro city where the seasons matters. At least Yelahanka is such as area. My threpatic walks have lead me to take steps in just 4 days I normally take in a week. 

It is indeed ironical that walks here are more conductive. Greenery, elegant temples and just the, dare I use that word, vibes in general are unmatched. I should indeed study Kannada temple art, this is fascinating. I have never been into architecture before, but I do need it now. Just another thing I do need to know. 

One thing that I am required to know is that the workshop was about since the last lecture begins in like half an hour. I can hear Ismail bhai locking his door, perhaps to breakfast before going to the lecture hall. It's not that I am totally lost. I have a big picture idea. I just think that this is so divorced from my work that I am not putting on the elbow grease. But I did learn a lot about workshops, grants, reaserch life, paper publishing and collaboration from fellow but senior attendees. Who am I kidding, 90% of my information comes from my roommate who is 5th year PhD in IIT Roorkee. But still, I think it is very useful and I would have never encountered it at NISER. As for the lectures, we still have t actually solved the original SPDE promised. Today, perhaps. But I think the model algebra and trees are similar to something I saw at the IMA Conference on Geometry and Topology in the Honour of Prof. M. S. Raghunathan, F. R. S. I dont exactly recall who, but I do have my notes back at NISER. It was a talk about algebric computation or something should I be remembering correctly. Don't think it's a one one correspondence, but still I think recalling that might be useful. 

While I try to plot these connections of ideas, the streets outside are highly connected. Like too much I think. The neighborhood is semicircular. All the radial streets are called Main Roads. And the one normal to them are called cross roads. Is is indeed a geometric layout, fitting of hosting TIFR CAM. We, LB and I, went to ICTS yesterday. That thing doesn't look Indian. Nah. Truly international. But in an outside locality. Bad connectivity. Yelankha on the other hand is very well connected. 401 bus are like a dense subset of the streets. During our walls, LB and I love to explore random cross roads and look and comment at the houses. They look so peaceful and posh. My working theory is a lot of them are retirees. This is indeed a good area to retire. Langauge barrier will be the only problem. My kannada level is at "Anna eradu ticket beku". English will take me far, but need to learn Kannada should one aspire to retire here. But that is talk of day after tommorow. Today the more pressing matters is end of workshop.