The Green Chillies
The following is a slightly edited version of a short story I wrote a few years ago and won one of the MIT Ilona Karmel writing prizes for it.
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Hello! I am Kishore Patra, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California Observatories, working with Ryan Foley. I am broadly interested in astrophysics with current focus on transient events—including tidal disruption events, X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions, and supernovae—and astronomical instrumentation.
I completed my PhD in 2024 from the Department of Astronomy at University of California Berkeley working with Alex Filippenko and Wenbin Lu. Prior to that, I graduated in 2018 with a B.S. in Physics from MIT, where I worked with Josh Winn and Nevin Weinberg on the search for orbital decay in exoplanets.
I grew up in a small village on the eastern coast of India, before moving to the UK on a scholarship and later to the US for higher education.
I spend most weekends playing cricket across Northern California. I enjoy trying out new hobbies—these days I’m learning chess, reading about development economics, exploring interesting maps, and entertaining an easily bored toddler.
Contact
kcpatra@ucsc.edu
You can read some of my random musings and occasional writings below.
The Lebesgue Dominated Convergence Theorem
The lecturer wrote in large bold letters “Lebesgue Dominated Convergence Theorem” on the board. He then went on to fill the board with dxs, dks, integrals, tildes, hats, fs and gs. In the distance I heard a speeding train – faint at first, but gradually becoming louder and louder until it drowned the instructor’s soft words. I heard the metallic clanking – clickety-clack, clickety-clack – and the hoot-hoot along with the unyielding chug-chug. Then the guard’s shrill whistle followed by...
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