nanoscale views

This weekend I'll catch up w/ the cond-mat archive. In the meantime, I wanted to point out one amusing piece of Lubos Motl's latest...

One of the more popular physics blogs, Cosmic Variance , has an interesting post about rumor mill websites . If you aren't familiar wit...

I'm working on a conference proceedings paper for a meeting at which I'm giving an invited talk next month. So, are conference proc...

Just returned from the Electronic Materials Conference . Interesting, and generally much more oriented toward engineering than pure physics...

Two interesting papers relating to mesoscopic physics on the arxiv this past week: cond-mat/0606486 - Jakobs et al. , Temperature-induced p...

I try to keep political commentary to a minimum on this blog, because there are plenty of blogs out there dedicated to that kind of discours...

On NPR this morning I heard NASA administrator Michael Griffin explaining why he thought it was ok to dismiss safety concerns raised by two ...

There's been a brewing discussion going on, largely and appropriately in the high energy physics community, about string theory - does ...

Here are a couple of recent preprints that caught my eye. I'm going to try to get back to chronicling these weekly, if I can find the s...

Wow. Late this afternoon I got an email advertisement from an equipment vendor that was astonishingly over the line of propriety. The comp...

Right now I'm the only member of my family not battling some nasty stomach bug. You know it's bad when your spouse calls you to ask...

I just returned from an NSF review panel. For those of you that don't know, the NSF peer-reviews all grant proposals, and many programs...

I've been talking with a major publishing house about writing a textbook based on my two-semester course sequence, Nanostructures and Na...

Two preprints that caught my eye this week: cond-mat/0604528 - Elimination of the supersolid state through crystal annealing, Rittner et al...

I just received the following email from Phys Rev Letters: Dear Dr. Natelson, We are in the process of considering the issues you raise abou...

In the course of serving on a committee for a graduate oral presentation, I noticed something very strange looking in a Phys Rev Letter from...

There are three papers I'd like to bring up from the past week or so that I think are pretty neat pieces of physics: cond-mat/0605061 -...

A very brief post. The new estimate for the cost of ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan is approaching $10B/month. For th...

A second interesting discussion going on right now concerns hysteresis in molecular electronic device current-voltage characteristics. Ther...

In the past couple of weeks, two interesting debates have come to my attention in condensed matter circles. The first has to do with electr...