nanoscale views

One of the things I miss about California is the quaint state politics, like the Peace and Freedom Party , which doesn't sound too bad (...

The science: one of my colleagues, Prof. Vicki Colvin , can make magnetite nanoparticles via chemical techniques. Magnetite is an interest...

The science: One of my collaborators supplies interesting molecules to lots of people. Six months ago, my student and I wrote up a paper ...

Continuing my description of the faculty search process.... Candidates come in for interviews. Each interview is a two-day affair. The ca...

Watch this . It's Weird Al's new video. Bonus points for having the Schroedinger equation show up. This may be my favorite Weird ...

Blogging from the scenic Calgary airport, as I wait for my flight back to Houston. I've been attending a very fun nanoelectronics works...

It's been suggested that it would be valuable for me to post a brief description of the faculty search process. An obvious disclaimer: ...

While I generally enjoy living here, there are times when I really, really don't like living in Texas. For example, earlier today our g...

Well, since several folks are commenting on the h parameter , I might as well put in my two cents. The h number is defined here . In b...

Four papers this time, though brief descriptions. Eventually the semester will ease up a bit and I'll have more time to write. cond-mat...

Three papers this time out. The semester is very busy, so not much commentary for a while. cond-mat/0610352 - Wu et al ., Optical metamate...

Presumably any serious job-seekers out there would read about this on the AIP website or in Physics Today, but what the heck - it can't...

I haven't had a chance to watch these yet, but the Vega Trust in the UK has, on line, four full length lectures on quantum electrodynam...

Two papers this time around.... cond-mat/0610107 - Butenko et al. , Electric field effect analysis of thin PbTe films on high-\epsilon SrTi...

...and then I'll get back to science. The pending announcement of the Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry next week should provide so...

You know you're dealing with a serious, high quality scientific journal when the publisher spams basically anyone who's ever reviewe...

This is one of my (thankfully, for some) rare forays into political issues on this blog. If you're a practicing scientist, engineer, or...

Sci-Fi author Greg Egan , via John Baez : Save the New Scientist . Basically the British magazine New Scientist used to be very good - li...

Two papers from the past week, the first of which gives us a chance to discuss one of the on-going controversies in condensed matter physics...

Sorry for the downtime; the semester has begun, and this past week I also went to the annual meeting of Packard Fellows, which is a wonderfu...