nanoscale views

To get some science discussion going, I thought I'd throw this out there. There are many candidates, but based purely on citations alon...

Like the Female Science Professor , I just participated in the NRC's once-a-decade survey of graduate programs. Since I'm nominally...

One paper this week, because real life continues to kick my butt. cond-mat/0701119 - Minot et al ., Single quantum dot nanowire LEDs This i...

According to the NY Times, some in the Senate (on both sides of the aisle) are unhappy about attempts by House Democrats to legislate the re...

First post of the new year. Whoo-hoo. While revising the course webpage for the class that I'm teaching this coming semester, I noticed...

Two papers for this end-of-year post. cond-mat/0612556 - Vartiainen et al ., Nanoampere pumping of Cooper pairs The single-electron transi...

From an exchange between CNN's Whitehouse correspondent and a Frances Townsend , the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security a...

This is my first introduction to silly blog games, which I suppose shows that I don't blog too much, since it's taken this long. An...

Just one paper this week. End-of-semester crunch + trying to write up some new stuff in my group is cutting into my blogging.... cond-mat/0...

Since I'm heavily involved in our faculty search , I can't really talk too much about it online. However, I do want to point out so...

Two papers on the arxiv this week that give me an excuse to talk about the standard picture of metals and how bits of it can fail. cond-mat/...

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...