nanoscale views

I just had two interesting experiences. First, I spent a couple of hours reading a PhD thesis on a topic that had a strong tie to nonlinear...

Briefly emerging from my end-of-semester fog, here are some interesting preprints from the past week. The graphene craze continues unabated....

Two cond-mat papers this week, and one other item. arxiv:0704.1775 - Yu et al ., Origin of discrepancies in inelastic electron tunneling sp...

Just a quick post.... We're approaching the end of the semester, and with several looming thesis defenses, a thesis prize committee com...

One paper on the arxiv that I need to read more closely: cond-mat/0701728 , Sukhorukov et al ., Conditional statistics of electron transpor...

Alright - after all of the recent seriousness, this blog needs a palate cleanser. How about a few fun links? For example, comic book artis...

I'm annoyed that I have to make this post, but I guess that I'm going to have to actually set some sort of policy. In the course of ...

Here is my long-delayed third post about faculty searches, a follow-up to Part I and Part II . One reason for the delay is that I was chai...

Much as it pains me to admit this, I agree with Lubos Motl about something: Neither of us like the new numerical identifier system launch...

This'll be my last talk description for a while, I promise. Colloquium today was Gerry Gabrielse , talking about their group's late...

Frank Wilczek gave his second talk at Rice, "The lightness of being", about the origins of mass and the "feebleness" of ...

Frank Wilczek is visiting Rice for two days this week, and is giving two talks. I was fortunate enough to have lunch with him. He's a...

I've posted about this topic before, but Gordon Watts' recent post on the subject of long-term research makes me want to throw this...

A few highlights from this week, though brief. I've actually been working on my book rather than writing as much. Coming soon: more a...

Last week at the APS, Lars Samuelson closed his nano-related talk with the following quote, reportedly from Albert Einstein: "Any inte...

Well, I'm back home from APS. I'll write a bit more about the science over the weekend, but for now, here are some last thoughts on...

More good physics at the APS meeting, though I'm rapidly approaching the point of mental exhaustion. There was an invited symposium on s...

I can already tell that I have one big thing in common with my thesis advisor besides our first name: I have a tough time saying 'no...

I would live-blog the APS meeting, except that the wireless connection at the Denver convention center is completely dysfunctional. I saw s...

This video that Kristen Kulinowski sent me is great. metadatta gets major street cred for figuring out which paper this refers to.