nanoscale views

Remember this post , where I reported on interesting Shubnikov-deHaas oscillations in very pure high-Tc material? Well, that paper has now...

What do you find to be the most annoying conventions in physics? The classic example is the choice (darn you, Ben Franklin) of sign for the...

Only one quick blurb for now - there have been a number of neat looking papers on the arxiv lately, but I just haven't had time to read ...

I got a very surprising email this morning from the NSF. Someone made a Freedom of Information Act request to get a copy of one of my NSF g...

Back to the SCES conference this afternoon, after my campus commitments, for the second session on strong correlations in mesoscopic systems...

Again I only was able to see the morning session today (and will be at Rice until Thursday pm). This means I'll miss the big "BCS@...

Today was the first day of the 2007 International Conference on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems ( SCES ), hosted this year in Houston j...

This past week there was a flurry of science blogging regarding tenure, such as these posts at Cosmic Varience ( here and here ), Rob Knop...

The trouble with mercenaries is that they can be bought. For example, the state of Texas bribed fair and square - errr, gave $40M and lots ...

While I was traveling, the Wall Street Journal ran this article about Bob Laughlin and his tenure as president of KAIST , one of the premi...

It was useful to network with fellow NSF grantees for the last two days in Reno - an interesting mix of people and projects. A few observat...

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...