nanoscale views

A couple of interesting recent results - a busy summer has really cut into my non-essential paper-reading, unfortunately. One sideline that ...

Governor Perry, why did you have to go and ruin my week? It's bad enough that the Texas Republican Party platform explicitly declares ...

This is the obligatory Harry Potter post. Yes, I read the 7th book, and while it's got a few narrative problems (characters sometimes b...

It's been a busy summer, hence the sparseness of my recent postings. Here are a couple of papers that caught my eye this past week. arx...

I got an email about an audio conference about faculty recruiting titled "How to Recruit Gen X Faculty Members". I shouldn'...

I just spent two days at the 3rd Annual Organic Microelectronics Workshop , meeting this year in Seattle. The workshop, sponsored jointly b...

Looks like those folks at Steorn are going to do a 'demo' of their alleged free energy machine. I think I can safely predict (a) S...

Here are four recent articles ACS journals, two from Nano Letters and two from JACS, that made an impression on me. Dattoli et al ., Fully t...

Two good review articles in the last week appeared on cond-mat.... arxiv:0706.3015 - Bibes et al ., Oxide spintronics This is a nice overvi...

One reason why I've been writing up arxiv preprints rather than published articles in PRL / APL / Science / Nature is that the APS Vir...

How do they do it? No, really. How can some theorists be so prolific? I know they're not constrained by little things like having to ...

As a condensed matter blogger, I am obligated to comment on the new report out from the National Research Council, titled "Condensed-Ma...

I returned today from a 1-day visit to Albany Nanotech , the absolutely enormous joint venture between SUNY Albany and a whole slew of coll...

Two more papers that look interesting. arxiv:0706.0792 - Koop et al ., Persistence of the 0.7 anomaly of quantum point contacts in high mag...

The Incoherent Ponderer has a fascinating analysis up of the statistics of the PhD-to-faculty pipeline in physics. The one thing missing (...

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...