nanoscale views

Along with Eric Isaacs , I am co-organizing a focus topic at the March Meeting of the APS this year on "Fundamental Challenges in Tran...

A recurring theme at the workshop in Dresden last week was quantum impurities driven out of equilibrium. In general this is an extremely di...

I'm currently at a workshop on quantum impurity problems in nanostructures and molecular systems, sponsored by the Max Planck Institute...

Today this blurb from the New Scientist cause a bit of excitement around the web. While it sounds at first glance like complete crackpotte...

I've seen some recent writings about how theory papers come to be, and it got me thinking a bit about how experimental condensed matter...

I am easily amused. They just put up google street-view maps of Houston, and while they didn't do every little road, they did index th...

Another couple of papers that caught my eye recently.... arxiv:0707.2946 - Reilly et al ., Fast single-charge sensing with an rf quantum po...

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...