nanoscale views

Three of my favorite science-related quotes from the movies, all from Ghostbusters : Dean Teager: Your theories are the worst kind of popul...

I figure it's probably a good idea to take advantage of the staggeringly enormous readership of this blog to point out several searches ...

Three interesting papers on ASAP at Nano Letters at the moment: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl0717715 and http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl072090c...

Real life continues to be very busy this semester. Two interesting papers on the arxiv this week.... arxiv:0710.2845 - Fratini et al ., Cu...

I think it's great that the physics Nobel this year went for giant magnetoresistance (GMR). GMR is intrinsically a quantum mechanical ...

This post is only going to be relevant directly for those people working on the same kind of stuff that my group does. Still, it gives a fl...

Two recent papers in cond-mat this time, both rather thermodynamics-related. That's appropriate, since I'm teaching undergrad stat ...

It's that time of year again, with Chad Orzel and the Incoherent Ponderer both posting about the faculty job market and job hunting. ...

Time for pointless speculation. I suggest Michael Berry and Yakir Aharonov for the 2007 physics Nobel, because of their seminal work on non...

I've been remiss by not posting more interesting physics, either arxiv or published. I'll try to be better about that, though usual...

The good news is that we're getting a cool new piece of equipment to be installed here next week. The bad news (apart from the fact tha...

In my lab, and in many condensed matter physics labs around the world, we use liquid helium to run many of our experiments. At low temperat...

I'm back from California, and the remainder of the Packard meeting was just as much intellectual fun as the first day. It's great t...

I'm currently in Monterey thanking the Packard Foundation for their generous support. They're fantastic, and their fellowship has b...

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...