nanoscale views

At the risk of contributing to what has recently been called the intellectual wasteland that is the physics blogosphere, I want to point ou...

Sometimes I read a science article online or in the newspaper that I think is poor. This one I just don't know how to interpret. Lawr...

Two papers this week. I'll write about our own at a later date. These two are both connected to on-going long-term controversies in c...

A small selection of links.... This game is very addictive, educational, and as you play, you feed the hungry (albeit extremely slowly). No...

Several entries from the arxiv this week. My descriptions here are a bit brief b/c of continued real-world constraints. arxiv:0711.0343 -...

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...