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Even more excitement on the novel FeAs-based superconductors. By my count there are seven more papers ( 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ) on ton...

Yesterday I did an "Ask a scientist" event at the Children's Museum of Houston , as part of their Nano Days events. It was f...

Kuzmenko et al . from Geneva have a PRL out this week titled "Universal Optical Conductance of Graphite". This is a pretty physi...

Another bunch of papers on the arxiv ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ). The last one is particularly interesting - the group reports that replacing lan...

I heard about this at the March Meeting, and now it looks like things are picking up steam . There are a number of papers that have starte...

This is very amusing.

One nice thing about being in a good department that rarely gets discussed is the quality of visitors. We're able to get a good stream ...

I returned yesterday evening from the March Meeting, and spent much of today helping out with our graduate recruiting weekend for both my de...

Day 3 in New Orleans continued to be interesting, though I missed some talks so that I could have conversations with a few people, including...

The March Meeting continues. Other topics that seem relatively hot (based on the number of abstracts) compared to previous years include th...

Yes, it's that time of the year again, when I get together with 6500-7000 of my closest colleagues and talk physics until our brains are...

Thanks to a special election to fill the IL-14 seat of former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, there is another physicist in Congress, ...

Super-brief pre- March Meeting blogging. Earlier this week there were five papers that particularly caught my eye on the arxiv. The first...

I review lots of papers and proposals for various journals and funding agencies. While time allocation is a continual challenge, and while ...

Remember, you should be scared . Very scared . Stop trying to frighten me. To be trite, that's just what the terrorists want. Update: ...

A brief look at three papers from the past week that I thought looked particularly interesting. arxiv:0802.3236 - Bleszynski-Jayich et al ....

One particularly nice paper from this past week: arxiv:0802.0930 - Dolev et al ., Towards identification of a non-Abelian state: observatio...

When probabilities of some events become very low, it can be hard to calibrate your thinking and planning about them. The classic large-sca...

I've had two different conversations in the last couple of days about how people choose where to submit papers, and it's a decent to...

This'll be my last self-referential post for a while. Now that it's out online , I want to write a post about our latest result. A...