nanoscale views

I know that there are many many resources out there on the web about how to give scientific talks (see here (pdf) , here , here , and here ,...

Wow. I guess those rumors about Harvard getting burned playing hedge fund games are true. They're putting in place a staff hiring fr...

Hopefully someone in the vast (ahem.) readership of this blog will pass this along to someone with connections in the Obama transition team....

Many particles possess an internal degree of freedom called "spin" that is an intrinsic amount of angular momentum associated with...

My media onslaught continues. This past week I had a Journal Club contribution in Nature, which was fun and a nice opportunity for a wider...

One paper today in the arxiv: arxiv:0811.2914 - Zwanenburg et al ., Spin states of the first four holes in a silicon nanowire quantum dot T...

This weekend is a big workshop at the University of Maryland on the new iron arsenide high temperature superconductors. Since it's not...

Welcome, readers of Discover Magazine ! Thanks for coming by, and I hope that you find the discussion here interesting. The historical tar...

This week the subject is boundary conditions . When we teach about statistical physics (as I am this semester), we often need to count allo...

Two recent papers in Nano Letters caught my eye. Kuemmeth et al ., " Measurement of Discrete Energy-Level Spectra in Individual Chemica...

Yes, if asked, I would serve as President Obama's science advisor. (Come on - you would, too, right? Of course, it's easy for me t...

Has Bush been good for science? I agree with ZapperZ: No . How Marburger can argue that research funding has kept pace with inflation is ...

This fall I'm teaching Statistical and Thermal Physics , a senior (in the most common Rice physics curriculum, anyway) undergraduate cou...

Stories like this one depress me. Is it really any wonder that our state has a difficult time attracting large high-tech companies from, e...

You can learn all sorts of things reading your local paper. For example, I read yesterday that Rice and Baylor College of Medicine are tal...

So, Merrill Lynch advisors don't like their retention offers. Maybe I'll go into the lab and fab a nano-violin to play the world...

While there are several interesting recent papers, one in particular touches on a nice piece of physics that I'd like to describe. arxiv...

I did early voting this morning here at a nearby supermarket. The line stretched halfway around the store - there must've been a hundre...

Every now and then you stumble across a piece of physics, some detail about how the universe works, that is extremely lucky in some sense. ...

As I did last year, I'm revising a past post of mine about the faculty search process. I know that the old posts are still find-able vi...