nanoscale views

The symposium in honor of Doug Osheroff was great fun. It was great to see old friends again, to hear some stories that I didn't know, ...

I am currently visiting Stanford for my thesis advisor's big birthday bash/retirement festivities. It's really great to see so many...

Today I was fortunate to host my department's weekly colloquium, with Prof. Wilson Ho from UC Irvine as the speaker.  He gave a great ta...

In honor of the 25th anniversary of the discovery of C 60 at Rice, the university is holding a symposium to celebrate.  In addition to the...

The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov for graphene.  Congratulations to them!  Graphene, ...

One last post before the Nobel in physics is announced tomorrow.... As many people in the academic blogosphere have reported, there are some...

In the last couple of weeks, Sean Carroll has made two separate posts ( here and here ) on his widely read Cosmic Variance blog at Discover...

At long last, the National Research Council has finally released their rankings of graduate programs , the first such ranking since 1993. T...

My student (with theorist collaborators) had a paper published online in Nature Nanotechnology yesterday, and this gives me an excuse to ta...

Nothing as interesting as this happens around here (at least, not to my knowledge), and I'm kind of glad.  xkcd has once again done ...

There has been a good deal of talk lately about gravity. We're all taught early on in our science education about the remarkable insigh...

I had noticed (and it was also pointed out by a colleague) the essentially simultaneous publication of this paper and this paper (which ap...

In Saturday's Wall Street Journal, there was an article by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow clearly designed as a naked promotion...

According to the Chronicle of Higher Education , my Texas A&M colleagues up the road in College Station now get the privilege of being e...

It's been a busy week work-wise; hence the low rate of blogging.  However, I would be remiss if I failed to talk about the science behin...

In the September issue of Nature Materials , I have a News and Views piece about a really neat article by Sakanoue and Sirringhaus of th...

Pondering introductory mechanics has made me think again about some foundational issues that I've wondered about in the past.  Mach'...

As I get ready to teach honors mechanics to first-year undergrads, I have been scouting the web for various resources.  I ran across the com...

I'm finally back from travel, just in time to immerse myself in prep for the upcoming semester. It's hard to believe that classes s...

Apologies for the long break between posts.  It's been an incredibly hectic summer, and I'm about to go on a last big trip before th...