nanoscale views

Before posting about the APS topics I'd mentioned, I wanted to write a bit about a recent paper that has received quite a bit of attenti...

Due to the constraints of real life, the March Meeting was over for me yesterday afternoon, but I did see a few more interesting talks. In...

Yesterday was again a mix of talks (including three from my group), chatting with friends and colleagues, looking around the vendor show (n...

Yesterday I spent much of the meeting talking with collaborators and old friends, and seeing some invited talks at the sessions associated ...

It's that time of year again, when I get together with thousands of my closest condensed matter physics friends to hear and give talks,...

Time to play catch-up.  Here are some interesting links I've seen recently. How to get a faculty offer - a lecture by John Guttag of ...

Thanks to developments in surface science, surface chemistry, and nanoscience, we now understand far more about the microscopic origins of f...

I was saddened to read of the passing of Bob Richardson , who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1996 with his colleague Dave Lee and t...

This is one of those once-every-six-months self-promotion posts about a new paper from our group.  The result is sufficiently surprising, w...

It's been a busy week.  On Monday I gave a colloquium at Pomona College , and visited both there and Harvey Mudd .  It's great to se...

Some scientific claims are so outlandish that they do not pass the "laugh test".  That is, for these claims to be true it would re...

I had been meaning to write a blog post about this for some time, and the recent news article from the BBC and post by ZapperZ inspired me...

While they sound like something you might find in the Skymall catalog, whiskey stones have been touted as a way to cool drinks without the ...

Sorry about the blogging lull.  More to come soon. In the meantime, this is hilarious, distressing, and insightful in equal portions.  I ...

It's not my area, but I always take notice when part of the physics community is abuzz about a thought experiment that seems to expose...

Three of my colleagues and I are helping to organize a workshop at Rice University on May 20-22, 2013.  The goal of this ARO-sponsored works...

Thanks to a colleague, in addition to the controversy discussed here , I have been following closely the saga of science-fraud.org . That ...

Well, apparently I should just retire.  According to this article at the National Post, "Higgs boson discovery may signal the world’s ...

Happy 2013 to all!  The Proceedings of the Royal Society A has a special issue from this past fall about the issue of decoherence in quantu...

There is a new result in this week's issue of Nature that is very neat (and my college classmate Young Lee is the PI - small world!). ...