nanoscale views

I've talked before about what physicists mean when they talk about "temperature", and work has me thinking about this a lot t...

RICE UNIVERSITY Wiess Instructorship in Physics and Astronomy The Physics and Astronomy Department at Rice University invites app...

I realized I've never really tried having my readers just post questions for me.   Have at it!

This is at least thought-provoking.  Lamar Smith (R-Texas, chair of the US House science committee, famous for things like this ) and Zoe L...

Very briefly, here is an open letter by the San Jose State University philosophy department regarding MOOCs (one in particular).   Food for...

IBM Almaden research has produced "A Boy and His Atom" , a stop-motion movie where the frames are scanning tunneling microscope im...

I just read this article at Science's blog, describing how Lamar Smith , chair of the House science committee, basically wants to gut p...

About 3.5 years ago, I posted about the technology used by the CDMS collaboration to look for dark matter using clever solid-state detecto...

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and concerns about online education are all the rage these days at universities.  There is a growing rec...

I just found and read a great book, Alsos , by Samuel Goudsmit . The Alsos mission was the Allied dual scientific/military intelligence gat...

I'm on my way back to the US from this workshop at the Universität Regensburg.  It was a fun and interesting meeting, and the quality o...

As I mentioned during the APS meeting, Dan Ralph presented some beautiful work ( for example ) on spin torque devices (where the flow of spi...

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...