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Very brief list of things I learned about during day 2 yesterday: Due to optical nonlinearities, it is possible to get broadband negative ...

Yesterday was an extremely dense meeting day.  Many talks, many posters.  By its nature, this meeting is far more technical than the Packard...

I am spending the next 2.5 days at the DOE's experimental CMP principal investigator meeting in the Washington DC area.  I'll try to...

For the 25th anniversary of the amazingly awesome David and Lucille Packard Foundation fellowships, I was fortunate (and as always very grat...

I've written before ( here , here and here ) about the use of ionic liquids in condensed matter physics investigations.  These remarkab...

There are large, endowed prizes in a number of disciplines.  The most famous of all are the Nobel prizes , of course, and in the sciences a...

I'm writing this at the suggestion of a commenter on my previous how-to post, who was specifically interested in experiment/theory inter...

Now that we live in the Information Age , where I am reliably told that Information Wants to be Free , I'm confused by a trend that is c...

I think I'm going to start a periodic series of "how to" posts.  First up, how to write a decent "response to referees...

I (along with my departmental colleagues) was very happy to see this .  My department does extremely well in a particular ranking scheme (de...

As long-time readers here know, I'm not a big fan of hype and press releases.  While it is very important to let people know what academ...

I'm back, though now I'm in the writing-six-things-before-the-term mode, so blogging will likely continue to be sparse.   Several of...

Next week is going to be largely internet-free for me, so don't expect much excitement here until early August.  I do have a few things ...

I stumbled across this post , where it is asserted (with no link, and my google-fu is inadequate) that some group or collaboration at Berkel...

I'm a bit late to the party, but there have been discussions lately about the number of undergrad STEM majors, including physics, with s...

In the last two posts I've talked a bit about contact resistances, but I haven't said much of anything about how to infer these expe...

I will make an argument now that contact resistances are much maligned, and instead of rigorously trying to avoid worrying about them, we s...

In condensed matter physics, often we are interested in the flow of charge from a "source" electrode, through some material (the ...

Please pardon the summer blogging slowdown - it's been a surprisingly busy couple of weeks, between an instructor search, working on pap...

I rarely criticize papers.  I write this not to single out the authors (none of whom I know), nor to criticize the actual science (which see...