nanoscale views

This makes my public outreach efforts look lame by comparison.  Well done!

Working our way toward the biggest theory most people have never heard of , let's talk about functionals, using the non-rigorous languag...

Inspired by a recent post of Ross McKenzie, I thought it would be fun to try to write a popularly accessible piece about the enormously suc...

Sorry for the year-end lull in posting.  Work-related writing is taking a lot of my time right now, though I will be posting a few things so...

Earlier this week UCSD played host to what looks like a great conference/workshop, Big Ideas in Quantum Materials .  Unfortunately, due to m...

This is a non-physics post, as I struggle to get done many tasks before the break. Rice is jump-starting a new endowed postdoctoral fellow...

To my readers at universities:  I am interested in learning more about how other institutions do junior/senior level physics undergrad lab c...

I'm behind in a lot of writing of various flavors right now, but here are some items of interest: Vassily Lubchenko across town at ...

My senior undergrad year, Princeton offered their every-three-years-or-so undergrad general relativity course (AST 301), taught at the time ...

There is a feature article in the current issue of Nature titled "The quantum source of space-time", and I can't decide if I...

As I did four years ago and four years before that, I wanted to re-post my primer on how faculty searches work in physics.  I know the old p...

I've seen a number of interesting news items lately.  Here are some that you may have missed. You've probably heard about the rec...

I should've written about this as a Halloween physics scary story, but better late than never....  I'll try to tell this so that bot...

Phase transitions are amazing things.  As some knob is turned (temperature, pressure, magnetic field), a physical system undergoes a sudden...

Resurfacing briefly in the midst of proposal writing, I feel compelled to comment on recent media coverage of Lisa Randall's new book . ...

Friday evening I went to the Katy Independent School District's Robert R. Shaw Center for STEAM , where they were having a Science Movie...

I'm heavily into some writing obligations right now, but I wanted to point out a few things: Obviously this year's Nobel in physi...

A quick question in the hopes that some people in this blog's readership have direct experience:  Anyone work with a table-top scanning ...

It's getting to be that time of year again.  The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced this coming Tuesday morning (EU/US time)....

Things I learned from the last (half)day of the DOE PI meeting: "vortex explosion" would be a good name for a 1980s metal band....