nanoscale views

This week I'm (virtually) attending this workshop , which unfortunately is zoom-based because of the ongoing pandemic and travel restric...

 Last Friday, Victor Galitski published a thought-provoking editorial on linkedin, entitled " Quantum Computing Hype is Bad for Scienc...

Hopefully the 2022 APS March Meeting in Chicago will be something closer to "normal", though (i) with covid variants it's good...

Sorry - blogging has been slow in recent days because, despite it being summer, it's been a very busy time for various reasons. Here are...

With the recent passage in the US Senate of an authorization that would potentially boost certain scientific investments by the US, and th...

Because I haven't seen this explicitly discussed anywhere, I think it's worth pointing out that everyday materials around us demonst...

I recently had the opportunity to be interviewed for the Scientific Sense podcast , available on a variety of platforms.  It was a fun discu...

  Some news items: Big news yesterday was the announcement at Condensed Matter Theory Center conference (I'll put up the link to the ta...

With the growth of computational capabilities and the ability to handle large data volumes, it looks like we are entering a new era for the ...

 I realized today that I had not had an open "Ask me something" post since December, 2018 .  Seems like it's time - please hav...

Condensed matter physicists throw around the term "disorder" quite a bit - what does this mean, and how is it quantified?  This is...

As may be obvious from my pace of posting, the last couple of weeks have been very busy and intense for multiple reasons.  I hope that once ...

 As we careen toward the end of the spring semester, here are a few interesting links for perusal: My colleagues at the Rice Center for Quan...

The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University invites applications from recent Ph.D. graduates for a lecturer position in phy...

 I spent three afternoons this week attending a NSF workshop on Quantum Engineering Infrastructure.  This was based in part on the perceived...

Along with Zeila Zanolli , tomorrow (Friday April 9) I will be serving as a moderator for a " fireside chat " about Majorana fermi...

Back in the early 20th century, there was a major advance in physics when people realized that particles like the electron have intrinsic an...

One way that we judge the "quality" of a harmonic oscillator by how long it takes to ring down.  A truly perfect, lossless harmoni...

Catching up after the APS meeting, here are a couple of links of interest: This video has been making the rounds, and it's fun to watch...

Well, that was certainly an interesting experience.  Some thoughts: Having the talks available as recordings and live streams has a number o...