nanoscale views

I gave my contributed talk this (Fri) morning, and I will head to the airport shortly, so this is the end of my March Meeting blogging.  A f...

Highlights are brief today, because I spent more of my time seeing talks from my group and chatting with people: Started the day with the Ke...

It was a busy day today, and I saw a lot of talks, some live and in person, some live via zoom, and some prerecorded.  Some highlights: Star...

My first impressions of this year's March Meeting are a bit limited, since I flew today and didn't make it to the convention center ...

I will actually be attending the 2022 March APS Meeting in Chicago next week, so look for posting to pick up as I try to be good about my an...

Here are three papers that may briefly divert you from doomscrolling about the horrific situation in Ukraine. This paper from the Feb 11 is...

My busiest time of the year continues.  A few interesting links: I'm sure you've heard of wordle .  There are some other free games ...

I will write more about actual physics soon, but it has been a very busy period with other commitments.  In the meantime.... Princeton did s...

 It's a very busy time, so no lengthy content, but here are a few neat things I came across this week.  A new PRL came out this week th...

I had an interesting conversation with a colleague last week about the challenges of writing a broadly appealing, popular book about condens...

 I was fortunate enough to receive a copy of Andy Zangwill 's recent biography of Phil Anderson , A Mind Over Matter:  Philip Anderson a...

The US News rankings of graduate programs have a surprisingly out-sized influence.  Prospective graduate students seem to pay a lot of atten...

This week this paper appeared on the arxiv, claiming to have entangled a tardigrade with a superconducting transmon qubit system.  My re...

(Sorry about the slow pace of posting.  The end of the semester has been very intense, including a faculty retreat for our department last w...

I'd written two years ago about the pervasiveness of light emitting diodes for holiday decorations.  While revising some notes for my ...

You would think that, by now, we would have figured out basically all there is to know about comparatively simple metals conduct electricity...

For the vast majority, there is no formal training process that professors go through before-hand to become chair or head of a department.  ...

 I am about to attend a gathering of some physics department chairs/heads from around the US, and I'll write some about that after the m...

One thing that the new Dune  film captures extremely well is the idea that the primary small-capacity air transportation mode on Arrakis is...

 Here are several items of interest: I was saddened to learn of the passing of Myriam Sarachik , a great experimental physicist and a gener...