nanoscale views

Here are some links from the past week: I spent a big portion of this week attending Spin Caloritronics XI at scenic UIUC, for my first in-...

When physicists talk about the electronic properties of solids, we often talk about "band theory".  I've written a bit about t...

I'm working on a physics post about flat bands, but in the meantime I thought I would appeal to the greater community.  Our physics and ...

The multiverse (in a cartoonish version of the many-words interpretation of quantum mechanics sense - see here for a more in-depth writeup ...

 I will be posting more about science very soon, but today I'm participating in a science communications symposium here in the Wiess Sch...

It's been a while since the APS meeting, with many things going on that have made catching up here a challenge.  Here are some recent it...

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...