nanoscale views

This past week I was fortunate to attend this meeting , the most recent in an every-few-years series that brings together a group of researc...

There were a couple of interesting and controversial things afoot this week in the condensed matter world. There was a new preprint from th...

This paper (author's website pdf here , arxiv version here ) is just a spectacularly good review article about fluid mechanics (broadly...

A couple of recent papers that seem interesting and I need to read more closely: This paper in Nature , a collaboration between folks at Ohi...

Today, Rice hosted the ARPA-E Roadshow , a series of presentations by ARPA-E program officers, MC-ed by the director, Prof. Evelyn Wang .  ...

As mentioned previously , structural glasses are materials in which there is no periodic lattice (no long-range spatial order) and the build...

I want to write about a recently published paper, but to do so on an accessible level, I should really lay some ground work first. At the pr...

 Quanta magazine this week published an article about two very recent papers, in which different groups performed quantum simulations of an...

In some ways, we live in a golden age of science popularization.  There are fantastic publications like Quanta doing tremendous work; platf...

The concept of chemical potential is one that seems almost deliberately obscure to many.  I’ve written about this here , and referenced this...

With the end of the semester approaching and various grant deadlines, it's been a very busy time.  Here are some items I spotted this we...

We live in a world of "big data", and this presents a number of challenges for how we handle this at research universities.  Until...

The APS March Meeting was in Las Vegas this year, and I have yet to talk to a single attendee who liked that decision in hindsight.  In brie...

In the interests of saving people from lots of googling or scrolling through 170+ comments, here is a bulleted summary of links relevant to ...

 My last day at the March Meeting was a bit scattershot, but here are a few highlights: In a session about spin transport, the opening invi...

There is vigorous discussion taking place on the Day 2 link regarding the highly controversial claim of room temperature superconductivity....

I ended up spending more time catching up with people this afternoon than going to talks after my session ended, but here are a couple of hi...

Ahh, Las Vegas.  I will say, I think every APS March Meeting from now on should have a giant Ferris wheel right by the registration lobby.  ...

I will be attending the 2023 APS March Meeting in Las Vegas this week.  I will do my best to try to report on some highlights daily, though...

I just registered for an event that celebrates the 35th anniversary of a particular science and engineering program, and one question they p...