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Trying to spread the word: The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University in Houston, Texas invites applications for two tenure...

 It's been a very busy time, hence my lower posting frequency.  It was rather intense trying to attend both the KITP conference and the...

This week is the 2023 DOE experimental condensed matter physics PI meeting - in the past I’ve written up highlights of these here ( 2021 ), ...

Early in my career, I was incredibly fortunate to be awarded a David and Lucille Packard Foundation fellowship, and this week I attended th...

One thing that physics and mechanical engineering students learn early on is that there are often analogies between charge flow and heat flo...

As we bid apparent farewell to LK99, it's important to note that several other pretty exciting things have been happening in the condens...

One of the remarkable aspects of condensed matter physics is the idea of emergent quasiparticles , where through the interactions of many un...

The recent excitement about the alleged high temperature superconductor "LK99" has introduced some in the public to the idea of a ...

Given the present interest, let's talk about what kind of properties one wants in a superconductor, as some people on social media seem ...

This week, condensed matter physics has been getting far more broad public attention than usual, and while in the abstract I like our discip...

I saw " Oppenheimer " today.  Spoiler warning, I suppose, though I think we all know how this story ends.  Just in case you were w...

For the first time in a couple of decades, I was visiting the Aspen Center for Physics , which is always a fun, intellectually stimulating e...

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...