nanoscale views

There is a lot going on.  Today, some words about NSF. Yesterday Sethuraman Panchanathan , the director of the National Science Foundation, ...

After World War II, under the influence (direct and indirect) of people like Vannevar Bush , a "grand bargain" was effectively str...

The Scientia Institute at Rice sponsors series of public lectures annually, centered around a theme.  The intent is to get a wide variety o...

Many things have been happening in and around US science.  This is a non-exhaustive list of recent developments and links: There have been v...

(A post summarizing recent US science-related events will be coming later.  For now, here is my promised post about multiferroics, inspired ...

Here are a couple of neat papers that I came across in the last week.  (Planning to write something about multiferroics as well, once I hav...

 I saw a couple of interesting talks this morning before heading out: Alessandro Chiesa of Parma spoke about using spin-containing molecule...

Another busy day at the APS Global Physics Summit.  Here are a few highlights: Shahal Ilani of the Weizmann gave an absolutely fantastic ta...

I spent a portion of today catching up with old friends and colleagues, so fewer highlights, but here are a couple: Like a few hundred other...

The APS Global Physics Summit is an intimate affair, with a mere 14,000 attendees, all apparently vying for lunch capacity for about 2,000 p...

Technically, this year the conference is known as the APS Global Physics Summit rather than the March Meeting, but I'm keeping my blog ...

One nice bit of condensed matter/nanoscale physics news:  This year's Wolf Prize in Physics has gone to three outstanding scientists, J...

Non-blog life has been very busy, and events have been changing rapidly, but I thought it would be a good idea to give a brief bulleted list...

An early physics demonstration that many of us see in elementary school is that of static electricity :  an electrical insulator like a wool...

The National Science Foundation was created 75 years ago, at the behest of Vannevar Bush , who put together the famed study, Science, The E...

While I could certainly write more about what is going on in the US these days (ahh, trying to dismantle organizations you don't underst...

It's been another exciting week where I feel compelled to write about the practice of university-based research in the US.  I've wr...