This is the first week of classes for the beginning of the academic year.
In preparation for a busy semester, I took last week off work (my last four posts were automated) and visited my son in Canberra (where I grew up) and spent some time hiking in one of my favourite places, Kosciusko National Park. One photo is below. This reminded me of the importance of vacations and down time, of the therapeutic value of the nature drug, and of turning off your email occasionally.
Above Lake Albina on the main range.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Rudolph Marcus (1923-2026): theoretical chemical physicist
Rudolph Marcus died last week. He was 102. There is a nice obituary in The New York Times . He was best known for his theory of electron tra...
-
This week Nobel Prizes will be announced. I have not done predictions since 2020 . This is a fun exercise. It is also good to reflect on w...
-
The Ising model is a paradigm in both statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics. Today for most theorists it is so familiar that so...
-
Is it something to do with breakdown of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation? In molecular spectroscopy you occasionally hear this term thro...

No comments:
Post a Comment