Condensed concepts

Elite universities in the USA have nurtured and enhanced my whole academic life. In 1983, I moved to the USA as an international student, co...

I am looking forward to reading Andrew Zangwill's book,  A Mind Over Matter: Philip Anderson and the Physics of the Very Many , that sh...

I learnt today that David Pines died last week. He was a pioneer in quantum many-body theory, applying it not just to solid state physics bu...

Tonight I am giving a talk to a group of high school students. They are attending the Queensland Junior Physics Olympiad (JPhO), which is ...

I just noticed that I have now made more than 1000 posts on this blog! It is hard to believe. It all started three years ago when I heard a ...

This cool  video was produced by I2CAM as part of the Emergent Universe online science museum.

Hans Frauenfelder (1922-) is arguably the doyen of biological physics. I am told that he considered that for a workshop or conference to be...

As discussed in a previous post , the efficiency of organic photovoltaic ( OPV ) cells appears to be largely determined by solid state (and ...

At the conference today, my colleague Seth Olsen gave a talk Stucture-Property Relationships for Conjugated Organic Dyes. The goal is to p...

Today at the I-CAMP School in Brisbane, Dan Cox , Director of I2CAM gave a nice talk about climate change and future energy options. Dan ha...

The 4th annual I2CAM/FAPERJ Summer school "New Phenomena in Quantum Matter" will be held in Rio de Janeiro 6th-12th June, this ...

In less than two weeks I head off to Bangalore, India for a week. I will be speaking at a School and Conference on “Emergent Properties and ...

Next month I am going to India to speak at a School and Conference on “Emergent Properties and Novel Behavior at the Nanoscale” organised b...

I2CAM has just opened a new virtual museum exhibit at the Emergent Universe . I strongly recommend it both to scientists and non-scientists.

A book I really like and strongly recommend is A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down by Bob Laughlin. He received...

The International Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter ( I2CAM ) is one of six Internatio nal Materials Institutes funded by the U.S. Natio...

I2CAM is developing a web-based interactive museum about emergent behavior , It is "targeted at Internet savvy individuals, typically...

The role of quantum dynamics in biomolecular function is of great interest to me. Unfortunately, there are some highly speculative ideas and...

Here are the slides for a talk I gave in Cambridge ealier this year, for the Joint Annual meeting of I2CAM and INTELBIOMAT.