Condensed concepts

 Last week I enjoyed following the Nobel Prize announcements in Physiology or Medicine, Physics, and Chemistry. Reading the popular accounts...

This week Nobel Prizes will be announced. Predicting the awardees is a fun annual exercise. It is also good to reflect on what has been achi...

My collaborators and I recently posted a preprint Exact mapping from short-ranged harmonic elastic models of spin crossover materials to Isi...

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...

 In philosophical discussions of emergence and reductionism in chemistry, molecular structure has received significant attention and debate....

On the arXiv, I have posted a new version of my review article,  Emergence: from physics to biology, sociology, and computer science . I hav...

 In computational quantum chemistry, the Born-Oppenheimer approximation (BOA) is used to determine potential energy surfaces (PES) for elect...

Most philosophical debates about the emergence of molecular structure centre around the issue of irreducibility. Specifically, can the exist...

Most debates about the emergence of molecular structure centre around the issue of irreducibility. Specifically, can the existence of molecu...

In discussions of emergence, particularly in chemistry, isomers are often given as an example of an emergent phenomenon. In Anderson's o...

Science provides an impressive path to certainty in some areas, particularly in physics. However, as scientists seek to describe increasingl...

One of the many beauties of condensed matter physics is that it can reveal and illuminate how two systems or phenomena that at first appear ...

Due to emergence, reality is stratified. This is reflected in the existence of semi-autonomous scientific disciplines and subdisciplines. A ...

I just posted on the arXiv a long review article on emergence Emergence: from physics to biology, sociology, and computer science The abstra...

Bribie Island, just north of Brisbane. The University of Queensland has just advertised several jobs that may be of interest to readers of t...

It is important to be clear what the system is. Most of chemistry is not really about isolated molecules. A significant amount of chemistry ...