Condensed concepts

Last week at UQ we had a very nice mathematics colloquium , "Crowdsourcing mathematics problems" by Timothy Gowers. He first talk...

I think it is crucial that any research group have a group meeting at a designated time each week. It surprises me that some groups do not...

I tend to avoid being on committees. However, this year I became chair of one, leading to this reflection. How do you find a balance between...

I really enjoyed my visit to the TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences (TCIS) of the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research in Hydera...

It is tempting to think that with advances in technology that we don’t really need  -live lectures and tutorials. Students can just watch ...

I was saddened to hear of the recent sudden death of Jim Brooks. He is the experimentalist who arguably has had the biggest impact on me sc...

Over the years I have benefited greatly from my interactions with experimentalists. These interactions have varied from informal discussions...

I was disappointed to find a mistake in one of the figures of my recent paper on hydrogen bonding . Fortunately, the mistake has no implicat...

There is a very nice article in the Journal of Organic Chemistry With a Little Help from My Friends: Forty Years of Fruitful Chemical Coll...

I have just started using Dropbox to share files with other people. Ben Powell and I are currently writing a review article together and it ...