Condensed concepts

 Total I am giving a talk, "Effect of quantum nuclear motion on hydrogen bonds in complex molecular materials" at  Light-matter In...

This week I am giving two (virtual) talks at a meeting Light-matter Interactions from scratch: Theory and Experiments at the Border with Bio...

For the marketing plan for my Very Short Introduction , I was recently asked whether there were any significant anniversaries happening in c...

Today I am giving the first talk in a session on Computational materials science at the  4th International Conference on Advances in Materia...

The Aspen Center for Physics is a unique and wonderful institution offering relaxed and stimulating workshops in the midst of great scenery...

I am giving a talk tomorrow at the Superconductivity workshop at the Aspen Center for Physics. Here is the current version of the slides . ...

For the next two weeks I am at the Aspen Center for Physics participating in a workshop on Superconductivity. A blog  for the meeting captu...

On tuesday the Telluride Science Research Center hosted a nice public lecture , "Clouds in a bowl of soup," by Graham Feingold , a...

This week I am in Telluride at the bi-annual workshop on Condensed Phase Dynamics.  I really enjoyed the talks today. A common topic was tha...

I am currently in Telluride for a meeting on Quantum effects in condensed phase systems . Two years ago I attended a similar meeting and in ...

Last October I enjoyed attending a meeting,  Water: the most anomalous liquid  at NORDITA. One of the goals of the workshop was to produce a...

Here are the slides for my talk, "An introduction to emergent quantum matter" that I am giving tomorrow at the  Australasian Work...

I really enjoyed this week's meeting Water: the most anomalous liquid  at NORDITA. This is the first time I have ever been to a workshop...

On thursday I am giving a talk "Quantum nuclear effects on hydrogen bonding in water" at the Nordita workshop, "Water: the mo...

This week I am in Stockholm at a NORDITA workshop, Water: the most anomalous liquid. I am in a working group on Quantum effects in water. T...

Why are they important? Why should you join? not join? Why are the membership numbers of some societies declining (some dramatically)? I...

At the American Chemical Society meeting last week J.T. Hynes gave a talk Some modest proposals for 21st century physical chemists  Here ...

I have written many posts about what a fascinating, difficult, and important subject water is. I think it is one of the classic hard problem...

Tomorrow I am giving a talk at the Condensed Phase Dynamics meeting in Telluride. The slides are here . It is largely based on two papers w...

Last night I was stranded at Denver airport en route to the bi-annual Condensed phase dynamics meeting at the Telluride Science Research Ce...