Condensed concepts

Last friday we were fortunate to have David Sholl give a physics colloquium at UQ, ``What Does Quantum Mechanics Have To Do With The Chemi...

A hot area of research is that of functional electronic materials. The goal is to find new materials that can be used in new devices, rangin...

Previously I posted about how science has changed [it is much more interdisciplinary and computational] and undergraduate science education ...

Robert Socolow has an interesting career history. He started out in elementary particle theory, with a Ph.D at Harvard, a postdoc at Berke...

For someone to put the main points to a popular song! Yesterday I heard an interesting talk "Truths we must tell ourselves if we are ...

A few months ago I attended a symposium at UQ on Energy in India. The talks can be viewed on Youtube . The one by Alexie Seller is particu...

A first year undergraduate student who is deeply concerned about climate change asked me a number of questions by email and then came to my ...

When I was recently visiting my mother-in-law in Anacortes, Washington she took my wife and I to a meeting of the local chapter of Transiti...

Previously I have posted about the fascinating challenge of understanding singlet fission [and the inverse process of triplet-triplet annih...

Sharon Hammes-Schiffer gave an interesting talk in Telluride last week about coupled electron-proton transfer. [A couple of my earlier post...

Previously, I wrote about my concern  that little attention and publicity is given these days to issues of nuclear security and proliferatio...

The Economist has a good editorial Seize the day The fall in the price of oil and gas provides a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fix b...

My UQ economics colleague John Quiggin has an excellent article, Tell 'em there dreaming. He argues convincingly that nuclear power is ...

Today I went to a very interesting talk, presented by the UQ Energy Initiative , by Gautam Yadama. He described the "Wicked problem...

There is an interesting paper Highly dispersive electron relaxation and colossal thermoelectricity in the corr elated semiconductor FeSb2 ...

Last week lithium batteries kept coming up. Chandra Varma wrote a cursory piece Mott Physics, Mixed Valence, Oxygen Valence, in Lithium io...

Most papers about organic photovoltaics are full of discussion about HOMO's and LUMO's, their relative energies and spatial extents....

Today I am giving a seminar in the Theoretical Physics Department of the Stefan Institute. The abstract is below. The slides are here . The ...

Singlet fission is the process where a excited spin singlet state of an organic molecular complex can decay into two spin triplet states on ...

Seth Olsen brought to my attention an interesting paper Quantum tunneling affects engine performance . The authors consider a specific che...