Today I sent out an email, produced every year, to people who will, for the rest of the academic year, work on research projects under … Read more
Category: reflection
It’s only natural to cooperate
Our culture tends to assume that selfishness is natural, while altrusim requires an explanation. But why?
“No Fine-tuning” – the Condensed Matter Physicists’ Version of the Cosmological Principle
Earlier today I was talking to a graduate student about the calculation he is working on. I told him to discard a particular possibility because … Read more
A machine-learning approach to magnetic neutron scattering
Greetings from the APS March Meeting in snowy Boston, Massachusetts. For me this first day has been about machine learning – specifically, the use of … Read more
Want to be a research physicist? Here’s some reading for the summer months
Very often, my future research students ask me what they should be reading during the summer vacation, just before they start working with me. I … Read more