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I'm a Professor of Physics at the Rochester Institute of Technology
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Sep 21, 2024
Edible Lasers
Lasers make for a $20 billion dollar industry and have all kinds of applications: industrial, medical, surveying, communication...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Sep 14, 2024
Between the Lines of the Physics Curriculum
This post is aimed at stating explicitly something that is not always communicated to physics students as they make their way through the...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Sep 7, 2024
A Visit to Raman's Museum
This is a post about my visit to the museum housing the scientific collection of C. V. Raman , the Nobel laureate in Physics, after whom...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Aug 31, 2024
What Theoretical Physicists Really Do
This post is a review of the article ' Beyond The Big Bang Theory: Revealing the Everyday Research Lives of Theoretical Physics Faculty '...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Aug 24, 2024
Peer Review: An Opportunity
The Problem Peer review is a highly contentious topic in academia. This is because papers are published (always) and funds are granted...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Aug 17, 2024
Time (keeping) goes Nuclear
Clocks play an incredibly important role in our lives. This post is about a recent development, based on nuclear physics , which promises...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Aug 9, 2024
How the Military can prepare You for University
The Problem A question I receive very frequently from students is: what do I need to know or what courses do I need to take, to join your...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Aug 2, 2024
Fashions in Physics: Good or Bad?
What is fashion? Many human beings seem to love what is new and get bored of whatever is old. New and old are of course relative terms....
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Jul 26, 2024
Physics and Music: A View from the Last Century
This post is about a book I stumbled upon while cleaning my room: Physics and Music by Gleb Anfilov, translated from the Russian by Boris...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Jul 19, 2024
Adventures of a Seminar Speaker
Many - if not most - people think that the life of a professor is relatively boring. As a counterexample, I will try to offer in this...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Jul 12, 2024
A Management Problem in Science
A statement of the problem This post is about a specific management problem that I often encounter while supervising students and...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Jul 5, 2024
Popular Physics Wants it All
Introduction This post is about the heavy demand, for the past few years, for popular physics books that purport to answer or tackle the...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Jun 28, 2024
Academic Tenure and Voluntary Retirement
A topic I promised to write about earlier, and a source of frequent discussion in academic circles. Specifically, I would like to address...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Jun 21, 2024
Ten Scientific Bios Waiting to be Written
My last two posts have been about biographies of scientists (Roy Glauber and Srinivas Ramanujan). While writing these, I began looking...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Jun 14, 2024
Ramanujan: A Slim Biography
This post is a review of Srinivasa Ramanujan by Suresh Ram, a fine introductory book of ~85 pages (as opposed to the much more...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Jun 7, 2024
Roy Glauber: From the Atom Bomb to the Nobel Prize
This post is a review of the book The Last Voice: Roy Glauber and the Dawn of the Atomic Age. The book covers the two main reasons Roy...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
May 31, 2024
Scientific Research: based on Curiosity or Purpose?
The Topic Today is the last day of the workshop in Spain that I mentioned in last week's post. One of the interesting aspects of this...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
May 25, 2024
An Earth-Shaking Talk
The setting I am currently attending a workshop in Spain, in the town of Benasque. The town is in the center of the Pyrenees, a mountain...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
May 18, 2024
Towering Passions
Background Towers have an interesting connection to physics. Of course, physics is crucial to their construction (prominently in Gothic...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
May 11, 2024
Patent Truths
A few days ago I was informed that my first - hopefully not my last - scientific patent has been granted. Prehistory Some people might...
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