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I'm a Professor of Physics at the Rochester Institute of Technology
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Dec 15, 2023
Chalking the Talk
This post was inspired by discussions with my colleague Dr. Vivek Narayanan, following my last post on giving physics talks. Below, I...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Dec 9, 2023
Talking Shop
This blog is about how to give a physics talk, designed as a resource for my students and postdocs (typically 10-20 minute talks), though...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Dec 2, 2023
Aliens, Black Holes and Quantum Computers
This post was triggered by a recent paper on the arxiv, which suggested that aliens could be located by detecting the Hawking radiation...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Nov 25, 2023
Postscript to the 2023 Physics Nobel: The contribution of Paul Corkum
I have covered the 2023 Physics Nobel earlier on this blog. Several platforms since then have pointed out the omission of Paul Corkum...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Nov 18, 2023
The Eightfold Way*: Octopus Intelligence
This is a post along the lines of my interest in animal behavior. I have been fascinated by octopuses (octopi is not the correct plural)...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Nov 11, 2023
The neutrino pulls its weight
Today's post is about the neutrino, the lightest particle with mass in the universe [the photon (which makes up light) and gluons (which...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Nov 4, 2023
Taking Stock of Tesla
In the recent weeks I have been reading up on Nikola Tesla, including some biographies [1,2] that had been lying around on my shelf, and...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Oct 28, 2023
Working With Others: Scientific Collaboration
In much of science - and certainly in theoretical physics - one can work by oneself. I have had some experience along this line, having...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Oct 21, 2023
Paradoxes from Medical Science: Oliver Sacks
Reading more recent authors writing on biology and medicine, like Siddhartha Mukherjee, Atul Gawande and Paul Kalanithi, I found one of...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Oct 14, 2023
The Bottom of the World
Talking to some of my colleagues who work there, I recently became curious about the continent of Antarctica. This post is divided into...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Oct 6, 2023
This Year's Physics Nobel: Playing with the fastest Camera in the World
This post covers the Nobel prize in physics awarded this year to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier“for experimental...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Sep 30, 2023
Doesn't (anti) matter
This post is about an experiment in the news this week, which might have taken the first step towards elucidating one of the greatest...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Sep 23, 2023
Scaling Heights
People usually laugh at me when I tell them that my athletic event of choice in school was the high jump. This is probably because I...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Sep 16, 2023
Exploring the (Meta)Verse
Science quite often influences, or even gives birth to, poetry. This includes science written as poetry, poets complaining about or...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Sep 9, 2023
Deciding on Gödel
I had mentioned in an earlier post that I would likely dedicate a separate piece to Gödel. Here it is. This post relies on several books...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Sep 2, 2023
More about Bardeen
As promised, this is a post about the biography of the only person to ever win two Nobel prizes in physics: John Bardeen. The book is...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Aug 26, 2023
One is Not Enough: Double awardees of the Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize is probably the top recognition in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace....
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Aug 19, 2023
Standing by the Science
This post is about a variety of attitudes that some well known scientists have taken to the discoveries they have made. These attitudes...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Aug 12, 2023
Making Waves with Atoms
Background One of the revelations of quantum mechanics is that the same objects can behave as particles as well as waves. Light was the...
Mishkat Bhattacharya
Aug 5, 2023
The Story is the Thing
Nowadays, when I get to talk to younger students studying science, especially seniors in high school or starting undergraduates, I ask...
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