News and such

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International Workshop on Computational Electronics, Nara, Japan. June (2013)

Short Course (Invited)

“The Non-Equilibrium Green Function Approach to Quantum Transport in Nano-Structures”
John R Barker

Contributed Papers

“Impact of Dielectric Induced Dynamical Many-Body Correlation Effects on the Transfer Characteristic of Si Nanowire Transistor”
A. Martinez, J.R. Barker, and M. Aldegunde

“Dependence of Matthiessen’s Rule on Complex Phonon Self-Energies: A NEGF Study”
M. Aldegunde, R. Valin, A. Martinez, and J.R. Barker

“Impact of Scaling on the Variability in Multigate Transistors”
M. Aldegunde, A. Martinez, and J.R. Barker

Materials Research Society Spring Meeting San Francisco April (2013)

“Self-energy Models for Scattering in Semiconductor Nanoscale Devices: Causality Considerations and the Spectral Sum Rule”
John  R  Barker, and Antonio  Martinez.

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Newsflash: breakthrough on observation of photon trajectories
Glasgow Science Festival Talk
International Workshop on Progress in Non-Equilibrium Green Functions IV
Nanovisions exhibition

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Outreach: some talks in 2012

6.30 p.m., November 19th, 2012: Royal Observatory at Greenwich
Flamsteed Astronomical Society
Remote Exploration of rocky planets: craters to smart dust
Prof John Barker

10.30 a.m.,November 27th, 2012  Jordanhill Parish Church
Kelvin Probus Club, Glasgow
A question of Cosmology
Prof John Barker

2 p.m., 6th December, 2012
University of Swansea: College of  Engineering
Green functions and Causality: exploring Electron Transport in Nanowires
Prof John Barker
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Higgs Announcement

4th July, 2012

CERN reports that the Large Hadron Collider has indeed found evidence for a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson predicted by the Standard Model.

I obtained this photo of Peter Higgs as a screen capture from the live video feed of the News Conference at CERN.

Peter Higgs at CERN 04-07-2012

We have to wait to find out if the new particle is a scalar or pseudo scalar or whatever. Exciting times!

Note added in October: At the annual statutory meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh on Monday 1 October, Professor Higgs FRS FRSE was awarded a specially-commissioned medal in recognition of his outstanding work that led to the recent announcement by scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN of the discovery of a Higgs-like particle.

Here are two iPhone pictures of the award:

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In search of Higgs

The link gives an excellent account of the LHC search for Higgs in cartoon form from PHD comics:

Higgs Boson explained by Cartoon

 

 

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