Interactions: Manisha Thakurathi
Manisha is a postdoc in the group of Prof. Jelena Klinovaja and Prof. Daniel Loss at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She is a physicist by training and her research interest lies in understanding the topological aspects of different quantum systems.
Interactions: Marco Martini
Marco Martini is in the Materials Science Department of the University of Milano-Bicocca.
Interactions: Maria Vozmediano
Maria Vozmediano is in the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid and works on field theories in condensed matter physics.
10 things to remember for when you have graduate students
Guest post by Charlie Ebersole, a social psychology graduate student at the University of Virginia.
Interactions: Max McGinley
Max is a first year PhD student at Cambridge University. He works in the Theory of Condensed Matter group, supervised by Professor Nigel Cooper, and studies the theory behind certain interesting phases of matter which are known as ‘topological’.
Heuristics for better figures
Post by Jesse L. Silverberg.
Here’s the tldr: (1) Images = Information, (2) Colour communicates meaning, (3) Understand the limits of visual communication, (4) Move through colour space deliberately to reduce complexity, (5) Combine #3 and #4 to pick your colours wisely.
