Applied Physics Seminar

Abstract:

In a talk that I am hoping will quickly morph into a free-flowing Q and A session, I will discuss the roles of journals in general and PRL in particular in disseminating physics results through a cascading sequence involving journal editors, referees, conference chairs, journalists, department chairs, deans, funding agencies, and others. While some of the essential tools of physics dissemination are unchanged, the arrival of social media, search engines, and electronic repositories has us in a state of flux.

More about the Speaker:

Samindranath (Sami) grew up in Kolkata and Delhi and received his Ph.D. at Indiana University (Bloomington) in 1994 on theoretical aspects of the quantum Hall effect. After working on chemical physics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, he joined Physical Review Letters. His other responsibilities include papers on transport properties in semiconductors, 2D materials, and mesoscopic systems.