Defending against high-frequency attacks
It was the summer of 2008. I was 22 years old, and it was my second week working in the crude oil and natural gas options pit at the New [...]
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Faculty Lunch and Discussion
Faculty Lunch and Discussion Date Speaker Location June 3 Xie Chen 114 East Bridge May 13 Dave Hsieh 114 East Bridge April 29 Jason Alicea 114 East Bridge April [...]
Science books for kids matter (or used to)
The elementary school I attended hosted an annual book fair, and every year I went with my mother to browse. I would check out the sports books first, to see [...]
This single-shot life
The night before defending my Masters thesis, I ran out of shampoo. I ran out late enough that I wouldn’t defend from beneath a mop like Jack Sparrow’s; but, belonging [...]
How I learned to stop worrying and love graphene
Five years ago, I was staring out one of the few windowed cubicles in a cluttered office full of overambitious salespeople willing to throw their own father under a bus, [...]
Diversity
Transforming the STEM Pipeline into a River The traditional metaphor of the “leaky pipeline” tracks the number of students entering the educational system and emphasizes points at [...]
Introduction to Quantum Information
First slide, viewed on my laptop. I'm lazy. The only reason I ever do anything is that sometimes in a weak moment I agree to do something, and [...]
Jason Alicea
Faculty, Topological Quantum Physics
Clocking in at a Cambridge conference
Science evolves on Facebook. On Facebook last fall, I posted about statistical mechanics. Statistical mechanics is the physics of hordes of particles. Hordes of molecules, for example, form the stench [...]
Where are you, Dr. Frank Baxter?
This year marks the 50th anniversary of my first publication. In 1964, when we were eleven-year-old fifth graders, my best friend Mace Rosenstein and I launched The Pres-stein Gazette, a [...]