Alexandru B. Georgescu
You can now watch the PARADIM Summer School talk I gave online at Johns Hopkins University. The goal with this talk was to introduce students to concepts they may need to understand the literature in the field of correlated electron materials, with a focus on superconductors, particularly cuprate and nickelate based ones; I discuss topics…
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I was recently reading Nobel Chemistry laureate, Roald Hoffman’s, really nice book on bonding in solids and thought that the explanations for certain concepts (like Peierls distortion and Bloch wavefunctions) are so much clearer than the way I was taught in physics, and also make it easier for me to teach. So I decided to…
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I’ve made this introductory video for people who are interested in correlated electron materials and are either new to the field or may want to learn something new. I cover things ranging from Jahn-Teller and trigonal distortions, Peierls distortion, band renormalization in correlated metals and the importance of beyond-Density Functional Theory methods, spin frustration, and…
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Out of popular request (and my own need to document things) , I decided to write down some of my comments on how I made my sourdough recently – with comments on why so many recipes were maybe a bit tricky for beginners like myself. One of the nice things about sourdough is that it…
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Had 8 leftover hard boiled eggs after Easter. Easy way to eat them: just peel and toss quickly through soy sauce, rice vinegar and black pepper. They marinate very quickly, and it even softens the egg yolk a bit.
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This paper is now published in PRB. One of the difficulties I’ve found in the literature when looking at transition metal halides and dihalides, was to understand what mechanism makes these materials insulating: it’s pretty hard to understand why a 3-fold degenerate t2g orbital basis would lead to an insulating material, for an orbital filling…
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Welcome to the demo video for the tools I presented at the US-Africa Electronic Structure Workshop 2021. You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM2GlkXMvjk My intro video is here: https://youtu.be/OE-kAUXarA8 You can find the resources and papers discussed in this introduction here. 1) Our machine learning and metal-insulator transition (MIT) compounds paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c00905 2) MIT Materials…
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Here are some variations on how I make Trinidadian style curry chickpeas (or curried chana). You can also use basically these guidelines on chicken, provided you cut it up in small bits (I cut a drumstick in 2-3 pieces with a cleaver). I ended up combining one of the best shrimp curry recipes out there…
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Went on an awesome guided tour of food in Flushing, Queens, around New World Mall. We started off with Brown Sugar Bubble Tea from Tiger Sugar. The tapioca (or cassava as I recently found out it’s just a different word for the same thing) balls come in two sizes: one larger and one smaller, the…
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Went to Riki Izakaya or Riki Restaurant (Izakaya basically means Japanese gastropub). Overall was very happy with their ramen (had the usual pork belly – tonkotsu – ramen), their pancake with pork and seafood and their bitter melon stir-fry. My friend had the shrimp & egg udon and was happy with his choice as well. Pretty good…
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