Brian Pauw

To the States, and other cutting-room clippings

2014-07-28 Brian Pauw 1

Dear readers, As you read this, I’ll be trying to get to the Denver X-ray Conference in Montana. I’ll be giving a talk there on […]

Monday post delayed

2014-07-27 Brian Pauw 0

Dear Scatterers, Monday’s post will be delayed as I will be travelling to the Denver X-ray Conference. I didn’t manage to finish it in time […]

Today is a holiday, short note on data corrections

2014-07-21 Brian Pauw 0

Dear readers, Unfortunately, this week I do not have anything ready for you. It is with great regret that I must therefore skip this week, […]

A portrait of Dr. Coolidge seen in the movie "Exploring with X-Rays, Part 1" from GE.

Lessons from history: a look at GE’s early outreach videos

2014-07-07 Brian Pauw 1

[ed: I’m giving a general SAXS talk at BESSY, the Berlin synchrotron on Friday the 11th at 10:00 local time. Contact me or Andreas Thünemann […]

Random Dense packing of spheroids (potatoes). Image K9152-1: US Agricultural Research Service (no copyright).

Intensity in density

2014-06-30 Brian Pauw 1

A few weeks ago, a dataset landed on my desk from a very dense system: scattering from dry, packed SiO2 nanoparticle powder. Dense systems add […]

Nature Chemistry publishing on Martin’s Magical Molecules

2014-06-23 Brian Pauw 2

The long wait is over! A new publication is out, this one written by Martin Hollamby over the course of three tough years. For those who […]

Data corrections implemented up to now (green) out of total listed in "Everything SAXS"-paper.

1/2 – year update

2014-06-16 Brian Pauw 0

Indeed, we are already prety much halfway through the useful part of 2014, considering the latter half of December is a globally recognised period for scientific […]

Guest post by Dr. Jan Ilavsky: Meet an Ultra-scatterer!

2014-06-09 Brian Pauw 4

[ED: I’ve started asking around for guest contributions for the LookingAtNothing site, in order to provide a broader view of the SAS-related activities than I […]