NRTGE | No Reason to Get Excited

Send us Fan Mail What if the technologies of the future are built from materials we haven't even made yet? In this episode of No Reason to Get Excited (NRTGE), Dr. Aaron Winkler sits down with Lilia Xie, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and the Princeton Materials Institute at Princeton University, to explore the world of quantum materials, where the arrangement of atoms, the energy of electr...

Send us Fan Mail What if the most powerful materials of the future are only one atom thick? In this episode of No Reason to Get Excited (NRTGE), Dr. Aaron Winkler sits down with Fang Liu, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University, to explore the cutting-edge world of two-dimensional materials, where single-atom-thick semiconductors stack, twist, and transform in ways that could redef...

Send us Fan Mail What if curing a chronic disease looked less like a daily pill and more like a tiny, wireless implant of living cells that quietly produces your medicine on demand? In this episode of No Reason to Get Excited (NRTGE), Dr. Aaron Winkler sits down with Siddharth Krishnan, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, to explore the rapidly evolving frontier o...

Send us Fan Mail What if the most powerful tools for understanding the human brain are the very tiny particles we're learning to build, atom by atom? In this episode of No Reason to Get Excited (NRTGE), Dr. Aaron Winkler sits down with Rebecca Pinals, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University and Institute Scholar at Sarafan ChEM-H, to explore the frontier where nanot...

Send us Fan Mail What if the secret to understanding life lies in the mathematics of systems that can never sit still? In this episode of No Reason to Get Excited (NRTGE), Dr. Aaron Winkler sits down with Grant Rotskoff, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University, to explore the breathtaking frontier where statistical physics, computation, and biology collide. From the unsolved myster...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you apply machine learning and rigorous data analysis to the "Wild West" of American campaign finance? In this episode of No Reason to Get Excited (NRTGE), Dr. Aaron Winkler sits down with Andrew Myers, a PhD candidate at Stanford University and incoming Assistant Professor at MIT, to pull back the curtain on how money, media, and institutional rules sh...

Send us Fan Mail What does it actually mean to create a molecule that has never existed before? In this episode of No Reason to Get Excited (NRTGE) , Dr. Aaron Winkler sits down with Stanford organic chemist Noah Burns for a wide-ranging conversation about chemistry, creativity, photochemistry, molecular design, and the strange beauty hidden inside organic reactions. What begins as a discussion ab...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when a psychiatrist sits down with a Stanford physics professor to talk about gravitational waves, dark matter, quantum mechanics, and atoms existing in two places at once? In this episode of No Reason to Get Excited (NRTGE) , Dr. Aaron Winkler talks with Stanford Physicist Peter Graham about the strange and fascinating world of modern physics. What starts as a conver...