Picture diary - pre 2017

(More or less in reverse chronological order. Click on pics to enlarge (sometimes).

some pictures of people (and things) in 2017

1 December 2017: D&S group meeting. Stoplight...

27 October 2017: Judith Reichenbach passed her PhD viva today. Below with Finlay Walton, John Bolling, Mario González Jiménez, and Steve Meech. (Yes, I know the double bonds in the porphyrin ring are not correct...)

28 September 2017: Joanna (Asia) Mosses passed her PhD viva today. Celebrating with champagne in coffee cups with the external examiner Prof Dr Mischa Bonn (Director at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany) and Asia.

Asia, KW, Andrew Farrell, and Finlay Walton.

The external relaxing a bit after the viva...

23-28 July 2017: We went to the 8th International Discussion Meeting on Relaxations in Complex Systems. Fireworks after the conference dinner

16-21 July 2017: We attended the Time Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy Meeting in Cambridge. Here a picture of the conference dinner with Susan Quinn, Chris Cheatum, Paul Donaldson, Neil Hunt, Siva Umapathy, and Tony Parker.

1 June 2017: Kick-off meeting of the MIMI (mosquito) project in Glasgow. Here is Mario showing off our spectroscopic technique to Niang (Dr Abdoulaye Niang, IRSS, Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso), Fred (Dr Fredros O. Okumu, Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania), Doreen (Dr Doreen Josen, Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam), and Francesco (Dr Francesco Baldini, Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, GU). Also there for the two days were Dr Lisa Ranford-Cartwright (Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, GU), Dr Heather Fergu-son and Paul Johnson (Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, GU).

26 May 2017: Drinks while the weather is nice with Mario, Finlay, Chris, Malcolm, Joy, and Smita

1-5 April 2017: Went to the JACS Editorial board meeting and the ACS National Meeting in San Francisco. Last minute invite for a talk in the "Long Range Correlated Motions in Proteins" session organised by Andrea Markelz.

23 February 2017: Goodbye dinner for Gopa who is off to India. From left to right: Klaas, Mario, Gopa, Chris, Andy, Judith, and Finlay.

some pictures of people (and things) in 2016

16 December: Dynamics & Structure group christmas lunch

6 October: The fire alarm went off in Chemistry when there were undergrad labs on.

1 October: Today, Andrew Farrell joined the group, who will be doing ultrafast spectroscopy on liquids, nucleation, and phase transitions using OKE and hopefully aso some 2D-IR in collaboration with Neil Hunt at Strathclyde.

30 September 2016: Our brand spanking new Spectra Physics Spirit One laser was installed today. It's shiny...! This will be used by PhD student Finlay Walton in a microscopy set-up to manipulate chemical matter using spatial light modulators, optical tweezers, etc. in collaboration with organic chemist David France.

31 July - 5 August: Gordon Research Conference on Water & Aqueous Solutions.

5 July: The group was visited by Spain's Consul General on invitation by Mario. Here Mario is explaining the crushing of mosquitos...

3 June: I got to meet first minister Nicola Sturgeon. I was too embarrassed to ask Nicola for a selfie but I think Anton Muscatelli may have taken a photie on his phone. I did get a photo of School of Chemistry students Roberta, Oriol (Catalan independence supporter), and Josefa talking to her for a few seconds before been elbowed out of the way by a pushy academic.

15-18 April: We had a 72 houremergency accessto the Diamond Light Source. Here are Chris Syme, Judith Reichenbach, and Finlay Walton in the control room of beamline I22.

Chris about to check for radiation

Judith and Finlay in the beamline hutch

The sample

Finlay off to set a FKT around the Diamond synchrotron

23 March: Bob Hill's last ever lecture before retiring this summer.

18 January: Rob Liskamp on learning from Muffy Calder that the University intends to build a giant bridge through his (and my) lab...

8 January: Chris trying out his new lights from growing "chillies"

some pictures of people (and things) in 2015

18 December: Last Dynamics & Structure seminar of the year and D&S christmas lunch + pub extravaganza... (all today's photos by Mario) Finlay, Judith, Mario, and Chris in the office.

D&S seminar with Elliott and Mario.

Mario?

D&S Christmas lunch

8 December: Neil Hunt (Strathclyde, Physics) opening our meeting of the Biomolecular spectroscopy & dynamics Cluster (BioC) on Tuesday 8 December 2015.

26 November: Final year project student Elliott Reedy explaining mosquito IR spectroscopy at a local meeting on disease vectors.

8 November: Talk at Sheffield-Hallam on Monday, good excuse to go running the 30km Edale Skyline in the Peak District...

4 November: Celebrating a new EPSRC grant with David France.

6-10 September: The Joint European Molecular Liquids Group (EMLG) and the Japanese Molecular Liquids Group (JMLG) meeting in Rostock.

First time giving a talk with a phone + iPad...went OK.

Looking very suspicious at the poster session

21-26 June: Conferences, such as the 2015 International Conference on Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy (TRVS) in Madison, WI, are always a dignified affair... Neil Hunt, Erik Nibbering, and Suan Quinn.

Myself

1 June 2015: We were joined by Finlay Walton, initially as summer project student for summer 2015 and in October as a PhD student. The summer project involves the study of mosquitoes while the PhD project will be on microscopy of phase transitions.

22/23 April 2015: We went to the Diamond Light Source for experiments on the I22 beam line on phase transitions in liquids

The synchrotron from above

Chris at the beam-line

There was bit of a problem: no x-rays... Nick Terrill and Andy

Chris setting up the sample cell at midnight

Load, aim, fire death rays!

Control room at 1:30am

Last target at ~4am.

25 March 2015: Judith's birthday.

27 February 2015: Our fancy new glove box arrived and is being set up by Mario and Chris.

some pictures of people (and things) in 2014

23 October 2014: Photo of a mosquito being analysed by near-infrared spectroscopy by undergraduate student Thomas Glew and postdoc Mario Gonzalez-Jimenez. Mosquito spectroscopy project involving Klaas Wynne (Chemistry), Dr Lisa Ranford-Cartwright (Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, GU), Dr Heather Ferguson (Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, GU), Dr Francesco Baldini (Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, GU) – spectroscopy of mosquitoes.

17 October 2014: Some photos from the lab.

Dr Chris Syme carrying out fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) on a cooled liquid sample held in a Linkam cryogenic microscopy stage.

Dr Gopa Ramakrishnan holding up a sample of cytochrome C to be studied with ultrafast spectroscopy in the UCP lab.

Dr Mario González Jiménez holding up a tube with mosquitoes. These are used in a spectroscopy project in collaboration with MVLS.

14 October: The newest group members - a collection of mosquitoes. Unfortunately (for them) they will have to die in the name of science...

19 March: Playing with the brand spanking new FTIR with Mario and Gopa

21 February: Today Dr Gopakumar Ramakrishnan joined the group as a research assistant to work on terahertz spectroscopy.

16 February: KW after climbing the North Buttress of the Buchaille

Updated version of We Love Chemicals

Some pictures of people (and things) in 2013

10 December: Christmas hats with Mario and Judith

2 December: Today, Dr Mario González Jiménez officially started as a Research Assistant in the group. He'll be working on femtosecond spectroscopy of biomolecules.

15 November: David Turton has his first pint of Tennants to commemorate staying in Glasgow for 9 years. He is leaving for Shrewsbury, England.

15 November: Goodbye lunch for David with Tommy, Chris, Asia, Judith, David, Malcolm, and KW.

David looking a bit...neddy

15 November: Miles Padgett got us a REF2014 cake. It's an "output" in Phys Rev Lett with the title "Group earns cake for work on REF2014"

17 October: Ice climbing in the Snow Factor at Glasgow's Breahead

17 October: A Wordle of the titles of our REF2014 outputs (pdf version of REF Wordle).

1 October: Today, Judith Reichenbach officially started her PhD studies in the group. She'll be working on nucleation using femtosecond spectroscopy.

18-20 September 2013: Faraday Discussion 167 on Mesostructure and Dynamics in Liquids and Solutions was a sucess with a lot of (heated) discussion. The published volume should come out later in the year.

Conference banquet

19-24 May: TRVS, the XVIth International Conference on Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy (TRVS 2013) held in Beppu, Oita, Japan. Erik Nibbering and me in the train to Beppu.

Crap! Are we in the wrong place?!

The toilet is the hotel is fully automated and comes with its own computer. But what does it all mean...?

Weird Beppu-bay view from the hotel

The Yufu volcano I ran over.

 

On the summit. Slightly sweaty...

Proper sashimi!

Steamed fish. With Paul Champion.

Paul, Shaul Mukamel, Dwayne Miller, and Marti Zanni

My talk.

29 April: Celebrating triple grant success: Malcolm, Serena, and Klaas all got funded this week.

15 February: Second snowboarding course with the group.

some pictures of people (and things) in 2012

20 December: Christmas lunch with the Dynamics & Structure grouping including KW, Malcolm Kadodwala, Chris Syme, Calum Jack, Asia Mosses, David Turton, Serena Corr, Donald MacLaren, Eddie Cussen, Ben Toulson, and Grant Hill (click on picture for bigger version)

8-14 December: We went to Pune India to set up collaborative research activities with the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune. Below are Malcolm Kadodwala, Eddie Cussen, Chris Syme, and Calum Jack having a beer after our long trip to Pune.

Serena Corr, Klaas Wynne, and Goetz Bucher.

Dinner that evening. Malk would set a record of 16 consecutive curries eaten...

Tea break at the IISER Pune with me and Hans Senn

Poster session in the open. It was an almost pleasant 30 C

Group photo at the IISER Pune

We got to talk to 140 14-year old high school kids who asked really good question about science. The IISER is trying to attract these bright kids to do pure science rather than engineering. Here is Chris being adulated by a group of girls...

Particle physics? No problemo...

Chris undera photo of Raman. The meeting was in the Raman auditorium.

Group photo in Pune

Chris next to the IISER Pune logo

Afterwards we went to Mumbai for a day. Here's me sipping from a fresh coconut.

Part of the group at the Gateway to India in Mumbai

31 October: Thomas Harwood, a PhD student in Elizabeth Ellis's group at Strathclyde is visiting to do some experiments on biomolecules with David Turton.

1 October: Dr Chris Syme has joined the group as postdoctoral fellow.

Also final year student Chris Gordon started his final year project in the group

21 August: Flying back over Bagdad

19 August: Climbing on Turahali boulders after the conference

15 August: Exploring Bangalore on the day off at the conference with David McCamant and Sophia Hayes.

14 August: The Raman plaque I received after giving a talk at ICORS in Bagalore, India. How cool is that?

Dinner in Bangalore with Colin Bain (click for larger)

7 August: The low-power femtosecond laser with optical Kerr effect (OKE) set-up and David Turton. New light scattering set-up built by David and Andre Büssow in the background.

High power femtosecond regenerative amplifier with IR OPA.

14 June: My pasteur pipette is larger than yours...!

1 June: First cool fluorescence microscopy pictures using the cooling stage. David Turton and Asia Mosses.

22 May: Yay, our new Zeiss confocal laser scanning fluorescence microscope is being installed.

21 May: Craig thinking deep thoughts in the lab...

18 May: Lots of chemists in the Brewdog Glasgow. Craig Murray, Malcolm Kadodwala, and David France. David Lennon in teh background.

Ben Toulson and Craig.

16 May: I feel challenged by ChemBark's Pro-Chemistry Ad Campaign. Here's my first shot (we love chemicals, pdf 5 MB).

some pictures of people (and things) in 2011

14-16 December: The International Workshop on Ultrafast Chemical Physics & Physical Chemistry (UCP 2011) was held in Glasgow.

Below is a photo of all invited speakers (bigger version): Erik Nibbering (Max Born Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, Berlin), Anthony Parker (Central Laser Facility- STFC RAL), Huib Bakker (AMOLF, Amsterdam), Villy Sundstrom (Lund University Sweden), David Klug (Imperial College), Klaas Wynne (Glasgow University), Dwayne Miller (University of Toronto), Michael Först (Center for Free Electron Laser Science, Hamburg), and John Tisch (Imperial).

Conference dinner with Erik Nibbering, David Klug, Martin Wolf, Steve Meech, Charlie Schmuttenmaer Dwayne Miller and his partner, and Huib Bakker.

Susan Quinn trying to convince Steve Meech, Charlie Schmuttenmaer, and others that Irish whiskey if preferable over Scottish Whisky... (and failing miserably)

Drinking gluhwein with Charlie Schmuttenmaer on George Square on the Saturday afterwards.

3 October: Ahmed Zewail (Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1999) was here at Glasgow University to receive an honorary doctorate. Here Ahmed is standing next to Anton Muscatelli.

Afterwards, there was dinner in the principal's lodging on Professor Square.

11-15 September: The 2011 EMLG/JMLG Annual Meeting in Warsaw. Steve Meech and KW went to see Marie Curie's old house, which was pretty much unavoidable in the Year of Chemistry.

KW's talk.

Group photo.

Asking questions sitting next to Steve Meech and Hideaki Shirota. Professor Meech appears to be...asleep!

Such a posh conference: they even had music (Chopin of course).

Rich Stratt.

An Irish pub in Poland?!

Wojciech Gadomski, Bożena Ratajska-Gadomska, and Richard Stratt at the conference dinner.

Hajime Torii at dinner.

31 August: David Turton in the blue laser lab.

KW. There seems to be some sort of hand-waving theme going on...

22/23 August: Faraday Discussion meeting FD154 on ionic liquids in Belfast. Poster session.

David Turton giving his talk

Ed Quitevis

Conference dinner (click for bigger version). From left to right: Chris Hardacre (QUB), Ruth Lynden-Bell (Cambridge), Mario del Popolo (QUB), Edward Maginn (Notr Dame), Hermann Weingärtner (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Athanassios Panagiotopoulos (Princeton), Margarida Costa-Gomes (Université Blaise-Pascal), Ed Castner (Rutgers), Austen Angell (Arizona State), and KW (Glasgow).

Ruth and Mario with the Loving Cup

26 July: Gordon Research Conference on the chemistry and physics of liquids.

ROW 1: Christiane Alba-Simionesco, Valeria Molinero, Itai Cohen, Debra Bernhardt, William Gelbart, Peter Pusey, Lyderic Bocquet, Mark Ediger, Peter Harrowell, Sarah Keller, Jerry Gollub, Eric Weeks, Gregory Mckenna, John Fourkas, Ranko Richert, R Astumian

ROW 2: Anil Thakur, Yael Elmatad, Katie Whitaker, Ditte Gundermann, Branka Ladanyi, Sadanand Singh, Zahra Fakhraai, Vanessa De Souza, Alenka Luzar, Jerome Delhommelle, Veronique Trappe, Jiayuan Luo, Austen Angell, Jonathan Doye

ROW 3: John Wheeler, Dieter Bingemann, Rene Corrales, Amish Patel, Sumit Sharma, David Huang, Brian Mazzeo, Kristine Niss, Daniel Sussman, Edith Sevick, Leticia López, Jessica Johnston, Lindsay Leone, Wenjuan Liu, Dario Corradini

ROW 4: Phillip Geissler, Alfonso Sepulveda, Davide Vanzo, Peter Kusalik, Rolando Castillo, Erick Sarmiento, Masahiro Nakanishi, Zuofeng Zhao, Gren Patey, Xueyu Song, Paul Voyles, Kai Zhang, Benjamin Landrum, Simona Capponi

ROW 5: Kenneth Schweizer, Thomas Bickel, Christopher Daub, Michael Hands, Patrick Varilly, David Limmer, Aaron Keys, Zane Shi, Liam Jacobson, Joseph Morrone, Caleb Brian, Joel Eaves

ROW 6: Robert Grisenti, Mark Taylor, Jutta Luettmer-Strathmann, Nicolas Giovambattista, Klaas Wynne, Ulf Pedersen, Asaph Widmer-Cooper, Markus Hoffmann, Erik Lascaris, William Krekelberg, Franz Faupel, Charles Powell, Elijah Flenner, Grzegorz Szamel

24 July: Dinner with Eugene Stanley in Boston. From left to right Gene Stanley (Boston University), a collaborator, Jiayuan Luo, three other PhD students, Erik Lascaris, Nicolas Giovambattista (Brooklyn College), Peter Harrowell (University of Sydney), Hajime Tanaka (University of Tokyo), Gregory McKenna (Texas Tech University, Lubbock), me. Click on picture for a much bigger version.

6 July: It appears that I am in (half of) Monteath Robertson's former office (and all of Lee Cronin's former office).

28 June: Wahey! The Coherent Legend regen is installed again.

21 June: Soren Keiding and Peter Vohringer having a discussion over lunch at theTRVS meeting.

Neil Hunt and Steve Meech

22 June: Meeting of the TRVS international organising commitee during Time Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy XV. Click on picture for a much bigger version. From left to right: Robin Hochstrasser, Roberto Righini, Wolfgang Zinth, Thomas Elsaesser, Shaul Mukamel, Peter Hamm, Huib Bakker, Keith Nelson, Martin Zanni, Marloes Groot, Tahei Tahara, Edwin Heilweil, Erik Nibbering, Jennifer Ogilvie, Terry Gustafson, Hajime Torii, Yasuhisa Mizutani, Steve Meech, Klaas Wynne, and Kei Tominaga.

Shaul Mukamel and Siva Umapathy

17 June: David in the orange lab. The laser will be installed here next week.

And in the blue lab. The regen should be installed here next week.

Prof Wynne planking on the laser table...

2 June: Official induction as professor at Glasgow. Professor Andrew Briggs, Professor Clare Knottenbelt, Professor Valentine O'Shea, Professor Christopher Pearce, and Professor Klaas Wynne

Shaking the hand of the Principal Anton Muscatelli followed by the deans of all teh faculties.

1 June: Science pub quiz in the CCA in Glasgow with Beth Paschke, David Jackson, Hans Senn, Goetz Bucher, and David France.

11 April 2011: Photo of our laser lab in the 1950s.

7 April 2011: Mike Ashfold wearing the Faraday medal (?) at the Faraday Discussion on Frontiers in Spectroscopy held in Basel 6-8 April 2011.

The traditional passing of the Faraday cup with Adriana Huerta Viga on the left.

18 March 2011: Went to the Robin Hochstrasser Symposium at Penn in Philadelphia to chair a session. Robin giving his talk on ultrafast 2D-IR spectroscopy.

Concluding talk by Robin

All the (former) students and postdocs of Robin Hochstrasser's that were present at the meeting. On the front row from left are Peter Tromsdorf, Bill Eaton, Robin Hochstrasser, Mostafa A. El-Sayed, Charles Harris, and Chuck Shank.

Click on this picture to get a bigger version.

Robin and Shaul Mukamel.

From left to right, Tim Lian, Rolf Diller, Robin Hochstrasser, Gnana, and KW (photo Rolf Diller).

Dinner in Le Bec Fin with Angus Bain, KW, and Feng Gai (photo Rolf Diller).

11 March 2011: The lab is almost finished. Here is a 30 second (sped up by 2x) video of the new laser labs (mov, 128 MB)

9 March 2011: Finally, time to move our stuff out of Strathclyde. David and KW.

Marc White in the nearly empty lab. A few big bits of equipment are staying because Strathclyde doesn't want to sell them to Glasgow University for a reasonable price. So, the ancient femtosecond oscillator is staying and three optical tables.

4 March 2011: Asia preparing a cryogenic sample in our state-of-the-art cold chamber...

1 March 2011: One last look at my old lab at Strathclyde where I started in 1996.

27 January 2011: partitioning pretty much finished. Laser lab 2:

18 January 2011. The first partitions are going up.

2010

21 December 2010. They have started demolishign the walls and ceilings in the space for the new ultrafast physical chemistry labs (click on picture for a 3000-pixel version).

29 October: Goodbye Strathclyde office

Hello Glasgow office

(Some pictures of the 2010 UoG lab refurbishment are here.)

11 August: David explaining our poster on jamming in salt solutions to Mark Tuckerman at the Gordon Research Conference on Water and Aqueous Solutions.

6 August: Dinner (and some drinks) in Boston with Duncan Graham and Karen Faulds.

5 August: At the Gordon Research Conference on Vibrational Spectroscopy, they splashed out on a fancy dinner with steak and lobster just for my birthday.

23 May: Even when it's warm, it feels really really cold in Glasgow...

         

6 May: Neil and KW are celebrating a damn good day in the Pot Still.

16 February: Ian doing clearly very scary chemistry stuff...

5 February: Workshop on RTILs in Oeiras (Lisbon) from Feb 4th (Thursday) through Feb 6th (Saturday)(click on pictures for a larger version)

From left to right: Alessandro Triolo, José Nuno Canongia Lopes, Agílio Pádua, Isabel Marrucho, João Paulo Leal, Mario Del Popolo, Manuel Minas da Piedade, Simona-Maria Rusu, Natalia Pletchkova, Ken Seddon, Luís Paulo N. Rebelo, and José Esperança. Not visible: KW.

From left to right: José Nuno Canongia Lopes, Natalia Pletchkova, Simona-Maria Rusu, José Esperança, Ken Seddon, Luís Paulo N. Rebelo, Agílio Pádua, Alessandro Triolo, and Mario Del Popolo. Not visible: KW.

27 January: Some boring Apple event takes place across the street from Photonics West in San Francisco. Like anybody cares...

26 January: With Femius Koenderink in an icecream shop in San Francisco.

Mischa Bonn stealing ice cream from Ted Heilweil...

The Tedmeister

25 January: At Photonics West in San Francisco, Frank Hegman, David Cook, and Martina Havenith.

19 January: Marco Candelaresi in the physics department at Strathclyde.

18 January: Stefano Santabarbara doing some chemical stuff.

some pictures of people (and things) in 2009

11 December: We went out for christmas lunch. Stefano, Marco, Spyros, and Rafal:

Neil, Scott, David, Kirsten, Jean, and Amy:

24 Sept.: Marco holding a "giant" terahertz antenna to be used in the new set-up.

6-10 Sept.: KW was at the EMLG-JMLG Annual Meeting 2009 on Intermolecular Interactions and Liquid Structure at the University of Salzburg. This picture was taken by Prof Wojciech Gadomski

PhD student Johannes Hunger, working with our collaborator Richard Buchner at the University of Regensburg in Germany, received the poster prize. His poster was about our work on room temperature ionic liquids recently published in JACS (see serving nanoparticle soup).

27 May: We went to IKEA to get a sofa and chair for the lab as well as some picture frames for the Ultrafast Wall of Fame.

21 May: We were allowed to move our stuff into the new lab. Scott's experiment table is moved out.

The new lab still looks huge and empty.

The table coming out of the old lab. It only just made it out past the wall.

David's laser and OKE experiment going out.

David Birch inspecting the new space.

Neil's laser and experiment is moved into the new lab.

Nearly finished.

May 2009: Neil, David, and Klaas went to TRVS in Meredith, NH.

Steve Meech in the breakfast room

KW and Peter Vohringer discussing supercooled water droplets in vacuum on the boat on which we had the conference dinner (picture by Andrei Tokmakoff)

Neil and Steve at the bar (picture by Andrei Tokmakoff)

30 April 2009: The laser lab just before we are about to move.

January: The old supercondicting devices lab is being stripped for our new labs.

some pictures of people (and things) in 2008

30-31 October: We organised the International Workshop on ultrafast physical-chemistry (UCP) in Glasgow. A whole page of pictures is here. This is just a picture of the opening.

Participants at the UCP 2008 meeting held 30/31 Oct. '08 at Strathclyde

Afterwards, Charlie Schmuttenmaer and I went to sample some local colour in the East End of Glasgow.

And met some of the locals.

August: John Reevie build a canopy for Neil's 2D-IR set-up.

12 August: Ian Stewart is at an Ultrafast course in Finland. Poor sod, has to work hard, eat strange food, endure strangely peaceful views...

24 July: Kitsakorn fixing the cryostat window

26 June: Neil workign with his new ultrafats laser

June: Ultrafast in Stresa Italy. Here we (left is Erik Nibbering) are watching Holland destroying Italy.

Dinner was in a beautiful old hotel (click on pic for much bigger version).

8 May: Gregor had is PhD viva and...passed. Here's Gregor with the external examiner Gavin Reid in the Babity afterwards drinking a coke.

Gav

Prof Wynne has switched to cider like a big girl and is getting a bit...happy

14 April: Neil looks very excited after having received news that he had been offered a one million euro grant. He said that after receiving his EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship, he was very excited. However, now he was even more excited. We went to the pub on the Friday after, where everybody was very excited.

Being excited from left to right are Neil, David, Alex, Jenny, and John.

Wilf was clearly over-excited

8 April: David with the fancy new cryostat. The new experiments on inert gasses appear to be very exciting.

Slowly filling up with liquid xenon

5 March: David contemplating our new low-temperature experiments

and KW wasting everybody's time posing for pics. Check out the fancy new cryostat though...

29 February: Gregor submitted his thesis today.

We all went to the pub. Everybody is looking sad/weird because of the presence of a camera...

January 2008: KW went to Photonics West to give a talk. This is David Cook, a former postdoc of Robin Hochstrasser's, who has invented various new terahertz techniques.

KW visited Charles Schmuttenmaer at Yale and gave talk. We went to Charlie's favoured local Mexican for some food.

After the talk we had posh dinner with Pat Vaccaro and Victor Batista

some pictures of people (and things) in 2007

November: Neil and Ian went to visit Erik Nibbering at the Max Born Institute in Berlin to do some IR experiments. Here's a bunch of blokes (including Neil & Ian) looking on while somebody else does all the hard work.

September: Neil's rather scary looking glovebox is ready and used by Ian

May: Pictures from the 2007 Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy conference in Munich.

some pictures of people (and things) in 2006

August: Pictures from the 2006 Ultrafast Phenomena Conference and trip.

July: Pictures from the 2006 Gordon Research Conference on Vibrational Spectroscopy

23 August: Gregor won the poster prize at Ross Priori (and the prize for the best talk last year!).

14 June: SUPA meeting. Here's a picture of Jason Crain (Physics/Edinburgh), Neil Hunt, and KW discussing hydrogen-bond network dynamics in N-methylacetamide.

25 March: Neil received an email saying "Dear Dr Hunt. I am pleased to inform you that you have been chosen to receive a chemistry advanced fellowship." Here is a picture of Neil looking very excited about getting about £1M:

Dr Hunt's comment: "I am very excited". Then we went to the pub. Which was quite exciting, especially the thought that Neil might be paying for our beer. Alas...

17 March: At the risk of suggesting that we are in the pub all the time, I managed to take a picture of Jan when we were in the pub this Friday.

15 March:John Pendry was here to give a talk about negative refractive indices and all that, which was rather nice. In the photo below, all the way on the right, are our esteemed leaders: HoD David Birch and SUPA CEO Ian Halliday.

10 February 2006: We went to the pub. "We" in this case is David, Gregor, Neil, Klaas, and (shock horror!) Jan. Last I remember is somebody ordering Bruichladdich.

January 2006: Andy in the office.

When I (KW) work at home, this is my home office:

It's a bit weird that JJ is not here anymore.

Gregor and Neil have been making nanoparticle arrays. Some of the slides shimmer under certain angles.

2005

December 2005: At the end of the month, Andy, David, John, Klaas, and Neil climbed Ben Ledi close to Callander. Here's a group picture taken in the car park when we left.

Not entirely sure if David understood that the camera has a wide angle lens... Below some pictures from the way up. Left Andy and on the right David.

On the left me a bit under the summit with John in the background. On the right, Neil, David, John, and Andy having lunch on the summit. Sadly it was baltic with the wind howling. Everybody's fingers froze off, so we decided to leave again.

Somewhere on the way down.

Afterwards, we picked up Justyna and had dinner in a pub in Kilmahog, which was very nice.

Also December: Jan and Alison had been using the SNOM/AFM in the Wolfson lab for a while. This month, we got in on the action as well. Here's Gregor using the AFM in tapping mode and explaining some results.

Here is a nanosphere array that Neil, Gregor, and John produced recently.

This is a photo of masters student Richard Shanks, who has been working in the group for almost a year now. He has been studying protein folding and is now an expert in the transitions between random coils, alpha helices, and beta sheets.

Here is David Turton working on the oscillator in the lab and Neil Hunt in the Wolfson lab.

October 2005: Link to animated gif of JJ in the office . Took some pictures of the femtosecond oscillator again as well:

Here's some pics of quite arty looking pipettes in the Wolfson lab:

September 2005: Simulation pictures from molecular dynamics simulation of methanol. Movie of MD simulation of methanol (2.93Mb, .wmv).

July 2005: Gregor & JJ made a flying visit to a terahertz conference in Erice, Italy.

June 2005: We went to the Telluride workshop on Nonlinear ultrafast spectroscopy in fluids in Telluride Colorado. Not many conference pictures because we were working so hard. Did have some time off though to do a bit of walking in the mountains. Here's a panorama of the Rocky Mountains:

Telluride is behind the mountains in the distance. On the left is Andy Turner. Aspen trees and Andy and Steve Meech descending a mountain:

Steve Meech on a path to a waterfall above Telluride and Steve sitting on a rock:

Close-up picture of the waterfall:

June 2005: Cool science picture. To be precise it shows the cross contamination between RIKES and RIKOA. Balanced signal as 3rd dimension, x and y are retardations.

May 2005: We went to the TRVS conference at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD. See the TRVS page on this site.