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Lab tour.

 

The Chemistry Building.  Our lab is on the 4th floor.

   

Room 420B - the epicenter.

   

A bird's eye view.  The white line on the floor marks the distance to the dartboard.

   

FT-IR and polarizing optical microscopes are on the benches in the foreground.  Behind Karl is the bench almost everyone has slept beneath at least once while attending to an experiment late at night, comfortable on a bed of acoustic foam.

 

The AFM, STM and sample preparation areas.

 

Yet another room, this one with a hood, evaporator, and one of two electromagnets. The lab plant and dartboard. Each is struck by darts with roughly equal frequency.
   

 The adjoining p-chem lab where some of us have the odd experiment or two. And finally, a view out the window looking North across campus. The Canadian Rockies just beyond Vancouver, B.C. are visible from here on a clear day.
 

 

 

Amber Hamilton.

 

 

 

Simulating CFM.

 

 

Joe Valente.

 

 

 

Data.