Rack Research Group

Congratulations to Dr. Maksim Livsh*ts, who successfully defended his dissertation on Tuesday, February 22, 2017. Well done!

We are making progress in re-establishing the laser lab. See the three photos below for the new table. We are building a canopy over the table now. The equipment will be installed in the coming weeks. We hope to be up and running by the end of June.

I had a great time at the Inter-American Photochemical Society Meeting in Santiago, Chile. I spoke about our newest results involving photo diffraction. It was a wonderfully organized meeting and I highly recommend a trip to Chile, if you ever get the chance.

Another long delay between posts. We are slowly moving to UNM. Max, Albert and Gilbert and his family have now arrived, all within the last week or so. We are preparing for the Photochemistry Gordon Research Conference. We hope to see you there!

I read this on Bloomberg Business and thought of the group. Please see below for a short article on the best and worst fonts for your CV.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-27/the-best-and-worst-fonts-to-use-on-your-r-sum-

The Best and Worst Fonts to Use on Your Résumé Using Times New Roman is the typeface equivalent of wearing sweatpants to an interview

Last week I presented our work at Duke and NC State. My hosts were Mike Therien and Dave Schultz, respectively. I had a great time and our work was very well received.

We are busy preparing for the move this summer! Stay tuned!

We had a wonderful visit with Len MacGillivray last week. He gave a terrific lecture and he helped us to design new experiments for photomechanical materials. It was a great lecture!