I'm in Manhattan, Kansas since Sunday June 29th. It's really hot here - everyday between 28°C and 36°C. Even at night it doesn't cool down much. It feels like Egypt or a desert except everything is green.
It seems like everyone in Manhattan is proud of its University. You can buy merchandise like everywhere - even at Walmart.
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| K-State Store |
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| Merchandise at Walmart |
The campus
is huge and really beautiful. You could consider it like a Campus Westend of
Frankfurts Uni times 30. It takes about 45 minutes to walk from the south-eastern
to the north-western part of the campus. Most buildings have a mediaeval-like
architecture.
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| Hale library |
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| K-State Campus |
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| K-State map |
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| Cardwell Hall - Department of Physics |
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| K-State |
At the Department of Physics there is the J.R.
McDonald Laboratory which specialized in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics.
Daniel and I are going to take over an experimental setup which was built and
used by a former PhD student. It contains a pump-probe setup. A higher harmonic
EUV (extreme ultra violet) pulse is generated by a short IR (infra red) pulse. A
COLTRIMS setup is used to image time resolved molecular dynamics. We should get
our first beamtime by the end of this week.
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| Beam guidance, processing and interferometer |
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| COLTRIMS setup |
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