I stepped foot inside my new lab yesterday. Dr. Dodge’s terahertz lab operates a system that is very similar to Dr. Hegmann’s ultrafast set-up back at the University of Alberta.
I also had my first four-hour lab TAing the Physics 130 life sciences lab. We (meaning the students) explored the simple pendulum. I am not really looking forward to marking 24 unique full lab reports on this topic, but it shouldn’t be so bad.
Today I have a meeting to discuss my NSERC IPS scholarship application and in the afternoon I’m helping/watching the slow process of aligning and improving the low-temperature terahertz experiment in the lab.
Finally, I have a book review of The Armageddon Factor almost ready to submit to the Peak for next week’s edition (my piece this week didn’t make the cut – which is fine since it wasn’t my best work).
All-in-all it should be a good summer.
