A Few Photographs From My Album

Cone research group photo in front of the old physics building, AJM Johnson Hall. Rufus Cone, Nick Strickland, Flurin Könz, Charles Thiel, Yongchen Sun, and Gregory Reinemer.
Group working on the spectroscopy of europium ions in yttrium silicate crystals (Eu:Y2SiO5). Yongchen Sun, Charles Thiel, Rufus Cone, Flurin Könz, and Roger Macfarlane.
The new home of the MSU physics department since 1996: the Engineering/Physical Science Building (EPS).
Packing up the lab for the move to the new building (1996). Flurin Könz, Guangming Wang, and Todd Harris.
Moving our equipment to the EPS building (in the background). Todd Harris, Gregory Reinemer, Rufus Cone, and Guangming Wang.
Walking back from visiting Fourvière with Lyon, France in the background (2001). Flurin Könz, and Geoff Pryde.
Hiking just outside of Bozeman near Rufus's home. Yongchen Sun, Rufus Cone, and Uwe Happek.
At the DPC'01 conference in Lyon, France. Guokui Liu, Geoff Pryde, Flurin Könz, Rufus Cone, Ali Belarouci, and Yongchen Sun.
Relaxing after a full day at the DPC'01 conference in Lyon, France. Yongchen Sun, Ali Belarouci, Tom Böttger, Geoff Pryde, and Charles Thiel.
Working on photoemission experiments at the UW Synchrotron Radiation Center near Madison, Wisconsin (1999). Charles Thiel and Herve Cruguel.
Working on the spectroscopy of hyperfine and superhyperfine structure (nuclear spin states) with our blue frequency-doubled diode laser. Yongchen Sun and Charles Thiel.
Transferring liquid helium into the cryostat for some late-night experiments. Todd Harris, Yongchen Sun, Flurin Könz, Roger Macfarlane, Randy Equall, and Rufus Cone.
Green emission streak from the Tb3+ ions (5D4 to 7F5 transition) in YAlO3 (a terbium doped yttrium aluminum perovskite crystal) after excitation with a 3 nanosecond pulse from a blue dye laser (7F6 to 5D4 transition).
Waiting for the Stephen Hawking lecture at the APS centennial meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Rufus Cone, Roger Macfarlane, Yongchen Sun, and Charles Thiel.
Touring the Citadel de Blaye near Bordeaux, France (1999). Yongchen Sun, Kris Merkel, Flurin Könz, Charles Thiel, and Krishna Mohan.
In between sessions at the APS centennial meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Yongchen Sun, Richard Meltzer, Roger Macfarlane, Flurin Könz, Rufus Cone, and Charles Thiel.
Visiting the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia for photoconductivity experiments in 1999. Rufus Cone, Charles Thiel, Uwe Happek, Richard Meltzer, and Sergei Basun.
Visiting the University of Wisconsin-Madison Synchrotron Radiation Center for photoemission experiments in 2000. Charles Thiel, Herve Cruguel, and Yongchen Sun.
Me in front of the ISU/MSU ERG/SEYA beamline on the Aladdin electron storage ring at the UW Synchrotron Radiation Center (2000).
Cone research group planning our strategy for future experiments. Alain Braud, Yongchen Sun, Gregory Reinemer, and Todd Harris.
Meeting for lab tours at the Universite Claude Bernard in Lyon, France (1999). Roger Macfarlane, Yongchen Sun, Rufus Cone, Kris Merkel, Charles Thiel, and Alan Craig.
Taking a break while building a table to hold a new spectrometer. Charles Thiel, Nick Strickland, and Yongchen Sun.
Walking by the Eiffel tower while visiting Paris. Yongchen Sun, Randy Equall, and Charles Thiel.
Visiting Notre-Dame while in Paris. Charles Thiel and Flurin Könz.
One of my Laue photographs of the x-ray diffraction from a single crystal YALO3 sample (yttrium aluminum perovskite) with the cytsallographic A-axis oriented normal to the picture.
Jerry Lapeyre (right) showing his new sample manipulator and electron energy analyzer (a stepper motor controlled XYZ manipulator with 3-axis sample goniometer and an angular-resolved electron analyzer on a two-axis goniometer) to Hartmut Höchst (left).
Bozeman, Montana (with the MSU campus in the background).
A group from MSU having dinner in Bordeaux, France. Yongchen Sun, Alan Craig, Alex Rebane, Flurin Könz, and Kris Merkel.
A group from MSU visiting the Laboratoire Aime Cotton in Orsay, France (1999).
Me adjusting the slits of the extended range grasshopper for photoemission experiments on the ISU/MSU beamline at SRC in Madison, Wisconsin(2000).
Hanging out in Lyon, France (1999). Sébastien Ermeneux, Flurin Könz, and Charles Thiel.
Me at the top of a campanile seeing the sights in Bordeaux, France.
SRC's famous G.J. Lapeyre Award for surmounting extraordinary difficulties in the use of synchrotron radiation.
Checking my sample alignment through the ports of a ultra-high vacuum chamber for photoemission experiments.
Visiting Artist Point overlooking the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone river in Yellowstone National Park. Uwe Happek and Rufus Cone.
Me visiting Antelope Island on the Great Salt Lake while attending a conference in Snowbird, Utah.
Cone group photo in front of the superconducting magnet cryostat in the lab. Charles Thiel, Flurin Könz, Yongchen Sun, Gregory Reinemer, Nick Strickland, and Rufus Cone.
Relaxing in Place des Terreaux after a full day of talks at the DPC conference in Lyon, France (2001). Flurin Könz, Tom Böttger, Yongchen Sun, Ali Belarouci, and Geoff Pryde.
Conference banquet for DPC in Lyon, France (2001).

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© 2001
Charles W. Thiel
Department of Physics
Montana State University
EPS Building, Room 264
Bozeman, Montana 59717
Telephone: 406-994-4363
FAX: 406-994-4452
thiel@physics.montana.edu
Last Updated February 10, 2002
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