Last friday we took the time to have a lab outing. Weather was a bit uncertain but we did a nice 15 km walk around the Mont Saint-Odile, with some highlights like an unexpected detailed explanation about Ottrott’s castles, a picnic under the rain, a short visit of Hohenbourg abbey and a miraculous water tasting…. Congratulations to all the hikers !
Following the EMRS spring meeting, we had dinner in La Victoire, like in the good old days, with our alumni present at the conference. It was a pleasure to see you all !
Following the CESQ inauguration, Cyriaque Genet was interviewed by BFM TV Alsace yesterday evening. If you want to listen to him (in french) and understand, among other things, why researchers don’t speak german at the CESQ, follow the link !
… a swiss journal, Chemische Rundschau, interviewed Thomas Ebbesen after the publication of our paper in Science review. At that time, we were a very small team, located rue de l’Université in the old building of Physics Faculty, as ISIS building was under construction. This is probably our first group picture ever and founding it back on my shelves gave me the idea to create a page for our old group pictures. Have fun !
As each year since 10 years, Strasbourg Eurometropole and CADR67 are organizing a challenge to promote the use of bicycles to go to work, called Au boulot à vélo . At ISIS, we are also taking part under the banner of the University and CNRS. Remember : University and CNRS won in 2017 and 2018 (category public company of more than 500 employees) so why not one more time ! Here below some ISIS members who are bicycle-addicts.
We are pleased to announce the creation of a new page called Resources where we will put information about experimental or numerical methods we are using in the lab on a regular basis. For now, you will find a tutorial video about how to build a liquid cell for infrared spectroscopy characterization of vibrational strong coupling, that you can also access by clicking on the picture here below. Thanks a lot to Anoop and Lucas, our film directors !
As last year, we took a group picture with all the female workers of ISIS…plus two intruders… Happy women’s day !
Due to the usual unstable weather of March in France (alternating sunny intervals and rainfalls), we had a beautiful rainbow yesterday, March 7th, at 4.59pm in front of ISIS…
But exactly one year ago March 7th, 2018, at the same time 4.59pm we observed… exactly the same thing…
Photos Eloïse and Stefano
