by nlewis | May 21, 2025 | Running
7 hour race on the local trails out at Palos — second place by a hair! Together we set the course record at 10 laps of the 4.5 mile course, just squeezed the last lap in with less than 5 minutes to spare. Second place by something like a minute at the end.
by nlewis | Feb 19, 2025 | Publications
New paper out in Nature Communications! We used a combination of methods including thin film conductivity, MD and 2D IR to study a dynamics in a new class of anion exchange polymer, connecting structural and dynamical properties from the ultrafast and microscopic all...
by nlewis | Oct 17, 2024 | Running
First hundred miler in the bank! Smashed it at Hennepin. 8th overall, 3rd in age group, just under 18 hours. It was super hot all afternoon, so it was a matter of troubleshooting all day – managing heat, fluids and nutrition. I succeeded in not burning myself to...
by nlewis | Jul 2, 2024 | Conferences, Running
A lot of activity this June with two 100K races and a great CMDS conference in York. Kettle Moraine 100K at the beginning of the month was fantastic, won my age group and 10th overall! I was planning on taking it easier in the first half then pushing harder on the way...
by nlewis | Jun 5, 2024 | Publications
A new paper many years in the making! We lay out a detailed practical discussion of how we implement broadband supercontinuum IR sources as a probe in ultrafast IR experiments, including many of the things we have learned working with it over the years. We hope this...
