Activities outside the office

Boat trip to Åland

The whole group took a ferry to Åland where we talked about teamwork.

This is how you fit 12 people in 8 m2 and still have some spare space left

The group at the deck. It was just a little bit windy

Some of the guys trying their best at the karaoke

It's summer time!

Summer arrived and finally the first sunny and warm day. And what’s better that a nice dinner together to celebrate it? We had some drinks outside, prepared dumplings (or at least tried) and enjoyed a delicious dinner prepared by Du with some of the dumplings we made ourselves. It was an amazing afternoon/ evening! I can’t wait for the next one :)

Martin, Oscar and Silvia making dumplings

Du explaining the different dishes we were going to taste

Having a really nice and interesting talk

Christmas time

On Friday some of us went to Du’s place to have our traditional Christmas dinner. This time it was Du the only one cooking and we must admit it was delicious, congratulations chef!

Afterwork

After a hard working week we decided to start the weekend in the best way we could think about, with some bowling and a nice dinner on Friday evening. Already looking forward to the next afterwork!

Oscar bragging about his bowling technique

Promoting teamwork

November arrived and with it the snow. This November is the snowiest one in Stockholm in the last 111 years and we could see it last Wednesday. It was really hard to clear the snow from the cars to go back home alone so, what a better option than do it all together and promote teamwork? In this way some managed to get home and some others to have a fun break from experiments and work.

Huijun, Johan and Silvia ready to clear the snow so that the car could go out. Oscar also helped but he was the one taking the picture!

Conference trip to Seattle (USA)

This year our group went to Seattle to attend the 10^th International Conference on Molten Slags, Fluxes and Salts (MOLTEN16) held in Seattle (USA) from the 22^nd to the 25^th of May.

Johan about to answer questions after his presentation

The last day of the conference we enjoyed a really nice dinner with all the attendees

But of course, we also took the opportunity and went for some sightseeing and to try Seattle's famous seafood

Walking around the international district

Having dinner at a mexican restaurant. Que chido!

This is delicious, can we have one bucket more?

2015 Christmas party!

As we did last year, this year we decided to have a Christmas party. Everyone in the group brought something to eat and/or drink and then we all shared. We had dinner while we listened to some Christmas music and had an awesome time. This is how we looked like after some hours eating and drinking :)

Conference in Korea

This year Dr. Jaewoo Lee and Prof. Du Sichen attended the 3rd International Conference on Advanced Electromaterials held in Jeju (Korea). They met some previous Korean students from our group, Dr. Dong Minho and Prof. Kang Youngjo.

From left to right: Dr. Jaewoo Lee, Prof.. Kang Youngjo, Prof. Du Sichen and Dr. Song Minho

Doctoral conferment ceremony

KTH have a conferement ceremony for the doctoral students that have defended their thesis where they will receive a doctor diploma. The diploma is a sign of the doctors worthiness. At this ceremony KTH also gives out honorary doctors and install new professors. This cermemony is held at one occasion each year. This year we had two of our former students attending the ceremony and receive their doctoral diplomas, Jennie Brandberh Hurtig and Tengfei Deng.

Jennie Brandberg Hurtig receiving her diploma

One of the honorary doctors receiving diploma, hat and ring

The Micro Modelling group launches lab cleaning playlist!

We are very proud to finally announce the official Micro Modelling playlist "Cleaning the Lab" on Spotify. The playlist have been in the works for a long time, and finally it is here! The playlist consists of a mix of songs perfect for listening while making your lab shining like mercury.

You can find and listen to our playlist here: Cleaning the Lab - by Micro Modelling and Experimental Kinetics

Fireworks concert and sausage party

Sausage party and fireworks concert. Since the past 10 years KTH have arranged a special fireworks concert where classical concert music is combined with fireworks. Quite a nice experience indeed, and some of us decided to go.

We had a classical sausage party before going to the concert with bread, ketchup and swedish mustard! It's a must(ard)!.

Crayfish party - Swedish style

The season for Swedish crayfish is here, so of course we had to show our international colleagues and visitors how to have a proper crayfish party - Swedish style!

For a proper crayfish party you will need... Crayfish! These have been cooked in a soup of dill, beer and salt.

Crayfish are best served with Swedish beer and Swedish schnapps!

Of course you should sing Swedish "snappsvisor" when drinking the schnapps!

Johan showing off some Swedish dance moves

Conference trip to Beijing, China

This year our research group went to China to attend the 6th International Congress on the Science and Technology of Steelmaking (ICS2015) held in Beijing.

Looking sharp for the conference, we also met our former colleagues David Lindström and Tengfei Deng.

Of course we also took the oppurtunity and went for some sight seeing.

Eating Peking duck, we managed to finish 7 ducks!

There were agreements, and there were disagreements...

Bachelorette party!

Our colleague Huijun Wang was going back to China to get married, naturally we decided to throw her a bachelorette party before she left. Here is a summary of the party:

We continued with dinner at a korean restaurant

For a while Miss Wang seemed uncertain of her choice....

The night was finished off by going out dancing

2014 Christmas party!

This year we decided to have a typical "knytkalas" for our Christmas party. Everyone in the group brought some cake, some drinks or something to eat and then we all shared. It's a nice experience, especially since we have people from all over the world in our group.

Of course we had some Feuerzangenbowle this year as well.

We even had some dancing, Condo shows how you move in Mozambique

Friday Coffe break!

Every Friday we normally have coffe break together with the whole group. We meet, drink coffe, have some cake and discuss freely about the events of the past week. This week we managed with a new record of people since we had some extra visitors from Elkem in Norway.

7 Easy steps to enjoy your own Feuerzangenbowle

We in the Micro Modelling group like to share our recipe for the traditionally german christmas drink Feuerzangenbowle!

Step 1

The easiest way is to bring your happy german colleague and let him make the preperations. Sit back, relax and enjoy!

If youre unlucky and don't have a german colleague don't worry, here is what you going to do:
Mix 2 l red wine, 100 ml oragne juice, 6 cloves, a piece of whole cinnamon in a kettle.
Slice an orange and one lemon and add tp the kettle.
Heat up the mixture and hold it for a while to let the spices diffuse in to the liquid phase. However do not let the mixture boil. (unless you want a non-alcohol treat)

Step 2

Place the big lump of sugar (which you of course have prepared in advance) on the metal plate over the kettle and soak it with rum. Important point here is that the rum must have a alcohol content above 45% (spoiler alert) since it has to burn in step 3.

Step 3

Set fire to the rum soaked sugar!

Step 4

Enjoy the show! Do not forget to continously supply the sugar lump with rum. In the below picture you can see the streams of caramellised sugar that drips down in to the wine.

Step 5

Stir the liquid for a while and serve.

Step 6

Gather your friends and colleagues and enjoy your finished Feuerzangenbowle!

Step 7

Celebrate your success in Feuerzangenbowle-making by going to a typical swedish julbord!

Trip to China!

In the beginning of summer 2012 the whole group traveled to China to attend the Molten Slags, Fluxes and Salts conference. At the conference Björn Glaser, Jesse White, Tengfei Deng and Mattias Ek presented some of their work. The papers can be found in the publications page.

Everyone had a very nice timeduring the trip! Some of those moments were captured and can be seen here: