{"id":1499,"date":"2026-09-06T14:33:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T14:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2026-09-06T14:33:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T14:33:23","slug":"division-outing-to-ekolsund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/index.php\/2026\/09\/06\/division-outing-to-ekolsund\/","title":{"rendered":"Division outing to Ekolsund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time for our annual division outing, this year to Ekolsund Castle, located 45 min south-west of Uppsala Beautiful early-fall weather, some science and discussions, a guided tour of the castle grounds, and rocket building. Congrats to Florian, Sushanth, and Simran who were on the winning rocket team!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1500 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/682A7668-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"920\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/682A7668-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/682A7668-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/682A7668-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/682A7668-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/682A7668-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The whole division attending the outing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1501 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/682A7676-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"920\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/682A7676-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/682A7676-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/682A7676-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/682A7676-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/682A7676-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Our group.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1502 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_9550-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_9550-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_9550-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_9550-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_9550-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_9550-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_9550-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><em>Some science, here presented by Thomas<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1504 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_9535.heic\" alt=\"\" \/> <em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1503 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_9522.heic\" alt=\"\" \/> Rocket building!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1505 aligncenter\" style=\"font-size: inherit;\" src=\"https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_9547.heic\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The winners! Their rocket, made of a soda bottle and launching an egg successfully in a parachute, made a beautiful journey and returned the egg safely to earth.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time for our annual division outing, this year to Ekolsund Castle, located 45 min south-west of Uppsala Beautiful early-fall weather, some science and discussions, a guided tour of the castle grounds, and rocket building. Congrats to Florian, Sushanth, and Simran <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/index.php\/2026\/09\/06\/division-outing-to-ekolsund\/\">Continue Reading &#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1506,"href":"https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions\/1506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials-theory.physics.uu.se\/black-schaffer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}