 The Central Analytical Facility, or CAF, is a group of tools that allow us to characterize materials from the atomic scale up to hundreds of microns, and it gives us the ability to understand materials in both one, two, and three dimensions. The center is really unique, you know, to me it's really world-class. We've worked very hard to assemble a group of instruments that would allow us to characterize materials from the atomic scale all the way up to the bulk scale. The instruments that we have, and the access that we have to the instruments, there's really no comparison to any other place that I've been. Sitting behind me here is an atom probe, which allows us to characterize the atomic scale of materials, but around us are tools such as TMS, scanning electron microscopes, x-ray diffractometers, and a whole range of different tools. And the collection of all these tools together is what really provides the type of tools that have helped a lot of students, particularly graduate school, to advance their science and their projects, because they're able to capture what they need to at the right length scale. Graduate students are quite different from undergraduates, and you need to find a very good supervisor to lead you into the field. And Professor Thompson is a very good source to solve my problems. And he gives me a very large freedom to do the research I want. It's very enjoyable. I'm listening to Dr. Thompson talk at the seminar. He had a lot of really good research, he was really energetic, and he really, he could tell you could really care about his students. He gave students credit whenever he could. He's like, I didn't do this part of the research my students did, and I'm just here talking about it. And that just really impressed me. The University of Alabama has got something that's really special here, and we just need more and more students that have the desire and drive to come and take advantage of it.