Dear lab members,
As you probably have seen I've been very busy in the last few
days/weeks. I owe many people manuscripts and 2-pagers, grants, etc.
To speed up processes, please don't stop by my office before 1.00 PM
unless it is a big emergency, and even then, try to send e-mail. I
need to prepare many things, including the NSF career, and the only
way I can do all of this is to have time of my own. We'll try to
streamline things by meeting in sub-groups whenever possible, and to
schedule things more tightly. In summary, I suggest the following
steps:
1. Let's re-schedule all one-to-one and sub-group meetings to the
afternoon. Don't stop by my office before 1.00 PM unless it is an
absolute emergency. I might work from home some of these days.
2. Suggest meetings to me using the Google calendar. If I have not
added you to my Google calendar, send me an e-mail. I prefer that to
the: Alan can we meet on So and So at 6:00 PM?, etc. That makes me go
to my calendar, click on it, see what I have to do that day, so on.
3. Before knocking on my door, think about if you can get answers for
the question from another researcher or Minoo.
4. Let's continue group meetings for the summer. Now I think we are in
a stage that we can start presenting results of our research and
progress reports in presentation format. These could be augmented with
our "review" seminar series (on which James will finish DMRG and
Alejandro will work on Anderson localization) We need a seminar
coordinator: Who volunteers?
5. I expect you guys to be around the lab as much as possible when you
are in town.
Thanks,
Alan
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Alan Aspuru-Guzik
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
12 Oxford Street
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: (617)384-8188
Group URL:
http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu