Hello Everyone,
Greetings from Sunny Colorado!
I am going to be organizing our Monday night meeting of the AMMRL at this
year’s ENC at Asilomar. After discussing this with the Steering Committee,
I would like to bring-back a format for which I received the most positive
feedback over many years. My plan is to keep it less formal, with minimal
time devoted to actual talks and presentations. Rather, a few items of
business at the beginning, maybe a brief (15minute maximum) presentation or
two on matters of interest to the group. For example, I believe Josh
Kurutz wishes to present a brief summary of the results of his recent survey
about user training (which I’m sure many of us responded to… I know I did).
If anyone else has a topic that would fit into a brief 15min presentation
(and is not a “science” talk, for which we have 4 ½ days of sessions and
posters to enjoy), please let me know.
Then, I propose we break-out into discussion groups on various topics of
interest, which (I hope) will come from you who will be in attendance. The
idea is to have these discussions going, and people can move between groups
(in a very “informal” manner) as they wish. I believe we have managed to
utilize the space in the Chapel to accommodate around 5 groups without too
much trouble.
I believe that one of the topics for small-group discussion will be
“developing a standard set of spectrometer performance specification tests”,
which had been a topic of discussion in past years.
So PLEASE, if you have a topic that might be of general interest, please
email that to me. I hope that you are willing to moderate that discussion
group which you are proposing, but if not we can ask for volunteers. I
will ask this volunteer to take notes, and forward summaries to me after the
conference, and I will get them posted on either the AMMRL web-server (with
Walt’s help), or I can put them on my web-server, and have Walt must make a
link on the AMMRL homepage.
I look forward to hearing suggestions for topics, and having people
volunteer to help lead/moderate/document a groups discussion. Of course,
I’m open to any suggestions that might make our Monday night meeting
(scheduled for 7:00-9:00 pm) enjoyable and productive.
After missing the past 2 ENCs, I’m very excited to see everyone at Asilomar.
Best regards,
-Rich Shoemaker
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Richard K. Shoemaker, Ph.D., Director, NMR Spectroscopy Facility
University of Colorado at Boulder
Phone: (303) 492-7062 Fax: (303) 492-5894
E-Mail: <mailto:Richard.Shoemaker_at_Colorado.edu>
Richard.Shoemaker_at_Colorado.edu
Web: http://chemnmr.colorado.edu/rshoe
Received on Thu Mar 24 2011 - 07:18:03 MST