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Lamont Weekly
Report – June 30, 2006
OFFICE
OF THE DIRECTOR
P.O. Box 1000, 61 Route 9W Palisades, New York 10964
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- Letter from the Director
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<>LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR
A short report this week, because, believe it or not, I am
headed out
the door to take a few days off around the July 4th Holiday
and go
sailing. Nothing as adventurous as Robin Bell's ambitious
odyssey (as
I am sure you know Robin set sail for the Azores, and the
Mediterranean a few days ago), but still, it will be exciting
on my
scale of accomplishment - just from Chesapeake Bay up to Long
Island
Sound.
We said good bye and good luck to John Sindt today - success
in the
early days of Lamont depended so much upon the ability to
design and
machine prototype instrumentation - John's shop has contributed
in so
many ways to the Observatory's successes. His skills will
be sorely
missed.
We are planning a series of "panels" during the
summer targeted at
providing our junior staff, post docs and students with some
insights
into how this difficult business of academic research actually
works.
Friday afternoons in Lamont Hall at 3:30 pm . I will get a
small
group of senior folks together and we will talk, in panel
format,
about key topics e.g. Proposal Writing; Promotions and Career
development; How does Washington DC work; Responsibilities
of a
Principal Investigator. We are calling these "Mentoring
Panels" -
dates and associated topics will be publicized in the next
few days.
It is an experiment - if the turn-out is good and we feel
that
helpful information is being communicated then we will repeat
it each
summer.
Have a great 4th July - I will be 10 miles off the Jersey
coast
watching the fireworks over Atlantic City!
- Mike
PS - I hope everyone likes the new phone directory.
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