Weekend Discussions

In one of my previous posts ( A good weekend), I mentioned bumping into Karthik and how we discussed a lot of random things. One of the things we discussed has led to what I feel is a very wonderful thing.
We decided that it was essential for us to channelize our efforts and make the best of what time we have. Spend a little time learning from each other. To give each other what the education system couldn't give us. This was just an idea, but it is yet to materialize completely. It is easy said than done. But here is the story of what has been done so far.
We decided to tell Shruhi, Harshini, and Raghu about what we had thought about and wanted to see if anything could be done. Shruthi and Harshini were available after GR's class on sunday and as expected they were really enthusiastic about it.

We had to figure out when and where we could meet. Shruthi immediately said that she could make available a place where nobody will disturb us and which is easily accessible to everyone of us. Thank you Shruthi. This is one of the main constraints we would otherwise have had to deal with. Now that the spatial co-ordinates had been decided, we had to zero in on the time co-ordinates. It was again rather quickly decided that we would be meeting on thursdays and Saturdays, between 6 and 8 in the evening. It went as planned for a week, and due to some other practicalities we have decided to meet on saturdays and sundays instead.

Raghu has joined us and we are now a group of five. It is a nice group of people with different mentalities and unique areas of creativity. Some of us are inclined towards theoretical physics, while the others have a more experimentally oriented mind. Each of us will be giving one course. Harshini will probably be summarizing what all has been done so far, and who is doing what etc. And when she does, I urge everyone in the group to comment and add what they learnt from the particular lectures. It will give us all a perspective from the other's  point of view. Harshini has also been recording the lectures for future reference.
All the speakers gave assignments and have been taken up seriously by all present. We have deliberately restricted the discussion to the five of us in order to avoid dilution.

Ego clashes are bound to happen as well. We however hope to minimize this and focus on learning as much as we can and make the most of the time we spend together.

We have had 4 sessions so far, which sums up to a total of 8 hours of lecture. Hope to have many more of such fruitful hours.


PS : Thanks to Michael, a very good friend of mine, we now have a bigger white board. Thank you Michael.