Learning is a never ending quest,

Been awfully long since I last wrote.A multiple no of things have hapenned in the meanwhile.Starting with my visit to the Argonne National Lab in Chicago May 23-27.Was quite an experience I must say.What I saw there left me with more questions in my mind than answers which I had gone to seek in the first place.
What struck me most during the short 3 day visit was the fact that some scientists have a working experience of more than 20 25 years in such research facilities.Yet they are so humble and so normal.Almost amuses me.In fact I developed such a nice rapport with one of the beam line scientists that I started calling him by his nickname Sasha.I mean it certainly sounds much more fun than calling him Dr.Kolesnikov or Alexander.Hehe.He assisted me and while casually talking to him I came to know that he had worked in Russia, U.K.,Germany and US.All of it in research facilities.
Its worth thinking what a rich knowledge repositiry he would possess.And so was the case with 2 other scientists I interacted with.But I guess this is normal for them.The academic environment of US has taught me one thing fir sure.However much you learn it is still never enough.
The other thing that struk me was that from the moment I landed at ANL (in a stunning white Limo BTW)to the moment I said goodbye, everything was so organised.Moved like clockwork.Its amazing to think that a facility operated by a Univ can function with such a corporate like efficiency.The planning and thought given to every little thing makes this a worthwhile learning experience.,
Now the small part that remains untold? What was I doing there in the first place? Well, there was some discretionary beam time available and since Chun and Renu are collaborators we got the chance to do some expts.
Quasi elastic Neutron Scattering studies of Glucose Oxidase
Low Resolution Medium Energy Chopper Spectrometer studies on Cytochrome C
Thats what I did!!!Look forward now to attending the National School on Neutron and Xray scattering in Aug.
Wheels moving finally!!!!