New year, New Beginnings, New promises !
Excrepts from my new year email to my students. Dear Younger Colleagues, Wish you all a very very happy new year. I know its the second, but the new year gets serious only from the second, after the celebratory mood of the first. Review from last year and learnings: 1) We published 17 papers. 3 PRL’s + 1 Nanoscale and 6 PRB’s amongst others. [More details can be found here: https://sites.google.com/site/amitkag1/publications?authuser=1 ] This is a great performance by any standards. My belief now grows, that our group is at least as good as (if not better) any other group in India for doing a Ph. D. The significance increases if you note that we did this mostly with Ph. D students, without any postdocs. And I thank all of you very sincerely for all the hard-work and efforts put in by all of you. 2) This has been possible because of our belief in continuous improvement. We keep “stacking” small skills and after some time they start to prod