Meeting with Prof Juan J. de Pablo
At 10:58 Rohit and Sunil are standing outside anxiously waiting for the professor. (10:59 - here he comes)
Prof JJDP: Hi! So guys what can I do for you ?
Rohit: I had an appointment with you at 11:00. ( JJDP checks his digital diary and says ya!! Rohit ( roheet)
JJDP: What about you Sunil ( Suniel) !
Sunil: I have also come with him though I don't have appointment. I wanted to meet you about the research going under you.
JJDP: If you want to see me separately you are welcome to do that.
Rohit: If it is fine for you to have a combined meeting, its ok for us.
JJDP: If it is ok then there is no problem ! So Rohit tell me about yourself
Rohit: Well I did my UG from ITBHUand then I worked in Dr Reddy's Labs for one year where I worked on two main projects. Both were erection commissioning projects one on solvent recobery and the other was on a new pharmaceutical entity. We could fabricate chromatography systems in-house and those worked successfully. I was involved in the R and D of that.
JJDP: What about you sunil ?!
Sunil:Well I have done my Undergraduation from UDCT Bombay and I don't have any prior work experience ( JJDP confused about this college and asks to clarify if that is IIT ?) Sunil clarifies.
JJDP: So Rohit! what has interested you in our projects?
Rohit: I see simulations as a powerful technique to generate data and find good results to problems that might be difficult to solve in lab. As it is well defined and can be applied to lot many systems. As the basic principles applied to each project are the same, I don't see the different projects from the point of view of solving the typical problems. I see them from the point of view of learning techniques that can be applied to the general problems in the similar manner...
JJDP: Ya you are right! Mostly all projects have similar fundamentals. Sunil? What about you ?
Sunil: I have inclination towards interfacial science and I want to apply the techniques to it.
JJDP: Good ! Is there anything in particular you want to know about things ?
Rohit: Sir I wanted to know about the working philosophy of your group: I see it as a self driven group. Whether you are there or not, or whether you meet them once in a month's time is ok for them. Is it the case ?
JJDP: Well Rohit ! We have formal meetings.
Rohit: Sir We would like to attend some meetings of your group.
JJDP sure come on wednesday.
Rohit: How do you typically change the problem statements which you progress during the research.
(JJDP Asks for an example! )
Rohit: When I was working in DRL, It has happened that we found ideas that could affect the month long work we had done, but because all those were improvement ideas, so those were implemented. Some were dropped.
(JJDP Clearly understanding what I meant) : Ya here we have well defined problems and typical things to be done in durations and when sometimes you get me ideas which are different I am the one telling whether it is going to work or not. So typically initially we have simpler problems and when you progress, you develop skills in yourself to do that kind of judgement. Mostly the work that is done in our group is theoretical and sometimes experiments are also carried out in parallel. Sometimes I happen to meet my students more often and that too for longer durations of the order of an hour etc.....As in case of Manan, we are reaching a landmark and paper has to be completed..so we happened to meet for about an hour recently...and there were more meetings in the past as well...
Rohit : We would also like to read a few papers that you have published.
JJDP: Surely go through the papers on our group homepage and come back to me as you narrow down your choice of research advisor.
Rohit: Sure thing ! Thanks a lot
Sunil: Thanks a lot !
Rohit: We meet in the group meeting again.
Prof JJDP: Hi! So guys what can I do for you ?
Rohit: I had an appointment with you at 11:00. ( JJDP checks his digital diary and says ya!! Rohit ( roheet)
JJDP: What about you Sunil ( Suniel) !
Sunil: I have also come with him though I don't have appointment. I wanted to meet you about the research going under you.
JJDP: If you want to see me separately you are welcome to do that.
Rohit: If it is fine for you to have a combined meeting, its ok for us.
JJDP: If it is ok then there is no problem ! So Rohit tell me about yourself
Rohit: Well I did my UG from ITBHUand then I worked in Dr Reddy's Labs for one year where I worked on two main projects. Both were erection commissioning projects one on solvent recobery and the other was on a new pharmaceutical entity. We could fabricate chromatography systems in-house and those worked successfully. I was involved in the R and D of that.
JJDP: What about you sunil ?!
Sunil:Well I have done my Undergraduation from UDCT Bombay and I don't have any prior work experience ( JJDP confused about this college and asks to clarify if that is IIT ?) Sunil clarifies.
JJDP: So Rohit! what has interested you in our projects?
Rohit: I see simulations as a powerful technique to generate data and find good results to problems that might be difficult to solve in lab. As it is well defined and can be applied to lot many systems. As the basic principles applied to each project are the same, I don't see the different projects from the point of view of solving the typical problems. I see them from the point of view of learning techniques that can be applied to the general problems in the similar manner...
JJDP: Ya you are right! Mostly all projects have similar fundamentals. Sunil? What about you ?
Sunil: I have inclination towards interfacial science and I want to apply the techniques to it.
JJDP: Good ! Is there anything in particular you want to know about things ?
Rohit: Sir I wanted to know about the working philosophy of your group: I see it as a self driven group. Whether you are there or not, or whether you meet them once in a month's time is ok for them. Is it the case ?
JJDP: Well Rohit ! We have formal meetings.
Rohit: Sir We would like to attend some meetings of your group.
JJDP sure come on wednesday.
Rohit: How do you typically change the problem statements which you progress during the research.
(JJDP Asks for an example! )
Rohit: When I was working in DRL, It has happened that we found ideas that could affect the month long work we had done, but because all those were improvement ideas, so those were implemented. Some were dropped.
(JJDP Clearly understanding what I meant) : Ya here we have well defined problems and typical things to be done in durations and when sometimes you get me ideas which are different I am the one telling whether it is going to work or not. So typically initially we have simpler problems and when you progress, you develop skills in yourself to do that kind of judgement. Mostly the work that is done in our group is theoretical and sometimes experiments are also carried out in parallel. Sometimes I happen to meet my students more often and that too for longer durations of the order of an hour etc.....As in case of Manan, we are reaching a landmark and paper has to be completed..so we happened to meet for about an hour recently...and there were more meetings in the past as well...
Rohit : We would also like to read a few papers that you have published.
JJDP: Surely go through the papers on our group homepage and come back to me as you narrow down your choice of research advisor.
Rohit: Sure thing ! Thanks a lot
Sunil: Thanks a lot !
Rohit: We meet in the group meeting again.
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