re : visit to enron fyi vince - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - forwarded by vince j kaminski / hou / ect on 05 / 01 / 2000 09 : 06 am - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - nick bambos on 05 / 01 / 2000 04 : 26 : 30 am to : vince . j . kaminski @ enron . com cc : subject : re : visit to enron vince , how are you ? hope all is well . is there any chance we can schedule my visit to enron on friday , may 19 , or friday , may 26 ? by the end of april i was able to attract a top new student to work on the project . the other one for the coming year will be giuseppe . by spending the summer at enron , he will be in a position to bring the new one up to speed and create an intellectual team here at stanford to look at these problems . i must move ahead soon to put the project in place and get the work going . talk to you soon , nick vince . j . kaminski @ enron . com wrote : > > nick , > > we can close the loop on our commitment to support the research projects > before your visit to enron . > > my assistant , shirley crenshaw , will call you to set up a conference call > with me , stinson gibner , > and tom gros from enron broadband services to discuss all the isssues . > friday this week would work for > both tom and me . i think we need about 15 minutes . > > vince > > p . s . shirley , nick ' s phone number is 650 796 8163 ( cell ) , 650 - 725 - 5525 > ( office ) . > > nick bambos on 03 / 12 / 2000 05 : 32 : 35 pm > > to : vince . j . kaminski @ enron . com , bambos @ stanford . stanford . edu > cc : > subject : visit to enron > > hello vince , > > it was nice seeing you at stanford and many thanks for the lunch > we had together . i really enjoyed our discussions , both at the > technical level and otherwise . > > i promised to send you an e - mail regarding possible dates for > a visit to enron . i delayed it for a week till my schedule was > clearer . let ' s see if we can get a match with your schedule - > mine is rather terrible : > > friday , 21 st of april looks good . but april 23 rd is easter > sunday , so that may make it difficult for some people at enron > to be around . let me know if that is the case . i am willing to > visit then , because the week after that i am scheduled to be in > japan and in the previous weeks i am all committed on fridays . > > friday , 19 th of may is the next possibility , but this probably > is too far out . the main problem is that i am operating within > a window of opportunity for attracting top students for this > research . this window closes by the end of april , and it would be > important for the student support funds to be in place then , so > that i can make hard commitments to students and attract top > talent . i am already reviewing files of students who have > approached me for phd advising , and i am in a mode of doing " soft > commitments to star - level students " to get this research and its > potential on their radar screen . top students are highly sought > after by advisors and i want to be an early player in this > competition . > > does my visit to enron have to happen before we can set up the > project and student support at stanford ? if so , doing it before the > end of april is important for getting top people . if the visit can > happen after we get the ball rolling , then we can schedule it in may . > i assume there will be multiple visits both ways when the project gets > going . please let me know what you think . > > best regards , > > nick