Post-doc night at the Grill???

In talking to Mary Anne at the end of the social at Fuller Lodge, I asked her about the possibility of having a social where we "take over" a place like the TBC or Central Avenue Grill (next to Starbucks). She told me that the person that owns the Grill is a scientist who has had post-docs in the past and is very willing to work with us. Actually, he has already told Mary Anne that he would be willing to do something where, for example, every 3rd Wednesday of the month could be "Post-Doc Night" with discounts on Wine and Beer.

I thought that something like this would start to bring post-docs together in a social situation that would help us get to know each other and create relationships that could help in the formation of a PDA. And it could be fun as well.

Let me know what you think about this idea and we could start talking to Mary Anne about it. Along with the "conversion seminars" that Mike thought of (described in the post below) this would be something that we could do in order to get the ball rolling.

If anyone else has any ideas of things that we could start now to make the post-doc experience at LANL better, you can post it here by emailing me so that I can send you the link to enable you to post your ideas here on this site (in addition to commenting on other people's posts).