Nick,

Thanks for your message. The best date for a visit to Enron
would be Friday, May the 26th. Please, let me know if this date would work 
for you.

Vince 




Nick Bambos <bambos@stanford.edu> 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 <bambos@stanford.edu> 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, 21st of April looks good. But April 23rd 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, 19th 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