Saturday, July 10, 2010

Frauenfelder rules for an effective workshop

Hans Frauenfelder (1922-) is arguably the doyen of biological physics. I am told that he considered that for a workshop or conference to be effective one third to one half of the time should be devoted to questions and open discussion.
These "Frauenfelder rules" have been rightly adopted by I2CAM as a requirement for any workshops that they fund.
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