Thank you for all the responses! I'm really looking forward to this trip. I have never been to India before, so I'm particularly excited. I'm leaving in two days and will be staying until late June. I don't yet have a trip planned to Chennai but I will see what I can do.
hehe, Jeremy says I have "fine qualities" :) :) On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Jeremy Bornstein <jer...@jeremy.org> wrote: > My girlfriend, Leslie Martin, is a PhD student in environmental > economics at UC Berkeley, and will shortly be visiting Coimbatore, Tamil > Nadu with a team of five research assistant students who are in an econ > masters program. They will be there to study how small firms, > particularly firms in the textile industry, deal with infrastructure > problems such as electricity shortages. They'll be conducting a survey > regarding power shortages, electricity demand, the adoption of > generators, and the extent to which firms are able to reschedule labor > to times when electricity is available. > > Leslie will be there for about six weeks and would probably appreciate > meeting some local people in a nonwork context. If any of y'all are > nearby, I heartily recommend you drop her a line (she's cc'd above) to > say hello. Of course she has many fine qualities and I heartily > recommend her society to you! > > Jeremy >
