P.S. The now rather empty IAC institute buildings are currently locked,
similar to weekends.
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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Paul Kögerler
Institut für Anorganische Chemie
RWTH Aachen University
Landoltweg 1
D-52074 Aachen
Tel.: +49-241-80-94657 Fax: +49-241-80-92642
Peter-Grünberg-Institut -- PGI-6
Forschungszentrum Jülich
D-52425 Jülich
Tel.: +49-2461-61-3159 Fax: +49-2461-61-2610
www.koegerler.ac.rwth-aachen.de
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Dear AKG members,
As you are all aware, we are currently operating under strict
instructions/restrictions from both RWTH and FZJ that have been
communicated to you.
For the time being, please continue to work from home. I hope to that
this will quickly result in some long-overdue manuscripts arringing on
my desk.
At this moment, you still are allowed to work in our labs in Aachen when
you deem this necessary, as long as (1) you are convinced that you do
not show typical infection symptoms, (2) you can maintain a safe
physical distance (> 2 m) to other institute or group members, and (3)
follow the pertinent hygiene recommendations that have been posted in
the institute. Jan plans to continue to work from room 107 and remain as
our contact point. I will also be present at IAC as I am currently
trying to address the challenges related to teaching and exams for the
chemistry department.
The next group seminar on Monday, March 23, is cancelled, and Yu-Shu's
presentation will be postponed.
Marvin: bitte dem Fahrdienst Bescheid sagen.
However, we have scheduled a seminar talk (on hydrido complexes) from
one of the students attending my Advanced Coordination Chemistry class,
also taking place at 10 am on Monday. This would be difficult to
postpone. It would be helpful if, apart from Jan and me, one or two more
group members could be present as well.
For Jülich, I have spoken to Prof. Schneider and we can arrange limited,
essential lab/office work where necessary, but since FZJ will move to a
"basic operations mode" starting Friday, this would require advance
planning.
Our Forschungspraktikums students (Salvatore and Lenonard, both
supervised by Marvin) will have to suspend their experimental work. The
deadlines for their reports will be extended automatically by one month.
Please note that thorough hand washing (ideally for 20-30 sec)
constitutes the "gold standard" for preventing infections (including
corona, flu and other virus families).
As of today, two FZJ employees were tested positive for Covid-19 but
fortunately all contact persons could be identified and quarantined so
that FZJ currently is "corona free" (with the exception of the Corona
Extra stored in some PGI-6 offices). RWTH had a single infection case (a
technical employee in one of the engineering institutes), and no
students nor IAC members have been reported positive yet.
And if you really want to know how home office feels when the three boys
are confined at home, as the Kitas and schools are closed...
https://twitter.com/danieljpeter/status/1238551670327402496
Stay healthy,
PK
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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Paul Kögerler
Institut für Anorganische Chemie
RWTH Aachen University
Landoltweg 1
D-52074 Aachen
Tel.: +49-241-80-94657 Fax: +49-241-80-92642
Peter-Grünberg-Institut -- PGI-6
Forschungszentrum Jülich
D-52425 Jülich
Tel.: +49-2461-61-3159 Fax: +49-2461-61-2610
www.koegerler.ac.rwth-aachen.de
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Dear all,
Due to the cancellation of the last seminar and the inclusion of Salvatore (Marvin’s project student) in the seminars there are some changes in the schedule; starting time at 10:00 h.
-Wenyan: 9th March
-Yushu: 23rd March
-Salvatore: 6th April
-Tuba: 20th April
- Sidra : 4th May
- Marvin:18th May
PS: Seminar’s slot can be exchange between the speakers.
Best,
Sergio
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