I will begin teaching electrodynamics and complex functions (mathematical methods in physics) at Xiamen University Malaysia sometime in mid September as a part-time lecturer. Next week, I will be attending some briefings at the campus to understand the system that they have there.
Today, I have just received the timetable schedule for both subjects. They have conveniently grouped (2-hour) lectures on both subjects on the same day, namely Tuesdays and Thursdays.
There is a bit of anxiety, having left teaching for some time and the subjects given to me are ones that I have less experience in teaching. Teaching new things often requires plenty of internalization and considerable time to prepare the notes. I pray that I can do it well.
Another surprise today is an email from a long-lost friend Foong See Kit who apparently will be teaching at Xiamen as well. If I'm not mistaken, I first met him at the Fifth Asia-Pacific Physics Conference in 1992. Another conference where we met is the Quantum Physics Conference in 1997. The last time we stumbled into each other is in a conference in IAS, NTU. It will be great to meet him back again.
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