During this week, I have worked on the follows: 0) work with yiyu to prepare the measurement of chip; 1) work on bvor journal version; 2) discuss with joanna about how to embed thermal/power sensitivity into multi-level routing; 3) discuss with yu about clock synthesis: figured out a parameterization approach for clock tree optmization; 4) read papers on (i) model reduction considering correlated variation by orthogonal polynomial expansion; (ii) nonlinear cirucit behavior extraction.