Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of Departmental activities

Timestamp:

11/10/08 04:04:13 (17 years ago)

Author:

jps@…

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Departmental activities

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 To keep lunch with the colloquium speaker from becoming too large, there is an unofficial limit at 8 students.  If there are more than 8 students expressing interest in lunch, priority should go to those who work in the same field as the speaker, and then those who have not been to lunch in a while.
 
+Pizza lunch has become a very central event to the department and over the years the formality of the presentations has steadily increased with occasional attempts by certain members of the faculty to bring back informal formats. The current "rules" are that presenters should avoid power-point presentations and should focus on one or two interesting results or puzzles from your research. Students and faculty who return from conferences are usually asked to detail interesting happenings.
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+Astrofest is generally organized by the third-years in the department who are responsible for organizing the schedule, collecting the presentations, purchasing and arranging for delivery or pickup of the food, and setting up/taking down the venue (which is traditionally the astronomy library).
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