Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of Departmental activities

Timestamp:

11/10/08 04:05:54 (17 years ago)

Author:

jps@…

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Departmental activities

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 == Additional information ==
 
-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.
+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. First year students are strongly encouraged to attend colloquium lunch as a way of introducing them to themselves to astronomers from outside of Columbia.
 
 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.