Changes between Version 7 and Version 8 of Departmental activities
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- 09/15/10 11:39:56 (16 years ago)
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v7 v8 20 20 == Additional information == 21 21 22 To keep lunch with the colloquium speaker from becoming too large, there is an unofficial limit set 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 themselves to astronomers from outside of Columbia. 22 To keep lunch with the colloquium speaker from becoming too large, there is an unofficial limit set 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 themselves to astronomers from outside of Columbia. It is tradition to ask the speaker about some topic of research unrelated to their presentation in the afternoon. If you do go to speaker lunch, it is advisable to make sure you know who the speaker is, where they are from, and to read the abstract for their talk. I have had a few awkward lunches in the past, and it makes Columbia look bad if the graduate students are unprepared. 23 23 24 24 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.
