The idea:

While it is important to look through abstracts on astro-ph every day, no-one has time to actually read every paper. These meetings are an opportunity to learn about papers you may not have read from colleagues - to pool our collective expertise to understand the papers more deeply than we might individually be able to due to time (and brain-size) constraints!

In particular, these meetings are intended to provide an informal forum for the professional development of our junior members (grads and postdocs) to practice their presentation, interaction and listening skills in. (Well, everyone needs to practice these all the time anyway.) Participants should endeavor to keep these pedagogical aims in mind in presentations and discussions.

Practicalities:

• Journal club discussion - with preference for fairly recent (last month?) papers - in particular those voted on in Vox Charta - but open for any paper in the literature
  
• Please record paper you are talking about at least 3 days in advance
  
• Note - there is no requirement for others to read the listed papers in advance (although they certainly may!)
  
• Tuesdays 430pm-5pm and Thursdays 11am-1130am in 1402 (strictly starting/ending on time)
  
• Preceded by coffee/tea both days (please help set-up/clear-up!)
  
• Two 15-min spots "assigned" to volunteers on roster below on a rotating basis
  
• Please aim for ~5mins context, ~5mins results and leave ~5mins for discussion
  
• Kathryn (Tues) and Mihir (Thurs) will bring laptop and keep time (at 10 and 15mins) - please self-assign another if they are absent
  
• Speaking assignments will be posted on wiki and announced at beginning of each cycle - if you have conflict with your assignment it is your responsibility to swap with someone and change the wiki.
  

Paper Presenter Roster - Please update your availability, remove your name entirely to opt out or add your name if you would like to be included.
[name] = Unavailable this semester
name [T] = Tuesday only
name [Th] = Thursday only

Faculty/Research Scientists: Jim Appelgate, Greg Bryan, Zoltan Haiman, Jules Halpern, David Helfand, Kathryn Johnston, David Kipping, [Melissa Ness], Jerry Ostriker, Frits Paerels [Th], Joe Patterson, Mary Putman (only Tues.), David Schiminovich, Lorenzo Sironi, Jacqueline van Gorkom [T], Slavko Bogdanov, Mike Hahn [Th], [Caleb Scharf] Jeno Sokoloski

Postdocs: Jennifer Barnes, Luca Comisso, Statia Cook, Jason Curtis [Th], Azadeh Keivani

Grads: Matthew Abruzzo, Aliya Babul, Julia Blue Bird, Jorge Cortes, Daniel DeFelippis, Andrea Derdzinski, Rose Gibson, Tiffany Jansen, Avery Kim [Th], Mihir Kulkarni, Brian Lu, Adrian Lucy, Nicole Melso, Steven Mohammed, Bhawna Motwani [T], Navin Sridhar [T], Alex Teachey, Aaron Tran, Adam Wheeler (Tues. only), Tomer Yavetz [Th], Jose Zorrilla

Assignments

Date

paper 1

paper 2

Sept 24
Sept 26
Oct 1
Oct 3
Oct 8
Oct 10
Oct 15
Oct 17
Oct 22
Oct 24	Jason Curtis
Oct 29
Oct 31
Nov 5	University Holiday	University Holiday
Nov 7
Nov 12
Nov 14
Nov 19
Nov 21	Frits Paerels
Nov 26
Nov 28	Holiday	Holiday
Dec 3
Dec 5