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:

• Tuesdays 4:15pm-5:00pm in 1402 (strictly starting/ending on time)
  
• Three papers will be presented (15 min each slot); presenters are asked to (i) provide a significant amount of context for those outside of the field; (ii) stop after 10 minutes to allow for discussion.
  
• The first draft schedule will be assembled from an initial participation list. Everyone is welcome to attend and present. If you have a conflict with your scheduled slot, you should try to swap with another speaker (and update the wiki) at an alternate time (or contact organizers for help).
  
• Presenters are asked to (preferably) choose a paper from those that have received a significant number of votes in the departmental vox-charta, or a paper that they believe to be of general interest.
  
• Everyone is asked to vote on papers in vox-charta at this link. A link to the departmental vox-charta should be included in the e-mails for astro-ph
  
• During the semester, suggestions for papers of interest can also be sent to the grad organizer. The grad organizer might also provide suggestions to all speakers and/or encourage thematic coordination.
  
  

• Mihir and Kathryn (the organizers) will bring laptop and keep time (at 10 and 15mins) - please self-assign another if they are absent
  
• Organizers will confirm assignments with presenters a week in advance
  
• Presenters are asked to pick out a paper at least 2 days in advance (by Sunday evening) and post it on the wiki.
  
• Note - there is no requirement for others to read the listed papers in advance (although they certainly may!)
  
• The organizers should e-mail paper titles, authors and links one day in advance (Monday) and announce at Pizza lunch
  
• Coffee, tea and snacks will be provided, starting at 4:00 on Tuesday (4:00)
  
• Organizers will handle time-keeping. Organizers and speakers participate in set-up/clean-up.
  

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

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

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

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

Assignments

Date

paper 1

paper 2

paper 3

Sept 24	Matthew Abruzzo	Jim Applegate	Jennifer Barnes
Oct 1	Aliya Bbaul	Greg Bryan	Luca Comisso
Oct 8	Julia Blue Bird	Zoltan Haiman	Statia Cook
Oct 15	Jorge Cortes	Jules Hapern	Azadeh Keivani
Oct 22	Daniel DeFilippis	David Helfand	Adrian Lucy
Oct 29	Andrea Derdzinski	David Kipping	Nichol Melso
Nov 5	University Holiday	University Holiday	University Holiday
Nov 12	Rose Gibson	Kathryn Johnston	Steven Mohammed
Nov 19	Tiffany Jansen	Jerry Ostriker	Bhawna Motwani
Nov 26	Mihir Kulkarni	Joe Patterson	Navin Sridhar
Dec 3	Brian Lu	Mary Putman	Alex Teachey