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, but open for any paper in the literature
  
• Please record paper you are talking about - in advance if possible
  
• Note - there is no requirement for others to read the listed papers in advance (although they certainly may!)
  
• Mondays 1030-1100 and Tuesdays 415pm-445pm in 1402 (strictly starting/ending on time)
  
• Bring your own coffee/tea on Tuesdays
  
• Three 10-min spots "assigned" to volunteers on roster below on a rotating basis
  
• KVJ/Daniel/Zephyr will chair - please self-assign another if they are absent
  
• Daniel (Mon) and Zephyr (Tues) to be in charge of setting up (ready to go on time) and taking down the computer and projector, and reminding speakers (thanks!)
  
• 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 or remove your name entirely to opt out
[name] = Unavailable this semester
name [T] = Tuesday only
name [M] = Monday only

Faculty/Research Scientists: David K, Jeno, Jim, Jules, Mary, Kathryn, David Helfand, Jacqueline, Zoltan, Slavko, David Schiminovich, [Mike Hahn], Jerry, Lorenzo, Greg [T], Frits, Joe, Caleb, [Eric], Brian Humensky, Mike Allison
Postdocs: Jason, Kohei Inayoshi, Kohei Ichikawa, Nick, Ruth, Ena [M], John, Luca, Anna Ijjas, Elad Steinberg
Grads: Andrea [T], Aleksey, Yong, Andrew E, Sarah, David Hendel, Emily [M], Zephyr, Tiffany, Moiya, Jingjing, Daniel [M], Rose, Julia, Mihir, Adrian, Nicole, Alex, Aaron [M], Matthew, Aliya, Adam, Tomer, Jemma, Ricardo

Assignments

Date

paper 1

paper 2

paper 3

Mon 22nd Jan		Jacqueline ​1712.05045	Tiffany ​1801.03502
Tues 23rd Jan	David S	Mihir	Slavko
Mon 29th Jan	Alex	Frits	Nicole
Tues 30th Jan		Elad	Anna
Mon 5th Feb	Jerry		Zoltan
Tues 6th Feb	Lorenzo	Luca	Adrian
Mon 12th Feb	Joe	Julia	Rose
Tues 13th Feb	Caleb	John	Daniel
Mon 19th Feb		Ena	Moiya
Tues 20th Feb	special	colloquium	= no astroph
Mon 26th Feb	Mary	Kohei Ich	Emily
Tues 27th Feb	Jeno	Kohei Ina	David Hendel
Mon 5th March	Kathryn	Andrew E	Jason
Tues 6th March	Mike A	Yong	Sarah
Mon 12th March	Spring	Spring	Spring
Tues 13th March	Break	Break	Break
Mon 19th March	Nick S	Aaron	Aliya
Tues 20th March	David Helfand	Matthew	Ricardo
Mon 26th March	Aleksey	Jim	Adam
Tues 27th March	Andrea	Jules	Tomer
Mon 2nd April	David K	Jemma
Tues 3rd April	Brian H	Ruth	Zephyr
Mon 9th April
Tues 10th April	BIG APPLE	BIG APPLE	BIG APPLE