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Journal Club
IfA Auditorium, Wednesdays 1-2pm, Aug 24th - Dec 7th
This one credit seminar series (Ast 734)
is intended to introduce first and second year graduate students to
current research topics and teach presentation skills.
All faculty, postdocs, and students are also encouraged to attend
and participate.
We will meet once per week for a 50 minute period, divided into two 25 minute informal presentations of recent research papers. These papers should be drawn from the peer-reviewed literature or arXiv server from authors outside of the IfA. Unlike some other weekly meeting groups, this forum is not intended to be a promotion of individual research but rather to to learn from our peers about the latest work across the full spectrum of astronomical research. It will be free-format under the following guidelines:
- Each enrolled student will give one or more presentations during the sememster and should attend and actively participate in each meeting.
- Other particpants (faculty, postdocs, more senior students) will be invited to lead a discussion each week.
- The format of the the presentation is up to the presenter -- it can be (a small number of) powerpoint slides, on the board, or via handouts.
- As the goal is to promote discussion, questioning during the presentation is both allowed and encouraged.
- The two presentations per meeting will be split into one "senior" (faculty, postdoc, or ≥ 4th year student) and one "junior" (1st-3rd year student).
- The title, authors, and a weblink for the paper(s) under discussion should be emailed to me one week in advance for enrolled students and two days in advance for more senior participants.