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-====== Journal Club ====== 
  
-Journal Club is a weekly venue for short, moderately-formal talks presenting an 
-academic paper to a mixed audience of astronomers. Our aim is for talks to be  
-useful for the speaker and interesting to the audience. Journal Club is organized 
-this semester by Adam Miller (''​amiller@astro''​) and Peter Williams (''​pwilliams@astro''​) 
-under the auspices of Paul Kalas (''​pkalas@astro''​). 
- 
-Journal Club meets from **noon to 1 PM** on **Fridays** in **HFA B-5**. The 
-talks start promptly at 12:10. 
- 
-Journal Club is also known as Astronomy 292 Section 001, CCN 06088. You 
-can skip directly to the [[#​speaker_instructions|speaker instructions]]. 
-You can also see [[journal_club:​past|listings from past journal clubs]]. 
- 
-====== Spring 2012 Schedule ====== 
- 
-^ Date ^ Speaker ^ Status ^ Topic ^ 
-|  1/20 | **Signup / organizational meeting** ||| 
-|  1/27 | | | | 
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-|   2/3 | | | | 
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-|  2/10 | | | | 
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-|  2/17 | | | | 
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-|  2/24 | | | | 
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-|   3/2 | Meredith Hughes | P | A brief and incomplete review of social science literature relevant to the (under)representation of women in science | 
-|     . | Sarah Newman | G | ?? | 
-|   3/9 | Aaron Lee| G | ?? | 
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-|  3/16 | | | | 
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-|  3/23 | Amber Bauermeister | G | ?? | 
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-|  3/30 | **Spring Break** ||| 
-|   4/6 | | | | 
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-|  4/13 | Jacob Lynn | G | | 
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-|  4/20 | Matt George | G | | 
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-|  4/27 | Mario Riquelme| P| | 
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-====== Speaker Instructions ====== 
- 
-The basic parameters of a JC talk are: 
- 
-**Duration**. Plan to talk for about 20 minutes and spend an additional 5 minutes fielding questions. 
- 
-**Topic**. Typical journal club talks discuss an academic paper which is not the speaker'​s own work.  
- 
-**Preparation**. If you're a less-experienced presenter, the organizers can help connect you with 
-a subject-area expert who can spend a little time helping you get oriented with your topic. 
- 
-**PowerPoint**. Feel free to use it if you want. In the interests of saving preparation time and 
-practicing extemporaneous speaking, you may wish to keep your usage of it to a minimum, only to 
-show key plots or equations. 
- 
-**Feedback**. If there'​s any particular kind of feedback you'd like on your talk, let the organizers 
-know, and they'​ll try to make sure you get it. 
- 
-=== Choosing a Topic === 
- 
-Here are some ways you could choose a topic to present: 
- 
-  * Present a paper that you needed to read anyway (if it isn't extremely discipline-specific) 
-  * Present a classic paper 
-  * Present a paper that generated interesting discussion at the ''​astro-ph''​ coffee 
-  * Present a paper connecting to the previous day's or next week's colloquium 
-  * Present a paper in a field that you're unfamiliar with and would like learn a bit more about 
- 
-It's important that Journal Club appeal to as broad a cross-section of the department as 
-possible, so try to choose topics which will be accessible and interesting to those who 
-are nonexperts in them.