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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 Geoff Bower (''gbower@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 ====== ====== Spring 2012 Schedule ======
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 |  1/20 | **Signup / organizational meeting** ||| |  1/20 | **Signup / organizational meeting** |||
 |  1/27 | | | | |  1/27 | | | |
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 |   2/3 | | | | |   2/3 | | | |
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 |  2/10 | | | | |  2/10 | | | |
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 |  2/17 | Linda Strubbe | xG | Astronomy outreach adventures in Guatemala and South Africa | |  2/17 | Linda Strubbe | xG | Astronomy outreach adventures in Guatemala and South Africa |
-|     . | Linda Strubbe | | | 
 |  2/24 | Meredith Hughes | P | A brief and incomplete review of social science literature relevant to the (under)representation of women in science | |  2/24 | Meredith Hughes | P | A brief and incomplete review of social science literature relevant to the (under)representation of women in science |
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 |   3/2 | Eugene Chiang | F | [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/143/3/63|Planet Formation by Coagulation: The Kuiper Belt]] | |   3/2 | Eugene Chiang | F | [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/143/3/63|Planet Formation by Coagulation: The Kuiper Belt]] |
 |   3/9 | Paul Goldsmith | visitor | (not JC) Herschel measurements of O2 in the ISM and their significance | |   3/9 | Paul Goldsmith | visitor | (not JC) Herschel measurements of O2 in the ISM and their significance |
-|  3/16 | Sarah Newman | G | | +|  3/16 | | | | 
-|     | | | | +|  3/23 | | | |
-|  3/23 | Amber Bauermeister | G | ?? | +
-|     . | Aaron Lee          ?? |+
 |  3/30 | **Spring Break** ||| |  3/30 | **Spring Break** |||
-|   4/| Ken Shen | P | | +|   4/6 | | | | 
-|     | | | | +|  4/13 | Jacob Lynn | G | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.2094|Transition from weak to strong cascade in MHD turbulence]] 
-|  4/13 | Jacob Lynn | G | +|  4/20 | Matt George | G | On the Number of Talks in the Berkeley Astronomy Department 
-|     . | | | +|  4/27 | | | |
-|  4/20 | Matt George | G | +
-|     . | | | +
-|  4/27 | Mario RiquelmeP| | +
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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.