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- | ====== Journal Club ====== | ||
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- | 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 ('' | ||
- | under the auspices of Geoff Bower ('' | ||
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- | Journal Club meets from **noon to 1 PM** on **Fridays** in **HFA B-5**. The | ||
- | talks start promptly at 12:10. | ||
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- | Journal Club is also known as Astronomy 292 Section 001, CCN 06088. You | ||
- | can skip directly to the [[# | ||
- | You can also see [[journal_club: | ||
====== Spring 2012 Schedule ====== | ====== Spring 2012 Schedule ====== | ||
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| 3/30 | **Spring Break** ||| | | 3/30 | **Spring Break** ||| | ||
| 4/6 | | | | | | 4/6 | | | | | ||
- | | 4/13 | Jacob Lynn | G | | | + | | 4/13 | Jacob Lynn | G | [[http:// |
| 4/20 | Matt George | G | On the Number of Talks in the Berkeley Astronomy Department | | | 4/20 | Matt George | G | On the Number of Talks in the Berkeley Astronomy Department | | ||
- | | 4/27 | Mario Riquelme| P| | | + | | 4/27 | | | | |
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- | ====== Speaker Instructions ====== | + | |
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- | The basic parameters of a JC talk are: | + | |
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- | **Duration**. Plan to talk for about 20 minutes and spend an additional 5 minutes fielding questions. | + | |
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- | **Topic**. Typical journal club talks discuss an academic paper which is not the speaker' | + | |
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- | **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. | + | |
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- | **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. | + | |
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- | **Feedback**. If there' | + | |
- | know, and they' | + | |
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- | === 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 '' | ||
- | * 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. |