Journal Club Organizers' Page

Here's some stuff helpful to the Journal Club organizers.

There's a shortlink to the “Speaker Instructions” section of the main page: http://tinyurl.com/ucbjcsi (i.e., “UC Berkeley Journal Club Speaker Instructions”).

To be sent ~10 days before a person's speaking slot.

Dear NAME,

Thanks for signing up to give a 20-minute Journal Club talk on
MONTH DAY. Once you have a topic picked for your talk, please let
us know a few things when you get the chance:

- What work(s) will you be presenting?
- Do you expect to use PowerPoint (or similar) for your talk?
- Is there any particular kind of feedback you'd like to get
  after your talk?

For some suggestions on choosing a topic and preparing for your talk,
see http://tinyurl.com/ucbjcsi . Please let us know if you have
any questions.

Cheers,

YOUR NAMES

(As a side note, everyone always says that they'll use some form of presentation software, but I like to ask because it encourages the idea that you can actually give a talk without such software. — Peter Williams 2011/04/07 23:58)

• Tuesdays
  1. Send a reminder to the following week's speakers using something like the above template
  2. Bug the current week's speakers for an abstract if necessary
• Thursdays, send a notice about Friday's JC speaker/topic. For ease of copy-paste, the addresses are: faculty@astro.berkeley.edu, research@astro.berkeley.edu, students@astro.berkeley.edu, postdocs@astro.berkeley.edu, astromajors@astro.berkeley.edu
• Fridays
  1. At ~11:30, send out another reminder email to the same set of lists.
  2. At noon, do Journal Club.