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,

This a reminder that you've signed up to give a 20-minute Journal Club talk on
MONTH DAY. Once you have a topic picked for your talk, please let me and
OTHER ORGANIZER know a few things when you get the chance:

- What paper(s) will you be presenting?
- Would you like us to find someone somewhat familiar with your talk
  topic who can spend a little time helping get you oriented?
- Should we use the paper's abstract as your talk abstract? If not,
  what abstract should we put?
- Do you expect to use PowerPoint for your talk?
- What level of familiarity do you have with the subject area of the paper?
  (We'll mention this when we introduce you to the audience in an attempt
  to set their expectations appropriately for questions, etc.)
- Do you want feedback on your talk? If so, regarding what?
- Do you have any other goals for this talk that we can help you achieve?

For some suggestions on choosing a topic and preparing for your talk, see
http://tinyurl.com/ucbjcsi .

Thanks,

YOUR NAME

• Every Tuesday
  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
• Every Thursday, send a notice about Friday's JC speaker/topic. (If undergrads don't show up for a couple of weeks, we should stop spamming then.) 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
• Every Friday
  1. In the morning, make notes about the speakers' experience/feedback desires/etc for the intro
  2. In the morning, ask the speakers if they have any last-minute needs
  3. At ~11:30, send out another reminder email to the same set of lists.
  4. At noon, do Journal Club.