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
me and OTHER ORGANIZER know a few things when you get the chance:

- What work(s) will you be presenting?
- If you'd like to provide your own abstract for your talk, feel
  free to do so; otherwise we'll post the abstract of your
  chosen paper.
- Do you expect to use PowerPoint (or similar) for your talk?
- What kinds of feedback would you like on your talk?
- If the subject area of your talk is one with which you're not so
  familiar, would you like us to try find someone who can
  spend a little time helping get you oriented? We can also mention
  this when introducing you to help set audience expectations
  appropriately.
- 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.