Luke, Could you please deal with this page. I've included the Code from the Minot group (+ some edits - Melina) below, to give you ideas. You can do things like write where the next group meeting time and place is going to be, as well as upcoming speakers, even the lab rotation queue. This will make it much easier for the next person to take it over.
Group meetings
For Spring 2012 we are meeting at 10 AM every Tuesday in 301 PSB. Check the weekly email or the group calendar for updates.
Group talks
We take turns giving the weekly talk at group meeting. The talk focuses on your own research results, or a journal article that you think the group will find interesting. Aim for a 15 minute presentation. It will naturally get longer when interrupted with questions.
Some rules of thumb about giving a good presentation:
- With only 15 minutes, try to teach the audience one new nugget of knowledge (if you are presenting a journal article, the nugget of knowledge is summarized in the title of the article).
- Give your talk a story line, a story that teaches us one new nugget of knowledge. The story includes why the research was done, what was observed, and what it means.
- Prepare some slides with the essential images, cartoon diagrams, data and equations that you want to explain (no more than 4 slides). When you watch department seminars and colloquium think about what makes a good slide.
- Anticipate questions and do background reading to find the answers.
Speaker rotation
- Nov 25 - Nathan
- Dec 2 - Paul
- Dec 9 - Xioadong
Previous term
- Aug 5 - Scott Berkley
- Aug 19 - Nathan
- Sept 2 - Arthur
- Sept 9 - Luke
- Sept 16 - Paul
- Sept 23 - Yaqiong
- Sept 30 - Jonathan
- Oct 7 - Arend
- Oct 21 - Arthur
- Nov 11 - Sam
- Nov 18 - Melina
Ideas for discussion topics
“Multifunctional carbon nanotube networks for fuel cells” M. Kaempgen, M. Lebert, N. Nicoloso, and S. Roth, Applied Physics Letters 92,094103 (2008) (3 pages)
“Autonomous nanomotors…” W. F. Paxton et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 13424 (2004)
“3D holographic images projected in real time”, Nature 451, 636 (2008).
