Jacob Group Student Forum

Student Forum Speaker List
01/24 Lin Zhang, Lee Murray
02/07 Bess Sturges, Xi Lu
02/21 Kevin Wecht, Jenny Fisher
03/06 Chris Holmes, Justin Parrella
03/20 Meghan Purdy, Monika Kopacz
04/03 Guest speaker: Elsie Sunderland
04/17 Moeko Yoshitomi (practice quals)
05/01 Guest speaker Daniel: How to write a successful proposal
05/15 Easan Drury, Eric Leibensperger
05/29 Amos PK Tai, Lulu Yu
06/12 ARCTAS talk (Beyond the blog...): Jenny Fisher and Chris Holmes
06/26 Lin Zhang, Lee Murray
07/10 Bess Sturges, Xi Lu
07/24 Chris Holmes, Kevin Wecht
08/07 Justin Parrella, Moeko Yoshitomi
08/21 TBD
09/04 New student/postdoc orientation
09/18 TBD


OBJECTIVE

As the group grows and diversifies it becomes important to build communication among the various disciplines; work to utilize each others strengths and not reinvent the wheel alone; get advice from people who have been through the stresses of courses, qualifying exams, writing their first paper, giving their first talk, and their first feeling of 'my code is never going to work'; and socialize for fun :)


LOGISTICS

- Frequency: Every two weeks, Thursdays 5-6 pm in Pierce Hall 100F
- Who: Undergraduate and Graduate students in the Jacob group
- Food and beer served courtesy of Jacob group (yippee!)
- Speakers will rotate among graduate students. If a speaker cannot attend, the speaker should arrange for trade and modify webpage accordingly and not bug the facilitator.
- Facilitators role: Every semester a new senior graduate student will serve as facilitator to make sure people don't blab on and on, organize speaker list, and arrange with Brenda for food. Facilitator is not in charge of finding replacements. (Fall 2007 - Monika Kopacz (kopacz at fas) and Easan Drury (drury at fas))
- Agenda:

1) 2 - 20 minute presentations - presenters choice of topics:

a practice talk for a conference or qualifying exam or defense,
a tutorial on some part of someones work (e.g., explaining an adjoint, the chemistry of SOA, how do we parameterize lightning in the model, ozone chemistry, mercury, pan chemistry, maybe a guest lecture by djj about how to write a good paper)
an update on someones work
a literature review for someones new project

2) 20 minute round table discussion about whatever -
idl help/code questions
open discussion
course suggestions
organizing talks
a discussion or brainstorm of methods to use and research questions to ask

This forum is for us. Please, let's discuss how to make it great - the format will stand for the first semester after which we can make changes.


DOCUMENTS

• Working with Color in IDL by Christopher Holmes - a primer emphasizing the GAMAP tools. (March 2007)
• The PBS Queue System by Christopher Holmes - an explanation of the queue system and list of available queues. (September 2006)
• Adding gas phase chemistry to GEOS-Chem by May Fu - a check list of modifications for adding gas phase chemistry. (June 2007)
• Organic compounds in GEOS-Chem by May Fu - intro to VOCs in GEOS-Chem. (June 2007)