Provide a comfortable faculty-free environment to allow graduate students to better define and understand their research by describing and teaching it to others via short presentations and discussions

Illustrate the expectations and requirements for graduate students intending on progressing to academic (teaching and/or research) and industrial positions

Initiate graduate student interest, inquisition, and interaction in department colloquia and all scientific talk formats

Provide a forum to discuss and solve issues and problems specific to graduate students, including individual research work, faculty, and department concerns

Provide a means for the graduate students to refine their speaking abilities through practice and peer constructive criticism

Designed to be a partial free-form format to allow students to suggest topics and ideas regarding the direction for the seminar

Allow a broader understanding of science by providing a casual setting to ask fundamental questions in many areas of physics

Provide a means for graduate students to learn about each other's personal research