The purpose of these seminars is to familiarize the first year Ay graduate students with the research done by our faculty, and thus assist them in choosing their initial research projects. The attendance by the first year students is thus mandatory. Anyone else is welcome to attend. Informal continued discussions after the seminars are encouraged.
Here is the class description from the catalog; students, please note the requirements:
Ay 111 ab. Introduction to Current Astrophysics Research. 3 units; second, third terms. This course is intended primarily for first-year Ay graduate students, although participation is open and encouraged. Students are required to attend seminar-style lectures given by astrophysics faculty members, describing their research, to attend the weekly astronomy colloquia, and to follow these with additional readings on the subject. At the end of each term, students are required to summarize in oral or written form (at the discretion of the instructor), one of the covered subjects that is of most interest to them. Instructors: Djorgovski.
|
Apr 3 |
J. Johnson |
|
|
Apr 10 |
F. Zwicky |
Those spherical bastards... |
|
Apr 17 |
Carpenter |
|
|
Apr 24 |
Kulkarni |
|
|
May 1 |
S. Phinney |
|
|
May 8 |
J. Cohen |
|
|
May 15 |
G. Blake |
|
|
May 22 |
Schmidt |
|
|
May 29 |
Brown |
|
Jan 10 |
Djorgovski |
|
|
Jan 17 |
Hillenbrand |
|
|
Jan 24 |
Golwala |
|
|
Jan 31 |
Prince |
|
|
Feb 7 |
Ellis |
|
|
Feb 14 |
Readhead |
Tony's slides |
|
Feb 21 |
Ott |
Christian's slides |
|
Feb 28 |
Steidel |
Chuck's slides |
|
Mar 6 |
Hallinan |
Greg's slides |
Here are some links that you may find useful or interesting:
Ten Simple Rules
- a set of brief, excellent articles giving career advice and wisdom, published in PoS Comp Bio, but generally applicable in all fields.
Here is the
local pdf file
Richard Hamming: "You and Your Research"
Look at this excellent set of links
Watch this! Nancy Duarte's webinar on how to make good ppt presentations
Peter Norvig's famous Gettysburg ppt parody
Ian Parker's "Absolute Powerpoint", The New Yorker, May 2001
Advice on giving talks
More good advice
Good advice links
More good advice links
Some good tips on giving good talks
And another one
Last Revised: 8 June 2012, SGD