[LA-SiGMA-LSU] All Students & Researchers Are Welcome to LA SIGMA Journal Club]

[sjlee at cct.lsu.edu]

Dear Professors,

Last year's condensed matter/AMO journal club will be rebranded as LA-SIGMA
journal club and it will involve people from all directions. We know from
last year that the research staff mail list is not complete. Could you
forward this email to postdocs and other research staff in your group? If
they are interested, they can send an email to me to register if they
cannot get the information from the research staff mail list. Thanks a lot.

Qinqin, Ryky and Kalani

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Qinqin Lü <qlu1 at tigers.lsu.edu>
Date: Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 1:29 PM
Subject: All Students & Researchers Are Welcome to LA SIGMA Journal Club
To: gradstudents at phys.lsu.edu, resrstaff at rouge.phys.lsu.edu,
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Cc: Ryky Nelson <rnels12 at tigers.lsu.edu>, Kalani Hettiarachchilage <
kalani.hettiarachchilage at gmail.com>, sjlee at cct.lsu.edu


Hello, fellow students and researchers,

*We are a group of graduate students in the Department of Physics and
Astronomy at LSU. We are proposing to start a journal club for all graduate
students, postdoctoral researchers, undergraduate majors, and other junior
researchers in the LA-SIGMA-related departments, including
Physics&Astronomy, CCT, Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry and Biological
Engineering.
*
This journal club is a place where we meet to exchange ideas on readings of
recent publication. Each week, we will have a speaker from the club members
to talk about one or more articles in his/her field. The speaker will be
rewarded by inspiring discussion with the audience and talks from other
club members. We believe this is an efficient way to absorb the latest
advances, to obtain experiences and boost confidence in public
presentation, and to encourage dialogues between different fields.

The guidelines of the journal club are as follows:

1 The club meets for about 1 hour once each week, including a talk on one
or more (no more than 3) journal articles and Question & Answer time. The
speaker is suggested to prepare a 30min talk.

2 The journal articles can be selected by the speaker from recent
publications in one of the most renowned journals in his/her field. For
example, for physics, we recommend the speaker to choose articles from
Nature, Science, Physics Review Letters or equivalent. If the speaker
wishes to choose from other journals or preprints, he or she should avoid
articles that are too technical for people outside that field.

3 Undergraduate physics majors and starting graduate students are welcome
to present their research. It is acceptable for them to choose non-recent
articles, for instance, review articles.

4 The speaker should send a title, a short abstract and the article(s) to
be introduced to the chair at least one week before his or her scheduled
talk.

5 The speaker is strongly suggested to introduce from the basics and not to
include many technical details.

6 If a speaker finds he or she cannot make the talk at the scheduled time,
the speaker should notify the chair immediately. Short notices make it
extremely difficult to find replacements.

*Again, we want to emphasize that we welcome all junior researchers from
all LA-SIGMA related departments to attend. The meeting is most possibly at
lunchtime of Wednesdays or Thursdays in Nicholson Hall. It may be
possible to have some simple food or refreshments. We will send out more
information once we have details. *
*
*
*We are currently actively looking for speakers. If you would like to sign
up, please contact one of us.
*

Qin-Qin Lü  qlu1 at tigers.lsu.edu
Ryky Nelson rnels12 at tigers.lsu.edu
Kalani Hettiarachchilage  kalani.hettiarachchilage at gmail.com