[Ltg] [Cltphds] [Clt] New LTG Seminar Roster

[jette viethen]

Oops, did I miss something?? ... about this monthly PhD student discussion.
I only heard about it briefly on the corridor from Marc the other day. But
then again, I haven't been to any LTG meeting in weeks, so maybe things were
discussed in detail there and I just missed it.

There a few things that I'm not quite clear about:
- who came up with that and why?
- I'm sure whoever did only means the best, but the way it is presented to
us (me) now, it comes along a bit like the sudden requirement to submit
something to LUCID a while back.
- have the other PhD students been consulted over whether they think this is
a good idea? If this is meant to be for our benefit, I guess we should have
a say.
- we - or more exactly the staff - will have to make very sure that this
doesn't start feeling like a monthly check up and if we're not on track we
get a beating. Otherwise I'll simply stop coming to the meetings. I have a
weekly report to Robert, an Annual Report to the HDRU, the Computing
Miniconference, the LTG report (btw, did anything ever come out of that?? Or
maybe this monthly round table is a replacement for it?) and Agnieszka
chasing up research plans etc. to worry about already, so I don't need
anymore things that remind me of how slow and lazy I am. I already know and
getting told again won't make me any faster only more stubborn.

Don't get me wrong: I do think this could be a great way for us to get more
help and feedback, if it is done in the right way. I'm just trying to find
out where this is coming from all of a sudden (at least for me) and what the
idea behind it is.
And again, apologies if this has been discussed and I was just not there.
I'd still like to know more about it then.

Cheers,

jette


On 4/26/07, Marc Tilbrook <marct at ics.mq.edu.au> wrote:
>
>
> I've posted a new Seminar roster for the next few months here:
> http://www.clt.mq.edu.au/Events/Seminars.html . Please have a look and let
> me know if I need to make any changes.
>
> Starting 7th May the first Monday of every month will be allocated to a
> PhD
> student discussion.
>
> Under the current structure of LTG seminars, everyone only gets to talk a
> couple of times a year.  For PhD students, it's more useful to have more
> regular feedback from other members of the group.  The plan is to, once a
> month, present work in progress very concisely, and hold discussion over
> to
> later (lunch, or some other time).  We envisage it working as follows:
>
> * Each PhD student gets 7 minutes.
>
> * Students will outline what they've done since the last one of these
> meetings, in terms of concrete results (i.e. carried out experiments of
> the
> following form; defined a knowledge representation of the following form;
> ...); and also what you're planning to do before the next meeting, in
> terms
> of specific goals (e.g. will carry out this experiment, with the aim of
> answering this question; will implement this subsystem, with the aim of
> demonstrating this via proof-of-concept; ...).
>
> * Slides are optional.
>
> * Clarification questions are OK, but no discussion derailing
> presentations.
>
>
>
>
>
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