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

[Brett Powley]

On 26/04/2007, at 6:46 PM, jette viethen wrote:

> Oops, did I miss something?? ... about this monthly PhD student  
> discussion.

Yes, I got the feeling that I missed something too.  This does sound,  
in principle, like a good idea.  But I'm not sure that preparing for  
a presentation every month, whether I think I need the feedback or  
not, is a good use of my limited time right now.  Some of the things  
that spring to mind are:

- short presentations do take time to prepare; I'm not sure I need  
another couple of hours taken out of my week right now

- even if it's not meant to be, this does sound like yet another  
progress reporting obligation (as if, as Jette mentioned, we didn't  
have enough already)

- I am pretty sure that there is already the opportunity to present  
things informally at LTG if we want or need feedback

- I've been to a lot of mass "present your research briefly"  
presentations and they are very difficult to keep on time even  
*without* questions.  I can see that it might be difficult to get  
useful feedback in a presentation of <a large number of PhD students>  
x 7 minutes format

- Presenting a few times a year and enlisting extra feedback when I  
need it suits me at the moment; of all the things I need to help with  
progress in my PhD, I can't say that doing extra presentations is one  
that sprung to mind.  But maybe other PhD students think differently


While I think that a more regular opportunity for soliciting feedback  
is a good idea, I'm not sure that this is the best way to do it.
What do others think?



Cheers,
Brett