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Postgraduates' projects
 Friday Seminars
As staff and students may or may not be aware, Tom and Jennifer are stepping down as organisers for the Friday seminars, and the much sought-after posts have been snapped up by Vicky Lam and Neil Hutchinson. We will be avidly searching out those students who have not given a seminar recently (and those of you who have never given one) and asking them to "volunteer" to do so. We have several free slots available in the near future which need filling. If you are too busy at the moment then book a date for your seminar several months in advance and make time for it! A subject that has been raised several times during post-seminar festivities is the length of seminars. One opinion is that 45 minute seminars are often too long as people feel that they must tell us everything that they are doing. There is nothing stopping several students each giving a seminar in one session, e.g. two students each giving 15 minute conference-style presentations. Perhaps this is the way for the seminars to go, with a mixture of long introductory seminars at the start of research and short seminars throughout the rest of their study. I would like to leave this open to discussion and so if anyone has any ideas on ways by which we could improve our already well-established seminar series then please feel free to talk to Vicky or myself.,p. See you all at the seminar on Friday. Neil Hutchinson Neil is at SWIMS, tel. 2809 2179, fax 2809 2197, [See also From the Bar...] |
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