Timeline for Lunch seminars for PhD students
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| Oct 17, 2021 at 13:34 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | @aglearner Here is my recollection. Anyone may attend the lectures (before COVID they were done in person) — undergraduate, graduate, faculty. Speakers are volunteers. The faculty facilitators sometimes may help a student find a topic and prepare the talk (inexperienced speakers usually prepare far too much material to fit in the time allotted). Graduate students may enroll for a small amount of graduate credit; if they do, then they are expected to contribute a talk and attend the other talks. | |
| Oct 16, 2021 at 11:18 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Stefan Kohl♦ | ||
| Oct 15, 2021 at 14:06 | comment | added | aglearner | Luis, many thanks for your answer! So I see that this is run by two profs, and not by grad students. I wonder how they choose speakers, do you know a bit about the organisation of this seminar? | |
| Oct 15, 2021 at 14:03 | comment | added | aglearner | @KConrad, thanks for the comment. It might be that this an American tradition, not British one? Maybe this is the reason it is so natural for you but not for me... :) Honestly, I did not have intention to be controversial, I just want to see examples of how such things are done | |
| Oct 15, 2021 at 13:59 | comment | added | KConrad | @Wojowu the AMS made up that title for its column and it spawned department seminars with that title at various places. Another such example is TWIGS at UMass Amherst: math.umass.edu/seminars/TWIGS. Honestly, I have seen this kind of junior colloquium type seminar at enough places (in the US) that the premise of the OP suggesting they are somehow unusual struck me as itself unusual. | |
| Oct 15, 2021 at 13:31 | comment | added | Wojowu | The AMS column is directly credited in the two seminars I linked, and it predates the OSU seminar by 7 years. As far as I know, "What is...?" was AMS's own invention. | |
| Oct 15, 2021 at 13:25 | comment | added | Louis D | It's based on the "What is...?" column in the AMS notices. Here is a list of said columns. arminstraub.com/math/what-is-column. I wonder if they originated that title, or if the idea goes back further than the AMS column? | |
| Oct 15, 2021 at 13:22 | comment | added | Wojowu | There are at least two other seminars in this spirit: "What is ... ? Seminar" organized by some people from Brisbane, and a "decentralized" one "What is... a seminar?". | |
| Oct 15, 2021 at 13:19 | history | answered | Louis D | CC BY-SA 4.0 |