A copy of this message was supposed to go to the BLAST Collaboration,
but I typed the wrong address the first time. Apologies to those who
get it twice.
Bill
Begin forwarded message:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> In the interest of encouraging scientific discourse and lab
> camaraderie it has been proposed that we initiate a weekly brown bag
> discussion lunch at Bates. In some ways, this would simply formalize
> what has been going on informally for years. However, with our
> reduced laboratory manpower and greater diversity of projects,
> there is a need for a structure for people to communicate what they
> are working on and for people to keep up on what is going on in the
> lab. Although the Monday Bates coordination meeting achieves this at
> some level already, the weekly lunch is intended to provide a more
> relaxed discussion of interesting physics or engineering in a bit more
> depth. It is intended as a regular open forum where people can come
> to present new results or delve into issues which can't be described
> at length in the coordination meeting.
>
> The idea is to have at least 1 person in any given week give a brief
> update on a topic of interest, although some weeks may be an open
> discussion. The tone of the meeting is intended to be informal and
> should not impose undue pressure on speakers to prepare highly
> detailed talks (in fact we may want to limit the number of slides to
> somewhere in the neighborhood of 10-15). However, the talks should
> be geared to people outside the group working directly on the project
> and should encourage questions and suggestions. Topics could include
> current lab projects and experiments, new analysis of previously
> acquired data, ideas for hypothetical future projects, or even
> interesting papers on things being done elsewhere.
>
> We'll start this Friday at 12:15 in the Bates lunch room with a
> discussion on the MIT Optical Stochastic Cooling Proposal. I have
> volunteered to organize this forum, which hopefully people will want
> to participate in. If you are interested in giving a short talk on a
> problem you are working on in an upcoming week, please let me know.
> In all likelihood, I will be coming around to pester many of you to do
> so anyway. I've tried to include people on this initial message who
> would be possibly interested in this type of forum, which is open to
> anyone with an interest in Bates physics. Certainly I've
> inadvertently left people off. I would like to establish a regular
> e-mail list for this forum. Please send me a quick reply if you
> would like to be on the regular list. Thanks.
>
> Best regards,
> Bill Franklin
>
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