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Revision as of 18:37, 30 January 2011
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===Student seminar===
2nd years and above attend 279s[[PHDBA279S (Fall 2010)| 279S]], the “student seminar,” on a weekly basis. This seminar is usually held early Thursday afternoons. The seminar consists of a weekly presentation by a BPP Ph.D. student (or sometimes by a student from another department or a visiting scholar). The schedule for presentations is decided at the first meeting of the semester. Both the presenter and the audience have obligations:
====Presenter Obligations====
#Participate
Both norms have become increasingly ignored in the last few years. Every BPP student should '''allocate at least an hour a week''' to prepare for 279S, and should '''actively help''' and challenge the presenter during the seminar. In previous years many students have provided '''written feedback''' in advance of the presentation; this is not required but is certainly welcome, and the demise of this informal norm is further evidence that too many of us are ignoring our 279s 279S responsibilities.
===OEW===
It should be noted that some students say that the topics chosen by invited speakers are becoming increasingly distant from our research interests; there are a few answers to this criticism. First, faculty convening the seminar are usually very open to suggestions from us about who to invite. In recent years we have instituted a very successful formal speaker nomination process by Ph.D. students which the faculty seem to like a lot. The speaker nomination process is usually performed by the BPP peer advisor. Second, you can still learn a lot by reading and thinking critically about a paper not directly in your research field.
==Agreed Revisions / New Institions==
On Thursday 27th January 2011, the BPP students attended a meeting with Steve Tadelis, where an agreement was reached on a new institution for presenting at the student seminar. Details are here:
*[[PHDBA279S Presentation Institutions]]
