Changes

PHDBA279S is the PhD in '''BPP Research Seminar''', generally known as the '''BPP Student Seminar'''. It is a weekly seminar where students present their research to other students in the group. This is a required seminar for BPP students in the 2nd year and above. For Fall 2011 Noam Yuchtman Spring 2012, Rui will be the supervising faculty member.

There is an are currently no security restrictions on this page so that the faculty can access it. However, the [[Talk:PHDBA279S (Fall 2011Spring 2012) Official Version | "official version" of this pageTalk Page]]is protected, that the faculty can with access. It is not important to keep the two syncronized. We can post the "final" results of the exploration that will take place on this page to that page once we are doneallowed only for BPP students.

Following a BPP student group meeting with Steve Tadelis last terma few semesters ago, we collectively (and with the faculty) agreed a new institution for the presentation order at the Student Seminar. This is detailed here:

*Thursdays from '''12:30pm to 2pm'''. - is this confirmed? -- the schedule of classes says 1pm to 3pm.

*With Noam Yuchtman*Starting 1st September (Instruction formally begins Thursday 25th August) and ending December 8th (classes formally end Friday December 9th)*Thurs 24th November is listed in the [http://opa.berkeley.edu/AcademicCalendar/calendardisp.aspx?terms=2011C Official Academic Calendar] as an Adminitrative HolidayRui

A list of [[BPP Students | all BPP students is here]]. We have 14 10 students presenting (assuming presuming Sharat and Bryan wants don't want to present), and 13 more slots left. GenerallyIf possible, 2nd years pair up to share a slot in April is often used for the fall. With 3 second years, we should see if we can organize a possibly extended slot, or if one wants to take a full slotjob market recap.

*Thurs 25th August Jan 19 - '''No Class (Requested by Noam)'''meeting per Rui. *Thurs 1st September Jan 26 - TarekRui plans organizational meeting. *Thurs 8th September - Vito '''(Cancelled Feb 2 - No Seminar)'''meeting. *Thurs 15th September Feb 9 - Neil/Pablo (30- Sharat45 each)*Thurs 22nd September Feb 16 - Tarek/Amy (Steve attended45 each)*Thurs 29th September Feb 23 - '''No Seminar Yujin/Bo (per Noam45 each)'''*Thurs 6th October March 1 - Bo '''Parham/Moshe (Cancelled - No Seminar45 each)'''*Thurs 13th October March 8 - LucyAmy*Thurs 20th October March 15 - '''No Seminar'''Neil*Thurs 27th October March 22 - PabloOrie*Thurs 3rd November March 29 - [Spring Break - NeilNo Class]*Thurs 10th November April 5 - EdJob Market Recap*Thurs 17th November April 12 - Parham, Moshe & Yu Jin No meeting *Thurs 24th November April 19 - '''No Class (Administrative Holiday)'''Bo *Thurs 1st December April 26 - BryanTarek*Thurs 8th December May 3 - Orie ==Yet More Changes to Student Seminar== Noam, on behalf of the faculty is currently proposing changes to Student Seminar. If you would like to discuss them, please use the [Lucy [Talk:PHDBA279S_(Fall_2011) | Discussion Page]Reading week] *Thurs May 10 - faculty do not have access to these pages. The changes proposed are:#Presentations be generally limited to 40 minutes (45 was originally suggested, but by the end of class it was determined that only 40 minutes would be available). There would be exceptions to this for Job Market candidates and for other people who wanted full slots and could get approval for them from the faculty.#More faculty will (sic) start attending student seminar. It was envisaged that (1) would allow for the presentation of raw ideas, rather than 'polished work', and would limit 'unconstructive criticism'. (2) would apparently get more faculty involvement with students and afford presenters feedback from faculty. Feelings posted on the Pablo [[Talk:PHDBA279S_(Fall_2011) | Discussion PageFinals week]] include:*This is '''our''' seminar, and we should have a strong voice in how it is run.*The additional faculty that will attend would likely be limited to Ernesto on a regular basis, with possible occasional attendance from Rui and Steve. One suggestion fielded was that faculty create an additional institution to help us with our 'raw' work - perhaps a lunch (and even if they didn't offer to pay for our lunches, this seems likely to get a good attendance). A more cyncial comment would be that if you want feedback from Ernesto he is usually in his office (F556).*At least one student liked the incentive of having to produce work that covered a 90 minute presentation.