Changes

*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 students presenting (assuming Bryan wants to present), and 13 slots left. Generally, 2nd years pair up to share a slot in 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 slot.

*Thurs 25th August Jan 19 - '''No Class (Requested by Noam)'''*Thurs 1st September Jan 26 - Tarek*Thurs 8th September Feb 2 - Vito '''(Cancelled - No Seminar)'''*Thurs 15th September Feb 9 - Sharat*Thurs 22nd September Feb 16 - Amy (Steve attended)*Thurs 29th September Feb 23 - '''No Seminar (per Noam)'''*Thurs 6th October - Bo '''(Cancelled March 1 - No Seminar)'''*Thurs 13th October March 8 - Lucy*Thurs 20th October March 15 - '''No Seminar'''*Thurs 27th October March 22 - Pablo*Thurs 3rd November March 29 - Neil*Thurs 10th November April 5 - Ed*Thurs 17th November April 12 - Parham, Moshe & Yu Jin *Thurs 24th November April 19 - '''No Class (Administrative Holiday)'''*Thurs 1st December April 26 - Bryan*Thurs 8th December - 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 [[Talk:PHDBA279S_(Fall_2011) | Discussion Page]] May 3 - 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 [[Talk:PHDBA279S_(Fall_2011) | Discussion Page]] include:Reading/Recitation*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 Thurs May 10 - 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.Finals week