[PL-sem-jr] PL Seminar Jr, 2009

[Aaron Turon]

Giving credit where it's due: the verbiage on the website was supplied by
Richard Cobbe, while he was still the organizer.  When he handed it off to
me, I couldn't find a thing to change in the prose.  I think it captures the
(ideal) spirit of the seminar.

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Daniel Brown <dbrown at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:11, Aaron Turon <turon at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> > More on the goals and culture of PL Jr can be found here:
> http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/turon/pljr.html
>
> I highly encourage the younger students to read this to get a sense of
> the purpose of the PL Jr seminar. Aaron's write up does a good job
> explaining how, as a new phd student, you will often feel lost in the
> primary PL seminar and, more broadly, the day-to-day research
> conversation of the lab, and how PL Jr aims to help this by providing
> you a forum where can explore some of the basic topics of the field
> with your fellow students in depth. Think of it as an ongoing topics
> course in PL, run by you.
>
> It also gives you an opportunity to practice giving talks, albeit
> often less structured ones.
>
>  Dan
>
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