Group Schedule, Winter 2012

This page contains information about various upcoming events that are of interest to the group.

Richard's calendar (travel)

Group Schedule, Fall 2011

The schedule for group and subgroup meetings is given below. Everyone should sign up for times to talk in the subgroup meetings.

Directions:

• Biocircuits (Tue or Thu, 3-5 pm): graduate students should give 1 longer presentation per term + 1-2 additional research updates; postdocs, undergrads should give 1-2 research updates.
• NCS (Wed, 4-6 pm): grad students should speak 2 times per term for 15-20 min (+ discussion), postdocs and undergrads at least once
• Robotics (Wed, 4-6 pm): grad students and postdocs should speak 2 times per term for 15-20 min (+ discussion), undergrads at least once; will also do ad hoc updates
• Group meeting talks (WThF, 12-1:15): postdocs and senior grad students (G4+) should feel free to sign up for a group meeting talk (biocircuit grad students: this can be in place of longer subgroup talk)

Please sign up for at least one presentation in the first six weeks of the term.

Note that some of the meetings might need to shift, as noted; only sign up for those slots if you can make both times listed

Week 1: 4-6 Jan NCS: 4 Jan (Wed), 4-6 pm Jun Liu (15-20 min) Open (15-20 min) Project updates Group meeting: 5 Jan (Thu), 12-1:15 Ophelia Biocircuits: 5 Jan (Thu), 3-5 pm Safety briefing (30-40 min) Research update (10-15 min) Research update (10-15 min) Lab updates Academic holiday, 2-3 Jan CDS quals, 6 Jan (RMM busy all day)	Week 2: 9-13 Jan Robotics: 11 Jan (Wed), 4-6 pm Shuo (15-20 min) Open (15-20 min) Short research updates (5 min each) Might shift to Fri, 1-3 pm Biocircuits: 12 Jan (Thu), 3-5 pm Research presentation (30-40 min) Research update (10-15 min) Research update (10-15 min) Lab updates Group meeting: 13 Jan (Fri), 12-1:15 pm Domitilla Del Vecchio (MIT)	Week 3: 16-20 Jan Biocircuits: 17 Jan (Tue), 2-4 pm Research presentation (30-40 min) Research update (10-15 min) Research update (10-15 min) Lab updates Note time shift in day (to "regular" day) NCS: 18 Jan (Wed), 4-6 pm Eric(15-20 min) Open (15-20 min) Project updates Group meeting: 19 Jan (Thu), 12-1:15 Naira Hovakimyan (UIUC)
Week 4: 23-27 Jan Biocircuits: 24 Jan (Tue), 3-5 pm Research presentation (30-40 min) Research update (10-15 min) Research update (10-15 min) Lab updates Group meeting: 25 Jan (Wed), 12-1:15 Necmiye Robotics: 25 Jan (Wed), 4-6 pm Stephanie (15-20 min) Open (15-20 min) Short research updates (5 min each) Might shift to Fri, 1-3 pm	Week 5: 30 Jan - 3 Feb Biocircuits: 31 Jan (Tue), 3-5 pm Research presentation (30-40 min) Nikki(10-15 min) Zach (10-15 min) Lab updates NCS: 1 Feb (Wed), 4-6 pm Open (15-20 min) Open (15-20 min) Project updates Group meeting: 2 Feb (Thu), 12-1:15 Jongmin	Week 6: 6 Feb - 10 Feb Biocircuits: 7 Feb (Tue), 3-5 pm Research presentation (30-40 min) Paul (10-15 min) Victoria (10-15 min) Lab updates Group meeting: 8 Feb (Wed), 12-1:15 Andrea Robotics: 8 Feb (Wed), 4-6 pm Open (15-20 min) Open (15-20 min) Short research updates (5 min each)
Week 7: 13-17 Feb NCS: 15 Feb (Wed), 4-6 pm Open (15-20 min) Open (15-20 min) Project updates Group meeting: 16 Feb (Thu), 12-1:15 Open Biocircuits: 16 Feb (Thu), 3-5 pm Safety briefing (30-40 min) Research update (10-15 min) Research update (10-15 min) Lab updates Note change in day	Week 8: 20-24 Feb Biocircuits: 21 Feb (Tue), 3-5 pm Research presentation (30-40 min) Research update (10-15 min) Research update (10-15 min) Lab updates Robotics: 22 Feb (Wed), 4-6 pm Shuo (15-20 min) Open (15-20 min) Short research updates (5 min each) Group meeting: 23 Feb (Thu), 12-1:15 Hold: possible job talk	Week 9: 27 Feb - 2 Mar Biocircuits: 28 Feb (Tue), 3-5 pm Safety briefing (30-40 min) Research update (10-15 min) Research update (10-15 min) Lab updates Will probably shift to 2 Mar, 3-5 pm NCS: 29 Feb (Wed), 4-6 pm Open (15-20 min) Open (15-20 min) Project updates Will probably shift to 2 Mar, 1-3 pm Group meeting: 2 Mar (Fri), 12-1:15 Open
Week 10: 5-9 Mar Biocircuits: 6 Mar (Tue), 3-5 pm Research presentation (30-40 min) Research update (10-15 min) Research update (10-15 min) Lab updates Robotics: 7 Mar (Wed), 4-6 pm Open (15-20 min) Open (15-20 min) Short research updates (5 min each) Group meeting: 9 Mar (Fri), 12-1:15 Hold: possible job talk	Week 11: 12-16 Mar Finals week; Richard out of town	Week 12: 19-23 Mar Spring break; Richard out of town