Jacob Group Student Forum

Student Forum Speaker List
10/08 Jenny Fisher, Amos Tai
10/22 Eric Leibensperger, Peter Zoogman
11/05 Justin Parrella, Eloise Marais
11/19 Daniel Jacob
12/03 Chris Holmes
12/17 Kevin Wecht, Moeko Yoshitomi
01/14 Lee Murray, Amos Tai
01/28 Qiaoqiao Wang, Bess Corbitt
02/11 Helen Amos, Patrick Kim
02/25 Ben Miller, Jenny Fisher


OBJECTIVE

The forum is a place to explain research, ask questions, discuss problems, and get solutions from each other. It is a relaxed an interactive venue where everyone is encouraged to ask questions and exchange ideas, however basic. In addition to research conversations, the forum also exists to pass on advice about courses, qualifying exams, writing papers, giving talks and to socialize.

LOGISTICS

- Frequency: Every two weeks, Thursdays 5-6 pm in Pierce Hall 100F
- Who: Undergraduates, Graduate students and first-year post-docs in the Jacob-Logan group
- Food and drinks courtesy of Jacob group (yippee!)
- Speakers will rotate among graduate students. If a speaker cannot attend, the speaker should arrange for trade and modify webpage accordingly and not bug the facilitator.
- Facilitators role: Senior graduate students will serve as facilitators organize the speaker list, arrange food, and keep the meeting on time. The facilitators are not in charge of finding replacement speakers. (Currently - Eric Leibensperger (eleibens at fas) and Jenny Fisher (jafisher at fas))


FORMAT

1) Research updates from everyone. 10 minutes. Tell us what you're doing, obstacles you've encountered, solutions you've discovered. Bring a graph if it helps you explain.

2) 2 - 15 minute presentations - presenters' choice of topics:

a research update. Talking about methods, assumptions and analysis can generate great discussions. Results and conclusions are not required!
a practice talk for a conference or qualifying exam or defense,
a tutorial on some part of someone's work (e.g., explaining an adjoint, the chemistry of SOA, how do we parameterize lightning in the model, ozone chemistry, mercury, pan chemistry)
a literature review for someone's new project

3) 20 minute round table discussion about whatever -
idl help/code questions
open discussion
course suggestions
organizing talks
a discussion or brainstorm of methods to use and research questions to ask

DOCUMENTS

• Structure of GEOS-Chem by Claire Carouge - an overview of the structure of GEOS-Chem routines and explanation of grep. (June 2009)
• Atmospheric Sciences Computing Resources - Tips & Tricks by Philippe Le Sager - an introduction to our computational resources, Unix commands, and TCSH scripting. (June 2009)
• Bob Y.'s Quick Introduction to PERL by Bob Yantosca - an introduction to PERL scripting. (June 2009)
  • PERL Example 1 - How to print text.
  • PERL Example 2 - How to declare variables.
  • PERL Example 3 - How to pass arguments.
  • PERL Example 4 - How to read/write text to a file.
  • PERL Example 5 - How to match and edit strings.
  • PERL Example 6 - How to pass arguments to subroutines.
• Working with Color in IDL by Christopher Holmes - a primer emphasizing the GAMAP tools. (March 2007)
• The PBS Queue System by Christopher Holmes - an explanation of the queue system and list of available queues. (September 2006)
• Adding gas phase chemistry to GEOS-Chem by May Fu - a check list of modifications for adding gas phase chemistry. (June 2007)
• Organic compounds in GEOS-Chem by May Fu - intro to VOCs in GEOS-Chem. (June 2007)