Letter

 Hi everybody,

  We decided to re-brand our Journal Club to a new, amazing form. Please read the details below.   The website is http://cmjcru.wikispaces.com   Aline and Vitya.

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 * First, we strongly suggest to move JC to Monday, room 112 starting at 6:30 pm. We want to hear from everyone who is interested, so below is the link for a Doodle poolh
 * Second, we would like to give the JC better defined aim and make it easier to choose topics and participate. Any suggestions are welcome but here is what we think is a very reasonable one:

**Every Monday evening we would cover the next Tuesday seminar.** It would be great to assign the "persona of the week" to a couple of students/postdocs whose interest lie the closest. Best case scenario is a brief overview of the topic and some words on the latest work itself. One can find out that the material it is very hard to understand. In that case it is just as great to present a bunch of questions with a little bit of background: that is what Journal clubs are for, to figure those things out. I guess none of us is an expert, so the idea is to have a guided discussion, and it would be interesting if everybody could also make a brief reading from a material suggested by the JC speaker to facilitate it.

Why is it good? (1) We will learn much more from the seminar on Tuesday, finally! (2) We will be prepared to ask questions. We can even prepare the list collectively! (3) The student body will be more active from the point of view of the department what I think is really good and really fun! (4) We can even take a time slot for us, students, with a speaker after the Tuesday seminar, if the idea works out.

There are nine weeks left in this term and all the seminars are already scheduled (http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~wdwu/seminars/Seminars.html), so it would be great if you could pick up one or more topic that you find interesting to talk about and let us know!.

Spread the word, lets do things together!