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Meetings
Lab Weekly Meetings
- Time: Thursdays 9-10:30am
- Location: Meeting area in ICICS X015
- Format: Individual 30-second slide updates followed by a research talk/journal club talk
- Description and Expectations: Weekly lab meetings are joint with the CARIS lab. You should try to attend the lab meeting every week. Each week, you are expected to give a short update on your weekly progress. Summarize the progress in a slide with a few concise key points that are also understandable by other students who may not be familiar with your project (please ask Lyndia or another grad student for the Google slide deck link). You will be expected to have an in-depth presentation of your work in lab meetings at least once per year. For this kind of presentations, you should prepare a 15-20min presentation with introduction/background, methods, results, and discussion. The presentation would likely be followed by approximately 10-15 minutes of discussion and feedback. When others present, you should work to develop the highly valued ability to offer constructive criticism. Although this does not mean that you should feel pressure to make comments in lab meetings, quality remarks can help the speaker and make a good impression. For journal club presentations, you are expected to review a journal article that is relevant to our research in depth, by giving a summary of the paper and expressing your opinions on the work, as well as what we can learn and apply.
One-on-one/Subgroup Weekly Meetings
You can expect to have weekly individual or subgroup meetings with Lyndia to discuss research progress and other topics. The length of these meetings is expected to be half an hour, but could be lengthened/shortened as needed. These meetings give an opportunity for Lyndia to provide you with feedback on research progress (e.g. results, data, analyses), advise you on any obstacles, give you feedback on your plans/next steps, provide resources you need, and update you on any new lab development related to your project (e.g. funding). Please be prepared to talk about your weekly progress and plans in more depth.
Long-term Planning Meetings
At least twice per year, each graduate student and Lyndia will have a longer-term planning meeting to discuss your goals for the next few months, and how best to achieve those goals. It is recommended that you come to these meetings prepared with the main goals, deliverables, and timelines for the upcoming months to help guide the discussion. At these meetings, you will also have the opportunity to give each other general feedback (e.g. on mentorship), and have general discussion of career goals/needs.
[Archive] Teach, Inspire, and Learn Thursdays (TILT)
- Time: Thursdays at 2-3pm
- Format: One lab member presents on a topic they specialize in or have an interest in to the rest of the group.
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| May 21, 2020 | Lyndia | How do research grants work, and general lab resources |
| May 28, 2020 | Calvin Qiao | Fun with Java |
| June 4, 2020 | Calvin Kuo | Signal processing in music |
| June 11, 2020 | Han Nguyen | Using Blender to make Sculpture CAD |
| June 18, 2020 | Jesse Li | Using Web APIs for Fun and Profit (note: If you want to follow along, please install Python 3.6 or higher, and have code editor of your choice - I'm using Visual Studio Code) |
| June 25, 2020 | Ahmad | How to use compute Canada and UBC ARC for high performance computing (HPC)? |
| July 2, 2020 | Michael | How to Create Android Apps |
| July 9, 2020 | Calvin Kuo | How to Coffee |
| July 16, 2020 | ||
| July 23, 2020 | Calvin Qiao / Ahmad | DRL |
| July 30, 2020 | ||
| August 6, 2020 | ||
| August 13, 2020 | Calvin Kuo / Lyndia | An alternative to MS word - LaTeX and SVN version control |
| August 20, 2020 | Lyndia | Sleep science and my postdoc research |
Other topics of interest, potentially for future presentations:
- General Information on Injuries (types, mode of transmission, mechanics of injury etc.)
- Neuroprosthetics
- Using Blender to make Sculpture CAD
- Making a video using Wondershare Filmora
- Making Android App using Android Studio
- How do research grants work
- How to become a professor
- Deep reinforcement learning
- How to Java
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Link to Google Drive of TILT presentations.
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