Rodrigo Luger (Flatiron) convened a lunch meeting today to discuss the big weekly community meetings (themed around stars and exoplanets) that we run here in New York City: How to manage them so we have a culture of informal scientific interaction, community building, learning, and constructive contribution to each others' research programs. We had a wide-ranging conversation and came up with some ideas for this new semester. We like to learn about (and contribute to) ideas, concepts, and methods. We are less interested in finished, polished talks or presentations. So we might move to a mode where you speak a bit about your project, but you aren't permitted to give your results! That might make it a meeting of scientific introductions and reviews? Worth a try. One of the big themes, of course: How to adapt to the hybrid world we live in now, where things are neither fully in-person nor fully remote.
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