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performed in the middle third of the class"), or, in the best of situations, a highly-detailed account of your strengths and weaknesses. This can alert you to what you might want to work on. Advisor First year students are assigned an advisor on arrival. You will learn that person’s name the first day. Ideally, this person will see you through until you find your research advisor, but if you’d like a switch, see Sandy or Raja. The Graduate Advisory Committee (Chair Graeme Smith) will also meet with you quarterly to make sure that things are going alright. Every quarter you are required to meet with your advisor to fill out the Quarterly Advising Form, which is another way your progress is monitored. Once you start research, your research advisor is your advisor. (You should still feel free to shop around for opinions, however.) Upon passing the Department. Review, you will need to form a committee of advisors to serve as your Qualifying Exam Committee. This same committee will likely become all or most of your Thesis Exam Committee when you do your defense. 3.6 Department events There is an extremely informal coffee/tea/cookie break at 10:30 am every day. It takes place in the second floor open space of the Center for Adaptive Optics building. The Astronomy & Astrophysics colloquium is on Wednesday afternoons. Cookies and coffee start at around 3:30pm, usually in the 2 floor open space of the CfAO. Then people wander up to Nat. Sci. Annex room 101, where the colloquium talk is actually held. The talk typically starts around 4:00. See czars 3.7 for important info about colloquium cookies. On Wednesdays a group of selected graduate students take the colloquium speaker to lunch at the University Center. The food is great and is covered by the Department, so be sure and pay attention to those emails announcing lunch. The FLASH - Friday Lunch Astronomy Seminar Hour - is held on Fridays at 12:30 in ISB 102. Bring your lunch and see a talk. Sometimes there are FLASH-like talks on other days, given cute names like MLASH, THLASH, etc. The talk schedule for a week is usually emailed out on Monday. Repeated reminders of the talk may come from the speaker's host(s). In addition, the current talk schedule is available at http://www.astro.ucsc.edu/talks/ 20
Some other talks in other departments: The Physics Department colloquium is on Thursday afternoons, with a similar 3:30 cookies and 4:00 talk schedule. The colloquium schedule is http://maxwell.ucsc.edu/events/colloquia The CODEP seminars are always moving around, but the schedule is at http://codep.ucsc.edu/ GAS, the Grad Astro Seminar, is something like a journal club. Grads give short informal talks on a rotating schedule. Check it out at http://www.ucolick.org/~novak/Gas Subject to the whims of the Beer Czar, we usually have Beer Hour on Friday evenings. Other less frequent department events include: The annual Lick Picnic, at the Observatory on Mt. Hamilton A welcoming reception for you, the incoming grad students, sometime in the fall. Be warned, you will probably be asked to supply some story about yourself or something. Cake and champagne for grads completing their defenses; goodbye festivities for departing postdocs, grads, etc., the occasional wild party at a faculty member's house, Prospective season: hosting prospective graduate students, answering questions, taking them out to dinner, etc., as was done for you when you were a prospective. 3.7 Your Department responsibilities; Czars You should sign up for ASTR292, which is labeled "seminar" in the Schedule of Classes. It's actually the Department. colloquium, it isn't really a class at all. It's just necessary that people sign up so that the department can reserve the room. Every grad student who has not yet passed his/her Qual is needed to prepare cookies and coffee for colloquium. Each week, it becomes the next student's turn. When it's your turn, you should go buy about $20 worth of cookies and other goodies. You prepare the coffee, cookies, and set up the room where the refreshments will be served. You clean up after the colloquium, turn in your receipt to the office to get reimbursed, and you're done. The Cookie Czar will explain all this to you as well. You may wonder why this is our job – the origins are lost to unrecorded history. 21
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