Atmospheric Dynamics Group Meetings

A moisture droplet calculating a budget.
A moisture droplet calculating a budget.
Image courtesy of Richard Keane.

The meetings take place in a hybrid format, both on Microsoft Teams and in person, usually in 11.07. The meetings will take place on Tuesdays at 10am-11am. This is subject to change and we will email in advance if any changes are made!

Some weeks may have two speakers, in which case each person has approximately 25 minutes of discussion-based presenting time. Others have one speaker who will be expected to give a 45-minute seminar with 10 minutes for questions. (This is all quite flexible!) Email Fran Morris, Ben Maybee or Jonathan Coney if you would like to speak on a week when you are not scheduled to do so if there is an empty slot. You can speak more than once.

If you are unable to present at your scheduled time please arrange to swap with somebody and let us know the change once it is agreed.

If possible, short (25-min) presentations should facilitate discussion in the group - these shouldn't necessarily be polished powerpoints that you might present at an Internal Seminar, for example. Plots, pdfs, word documents etc are fine. If you don't have new research to present consider reviewing an interesting paper, or discussing a topic more generally, or going more in-depth about some methodology or data that you or others in the group use in their research.

Of course, if you do want to just practice an upcoming presentation, or give a full-length in-depth seminar, and get some feedback in a friendly environment - dynamics meetings are great for this too! We're just trying to avoid making every session a seminar, and allow for as much time for engagement and discussion as possible.

Meetings are held in Microsoft Teams and in person, usually in 11.07. A standing online meeting invitation will be sent out to the entire Dynamics mailing list. If you're missing an invite, contact Ben or Jonathan. In the 'Files' section you'll also find some examples of previous presentations - feel free to browse those for inspiration or to find out about some the great topics people have presented on in meetings beforehand.


Stuck for an idea? Here are some in-demand topics.


Mailing List

The University's IT department have retired the Mailman mailing list service in favour of a Microsoft product. This has resulted in the removal of some people who are not a part of the university from our mailing list. This isn't great for external people who (for example) collaborate with members of the group or supervise PhD students. The wisdom behind this decision remains unknown to us and there was very little we could do about it. If you have previously attended our meetings and have been removed from our list, and would like to get re-added, please contact us on the above email addresses and we'll see what we can do. Thanks.

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