3/18/13 Planning Meeting

3/18/13 PDC meeting notes
-In Attendence: Emily, Bob, Viswa, Indro, Jessica C, Jessica T, Adam, Lily.  Rup couldn't make it.
-Decided that upcoming events would be a series of smaller events spread out over a few months with a few speakers at each of them (April, May, June, July?), a grad student leads the discussion with the speaker, send out an article in advance, students come prepared for the discussion, similar to the DELTA brown bag formats
-Funding available before the end of July 2013 if needed to bring in outside speakers
-Keep events focused for CMB, maybe have a large talk at first for anyone, and then a follow up focused discussion with only CMB students to have smaller more interested groups, facilitate networking opportunities
-Possibly have sign ups, registration for event or some way to commit to an event so we know how many people to expect and those who attend will be more prepared/involved
-Split up committee into groups for each event based on topic, before our next meeting get ideas for speakers, resources, and timeline.
          the work teams will be as follows for the upcoming events
                   -Industry: Adam, Jessica C, Indro, Bob, Viswa; proposed first event at the end of April
                   -Teaching: Jessica T, Emily, Lily
                   -Private Research Institutes: Bob, Viswa, Jessica T
                   -Outreach/science writing: Jessica T, Jessica C
                   -Law/consulting/business intelligence: Adam, Viswa
                   -Clinical directors/fellowships: Lily
                   -postdocs outside of the US: Jessica C
                   - Professional networking online (LinkedIn, Facebook, etc): Adam
-Jessica C and Jessica T will start a blog to post resources before the event and to archive things after events
-Viswa will take summarizing notes after each event to distribute and share with others