Preparing for the meetings
To prepare for the meetings, you need to write down the following before the meeting:
1) Main points and facts
2) Questions
3) Opinions, further comments, etc.
As
a general rule of thumb, you are expected to write down approximately
three bullets in each category. Obviously, if you don't have any
questions, then you can give correspondingly more weight to the other
categories, or elaborate on some other bullets. The idea is not to spend
overly much time on this, but just to briefly recap your thoughts
during and after reading the chapter. During the meeting, we will take
turns and everyone will be asked to present some points from their own lists from each category to others, before converging to free discussion. Return your completed task for each week as a single pdf on the "Writing tasks" page. The writing task is due 15 min before the meeting starts.
Example meeting prepraration by the lecturer for the 1st meeting:
Meeting schedule and book chapters
(Tentative)
Session 1
Mon, Sep 12, from 2 to 3 pm
Pages: 1-22 (Sections 1.1 to 2.1)
Session 2
Mon, Sep 19, from 2 to 3 pm
Pages: 23-39 (Sections 2.2 to 3.4, Sections 2.2 and 2.3 are not very central, so can be read quickly)
Session 3 (RETURN EXERCISES)
Mon, Sep 26, from 2 to 3 pm
Pages: 43-62 (Section 4 until the end of 4.1)
Session 4 (EXERCISE SESSION)
Mon, Oct 3, from 2 to 3 pm
Pages: 62-79 (Until the end of Section 5)
Session 5 (RETURN EXERCISES)
Mon, Oct 10, from 2 to 3 pm
Pages: 81-96 (Sections 6.1, 6.2, 6.3)
<A week break>
Session 6 (EXERCISE SESSION)
Mon, Oct 24, from 2 to 3 pm
Pages: 96-109 (Sections 6.4 and 6.5)
Session 7 (RETURN EXERCISES)
Mon, Oct 31, from 2 pm to 3 pm
Pages: 109-120 (Sections 6.6 and 6.7; interested students can read the rest of Section 6 but that is optional)
Session 8 (EXERCISE SESSION)
Mon, Nov 7, from 2 pm to 3 pm
Pages: 135-154 (the whole of Section 7)
Session 9 (RETURN EXERCISES)
Mon, Nov 14, from 2 pm to 3 pm
Pages:
157-177 (Section 8 and all the way until the end of Section 9.3.
Students interested in models with hidden variables are encouraged to
read the rest of Section 9. For example a lot of research is published
at the moment on this topic.)
Session 10 (EXERCISE SESSION)
Mon, Nov 21, from 2 pm to 3 pm
Pages: 197-211 (Section 10)
