Meeting Notes:

Admin
● New (?) members
● 25 postdocs (affiliated or participating)
○ announce in labs/PIs
● Mailing List
● Separate grad student list (use both lists for postdoc meetings)
● Meetings: 1 meeting every 3 weeks (MIT or Harvard)

Topics
● Organization for this year (Content)
● Role of CBMM postdoc group:
○ Independent postdoc activities
○ Arrange regular Center meetings (?)
○ Summer Course
● Summer Course (recap + plan)

Content of Meetings
Content of meetings
● Regular technical talks (resume with everyone that has not presented)
○ Random order or volunteers
● Training sessions (by anyone that wants to volunteer on a subject)
● External speakers (e.g. postdocs or researchers from other institutes, CSAIL etc.).
● Seek other meetings with industrial partners
● (Open to graduate students)

CBMM Summer Course 2015
Meeting (dedicated)
● Outline tentative schedule for 2015 SS
● Thursday 9/18 at 4pm ? (leyla lisik@mit.edu)
● Official TAs, Grads, Postdocs etc.

People
● Double number of official TAs (no unofficial TAs)
● (perhaps) Increase # official students to 30 or 35 (if we can advise well)
● All speakers should commit to spend at least 2 days with scheduled time to interact with
students (lunch and dinner)
● There should be one person per each of the 5 thrusts at all times

During
● Computer room in the third floor | Lectures could be in the basement or in the auditorium we
used for evening lectures.
● The first day of the school should reflect the overall balance of the school not only its
computational aspects
● Ideally we should have overviews in the morning and hands-on activities in the afternoons
● Students should get feedback on projects from faculty and TAs during the summer course period
not only at the end
● There should be enough discussion after each project presentation. Faculty should be involved.

Projects
● When we advertise applications we should make a condition that accepted students will have to
take an online MATLAB tutorial before the summer course
● We should describe possible projects well before the summer course takes place
● We should make clear at the beginning of the school what the rules are for projects: group
projects are fine but individual projects are fine too

Various
● IIT is planning to bring the iCub for the 3 weeks and one person who can help with projects
● Wearables like Google Glass and software to record and analyze (Astar)
● Eye tracker in the wild and a person to support its use (Nancy)