DaRL Handbook
  • πŸ‘‹Welcome!
  • About us
    • πŸš€Vision, Mission & Focus
      • Vision
      • Mission
      • Focus
    • πŸ’–Values
  • Team
    • πŸ‘‹Meet the Team!
  • Starting steps
    • 🐦Hello, DaRL!
  • Policies
    • 🌴Code of conduct
    • πŸ“žCommunication
    • πŸ› οΈProject management
    • 🏠Day-to-day expectations
    • πŸ₯ΈMentorship
    • πŸ“‘Paper Writing
    • πŸ“½οΈPresentation
    • 🧹Paper Maintenance
    • πŸ‘”Attending Conferences
  • Resources
    • ⌚Recurring activities
    • πŸ–₯️Computing Resources
    • πŸ“šReadings
    • πŸ–ŒοΈPaper Tips
      • Paper writing tips in DaRL Lab
      • Paper rebuttal tips in DaRL Lab
      • AI for research writing
      • Rules of thumb for writing research articles
      • Writing a Short Research Proposal as a Student
      • How to read paper (video)
      • How to (actively) read a paper
      • Writing Tips for Top Conference Papers Series on Zhihu
        • Writing Tips for Top Conference Papers (Part 1): Macro Structure and Avoiding 'Hard to Follow',"
        • Writing Tips for Top Conference Papers (Part 2): Refining to enhance "readability"
        • Writing Tips for Top Conference Papers (Part 3): Rebuttal
      • How to ML Series on Twitter
      • Latex Writing: Something to know
        • Latex fonts
        • Latex de facto
        • Predefined Latex commands
      • Presentation at Conference
      • Drafting Posters
      • See Your Research Soar with Social Media
      • Scientific Pictures
      • How to Respond to Reviewers Effectively: Good vs. Bad Rebuttal Responses
    • 🧰Things you may need
    • πŸ’‘The Scientific Workflow
  • References
    • πŸ“œReferences of Handbooks
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  • Daily checklist
  • Meetings & seminars
  • Individual Meeting
  • 🀝 Group Weekly Syncs
  • β˜•οΈ Zoom or in-person Coffee Chat
  • Start of Semester Planning Meeting
  • 🎲 Team Event
  • 🌍 Offsites
  • Departmental Seminars
  1. Resources

Recurring activities

This page lists all the things RAs need to take care of on a recurring basis. Daily checklist

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Daily checklist

These tasks should be split among all the RAs working on a given day. It is your responsibility to ensure that they are all done every day.

Meetings & seminars

Individual Meeting

Individual meetings are typically held weekly or biweekly to provide personalized guidance and support for your research progress. These meetings are crucial for discussing your specific tasks, addressing challenges, and ensuring alignment with lab goals.

Meeting Preparation: Prepare a to structure the discussion.

Remember, individual meetings are for your benefitβ€”come prepared to make the most of this dedicated time!

🀝 Group Weekly Syncs

Lab meetings are usually held weekly or biweekly. Graduate students, lab staff, and undergraduate students taking research for credit are expected to attend all lab meetings and to arrive prepared (i.e., having read any assigned papers before the lab meeting). If you can't attend a meeting, you must let Hua know ahead of time. Lab meeting topics (including any readings) will be announced weekly in advance via Slack #sharing .

We typically use lab meetings to get feedback on new research ideas or a manuscript in progress, practice for an upcoming talk, or discuss a paper. Grad students, postdocs, and thesis students are required to present in lab meetings regularly. RAs are not required to do so, but they can give a project idea or a good suggestion for a discussion topic.

Information on the lab meeting date, time, and topic is posted in #sharing on Slack.

β˜•οΈ Zoom or in-person Coffee Chat

We meet once a month for coffee for whoever is open and interested or whoever fancies a chat!

Each student is expected to plan his semester and meet with Hua about it before the end of the first two weeks of the semester.

🎲 Team Event

As we don't want to wait for our next offsite to spend some quality time together and sparkle our days, we're trying to organize team events on a regular basis.

🌍 Offsites

Every few months we arrange a group offsite so we can all meet face-to-face.

Departmental Seminars

During the semester, there are many talks in SCAI that we encourage all lab members to attend. You can sign up to receive talk announcements for each individual seminar at the links below, and whenever there is a particularly good talk, we will post it on #sharing. Most of these seminars also offer free food!

Start of Semester Planning Meeting

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