today, monday november 26th, 2012, i will defend my doctoral dissertation!
it comes in two parts: my seminar and my “b exam”. the exam part is closed-door and such. it’s where my committee and i talk shop for ~3hrs. BUT the seminar is open to the public! and all are welcome to attend! here’s the flier:
there will be science.
and snacks.
and funny pictures of joe as a child.
and we will be playing seminar bingo, which should be pretty awesome. it is a lifelong dream of mine for someone to yell “BINGO” while i’m talking about science. so please, help me fulfill that dream. there will be prizes!
if you can’t make the seminar, but still want to watch… first of all, AWESOME! second of all, i’ll be streaming the proceedings live at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/josephlsimonis. it’s free and easy, you just have to watch a short commercial first.
if you’re a home viewer and would like to play along with seminar bingo, you have two options:
1. if you know how to run R: download the script here, run it, and make your own card! [p.s. i know it's not the most efficient way to code that, but my brain was occupied with other, more pressing things. like allometrically scaling the parameters of a roger's equation model].
2. if you don’t know how to run R: pick your favorite number between 1 and 200 and insert it in place of the bolded X in the following url: http://www.eeb.cornell.edu/simonis/bingo/BingoX and download a card.
there will be a special prize for the at-home players, so whoever e-mails me [josephlsimonis {{{at}}} gmail] first upon achieving bingo will be the lucky winner!
yay science!
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i’m not gonna get all sappy right now [that's for at the end of my talk!], but i did want to say thanks to everyone that’s helped at all with any part of my dissertation. this was a lot of work, and i certainly didn’t do it by myself. to everyone who supported me logistically, intellectually, emotionally, financially, or in any other relevant way, THANK YOU!!!
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starting tomorrow, i will resume talking about and engaging in other, non-dissertation-related things.
