Lab Meeting, Autumn 2016, Week 4

Awe- and Aw-inspiring readings (or just stuff you think deserves a mention)

What we did over last week

Florian

Xin

Andrew

1. Updated the lab webpage to add Xin and Shaorong (still need pictures taken for both, blurb for Shaorong), move Kodi into postdoc alumni
2. Started an RSRB amendment to reflect all the autumn personnel changes

Dan

Amanda

1. Met with all of the RAs, Mike, and Chigusa. Some of these meetings were more or less brief than others.
2. Thought through some of the design of my mini-language study.
3. Tried to think through gamifying a distributional learning study - gonna look over Ting's whack-the-mole for inspiration.
4. Reading a bunch about relative scalar adjectives (which are somewhat my jam).
5. Reading a bunch about NLG, etc for my eventual lab meeting chat.
6. Wrote an entire scholarship application in ~36 hours, including a personal statement, a research plan (with 4 studies), and a budget. Wish me luck.

Zach

1. Made a totally bitchin' academic website (WIP) http://www.zachburchill.tk/

2. Debugging MTurk pupillometry exposure experiment. (Discovered a bug in PapaParse as well)

3. Quals research and reading list stuff.
4. Subtitle paper drafts and ideas.

Linda

1. Worked on debugging TOH experiment so it can go live in the next day or so.
2. Got together MTurk materials for the NRT class. Started looking into the VOT corpora that Dave sent.
3. Met with Zach to talk about Kamide project and what still needs to be done.
4. TA duties: there was an assignment due this week, so answered a bunch of worried emails and held office hours.
5. Had a chill weekend packing and eating through Rochester with Jon, before he moved to Seattle for his job today (Monday) T_T

Wednesday

Shaorong

1. Working on a manuscript that's due by the end of this week.
2. Talked about research ideas with different people.
3. (Still) Working on the lab presentation this week.