Time: Friday 3:00-4:35pm (except the first week)
Location: TBD 

Schedule: 

Guidelines:
Also see MIT Program Analysis Reading Group Guidelines

Objectives:
1. know what other students are working on and offer suggestions to improve other students' work
2. read literature related to your work (and your fellow students' work)
3. introduce your work and ask for critics when you have submission drafts or even proposals
4. explore collaboration opportunities among group members

Suggested Tasks for Non-Presenter:
1. read the assigned paper before the group meeting
2. see whether you can apply the ideas in the assigned paper in your own research
3. see whether you have some suggestions for the presenter to improve his or her proposed research
4. see whether you can contribute to collaborate with the presenter on some topics that interest you as well

Suggested Discussion Format for Presenter: (typically the presenter prepares some slides to lead the discussion)
1. what problems you are trying to address in your own research; why the problems are significant and we should care about them.
2. what possible evaluation can be done to assess proposed solutions to the problems. (give concrete examples on how other peer researchers evaluate the solution to similar problems)
3. what you have done so far to address the problems
4. why you think the paper is relevant to your research
5. what problems the paper addresses
6. what approach/study the paper presents
7. what you have learn from the paper that can improve/inspire your existing work
8. what difficulties you face in your own research
9. your future plan of doing your research (that is probably related to the paper)
Be sure to leave enough time for discussion.