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May 23-29, 2022

Greetings Scholars!

Today is World Turtle Day 🐢! It is day to bring awareness to the importance of turtles and tortoises. You might want to celebrate by going outdoors to "join other people in turtle-like attires and walk around the streets".

We have a Communication Working Group (WG) meeting on Wednesday. All Scholars are welcome to join in our discussion around how we communicate externally and internally at Ronin.

Is Math & Physics your thing? At this week's meeting, the CAMP Interest Group Plus (IG+) will have a presentation on covariant compactification.

The Ronin Women's IG+ is hosting an almost weekly Let's Write! session. All Scholars are welcome to join in a 2-hour session most Fridays where we work on meeting some of our personal writing goals.

Please check your email for a Ronin Institute Membership Renewal email that you should have received around May 10th. This renewal application is due by JULY 1, 2022. If we do not receive this renewal request from you by this date, we will de-activate your membership. If you did not receive this email, please let me know. Please note that we have additional Office Hours on the calendar if anyone wants to talk about this new process and our membership agreements.

Have a great week!

- Arika

All events are on our Ronin calendar (add the Google Calendar). If you want to add something to this Weekly Update that you think Ronin Scholars would be interested in, please reach out via weekly.update@ronininstitute.org.

Community meetings this week

These meetings are open and welcome for any Research Scholar to attend. Working Groups (WGs) focus on key elements of the Ronin Institute. Interest Groups (IGs) are self-organized groups of Scholars that focus on topics of interest; their goal is to stimulate discussion and enhance collaboration.

TUESDAY
#watercooler chat
Scope: Catch up with your colleagues in an informal Slack chat by the "watercooler".
Dates/Times: Every Tuesday at 12:00-1:00 PM US ET / 16:00-17:00 UTC (local time)
Location: #watercooler slack channel. If you can't make the specified time, you can always contribute to the chat conversation at anytime in the Slack channel.

IG+ Center for Advancing Mathematics and Physics (CAMP) (Slack channel #ig-math-physics)
Scope: Come join the conversation about Math and Physics, where the group shares information about research, educates each other, and provides advice.
Date/Time: Every Tuesday at 12:30-1:30 PM US ET / 16:30-17:30 UTC (local time) Add to your calendar. This week's meeting will start at 12:00 PM US ET and Tom Lawrence will give a presentation that is a graduate-level overview of his programme of research on covariant compactification, summarising all my progress to date. An extension of the meeting may also occur at 5:00 PM US ET / 21:00 UTC.
Location: www.kumospace.com/ronin_institute (Room: IG+ CAMP)

WEDNESDAY
Communication WG (Slack channel #wg-communication)
Scope: Streamlines how Ronin disseminates information about the Institute
Date/Time: May 25 at 3:00-4:00 PM US ET / 19:00-20:00 UTC (local time) Add to your calendar
Location: Join the Zoom meeting (pswd: RONIN)

THURSDAY
Office hours with Jon & Arika
Scope: Answer any questions you have related to the Ronin Institute.
Date/Time:
- Tues at 10:00-11:00 AM US ET / 14:00-15:00 UTC (local time) Add to your calendar
- Weds at 6:00-7:00 PM US ET / 23:00-00:00 UTC (local time) Add to your calendar
Location: https://www.kumospace.com/ronin_institute

FRIDAY
Let's Write! (Slack channel ig-ronin-women)
Scope: Hosted by Ronin Women IG+ this almost weekly writing session welcomes all Ronin Scholars to attend. We'll have a brief introduction, write for the rest of the time, and then close by listing what we accomplished.
Date/Time: May 25 at 12:00-1:00 PM US ET / 16:00-17:00 UTC (local time) Add to your calendar
Location: https://www.kumospace.com/ronin_institute (Room: IG+ Ronin Women)

If you want to know more about Ronin WGs, email or join us at "Office hours with Jon & Arika"