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March 7-13, 2022

Greetings Scholars,

We want to welcome the Ronin College Interest Group Plus (Ronin College IG+)! This interest group has been meeting regularly for the past few months, but they are now ready to make it official. They welcome all Scholars to join them as they create a vision for a teaching program at the Ronin Institute over the next year. You will be able to find their upcoming meetings (meeting every other week) listed on our Ronin calendar, in the Community Meetings section below, and via their Slack channel #ig-ronin-college.

The Membership Working Group (WG) meeting is this week. We'll be talking about things like Why do we ask for a CV from prospective members? And, what's our policy for removing members if they are unresponsive to membership renewal emails?

Please note that the US time zones will be springing forward by 1 hour on March 13th (Daylight Savings Time). As always, it's disorientating and clumsy for a do-it-yourself Institute, so please bear with us as we make this time change. If in doubt of a time: Check the Ronin Calendar! (and please go right ahead and fix any UTC times that you see--and tell me if I screw something up in the Update...)

Have a great week everyone!

- 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 / 17:00-18:00 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 / 17:30-18:30 UTC (local time) Add to your calendar. If there is a presentation (announced via #ig-math-physics), the meeting begins at 12:00PM US ET with the presentation at 12:30PM US ET. An extension of the meeting may also occur at 5:00 PM US ET / 22:00 UTC.
Location: www.kumospace.com/ronin_institute (Room: IG+ CAMP)

WEDNESDAY
Membership WG (Slack channel #wg-membership)
Scope: Develops transparency and flow to how people join and get more involved in the Institute.
Date/Time: March 9, 2022 at 1:00-2:00 PM US ET / 18:00-19:00 UTC (local time) Add to your calendar
Location: Join the meeting (pswd: RONIN)

THURSDAY
Office hours with Jon & Arika
Scope: Answer any questions you have related to the Ronin Institute.
Date/Time: Thursday at 10:30 AM -11:30 AM US ET / 15:30-16:30 UTC (local time) Add to your calendar
Location: https://www.kumospace.com/ronin_institute

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