[natphil] FW: Speakers

[ED]

Greetings,
I will be sending the notice for next week's meeting shortly, but thought this rather ominous email I received from our U of T speaker-coordinator should be circulated. At our last two meetings, we have had only 6 or 7 attendees.
Ed Morrison

> From: krieger at physics.utoronto.ca
> Subject: Speakers
> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 15:19:01 -0500
> To: edalmo at bell.net
> 
> 
> Hi Ed,
> 
>   I've sent out a call for speakers for April and May. Please let me know if you've
> already filled either of these slots.
> 
>   I gather that Arun's talk was poorly attended. I'd like to say again that it's sort of
> awkward for me to ask people to volunteer to give talks if only a handful of people 
> are going to show up. Most people do not have a talk at this level just sitting on 
> their laptop, so people do spend time preparing these. I think they sometimes 
> don't feel like it was worth the effort. But let's see what happens this month. 
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
>       Peter
> 
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