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The audience for the seminar includes graduate students, postdocs, and faculty working both in theory and experiment in the subfields of nuclear structure & reactions, nuclear astrophysics, tests of fundamental symmetries, radiochemistry, and accelerator science & engineering. Although it is called a “seminar,” the presentation is more in the style of a colloquium that should be accessible to a broad nuclear science audience at a junior graduate student level.

1. The goal of our seminars is to bring people together to learn about what is happening in the wider world of nuclear science. Seminars are meant to be informative, enjoyable and appeal to experts and non-experts alike.
2. Our audience is composed of 60 to 120 people and is unusually diverse:
   • In attendance are faculty, staff scientists, postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates.
   • They are affiliated with FRIB, the Physics & Astronomy Department, and/or the Chemistry Department.
   • They work mainly in the fields of experimental nuclear science (physics and chemistry), nuclear theory, accelerator science, and computational astrophysics (among others).
3. Because we have a very broad audience, the Nuclear Science Seminar should be thought of as equivalent to a Colloquium in a physics department.
4. The talk should be prepared for a first-year graduate student level audience who has had a strong general modern physics course at the undergraduate level.
5. A good length is (45 +/- 5) minutes with an additional 5-10 minutes at the end for questions and discussion. Any longer will test the patience of the audience.
6. The audience doesn't just want to understand the physics, they also want to understand why the physics is interesting and exciting.
7. The first 1/3 of the talk should provide substantial background and motivation. Reviewing material that the audience “should already know” is vital because it makes the ideas fresh on their mind and better prepares them to anticipate and receive the information in the latter part of the talk.

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