Guidelines for nominating and voting on the Graduate Student Invited Speaker

  1. Nominating Process
    • Nomination and voting will occur the semester prior to the proposed talk.
    • Each individual is allowed to nominate a maximum of two individuals per semester.
    • All graduate students are encouraged to nominate any person(s) as the potential Graduate Student Invited Speaker.
    • Nominators should provide at least a paragraph describing the potential speaker's research interests.
  2. Voting Process
    • All graduate students are encouraged to vote.
    • Voting graduate students should rank ALL SPEAKER NOMINEES in an ascending order of interests, where 1 = first choice.
    • Votes that do not include a rank for all speaker nominees will be discarded; remember we live in Florida.
    • The first choice speaker will be that individual with the smallest voting score, where the voting score equals the cumulative rank of each submitted vote.
  3. After the vote
    • Nominator of the speaker will then be responsible for invitation.
    • Should the proposed speaker accept the invitation, the nominator of that speaker will be responsible for coordinating the speaker's schedule during their visit.
    • Should the first choice speaker reject the invitation, the second through fourth-ranked speakers will be invited sequentially following the criteria outlined in 3a & 3b until a speakers accepts.
    • In the case where two of the top four choices are tied, a revote (for those two nominees) will be taken before invitations are pursued.
    • In the case that each of the top four speakers rejects the invitation, new nomination, voting, and post-voting procedures will be undertaken.
    • During the second attempt to secure a speaker, graduate students can nominate new and previously nominated individuals.

Previous graduate student invited speakers

Information compiled by Dimitri Blondel

Graduate Invited Speaker