Brown bag seminars
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Brown bag seminars are generally offered to update the researching community about ongoing research. Usually held by schools and universities and governmental institutions, they involve lectures, presentations, or talks by researchers, mostly professors about their ongoing research. Professors may visit from other universities to talk about their research.
Brown bag seminars normally run an hour or two. Originally they were scheduled around lunchtime and participants were encouraged to bring their own lunch in a bag, explaining how the practice got its name.
These seminars are something akin to Continuous Medical Education or the CME initiatives in the pharmaceuticals industry.
[edit] References
- http://www.ima.umn.edu/~garoni/brownbag/index.html
- http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/Seminars/seminar.html
- http://epsc.wustl.edu/brownbag/de:Brownbag
A brown bag session is an informal lunch meeting. The idea is that instead of an organized lunch in a formal meeting, people eat a simple lunch, called a 'brown bag' lunch because traditionally people would carry their own lunches in a brown bag. For a brown bag session, people may be invited to bring their own lunch, or a brown bag lunch may be provided for free.
