The RAC is designed for discussions with students, post docs, and visiting scholars, covering our current research work on methodology. The RACs also provide advice on a whole range of issues that graduate students and post docs face, including how to submit a proposal to professional meetings, how to present at professional meetings, how to come up with a dissertation idea, how to write a dissertation, how to do research, how to write papers, how to write grant proposals, how to perform during a job interview, and how to choose different types of careers.