How To Configure Google Calendar for Shared Calendar

First, you should accept the invitation of shared Google Calendar (e.g. Lab of Collaborative and Creative HCI ).
Then you can see the shared Google Calendar in your Google Calendar interface.
To click the button in the right of the shared Google Calendar and it pop-up the menu.
If you are an administrator of the shared Google Calendar, you can see all menu item for administration.
If your are a User, you just can only operate "Reminders and notifications".

The Calendar Details only for administrator. 

The "Share this Calendar" only for administrator.
The administrator can configure who can use it and what permission granted to. 

If you are a User, you can operate the "Reminders and notifications" tab.
To "Add a reminder" for informed you before each event. 

I recommend you choose "Pop-up" for remind you, it will happen in your configured mobile device and the Google Calendar web page on you configured reminded time.
I like to get the pop-up for remind me 2 hours and 10 or 15 minutes before each event.

Please checked all of Email checkbox for notification any modified event, except "Daily agenda".

In the mobile device :

Open your Google Calendar App and click menu to choose "Settings" item.

To click your Gmail account of Google Calendar.

You can see the shared Google calendar then you should check its checkbox.