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Graduate Student Postdoc Seminar
Location: Spring Semester: B1 Hearst Field Annex
Time: Fridays @ 4:00pm
Past Seminars: Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Fall 2006
Description / Motivation
- GSPS is a place where students and postdocs can practice giving talks. The topics of these talks can be anything from their own research (either completed or commencing), career advancement and advice (usually from postdocs), pedagogy talks, practice qualification exam talks, job talks, etc.
- GSPS meets weekly; we aim to have one graduate student and one postdoc talk each week.
- Talks should be ~20 minutes + 5 minutes for questions.
- Please emphasize background material.
- No faculty allowed.
- GSPS is a good place to…
- promote community between students and postdocs
- practice speaking and discussing your research
- feel comfortable asking lots of questions
- learn about topics outside your own research
- If you would like feedback on your presentation, the organizers would be happy to take notes and discuss it with you afterwards (and/or ask other audience members to do so).
Organizers: Nathan Roth and Aaron Lee (please contact us if you have questions)
Thanks for participating in GSPS!
Survey results: gspssurvey2012.pdf
Schedule
| Date | Student | Talk Title | Postdoc | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Jan, 2013 | Organization, Talk Signup, State of the Seminar Address, etc. | |||
| 1 Feb, 2013 | Erik Petigura | Productivity Seminar I: Paper writing workflows | Freeke van de Voort | Growing galaxies in cosmological simulations |
| 8 Feb, 2013 | Matt George | Transformers: Ellipticals in Disguise | – | – |
| 15 Feb, 2013 | Isaac Shivvers, Chris Klein | Productivity Seminar II: How to become a command line ninja | – | – |
| 1 Mar, 2013 | Aaron Lee | Productivity Seminar III: How to give a talk | Adrian Liu | gspsleeliutalkslidehandout2.pdf |
| 8 Mar, 2013 | Lauren Weiss | Can We Predict Planet Compositions? A Relation between Exoplanet Radius, Mass, and Incident Flux | Prospective grad Q&A | – |
| 15 Mar, 2013 | Mike McCourt | Sculpting cosmic gas into clusters | Ann-Marie Madigan | On the origin of young stars at the Galactic Center |
| 22 Mar, 2013 | Francesca Fornasini | The Longitude Problem | Brad Tucker | Einstein's Biggest Blunder is Our Problem Now: Improve Type Ia Supernova Cosmology |
| 29 Mar, 2013 | Spring Break, woo! | |||
| 5 Apr, 2013 | Josiah | The Evolution of ONeMg Cores | Ori Fox | Rocks and Shocks: What Dust and Circumstellar Interaction Can Tell Us about Supernovae and Their Progenitors |
| 12 Apr, 2013 | Nathan | The Physics of Ultra-Compact HII Regions | – | – |
| 19 Apr, 2013 | – | – | – | |
| 26 Apr, 2013 | FORUM | – | FORUM | – |
| 3 May, 2013 | Kaylan Burleigh | The effect of rotation on the evolution of massive stars | Michael Mortonson | Dark energy after Planck |
| 10 May, 2013 | Chelsea Axen | Interacting Supernovae: Why They Might Be the Next Big Thing in Supernova Research | Adrian Liu | – |
| 17 May, 2013 | Erik Petigura | Qual Practice | ||
Productivity talks
- Writing papers: Erik
- Giving talks: Aaron L. and Adrian L.
- Computer Skills: Isaac and Chris K.
- Pedagogy: Lauren
- Lab notebooks talk?
Fall Schedule
| Date | Student | Talk Title | Postdoc | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Aug, 2012 | Chris Klein | Qual Talk: Studies of RR Lyrae Variables to Improve Local Distance Measurements | ||
| 31 Aug, 2012 | Jonnie Pober | Job Talk: Recent Results from the Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization [PAPER] | None | |
| 7 Sept, 2012 | Daniel Perez-Becker | Qual Talk: Atmospheres of Short-Period Exoplanets: From Sub-Mercuries to Hot Jupiters | ||
| 14 Sept, 2012 | Lauren Weiss (15 min) | Testing Hot Jupiter Inflation in a Kepler Multi-Planet System | Grad: Adam Miller | How to Find the Rare Sources All New Surveys Promise: Machine-learning Enabled Classification and Discovery in Time-Domain Data Sets |
| 21 Sept, 2012 | Graduate Student / Post-Doc Forum | |||
| 28 Sept, 2012 | Eve Lee | Milky Way Star Forming Complexes and ISM Turbulence | Meredith Hughes | Proposal Writing from the Other Side (or, what I learned by being on three TACs last year) |
| 5 Oct, 2012 | Sedona Price | Dust extinction in star forming galaxies at z~1.5 | Short Talks: Sedona and Francesca | Faculty Meeting: The Exit Talks , Bay Area Science Festival |
| 12 Oct, 2012 | James McBride | Magnetic Fields and Molecular Gas in Starburst Galaxies | Brad Cenko | The Present and Future of Lick Observatory |
| 19 Oct, 2012 | Isaac Shivvers | Highly-eccentric eclipsing binaries in modern photometric surveys | Adrian Liu | How measurable is the high-redshift 21cm global signal trough? |
| 26 Oct, 2012 | Erik Petigura | The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: History and Current Efforts | Outsider: Gabriel Dunn | Science Careers Outside of Academia |
| 2 Nov, 2012 | Chat Hull | Premature Job Talk: Are magnetic fields and outflows aligned in protostellar cores? | ||
| 9 Nov, 2012 | Jacob Lynn | Dissipation and Heating in MHD Turbulence | None | |
| 16 Nov, 2012 | Yookyung Noh | Filamentary Environment and Mass Measurements of Galaxy Clusters | None | |
| 23 Nov, 2012 | No meeting (Thanksgiving) | |||
| 30 Nov, 2012 | Graduate Student / Post-Doc Forum | aprtalk.pdf | ||
| 7 Dec, 2012 | Kaylan Burleigh | Mapping the Serpens molecular cloud in CO J=2-1 and 13CO J=2-1 emission | none | |
