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| ====== Graduate Student Postdoc Seminar ====== | ====== Graduate Student Postdoc Seminar ====== | ||
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| + | **//GSPS is regaining its footing after a year of remote working and the oversubscription of classrooms in Spring 2022. More recently it has been primarily a social event, but will hopefully shift back towards more regular schedule of talks and discussions.//** | ||
| - | **Location:** 131A Campbell Hall!!! \\ | + | **Location:** TBD \\ |
| - | (I was able to reserve the room for that slot with a repeating reservation, all year long.) | + | |
| - | + | **Time:** TBD \\ | |
| - | **Time:** Fridays @ 4:00pm \\ | + | |
| **Organizers:** \\ | **Organizers:** \\ | ||
| - | Charles Goullaud (goullaud@berkeley.edu) \\ | + | Aliza Beverage (abeverage@berkeley.edu) \\ |
| + | Nathan Sandford (nathan_sandford@berkeley.edu) \\ | ||
| + | Kiran Eiden (kiran_eiden@berkeley.edu) \\ | ||
| - | === Schedule === | + | **Schedule:** TBD \\ |
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| - | + | **Description/Motivation:** \\ | |
| - | ===== Spring 2019 Schedule ===== | + | The Graduate Student/Postdoc Seminar (GSPS) is a venue where grads and postdocs can give talks in a supportive environment. The topics of these talks can be anything from their own research (either completed, commencing, or in progress), career advancement and advice, pedagogy talks, practice talks (qual presentations, job talks, etc.), department updates, practical skills (programming, proposal writing, taxes, personal finance, etc.) or really anything at all! |
| - | ^ Date ^ Slot 1 ^ Slot 2 ^ | + | |
| - | | 1 Feb | Josh Dillon || | + | Broadly, the goals of GSPS are: |
| - | | 8 Feb | Ben Margalit | TBD | | + | * To promote community between students and postdocs |
| - | | 15 Feb | Philipp Kempski | Stephen Ro | | + | * To practice speaking and discussing your research |
| - | | 22 Feb | Michael Medford || | + | * To build confidence asking questions |
| - | | 1 Mar | Andrea Zorzi | TBD | | + | * To Learn about topics outside your own research |
| - | | 8 Mar | Hannah Klion || | + | * To impart practical knowledge |
| - | | 15 Mar | Prospective Visit Q&A || | + | * To share fun impractical knowledge |
| - | | 22 Mar | Andrea Antoni | Carina Cheng | | + | * To be sociable! |
| - | | 29 Mar | Spring Break (No GSPS)|| | + | |
| - | | 5 Apr | April Fools Talks || | + | |
| - | | 12 Apr | Philipp Kempski | TBD | | + | |
| - | | 19 Apr | Kishore Patra | TBD | | + | |
| - | | 26 Apr | Philipp Moesta | TBD | | + | |
| - | | 3 May | Nick Kern || | + | |
| - | | 10 May | Wren Suess | TBD | | + | |
| Past Semesters: \\ | Past Semesters: \\ | ||
| + | [[graduate_student_postdoc_seminar:spring_2019|Spring 2019]], \\ | ||
| [[graduate_student_postdoc_seminar:fall_2018|Fall 2018]], | [[graduate_student_postdoc_seminar:fall_2018|Fall 2018]], | ||
| [[graduate_student_postdoc_seminar:spring_2018|Spring 2018]], \\ | [[graduate_student_postdoc_seminar:spring_2018|Spring 2018]], \\ | ||
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| [[graduate_student_postdoc_seminar:fall_2007|Fall 2007]], [[graduate_student_postdoc_seminar:spring_2007|Spring 2007]], \\ | [[graduate_student_postdoc_seminar:fall_2007|Fall 2007]], [[graduate_student_postdoc_seminar:spring_2007|Spring 2007]], \\ | ||
| [[graduate_student_postdoc_seminar:fall_2006|Fall 2006]] \\ | [[graduate_student_postdoc_seminar:fall_2006|Fall 2006]] \\ | ||
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| - | ===== Description / Motivation ===== | + | |
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| - | * 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 no longer than 15 minutes (strictly enforced). | + | |
| - | * Please emphasize background material for those not in your subfield. | + | |
| - | * 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 | + | |
| - | * impart practical knowledge: job search, telescope allocation committees, diversity, etc. | + | |
| - | * be sociable! | + | |
| - | * 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). | + | |
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| - | Thanks for participating in GSPS! | + | |
