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<title>UT Austin Graduate Student Postdoc Seminar (GSPS), Spring 2014</title>
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<h1 align='center'>UT Austin Graduate Student Postdoc Seminar (GSPS), Spring 2014</h1>
<h2 align='center'>Every other Friday, 4-5pm, (mostly) in the Astro Classroom (15.216B)</h2>
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<h3>Description/Motivation (cribbed from <a href='http://badgrads.berkeley.edu/doku.php?id=graduate_student_postdoc_seminar'>UC Berkeley's GSPS page</a>):</h3>
<ul>
<li>GSPS is a place where students and postdocs can practice giving talks.</li>
<li>Topics of the talks can be just about anything: their own research (either completed or commencing), career advancement and advice,
pedagogy talks, practice exam talks, job talks, topics that aren't usually covered in other seminars, etc.</li>
<li>GSPS meets every other week during the semester (modulo University holidays).</li>
<li>The aim is to have one graduate student and one postdoc talk each session.</li>
<li>Talks should be 15-20 minutes + 10-15 minutes for discussion and questions.</li>
<li>Talks should emphasize background material.</li>
<li><b>No faculty allowed.</b> Only graduate students, postdocs, and early career research staff are allowed.</li>
<li>GSPS is a good place to:
<ul>
<li>promote community between grad students and postdocs</li>
<li>practice speaking and discussing your research</li>
<li>feel comfortable asking lots of questions</li>
<li>learn about topics outside your own research</li>
<li>learn about applicable non-science topics</li>
</ul></li>
<li>If you would like feedback on your presentation, the organizer(s) would be happy to take notes and discuss it with you afterwards (and/or ask other audience members to do so).</li>
</ul>
<p>Organizer: Jeffrey Silverman (JSilverman.at.astro.dot.as.dot.utexas.dot.edu). Please contact me if you have questions, comments, complaints, or requests for <a href='#topics'>future topics</a> or
snacks and thanks for participating in GSPS!</p>
<h3>Current Semester Schedule:</h3>
<table border='1' align='center' cellpadding='7'>
<tr align='center'><th>Date</th> <th>Grad</th> <th>Topic/Title</th> <th></th> <th>Postdoc/Researcher</th> <th>Topic/Title</th></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>1/17</td>
<td><a href='http://www.as.utexas.edu/~lindner'>C. Lindner</a></td>
<td><a href='slides/lindner_jobs.pdf'>Academia Shmacadamia: A primer on non-academic jobs for astronomers</a></td>
<td></td>
<td><a href='http://highgarden.as.utexas.edu/~r.c.livermore/'>R. Livermore</a></td>
<td><a href='http://highgarden.as.utexas.edu/~r.c.livermore/'>Part of Your World: The Many (British) Adventures of Dr. Rachael Livermore</a></td></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>1/31</td>
<td><a href='http://gigayear.weebly.com/'>M. Gully-Santiago</a></td>
<td><a href='slides/santiago_data_science.pdf'>git Down and Funky: Data Science in Astronomy (Part 1: git and GitHub)</a></td>
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<td></td>
<td><a href='http://ifa.hawaii.edu/~amann/'>A. Mann</a></td>
<td><a href='slides/mann_GSPS_Feb2014.pdf'>KICking Ass and Taking Spectra: Andrew Mann and the KICASS Project</a></td></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>2/14<sup><b><a href='#note1'>1</a></b></sup></td>
<td><a href='http://www.as.utexas.edu/~ctss/'>C. Safranek-Shrader</a></td>
<td><a href='http://www.as.utexas.edu/~ctss/web.html'>Please Stop Using Blinking Text and Tiled, Low-Res Background Images:<br>Fundamentals of Web Design</a></td>
<td></td>
<td><a href='http://www.as.utexas.edu/astronomy/people/people.html?u=102'>E. Noyola</a></td>
<td><a href='slides/noyola_gradseminarfeb14.pdf'>Dónde Jugarán las Astrónomas? Astronomical Adventures in Mexico and Germany</a></td></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>2/28</td> <td>----------</td> <td>----------</td>
<td></td>
<td><a href='http://www.as.utexas.edu/~pavelmi/'>M. Pavel</a></td>
<td><a href='slides/pavel_GSPS.pdf'>SUCCESSFULLY Finding a Job Outside of Academia</a></td></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>3/21</td>
<td><a href='http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4070580/'>R. Ludwig</a></td>
<td><a href='slides/ludwig_teaching_statements.pdf'>What the Hell is a Teaching Statement and How to Write a Good One</a></td>
<td></td>
<td><a href='http://www.stefanom.org/'>S. Meschiari</a></td>
<td><a href='slides/meschiari_gsps.pdf'>Super-Addictive Games To Get People Hooked on Astronomy: You, Too, Can Make Spiffy Online Web Apps for Outreach and $$$</a></td></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>4/4</td>
<td><a href='http://www.as.utexas.edu/astronomy/people/people.html?u=10'>K. Bell</a> &<br><a href='http://www.as.utexas.edu/~mjohnson/'>M. Johnson</a></td>
<td><a href='slides/bell_telescopes_gsps.pdf'>Telescopes and CCDs and Spectrographs, oh my! Observing at McDonald, LCOGT, and SALT</a></td>
<td></td>
<td>Physics Grad<br>Students</td>
<td><a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li5m_4VzbK8'>Watermelon Drop</a></td></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>4/18</td>
<td><a href='http://www.as.utexas.edu/astronomy/people/people.html?u=165'>J. Hummel</a></td>
<td><a href='slides/hummel_gsps.pdf'>Why Python is Awesome: Using Python for Fun and Profit</a></td>
<td></td>
<td><a href='http://www.as.utexas.edu/astronomy/people/people.html?u=244'>A. McKay</a></td>
<td><a href='slides/mckay_gsps.pdf'>Of Comets, Cats, and External Advisors</a></td></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>5/9</td>
<td> </td>
<td> </td>
<td></td>
<td><a href='http://user.astro.columbia.edu/~sarah/Sarah%20Tuttle.html'>S. Tuttle</a></td>
<td>HETDEX: A Walking Tour</td></tr>
</table>
<p><a name='note1'><sup><b>1</b></sup>Will be held in Evans Conference Room (RLM 15.202A).</a>
<br><br>
<h3><a name='topics'>Possible other topics:</a></h3>
<ul>
<li>teaching theories, pedagogy, kinesthetic learning, and best practices (Ludwig? Spencer Martin?)</li>
<li>CVs, resumes, and LinkedIn profiles</li>
<li>applying to postdocs, fellowships, etc.
<li>applying to faculty positions (Pooley)</li>
<li>writing grant and telescope/computing time proposals</li>
<li>public outreach</li>
<li>star parties and running a telescope: Dobsonian, solar, rooftop (Lara Eakins?)</li>
<li>social media, AstroBetter, astro blogs, blogging, Tweeting, YouTubing</li>
<li>scripting ds9 (Kaplan)</li>
<li>coding/software (bitbucket, Flash, MESA, Cloudy, runmycode, astroML, MCMC, emcee, Papers2, rescuetime, productivity suites, BibDesk, JabRef, zotero, PHP)</li>
<li>giving good public talks</li>
<li>giving good science talks</li>
<li>putting together good talks, PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Docs, Beamer/LaTeX, Prezi</li>
<li>putting together good posters, Adobe InDesign</li>
<li>Imposter Syndrome</li>
<li>science policy</li>
<li>CS and/or stat department mixer</li>
<li>basic Korean</li>
<li>preview of next semester's colloquia</li>
</ul>
<br><br><br>
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily
reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.<br>
<br>
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number AST-1302771.
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