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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
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<title>UT Austin Astronomy Graduate Student Postdoc Seminar (GSPS), Spring
2015</title>
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<h1 align='center'>UT Austin Astronomy Graduate Student Postdoc Seminar
(GSPS), Spring 2015</h1>
<h2 align='center'>Every other Friday, 4-5pm, (mostly) in the Astro Classroom (15.216B)</h2>
<h3>Past semesters:</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href='gsps_fall14.html'>Fall 2014</a></li>
<li><a href='gsps_spring14.html'>Spring 2014</a></li>
</ul>
<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/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>Slot 1</th> <th>Topic/Title</th> <th> </th> <th>Slot 2</th> <th>Topic/Title</th></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>1/30</td>
<td><a href='http://gully.github.io/'>Michael Gully-Santiago</a></td>
<td colspan=4><a href='https://github.com/OttoStruve/GSPSmaterials'>The Shell, The GitHub, and The Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolution</a> (bring laptops)</td>
</tr>
<tr align='center'><td>2/13</td>
<td><a href='http://www.as.utexas.edu/~lindner'>Chris Lindner</a></td>
<td><a href='slides/lindner_jobs_2.pdf'>Academia Shmacadamia pt. 2: It gets better! (Careers in data $cience)</a></td>
<td> </td>
<td><a href='http://www.as.utexas.edu/astronomy/people/people.html?u=244'>Adam McKay</a></td>
<td><a href='slides/mckay_grants.pdf'>First You Get the Money, Then You Get the Power, Then You Get the Telescope Time: Writing Grant and Telescope Proposals</a></td></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>2/27</td>
<td><a href='http://www.as.utexas.edu/astronomy/people/people.html?u=10'>Keaton Bell</a></td>
<td><a href='slides/bell_AASAstronomyAmbassadors.pdf'>Does Being an Astronomy Ambassador Give You Astronomy Diplomatic Immunity? Summary of the AAS Astronomy Ambassadors Workshop</a></td>
<td> </td>
<td><a href='http://www.as.utexas.edu/~tdupuy/Home.html'>Trent Dupuy</a></td>
<td><a href='slides/Dupuy-GSPS-150227.pdf'>How to Give a Great Technical Talk</a></td></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>3/13</td>
<td><a href='http://www.as.utexas.edu/~asmith/'>Aaron Smith</td>
<td><a href='slides/smith_parallel_computing.pdf'>Parallel Processing at your PC</a> (...or Mac, I just really like alliteration)</td>
<td> </td>
<td><a href='http://www.as.utexas.edu/~kgulliks/'>Kevin Gullikson</a></td>
<td><a href='slides/gullikson_gsps_python_plotting.html'>Bokeh For Beginners: Plotting in Python</a></td></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>3/27<sup><b><a href='#note1'>1</a></b></sup></td>
<td> </td>
<td colspan=4><b>Canceled:</b> Prospies in town </td><tr>
<tr align='center'><td>4/10<sup><b><a href='#note2'>2</a></b></sup></td>
<td><a href='http://www.seramarkoff.com/'>Sera Markoff</a></td>
<td colspan=4><a href='slides/markoff_how2apply4.pdf'>How 2 Apply 4 (and Get) Stuff</td></a></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>4/24<sup><b><a href='#note1'>1</a></b></sup></td>
<td><a href='http://user.astro.columbia.edu/~sarah/Sarah%20Tuttle.html'>Sarah Tuttle</a></td>
<td colspan=4><a href='slides/tuttle_GSPS.pdf'>Book (Club) Report: <i>Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race</i>, Plus Some Stuff About TMT/Mauna Kea</a></td></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>5/1<sup><b><a href='#note3'>3</a></b></sup></td>
<td><a href='http://scopatz.com/'>Anthony Scopatz</a></td>
<td colspan=4><a href='slides/scopatz_gsps.pdf'>The Awesomeness of Scientific Python and Effective Computation in the Physical Sciences</a> (and check out the <a href='http://physics.codes/'>book version</a>!)</td></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>5/8</td>
<td><a href='http://highgarden.as.utexas.edu/~r.c.livermore/'>Rachael Livermore</a></td>
<td colspan=4><a href='slides/livermore_may15.pdf'>Feeling Like a Little Fish/Mermaid in a Big Pond/Ocean: (shr)Imposter Syndrome and You</a></td></tr>
</table>
<p><a name='note1'><sup><b>1</b></sup>Will be held in Evans Conference Room (RLM 15.202A).</a>
<p><a name='note2'><sup><b>2</b></sup>Will be held 3pm-5pm (extra bonus hour!!).</a>
<p><a name='note3'><sup><b>3</b></sup>Special off-week GSPS!</a>
<br><br>
<h3><a name='topics'>Possible other topics (in no particular order):</a></h3>
<ul>
<li>CVs, resumes, and LinkedIn profiles</li>
<li>good interview skills</li>
<li>academic job searching <b>(Dave Pooley)</b></li>
<li>getting a tech job (in Austin), w/ possible field trip <b>(John Jardel?)</b></li>
<li>scientific ethics</li>
<li>putting together good posters (PowerPoint, Adobe InDesign)</li>
<li>setting up a UT Astronomy Dept. "Ask-an-Astronomer" page <b>(Stefano Meschiari?)</b></li>
<li>bash scripting and the wonders of 'awk' <b>(Jeremy Ritter)</b></li>
<li>social media, AstroBetter, astro blogs, blogging, Tweeting, YouTubing</li>
<li>asking questions and getting responses on Facebook <b>(Kevin Gullkson?)</b></li>
<li>posting talks and slides online (speakerdeck, slideshare)</li>
<li>how astronomers use Python, a collaboration with Continuum <b>(Kris Overholt & Peter Wang)</b></li>
<li>coding/software (bitbucket, Flash, MESA, Cloudy, runmycode, astroML, MCMC, emcee, Papers2, rescuetime, productivity suites, BibDesk, JabRef, zotero, PHP)</li>
<li>what's your software stack and why? what tools do you use for which tasks?</li>
<li>what do you want improved so that you can put out more papers?</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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