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<title>UT Austin Astronomy Graduate Student Postdoc Seminar (GSPS), Spring 2018</title>
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<h1 align='center'>UT Austin Astronomy Graduate Student Postdoc Seminar (GSPS), Spring 2018</h1>
<h2 align='center'>Every other Friday, 4:00-5:00pm, in the Astro Classroom (15.216B) or Evans Conference Room (15.202A)</h2>
<h3>Past semesters:</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href='gsps_fall17.html'>Fall 2017</a></li>
<li><a href='gsps_spring17.html'>Spring 2017</a></li>
<li><a href='gsps_fall16.html'>Fall 2016</a></li>
<li><a href='gsps_spring16.html'>Spring 2016</a></li>
<li><a href='gsps_fall15.html'>Fall 2015</a></li>
<li><a href='gsps_spring15.html'>Spring 2015</a></li>
<li><a href='gsps_fall14.html'>Fall 2014</a></li>
<li><a href='gsps_spring14.html'>Spring 2014</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Description/Motivation (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 or share information and knowledge that others might not have.</li>
<li>Topics of the presentations can be just about anything: their own research (either completed or commencing), career advancement and advice,
pedagogy and teaching, practice/job talks, software packages/languages and apps, 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>There will be one main presentation/talk/workshop each session, led by one to a few people.</li>
<li>Presentations should leave plenty of time for group work and/or discussion and questions.</li>
<li>Presentations should emphasize background material so everyone is on the same page.</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 new techniques and tools for 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>Organizers: Patrick Drew (pdrew{at}utexas{dot}edu) & Sydney Sherman (ssherman{at}astro{dot}as{dot}utexas{dot}edu). Webmaster: Samuel Factor (sfactor{at}astro{dot}as{dot}utexas{dot}edu). Please contact us if you have questions, comments, complaints, or requests for <a href='#topics'>future topics</a> or snacks and thanks for participating in GSPS!</p>
<p>GSPS Founding Father: Jeffrey Silverman (JSilverman{at}astro{dot}as{dot}utexas{dot}edu)</p>
<h3>Current Semester Schedule:</h3>
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<tr align='center'><th>Date</th> <th>Presenter(s)</th> <th>Topic/Title</th> <th>Location</th></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>1/26</td>
<td>Canceled</td>
<td>Canceled</td>
<td>Canceled</td></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>2/9</td>
<td><a href='http://sydneybsherman.wixsite.com/sydney'>Sydney Sherman</a></td>
<td><a href='slides/sherman_learning_ally.pdf'>Volunteer from anywhere and help students succeed</a></td>
<td>Astro Classroom</td></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>2/23</td>
<td><a href='https://bthtsang.wordpress.com/'>Benny Tsang</a></td>
<td><a href='slides/tsang_astrobites.pdf'>Astrobites: beyon seven years of astro-blogging</a> </td>
<td>Astro Classroom</td></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>3/9</td>
<td><a href='http://www.astroalee.com'>Aaron Lee</a></td>
<td><a href='slides/lee_improv.pdf'>Improv for scientists: Connecting with your audience</a> </td>
<td>Evans</td></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>3/23</td>
<td>Canceled</td>
<td>Canceled</td>
<td>Canceled</td></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>4/6</td>
<td><a href='https://astronomy.utexas.edu/component/cobalt/item/11-astronomy/3139-manning-sinclaire?Itemid=1272'>Sinclaire Manning</a></td>
<td><a href='https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vQ279c1DZgye418ofsjmSlsjIsXDMCucZz__BnJsHelkN1ORF4XXj41574-114GGaEUePjaBo3ejwbu/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000'>History of the World Cup</a> </td>
<td>Astro Classroom</td></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>4/20</td>
<td><a href='http://www.as.utexas.edu/~bwmulligan/'>Brian Mulligan</a></td>
<td><a href='slides/mulligan_xquiz.pdf'>XQUIZ: an easy to use question bank and quiz generation tool</a>;<br><a href='slides/mulligan_online_resources.pdf'>The UT astronomy grad student wiki and you</a></td>
<td>Astro Classroom</td></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>5/4</td>
<td><a href='https://www.as.utexas.edu/astronomy/people/people.html?u=350'>Jessical Luna</a></td>
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<td>You have great health insurance, USE IT!</td>
<td>Canceled</td></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>5/11</td>
<td><a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-lindner-170a0385'>Chris Lindner</a></td>
<td><a href='slides/lindner_jobs_4.pdf'>Academia Schmacademia Part 4</a></td>
<td><a href='https://www.google.com/maps/place/Indeed/@30.2936132,-97.8065277,12z/data=!4m8!1m2!2m1!1sindeed!3m4!1s0x8644b50900c5961f:0x54c3cc9eb416b2d8!8m2!3d30.2674895!4d-97.7444994'>Indeed</a></td></tr>
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<h3><a name='topics'>Possible other topics (in no particular order):</a></h3>
<ul>
<li>practice your second year defense talk</li>
<li>using git and GitHub</li>
<li>making a professional website (with GitHub?!)</li>
<li>adventures in your homeland (or homecity) or your summer conference tour</li>
<li>writing a teaching statement</li>
<li>another CV roast</li>
<li>good interview skills</li>
<li>non-academic job market info (preparing, applying, resumes, interviewing, details of the job, etc.)</li>
<li>Insight Data Science Fellows Program <b>(Emily McLinden, Jeff Silverman)</b></li>
<li>scientific ethics</li>
<li>putting together good posters (PowerPoint, Adobe InDesign)</li>
<li>astro-related social media, AstroBetter, astro blogs, blogging, Tweeting, YouTubing</li>
<li>astronomy ecosystem online (Facebook, Twitter, etc)</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 (sublime text 3, bitbucket, Flash, MESA, Cloudy, runmycode, astroML, MCMC, emcee, Papers2, rescuetime, productivity suites, BibDesk, JabRef, zotero, PHP, python, IPython notebooks, LaTeX, DS9)</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>
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