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-====== UTCS Graduate Student Research & Career Advice ======
+====== Research & Career Advice ======
-===== Graduate Advising Day (GAD) =====
-Links to a variety of professional development materials.  Originally collected & edited by Mike Dahlin, Kathryn McKinley, and Risto Mikkulainen, among others.
+===== Graduate Advice Day Presentations =====
- {{gad:GAD-all-2007.ppt?linkonly}} - UTCS Graduate Advice Day Slides, Feb 23, 2007
+==== Research in Industrial Labs vs. Academia ====
+  * Title: Research in Academia vs. Industry
+  * Speaker(s): TACC?  IBM Austin Lab, MSR
+  * Date: 28 Oct 2011
+  * [[https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~gracs/events/GAD-ResearchinIndustrialvsAcademia.m4v|recording]]
+==== Writing Papers ====
+  * Title: Writing Papers
+  * Speaker(s): Prof. Mike Dahlin, UTCS
+  * Date: 25 Mar 2011
+  * [[https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~gracs/events/GAD_25Mar.mov|recording]] (video only, no audio)
+==== Interviewing ====
+  * Title: Job and internship interview questions to ask and expect
+  * Speaker(s): Prof. Kathryn S McKinley, UTCS
+  * Date: 06 Feb 2009
+  * Slides: {{:gad:gad09-kathryn.ppt?linkonly}}
+==== Academic Job Hunt ====
+  * Title: Finding an Academic Position
+  * Speaker(s): Prof. Kathryn S McKinley, UTCS
+  * Date: 29 Apr 2011
+  * [[https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~gracs/events/GAD_29Apr.mov|recording]]
+==== Networking ====
+  * Title: Networking
+  * Speaker(s): Prof. Adam Klivans, UTCS
+  * Date: 06 Feb 2009
+  * Slides: {{:gad:gad09-klivans.ppt?linkonly}}
+==== Corporate Research Career Choice ====
+  * Title: Looking back, peering ahead
+  * Speaker(s): Rama Kotla, Microsoft Research (UT PhD 2008)
+  * Date: 06 Feb 2009
+  * Slides: {{:gad:gad09-rama.pptx?linkonly}}
+==== Giving Talks ====
+  * Title: I Speak Pretty Now,  or,  How to Give a Bad Talk
+  * Speaker(s): Prof. Kristen Grauman, UTCS
+  * Date: 06 Feb 2009
+  * Slides: {{:gad:gad09-kristen.ppt?linkonly}}
+==== Interdisciplinary Research ====
+  * Title: Interdisciplinary research
+  * Speaker(s): Prof. Luay Nakhleh, Rice University (UT PhD 2004)
+  * Date: 06 Feb 2009
+  * Slides: {{:gad:gad09-luay.pdf?linkonly}}
+==== Writing ====
+  * Title: On writing well
+  * Speaker(s): Prof. William R. Cook, UTCS
+  * Date: 06 Feb 2009
+  * Slides: {{:gad:gad09-cook.pdf?linkonly}}
+==== UTCS Graduate Advice Day 2007 ====
+ {{:gad:gad-all-2007.ppt?linkonly}} - UTCS Graduate Advice Day Slides, Feb 23, 2007
   * Overview & What we are doing to help you succeed, J Moore, Department Chair
   * Communication Skills, Adam Klivans
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   * Advice on Applying and Interviewing for Jobs, Steve Keckler
   * Panel: Work-Life Balance (Adam Brown, PhD student; Emmett Witchell, assistant prof; Kathryn McKinley, prof)
- [[http://academics.cs.utexas.edu/graduate/gsad/GSAD-ALL.ppt|UTCS Graduate Student Advice Day Slides, May 11, 2006]]
-  * Overview & What we are doing to help you succeed, J Moore, Department Chair
-  * Starting a research career & picking an advisor, Emery Berger, Assistant Prof at UMass (UT graduate)
-  * What your advisor can do for you & managing your advisor, Doug Burger, Associate Professor
-  * Communication skills - I speek pretty now, Mike Dahlin, Associate Professor
-  * Networking, Pete Manolios, Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech (UT graduate)
-  * What it takes to land academic interviews & how to create it, - Kathryn McKinley, Professor
-  * Preparing for an academic interview, Karu Sankaralingam, Graduate Student
-  * What I did right, what I would change, & other general advice, Long Huang, Graduate Student
-  * What I did right, what I would change, & other general advice, JP Martin, Graduate Student
 ===== Career Advice =====
+Links to a variety of professional development materials.  Originally collected & edited by Mike Dahlin, Kathryn McKinley, and Risto Mikkulainen, among others.
  [[https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~dahlin/bookshelf/hamming.html|Advice on Research]], Dr. R.W. Hamming
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  [[http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=020530902X|The Elements of Style]], Strunk and White
-===== General Advice =====
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+===== Other Wikis =====
-===== Other Wiki's =====
+ [[http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/twiki/bin/view/NNWiki/WebHome|The Neural Networks research page]] is a useful and thorough collection of UTCS info, including lots of advice about classes, working on a dissertation, etc. Especially interesting are the sections about "General Research Tools" information, including guides for LaTeX, LyX, CVS, SSH, and system security. [Accessible from UT network only]
- [[http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/twiki/bin/view/NNWiki/WebHome|The Neural Networks research page] is a useful and thorough collection of UTCS info, including lots of advice about classes, working on a dissertation, etc. Especially interesting are the sections about "General Research Tools" information, including guides for LaTeX, LyX, CVS, SSH, and system security. [Accessible from UT network only]]
 ===== Women in Computing =====
  [[http://www.cra.org/Activities/craw/pubs.php/|CRA (Computing Research Association)]], Graduate Student Information guide, and lots of other great career advice

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