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-====== UTCS Graduate Student Research & Career Advice ======+====== Research & Career Advice ======
  
-===== Graduate Advising Day (GAD) 2009 ===== 
-==== Feb 6 @ ACES 2.402 ==== 
  
-  * 9:00 am - //We want you to succeed!// J Strother Moore +===== Graduate Advice Day Presentations =====
-  * 9:15 am - //Job and internship interview questions to ask and expect//, Kathryn S McKinley +
-  * 9:45 am - //Practicum: Practice interviewing with your peers.// +
-  * 10:15 am - //Break// +
-  * 10:30 am - //Panel led discussion: What I wish I had done in graduate school and the best thing I did do//, Mike Walfish & Brent Waters +
-  * 11:30 am - //Networking//, Adam Klivans +
-  * 12:00 pm - //Lunch & Practicum: Give an elevator talk.// Come prepared to describe your research to a student outside your research area. +
-  * 1:00 am - //Looking back, peering ahead//, Rama Kotla, Microsoft Research (UT PhD 2008) +
-  * 1:30 pm - //Practicum: Curriculum vitae swap.// Bring your CV. You will exchange with a student outside your research area. +
-  * 2:00 pm - //I speak pretty now//, Kristen Grauman +
-  * 2:30 pm - //Break// +
-  * 3:00 pm - //Interdisciplinary research//, Luay Nakhleh, Assistant Professor, Rice University (UT PhD 2004) +
-  * 3:30 pm - //On writing well//, William Cook +
-  * 4:00 pm - //Practicum: writing swap.// Bring a one to two page writing sample, such as the abstract and introduction of a work in progress, your research statement, or a paper critique. You will exchange with a student outside your research area. +
-  * 4:45 pm - //Evaluation:// Fill out web evaluation form.+
  
-===== Graduate Advising Day (GAD) info from previous years =====+==== Research in Industrial Labs vs. Academia ====
  
- {{gad:GAD-all-2007.ppt?linkonly}} - UTCS Graduate Advice Day Slides, Feb 23, 2007+  * 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   * Overview & What we are doing to help you succeed, J Moore, Department Chair
   * Communication Skills, Adam Klivans   * Communication Skills, Adam Klivans
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   * Panel: Work-Life Balance (Adam Brown, PhD student; Emmett Witchell, assistant prof; Kathryn McKinley, prof)   * 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 =====
  
-===== Career Advice ===== 
 Links to a variety of professional development materials.  Originally collected & edited by Mike Dahlin, Kathryn McKinley, and Risto Mikkulainen, among others. Links to a variety of professional development materials.  Originally collected & edited by Mike Dahlin, Kathryn McKinley, and Risto Mikkulainen, among others.
  
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  [[http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=020530902X|The Elements of Style]], Strunk and White  [[http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=020530902X|The Elements of Style]], Strunk and White
  
-===== General Advice ===== 
  
-Pending+===== 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 ===== ===== 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  [[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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