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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 {{gad:GAD09-Kathryn.ppt?linkonly}} | + | |
| - | * 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 {{gad:GAD09-Klivans.ppt?linkonly}} | + | |
| - | * 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) {{gad:GAD09-Rama.pptx?linkonly}} | + | |
| - | * 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 {{gad:GAD09-Kristen.ppt?linkonly}} | + | |
| - | * 2:30 pm - //Break// | + | |
| - | * 3:00 pm - //Interdisciplinary research//, Luay Nakhleh, Assistant Professor, Rice University (UT PhD 2004) {{gad:GAD09-Luay.pdf?linkonly}} | + | |
| - | * 3:30 pm - //On writing well//, William Cook {{gad:GAD09-Cook.ppt?linkonly}} | + | |
| - | * 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]] | ||
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| + | ==== 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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