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====== Graduate Advice Day (GAD) ======

Graduate Advice Days (GADs) are presentations by faculty, students, and guests that provide current UTCS graduate students with career advice, such as:
  * Completing the graduate program
  * Performing research
  * Finding a job
  * Living life as a UTCS graduate

GADs are usually be held on the last Friday of this month, immediately prior to TGIF.

Slides or recordings of GAD presentations are posted on the [[research_career_advice|Research & Career Advice]] page.


===== Previous Years' GAD Adgendas =====

==== 2015-2016 Academic Year ====

=== December 2, 2015 ===
  * Topic: How to find an advisor
  * Informal session

==== 2013-2014 Academic Year ====

=== January 29, 2014 ===
  * Topic: Resume Workshop
  * Speaker(s); Melanie Pearce, UT College of Natural Sciences, Career Design Center

=== September 27, 2013 ===
  * Topic: Planning Your Research
  * Speaker(s); Prof. Ray Mooney, UTCS

==== 2012-2013 Academic Year ====

=== April 26, 2013 ===
  * Topic: Tips for Teaching
  * Speaker(s): Prof. Calvin Lin and Prof. Lorenzo Alvisi, UTCS

=== January 25, 2013 ===
  * Topic: Preparing for Academia
  * Speaker(s): Prof. Kristen Grauman, UTCS

=== November 30, 2012 ===
  * Topic: Paper writing
  * Speaker: William Cook
  * Time/Place: 3:00-4:00pm PAI 3.14

=== October 26, 2012 ===
  * Topic: Acing your RPE
  * Speaker: Don Fussell
  * Time/Place: 3:00-4:00pm PAI 3.14

=== September 28th, 2012 ===
  * Topic: Fellowships
  * Speaker: Panel discussion
  * Time/Place: 3:00-4:00pm PAI 3.14

==== 2011-2012 Academic Year ====

=== September 30, 2011 ===
  * Topic: Finding and Obtaining Fellowships and Grants
  * Speaker(s): Previous Fellowship Recipients?
  * Time/Place: 3:00-4:00pm PAI 3.14

=== October 28, 2011 ===
  * Topic: Research in Industrial Labs vs. Academia
  * Speaker(s): TACC?  IBM Austin Lab, MSR
  * Time/Place: 3:00-4:00pm ACES 2.402

=== November 18, 2011 ===
  * Topic: Inter-Disciplinary Research with Real-World Applications
  * Speaker(s): Tandy Warnow? Risto? 
  * Time/Place: 3:00-4:00pm

=== January 27, 2012 ===
  * Topic: Preparing your Resume/CV OR Interviewing Skills (coding)
  * Speaker(s):
  * Time/Place: 3:00-4:00pm

==== 2010-2011 Academic Year ====

| 24 Sep 2010 | Fellowships | Prof. van de Geijn, Bryan Marker |
| 22 Oct 2010 | Advisors -- Finding and Managing Them | Panel:  Donald Fussell, Peter Djeu, and Don Porter|
| 28 Jan 2011 | Preparing your PhD proposal | Graduate students, including Eric and Jeremy |
| 25 Mar 2011 | Writing Papers | Mike Dahlin |
| 29 April 2011 | Finding an Academic Position | Kathryn McKinley |

==== 2009-2010 Academic Year ====

| 30 Apr 2010 | Research Funding (Prof. W. Hunt) |
| 26 Mar 2010 | Conference Talks & Networking (Profs. P. Stone and C. Lin) |
| 05 Mar 2010 | Tools for Becoming an Excellent Researcher |
| 29 Jan 2010 | Internships -- Industrial and Research (Prof. R. van de Geijn) |
| 25 Sep 2009 | Fellowships |

==== 2008-2009 Academic Year ====

=== Feb 6 @ ACES 2.402 ===

  * 9:00 am - //We want you to succeed!// J Strother Moore
  * 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.

==== 2007-2008 Academic Year ====

==== 2006-2007 Academic Year ====

UTCS Graduate Advice Day, Feb 23, 2007
  * Overview & What we are doing to help you succeed, J Moore, Department Chair
  * Communication Skills, Adam Klivans
  * Panel: What Will I Do When I Graduate? (Praveen Yalagandula, HP; Dave Moriarty, Apple; Seth Pettie, University of Michigan -- all UT PhD grads)
  * Managing Your Advisor, Keshav Pingali
  * Panel: Tools and Advice for AI, Systems, & Theory Research (Ned Dimitrov, Mike Bond, Shimon Whiteson -- all UT PhD students)
  * Advice on Applying and Interviewing for Jobs, Steve Keckler
  * Panel: Work-Life Balance (Adam Brown, PhD student; Emmett Witchell, assistant prof; Kathryn McKinley, prof)

==== 2005-2006 Academic Year ====

UTCS Graduate Student Advice Day, 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


===== GAD Topics =====

Here are topics that have been suggested for Graduate Advising Day.  Add your thoughts! Simply log in and edit this section.

  * Selecting exciting research projects
  * Choosing an advisor
  * Senior vs. junior
  * Prominent or not?
  * Checking with students
  * Picking a postdoc position
  * Giving talks
  * Introductions
  * Prettiness
  * Writing papers
  * Titles
  * Abstracts
  * Prof. Dahlin has been suggested as a good person to give this talk.
  * Professional Development Seminar on Writing
  * Picking a path: Academia vs. industry, teaching vs. research, lab vs. commercial
  * Industry vs. Academia panel talk
  * How to get an internship / how to be successful at an internship / Internship Panel
  * Networking
  * At conferences -- faculty / students
  * Grant writing
  * How to teach and advise
  * How to manage your advisor
  * Switching advisors
  * C.v. / resume / statement writing & review workshop
  * Preparing your Ph.D. proposal
  * Master's career opportunities
  * Interdisciplinary research
  * Strategies for finishing
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