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GAD Plan for 2011-2012
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: Industry Labs vs. Academia Research (research in Industry)
- Speaker(s): TACC? IBM Austin Lab, MSR
- Time/Place: 3:00-4:00pm
November 25, 2011
- Topic: Inter-Disciplinary Research
- Speaker(s): Someone from TACC?, Tandy Warnow?
- 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
No GAD in February because of GradFest
March 30, 2012
- Topic:
- Speaker(s):
- Time/Place: 3:00-4:00pm
April 27, 2012
- Topic:
- Speaker(s):
- Time/Place: 3:00-4:00pm
GAD Topics
Here are topics that have been suggested for Graduate Advising Day. Add your thoughts! Simply log in and edit.
- 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
Previous Years' GADs
- 2010-2011
| 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 | recording |
| 29 April 2011 | Finding an Academic Position | Kathryn McKinley | recording |
- Older
| 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 slides |
| 2009 Spring | See Grad Advice page |
| 2007 Spring | See Grad Advice page |
| 2006 Spring | See Grad Advice page |
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