UT Austin Graduate Student Postdoc Seminar (GSPS), Fall 2014

Every other Friday, 4-5pm, (mostly) in the Astro Classroom (15.216B)

Past semesters:

Description/Motivation (cribbed from UC Berkeley's GSPS page):

Organizer: Jeffrey Silverman (JSilverman.at.astro.dot.as.dot.utexas.dot.edu). Please contact me if you have questions, comments, complaints, or requests for future topics or snacks and thanks for participating in GSPS!

Current Semester Schedule:

Date Slot 1 Topic/Title   Slot 2 Topic/Title
8/291 Kyle Kaplan The Amazing Power of Scripting DS9: Cooler Than It Sounds, Really! (example files)   --- ---
9/122 Lara Eakins Scopes, Scopes, Scopes! Star Party Basics   Rachael Livermore Bringing the Awesomeness of Astronomy to Everyone: How to Give a Great Public Talk
9/26 Spencer Martin Teaching Astronomy to High Schoolers
10/10 Jacob Hummel IPython Notebooks Will Change Your Life: Tutorial and Workshop
10/24 Natalie Gosnell Panel on Applying to Postdocs and Fellowships   Adam McKay LaTeX: Not Just For Papers (It's For Talks and Posters Too!)
(here is the talk source file and here is the poster source file)
11/7 Brian Mulligan You have a PhD... who cares?   Stefano Meschiari Make your Emacs sparkle! (interactive demo)
11/21 Marshall Johnson The Secret History of Graduation T-Shirts: A Stroll through the Archive   John Feldmeier What it's Like Being a Professor at a Predominantly Undergraduate Institution
12/5 Aaron Rizzuto He Comes From a Land Down Under: The Life & Times of ARizz   Rachael Livermore Summary and Future of Astronomy on Tap ATX

1Will be held in Evans Conference Room (RLM 15.202A).

2Will be held in Lara Eakins' Visitor Classroom (RLM 13.132).

Possible other topics (in no particular order):




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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number AST-1302771.