UT Austin Astronomy Graduate Student Postdoc Seminar (GSPS), Fall 2017

Every other Friday, 4:00-5:00pm, in the Astro Classroom (15.216B) or Evans Conference Room (15.202A)

Past semesters:

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

Organizers: Patrick Drew (pdrew{at}utexas{dot}edu) & Sydney Sherman (ssherman{at}astro{dot}as{dot}utexas{dot}edu). Webmaster: Samuel Factor (sfactor{at}astro{dot}as{dot}utexas{dot}edu). Please contact us if you have questions, comments, complaints, or requests for future topics or snacks and thanks for participating in GSPS!

GSPS Founding Father: Jeffrey Silverman (JSilverman{at}astro{dot}as{dot}utexas{dot}edu)

Current Semester Schedule:

Date Presenter(s) Topic/Title Location
9/15 Brian Mulligan Software Design for Astronomers Evans
9/29 Jorge Zavala, Justin Spilker,
and Aaron Lee
Applying for Postdocs Astro Classroom
10/13 Sam Factor and Briana Indahl Backpacking 101 and Our Eclipse Trip Astro Classroom
10/27 Caitlin Casey Deciphering Letters of Rec Evans
11/10 Sinclaire Manning

Brendan Bowler
Careers in Science Policy

Professional Plots
Astro Classroom
11/171 Brandt Gaches Building a website in under an hour Evans
12/8 Marcos Huerta Science Policy Astro Classroom

1Special off-week GSPS for Thanksgiving!

Possible other topics (in no particular order):