What does it mean to be an advocate? Advocacy today is bigger than form emails, stuffy suits traipsing down the halls of Congress, and the same tired song and dance with legislative offices. Advocacy is showing up as your authentic self, engaging leaders with energy and passion, and building strong coalitions that can go the distance. How can you be seen, heard, and taken seriously without...
Owning your graduate school experience: Building your success toolkit from application to graduation
Via this workshop participants will gather tools to help them navigate aspects of exploring, applying, and selecting graduate programs. More importantly, it will help participants build their own toolkit for effective communication, self-advocacy, and leadership development. This...
9:45 - 10:15: Jo Dunkley, "The Earliest Image of the Universe"
I will talk about my work analyzing the cosmic microwave background, which is the earliest image we have of the universe. I use telescopes in Chile to study this exciting signal, that tells us about fundamental properties of the universe like its age, composition, and how fast it is growing. We also hope that it will reveal new...
9:45 - 10:15: Alex Leviness, "What's a Stellarator?"
A stellarator is a type of device that magnetically confines a plasma so that nuclear fusion can occur. After the tokamak, it is the second most popular option for a fusion reactor design, and the past several decades have seen major advances in the design and construction of these devices. I will cover some basics of fusion, the...
What does it mean to be an advocate? Advocacy today is bigger than form emails, stuffy suits traipsing down the halls of Congress, and the same tired song and dance with legislative offices. Advocacy is showing up as your authentic self, engaging leaders with energy and passion, and building strong coalitions that can go the distance. How can you be seen, heard, and taken seriously without...
Owning your graduate school experience: Building your success toolkit from application to graduation
Via this workshop participants will gather tools to help them navigate aspects of exploring, applying, and selecting graduate programs. More importantly, it will help participants build their own toolkit for effective communication, self-advocacy, and leadership development. This...
The seminar will focus on professional skills that women need to effectively perform research and thrive in physics, including how to:
- Negotiate a graduate, postdoc, or professional position in academia, industry, or at a national lab
- Interact positively on teams and with a mentor or advisor
- Think tactically
- Enhance personal presence
- Develop alliances
- Achieve professional...
Biophysics, broadly, is interested in taking the rules and laws we know from physics and using them to help quantify and explain behaviors we observe in biological systems. This can be anything from studying social behaviors and postures in animals, to modeling the response of the immune system to disease, to using microscopy and optics to examine tiny details in a cell. In this session, we...
This talk describes my own career trajectory with a message to encourage students to understand how their own journey from undergrad/grad school toward their goals can be made even more intentional. It covers learning styles and approaches, narratives/story telling principles, and understanding their own personal motivators. I hope this talk encourages students to map out their journey and...
What does it mean to be an advocate? Advocacy today is bigger than form emails, stuffy suits traipsing down the halls of Congress, and the same tired song and dance with legislative offices. Advocacy is showing up as your authentic self, engaging leaders with energy and passion, and building strong coalitions that can go the distance. How can you be seen, heard, and taken seriously without...
Owning your graduate school experience: Building your success toolkit from application to graduation
Via this workshop participants will gather tools to help them navigate aspects of exploring, applying, and selecting graduate programs. More importantly, it will help participants build their own toolkit for effective communication, self-advocacy, and leadership development. This...
1 - 1:30: Claire Gmachl, "Quantum Cascade Ring Lasers and Related Systems"
Monolithic integrated photonics is a large field of active research interests, both foundational and for applications as varied as sensing or computing. Our interests in this area are especially directed towards active integrated photonics, where the light-guiding waveguides are at the same time functioning as light...
