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<title>UT Austin Astronomy Graduate Student Postdoc Seminar (GSPS), Fall 2015</title>
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<h1 align='center'>UT Austin Astronomy Graduate Student Postdoc Seminar (GSPS), Fall 2015</h1>
<h2 align='center'>Every other Friday, 3:30-4:30pm, in the Astro Classroom (15.216B) or Evans Conference Room (15.202A)</h2>
<h3>Past semesters:</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href='gsps_spring15.html'>Spring 2015</a></li>
<li><a href='gsps_fall14.html'>Fall 2014</a></li>
<li><a href='gsps_spring14.html'>Spring 2014</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Description/Motivation (cribbed from <a href='http://badgrads.berkeley.edu/doku.php?id=graduate_student_postdoc_seminar'>UC Berkeley's GSPS page</a>):</h3>
<ul>
<li>GSPS is a place where students and postdocs can practice giving talks or share information and knowledge that others might not have.</li>
<li>Topics of the presentations can be just about anything: their own research (either completed or commencing), career advancement and advice,
pedagogy and teaching, practice/job talks, software packages/languages and apps, topics that aren't usually covered in other seminars, etc.</li>
<li>GSPS meets every other week during the semester (modulo University holidays).</li>
<li>There will be one main presentation/talk/workshop each session, led by one to a few people.</li>
<li>Presentations should leave plenty of time for group work and/or discussion and questions.</li>
<li>Presentations should emphasize background material so everyone is on the same page.</li>
<li><b>No faculty allowed.</b> Only graduate students, postdocs, and early career research staff are allowed.</li>
<li>GSPS is a good place to:
<ul>
<li>promote community between grad students and postdocs</li>
<li>practice speaking and discussing your research</li>
<li>feel comfortable asking lots of questions</li>
<li>learn about topics outside your own research</li>
<li>learn about new techniques and tools for research</li>
<li>learn about applicable non-science topics</li>
</ul></li>
<li>If you would like feedback on your presentation, the organizer(s) would be happy to take notes and discuss it with you afterwards (and/or ask other audience members to do so).</li>
</ul>
<p>Organizers: Jeffrey Silverman (JSilverman.at.astro.dot.as.dot.utexas.dot.edu) & Matt Stevans (Stevans.at.astro.dot.as.dot.utexas.dot.edu). Please contact us if you have questions, comments,
complaints, or requests for <a href='#topics'>future topics</a> or snacks and thanks for participating in GSPS!</p>
<h3>Current Semester Schedule:</h3>
<table border='1' align='center' cellpadding='7'>
<tr align='center'><th>Date</th> <th>Presenter(s)</th> <th>Topic/Title</th> <th>Location</th></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>8/28</td>
<td><a href='http://grapenut.org'>Jeremy Ritter</a> & <a href='http://www.as.utexas.edu/~bwmulligan/'>Brian Mulligan</a></td>
<td><a href='https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gXSVH110WN0htXjwXBxfhxgwBO83nECreNHKypRwmWI/edit?usp=sharing'>Bash Scripting and the Wonders of 'awk'</a> (plus some
<a href='slides/ritter_bash.txt'>notes</a> and more scripts <a href='grapenut.org/code/gsps/'>here</a>)</td>
<td>Astro Classroom</tr>
<tr align='center'><td>9/18<a href='#note1'><sup><b>1</b></sup></a></td>
<td><a href='http://www.as.utexas.edu/~lindner/'>Chris Lindner</a></td>
<td><a href='slides/lindner_jobs_3.pdf'>Academia Shmacadamia pt. 3: Having a Tech Job in Austin</a> (and field trip to <a href='http://www.civitaslearning.com/'>Civitas Learning</a>)</td>
<td><a href='https://www.google.com/maps/place/100+Congress+Ave,+Austin,+TX+78701/@30.2639257,-97.7449307,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x8644b50633aa11fb:0x1f2ab0d1b1df4ab1'>100 Congress Ave.</a>, 3rd floor</td></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>9/25</td>
<td><a href='http://www.as.utexas.edu/astronomy/people/people.html?u=117'>Raquel Martinez</a>, <a href='http://www.as.utexas.edu/astronomy/people/people.html?u=27'>Natalie Gosnell</a>,
<a href='http://user.astro.columbia.edu/~sarah/Sarah%20Tuttle.html'>Sarah Tuttle</a></td>
<td><a href='slides/tuttle_inclusive_astro.pdf'>Discussion & Summary of the Inclusive Astronomy Conference</a> (<a href='
https://vanderbilt.irisregistration.com/Home/Site?code=InclusiveAstronomy2015'>Conference Website</a>)</td>
<td>Astro Classroom</td></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>10/9</td>
<td><a href='http://www.as.utexas.edu/~jhummel/'>Jacob Hummel</td>
<td><a href='http://www.as.utexas.edu/~jhummel/talks/slack.slides.html'>Beyond @astro: Tools for Intradepartmental Collaboration and Pictures of Pugs</a></td>
<td>Evans</td></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>10/23</td>
<td><a href='http://www.as.utexas.edu/~stevans/'>Matt Stevans</a></td>
<td><a href='slides/trump_hubble_fellows.pdf'>Search For Common Characteristics of Hubble Fellows</a>, slides originally from <a href='http://www.personal.psu.edu/jrt171/Research.html'>Jonathan Trump</a></td>
<td>Astro Classroom</td></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>11/6</td>
<td><a href='http://www.as.utexas.edu/~kgulliks/'>Kevin Gullikson</td>
<td><a href='slides/gullikson_distributing_code.html'>Packaging & Distributing (Python) Code for Fun and Citations</a> (<a href='https://zenodo.org/record/48385'>related talk</a> by <a
href='http://www.stsci.edu/~etollerud/'>Erik Tollerud</a>)</td>
<td>Astro Classroom</td></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>11/20</td>
<td><a href='http://www.as.utexas.edu/~yaolun/'>Yao-Lun Yang</a></td>
<td><a href='slides/yang_gsps.pdf'>The Dark Magic of Radio Astronomy</a></td>
<td>Astro Classroom</td></tr>
<tr align='center'><td>12/4</td>
<td><a href='http://www.as.utexas.edu/astronomy/people/people.html?u=10'>Keaton Bell</a> & <a href='http://www.stefanom.org/'>Stefano Meschiari</a></td>
<td><a href='slides/bell_press_releases.pdf'>Astro Writing for the Public</a> (<a href='http://mcdonaldobservatory.org/news/releases/20150826'>Keaton's press release</a>)
and <br><a href='slides/meschairi_ask_an_astronomer_writing_for_the_general_public.pdf'>McDonald Observatory's "Ask An Astronomer" Page</a>
<!- 'https://speakerdeck.com/exostefanom/ask-an-astronomer-writing-for-the-general-public' ->
(page is <a href='http://askanastronomer.org'>here</a>)</td>
<td>Astro Classroom</td></tr>
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<p><a name='note1'><sup><b>1</b></sup>Special off-week GSPS!</a>
<br><br>
<h3><a name='topics'>Possible other topics (in no particular order):</a></h3>
<ul>
<li>CV/resume advice/roast, LinkedIn profiles (possibly w/ junior UT faculty)</li>
<li>good interview skills</li>
<li>facility/EPO/non-University astronomy jobs <b>(Joel Green)</b></li>
<li>academic job searching <b>(Dave Pooley)</b></li>
<li>non-academic job market info (preparing, applying, resumes, interviewing, details of the job, etc.) <b>(Chris Lindner, John Jardel)</b></li>
<li>Insight Data Science Fellows Program <b>(Emily McLinden)</b></li>
<li>scientific ethics</li>
<li>putting together good posters (PowerPoint, Adobe InDesign)</li>
<li>astro-related social media, AstroBetter, astro blogs, blogging, Tweeting, YouTubing</li>
<li>asking questions and getting responses on Facebook <b>(Kevin Gullikson?)</b></li>
<li>posting talks and slides online (speakerdeck, slideshare)</li>
<li>how astronomers use Python, a collaboration with Continuum <b>(Kris Overholt & Peter Wang)</b></li>
<li>optimizing & profiling code (in Python) <b>(Brian Mulligan)</b></li>
<li>coding/software (bitbucket, Flash, MESA, Cloudy, runmycode, astroML, MCMC, emcee, Papers2, rescuetime, productivity suites, BibDesk, JabRef, zotero, PHP)</li>
<li>what's your software stack and why? what tools do you use for which tasks?</li>
<li>what do you want improved so that you can put out more papers?</li>
<li>CS and/or stat department mixer</li>
<li>basic Korean</li>
<li>preview of next semester's colloquia</li>
</ul>
<br><br><br>
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily
reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.<br>
<br>
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number AST-1302771.
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