We’ll have Bill Lindstaedt’s always-popular Industry Job Search workshop on Friday, October 1 (9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.) at the Graduate Student Commons, Study Lounge 204.
More information and registration link at https://graddiv.ucsc.edu/grad-horizons/alt-academic-job-search/industry-jobs-gs-pd.html
We’ll have a USPA-sponsored potluck dinner Friday, July 30th at 4 pm (PST). We will prepare food and drinks for everyone, but please feel free to bring something to share so we have good variety.
Address: 1140 Western Dr, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Please register here by July 25th if you plan to attend so we can plan how much food to buy and make.
Come and enjoy good food, good conversation, and a sweet mini poodle!
When: Wednesday 3/24 11am-12pm
Where: Zoom
Chalk Talk Presenter: John Dzimianski, UCSC Postdoc in Biomolecular Engineering
Description: We will briefly cover what is expected of academic tenure track job applicants in the interview chalk talk, and how this format is unique from the “job talk” seminar. Then, we will watch one UCSC postdoc who is currently on the job market deliver a practice chalk talk for a mock faculty search panel.
This event is part of a monthly virtual event series organized by the USPA. Each month, we host a workshop or seminar that either offers career development support or highlights some of the amazing research conducted by postdocs on campus. If you are interested in suggesting a workshop or presenting your research, please let us know at uspa@ucsc.edu.
When: Friday 2/26 1-2 pm
Where: Zoom
Chalk Talk Presenter: Hanh Lam, UCSC Postdoc in METX
Description: We will briefly cover what is expected of academic tenure track job applicants in the interview chalk talk, and how this format is unique from the “job talk” seminar. Then, we will watch one UCSC postdoc who is currently on the job market deliver a practice chalk talk.
This is the first event in a series of chalk talk workshops featuring UCSC postdocs from different disciplines, and future events will have mock faculty search panels. For this last-minute event, we need the community’s feedback to help simulate a realistic chalk talk experience for Hanh, complete with interrupting and clarifying questions.
This event is part of a monthly virtual event series organized by the USPA. Each month, we host a workshop or seminar that either offers career development support or highlights some of the amazing research conducted by postdocs on campus. If you are interested in suggesting a workshop or presenting your research, please let us know at uspa@ucsc.edu.
Oskar Elek will be the speaker at this month’s virtual seminar. Oskar is a postdoc in the Computational Media Department and will be talking about his work on nature-inspired modeling for cosmology and beyond.
Date: Tuesday, January 26th at 1:00pm
Title: Polyphorm: Nature-inspired Modeling for Cosmology and Beyond
Summary from Oskar:
I will present my main research project called Polyphorm, which uses an algorithm inspired by the growth of Physarum polycephalum ‘slime mold’ to generate complex rhizomatic networks. Using this methodology, together with UCSC astronomers we have obtained accurate reconstructions of the Cosmic web. I will talk about these novel results, as well as the applications of the model to other domains and even for generating art.
Zoom information: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/93858109040?pwd=dE1YcTN3M21qYUlWL0R6aTgzRlRSdz09
Meeting ID: 938 5810 9040
Passcode: 825718
This event is part of the new virtual event series organized by the USPA. Each month, we will host a workshop or seminar that either offers career development support or highlights some amazing research conducted by postdocs on campus.
If you are interested in presenting, please sign up here: https://forms.gle/221yYehcRJ5HXYWb6
Three-dimensional map of the underlying cosmic web’s intricate filamentary network from data containing the positions of 37,000 galaxies.
The UCSC STEM Postdoc Association (USPA) welcomes you to the first installment of our new monthly event series – Industry Job Hunting: One Postdoc’s Personal Experiences and Tips.
Speaker: Jason Fernandes (former UCSC Postdoc and USPA Board Member, now at Scribe Therapeutics)
This Friday (12/4) at noon on Zoom
Description: Talk and Q&A workshop from one of UCSC’s postdocs who recently made the leap to industry. Jason will cover:
– Strategies he used to find and apply for jobs
– How he navigated the interview and offer processes
This event is the first in a new virtual event series organized by the USPA. Each month, we will host a workshop or seminar that either offers career development support or highlights some of the amazing research conducted by postdocs on campus. If you are interested in suggesting a workshop or presenting your research, please let us know at uspa@ucsc.edu.
A new academic year is upon us, but with COVID, things can’t exactly be “business as usual”. The UCSC STEM Postdoc Association (USPA), UCSC’s grassroots postdoc association, regularly hosts a range of workshops, social events, and symposia for our postdoc community. As not all of these events are equally amenable to virtual formats, we would appreciate your feedback about what events you would like to attend and/or participate in over the current academic year.
Please complete this quick 6-question survey to help us decide what events to offer virtually in the 2020-21 academic year.
Thanks for your input!
The USPA invites you to a socially-distanced social outing Thursday October 15 afternoon-evening! We will be tide-pooling at Natural Bridges and then eating dinner at the park/on the beach.
To be there at low tide, we will arrive at the park at 3:30 pm (low tide is at 3:58). After an hour or so of exploring the tide pools, beach, and park, we will order dinner to eat at the beach (sunset is at 6:31).
If you are interested in joining us, please fill out this form. We’ll be meeting at the entrance to the park on West Cliff and Swanton Blvd.
If you need to drive and park, there is free street parking along Swanton Blvd (at least the east side of the street; the left has been opening and closing randomly).
So nice to meet the new postdocs and see some wildlife! Thanks for coming to our socially-distanced social event today @jahoey13 @FraserLaser1 @SumanKBera @jess7son @AlliNCramer @MeteoretteFinds @glodewijk_sci and others pic.twitter.com/XEtWELZ4Vk
— UCSC STEM Postdocs Association (@UCSCPostdocs) October 16, 2020