Schedule Fall 2016/Spring 2017 |
Fall 2016
September:
- Invited speaker: Elizabeth Gutierrez (Undergraduate at University of Texas at Austin)
- Topic of conversation/Discussion: What is like studying physics in the U.S.? What made you a good candidate for the Research Experience for Undergraduate programs that you had been accepted?
October:
- Invited speaker: GRAD-MAP representatives Robyn and Ashlee
- Topic of conversation/Discussion: What is graduate school? Application process, GRE, financing school. Overview of the Winter Workshop 2017 is open for international students for the FIRST TIME.
November:
- Invited speaker: Antonio Porras
- Topic of conversation/Discussion: How was applying to the workshop? What things can we do better in our applications? How is our webinar helping you? Any feedback?
December:
- Invited speaker: Henry Ngo (Fifth year graduate student at California Institute of Technology)
- Topic of conversation/Discussion: Talk about SURF program at Caltech open for international students. How to write a proposal, contacting faculty for summer a project
- I will be traveling to Costa Rica. Meeting in person.
- Topic of conversation/Discussion: Getting to know students in person. Setting up schedules for individual meetings for essay reviewing for month of January (internship application crunch time)
Spring 2017
January:
- Invited speaker: Jessica Kenney (REU coordinator from Space Telescope Science Institute at this time)
- Topic of conversation/Discussion: Applying for internships. How to make your application stand out. Talk about REU program at Space Telescope Science Institute (open for international students)
February:
- Invited speaker: Dr. Richard Galvez (Fisk-Vanderbilt Bridge Postdoctoral Fellow)
- Topic of conversation/Discussion: What is Dark matter? Possibility of having four types of neutrinos. The origin of the Universe. Talk about Machine learning algorithm
March:
- Invited speaker: Dr. Jorge Moreno (Associate professor of physics and astronomy at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)
- Topic of conversation/Discussion: Computational astronomy. How do simulations work?
Pause: Survey for students. What would you like to see more of? Any way you see we can improve meetings? Acquiring feedback
April:
- Invited faculty, post-doc or grad speaker: Dr. Elisabeth Mills (Assistant professor of Astronomy at San Jose State University)
- Topic of conversation/Discussion: What is the Milky Way composed of? A journey through our interstellar medium. Also, how to finding a mentor? Who would write my letters of recommendation?
May:
- Invited faculty, post-doc or grad speaker: Néstor Espinoza. PhD student Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
- Topic of conversation/Discussion: Detecting and characterizing planets outside of our solar system. Research opportunities in Chile. What is graduate school like there?