Resource Fair
details coming soon
Past Topics
- Work/life balance; handout
- Switching departments
- Diversifying your research; growing beyond your advisor
- 2-body problem
- Power dynamics in academia; how to deal with your advisor
- Working at a national lab
- Microagressions; handout credit: This flier was developed for the purposes of the WHPC and EPCC Archer BoF at ISC’18 entitled: “Retaining the advantage of a diverse HPC workforce: How to deal with Microagressions”.
- Starting a family
- Working remote
- How to avoid people
- Careers in academia
- Impostor syndrome
- Future trends in HPC
- Interviewing tips
- Pursuing a career in a new country
- Science Policy; handout
- Networking (with people) skills handout
- Working at an HPC center
- Fantastic theses & how to design them handout
- Working at an undergraduate-focused institution
- Dealing with hostile audience members
- How do I change fields?
Future Topic Ideas
- Things I wished I hand appreciated/known while attending my first (or second) SIAM or CSE conference.
- Best minor thing/process I did as an early career researcher that has had a surprisingly long effect throughout my career.
- Work life balance – balancing demands of work, family, and health.
- Combining career with children – balancing a research career with demands of parenthood and childcare.
- Adviser-advisee relationships – how to navigate the sometimes tricky relationship with your advisor
- Impostor syndrome – tips and guidance for dealing with imposter syndrome and the feeling that you may not belong
- Landing a postdoc
- Landing a faculty position
- Grant writing in your early career
- Time management – tips and tricks fro maintaining productivity and effective time management
- Applying for graduate school
- Funding graduate school
- Finding a research topic
- Creating and carrying out a research plan
- Finishing your PhD
- Promoting your work
- Changing disciplines or research fields
- Addressing work-life balance issues
- Managing time
- Building a professional network
- Addressing non-traditional career issues
- Navigating a path forward from community college
- Applying and interviewing for a job