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Category Archives: Presentations and seminars
Check list for a professor’s retirement symposium
You will do few things more important in your academic career than organize a symposium for your retiring professor, or at least that is how I think of it. The point of this entry is to make it easier for … Continue reading
Please don’t back out at the last minute!
A well-planned meeting is among the more gratifying social events to organize. I bet Mike Travisano, Matt Herron, and Will Ratcliff were really glad to see their catalysis meeting actually taking place. We were the little figures they got to … Continue reading
Did you go to the undergraduate poster session at your university?
Yesterday was the spring poster session by Wash U undergrads. There were about 180 posters. Apparently they were organized according to submission date, so literature could be next to physics or biology. At first that baffled me, but then I … Continue reading
Ignite your audience with lightning or Pecha Kucha form talks
Long before Powerpoint existed I once was a teaching assistant for an introductory biology class in the intensive summer session at the University of Texas at Austin. One of my main tasks was to sit in the back of the … Continue reading
A favorite meeting, small but open, posters, a single talk session
If someone invited me, back in the days I was working on wasps to a meeting that focused entirely on one species, perhaps my much-loved Polistes exclamans, I would have gone readily. That meeting might have covered behavior, ecology, phylogeny, … Continue reading
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Lab meeting talks
She began with a couple of figures taken from someone else’s paper. They showed exactly what that other study measured. Sara Mitri told us what motivated that study. She then went on to clearly explain how her study would be … Continue reading
Scientific meetings are important, so plan your summer now
Some meeting deadlines have already passed. Others are hard on us. Choose a meeting now and figure out how to get to it. If you are a student, or postdoc, find all the competitions you can enter and do it. … Continue reading
What we look for in a new faculty candidate
I think we are generally pretty good at not just picking our friends, but we prefer that your advisors, or people on your committee, be people who have contributed to the field enough that we have read their work, or know their ideas. … If we think you are doing things just like your advisor, and have not branched out, have not read widely, we will worry about what you will be doing in five years. Continue reading
