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<h1 align='center'>UT Austin Astronomy Graduate Student Postdoc Seminar (GSPS), Spring 2019</h1>

<h2 align='center'>Every other Friday, 4:00-5:00pm, in the Astro Classroom (15.216B) or Evans Conference Room (15.202A)</h2>

<h3>Past semesters:</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href='gsps_fall18.html'>Fall 2018</a></li>
<li><a href='gsps_spring18.html'>Spring 2018</a></li>
<li><a href='gsps_fall17.html'>Fall 2017</a></li>
<li><a href='gsps_spring17.html'>Spring 2017</a></li>
<li><a href='gsps_fall16.html'>Fall 2016</a></li>
<li><a href='gsps_spring16.html'>Spring 2016</a></li>
<li><a href='gsps_fall15.html'>Fall 2015</a></li>
<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 (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: Patrick Drew (pdrew{at}utexas{dot}edu) & Sydney Sherman (ssherman{at}astro{dot}as{dot}utexas{dot}edu). Webmaster: Samuel Factor (sfactor{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>

<p>GSPS Founding Father: Jeffrey Silverman (JSilverman{at}astro{dot}as{dot}utexas{dot}edu)</p>

<h3>Current Semester Schedule:</h3>

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<tr align='center'><th>Date</th> <th>Presenter(s)</th> <th>Topic/Title</th> <th>Location</th></tr>

<tr align='center'><td>2/01</td>
    <td><a href='http://www.patrickdrew.space/'>Patrick Drew</a></td>
    <td><a href='slides/drew_willpower.pdf'>Willpower</a></td>
<td>Evans</td></tr>

<tr align='center'><td>2/15</td>
    <td><a href=''>Zach Cohen-Ford</a></td>
    <td><a href='https://cmhc.utexas.edu/index.html'>UT Counseling and Mental Health Center Services</a></td>
<td>13th Floor Break Room</td></tr>

<tr align='center'><td>2/25</td>
    <td>Claudia Knez and Erin Taylor</td>
    <td><a href='slides/APL.pdf'>Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory</a></td>
<td>Evans</td></tr>

<tr align='center'><td>3/15</td>
    <td><a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-bozek-9b2a6b60'>Brandon Bozek</a></td>
    <td><a href='slides/bozek_DM2DS.pdf'>Dark Matter to Data Science</a></td>
<td>Classroom</td></tr>

<tr align='center'><td>4/12</td>
    <td><a href='https://astronomy.utexas.edu/component/cobalt/item/11-astronomy/3709-chen-hope?Itemid=1272'>Hope Chen</a></td>
    <td><a href='slides/chen_cinema.pdf'>Cinema Slow, Weird and Experimental</a></td>
<td>13th Floor Break Room</td></tr>

<tr align='center'><td>4/19</td>
    <td><a href='http://www.as.utexas.edu/~stevans/'>Matthew Stevans</a></td>
    <td><a href='slides/stevans_retirement.pdf'>Wanna buy a yacht? Saving for retirement 101 (Disclaimer: This is not financial advice.)</a></td>
<td>Classroom</td></tr>

<tr align='center'><td>4/26</td>
    <td><a href='http://www.david-guszejnov.com/'>David Guszejnov</a></td>
    <td><a href='slides/guszejnov_over_time.pdf'>Why projects go over time</a></td>
<td>Classroom</td></tr>

<tr align='center'><td>5/10</td>
    <td><a href='http://www.astroalee.com/'>Aaron Lee</a></td>
    <td><a href='slides/lee_job_market.pdf'>Tales from the road: How I navigated the non-R1 job market</a></td>
<td>Classroom</td></tr>

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<h3><a name='topics'>Possible other topics (in no particular order):</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>practice your second year defense talk</li>
<li>using git and GitHub</li>
<li>making a professional website (with GitHub?!)</li>
<li>adventures in your homeland (or homecity) or your summer conference tour</li>
<li>writing a teaching statement</li>
<li>another CV roast</li>
<li>good interview skills</li>
<li>non-academic job market info (preparing, applying, resumes, interviewing, details of the job, etc.)</li>
<li>Insight Data Science Fellows Program <b>(Emily McLinden, Jeff Silverman)</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>astronomy ecosystem online (Facebook, Twitter, etc)</li>
<li>posting talks and slides online (speakerdeck, slideshare)</li>
<li>how astronomers use Python, a collaboration with Continuum <b>(Kris Overholt &amp; Peter Wang)</b></li>
<li>coding/software (sublime text 3, bitbucket, Flash, MESA, Cloudy, runmycode, astroML, MCMC, emcee, Papers2, rescuetime, productivity suites, BibDesk, JabRef, zotero, PHP, python, IPython notebooks, LaTeX, DS9)</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>


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