Junior Researcher Workshop
The Junior Researcher Workshop is open to graduate students and postdocs and will be held on May 21-22, prior to and at the same venue as the main conference. This portion of the meeting consists of students and postdoc research presentations, as well as professional development workshops.
Talks:
- Overviews (25 mins+5 mins): Introductions to Nuclear Theory, Nuclear Experiments, Theoretical Astrophysics, and Observational Astrophysics
- Contributed talks (12mins +3 mins)
Professional Development:
- Scientific Writing
(Mark Caprio, UND) - Grant Writing
(Sarah Nerenberg and Yvonne Chang, Proposal Development Consultant for Higher Education, Environmental Non-profits and Local Governments) - Publishing in the AAS journals (as an author)
(Francis Timmes, ASU) - Speaking Skills
(Vinicius Placco, UND) - Academic career panel
Anna Frebel (MIT), Zach Meisel (Ohio), Matthew Redshaw (CMU) - Non-academic career panel
Raman Pfaff (an NSCL alumnus, and founder of ExploreLearning)
Qian Li (an ND alumna, and an actuarial analyst at Windhaven Insurance ) - Outreach activities
(Micha Kilburn, JINA-CEE outreach director, UND)