Resource Fair

The resource fair is an informal session where students and staff mingle to discuss non-technical topics. We encourage staff members to pick a topic ahead of time as these topics will be advertised to students. Staff members are also encouraged to link-to or create a handout that they can share with students (often students don't have enough time to visit every topic). This year the discussions will take place in gather.town and any resources will be linked there. Topic ideas are listed below, along with some handouts from past years (feel free to reuse a handout from the past--or create a new one!). 

Mentoring Session on Monday July 26, 2021

Staff Sign up (11:15 CEST/18:15 JST)

Staff Sign up (11:15 PDT/14:15 EDT)

Name	Topic	Link
Elsa Gonsiorowski	Burnout	https://cate.blog/2021/07/05/pandemic-burnout-now-what/
Scott Callaghan	Interview Tips
Cathrine Bergh	Impostor Syndrome
Ben Payne	life outside academia
Erik Lindahl	Landing a postdoc/faculty position: What do we look for when we hire?
Jingwei Li	How do I change fields?
Senol Piskin	Future trends in HPC	https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353222288_Sensitivity_of_computational_fluid_dynamics_simulations_against_soft_errors https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2frdcu.be%2fcolPI&c=E,1,1jhVcncZy5KwXOvmeS10YqKr4YYQi-pbDCjoMjKBMLGZec5namFr5xvQPcwffU7N4oN0MnUlippB01SdRG_KUpLWVHra65VGse2K5Nkh&typo=1
Joey Dumont	Combining career with children
Ramses van Zon	Working at an HPC centre
Jay Alameda	Working at an HPC Center; Successful Allocation Proposal Strategies	http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/about/careers https://portal.xsede.org/allocations/research
Tom Cheatham	Two-Body Problem
Daniel Howard	Science Policy: From Local to National Opportunities	Engineers and Scientists Acting Locally (ESAL) Data Innovation - Report on US Access and Funding of HPC, 2020 Search for your professional org's Science Policy Section and get involved! Public Policy and SciComm at American Geophysical Union (AGU) Public Policy at Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Simon Wong	Working at a HPC center

Past Handouts

https://www.hpc-training.org/moodle/mod/folder/view.php?id=4169

Topic Ideas

• Work/life balance
• 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
• 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
• Networking (with people) skills
• Working at an HPC center
• Fantastic theses & how to design them
• Working at an undergraduate-focused institution
• Dealing with hostile audience members
• How do I change fields?
• 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