Equity & Career Committee Meeting

Thursday 21 Sept 2023, 11:00 → 12:00 US/Pacific

Javier Mauricio Duarte (Univ. of California San Diego (US)), Miaoyuan Liu (Purdue University (US))

1 Postbac Orientation Planning

Speakers: Anthony Vizcaino Aportela (Univ. of California San Diego (US)), Elham E Khoda (University of Washington (US)), Javier Mauricio Duarte (Univ. of California San Diego (US)), Mark Neubauer (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US)), Melissa Quinnan (Univ. of California San Diego (US)), Miaoyuan Liu (Purdue University (US)), Noah Paladino (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

• Kate Scholberg will host in-person postbac orientation at Duke.
• Need 1-2 postdocs/grad students to help run it.
• Similar program to last year: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1192158/ + social event / dinner
• Dates?
  • Fall: ideally October
• Janina: point person

 

2 SACNAS booth materials

Tony and Javier are going
- Stickers (of what?): hls4ml, A3D3 logo, Pokemon, particles
- ParticleZoo buttons
- hls4ml demo?
- banner?
- update pamphlets (specifically deadlines, program start of postbac)
- bring a screen?

Speakers: Anthony Vizcaino Aportela (Univ. of California San Diego (US)), Elham E Khoda (University of Washington (US)), Javier Mauricio Duarte (Univ. of California San Diego (US)), Mark Neubauer (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US)), Melissa Quinnan (Univ. of California San Diego (US)), Miaoyuan Liu (Purdue University (US)), Noah Paladino (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

3 Professional Development: Postdoc seminar series, Support for conference preparation, Renew the Mentorship Program

Speakers: Anthony Vizcaino Aportela (Univ. of California San Diego (US)), Elham E Khoda (University of Washington (US)), Javier Mauricio Duarte (Univ. of California San Diego (US)), Mark Neubauer (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US)), Melissa Quinnan (Univ. of California San Diego (US)), Miaoyuan Liu (Purdue University (US)), Noah Paladino (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

We need to update the Mentorship pairs.

• Send out the form by mid-October
• Noah will help to do this again this year

 

Professional Development:

• We need senior people to organize postdoc job talk practictice, trainee's conference preparation talk practice etc

4 Call for New members of the E&C committee

Call for new members! - Javier

Speakers: Anthony Vizcaino Aportela (Univ. of California San Diego (US)), Elham E Khoda (University of Washington (US)), Javier Mauricio Duarte (Univ. of California San Diego (US)), Mark Neubauer (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US)), Melissa Quinnan (Univ. of California San Diego (US)), Miaoyuan Liu (Purdue University (US)), Noah Paladino (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

Javier will send out the form (new members in the E&C group)

5 Next Postbacc call: Jobs ads

Deadline: February 15
[Ideal notification date for first-round offers: March 15]
Notification date (offer, waitlist, no): April 1
Decision date: April 15

Speakers: Anthony Vizcaino Aportela (Univ. of California San Diego (US)), Elham E Khoda (University of Washington (US)), Javier Mauricio Duarte (Univ. of California San Diego (US)), Mark Neubauer (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US)), Melissa Quinnan (Univ. of California San Diego (US)), Miaoyuan Liu (Purdue University (US)), Noah Paladino (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))