<html><head><base href="x-msg://58/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div ocsi="0" fpstyle="1"><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; "><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; "><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; "><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; "><br>========<br><br><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px; ">Career Paths in Academia: a Seminar and Discussion with Prof. Mildred Dresselhaus</span></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21px; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; ">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; ">Tuesday, November 13</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; ">Time:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; ">1-2pm</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; ">Room:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; ">4-163</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; ">Contact:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; ">GSC Academics, Research, Careers,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="mailto:gsc-arc@mit.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; ">gsc-arc@mit.edu</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; "></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; ">Registration preferred:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dE5CdVZKWHozdkxKZWZTT0tlX2w3bGc6MQ#gid=0" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; ">RSVP form</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; "></span></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; ">In this seminar, Prof. Dresselhaus will explore questions related to career paths in academia, such as: What are career paths in academia like? How have they changed from past to present? What future trends can we identify? Prof. Dresselhaus will also share experiences from her own career and answer questions from the audience.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; ">About the speaker:</span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; ">Professor Mildred Dresselhaus is a native of the Bronx, and attended New York City public schools through junior high school, and Hunter College High School. She began her independent career in 1960 as a member of the research staff at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory after her PhD at the University of Chicago (1958) and a two-year postdoc at Cornell University. During that time she switched from research on superconductivity to magneto-optics, and carried out a series of experiments which led to a fundamental understanding of the electronic structure of semi-metals, especially graphite. This led to her appointment as an MIT faculty member and eventually to appointment as an Institute Professor in the departments of Physics and Electrical Engineering. She served as the Director of the Office of Science at the US Department of Energy in 2000-01, and has been an officer in many national organizations in physics, engineering, and related areas. Honors and awards include 28 honorary doctorates worldwide. Other honors include the National Medal of Science, the Nicholson Medal for Humanitarian Service, the Compton Award, the Fermi Prize, and the Kavli Prize.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; ">Professor Dresselhaus’s research over the years has covered a wide range of topics in condensed matter and materials physics. She is best known for her work on carbon science and carbon nanostructures, as well as nanoscience and nanotechnology more generally. She is also one of the researchers responsible for the resurgence of the thermoelectrics research field through her early work on low-dimensional thermoelectricity in the early 1990s. She co-chaired a Department of Energy study on “Basic Research Needs for the Hydrogen Economy” in 2003 and more recently co-chaired the National Academy Decadal Study of Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. She has co-authored more than 1400 publications including books, book chapters, invited review articles, and peer-reviewed journal articles. She is co-inventor on five US patents. Dr. Dresselhaus remains involved in activities that promote the increased participation of women in science and engineering. She is an enthusiastic chamber music player where she plays violin and viola, and enjoys spending time with her husband, four children, and five grandchildren.</span></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div><br></body></html>