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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#cc0000"><b>Optimizing the
Postdoc-Advisor Relationship: Advice from Faculty &
Postdocs </b></font><font color="#cc0000">*REMINDER*</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#cc0000">Date and Time: T<b>uesday,
Feb.6, 2018 from 4-5:30 pm </b><o:p></o:p></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#cc0000">Location: Singleton
Auditorium, Building <b>46-3002</b><o:p></o:p></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#cc0000"><o:p> </o:p></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#cc0000"><font color="#000000">Sponsored
by the Office of the Vice President for Research </font><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#cc0000"><o:p> </o:p></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="#cc0000">Register <a
href="https://goo.gl/forms/IHArQN81ZaEPxKog1">
here </a></font> <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Learn from faculty members and fellow
postdocs how to maximize the mentor-mentee relationship during
the postdoctoral period and beyond. A postdoc is "engaged in a
temporary and defined period of mentored advanced training to
enhance the professional skills and research independence needed
to pursue his or her chosen career path," per NIH. How can you
help ensure that your supervision and mentoring are as
productive as possible? How can you be an effective mentor
throughout your career? In this panel, seasoned postdocs and
dedicated faculty will share their experience and perspective.
Audience members will have the opportunity to ask questions and
seek advice from the panel. MIT postdocs, graduate students, and
other MIT community members are welcome. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Panelists: <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nancy Kanwisher, Walter A Rosenblith
Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wasifa Jamal, Postdoctoral Associate,
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Francisco Martinez, Research Scientist,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (formerly a
postdoc)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nir N. Shavit, Professor, Department of
Electrical Engineering<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Moderator:</b> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bob Dolan, Assistant Director, Career
Services, MIT Postdoctoral Scholars<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">**<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Panelists' Biographies:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Professor Nancy Kanwisher</b> received her
B.S. in biology and Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from MIT.
After a postdoc as a MacArthur Fellow in Peace and International
Security, she held faculty positions at UCLA and then Harvard,
before returning to MIT in 1997, where she is now an
Investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, a
faculty member in the Department of Brain & Cognitive
Sciences, and a member of the Center for Minds, Brains, and
Machines. Kanwisher’s work uses brain imaging to discover the
functional organization of the human brain as a window into the
architecture of the mind. Kanwisher has received the Troland
Award, the Golden Brain Award, and a MacVicar Faculty Fellow
teaching Award from MIT, and a NIH Director’s Pioneer Award. She
is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences. You can view her short lectures
about human cognitive neuroscience for lay audiences at <a
href="http://www.nancysbraintalks.mit.edu/" target="_blank"
title="Nancys Brain talks">www.nancysbraintalks.mit.edu</a>.
Dr. Kanwisher also received the MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Community’s 2015 Outstanding Postdoc Mentor Award.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Dr. Wasifa Jamal</b> is a Postdoctoral
Associate in MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
(BCS) Her research interests include signal processing, machine
learning, computational neuroscience science, complex networks,
and statistical analysis. She received her PhD in Electrical and
Electronic Engineering from the University of Southampton,
School of Electronics and Computer Science, UK, in 2015. She
served as the MIT PDA president from 2015-2016 and was also
co-chair of the BCS building 46 postdoc community in 2015-16.
She is actively involved in the fundraising committees of
various charitable organizations. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Dr. Francisco Martinez</b> is a Research
Scientist in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering (CEE), working with Professor Markus J. Buehler.
Prior to this position, he was Postdoctoral Associate in CEE,
and postdoctoral associate at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
in Brussels, Belgium. He earned his MSc in Chemical Engineering
and his PhD in Chemistry at University of Granada (Spain). Dr.
Martinez is also a member of the advisory board of Sweetwater
Energy, vice-president of the Association of Spanish Scientists
in the US (ECUSA), and former president of the Spanish
Federation of Chemical Engineers (FEIQ). His research integrates
bio-inspiration and multi-scale material modeling with process
engineering and waste reutilization. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Professor Nir Shavit</b> received B.Sc.
and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from the Technion - Israel
Institute of Technology in 1984 and 1986, and a Ph.D. in
Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in
1990. Shavit is a co-author of the book The Art of
Multiprocessor Programming. He is a recipient of the 2004 Gödel
Prize in theoretical computer science for his work on applying
tools from algebraic topology to model shared memory
computability and of the 2012 Dijkstra Prize in Distributed
Computing for the introduction of Software Transactional Memory.
He is an ACM fellow. His current research covers techniques for
designing scalable software for multiprocessors, in particular
concurrent data structures for multicore machines. Professor
Shavit is also the faculty coordinator for Postdoc6, a program
to help postdocs develop leadership, teamwork, and other skills.<o:p></o:p></p>
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