2011 Spring Postdoc Career Development Seminar Series

[Debra L Martin]

FYI, all seminars require registration. Please check the Postdoc Scholars webpage for updates and registration links (if they don’t work in this email):
http://web.mit.edu/mitpostdocs/events.html

Intersection of Business & Science: Start-up Companies
Monday, March 7 in 46-3189 from 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Dr. Mark Rioult, MIT Technology Licensing Office
Registration required: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Rioult_talk

Mentor-Mentee Relationships
Wednesday, March 9 in 46-3310 from 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Speaker: Professors Emery Brown & Pawan Sinha, B&CS
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Mentor-Mentee_Sinha_Brown

Landing a Job in Academia: What Search Committees Look for
Wednesday, March 14 in 46-4189 from 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Speaker: Ted Gibson, Guoping Feng, Tomaso Poggio, BCS
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SearchCommittee_Gibson_Feng_Poggio

Getting a Job in Academia: How Search Committees Work
Wednesday, March 16 in 76-156 (Koch Institute) from 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Speaker: Professor Martha Gray, HST; Professor Tania Baker, Biology
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Gray-Baker_SearchCommittees

Landing a Job in Industry: How to Write a Winning Resume
Monday, March 21 in 46-3189 from 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Speaker: Tom Hamilton, Novartis (recruiter)
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Hamilton_WinningResumesForIndustry

Balancing Science and the Rest of Your Life
Wednesday, March 23 in 46-3005 from 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Speaker: Professor Edmund Bertschinger, Physics; Molly Potter, BCS
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ScienceAndLife_Bertschinger_Potter

Getting Your First Job in Industry
Monday, March 28 in 46-3189 from 3:00-4:30PM
Speaker: Stuart Licht, Sanofi-Aventis
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Licht_FirstJobInIndustry

Mediation Skills
Wednesday, March 30 in 76-156 (Koch Institute) from 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Speaker: Ruth Rosenberg, MIT Office of Student Citizenship
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Rosenberg_MediationSkills

Time/Lab/Project Management
Monday, April 4 in 46-3189 from 3:00-4:30 PM
Speaker: John Gabrieli, BCS
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Gabrieli_Time_Lab_Project_Mgmnt

CVs and the Academic Job
Wednesday, April 6 in 76-156 (Koch Institute) from 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Speaker: Marilyn Wilson, Global Education & Careers Office

Negotiating a Job Offer
Monday, April 11 in 46-3189 in 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Speaker: Yingxi Lin, Ki Goosens, Troy Littleton, BCS
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LinGoosensLittleton_Negotiating_A_Job_Offer

Having Difficult Conversations
Wednesday, April 13 in 76-156 (Koch Institute) from 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Speaker: Toni Robinson, MIT Omsbud Office

Ten Habits of a Successful Scientist
Wednesday, April 20 in TBA from 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Speaker: Cathy Drennan, Chemistry; Dane Wittrup, Chemical Engineering

Strategies for Successful Grant Writing
Wednesday, April 27 in 76-156 (Koch Institute) from 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Speaker: Professor Jagesh Shah, HST/Harvard

TBA
Wednesday, May 4 in TBA from 3:00 to 4:30 PM
Speaker: TBA

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Debra L. Martin, Programs Manager
MIT
Vice President for Research Office, Room 11-268
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02139
617-258-0310, 617-252-1003 (fax)
debra at mit.edu
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