Agenda updated on 9/30/2016
NOTE: This event happened in the past.
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
8:00 pm | Networking Reception for Workshop Participants |
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
All events located in the Pappalardo Room (4-349) unless otherwise noted
8:30 – 9:00 am | Breakfast |
9:00 – 9:30 am | Welcome from the Physics Department Head Peter Fisher |
9:30 – 10:45 am | Research Talks
The Grand Planetary Ensemble: Using Kepler Statistics to Understand the Formation and Habitability of M Dwarf Planets Discovering New Worlds with the Help of a Robot Multi-Messenger Astronomy with Advanced LIGO-Virgo Solar Gamma Rays and the GRIPS Instrument FIREBall-2: Upcoming UV Observations of the Circumgalactic Medium Spin and Magnetism in the Smallest Stars |
10:45 – 11:00 am | Break |
11:00 am – 12:15 pm | Research Talks (continued)
Growth in Presence of a Flow: A Surprising Dynamics! How Space Shapes Diversity in Microbial Populations: Consequences on the Emergence and Spread of Drug Resistance Intrinsically Disordered Living Systems Probing Local Spin Dynamics and Transport Using Nitrogen Vacancy Center in Diamond Ultrafast and Nonequilibrium Processes in Quantum Plasmonics Unraveling the Mysteries of Superconductors |
12:30 – 1:30 pm | Lunch with guest speaker Prof. Maria Zuber (Vice President for Research at MIT) |
1:30 – 2:30 pm | Panel 1: The Job Search and Interview Process Panelists: Profs. Jeff Gore (MIT), Mariangela Lisanti (Princeton), Kerstin Perez (MIT), and Vladan Vuletic (MIT) |
2:30 – 3:00 pm | Coffee Break |
3:00 – 4:00 pm | Panel 2: The First Few Years of a Faculty Career (Mentoring, Promotion, and Tenure) Panelists: Profs. Nikta Fakhri (MIT), Peter Fisher (Physics Department Head), Toyoko Orimoto (Northeastern), Monika Schleier-Smith (Stanford), Michael Sipser (Dean of the School of Science) |
4:00 – 5:00 pm | Small Groups Discussion w/ Junior Faculty Junior Faculty: Profs. Mariangela Lisanti (Princeton), Toyoko Orimoto (Northeastern), Monika Schleier-Smith (Stanford) |
6:00 – 8:00 pm | Dinner with Guest Speaker Prof. Nergis Mavalvala (Physics Department Associate Head) |
Wednesday, April 25, 2016
All events located in the Pappalardo Room (4-349) unless otherwise noted
8:30 – 9:00am | Breakfast |
9:00 – 10:15 am |
Research Talks Shining Light on Dark Matter with the CMS Experiment Flowing Colors in a Quark-Gluon Soup Neutrinos: Weighty Implications of the Lightest Particle Exclusive π − Electroproduction off the Neutron in Deuterium in the Resonance Region From the Cosmic Microwave Background to the Cosmic Web Microwave Control of Ultracold Molecules |
10:15 – 10:30 am | Break |
10:30 am – 11:45 pm | Research Talks (continued)
Searching for New Particles with Black Holes and Gravitational Waves Bottom-Up Approach to Nuclear Physics A New Area Law in General Relativity A Well-Defined Standard Model -- Lattice Regulating Chiral Gauge Theories Light Dark Matter A Triangle of Traits: Constraining Scattering Through IR Effects |
12:00 – 1:00pm | Lunch with Guest Speaker Prof. Jacqueline N. Hewitt (Director, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research) |
1:00 – 2:00pm | Panel 3: Public Speaking and Communication Panelists: Profs. Ibrahim Cisse (MIT), Sara Seager (MIT), and Tracy Slatyer (MIT) |
2:00 – 3:00pm | Panel 4: Work-Life Balance (Time Management, Career, and Family) Panelists: Profs. Ed Bertschinger (MIT Institute Community and Equity Officer), Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (MIT), and Nergis Mavalvala (Physics Department Associate Head) |
3:00 – 3:30pm | Adjourn |