Upcoming Announcements and Events: Current Graduate Students and Postdocs

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October 3, 2023

RCR: Discipline-Specific Training

Dr. James Mohler, Purdue University Research Integrity Officer, will host an RCR workshop designed to help all grad students, faculty, staff, and postdocs meet the 2-hour, discipline-specific RCR training required under University policy S-20.
October 4, 2023

Classiq Technologies Quantum Computing Workshop

Explore the world of quantum computing and algorithm with expert guidance. Forge connections with both peers and leaders in the quantum industry. Translate theory into action by participating in stimulating club projects. Enjoy exclusive free access to quantum hardware on cloud. Uncover scholarship opportunities and more!
October 4, 2023

Time Series Analysis and Forecasting

This workshop will cover the basics of time series analysis and forecasting. Attendees will learn how to visualize time series data, perform time series decomposition, and build forecasting models using statistical models like ARIMA as well as ML-tree based models like xgboost.
October 4, 2023

NSF Fellowship Help Session

This help session is for applicants to the NSF Graduate Fellowship who would like to ask questions, receive feedback, and/or undergo a peer review with another student. There is no presentation; just a casual environment for receiving guidance on your NSF Fellowship application. In-person attendance will garner the best outcome however, hybrid space is available upon request.
October 4, 2023

Time Series Analysis and Forecasting

This workshop will cover the basics of time series analysis and forecasting. Attendees will learn how to visualize time series data, perform time series decomposition, and build forecasting models using statistical models like ARIMA as well as ML-tree based models like xgboost.
October 4, 2023

How to Deliver a Winning Presentation

This interactive course will discuss the basics for presenting a compelling presentation. Topics include organizing your message, delivering your message with impact, engaging your audience, and constructing effective slides.
October 5, 2023

Preparing an Effective Lecture

This session will demonstrate ideas and strategies for delivering effective lectures. It will identify factors to consider when organizing a lecture. Examine techniques for delivering effective lectures and ideas for classroom interaction and engagement. The session will also examine procedures for effectively using media and other visuals aids to enhance lecture material.
October 5, 2023

RCR: Overview of RCR

Dr. James Mohler, Associate Dean of Graduate Education, will provide an overview of RCR topics, including: Value-based Decision Making, Research Integrity & Misconduct, Protecting Research Subjects, Data Recording and Management, Managing Conflicting Interests, Authorship & Peer Review, and Intellectual Property.
October 5, 2023

Flu Shot Clinic

Sign up to get your flu shot today! This clinic is open for all university staff and students. Graduate students, if you are insured through Purdue, the shot is 100% covered by your plan!
October 10, 2023

Fall Blitz: "From PhD to Life" Career Workshops

Navigate your career path with confidence! Join us for the Fall Blitz event featuring Dr. Jen Polk, founder of "From PhD to Life" who will facilitate a full day of workshops.
October 11, 2023

Introduction to PyTorch 1

In the workshop, the instructor will introduce the fundamentals of PyTorch including what are tensors, tensor attributes, manipulating tensors, matrix multiplication, reshaping tensors, squeeze and unsqueeze, selecting data, and comparing between PyTorch and NumPy, and accessing GPUs, etc.
October 11, 2023

CVs and Cover Letters for Academic Jobs

The biggest hurdle to preparing effective CVs and cover letters for academic jobs is to stop thinking like a grad student. In this workshop we will address the following: key information to include, optimizing organization, prioritizing information according to each position, what academic jobs value (and what they do not), and we will develop templates you can use for future job searches.
October 11, 2023

NSF Fellowship Help Session

This help session is for applicants to the NSF Graduate Fellowship who would like to ask questions, receive feedback, and/or undergo a peer review with another student. There is no presentation; just a casual environment for receiving guidance on your NSF Fellowship application. In-person attendance will garner the best outcome however, hybrid space is available upon request.
October 12, 2023

RCR: Authorship and Publishing

Dr. James Mohler, Associate Dean of Graduate Education, will address topics including: How do you determine authorship on a publication? What are the rules for publication? Who owns the data? What are the rules associated with research misconduct? What really is plagiarism? This workshop may be used to meet the requirement of face-to-face ethics training required of many departments, colleges, and granting agencies.
October 12, 2023

Diet, Stress, & Emotional Eating

Learn how stress and diet are connected. Discuss how to recognize and manage emotional eating and explore specific nutrients that are helpful in times of stress.
October 12, 2023

MERGE Lunch

The goal of the Multicultural Engagement for Researchers & Grads in Engineering (MERGE) Lunches is to bring together engineering graduate students and postdocs who want to help create an inclusive space where people who identify as a minority in engineering can build community and excel. The program is open to all engineering graduate students and postdocs.
October 13, 2023

Credit Cards and Credit Scores

How do I establish credit? What's a credit score and do I need one? Learn about building and maintaining good credit.
October 16, 2023

Comparing Job Offers

Received two job offers? Congratulations! Which is the better deal? Learn key things of what to look for before saying "yes."
October 16, 2023

F-1 Student Career Planning Grad Edition

The F-1 student visa program provides many opportunities to invest time in gaining practical experience in your field of study. As with all investments, you should invest prudently for the best outcome. Material presented are intended to help spark ideas and provide resources to help participants develop plans to achieve their career and life goals.
October 17, 2023

Success Over Stress

This presentation touches on stress topics which enable you to pinpoint key stressors in your life and learn to cope in healthy ways. Designed to be interactive and filled with discussion, you will have the opportunity to talk about how stress affects your life and ways you can reduce stress’s negative impacts.
October 18, 2023

Healthy Eating on the Run

Want to learn how to make good choices while on the go? What about some healthy snacks for studying? Learn how to choose the best foods for health while leading a busy life. This program discusses snacking, fast food and restaurants, healthy product alternatives, and more!
October 18, 2023

Conducting a Literature Review

A literature review requires the writer to extensively gather and analyze scholarship related to their topic, to explain how their work fits into the larger conversation, and to justify their own research project. This session will help you find the most relevant and useful sources to review the literature related to your research question and keep track of what you find.
October 18, 2023

Entrepreneurship as a Career Path

Graduate students make up almost 25% of Purdue’s student population and within this large group, one would think there would be many budding entrepreneurs. But, only a small percentage of graduate students pursue entrepreneurship as a career path. Graduate students may not realize until very late in their graduate studies that commercializing technology is a viable career choice. Students are also unaware of the strong infrastructure in place to help them succeed in this journey. This workshop will expose the audience to entrepreneurship as a potential career path and expose them to some of the resources available to them on campus.
October 18, 2023

Budgeting and Saving Money

Do you know how to budget? Do you know how to save? Learn better ways of budgeting and saving to build a strong financial foundation.
October 18, 2023

Clustering Techniques in Machine Learning

This workshop will introduce attendees to the concept of clustering in machine learning, including different types of clustering such K-Means clustering algorithm, Hierarchical clustering, and DBSCAN. Participants will also learn about the different evaluation metrics for clustering such as silhouette score. By the end of the workshop, attendees will have a good understanding of how to use clustering techniques to analyze and group different types of data.
October 19, 2023

Preparing for Academic Interviews

This interactive workshop will examine the academic job market and common experiences of the on campus interview processes. Participants will gain experience answering faculty, administrator, and student-posed questions that commonly occur in on-campus job interview scenarios.
October 20, 2023

Conference Paper Writing and Presenting: Strategies for Success

Wanting to (re)learn the fundamentals of writing a successful conference paper? Wondering how to translate semesters of research into a 20-minute presentation? Eager for a refresher on best practices for presenting at conferences? Conference Paper Writing and Presenting: Strategies for Success is created to guide graduate students of all stages through the process of crafting a conference paper that you can be proud of.
October 20, 2023

Mentoring Dialogs

Join Dean Linda Mason for a unstructured discussion on mentoring. Discussions are loosely based on the curriculum developed by the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) and include the following topics this semester: maintaining effective communication with your mentor, aligning expectations in your mentoring relationship, and do you need multiple mentors? Each discussion will feature one of these topics. The discussions are intended to help graduate students strengthen their mentoring relationships with their major professors and other mentors in their academic career.
October 23, 2023

Preparing to Buy a House

First Time Home Buyer- A review of the basics for financial preparation to purchase a home and expert help about financing with a mortgage.
October 25, 2023

How to Write a Teaching Philosophy

Participants will examine the different elements of a Teaching Philosophy and how to present it for an Academic Job Search. Examples of successful Teaching Philosophies will be presented.
October 25, 2023

Introduction to PyTorch

In the workshop, the presenter will introduce PyTorch workflow, namely creating training and test sets, creating models with PyTorch, making predictions with the model, training a model with PyTorch, writing a testing loop, and saving the model.
October 26, 2023

3MT Prep Session: Identifying the Problem/Solution Structure

First in a series of three 3MT preparatory workshops, this session will address the most important aspect of a successful Three Minute Thesis (3MT) presentation – identifying the problem/ solution structure. One of the key aspects of successful research communication is helping the audience understand why your research matters. This workshop will help you learn how best to articulate the problem that your research is solving.
October 26, 2023

Copyrights: An Overview for Scholars

This sessions will provide an overview to copyright and its implications for scholars. An overview of what they are and what they protect will be provided in addition to a discussion of topics such as Creative Commons, licensing and releases.
October 26, 2023

Imposter Syndrome

Part of maturing as a graduate student is finding your voice and the confidence to know that you belong in your academic discipline. Any individual can be impacted by the impostor syndrome (IS), but minorities in a field are more susceptible, so addressing this early in your career is important. In this session we will introduce examples of IS, implications on mental health and social justice. Quick tips on the power of positive thinking will be given.
October 27, 2023

Business Meal Etiquette

This workshop is intended for graduate students who are going on employment interviews. Topics will include the dos and don’ts of having meals with potential employers.
October 31, 2023

Preparing a Teaching Demonstration

This workshop will discuss the different formats the teaching demonstration may take during an academic interview. We will also talk about expectations, methods for engaging students and setting yourself up for success.
October 31, 2023

Improv Techniques for the Researcher

No comedy skills needed but a willingness to improve your communication, active listening and engagement skills is critical. Improvisation will teach you about heightening your awareness and improving your listening skills. It is more about connecting with your audience, than acting skills. It can also help you hone your key messages when speaking time is short at conferences and can actually increase the quality of the audience-speaker interaction.
November 1, 2023

Introduction to Deep Learning

This workshop will provide an introduction to deep learning and its applications. Attendees will learn about different types of neural networks such as feedforward networks, convolutional neural networks (CNNs), and recurrent neural networks (RNNs). The workshop will cover the basics of deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch.
November 1, 2023

Mentoring Dialogs

Join Dean Linda Mason for a unstructured discussion on mentoring. Discussions are loosely based on the curriculum developed by the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) and include the following topics this semester: maintaining effective communication with your mentor, aligning expectations in your mentoring relationship, and do you need multiple mentors? Each discussion will feature one of these topics. The discussions are intended to help graduate students strengthen their mentoring relationships with their major professors and other mentors in their academic career.
November 6, 2023

Debt Management

Good debt (yes, that exists!) and bad; learn strategies to reduce and eliminate debt.
November 7, 2023

3MT Prep Session: Identifying the Problem/Solution Structure

First in a series of three 3MT preparatory workshops, this session will address the most important aspect of a successful Three Minute Thesis (3MT) presentation – identifying the problem/ solution structure. One of the key aspects of successful research communication is helping the audience understand why your research matters. This workshop will help you learn how best to articulate the problem that your research is solving.
November 8, 2023

Let's Talk Taxes

An introduction to basic taxation concepts through the lens of paycheck deductions. You will learn about gross pay, net pay and standard paycheck withholding.
November 8, 2023

MERGE Lunch

The goal of the Multicultural Engagement for Researchers & Grads in Engineering (MERGE) Lunches is to bring together engineering graduate students and postdocs who want to help create an inclusive space where people who identify as a minority in engineering can build community and excel. The program is open to all engineering graduate students and postdocs.
November 8, 2023

Introduction to Transformer Neural Network

In this workshop, I will talk about the intuition behind transformers, the popular language model that is used as the backbone for many large models like GPT-3. I will also give example codes to demonstrate the performance of transformers.
November 9, 2023

3MT Prep Session: Successful Visual Aids

Second in a series of three 3MT preparatory workshops, this session will address the visual aid competent of the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. When presenting, you are the star, not your visual aid. So, how can you design a visual aid that complements your presentation, without hijacking the audience’s attention. Learn that and more in this workshop.
November 9, 2023

Copyrights: An Overview for Scholars

This sessions will provide an overview to copyright and its implications for scholars. An overview of what they are and what they protect will be provided in addition to a discussion of topics such as Creative Commons, licensing and releases.
November 10, 2023

RCR: Discipline-Specific Training

Dr. James Mohler, Purdue University Research Integrity Officer, will host an RCR workshop designed to help all grad students, faculty, staff, and postdocs meet the 2-hour, discipline-specific RCR training required under University policy S-20.
November 13, 2023

Breakout from Burnout

New studies show that negative health effects related to burnout are serious and can be long-lasting. We want you to have all the tools you need to break out from burn out. In this webinar, you will receive practical, neuroscience-based emotional regulation techniques to help you recognize the signs and symptoms and how to prevent and avoid burnout for a better quality of life.
November 14, 2023

3MT Prep Session: Successful Visual Aids

Second in a series of three 3MT preparatory workshops, this session will address the visual aid competent of the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. When presenting, you are the star, not your visual aid. So, how can you design a visual aid that complements your presentation, without hijacking the audience’s attention. Learn that and more in this workshop.
December 7, 2023

MERGE Lunch

The goal of the Multicultural Engagement for Researchers & Grads in Engineering (MERGE) Lunches is to bring together engineering graduate students and postdocs who want to help create an inclusive space where people who identify as a minority in engineering can build community and excel. The program is open to all engineering graduate students and postdocs.
January 26, 2024

MERGE Kickoff Celebration

The goal of the Multicultural Engagement for Researchers & Grads in Engineering (MERGE) Lunches is to bring together engineering graduate students and postdocs who want to help create an inclusive space where people who identify as a minority in engineering can build community and excel. The program is open to all engineering graduate students and postdocs.
February 21, 2024

MERGE Lunch

The goal of the Multicultural Engagement for Researchers & Grads in Engineering (MERGE) Lunches is to bring together engineering graduate students and postdocs who want to help create an inclusive space where people who identify as a minority in engineering can build community and excel. The program is open to all engineering graduate students and postdocs.
March 19, 2024

MERGE Lunch

The goal of the Multicultural Engagement for Researchers & Grads in Engineering (MERGE) Lunches is to bring together engineering graduate students and postdocs who want to help create an inclusive space where people who identify as a minority in engineering can build community and excel. The program is open to all engineering graduate students and postdocs.
April 24, 2024

MERGE Lunch

The goal of the Multicultural Engagement for Researchers & Grads in Engineering (MERGE) Lunches is to bring together engineering graduate students and postdocs who want to help create an inclusive space where people who identify as a minority in engineering can build community and excel. The program is open to all engineering graduate students and postdocs.
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