Career Development Meeting
Boyer Hall 6th Floor Conference Room
Thursday 20th July, 2006
Chair: Sehat Nauli (SN)
Attending: Marcus Kaufmann (MK), Maggie Wang (MW)
Election of new Vice Presidents
SN will serve as VP of the Career Committee until December 2006
Brown Bag Lunches
Two BB Lunches are planned for August and September.
SN is organizing a lunch with Earl Weinstein from the UCLA Technology Transfer Group for a lunch between 12-2p on Monday, August 7th. Dr. Weinstein got his Ph.D at MIT working on micro RNA and is currently working with UCLA scientists interested in starting companies or licensing their technologies to other companies.
MK will plan a lunch with Eric Scerri, a Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. The tentative time is September and MK will work out the exact time/date by the next CC meeting. Dr. Scerri requested that the lunch be held in a room with a projector so he could show some slides from his latest book. Dr. Scerri studies how chemical concepts could be explained through Physics as well as how certain aspects of Chemistry is being taught.
Events
Two events are planned for Fall 2006.
A seminar discussing various aspects of time management for postdocs and faculty. MW (with some help by SN) is organizing this event. MW has contacted Prof. Sandra Schmid from The Scripps Institute to give a talk regarding time management for postdocs. Dr. Schmid gave a similar talk at the UCSF Postdoc Society and came highly recommended. SN will contact Christine Wilson at the Grad Student Resource Center to see if the GSRC will be interested in co-sponsoring this event. MW will coordinate the date/location of the event with Christine Wilson and Dr. Schmid. In addition, MW will contact Kyle Cunningham to request parking permit, gas reimbursements, and lunch costs for Dr. Schmid.
MK suggested a writing seminar in the last meeting, but currently could not find any compatible speaker for this event. This event might be organized in the future, but will currently stay in the backburner.
SN received an email from Anne Simon indicating that she is interested in organizing an event related to immigration issues for postdocs. This event will be organized along with Ajay Gopal from the Communications Committee. Since neither could attend this meeting, SN will meet with both on August 2nd to discuss the detail of this proposal. SN will inform Committee members regarding the event at the next Committee meeting
For the Fall quarter, the Career Committee thus have 4 events planned, three of which are firm. In the coming months, we will further discuss other events that might be of interest to the postdoc community.