2019 Spring Semester Overview:
Please complete your Checklist at your earliest convenience. For more information regarding the aims of the checklist see Checklist Instructions
For our Data Science Project, Please fill out this survey
For the complete list of tasks this semester please see the canvas site.
Schedule:
1/24 Kickoff Seminar
1/31 Video Recording
2/7 Elevator Speeches
2/14 Tim will present Data Science Topic Video for critique
2/21 CIMER mentoring presentation
2/28 Guest Speaker, Shalabh Saxena from Amazon & Shopbop
3/7 Harrison on non-traditional communication
3/14 Owen on aspects of graph theory
3/28 Pablo on Machine Learning
4/4 Guest Speaker, Alyssa Adams from a Madison start up, Veda Data Solutions
4/11 Guest Speaker, Glenn Fung Moo from American Family Insurance
4/18 Guest Speaker, Bilge Mutlu
4/25 Ray D, Lowell, & Melissa on SVM
5/2 Ashley on Networks
2018 Fall Semester Overview:
9/7 Kickoff/Checklist Introduction
LUCID Program Expectations – Go over checklist
9/14 Career Exploration Part I – Discover interests
9/21 Science Communication (Describe a project for 3 different audiences)
10/5 Blake Mason to discuss LUCID Project/Non-traditional Project Experience (Ovia Project/Amazon)
10/12 Kate McCleary to discuss Evaluation & Communication Rubric
10/19 Keshia Ashe from NSF to discuss AAAS Policy Fellowships
10/26 John Vito Binzak to discuss LUCID Project/Non-traditional Project Experience – Brains & Games and Non-traditional projects
11/2 Dan Olszewski, director of UW-Business School’s Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship to discuss Entrepreneurial resources on campus
11/9 Ken Koedinger at Ed Psych ITP Seminar
*11/9 Data Blitz at HAMLET (Rui, Vince, Scott, Blake, Ayon, Olivia, John, Lowell, Mohan)
11/16 Videotape Elevator Speech
11/23 Thanksgiving – no meeting
11/30 SuccessWORKS career services
12/7 Veronica Rueckert & Chris Barncard from UW Communications to discuss working with media and resources on campus for researchers
This semester we will hear from:
Cohort 2 & 3 regarding what they are currently working on
Senior cohorts and their experience from their internships
Professional Development & Career Exploration
We will have workshops on:
Preparing different versions of your talk (elevator speech, talk for academics outside of your discipline, business pitch)
Training for providing constructive critique/peer feedback – using Communication Rubric
Graduate Student Work/Life Balance & Stress Management Resources