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Schedule

Most sessions, including registration, will take place at the Community Room in the Main Library at Vanderbilt. Click HERE for a map. The Commjnity Room is on the first floor, on the right side of the building, if you are facing the front of the building. The Tuesday morning session will be in Stevenson Center 1 Room 1432; this is on the 4th floor, which is one floor up from the ground floor.

Monday

8:30 Welcome and Registration

9:00 Introduction: Caitlin Leverson, Dan Margalit, Becca Winarski, Yvon Verberne

10:00 Tea

10:30 Talks 1: Aaron Calderon, Ty Ghaswala, Dan Margalit

12:00 Lunch

2:00 Introduction to Workshopping

2:30 Workshopping Groups

3:00 Tea

3:30 Workshopping Groups

5:00 Wrap up

Tuesday

9:00 The Academic Job Process: Carolyn Abbott, John Etnyre, Lisa Traynor

10:00 Tea

10:30 Academic Job Documents (CVs, Web pages, Research/Teaching/Diversity Statements): Carolyn Abbott, John Etnyre, Lisa Traynor

12:00 Group Photo

12:15 Lunch

2:00 Academic Jobs Q&A: Cast

3:00 Tea

3:30 Workshopping Groups

5:00 Wrap up

Wednesday

9:00 Non-academic Jobs: Shane Scott (Braids - the company, not the topological objects!)

10:00 Tea

10:30 Careers Panel: Kashi Behrstock (BlackRock), Justin Fitzpatrick (University School of Nashville), Jiawei Han (Humana), Jasmine Powell (MathWorks), Emily Shinkle (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

12:15 Lunch from Martin's BBQ and The Southern V

2:00 Workshopping Groups

3:30 Tea

4:00 Colloquium: Boundaries, boundaries, and more boundaries (Carolyn Abbott)

6:30 Pizzaque

Thursday

7:30-8:30 Yoga (optional)

9:00 The Publishing Process: Aaron Calderon, Dan Margalit, Bena Tshishiku

10:00 Tea

10:30 Habits of a Mathematician: Ty Ghaswala, Juanita Pinzón Caicedo, Becca Winarski

12:00 Lunch

2:00 Student Talks 1: Maya Verma, Megan Fairchild

3:00 Tea

3:30 Student Talks 2: Porter Morgan, Aria Beaupre

Friday

9:00 Student Talks 3: Megha Bhat, Xiyan Zhong

10:00 Tea

10:30-11 Overflow Q&A

11:00 Student Talks 4: Junmo Ryang, Carolyn Engelhardt

12-12:30 Wrap up and Farewell