Graduate School & Careers Fair
Graduate schools with plasma physics programs, as well as plasma/fusion companies and national labs, will staff virtual booths featuring the research being done at each institution. Participants are invited to "stop by" the booths and interact with the scientists, engineers, professors, admissions staff, and/or graduate students at each booth. Check out this spreadsheet for a list of institutions that offer plasma and fusion education, training and research opportunities.
Graduate Opportunities Panel
Students applying to graduate school seldom know about all of the fellowship and internship opportunities available for them. Fellowships help cover tuition, sometimes provide extra stipends, give you more research and academic freedom when entering grad school, give you proposal writing experience, and, in general, look good on a CV. Internships provide students with the opportunity to conduct research at an academic institution, national lab, or industry, thus gaining valuable experience and training.
The Graduate Opportunities Panel features program officers from multiple federal agencies that provide support for plasma science and fusion energy research.
NSF GRFP Slides DOE Fellowships Slides DOE SCGSR Slides
Networking Session
To close off the day, graduate students and early career researchers from different institutions will lead breakout rooms that participants are invited to attend. There will be separate breakout rooms for graduate school, industry/national lab pathways, and former fellowship recipients. This will be a chance to meet future colleagues and ask them about the application process, experience with graduate school and employment, different fields of plasma and fusion, different institutions, etc.
List of panelists for the student networking session:
Dr. Ken Hammond: Research Physicist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Dr. Mrittika Roy: Adjunct Instructor in Physics, Kaiser University, Fort Lauderdale
Dr. Mustafizur Rahman: Process Development Engineer, Lam Research Corporation
Dr. Ravi Kumar: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Idaho National Laboratory
Dr. Stephen Williams: Advanced Physicist, Honeywell
Interested in featuring your institution at the fair?
For more information on each event, please contact us at: DPPEO@aps.org