Graduate School and Careers Day

Graduate School & Careers Day

Saturday, April 27, 2024, 12-6 pm ET

The APS-DPP Graduate School & Careers Day is an opportunity to learn about US graduate programs in plasma physics and the fusion sciences as well as about careers in private industry and national labs.  Learn about the application process and about fellowship opportunities for graduate students, and network with other graduate students and early career scientists.


Keynote Presentations

The day will begin with 2 keynote presentations focusing on the graduate admission process and careers in general respectively:

Prof. Marissa López, Professor of Professor of English and Chicana/o Studies and Associate Dean for Diversity, Inclusion, and Admissions at UCLA, will begin with a presentation on the graduate admissions process.

Dr. Midhat Farooq, Senior Careers Program Manager and Career Development Expert at APS, will follow with a presentation on the prospects of careers after undergraduate and graduate degrees in physics and STEM in general.

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.  


Graduate Opportunities Panel

Students applying to graduate school seldom know about all of the fellowship 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. 
The Graduate Opportunities Panel features program managers and recipients of fellowships and awards available for graduate students in plasma sciences from the National Science Foundation (plasma physics at NSF can be found both in the Mathematical & Physical Sciences and the Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences divisions), Department of Energy Office of Science, Fulbright program, National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowships, Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration, GEM Fellowship, etc.


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.   This will be a chance to meet future colleagues and ask them about the application process, the grad school experience, different fields of plasma and fusion, different institutions, etc. 

Interested in featuring your institution at the fair?

Please contact us directly: jwilliams@wittenberg.edu 

Agenda

The 2024 APS-DPP Graduate School and Careers Day will be held entirely on Zoom.  Below is a tentative agenda:

April 27, 2024. All times are Eastern Time.

12:00pm-12:10pm Opening remarks by the chair of APS-DPP, Prof. Edward Thomas, Jr., Professor of Physics, and Dean of the College of Sciences and Mathematics at Auburn University 
12:10pm-12:40pm Prof. Marissa López, Professor of Professor of English and Chicana/o Studies and Associate Dean for Diversity, Inclusion, and Admissions at UCLA
12:40pm-1:10pm Dr. Midhat Farooq, Senior Careers Program Manager and Career Development Expert at APS
1:10pm-1:30pm Break
1:30pm-3:15pm Graduate School and Careers Fair
3:15pm-4:30pm Graduate Opportunities Panel
4:30pm-6:00pm Networking Session