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Aug. 24
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Shardha Jogee
University of Texas at Austin
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Organizational Meeting
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Aug. 31
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Markus Kissler-Patig
Director, Gemini Observatory
Heidi Hammel
Executive Vice President, AURA
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Gemini Observatory Community Event
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Sep. 7
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No talk scheduled
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Sep. 14
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Taft Armandroff
The University of Texas at Austin
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Progress with McDonald Observatory Initiatives
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Sep. 21
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Anita Cochran
The University of Texas at Austin
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** Starting at 3:00 p.m. this week only **
Update on GMT and Discussion of SAC Technical Document
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Sep. 28
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No talk scheduled
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Oct. 5
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Talk rescheduled to October 26
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Oct. 12
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Sean Wang
Director, Data Science at Fidelity Investments
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It Doesn't Have to be Rocket Science - Non-academic careers for fun and profit
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Oct. 19
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Keely Finkelstein
The University of Texas at Austin
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Teaching Tools, Tips, and Strategies: Low Stakes Testing, Immediate Feedback Assessment & More
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Oct. 26
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Niall Gaffney
Director for Data Intensive Computing, Texas Advanced Computing Center
Zhao Zhang
Research Associate, Texas Advanced Computing Center
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Recent Developments at TACC
Processing Astronomy Imagery Using Big Data Technology
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Nov 2
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Scott Acton
Ball Aerospace
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JWST: An Observatory Beyond the Moon
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Nov. 9
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On hold
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On hold
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Nov. 16
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Anna Quider
Director of Federal Relations, Northern Illinois University
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The Federal Budget: A Primer for Scientists
The goal of this talk is to provide an introduction to the federal budget, with an emphasis on research and development (R&D) funding, and empower scientists to contribute to the budget process. I will look at the budget process as a whole, discussing issues such as how priorities are set and balanced against each other, how the House, Senate, and President all engage in the discussion, and what the timeline is like for setting and executing the federal budget. I will then focus on the federal R&D budget and look at trends in R&D funding. Scientists have an important role to play as advocates for science as a national priority. I will discuss the numerous ways scientists can contribute to the budget process. I will also briefly discuss some of the major science-related issues that are likely to arise in 2017 in relation to the outcome of the congressional and presidential elections.
Dr. Anna Quider is the Director of Federal Relations for Northern Illinois University in Washington, DC. She earned BS (2007, Physics and Astronomy) and BA (2007, History and Philosophy of Science, Religious Studies) degrees from the University of Pittsburgh. She received the Marshall Scholarship and NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to study at the University of Cambridge in the UK, where she received her PhD degree (2011, Astronomy). As a scientist, she was Principal Investigator on a Hubble Space Telescope observing program and her twelve authored or co-authored journal articles have been cited over 500 times. She currently serves on the Executive Committee of the American Physical Society (APS) Forum on Physics and Society, and she has served as an APS/AAAS Congressional Science Fellow in the US Congress, an Innovation Program Manager at the US Department of State, and as Ms. Frizzle at the USA Science and Engineering Festival.
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Nov. 23
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Thanksgiving Holiday
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Nov. 30
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On hold
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