Considering graduate school or post doctoral possibilities in the U.S.?
Associate Professor Michelle Strout
COMPUTER SCIENCE SEMINARDATE: 2013-10-17
TIME: 18:00:00 - 20:00:00
LOCATION: CSIT Seminar Room, N101
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ABSTRACT:
Considering graduate school or post doctoral possibilities in the U.S.? Associate Professor Michelle Strout will present the basics of the process, talk about grad student life in the U.S., and answer questions. The talk runs from 6pm, with food provided at 7pm. Undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in academic opportunities at the end of their degrees are welcome to come along, have a bite to eat and learn more about US universities.
Here are some of the things Michelle will discuss:
* What grad school in the US is like.
* Ph.D. program application time frame.
* What grad admission committees look for in applications.
* How Ph.D. students are funded in the US.
* Job opportunities in the US after obtaining a Ph.D.
* The Ph.D. job market time frame.
BIO:
Michelle is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Colorado State University (CSU). She earned her Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego in 2003, was an Enrico Fermi Postdoctoral Scholar at Argonne National Laboratory and a Research Associate at the University of Chicago for two years, and started as an assistant professor at CSU in 2005. Dr. Strout's main research area is high performance computing and her research interests include compilers and run-time systems, scientific computing, and software engineering. At CSU, she has been on the graduate admissions committee for a number of years and recently was chair of that committee. Additionally, Dr. Strout navigated the U.S. Ph.D. job market in 2003 and 2005 performing a total of sixteen 1-2 day interviews. Michelle lives with her husband and two boys ages 9 and 14 (aka hobbies) in beautiful Fort Collins, Colorado typically, but from July 2013 through May 2014 she is doing sabbatical at ANU in the just as lovely Canberra.
