Speed Advising

At MSW9, students and postdocs will have a unique opportunity to engage in Speed Advising with professors, postdocs, and industry professionals from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm Eastern Time. This session is designed to provide personalized guidance on career development, research insights, and professional growth. If you would like to participate, please complete this form by November 4th (extended to November 8th!) to indicate your advising preferences. The finalized schedule, including advising locations, will be shared on the day of the event. Don't miss this chance to connect and gain valuable advice from experts! We encourage all students to participate; in past years, most student attendees have participated!

We also have a few other opportunities for students and postdocs. If you are interested in participating in any of the additional student-focused events listed below, please sign up by November 4, 2024. Lightning talk/AMA submissions are closing on November 4th, but we have extended the deadline for poster submissions to Friday, November 8th.

Lightning Talks

We encourage postdocs and PhD students preparing for the job market to showcase their work in a lightning talk. This is a great opportunity to highlight your research and enhance your visibility, and gain some feedback if you are pursuing a career in academia or research. If you are on the job market this year, you can present the first ~5 minutes of your job talk to receive constructive feedback from faculty mentors and fellow participants. The talk should provide an overview of your research contributions, goals, and long-term vision. If you are a Postdoc/advanced PhD student and simply looking for collaborations, you can treat this as an “elevator pitch” for your projects. Talks will be allotted roughly 5 minutes followed by 1 - 2 minutes of questions. Participants will be asked to upload their presentations to a shared slide deck in advance of the session. If you would like to participate, please sign up using the link above/below with a title and short abstract for your talk. You will be later asked to provide a short bio (2-3 sentences), research interests (2-3 keywords) and square portrait.

Posters

The workshop will have a poster session. Students and postdocs may present posters for recently published works (e.g., published within the last year) or works-in-progress. This is a great way to get feedback on ongoing projects, or showcase recent results to the broad research community. Priority will be given to new posters (i.e., not presented before at a different venue) if we receive a large number of submissions. We will also have an AI-assisted best poster award (similar to S&P 2024) that will be presented at the end of the workshop. If you are interested in presenting your work, please sign up using the link above/below with an abstract.

Postdoc/Senior Student AMA

The workshop will have an “ask me anything” Q&A panel between senior students/postdocs and junior students. The goal of this panel is to enable senior students and postdocs to answer questions from junior students and have open discussions about any topic without the presence of faculty. If you are a postdoc or a senior PhD student (within ~2 years of graduation), please consider signing up to be a panelist for this event! If you are interested, please use the link above/below.

Submissions

If you are interested in participating in any of the above events, please sign up by November 4, 2024.