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TaylorRatliff
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In one week I'll be flying to Chicago with my group to attend my first APS conference, the APS Division of Plasma Physics (DPP).
This is a pretty critical moment in my academic career, as I'm a senior undergraduate in the process of applying for graduate school, and I want to make a good impression on potential graduate advisors.
I was wondering if anyone had any general advice on approaching professors, common mistakes in presenting a poster, etc.
I also have a specific question about a mistake I might have made - I submitted my abstract to the poster session my research is relevant to instead of the undergraduate/high school poster session. At the time I didn't realize the undergrad session existed. I'll speak with my professor about it on Monday, but I'm also interested in hearing PF's opinion.
For those interested, my research is in laser-driven ion acceleration. Extremely intense lasers (Petawatt) interacting with very thin films (~100nm) can accelerate protons up to useful energies (hundreds of MeV, at least in theory). Here's the paper the professor I work for recently published, which was submitted around the time I joined the group. http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v105/i6/e065002
This is a pretty critical moment in my academic career, as I'm a senior undergraduate in the process of applying for graduate school, and I want to make a good impression on potential graduate advisors.
I was wondering if anyone had any general advice on approaching professors, common mistakes in presenting a poster, etc.
I also have a specific question about a mistake I might have made - I submitted my abstract to the poster session my research is relevant to instead of the undergraduate/high school poster session. At the time I didn't realize the undergrad session existed. I'll speak with my professor about it on Monday, but I'm also interested in hearing PF's opinion.
For those interested, my research is in laser-driven ion acceleration. Extremely intense lasers (Petawatt) interacting with very thin films (~100nm) can accelerate protons up to useful energies (hundreds of MeV, at least in theory). Here's the paper the professor I work for recently published, which was submitted around the time I joined the group. http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v105/i6/e065002