Dear all, As you might be aware, HQI has an undergraduate summer research fellowship which is now underway for this summer. As part of this program, we have organized weekly lunches for the undergrads to get together, share their work, meet the wider HQI community, and engage in some professional development discussions. As a core part of the HQI community, I wanted to invite you all to join their lunch program on June 28th (see full schedule below). My one request is that you present your research to these undergrads (mostly juniors and seniors) in no more than two slides or three minutes. This would be a nice opportunity to practice talking about the "big picture" of your research while also giving some technical details that are understandable to a broader audience. I am also looking for 1 or 2 volunteers to participate in another one of their lunch programs on July 19th. This program will be a panel discussion on graduate school applications and the volunteers would be part of the panel. The discussion is intended to help these undergrads understand the grad school application process and get some tips from successful students and faculty. The other panelists are me and Julia Mundy. Please send me a note (email or Slack whichever works better) if you are interested to be on the panel. Lastly, I also want to invite you all to the poster session on Aug. 2nd that concludes this program. The undergrads will be presenting their work over the summer and I am sure it will be of interest to all of you. The lunches are at 12pm in LISE 303. I will send another email with the details of the time and location for the poster session closer to its date. Best, Nishant Date Lunch Program Notes June 14th Research advisors (faculty) Student's faculty advisors are invited to join June 21st Grad-student/postdoc mentor from lab Student's lab mentors (grad-student or postdoc) are invited to join. The mentors are encouraged to give a short 1-2 slide intro to their lab's work. June 28th QSE grad students All the QSE grad students are invited to join. QSE students will give a brief overview of their research projects. July 5th HQI Directors (tentative) HQI co-directors will join (pending availability) and discuss the vision for HQI July 12th Communicating your research (oral – poster/presentation) Discussion and tips on communicating research through slides and posters (Nishant) July 19th Panel on grad school applications A panel consisting of a couple of current QSE grad students, Nishant, and Julia Mundy will take any questions the students might have on grad school applications July 26th Communicating your research (written – paper/report/proposal) Discussion and tips on communicating research through articles, abstracts, reports etc. (Nishant) Aug 2nd Research advisors (all) followed by poster session Student's research advisors (both faculty advisor and lab mentors) are invited to join. Lunch will be followed by the poster session. P.S. I don’t have scheduled office hours during summer, but if you have any question or need my input on anything, the quickest way to reach me is Slack. Don’t hesitate.