Workshop Reviews
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Reviews:
Jennifer Gardy: Networking for Grad Students
I used to cringe at the thought of networking, because I thought, as Jennifer says herself, that networking events were a "big business card orgy" and greasy schmoozing. Jennifer instead talks about networking as community building and information sharing. Some of the most important information you need often can't be found by sticking to your close group of friends, because these people share similar experiences as you. Instead, going a degree or two of separation further often brings you into contact with people that have news of opportunities that you normally wouldn't hear about. You also have a responsibility to share information you know to these people, so that all of us in the community together can benefit. Jennifer is a presenter with a sense of humour and I found her presentation very engaging.
Martin Krzywinski: Scientific Visualization
This workshop is about the principles of making scientific figures so that people can understand them easily. Before the workshop, Martin had various people submit sample figures, and then he worked on them while explaining the principles of what he is doing. I think his website and his column in Nature Methods called Points of View give a sense of what he is going to talk about: http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/pointsofview/
Jeff LeDue: MATLAB tutorials
Weekly tutorials for ~13 weeks. Good intro to programming in general. Easier for people with some programming knowledge from before, but basic enough for people with no programming knowledge. Programming concepts, working with matrices, and some image processing (e.g. making masks and manipulating images) at the end. Was able to use MATLAB for image processing after going to these tutorials. Jeff is very open to questions.
I used to cringe at the thought of networking, because I thought, as Jennifer says herself, that networking events were a "big business card orgy" and greasy schmoozing. Jennifer instead talks about networking as community building and information sharing. Some of the most important information you need often can't be found by sticking to your close group of friends, because these people share similar experiences as you. Instead, going a degree or two of separation further often brings you into contact with people that have news of opportunities that you normally wouldn't hear about. You also have a responsibility to share information you know to these people, so that all of us in the community together can benefit. Jennifer is a presenter with a sense of humour and I found her presentation very engaging.
Martin Krzywinski: Scientific Visualization
This workshop is about the principles of making scientific figures so that people can understand them easily. Before the workshop, Martin had various people submit sample figures, and then he worked on them while explaining the principles of what he is doing. I think his website and his column in Nature Methods called Points of View give a sense of what he is going to talk about: http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/pointsofview/
Jeff LeDue: MATLAB tutorials
Weekly tutorials for ~13 weeks. Good intro to programming in general. Easier for people with some programming knowledge from before, but basic enough for people with no programming knowledge. Programming concepts, working with matrices, and some image processing (e.g. making masks and manipulating images) at the end. Was able to use MATLAB for image processing after going to these tutorials. Jeff is very open to questions.