Gravity Initiative space, 4^th floor Jadwin Hall

Day 1 - Thursday April 30th 

9:00-10:00: Welcome Breakfast

10:00-11:00: Keynote I: David Spergel
Professor Emeritus of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University; President, Simons Foundation; and Founding Director of the Center for Computational Astrophysics

11:00-12:30: Faculty Panel I: Scientific Leadership & Planning to Start a Research Group
Panelists: Lawrence Cheuk (Assistant Professor, Physics, Princeton University); David Spergel,  Suzanne Staggs (Professor, Physics, Princeton University)

12:30-1:45: Lunch + Photo + Speed Science: Fellow Pairs, 10 mins each

1:45-2:00 Ghita Guessous
FFPS Fellow, Center for the Physics of Biological Function, Princeton University

2:00-3:00: Keynote II: Shane Campbell-Staton
Associate Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University

3:00-4:30: Coffee & Faculty Panel II: Preparing for Faculty Jobs
Panelists: Sylvia Biscoveanu (Assistant Professor, Physics, Princeton University); Shane Campbell-Staton (see above); Jenny Greene (Professor, Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University); Isobel Ojalvo (Professor, Physics, Princeton University)

4:30-6:30: Dinner
Join the Astro picnic, under the tent on the green between Jadwin and Peyton

Day 2 - May 1st

8:30-9:00: Breakfast

9.00-10:30: Leadership Training Session - Mentorship, Effective Communication in Teams and Conflict Resolution
Sonali Majumdar (Assistant Dean for Professional Development, The Graduate School, Princeton University)

10:30-11:00: Coffee break

11:00-12:00: Keynote III: Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
Professor, Astronomy and Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz

12:00-1:30: Lunch & Faculty Panel III: Navigating Underrepresented Identities in Science
Panelists: Viviana Acquaviva (Professor, Physics, CUNY NYC College of Technology); Alex Amon (Assistant Professor, Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University); Jill Knapp; Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

1:30-1:45: Afzal Shadab
FFPS Fellow, Geosciences and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University

1:45-2:00: Akash Gupta
FFPS Fellow, Departments of Geosciences and Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University

2:00-2:15: Coffee Break

2:15-3:15: Keynote IV: Jill Knapp
Professor Emerita, Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University

3:15-4:30: Faculty Panel IV: Time management as a faculty member
Panelists: Andy Leifer (Associate Professor, Physics and Neuroscience, Princeton University); Michael Strauss (Department Chair, Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University)

4:30-5:00: Closing Remarks: Alex Amon