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New to DPP? Want to meet other plasma-curious students? Looking for free food and good vibes? Then come to Student Day 2025 — a chill day of events organized by students, for students 💫
🗓 When: Sunday, November 16th, 12:00–7:30 PM
📍 Where: Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center Room TBD
💸 Cost: $30 (includes snacks + dinner 🍕🍪🥤)
🎯 Who: Highschool, Undergrads, grad students, first-timers, DPP veterans… YOU! 🫵
We know academic conferences can feel a little 👀 intimidating — especially your first one. That’s why Student Day is here: to make things less scary and way more fun.
You'll get:
⚛️ Science prep so you’re ready to tackle the big conference
🧠 Review + research talks (by students just like you!)
💬 Panels + discussions (grad school, life in research, and more)
🤝 Networking + games to make friends before the conference even starts
🍕 Food — because no plasma without some plasma fuel
Anyone who’s a student! That means:
🌟 Undergrads — YES, you belong here!
🎓 Grad students — early-stage or late-stage, come through!
🧪 First-timers — get the inside scoop before the big week
🧑🏾🔬 Research pros-in-training — share your knowledge and meet future collab buddies!
If you’ve already received your final degree (like a PhD 🧠) before November 2024, or if you’re mentoring/advising students, we ask that you sit this one out to keep the space student-centered 💜
“Am I welcome even if I’ve never been to a conference before?”
YES. ✅
YES. ✅
YESSS. ✅✅✅
🎓 Thinking about grad school? We’ve got a panel for that.
👯♀️ Want to meet future lab partners or cohort friends? We have what you need.
🧑🏽💻 Nervous about school/job applications? You’re not alone.
🍽 Wanna get food and meet plasma-loving people? Come hang!
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Time |
Event |
Duration |
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12:00-12:50 |
Unofficial Cocktail hour |
50 min |
|
12:50 - 13:00 |
Introduction + icebreaker |
10 min |
|
13:00 - 13:30 |
Tutorial Talk 1 w/ Q&A |
25+5 min |
|
13:30 - 13:45 |
Game 1 |
15 min |
|
13:45 - 14:00 |
Lightning Talk 1 |
10+5 min |
|
14:00 - 14:10 |
Break |
10 min |
|
14:10 - 14:25 |
Lightning Talk 2 |
15 min |
|
14:25 - 14:40 |
Lightning Talk 3 |
15 min |
|
14:25 - 14:55 |
Game 2 |
15 min |
|
14:55 - 15:10 |
Lightning Talk 4 |
15 min |
|
15:10 - 15:20 |
Break |
10 |
|
15:20 - 15:50 |
Searching for Success Post School |
30 min |
|
15:50-16:05 |
Game 3 |
15 min |
|
16:05 - 16:35 |
Day in the Life |
30 min |
|
16:35-16:50 |
Affinity Group Intro |
15 min |
|
16:50- 17:10 |
Break |
10 min |
|
17:10 - 18:00 |
Aceing your Apps (Career and Grad School) |
50 min |
|
18:00 - 19:30 |
Dinner |
90 min |
Planning to present at DPP this year?
Whether it’s your first abstract or your fifth, we’ve got you covered 👇
📎 Link: Submit your abstract here!
📄 This page has all the abstract guidelines, submission tips, and details you need to know.
🗓️ Deadline:
Monday, July 28, 2025 at 11:59 PM (ET) ⏰
Don't wait ‘til the last second — submit early if you can!
📬 Questions?
Reach out to the amazing Saralyn Stewart at
📧 stewart@physics.utexas.edu
Whether you’re a plasma physics newbie or a seasoned DPP-er, we’re SO excited to welcome you 💥
Come for the science, stay for the community — and help us keep making plasma physics inclusive, collaborative, and just plain awesome 💙💫
We would like to thank the panelists again for their time and insights:
| Midhat Farooq | Careers Senior Program Manager | American Physical Society |
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This year at APS-DPP, CONNECT will be hosting a Luncheon event on Thursday, November 20th. This event is targeted at graduate students and undergraduate students, but post-doc and early-career scientists are encouraged to attend as well! Registration for the Luncheon must be done in advance, as detailed here: https://engage.aps.org/dpp/meetings/annual-meeting/registration-2025.
At the Luncheon, Dr. Midhat Farooq will be speaking on career opportunities for physics degree holders. Physics degree holders are highly employable in both the private and public sectors. However, students and early career scientists have uneven access to information on the diverse types of career paths available to them. This talk will provide data on where physics degree holders typically find employment, give examples of common job titles, and highlight career resources useful for exploring options and searching for and applying to jobs. The speaker will also provide information on utilizing the career help desk at the APS DPP Job Fair.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Midhat Farooq is the Careers Senior Program Manager at the American Physical Society. Within this role, she develops career and professional development programs and resources for students and early career physicists. Midhat also organizes programming for students at APS conferences, facilitates career workshops, and manages the APS Career Mentoring Fellows program, through which academic and industry-based physicists receive training on and have the opportunity to mentor the next generation of scientists. Midhat holds a PhD in physics from the University of Michigan, where her research focused on building an optical magnetometer for a particle physics experiment.