As of January 2019, we suspended the SLAM workshops. If you are a current UBC grad student or postdoc interested in continuing this wonderful series at UBC, please contact Dr. Luz Angélica Caudillo Mata (lcaudill at eoas.ubc.ca) for information on how to do so.
In today’s job market, science graduate students and postdocs need to gain both technical expertise as well as leadership and management skills in order to maximize their professional opportunities. Are you ready to lead a group? Transition to an industrial position? Start your own research lab? Manage coworkers? Mentor young scientists? To address these and other related questions, postdocs from EOAS, CS, IAM, and IRES founded SLAM: Science Leadership and Management.
The SLAM workshop series at the University of British Columbia (UBC) is focused on understanding the diverse critical skills for success in a scientific workplace within both academic and industrial settings. The skills discussed will be applicable to a variety of career paths. The target audience for this series is UBC grad students and postdocs in STEM areas, but students in other disciplines will certainly benefit as well. Each workshop is designed to provide highly interactive, participatory experiences. Female early-career scientists are especially encouraged to attend.
This workshop series follows the guidelines of a successful seminar series organized at the University of California, Berkeley called SLAM: Scientific Leadership and Management.
SLAM is made possible with the generous support of the Vivien M. Srivastava Memorial Endowment Fund, the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, and the UBC Faculty of Science.
There will be limited free seating for UBC science grad students and postdocs at each workshop assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Priority will be given to women grad students and postdocs.
Workshop Format
The format of a SLAM workshop is as follows: we will begin with a short introduction of the speaker, followed by a 15-min talk where the speaker shares his/her experience on a topic of interest, and then move into a Q&A session. We will start the session off with predetermined questions from the moderators, and then invite questions from the audience. Refreshments are provided during the workshop. To view the upcoming workshop click here.
Contact
If you have suggestions for workshop topics and/or speakers, please email us to ubc.slam.workshops@gmail.com.
Organizers
 Dr. Jessica Bosch |
 Dr. Luz Angélica Caudillo Mata |
 Dr. Laura Morillas |
*SLAM Logo credits: design by Elias Huchim Novelo, digitalization by Magdalena Ugarte