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Events Archive

PDC lunch

Thu, Feb 13, 2020, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

New ideas for postdoc events?

Want to practice networking, leadership skills and project management?

Want to shape the future for postdocs in Princeton (or just make it a little more fun in the present)?

PDC Seminar

Thu, Feb 6, 2020, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

PDC Seminars are an exciting opportunity for you to showcase your research to your fellow postdocs and get useful and friendly feedback from non-specialists.

And if all this wasn’t motivation enough, there’s also free lunch!

PDC Happy Hour

Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 6:00 pm

Interested in interdisciplinary discussions? Getting the latest news about Princeton? Getting involved in the next events of PDC? Or just grabbing a beer and relax? Then this is the event to go!

We are looking forward to seeing you all there ... and don't come too late for the free beer!

Location: Ivy Inn (248 Nassau St)

PDC Seminar

Thu, Jan 9, 2020, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Postdoc Writing Workshop: Anatomy of an Abstract

Fri, Dec 6, 2019, 9:00 am to 11:00 am

Anatomy of an Abstract: Teaching the Implicit in Science

PDC Seminar

Thu, Dec 5, 2019, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

PDC Seminars are an exciting opportunity for you to showcase your research to your fellow postdocs and get useful and friendly feedback from non-specialists.

Robert Wexler will talk about "A solar cell that sells: the cheap, nontoxic, easy-to-make, but inefficient Cu2ZnSnS4".

Location: Hoyt 307

PDC Happy Hour

Wed, Nov 27, 2019, 6:00 pm

Interested in interdisciplinary discussions? Getting the latest news about Princeton? Getting involved in the next events of PDC? Or just grabbing a beer and relax? Then this is the event to go!

We are looking forward to seeing you all there ... and don't come too late for the free beer!

Location: Ivy Inn (248 Nassau St)

PDC Happy Hour

Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 6:00 pm

Interested in interdisciplinary discussions? Getting the latest news about Princeton? Getting involved in the next events of PDC? Or just grabbing a beer and relax? Then this is the event to go!

We are looking forward to seeing you all there ... and don't come too late for the free beer!

Location: Ivy Inn (248 Nassau St)

Princeton Pathways into the Academy (for SEAS postdocs)

Thu, Oct 24, 2019, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Location: Triumph

PDC Happy Hour

Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 6:00 pm

Interested in interdisciplinary discussions? Getting the latest news about Princeton? Getting involved in the next events of PDC? Or just grabbing a beer and relax? Then this is the event to go!

We are looking forward to seeing you all there ... and don't come too late for the free beer!

Location: Ivy Inn (248 Nassau St)

Academic Job Search Boot Camp for Engineering and Natural Sciences

Thu, Aug 29, 2019, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm

Are you going on the academic job market this fall or thinking about it for the future? Join us for a day long workshop on the essentials - CVs, cover letters, teaching philosophy statements, and diversity statements. Hear from a panel of faculty about navigating the academic job search process.

Location: Friend Center Convocation Room

PDC Happy Hour

Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 6:00 pm

Interested in interdisciplinary discussions? Getting the latest news about Princeton? Getting involved in the next events of PDC? Or just grabbing a beer and relax? Then this is the event to go!

We are looking forward to seeing you all there ... and don't come too late for the free beer!

Location: Ivy Inn (248 Nassau St)

Academic Job Search Bootcamp for Humanities and Social Sciences

Tue, Aug 27, 2019, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm

Location: Frist 330 McGraw Center

PDC Happy Hour

Wed, Jul 31, 2019, 6:00 pm

Interested in interdisciplinary discussions? Getting the latest news about Princeton? Getting involved in the next events of PDC? Or just grabbing a beer and relax? Then this is the event to go!

We are looking forward to seeing you all there ... and don't come too late for the free beer!

Location: Ivy Inn (248 Nassau St)

Postdoctoral Seminar Series

Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 12:00 pm

Location: Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, room 301

River Horse Brewery Tour

Thu, Jul 18, 2019, 4:45 pm to 8:00 pm

PDC is organizing a tour of the nearby River Horse Brewery (in Ewing) at 5:30PM on Thurs July 18. After the 45min tour, we’ll head to the tasting room for a free group tasting of 4 different craft beer samples (with appetizers!). Attendees will also all receive a free River Horse pint glass...

Location: Ewing

PDC Happy Hour

Wed, Jun 26, 2019, 6:00 pm

Interested in interdisciplinary discussions? Getting the latest news about Princeton? Getting involved in the next events of PDC? Or just grabbing a beer and relax? Then this is the event to go!

We are looking forward to seeing you all there ... and don't come too late for the free beer!

Location: Ivy Inn (248 Nassau St)

Postdocs with kids!

Sun, Jun 9, 2019, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm

Location: The Little Gym

PDC Happy Hour

Wed, May 29, 2019, 6:00 pm

Interested in interdisciplinary discussions? Getting the latest news about Princeton? Getting involved in the next events of PDC? Or just grabbing a beer and relax? Then this is the event to go!

We are looking forward to seeing you all there ... and don't come too late for the free beer!

Location: Ivy Inn (248 Nassau St)

PDC Happy Hour

Wed, Apr 24, 2019, 6:00 pm

Interested in interdisciplinary discussions? Getting the latest news about Princeton? Getting involved in the next events of PDC? Or just grabbing a beer and relax? Then this is the event to go!

We are looking forward to seeing you all there ... and don't come too late for the free beer!

Location: Ivy Inn (248 Nassau St)

PDC Happy Hour

Wed, Mar 27, 2019, 6:00 pm

Interested in interdisciplinary discussions? Getting the latest news about Princeton? Getting involved in the next events of PDC? Or just grabbing a beer and relax? Then this is the event to go!

We are looking forward to seeing you all there ... and don't come too late for the free beer!

Location: Ivy Inn (248 Nassau St)

NBA Game - Philadelphia Sixers

Tue, Mar 5, 2019, 5:00 pm to 11:00 pm

The PDC is organizing a bus trip to Philadelphia to see the Philadelphia Sixers play against the Orlando Magic on Tuesday March 5 at 7PM (the bus will leave Princeton around 5PM). PDC will provide the bus, and attendees will have to pay for their own ticket to the game (about $30 each). We’ll all sit together. The Sixers are a great and...

PDC Happy Hour

Wed, Feb 27, 2019, 6:00 pm

Interested in interdisciplinary discussions? Getting the latest news about Princeton? Getting involved in the next events of PDC? Or just grabbing a beer and relax? Then this is the event to go!

We are looking forward to seeing you all there ... and don't come too late for the free beer!

Location: Ivy Inn (248 Nassau St)

Musical - Book of Mormon

Sat, Feb 9, 2019, 10:30 am

RSVP Required | Space is Limited

Spend the day with other Princeton postdocs, scholars and their families enjoying the Broadway Musical, Book of Mormon in New York City at the Eugene O'Neill Theater.

Bus leaves from Princeton University, in front of Wawa near the Dinky Station at 10:30 a.m.
Show starts at 2.00PM...

Picturing Place in Japan

Thu, Feb 7, 2019, 5:30 pm

The exhibition includes nearly forty paintings, prints, books and photographs, from the sixteenth through the twenty-first centuries, that collectively explore the varied meaning of place to Japanese artistic practice over these epochs. To read more about this exhibition, please click...

Location: Princeton Art Museum

PDC Happy Hour

Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 6:00 pm

We are looking forward to seeing you all there.

Location: The Ivy Inn

Postdoctoral Seminar Series

Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

PDC Happy Hour

Wed, Dec 26, 2018, 6:00 pm

We are looking forward to seeing you all there.

Location: The Ivy Inn

Postdoctoral Seminar Series

Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

Location: Lewis A. Simpson International Building Room B60B

Postdoc Tune-Up month with Princeton Writes

Thu, Nov 29, 2018 (All day)

November is Postdoc Tune-Up month! In association with Princeton Writes, the Princeton Postdoctoral Council (PDC) has organized 60 minute time slots on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays for reviewing job application materials including Curriculum Vitae (CV), Cover Letter and Oral Job Pitch. Other documents (e.g., teaching statements) will be...

Location: Dillon Court East

PDC Happy Hour

Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 6:00 pm

We are looking forward to seeing you all there.

Location: The Ivy Inn

Postdoc Tune-Up month with Princeton Writes

Wed, Nov 28, 2018 (All day)

Location: Dillon Court East

Postdoc Tune-Up month with Princeton Writes

Tue, Nov 27, 2018 (All day)

Location: Dillon Court East

International Postdoc Thanksgiving Dinner

Thu, Nov 22, 2018, 4:00 pm

The Postdoctoral Council (PDC) and the Davis International Center (Davis IC) are hosting an International Thanksgiving dinner. All postdocs, scholars and their family and friends are welcome to join us.

Location: TBA

Postdoc Tune-Up month with Princeton Writes

Thu, Nov 22, 2018 (All day)

Location: Dillon Court East

Postdoc Tune-Up month with Princeton Writes

Wed, Nov 21, 2018 (All day)

Location: Dillon Court East

Postdoc Tune-Up month with Princeton Writes

Tue, Nov 20, 2018 (All day)

Location: Dillon Court East

Postdoc Tune-Up month with Princeton Writes

Thu, Nov 15, 2018 (All day)

Location: Dillon Court East

Postdoc Tune-Up month with Princeton Writes

Wed, Nov 14, 2018 (All day)

Location: Dillon Court East

Postdoc Tune-Up month with Princeton Writes

Tue, Nov 13, 2018 (All day)

Location: Dillon Court East

Postdoc Tune-Up month with Princeton Writes

Thu, Nov 8, 2018 (All day)

Location: Dillon Court East

Postdoc Tune-Up month with Princeton Writes

Wed, Nov 7, 2018 (All day)

Location: Dillon Court East

Postdoc Tune-Up month with Princeton Writes

Tue, Nov 6, 2018 (All day)

Location: Dillon Court East

Princeton Art Museum(PAM) tour followed by reception

Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 5:30 pm

Ancient and Indigenous Art of the Americas

Postdoctoral Seminar Series

Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

Location: Lewis A. Simpson International Building Room B60B

PDC Happy Hour

Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 6:00 pm

We are looking forward to seeing you all there.

Location: The Ivy Inn

Postdoctoral Seminar Series

Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

PDC Seminars are an exciting opportunity for you to showcase your research to your fellow postdocs and get useful and friendly feedback from non-specialists.

And if all this wasn’t motivation enough, there’s also free lunch!

Location: Lewis A. Simpson International Building Room B60B

Speaker(s):

Anna Chorniy

Economics of Mental Health: The Case of ADHD

Fulvia Pucci

Explosive energy events in the Universe: Magnetic reconnection and turbulence

PDC Happy Hour

Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 6:00 pm

We are looking forward to seeing you all there.

Location: The Ivy Inn

Career Exploration| Networking with a Twist

Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm

UNDERCOVER BOSSES GRADUATE STUDENT AND POSTDOC NETWORKING EVENT

Open to all grad students and postdocs in all disciplines

Location: Campus Club, 5 Prospect Ave

PDC lunch meeting

Mon, Sep 17, 2018, 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm

New ideas for postdoc events?

Want to practice networking, leadership skills and project management?

Want to shape the future for postdocs in Princeton (or just make it a little more fun in the present)?

Location: Winberie's

PDC Happy Hour

Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 6:00 pm

We are looking forward to seeing you all there.

Location: The Ivy Inn

Academic Job Search Kick-start Workshop (Natural Sciences and Engineering)

Tue, Aug 28, 2018, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm

Are you going on the academic job market this fall? Join us for a day long workshop on the essentials: CVs, cover letters, teaching philosophy statements, diversity statement, interviewing strategies and hear from a panel of faculty about navigating the academic job market. Space is limited. Sponsored by the Graduate School, the Postdoc Council...

Location: Friend Center Convocation Room

Academic Job Search Kick-start Workshop (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Mon, Aug 27, 2018, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm

Location: Julis Romo Rabinowitz 399

Baseball game (Trenton Thunder versus the Portland SeaDogs)

Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm

PDC is buying a batch of group tickets for the Trenton Thunder versus the Portland SeaDogs next Thursday, July 26 at 7PM. We picked this game because at the end of it there will also be fireworks! Every Thursday night game ALSO has $2 beer specials until the middle of the 5th inning.

PDC Happy Hour

Wed, Jul 25, 2018, 6:00 pm

We are looking forward to seeing you all there.

Location: The Ivy Inn

PDC Information Lunch

Tue, Jul 24, 2018, 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm

New ideas for postdoc events?

Want to practice networking, leadership skills and project management?

Want to shape the future for postdocs in Princeton (or just make it a little more fun in the present)?

Join us for lunch on Tuesday, July 24th at 12 pm at Marhaba Restaurant and learn more about PDC, how we work...

PDC Happy Hour

Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 6:00 pm

We are looking forward to seeing you all there.

Location: The Ivy Inn

Postdoctoral Seminar Series

Postdoctoral Seminar Series (CANCELED)

Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

PDC Seminars are an exciting opportunity for you to showcase your research to your fellow postdocs and get useful and friendly feedback from non-specialists.

And if all this wasn’t motivation enough, there’s also free lunch!

Location: Louis A. Simpson International Building, MPR B60

PDC Happy Hour

Wed, May 30, 2018, 6:00 pm

We are looking forward to seeing you all there.

Location: The Ivy Inn

Postdoctoral Seminar Series

Thu, May 24, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

PDC Seminars are an exciting opportunity for you to showcase your research to your fellow postdocs and get useful and friendly feedback from non-specialists.

And if all this wasn’t motivation enough, there’s also free lunch!

Location: Louis A. Simpson International Building, MPR B60

Pre World Cup Soccer tournament & BBQ

Sat, May 12, 2018, 11:00 am

2018 is a World Cup year and to set us in the mood, the Postdoctoral Council (PDC) is organising a family friend activity. This event will include a soccer tournament and barbeque party. We are looking for as many participants to make this day as exciting and fun as possible.

Location: Finney Field

Princeton Research Day

Thu, May 10, 2018 (All day)

We invite you to apply to Princeton Research Day, to be held May 10, 2018. PRD showcases independent research from across the university and gives presenters valuable experience communicating their ideas to an excited audience of students, faculty, staff, and the community at large.

First PDC Career Workshop for Postdocs

Sat, May 5, 2018, 9:30 am to 4:30 pm

As you embark on the next phase of your career, it’s important to think through what the best options are for you. This workshop will provide you with important tools to understand options, define your unique strengths, and communicate to key job prospects in a way that differentiates you from others.

When you leave the workshop you...

Speaker(s):

Hilary Eaton Pearl

Pearl Associates LLC

PDC Happy Hour

Wed, Apr 25, 2018, 6:00 pm

We are looking forward to seeing you all there.

Location: The Ivy Inn

Inter-cultural Evening

Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 6:00 pm

The PDC and Davis International Center are organising an evening of entertainment, food, talks and a social gathering to celebrate intercultural diversity from a wide range of countries globally found within the Princeton community of postdocs, researchers and scholars.

Location: Carl Fields Center, Multipurpose room

Postdoctoral Seminar Series

Thu, Apr 19, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

PDC Seminars are an exciting opportunity for you to showcase your research to your fellow postdocs and get useful and friendly feedback from non-specialists.

And if all this wasn’t motivation enough, there’s also free lunch!

Location: Louis A. Simpson International Building, MPR B60

PDC Information Lunch

Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 12:00 pm

New ideas for postdoc events?

Practice networking, leadership skills and project management?

Want to shape the future for postdocs in Princeton (or just make it a little more fun in the present)?

Join us for lunch and learn more about PDC, how we work and how you can make a difference!

Location: Marhaba Restaurant

Speaker(s):

PDC

PDC Happy Hour

Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 6:00 pm

We are looking forward to seeing you all there.

Location: The Ivy Inn

Postdoctoral Seminar Series

Thu, Mar 22, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

PDC Seminars are an exciting opportunity for you to showcase your research to your fellow postdocs and get useful and friendly feedback from non-specialists.

And if all this wasn’t motivation enough, there’s also free lunch!

Location: Louis A. Simpson International Building, MPR B60

Landscapes Behind Cézanne

Thu, Mar 15, 2018, 5:00 pm

Landscapes Behind Cézanne

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) is widely acknowledged to have transformed landscape painting, most radically in his late watercolors, which do not so much attempt to copy the actual appearance of a scene as to translate it into self-sufficient sequences of patches and lines of a restricted range of...

Location: Princeton Art Museum

Movie Screening: The Fly Room

Mon, Mar 12, 2018, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm

PDC would like to invite you to the screening of “The Fly Room” a film by Alexis Gambis. The movie will be followed by a post-screening conversation with the Film Director Alexis Gambis and with Erika Kiss, who is the director of the Film Forum at Princeton University.

Location: Garden Theater Princeton

Speaker(s):

Alexis Gambis

Director

Erika Kiss

Film Forum

Pitching Your Project: A Two-Part Workshop on Effective Proposals

Fri, Mar 9, 2018, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm

Even experienced researches find funding proposals difficult to write. One challenge is that proposals present a Catch-22: Although reviewing proposals is the best way to learn to write them, only researchers who have successfully written them are invited to serve on review committees.

Speaker(s):

Judith Swan

Associate Director for Writing in Science and Engineering (WSE)

Sarah Budischak

WSE Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Pitching Your Project: A Two-Part Workshop on Effective Proposals

Fri, Mar 2, 2018, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm

Speaker(s):

Judith Swan

Associate Director for Writing in Science and Engineering (WSE)

Sarah Budischak

WSE Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

PDC Happy Hour

Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 6:00 pm

We are looking forward to seeing you all there.

Location: The Ivy Inn

Postdoctoral Seminar Series

Thu, Feb 22, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

PDC Seminars are an exciting opportunity for you to showcase your research to your fellow postdocs and get useful and friendly feedback from non-specialists.

And if all this wasn’t motivation enough, there’s also free lunch!

Location: Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room 397

Speaker(s):

Moritz Kütt

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

Vintage Computing for Trusted Radiation Measurements and a World Free of Nuclear Weapons

Seth Davidovits

Department of Astrophysics

Predicting und Utilizing Turbulence in Compressing Plasma

Princeton Research Day

Fri, Feb 16, 2018 (All day)

Princeton Art Museum Tour

Thu, Feb 15, 2018, 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm

The Artist Sees Differently: Modern Still Lifes from The Phillips Collection

Job Application Clinic with Princeton Writes

Tue, Feb 13, 2018 (All day)

Get a job! It’s time to work on your job and fellowship applications, but where do you begin? Who can help? We can!

Speaker(s):

John Weeren

Princeton Writes

Stephanie Whetstone

Princeton Writes

PDC Information Lunch

Thu, Feb 8, 2018, 12:00 pm

New ideas for postdoc events?

Practice networking, leadership skills and project management?

Want to shape the future for postdocs in Princeton (or just make it a little more fun in the present)?

Join us for lunch and learn more about PDC, how we work and how you can make a difference!

Location: Marhaba Restaurant

Speaker(s):

PDC

Job Application Clinic with Princeton Writes

Wed, Feb 7, 2018 (All day)

Get a job! It’s time to work on your job and fellowship applications, but where do you begin? Who can help? We can!

Speaker(s):

John Weeren

Princeton Writes

Stephanie Whetstone

Princeton Writes

Job Application Clinic with Princeton Writes

Tue, Feb 6, 2018 (All day)

Get a job! It’s time to work on your job and fellowship applications, but where do you begin? Who can help? We can!

Speaker(s):

John Weeren

Princeton Writes

Stephanie Whetstone

Princeton Writes

Job Application Clinic with Princeton Writes

Mon, Feb 5, 2018 (All day)

Get a job! It’s time to work on your job and fellowship applications, but where do you begin? Who can help? We can!

Speaker(s):

John Weeren

Princeton Writes

Stephanie Whetstone

Princeton Writes

PDC Happy Hour

Wed, Jan 31, 2018, 6:00 pm

We are looking forward to seeing you all there.

Location: The Ivy Inn

Postdoctoral Seminar Series

Postdoctoral Seminar Series (CANCELED)

Thu, Jan 25, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

PDC Seminars are an exciting opportunity for you to showcase your research to your fellow postdocs and get useful and friendly feedback from non-specialists. And if all this wasn’t motivation enough, there’s also free lunch!

Location: Louis A. Simpson International Building, MPR B60

Past Events Through December 2017