Please join us for the first Life After JILA Seminar of the semester on Monday, September 15th! Aaron Leanhardt, a former JILA postdoc from the Cornell group, will be speaking about his journey from JILA to professorship to coaching Major League Baseball for the Miami Marlins.
There will be a reception at the Sink at 5:30 pm after the talk, where students and postdocs can talk to Aaron more about his career. The seminar and the meetup are open to everyone, so please invite your friends! There will be refreshments during the talk and appetizers at the meetup at the Sink. After the talk, we will meet on the first floor of the JILA tower at 5:15 pm so we can walk over to the Sink together.
Life after JILA is a seminar series that brings back JILA alumni to talk to current graduate students and postdocs about their careers after leaving CU. Our goal is to showcase diverse career paths and introduce students to options outside of the "traditional" academic environment. Students, postdocs, staff, and professors are all welcome to attend, regardless of department or affiliation. Please see below for more details about the talk.
Please contact Anya Grafov (Anya.Grafov@colorado.edu) for any questions about the event.
Speaker: Aaron Leanhardt
Date/Time: Monday, September 15th at 4:00 pm
Location: JILA X317/325
Speaker bio:
Life *Before* JILA -- I was an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan where I majored in Electrical Engineering and worked in a physics lab studying the lifetime of Positronium atoms. I moved on to graduate school at MIT where I earned a PhD in Physics working on "Microtraps and Waveguides for Bose-Einstein Condensates".
Life *At* JILA -- I was a post-doctoral scholar on the upstart HfF+ electron EDM experiment, which has subsequently gone on to set new limits for violations of the Standard Model.
Life *After* JILA -- well, that's a work-in-progress and the subject of this presentation! Somehow I have managed to transition from running a windowless lab in the sub-basement of the physics building as an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan to baking under the summer sun in the dugout of MLB games as the Major League Field Coordinator for the Miami Marlins.