Explore our upcoming events and past seminars, socials, and Virtual Polymer Physics Symposia.
Early Career Polymer Physicists in Industry
Join six polymer scientists working in industry for a conversation about their career paths and experiences.
Panelists include:
Emiko Zumbro, Senior Scientist in Soft Matter AI at Lila Sciences
Róisín Donnelly, Senior Scientist in Sterile Product Development at Merck
Sam Kopfinger, Management Consultant at World Wide Technology
R. Bharath Venkatesh, Research Physicist at ExxonMobil
Liliana Bello, Chemical Engineer II at Medtronic
Kathryn Wilcox, Senior Chemist at Sherwin-Williams
An informal social gathering during the APS Global Physics Summit at Tarantula Billiards Bar & Grill, organized by Divya Iyer, Pierre Kawak, and Shayna Hilburg.
A workshop to help early-career researchers prepare for the APS meeting, covering networking, technical presentations, and personalized slide-deck feedback. Pierre Kawak presented "Best Practices for Networking at APS Meetings as an ECR" and Divya Iyer presented "Best Practices for Making APS Talks."
Our community organized a social gathering for early-career polymer researchers at Fifth Bar during the APS Global Physics Summit.
A workshop to help early-career researchers prepare for the APS meeting, covering networking, technical presentations, and personalized slide-deck feedback. Pierre Kawak presented "Best Practices for Networking at APS Meetings as an ECR" and R. Bharath Venkatesh presented "Best Practices for Making APS Talks."
An informal gathering for early-career polymer researchers during the APS March Meeting, held in the Lower Long Room at Brit’s Pub.
The third VPPS brought together 106 researchers for research talks, poster presentations, career and diversity discussions, and networking. Organized by Early Career Researchers in Polymer Physics with support from APS DPOLY.
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Pierre Kawak discussed physics careers, applications, and networking.
The second VPPS attracted more than 200 registrations and featured four technical sessions, a mentorship panel, a diversity discussion, and networking. Organized by Amal Narayanan, Jelena Dinic, and Karthika Suresh with support from APS DPOLY.
The inaugural VPPS featured 18 research talks across four technical sessions, a mentoring panel, networking breaks, and a Dispersity and Diversity discussion. Organized by Whitney Loo and Kōnane Bay.