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Speaker Name/Affiliation
Dan Palken
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Seminar Type
Location (Room)
JILA X317
Event Details & Abstracts
Hello!
Please join us for the first Life After JILA Seminar of 2025 on Tuesday April 22nd! Dan Palken, a former JILA graduate student from the Lehnert group, will be speaking about his career in science policy. There will be a reception at the Sink at 5 pm after the talk, where students and postdocs can talk to Dan more about his career. The seminar and the meetup are open to everyone, so please invite your friends! There will be coffee and cookies 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 4:45 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 Emma Nelson (Emma.Nelson-1@colorado.edu) or Anya Grafov (Anya.Grafov@colorado.edu) for any questions about the event.
Speaker: Dan Palken
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 22nd at 1:30 pm
Location: JILA X317/325
Speaker bio:
Dr. Daniel Palken received his B.A. in physics and English from Bowdoin College. He completed his M.S. and Ph.D. in physics at JILA, where he applied quantum measurement and Bayesian statistical techniques to axion dark matter detection under Prof. Konrad Lehnert and collaborated with Prof. Eric Cornell’s group on a search for axion-like particles. After JILA, Daniel was awarded an IEEE-USA Congressional Fellowship, through which he served in the office of U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island. Following his Fellowship. Daniel served as the Senior Policy Advisor to Senator John Hickenlooper of Colorado covering energy, climate, and other environmental and natural resources issues and authoring five bills enacted into law. Most recently, Daniel served under Chairman Joe Manchin of West Virginia as Professional Staff for the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, where he was principally responsible for advising on policy related to the U.S. electrical grid and negotiating the electric transmission provisions of the Energy Permitting Reform Act considered in the 118th Congress.
The Physics Frontiers Centers (PFC) program supports university-based centers and institutes where the collective efforts of a larger group of individuals can enable transformational advances in the most promising research areas. The program is designed to foster major breakthroughs at the intellectual frontiers of physics by providing needed resources such as combinations of talents, skills, disciplines, and/or specialized infrastructure, not usually available to individual investigators or small groups, in an environment in which the collective efforts of the larger group can be shown to be seminal to promoting significant progress in the science and the education of students. PFCs also include creative, substantive activities aimed at enhancing education, broadening participation of traditionally underrepresented groups, and outreach to the scientific community and general public.