Hello TAPS Workshop-goers,

I hope you are all safe and keeping healthy in your respective isolations!

Based on conversations with our planned presenters for the next quarter, Eva and I have proposed to move our workshop into a different format for this weird, sad, virtual quarter.

Our plan is to host virtual co-working times for Graduate students and Post-Docs on Zoom. This will basically be time for us all to work together/alone on whatever projects, papers, proposals, or exams we have on our hands. We can do some chit-chatting at the start and folks can feel free to ask questions about what they’re working on or send things around if they want feedback. I am happy to facilitate breakout conversations or groups, but generally we just wanted to convene a space and time to see some familiar faces and voices and catch up. As an already dispersed degree program with people spread across various home departments, we thought it would be nice to keep up the social/collegial space of the TAPS workshop, even as our normal modes of convening are not available to us.

In keeping with our “before-times” schedule, our sessions will be held on Wednesdays from 4:30-6p CDT. Dates include:

• 4/15/20
• 4/29/20
• 5/13/20
• 5/27/20

Closer to the dates I’ll send out Zoom invites with passwords (to avoid any cyber harassment).

Please take care, everyone!

All best,

Arianna