You're invited to attend
AE Seminar and Workshop
featuring
Dr. Steve Cranford
Editor-in-Chief of Matter
Thursday, May 9
Weber Lecutre Hall 2
Seminar
Matter and The Cell Press Physical Science Portfolio: All* Your Publishing Needs
*Almost All
10:00 - 10:45 a.m.
Coffee and Bagels
10:45 - 11:00 a.m.
Workshop
Make Your Research Matter: Writing Tips From the Editor-in-Chief
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
About the Seminar:
Matter is a new(ish) materials science journal from Cell Press (our first issue was July ‘19). Matter is the third offering in the physical sciences from Cell Press, after the successful launches of Chem (2016) and Joule (2017), and an expanding physical sciences portfolio. Our goal is to provide a high impact publication in the field on par with Nature Materials. In this talk, the editor-in-chief, Steve Cranford, will present the key titles of our portfolio, outline the aims and scope of Matter, describe our assessment process and outline our framing of materials science. We present our novel MAP scale for materials research progress assessment. Come learn about physical sciences at Cell Press and Matter!
About the Workshop:
Quantity and quality of published works still dominates every discussion about scientific excellence. It is still a key metric used to select candidates for faculty positions, to promote professors, and to select grant proposals for funding. As such, there is an incentive to publish in so-called “high-impact” journals. It is easy to identify work that is of poor scientific quality, and those can be rejected accordingly. However, there are many studies that are fundamentally sound; present interesting, well-supported conclusions; and are in the “hot” areas of the day. However, most of those get rejected as well. In this 90-minute hands-on workshop intended for grad students and postdocs across any discipline, the Editor-in-Chief of Matter, Steve Cranford, will share tips and advice how to approach writing an engaging scientific manuscript, as well as discuss common pitfalls to avoid. Please bring something to write with!
About the Speaker:
A graduate from Memorial University (Canada), Stanford University (USA), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), Dr. Cranford was faculty at Northeastern University’s College of Engineering prior to accepting a new role as founding editor-in-chief for Matter, launched in 2019 by Cell Press. Dr. Cranford has a keen interest in scientific communication and writing as well as the evolving field of academic publishing. He has over 50 publications in the field of materials sciences in a range of high impact journals, including Nature and Advanced Materials, with expertise in the area of atomistic simulation, computational modeling, and nanomechanics, encompassing a variety of materials systems, from carbyne to copper to concrete.