A compelling elevator pitch will consist of a few concise sentences that include: 

1.         What are you researching?

2.         Why is this problem important?

3.         What others have done, and why was that approach not sufficient?

4.         What you are doing differently to solve the problem?

5.         If successful, how will your work impact the field and change the conversation?

Interested students should register via the link below and come prepared to share their elevator pitches with colleagues. There is a maximum of 30 participants.

The workshop will be led by Professor Itai Cohen from Cornell University.

Professor Cohen received his BS in Physics from the University of California at Los Angeles, and his PhD in Physics from the University of Chicago. Following his graduate studies, he was a Post-doctoral fellow in Physics and the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at Harvard University. In 2005 he joined Cornell and is currently a professor of Physics. Professor Cohen is an NSF Career grant recipient, he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and is the recipient of the Kappa Delta Ann Doner Vaughn Award for his work on cartilage mechanics. He has also served as a Feinberg and Braginsky fellow (2012) and the Rosi and Max Varon Visiting Professor (2021) at the Weizmann Institute and is serving as the van der Waals Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam (2022). He has published over 110 research articles, given nearly 300 invited seminars, colloquia and conference presentations, and co-authored the book Finding Your Research Voice: Story Telling and Theater Skills for Bringing Your Presentation to Life. His work has been covered by various outlets ranging from the BBC, to NPR, and the NYTimes.