I received the below message advertising a nice-looking post-doc at Virginia Tech, in the beautiful Smoky Mountains. Please consider applying if you are defending this year! ********************************** The mathematics department at Virginia Tech is accepting applications for a two-year post doc. (See details and application information.) Applicants in all areas of mathematics (including mathematics education) will…
Month: January 2019
Summer Job Opportunity
Kevin Carde, a 2014 Math PhD Alumnus, is the current director of Mathcamp. He recently wrote to me to advertise summer jobs for PhD students, a time-honored tradition. If you support yourself this summer with a Mathcamp position, we can transfer your promised summer funding (if you are in the the first three years) to…
Paid Summer Internship Positions at NIST
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is hiring advanced mathematics graduate students for paid summer internships. The internship projects are in scientific computing and image analysis, and will be carried out at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Various opportunities exist in the following topics: – Shape spaces, shape analysis and…
Marjorie Lee Browne Speaker: Suzanne Weekes
Suzanne Weekes, a 1995 Michigan Math PhD, will give the department’s annual Marjorie Lee Browne lecture at 4 pm in 1360 East Hall. Professor Weekes is at the Center for Industrial Mathematics and Statistics at Worcester Polytech in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she conducts research on wave propagation and mentors many undergraduate research students. The MLB Lecture…
Money for you to invite speakers!
Our Rackham Allies for Diversity grant includes money for graduate students to invite speakers to our seminars. The main purpose of the grant is to diversify our seminars, so please think about mathematicians you’d like to invite who might help serve that purpose. Although speakers’ identities should satisfy certain (pretty broad) criteria along those lines, any…
Need help finding or navigating your relationship with your advisor?
Probably the number one worry I hear from graduate students is navigating the relationship with their advisor: how to find/approach/talk to/get along with this faculty mentor who looms so large in their careers. Please! Consider attending a Rackham workshop this Thursday designed specifically for this purpose. Yes, math is a little but different than other…