Emanuel Reinecke, Harry Richman, and Rachel Webb have all been awarded the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship! In addition, William Clark was selected as an alternate, should any of the winners from across campus be unable to accept, an honor in itself. Congratulations to all! This prestigious fellowship pays stipend, tuition and benefits for the full 2019-2020…
Month: February 2019
Math PhDs wanted: look for Malicious Botnets
Michigan Math Alum Hunter Brooks (PhD 2013, supervised by Kartik Prasanna) wrote to let us know that his company, a subsidiary of Oracle called Moat, will be hiring Math PhDs. They are based in Manhattan, NYC. You could get involved in mining ad data to look for evidence of malicious botnets. Here is an example…
Summer Internship Opportunities
Consider applying for a PI4-IMA Summer Internships this summer! These are supported by the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) and organized by the Program for Interdisciplinary and Industrial Internships at Illinois (PI4), a successful internship program for graduate students run by the Mathematics Department at the University of Illinois over the past six years, with support from…
Today’s Junior Colloquium: Alex Wright
Don’t miss it! 4 pm in 3088. Also: please mark your calendar’s for next week’s NON-ACADEMIC CAREER PANEL in the Junior Colloquium Slot.
Junior Colloquium Today!
Don’t miss Jenny Wilson, one of our newest professors, who will talk about Representation Stability in Junior Colloquium today at 4 pm. Junior Colloquium is an important meeting ground for students to meet each other, other faculty, and potential advisors. All graduate students are strongly encourage to attend every week.
Innovative Teaching Opportunity: full funding
The Sweetland Writing Center offers Math (and all Rackham) PhD students a great opportunity to do something different to support themselves, and to get additional training especially valuable for those planning to pursue a career in academia. Please consider applying! Our own Rachel Webb won one of these fellowships, and enjoyed her teaching appointment through it. The…
Graduate Student Topology and Geometry Conference: funding available!
The 17th annual Graduate Student Topology and Geometry Conference, hosted this year at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, has funding and wants you to attend their conference! This is a conference aimed at encouraging the next generation of researchers in Geometry and Topology. The conference is fast approaching: March 30-31. They are still seeking registrants…
Yinan Wang wins Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant
Yinan (Nancy) Wang has been awarded a Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant! Please help me congratulate her! https://rackham.umich.edu/funding/funding-types/rackham-graduate-student-research-grant-2/
Summer Opportunities for Social Research Training
Looking for something different this summer? Interested in using your math skills to get involved with Social Research? The University offers summer courses ICPSR Summer Programs in Quantitative Methods of Social Research and SRC Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques to train graduate students around campus in quantitative methods. For the first time, Rackham is offering…
Want to teach CS in the fall?
EECS will be hiring Math PhD students and/or post-docs in the fall to teach one section of EECS 203 (Discrete Math) or EECS 376 (Foundations of Computer Science). These are multi-section courses where most of the administrative burden will not rest on the math student. They pay 100% GSI rate. If you want to know…