Please mark your calendars! This year in Junior Colloquium, which meets Fridays at 4 pm, we have two separate Seminar Series:
- Research at Michigan Math
- Invitations to Industry.
1. Research at Michigan Math is where beginning graduate students will get a feel for what our professors are working on. The talks are supposed to be pitched at someone who is taken or has recently taken the alpha courses. This is a great way to meet the professors whom you might want to ask to be your PhD advisor, whom could become a mentor, or whom you may consider taking a class from or working with in some non-research role. This is a great place for older students too to get a broader view of what goes on at Michigan, and for all of us to mingle more generally. This year, you’ll get to hear Veerapaneni, Spatzier, Miller, Cohen, Barvinok, Borcea, Krasny and Hochster!
2. Invitations to Industry is where Michigan Math PhD alums come back to tell us about their jobs in industry! Our PhD alumni are pretty evenly divided, after 10 years or so, between academic and non-academic jobs. Although it is easy for you to understand the academic career path—being here at a major University and all— Invitations to Industry is a little glimpse of the options math PhDs have outside academe. Talks are geared at PhD students and post-docs; separate programs run for undergrads and Quant Finance MS students. This is a great seminar for learning about how math is used in the “real world” and what jobs might be available to your students or to yourself someday! Our kick-off talk, with Brandon Carter (PhD 2018) from Google packed the room, even after we sized-up. Next up is Chris Hammond (PHD 2009) from Susquehanna, a quant research firm.
We also have assorted other special event in Junior Colloquium. Indeed this Friday in Junior Colloquium, our Math Librarian, Samuel Hansen, will come tell us “How your librarian can make your research easier and better and more fun!” See you there!
Check out the complete Junior Colloquium schedule and make a habit to be there!
