Monday: September 28 at 5 pm ET Zoom link Rik Williams, PhD Senior Data Scientist – Transportation Policy Research at Uber https://www.linkedin.com/in/rikjwilliams/ https://medium.com/@rik_williams
Month: September 2020
Moving from academic to industry career plans: A personal story
Mark Greenfield, finishing Math PhD, shared some of his thoughts and experiences about his process of figuring out his post-PhD next steps, finding an internship in finance. Please check out his inspiring story! (Back to Resources about Non-Academic Careers) Mark’s words: This will be partly autobiographical and partly general advice. Each section has “Takeaways” which…
Invitations to Industry resumes next week!
The first Invitations to Industry seminar of the 2020-2021 academic year is coming up next week! This signature Erdős Institute program connects current math graduate students and postdocs with graduate alumni working in industry. The purpose of this seminar series is to help attendees learn about various career opportunities outside of academia and establish relationships and…
EECS looking to hire two math GSIs in the winter
Atul Prakash, the associate chair in EECS is interested in hiring a few math GSIs to teach EECS 203 in the winter. This is a great opportunity to do something a bit different, gain some valuable experience, and line up funding for winter if you do not have a source. Let me know if you’d…
Two Sigma Fellowships
I got the following request for nominations from Leighton Symons at Two Sigma: Two Sigma are proud to announce the continuation of the Two Sigma PhD Fellowship program, which supports doctoral students pursuing a PhD in a STEM field such as Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics and Finance/Econometrics. At Two Sigma we understand that diversity…