Please join us next Friday, September 23 at 4 pm in 1372 East Hall, with refreshments following at 5pm in the lower atrium to learn about some careers in national defense for mathematics PhD. All math graduate students and post-docs are encouraged to come learn about opportunities for themselves and/or students. Though the discussion will focus on research opportunities for mathematicians, feel free to bring along your friends with advanced (or soon to have advanced) degrees in physics or computer science as well.
Title: Employment opportunities at the Institute for Defense Analyses, Centers for Communications and Computing
Speaker: Wayne M. Raskind, Director, Center for Communications Research, Princeton
Abstract: The Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) was founded in 1956 to do research and studies related to the national defense. It consists of three federally funded research and development centers (FFRDC). One of them is the Center for Communications and Computing, which consists of the Center for Communications Research, Princeton (CCR Princeton), the Center for Communications Research, La Jolla (CCR La Jolla) and the Center for Computing Sciences (CCS) in Bowie, Maryland. I will describe in general terms the research that we do at the three centers in matters of national security and employment opportunities for people with advanced training in mathematics, physics, computer science, engineering, and other fields. If you are unable to attend, you can find more information in our ads at mathjobs.org under Institute for Defense Analyses.
Speaker Bio: Wayne M. Raskind has served as director of the Center for Communications Research, Princeton since 2020. Before that, he was a professor of mathematics and academic administrator at the University of Arizona, University of Southern California, Arizona State University, and most recently, Wayne State University, where he served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Associate Provost from 2012-2020. Dr. Raskind received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania and Ph.D from the University of Cambridge, both in mathematics. His area of research is arithmetic algebraic geometry.