Alumna Ruthi Hortsch (UM BA ’12, MIT PhD ’17), from BEAM, wrote trying to recruit you! Open Summer Positions at Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics (BEAM) Faculty positions (for teachers, professors, and professionals able to work during the summer) Junior Faculty positions (for graduate students and early career teachers) Counselor/TA positions (for undergraduate students and…
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Jane Street Recruiting Symposium for Math PhDs and students
Kristen Chang at Jane Street , a proprietary trading firm, reached out to invite YOU, Michigan-affiliated PhD Mathematician (or soon to be PhD mathematician), to a Symposium designed to show you some of the interesting math being done at Jane Street and inform you about careers available to Math PhDs with the firm. They are…
Exciting Internship Opportunity for Math grad students and post-docs
Rick Laugerson (former UM Math Department post-doc and Professor at UIUC) wrote to me to encourage Michigan peeps and Michigan Alumi to apply to academic-industry partnered internships that have IMMEDIATE OPENINGS. These are both full time positions as Project Developers, one in Champaign-Urbana and one at Johns Hopkins (both currently remote for pandemic). These are…
Two Six Labs is hiring Math PhDs
Alexander Zaitzeff (UM Math PhD 2020) reached out to let me know that his workplace, Two Six Labs, is hiring this year, and he’s happy to talk to any Michigan Math graduates interested in learning more about Two Six Labs. Alexander says he’s enjoyed being a senior research scientist at Two Six so far, where he’s designed…
Invitations to Industry: SIG on Monday
Susquehanna International Group (“SIG”) is again recruiting top Math PhDs to work in quantitative research at their proprietary trading firm in Philly. Among recent UM graduates working (or soon to be working) there are Chris Hammond(UM PhD 2009) and Mark Greenfield(UM PhD 2021, expected). Please come check out what it might be like to…
Local Research Firm Recruiting Math PhDs
Bill Correl (UM Math PhD 2002) and John Kilgore (UM Math PhD 2019) will both be representing their company, Maxar, at the UM Math Virtual Career Fair. Bill recruited John from this very career fair, and is eager to find more top talent. Maxar is right here in Ypsilanti, doing Sensor and Ground Modernization research.…
Invitations to Industry
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
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…
Propose a Workshop on Math and Social Justice
ICERM has opened up a special solicitation for social justice focused workshop proposals in the mathematical sciences. Please share this around! Details.