Category: Big Data
Erdös Institute Career Development Fall program
The Erdös Institute was founded by number theorist Professor Roman Holowinsky (OSU) as a way to help math PhDs find the careers they love and companies the math PhDs they need. Their career development program (fall cohort) for PhD students and post-docs interested in learning about non-academic careers and/or some of the skills needed for…
UM Math PhD team takes first prize in Erdos Competition
Big congrats to Math PhD students Anna Brosowski, Sayantan Khan, Nancy Wang, Ethan Zell and Yili Zhang—otherwise known as Team Supermassive Blackhole—who took first place in the Erdös Institute‘s most recent Data Science bootcamp competition! Their project, titled Movie Finder, is a movie search app that gives the title of a movie based on what a…
Erdös Institute Career Support
Michigan math has partnered with the Erdös institute to bring our PhD and MLB students, post-docs, and PhD alumni career support. Please consider taking advantage of this amazing opportunity! The application window for the Erdös Institute’s Spring 2022 Career Workshops and May Data Science Boot Camp closes on November 15th. You can apply directly through our…
Invitations to Industry continues Thursday
The Invitations to Industry seminar series continues this Thursday, February 25th at 6pm ET with Amar Drawid, Global Head of Data Science & Infrastructure at Novartis! Amar has had a fascinating career! He’s on the 2021 Global Pharmaceutical Executives List” by CDO Magazine and is recognized among “Top 100 Innovators in Data & Analytics.” His story is broadly applicable to STEM PhDs, including…
Jane Street recruiting Math PhDs
UM Math PhD Rafe Kinsey (2014, advisor Sijue Wu) wrote to me looking to hire YOU, a finishing PhD student or post-doc, for a “hybrid” position with his group at Jane Street. While Jane Street is a research-heavy quant firm in NYC, “hybrid” means you’d be part of a team straddling the business and the…
Invitations to Industry TONIGHT
Stressed about the job market? Don’t be! There continue to be lots of good jobs for PhD mathematicians. Learn more at tonight’s Invitation to Industry Seminar 6pm. Details below Camelia: https://www.linkedin.com/in/camelia-pop-44a9a625/ Edgestream Partners: https://www.edgestreamlp.com/ Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/6142856354
Invitations to Industry for Math PhDs
Welcome to the Spring 2021 Invitations to Industry Seminar Series at the Erdős Institute! We hope that you will find these talks useful as you explore the various types of career opportunities that may be of interest to you. For our first talk this semester, Thursday January 28th at 6pm ET, we are pleased to welcome Lenny Teytelman, Scientist,…
Sign up for the Erdos Institute’s list-serv
Stressed about finding employment in these pandemic times? Interesting in learning more about the exciting and highly paid jobs for mathematicians? Just want to hear about options for Math PhDs who graduated from a program like ours a few years ago. Sign up for the Erdos Institute‘s Invitation to Industry list-serv here. And it’s not…
Erdos Institute Data Science Boot Camp for PhDs and PhD students
We’re happy to announce the Erdős Institute’s Cőde 2021 Data Science Boot Camp! We’ll be covering a wide array of topics that are fundamental in the current data science landscape. For a full overview see the Topics section at the web link below. You will also find information on our previous boot camps at that link. Our…