The Care and Maintenance of your Advisor
Some interesting advice on developing a productive relation with your advisor, from Nature.
The blog formerly called “Associate Chair’s Blog”
Jane Street Dinner
The famous trading firm Jane Street is inviting YOU, Michigan Mathematics Student, to their Jane Street Dinner in Ann Arbor on Thursday, March 16th. They love Math PhDs, but have also hired our honors undergraduates…this is not just for people […]
Job opportunity for Math PhDs
Wayne M. Raskind, the director of Director the Institute for Defense Analyses at the Center for Communications Research in Princeton wrote to invite finishing Michigan PhD students, post-docs, and lecturers to apply for a technical editor position for the internal […]
Preparing for a career outside the academy
In Ethan’s words… Maybe your interest in a life outside the academy started like mine. I love doing math research—really, I do. Learning from and working with my research advisor has taught me to approach problems carefully and with different […]
Jane Street Grad Fellowship
Folks at Jane Street wrote to me excited to announce their inaugural Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship! This is for PhD students who will be in their 2nd-6th year of study in mathematics, computer science, or statistics in the 2023-2024 […]
Michigan Alum wants to hire YOU
Michigan Math Alum David Tello, PhD, CIDA reached out for help recruiting to his team at the Market Risk Analysis Department at the Federal Home Loan Bank. He’s looking for a Quantitative Analyst, and knows another team looking for a […]
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, […]
Why I landed an industry job
by Yiwang Chen (UM Math PhD 2022) Now at Google There is always this question that crosses your mind at least once when you are working on your Ph.D., namely, industry or academia? As many Ph.D. students, my initial thought […]
Lecturer Jobs Open
The University of Illinois, Chicago just opened several lecturer positions in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science. I can put you in contact with other Math PhD alums who have done this, or with the Chair, Brooke Shipley, […]
Alumnus Alexander Zaitzeff to speak in Invitations to Industry
The Invitations to Industry Spring 2022 Seminar Series begins Monday, February 7 at 12pm ET with Dr. Alexander Zaitzeff, Senior Research Engineer at Two Six Technologies! Alex is a 2020 AIM PhD graduate from Michigan Math. Alexander Zaitzeff is currently working as a Senior Research Engineer at Two […]
