Roman Gayduk, 2017 PhD, reached out with an interesting update. After finishing his degree, Roman worked as a Quant for five years, but is now transitioning to a career in Psychotherapy. He’s shared some thoughts on the PhD process and careers in his blog, How I see It. I found Roman’s personal perspective and thoughts…
Category: The blog formerly called “Associate Chair’s Blog”
The Care and Maintenance of your Advisor
Some interesting advice on developing a productive relation with your advisor, from Nature.
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 specializing in “financial math”–you don’t need experience in finance to work at Jane Street. They…
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 technical papers they produce. The starting salary would be significantly better than that for a…
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 strategies—most of these strategies fail, but in math only one has to work. Sure research…
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 academic year. Applications are currently open and are evaluated on a rolling basis. International students…
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 Market Risk Strategy Analyst. If you’ve got less technical friends looking for work, he pointed…
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…
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 would be to stay in academia. However, after a summer encounter with the “Invitation to…
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, who is searching. Let me know. The full consideration date is April 4, 2022, and the…