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 Six Technologies on machine learning cyber security and other exciting topics, after finishing his PhD…
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Interested in Teaching in the CS department?
You may be aware that there is a national shortage of computer science professors and lecturers. This means opportunities for YOU, Math PhD looking for work, especially if you love teaching and want to stay in Ann Arbor. The chair of the hiring committee for the CSE department here at Michigan asked me to help…
Health Care Careers for Mathematicians
Professor Rick Laugersen (former Michigan math post-doc 93-96 and current professor of math at UIUC) wrote to invite YOU to the upcoming BIG panel on math careers in the health care industry for PhDs and other high level mathematicians. The event is on-line Friday, November 5th, 2021, at 5pm ET, but you need to register…
Local Company Hiring PhD mathematicians
Bill Correll (PhD 2002) wrote to let you know his company, Maxar, is looking to hire several high level math types right here in their Ypsilanti office. There are several openings, including for research statistician, software engineer, and more. Check it out the full list of openings here. Bill’s thesis, “On the Invariant Factors and…
MSRI research workshop programming for Fall 2021
The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MRSI), in Berkeley California, is one of the nation’s most influential research centers for mathematics. They offer many research programs and workshops through the year, some of which are targeted specifically at PhD students. Our department is a “member” department, so these programs are open to our students, and some…
Industry or Academia?
Recent Math PhD Zhan Jiang (UM PhD 2021) wrote to share his personal experience with “the Job Market” as well as some practical advice and resources that eventually landed him a job at Google. Like pretty much every technical employee at Google, his title will begin as “Software Engineer,” but you should contact him, as well…
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…
BEAM summer opportunities
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…
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…