Our department has hosted a Marjorie Lee Browne Distinguished Lecture in celebration of Martin Luther King’s birthday each year since 1999. Marjorie Lee Brown was our department’s first, and one the nation’s first, African American women to earn the PhD degree in mathematics in 1949. She was a tremendous influence on generations of students in…
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Interesting and Meaningful Summer Teaching in NYC or LA
“This summer, change the lives of underserved students with exceptional potential in math” Ruthi Hortsch (BS UM, 2012) wrote to recruit Michigan math graduate students, post-docs and faculty to teach math this summer for BEAM (Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics), an enrichment program for underserved urban youth. After Michigan, Ruthi wrote her PhD in number…
Want to teach math to kids in Harlem this summer?
BEAM (Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics) is an enrichment program for kids in New York and LA. They are still hiring teachers for their West Harlem campus to teach Math Team Strategies or Applied Math this summer. You’d be committing to 2-3 hours/day for 5 weeks and you’d be supporting some incredible students! If you’re…
Math PhDs wanted: look for Malicious Botnets
Michigan Math Alum Hunter Brooks (PhD 2013, supervised by Kartik Prasanna) wrote to let us know that his company, a subsidiary of Oracle called Moat, will be hiring Math PhDs. They are based in Manhattan, NYC. You could get involved in mining ad data to look for evidence of malicious botnets. Here is an example…
Want to teach CS in the fall?
EECS will be hiring Math PhD students and/or post-docs in the fall to teach one section of EECS 203 (Discrete Math) or EECS 376 (Foundations of Computer Science). These are multi-section courses where most of the administrative burden will not rest on the math student. They pay 100% GSI rate. If you want to know…
Dissertation Grants from Microsoft
Microsoft is offering Dissertation grants to doctoral students in computing in their fourth year and beyond. These are for students who self-identify as a woman, African American, Black, Hispanic, Latinx, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and/or people with disabilities. The program allows students to submit a grant proposal of up to $25,000 to…
Marjorie Lee Browne Speaker: Suzanne Weekes
Suzanne Weekes, a 1995 Michigan Math PhD, will give the department’s annual Marjorie Lee Browne lecture at 4 pm in 1360 East Hall. Professor Weekes is at the Center for Industrial Mathematics and Statistics at Worcester Polytech in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she conducts research on wave propagation and mentors many undergraduate research students. The MLB Lecture…
Raymundo Navarrete wins Smereka Award
Raymundo Navarrete has been selected by the AIM committee as winner of the department’s Smereka prize for the best AIM thesis. His thesis, “Embeddings and Prediction of Dynamical Time Series,” was supervised by Professor Divakar Viswanath. Currently a postdoc at the University of Arizona, Ray will come back to Ann Arbor and give an AIM…
Free Udacity Course
Interesting in Machine Learning? Whether for future employment, for helping your own students, or just for interest, it is worth checking out this Free Neural Networks Course offered by Udacity. The course is developed by Facebook, and two of the five instructors are Michigan math graduate Alumni. Enrollment period is limited so act now!