The Invitations to Industry Fall 2021 Seminar Series continues Friday, October 15 at 12pm ET with recent Michigan PhDs Yuxin Wang and Mark Greenfield, who are both Quantitative Researcher at Susquehanna International Group, LLP. Even if you are planning an academic career, it is highly recommended that you learn about the many careers available to you as a Math PhD. This…
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Invitations to Entrepreneurship for Math PhDs
Don’t miss Michigan alumna Olivia Walch (UM AIM PhD 2016) in our first Invitation to Entrepreneurship talk! Olivia is CEO of her own company, Arcascope, that markets an App that uses mathematics to help people sleep better. Invitations to Entrepreneurship is a new offering of the Erdos Institute, building on the successes of our Invitations…
Career Development for MathPhDs
Don’t forget to register for the Erdös’s institute programming for the coming academic year. This fall, we are piloting a semester long, on-line version of our signature data science boot camp. Many Michigan math graduate students have participated in this boot camp, and discovered new interests and opportunities through it. And many of our graduates…
Registration for Erdos Institute Programming
Michigan Math is a member of the growing Erdos Institute, an organization created by mathematics professor Roman Holowinsky (OSU) to “help PhDs find the jobs they love and companies find the PhDs they need.” You can register today to learn more. You may have heard “the job market is terrible for math PhDs.” Nothing could…
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…
Invitation to Industry continues Monday March 22
The Invitations to Industry seminar series continues this Monday, March 22nd at 6pm ET with Sam Shideler, Data Scientist at NORAD & US Northern Command! Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/6147327341 Sam: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuelshideler/ NORAD & US Northern Command: https://www.northcom.mil/Home_bak/ Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/6147327341
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…
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
A PhD Student’s Perspective on landing an industry position
Yuxin Wang (UM Math PhD 2021) wrote to share her perspective and process on finding a rewarding career after graduation. Yuxin’s advisor was Sijue Wu. Yuxin’s words: My PhD Student Perspective: landing an industry position The purpose of this narrative is to provide a data point about career choices outside of academia. In particular, it…
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,…