Erdös Institute Career Support

Michigan math has partnered with the Erdös institute to bring our PhD and MLB students, post-docs, and PhD alumni career support. Please consider taking advantage of this amazing opportunity! The application window for the Erdös Institute’s Spring 2022 Career Workshops and May Data Science Boot Camp closes on November 15th. You can apply directly through our…

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…

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…

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…

Local Research Firm Recruiting Math PhDs

Bill Correl (UM Math PhD 2002) and John Kilgore (UM Math PhD 2019) will both be representing their company,  Maxar, at the UM Math Virtual Career Fair.  Bill recruited John from this very career fair, and is eager to find more top talent.  Maxar is right here in Ypsilanti, doing Sensor and Ground Modernization research.…

SIAM Virtual Career Fair on Tuesday July 7

Free registration, and you do not need to be a SIAM member…so please read on! SIAM is offering its first-ever Virtual Career Fair, on Tuesday July 7 at any location near you with an internet connection.   You either need to be a SIAM member (free student membership options are found here), or else set up a free username and…

Math during the Pandemic

Here is a resource for folks missing seminar life: Catalog of Virtual Seminars The pandemic has produced an environment where  you can see seminar talks essentially anywhere in the world! You can search by topic, speaker name, place, etc. But never forget the wise words of a productive mathematician: Don’t let the talks interfere with a good…

Conference in Algebra, Geometry and Combinatorics

Saturday, March 7 (the last weekend of Spring Break), UIUC will host the 19th ALGECOM. This is a one day conference in Algebra, Geometry and Combinatorics. Speakers this year are Steven Karp (University of Quebec at Montreal) Martha Yip (University of Kentucky) Jake Levinson (University of Washington) Claudiu Raicu (Notre Dame) Jake is a recent…