Sarah Kitchen, Deputy Director of the Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI), reached out to let me know that MTRI has positions for Math (or Stats) PhDs open now. Sarah was an arithmetic geometer and Michigan Math postdoc who transitioned to be an industry research applied mathematician here in Ann Arbor at MTRI. These positions are…
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The Care and Maintenance of your Advisor
Some interesting advice on developing a productive relation with your advisor, from Nature.
Erdos Institute Final Project Showcase
The University of Michigan Math department is an academic member of the Erdos Institute, an organization founded by OSU math professor Roman Holowinsky to help “PhDs get the jobs they love and companies get the PhDs they need.” Each semester, the Erdos Institute hosts a data science boot camp where hundreds of PhD students gain…
Erdos Institute Spring Cohort forming
Olivia Haimerl, Community Manager for the Erdos Institute, would like me to post the following message to the UM community (Graduate students, post-docs, and alumni of both) about the various opportunities for non-academic career exploration and training for Math PhDs they are offering this spring. Check out her detailed message below the poster! Hi everyone!…
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…
Career opportunities for Math PhDs
Please join us next Friday, September 23 at 4 pm in 1372 East Hall, with refreshments following at 5pm in the lower atrium to learn about some careers in national defense for mathematics PhD. All math graduate students and post-docs are encouraged to come learn about opportunities for themselves and/or students. Though the discussion will…
Erdös Institute Career Development Fall program
The Erdös Institute was founded by number theorist Professor Roman Holowinsky (OSU) as a way to help math PhDs find the careers they love and companies the math PhDs they need. Their career development program (fall cohort) for PhD students and post-docs interested in learning about non-academic careers and/or some of the skills needed for…
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…