Many recent PhDs in math, physics and engineering are finding exciting careers in start-up companies these days. Curious about what all the buzz is about? Check out the Start Up Career Fair run by the Office of Entrepreneurship in the College of Engineering! Even our own little Ann Arbor has a rich community of Start-up companies…
Category: Internships
Michigan Math Graduate Students are encouraged to explore internships and the opportunities in the summer. It’s always a good idea to discuss plans well in advance with your advisors.
Summer Job Opportunity
Kevin Carde, a 2014 Math PhD Alumnus, is the current director of Mathcamp. He recently wrote to me to advertise summer jobs for PhD students, a time-honored tradition. If you support yourself this summer with a Mathcamp position, we can transfer your promised summer funding (if you are in the the first three years) to…
Paid Summer Internship Positions at NIST
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is hiring advanced mathematics graduate students for paid summer internships. The internship projects are in scientific computing and image analysis, and will be carried out at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Various opportunities exist in the following topics: – Shape spaces, shape analysis and…
Math Careers at Boeing
Boeing is recruiting hard for Math PhDs. I have gotten emails and letters asking me to put them in touch with those of you who might be interested in learning more. They also sent me a Quarterly Magazine they publish which includes some information about some of the math they do. Check it out!
Junior Colloquium: Michael Von Korff
Our November 16 Junior Colloquium Speaker will be Michael Von Korff. Michael graduated in 2012 with a thesis in commutative algebra, directed by Karen Smith (me!). Michael worked for several years an education start-up called Reasoning Mind based in Houston but recently relocated to a Boston-based ed-tech job at Curriculum Associates. Come hear about his…
Career Fair
The Math Department hosts an annual Career Fair in November in the Mathematics Atrium, East Hall. AIM and Math PhD students can come meet folks and learn about careers in math whether or not you are actively looking for a job. The information will also help you advise your undergraduate students better, most of whom…
MIDAS Symposium on Big Data
The Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) warmly invites all of us mathematicians to attend the 2018 MIDAS Annual Symposium, titled “Serving Society through Data Science,” to be held October 8-9 at the Rackham Building. The lineup of speakers has been set, and we are excited to bring several preeminent data scientists to Ann Arbor.…
Opportunities at Google
Brandon Carter, UM Math Phd 2018, wrote to tell me how much he likes his job at Google in cyber security. He reached out to tell us about potential opportunities at Google for current and/or former grad students. Google is actively looking to hire people in a number of different areas he says are suited…