The director PCAS reached out asking me to advertise some interesting teaching opportunities for Math GSIs at Michigan. They are looking to hire three GSIs for three different new courses in computing in the Arts. This is a unique opportunity to expand your teaching portfolio and teach something different. Details with links to apply below.…
Category: Job Search and Career Development
Check out some of the many opportunities for math graduate students and alumni to find interesting work and career development opportunities, both locally here at UM and around the globe.
Thoughts from UM Math PhD Roman Gayduk
Roman Gayduk, 2017 PhD, reached out with an interesting update. After finishing his degree, Roman worked as a Quant for five years, but is now transitioning to a career in Psychotherapy. He’s shared some thoughts on the PhD process and careers in his blog, How I see It. I found Roman’s personal perspective and thoughts…
Opportunity for Data Science Training for Women
Jane Street Dinner
The famous trading firm Jane Street is inviting YOU, Michigan Mathematics Student, to their Jane Street Dinner in Ann Arbor on Thursday, March 16th. They love Math PhDs, but have also hired our honors undergraduates…this is not just for people specializing in “financial math”–you don’t need experience in finance to work at Jane Street. They…
Job opportunity for Math PhDs
Wayne M. Raskind, the director of Director the Institute for Defense Analyses at the Center for Communications Research in Princeton wrote to invite finishing Michigan PhD students, post-docs, and lecturers to apply for a technical editor position for the internal technical papers they produce. The starting salary would be significantly better than that for a…
Summer Internship Opportunity
Our own Ethan Zell (read his story here) reached out to share that the company where he did his internship, Mined XAI, is hiring an intern again this summer. Here is a cut/paste of the position description: Summer Internship Mined XAI [“mind’s eye”] is machine learning and data analytics company based in Dayton, Ohio. Our…
NSF Math Sciences Internship for Doctoral Students
Apply Today! https://zintellect.com/Opportunity/Details/NSF-MSGI-2023 Application and Recommendation Deadline: January 30, 2023, 8:00 AM EST February 6, 2023, 8:00 AM EST (recommendations) The National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical Sciences Graduate Internship (MSGI) Program provides opportunities for mathematical sciences doctoral students to participate in internships at federal national laboratories and research facilities. What will I be doing? The NSF Mathematical…
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…
Summer teaching opportunity
Innovative Instructional & Public Impact Opportunity Wolverine Pathways seeks math instructors to design and teach innovative in-person courses to high school seniors from July 10, 2023 – August 4, 2023. The goal is to introduce students to how creative, far-reaching and rich the world of math can be. A few examples of topics a class…
Preparing for a career outside the academy
In Ethan’s words… Maybe your interest in a life outside the academy started like mine. I love doing math research—really, I do. Learning from and working with my research advisor has taught me to approach problems carefully and with different strategies—most of these strategies fail, but in math only one has to work. Sure research…