Opportunities to teach in LSA’s Program for Computing in the Arts and Sciences (PCAS)

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.…

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…

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…

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!…

UM CS department looking to hire math PhDs to teaching faculty positions

You may be aware that there is a national shortage of faculty in Computer Science. This is true here at Michigan, where CSE administrators regularly reach out to hire our post-docs and PhD students. Many courses offered are highly mathematical, including “Discrete Math” (EECS 203), “Theory of Computer Science” (EECS 376–binary, etc), “Intro to cryptography”…

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…