Last chance to sign up is today! This free program has been invaluable for PhD mathematicians seeking seeking employment in industry. Please fill out our application form on our website by the end of the day today. We’ll be reviewing applications over the next month and sending out admittance emails on December 15th. As a…
Category: Career Development Opportunities
Luis Serrano to speak in Invitations to Industry Monday
Our own Luis Serrano (UM Math PhD 2010) will be speaking Monday November 15 at Noon in the Invitations to Industry seminar, jointly sponsored by the Erdos Institute. Don’t miss Luis! He’s an incredibly helpful resource for our PhD students and post-docs interested in *research* positions in industry. He himself is a quantum machine learning…
Come meet Alum Florian Block and learn about finance jobs for Math PhDs
More about non-Academic Careers for Math PhDs To learn more about Dr. Block or PDT Partners, please see the links below.Florian Block, PhDPDT Partners: PDT, which stands for Process Driven Trading, was founded by Peter Muller in 1993 as a proprietary trading group within Morgan Stanley. In 2013, after establishing a 19-year track record finding inefficiencies…
Health Care Careers for Mathematicians
Professor Rick Laugersen (former Michigan math post-doc 93-96 and current professor of math at UIUC) wrote to invite YOU to the upcoming BIG panel on math careers in the health care industry for PhDs and other high level mathematicians. The event is on-line Friday, November 5th, 2021, at 5pm ET, but you need to register…
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…
Local Company Hiring PhD mathematicians
Bill Correll (PhD 2002) wrote to let you know his company, Maxar, is looking to hire several high level math types right here in their Ypsilanti office. There are several openings, including for research statistician, software engineer, and more. Check it out the full list of openings here. Bill’s thesis, “On the Invariant Factors and…
Invitations to Entrepreneurship for Math PhDs
Don’t miss Michigan alumna Olivia Walch (UM AIM PhD 2016) in our first Invitation to Entrepreneurship talk! Olivia is CEO of her own company, Arcascope, that markets an App that uses mathematics to help people sleep better. Invitations to Entrepreneurship is a new offering of the Erdos Institute, building on the successes of our Invitations…
Interested in Finance Jobs post PhD?
Math PhD Alumnus Alex Leaf, who defended his thesis, The Kashaev Equation and Related Recurrences in 2018 under the direction of Sergey Fomin, reached out to let us know he’d be happy to provide advice on the recruiting process for quant jobs for math PhD’s. He’s also happy to provide a reference if anyone is…
Industry or Academia?
Recent Math PhD Zhan Jiang (UM PhD 2021) wrote to share his personal experience with “the Job Market” as well as some practical advice and resources that eventually landed him a job at Google. Like pretty much every technical employee at Google, his title will begin as “Software Engineer,” but you should contact him, as well…
Jane Street recruiting Math PhDs
UM Math PhD Rafe Kinsey (2014, advisor Sijue Wu) wrote to me looking to hire YOU, a finishing PhD student or post-doc, for a “hybrid” position with his group at Jane Street. While Jane Street is a research-heavy quant firm in NYC, “hybrid” means you’d be part of a team straddling the business and the…