Math Research Positions in Ann Arbor

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…

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…

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!…

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…

Michigan Alum wants to hire YOU

Michigan Math Alum David Tello, PhD, CIDA reached out for help recruiting to his team at the Market Risk Analysis Department at the Federal Home Loan Bank. He’s looking for a Quantitative Analyst, and knows another team looking for a Market Risk Strategy Analyst. If you’ve got less technical friends looking for work, he pointed…