The 2019 Michigan ConSciCom is an effective program for teaching young mathematicians and scientists to better communicate their work. First begun at Harvard in 2013, this 2 day workshop promises to be fun and helpful for all math PhD students, whether they just want to become better speakers and writers for the purpose of improving…
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Interested in research in a US government lab after completing your PhD?
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine administers awards for postdoctoral and senior researchers at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), and the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) under the Air Force Science & Technology Fellowship Program (STFP). These awards include a generous stipend, starting at $76,542 per year for recent Ph.D. recipients, and higher for additional experience. The STFP provides the opportunity for selected Fellows to conduct independent research in some of the best-equipped…
Congrats to Summer Fellowship Recipients!
The following PhD students were chosen to receive a summer fellowship because of their outstanding progress in the program, their promise for future research, and their valuable contributions to the scholarly life of the department. Karen Butt, working with Ralf Spatzier, The Juha Heinonen Memorial Fellowship (more detailed biography), made possible by the family and…
Math Department Graduate Student Awards
Our department has a large number of committed graduate students who make huge contributions to the scholarly life of our department. We are grateful to all of them for their generosity, vision and energy, which bring us many seminars, research activity, outreach activities, an inclusive culture, mentoring for younger students, and friendship. This year, we…
Charlotte Chan to receive Rackham Thesis Award: All invited to celebrate!
https://rackham.umich.edu/event/proquest-distinguished-dissertation-awards-ceremony/
Panel Discussion on Funding for Graduate Students
For the final Junior Colloquium of the year, Friday April 19, the Student Advisory Board, led by Francesca Gandini, will host a panel discussion featuring current students who have been successful taking advantage of the myriad opportunities to apply for funding both inside and outside the University. As usual, Room 3088 East Hall at 4 pm.…
Big Congrats to Rackham Teaching Award Winners
Please join me in congratulating Dan Irvine and Jasmine Powell, who both won Rackham Outstanding GSI Awards. Math GSIs do well in this competition, typically. Jasmine and Dan will join previous years’ winners Trevor Hyde, Joe Kraisler, and Bob Lutz (among our students who are still at here). The full list winners going all the…
Non-Academic Career Conference
An all-day Career Conference for PhD students and post-docs will take place on Friday April 5. Our our Gilad Pagi, UM Math PhD (2018), now working at Google, will be on one of the panels. There are panels on different industries including biotech/pharma, finance, tech, even academic administration, all with recent alums talking about their…
Visu Makam wins Sumner Myers Award
Visu Makam, UM PhD 2018, will return to Ann Arbor to deliver the Colloquium Talk this week on his Award Winning Thesis: Invariant theory, Tensors and Computational complexity. Date: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 Location: 1360 East Hall (4:00 PM to 5:00 PM) Visu is currently a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study. His thesis,…
Career Panel Discussion in Junior Colloquium Today
Today, Friday, at 4 pm we will host a Panel Discussion about Non-Academic careers for PhD mathematicians in 1068 EH. I urge you all to come, whether or not you currently intend such a career yourself. Reasons to Come: Mostly want to do research after leaving Michigan? Come and start learning about research jobs in…