Michigan Math Alum Hunter Brooks (PhD 2013, supervised by Kartik Prasanna) wrote to let us know that his company, a subsidiary of Oracle called Moat, will be hiring Math PhDs. They are based in Manhattan, NYC. You could get involved in mining ad data to look for evidence of malicious botnets. Here is an example…
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Graduate Student Topology and Geometry Conference: funding available!
The 17th annual Graduate Student Topology and Geometry Conference, hosted this year at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, has funding and wants you to attend their conference! This is a conference aimed at encouraging the next generation of researchers in Geometry and Topology. The conference is fast approaching: March 30-31. They are still seeking registrants…
Summer Opportunities for Social Research Training
Looking for something different this summer? Interested in using your math skills to get involved with Social Research? The University offers summer courses ICPSR Summer Programs in Quantitative Methods of Social Research and SRC Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques to train graduate students around campus in quantitative methods. For the first time, Rackham is offering…
Dissertation Grants from Microsoft
Microsoft is offering Dissertation grants to doctoral students in computing in their fourth year and beyond. These are for students who self-identify as a woman, African American, Black, Hispanic, Latinx, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and/or people with disabilities. The program allows students to submit a grant proposal of up to $25,000 to…
Interested in Start-ups?
Many recent PhDs in math, physics and engineering are finding exciting careers in start-up companies these days. Curious about what all the buzz is about? Check out the Start Up Career Fair run by the Office of Entrepreneurship in the College of Engineering! Even our own little Ann Arbor has a rich community of Start-up companies…
New Post-doc Position at Virginia Tech Advertised
I received the below message advertising a nice-looking post-doc at Virginia Tech, in the beautiful Smoky Mountains. Please consider applying if you are defending this year! ********************************** The mathematics department at Virginia Tech is accepting applications for a two-year post doc. (See details and application information.) Applicants in all areas of mathematics (including mathematics education) will…
Marjorie Lee Browne Speaker: Suzanne Weekes
Suzanne Weekes, a 1995 Michigan Math PhD, will give the department’s annual Marjorie Lee Browne lecture at 4 pm in 1360 East Hall. Professor Weekes is at the Center for Industrial Mathematics and Statistics at Worcester Polytech in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she conducts research on wave propagation and mentors many undergraduate research students. The MLB Lecture…
Raymundo Navarrete wins Smereka Award
Raymundo Navarrete has been selected by the AIM committee as winner of the department’s Smereka prize for the best AIM thesis. His thesis, “Embeddings and Prediction of Dynamical Time Series,” was supervised by Professor Divakar Viswanath. Currently a postdoc at the University of Arizona, Ray will come back to Ann Arbor and give an AIM…
NSF Summer Research Internships
The NSF offers a unique opportunity for Math PhD students to participate in 10 week summer internships one of the National Labs. Research areas specifically being recruited include: Algebra and Number Theory Analysis Applied Mathematics Combinatorics Computational Mathematics Foundations Geometric Analysis Mathematical Biology Probability Statistics Topology although strong math students in other areas will also…
Rackham International Student Fellows Announced
Congratulations to Shubhodip Mondal and Christiana Mavroyiakoumou, who have both been selected for Rackham’ competitive International Student Fellowship. This award for $10K can be used to fund their research in the summer months. Congratulations to both!