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…
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SIG recruiting Michigan Math PhDs
The Invitations to Industry Fall 2021 Seminar Series continues Friday, October 15 at 12pm ET with recent Michigan PhDs Yuxin Wang and Mark Greenfield, who are both Quantitative Researcher at Susquehanna International Group, LLP. Even if you are planning an academic career, it is highly recommended that you learn about the many careers available to you as a Math PhD. This…
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…
Career Development for MathPhDs
Don’t forget to register for the Erdös’s institute programming for the coming academic year. This fall, we are piloting a semester long, on-line version of our signature data science boot camp. Many Michigan math graduate students have participated in this boot camp, and discovered new interests and opportunities through it. And many of our graduates…
MSRI research workshop programming for Fall 2021
The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MRSI), in Berkeley California, is one of the nation’s most influential research centers for mathematics. They offer many research programs and workshops through the year, some of which are targeted specifically at PhD students. Our department is a “member” department, so these programs are open to our students, and some…
Registration for Erdos Institute Programming
Michigan Math is a member of the growing Erdos Institute, an organization created by mathematics professor Roman Holowinsky (OSU) to “help PhDs find the jobs they love and companies find the PhDs they need.” You can register today to learn more. You may have heard “the job market is terrible for math PhDs.” Nothing could…
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…
5 reasons I chose an industry career over an academic one
By Gilad Pagi, UM Math PhD 2018 Google Senior Software Engineer, Los Angelos 1. Geographical Flexibility: industry jobs are everywhere and usually do not require your predecessor to leave/transfer/retire. 2. Self Funded: True research industry positions are not abundant, but once you land one, your research is going to be funded by your employer, as opposed to an external…