Please consider taking advantage of the following sessions from Rackham. These might be helpful if you are stressing about finding an advisor or about your relationship with your advisor, stressing about how to write cover letters, stressing about the difference between a “CV” and a “Resume” or just plain stressing! Main Campus Events Restorative…
Category: Pre-Candidacy Resources
Professor Sasha Barvinok to speak in Junior Colloquium Friday
Please join us for the first Junior Colloquium of the Semester. Tomorrow the “Research at Michigan” series continues with Professor Sasha Barvinok telling us about his research into The mathematics of computational complexity. Room 3088 from 4 to 5pm. Everyone is welcome, but all math graduate students are especially encouraged to learn about what kind of…
Cognate Courses in Entrepreneurship
Have you thought about entrepreneurship? Many Michigan Math PhD Alums have founded companies. If you’re curious, consider taking a cognate in UM’s Center for Entrepreneurship. There are many options for Winter 2020, from intro-level courses such as “Intro to Innovation” or “Interpersonal skills,” to seminars on venture capital, entrepreneurship, patent law, climate change innovation and…
Research at Michigan TODAY in junior colloquium
Don’t miss Junior Colloquium TODAY, Friday November 1 at 4 pm, EH 3088. Today’s event features Professor Ralf Spatzier telling us about his work on Rigidity in Geometry and Dynamics in our “Research at Michigan” series. All graduate students, post-docs and faculty are encouraged to attend, but the series is specifically aimed at beginning PhD…
Junior Colloquium this Year
Please mark your calendars! This year in Junior Colloquium, which meets Fridays at 4 pm, we have two separate Seminar Series: Research at Michigan Math Invitations to Industry. 1. Research at Michigan Math is where beginning graduate students will get a feel for what our professors are working on. The talks are supposed to be…
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Beginning PhD students and Master’s students! Consider applying for an NSF fellowship if you are a US citizen or permanent resident! [Don’t despair if you’re international, just click here instead.] These are quite competitive, but Michigan students have a good shot, usually. There provide generous funding for your research for several years. Your fellow students…
Congrats to Haoyang Guo on a Rackham Research Grant!
Haoyang Guo has been awarded a Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant. Please join me in congratulating him. Als0: ask him how he got it.
Junior Colloquium Today!
Don’t miss Jenny Wilson, one of our newest professors, who will talk about Representation Stability in Junior Colloquium today at 4 pm. Junior Colloquium is an important meeting ground for students to meet each other, other faculty, and potential advisors. All graduate students are strongly encourage to attend every week.
Junior Colloquium: Jinho Baik
Professor Jinho Baik will speak in Junior Colloquium TODAY at 4. Please come! His title is Eigenvalues of large random matrices. This is aimed at graduate students who are not already experts in the subject! It is for everyone! The Junior Colloquium is a place for graduate students to meet faculty and each other, as well…
Need help finding or navigating your relationship with your advisor?
Probably the number one worry I hear from graduate students is navigating the relationship with their advisor: how to find/approach/talk to/get along with this faculty mentor who looms so large in their careers. Please! Consider attending a Rackham workshop this Thursday designed specifically for this purpose. Yes, math is a little but different than other…