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…
Category: Professional Development
Invitations to Industry continues Thursday
The Invitations to Industry seminar series continues this Thursday, February 25th at 6pm ET with Amar Drawid, Global Head of Data Science & Infrastructure at Novartis! Amar has had a fascinating career! He’s on the 2021 Global Pharmaceutical Executives List” by CDO Magazine and is recognized among “Top 100 Innovators in Data & Analytics.” His story is broadly applicable to STEM PhDs, including…
Invitations to Industry TONIGHT
Stressed about the job market? Don’t be! There continue to be lots of good jobs for PhD mathematicians. Learn more at tonight’s Invitation to Industry Seminar 6pm. Details below Camelia: https://www.linkedin.com/in/camelia-pop-44a9a625/ Edgestream Partners: https://www.edgestreamlp.com/ Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/6142856354
Erdos Institute Data Science Boot Camp for PhDs and PhD students
We’re happy to announce the Erdős Institute’s Cőde 2021 Data Science Boot Camp! We’ll be covering a wide array of topics that are fundamental in the current data science landscape. For a full overview see the Topics section at the web link below. You will also find information on our previous boot camps at that link. Our…
ICERM adds post-doc positions for pandemic
Some good news for folks looking for an academic post-doctoral position: ICERM has announced some additional post-doc positions intended to mitigate the loss of entry-level positions for mathematical scientists starting fall 2021. The Simons Foundation has provided funding for three Simons Bridge postdoc positions open to new PhD’s in any branch of the mathematical sciences. ICERM will…
Jane Street Recruiting Symposium for Math PhDs and students
Kristen Chang at Jane Street , a proprietary trading firm, reached out to invite YOU, Michigan-affiliated PhD Mathematician (or soon to be PhD mathematician), to a Symposium designed to show you some of the interesting math being done at Jane Street and inform you about careers available to Math PhDs with the firm. They are…
Exciting Internship Opportunity for Math grad students and post-docs
Rick Laugerson (former UM Math Department post-doc and Professor at UIUC) wrote to me to encourage Michigan peeps and Michigan Alumi to apply to academic-industry partnered internships that have IMMEDIATE OPENINGS. These are both full time positions as Project Developers, one in Champaign-Urbana and one at Johns Hopkins (both currently remote for pandemic). These are…
Invitations to Industry: SIG on Monday
Susquehanna International Group (“SIG”) is again recruiting top Math PhDs to work in quantitative research at their proprietary trading firm in Philly. Among recent UM graduates working (or soon to be working) there are Chris Hammond(UM PhD 2009) and Mark Greenfield(UM PhD 2021, expected). Please come check out what it might be like to…
Moving from academic to industry career plans: A personal story
Mark Greenfield, finishing Math PhD, shared some of his thoughts and experiences about his process of figuring out his post-PhD next steps, finding an internship in finance. Please check out his inspiring story! (Back to Resources about Non-Academic Careers) Mark’s words: This will be partly autobiographical and partly general advice. Each section has “Takeaways” which…
Post-doc Position at Northeastern
Tony Iarrobino wrote with the following information for those looking for a post-doc in math: As some of you may have already noticed, we are advertising a Zelevinsky Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Training Group (ZPF/RTG) for this Fall on mathjobs. The approval for the position came in rather late this year, and it is not clear that…