You may have heard of the Data Incubator, a competitive program designed to bring STEM PhDs up to speed for high-level careers in Data Science. They have again contacted me, trying to recruit YOU, of course. This is a high quality program which may be of interest if you would like an industry career. Our…
Category: Professional Development
Data Science Boot Camps for Math PhDs through Erdos Institute
We are happy to offer a few Michigan Math PhD students and post-docs the opportunity to participate in the Erdos Institute’s Data Science Bootcamps, designed in collaboration with industry partners to quickly train Math PhDs for data science careers in industry and meet many others who have made the transition, including recruiters from companies currently…
From your Math Librarian…transform wikipedia, travel safe abroad, publishing advice, and more
Samuel Hansen, our math librarian, has put together some great resources and opportunities for math graduate students. Check it out!
Upcoming Writing Workshop
The Rackham/Sweetland Workshops cover a host of topics designed to help graduate students in various aspects of writing. For example, they run workshops to help you write research, teaching, personal and diversity statements for fellowship applications as well as academic positions. Writing well is an important skill mathematicians need to develop! Here in the math department,…
Invitation to Industry continues in Junior Colloquium Friday
Don’t forget about Junior Colloquium Friday, where our next installment of The Erdős Institute‘s Invitations to Industry Seminar Series continues. Please RSVP here for the reception following. Details: Friday, November 8 at 4 pm in Room 1068, during Junior Colloquium. Reception following. RSVP here. The speaker is David Renardy, UM Math PhD 2016, now a…
Two Math Conferences this weekend in Ann Arbor!
So much research activity! Come check out the two conferences being held in our department this weekend October 18, 19, 20! Both run mostly Saturday, although some special talks for students will run Friday in the “Facets of Algebraic Geometry” conference. Click links for details. Midwest Homotopy Type Theory (opening talk: current UM PhD student…
Research Postdocs at Los Alamos National Lab
If research is your true love, consider seeking work in a national lab! Los Alamos is in “aggressive hiring mode,” to quote one of their recruiters. Come learn more about these kinds of positions at an informational session about LANL. Dr. Mark Schraad, Division Leader of the Computational Physics group at Los Alamos National Laboratory…
More Opportunities in Data for Mathematicians
Michael Li, founder of the Data Incubator, wrote to us to advertise their intensive 8 week fellowships designed to graduate students and post-docs into data scientists to meet the overwhelming demand for high powered analytical thinkers created by the Data revolution. His message is posted below. Note also that Michigan Math and Physics PhD students…
Invitations to Industry
Our first Invitations to Industry talk will be this Friday, September 20 from 4-5 in Room 1068 East Hall. This exciting seminar series is directed at PhD students and post-docs in math and physics. Recent Michigan alums return to tell us about the jobs they love in industry and some of the opportunities that await…
Advantages of work experience before grad school
Doug Shaw, 1995 Math PhD from the University of Michigan, has this to say about how working in industry before starting the Math PhD program at Michigan affected his graduate career. Read more about Doug in our Spotlight on Alumni series. When I graduated from the University of Illinois with an undergrad degree in Computer…