In Ethan’s words… Maybe your interest in a life outside the academy started like mine. I love doing math research—really, I do. Learning from and working with my research advisor has taught me to approach problems carefully and with different strategies—most of these strategies fail, but in math only one has to work. Sure research…
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Erdos Institute Spring Cohort forming
Olivia Haimerl, Community Manager for the Erdos Institute, would like me to post the following message to the UM community (Graduate students, post-docs, and alumni of both) about the various opportunities for non-academic career exploration and training for Math PhDs they are offering this spring. Check out her detailed message below the poster! Hi everyone!…
UM CS department looking to hire math PhDs to teaching faculty positions
You may be aware that there is a national shortage of faculty in Computer Science. This is true here at Michigan, where CSE administrators regularly reach out to hire our post-docs and PhD students. Many courses offered are highly mathematical, including “Discrete Math” (EECS 203), “Theory of Computer Science” (EECS 376–binary, etc), “Intro to cryptography”…
Jane Street Grad Fellowship
Folks at Jane Street wrote to me excited to announce their inaugural Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship! This is for PhD students who will be in their 2nd-6th year of study in mathematics, computer science, or statistics in the 2023-2024 academic year. Applications are currently open and are evaluated on a rolling basis. International students…
Career opportunities for Math PhDs
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…
Erdös Institute Career Development Fall program
The Erdös Institute was founded by number theorist Professor Roman Holowinsky (OSU) as a way to help math PhDs find the careers they love and companies the math PhDs they need. Their career development program (fall cohort) for PhD students and post-docs interested in learning about non-academic careers and/or some of the skills needed for…
Michigan Alum wants to hire YOU
Michigan Math Alum David Tello, PhD, CIDA reached out for help recruiting to his team at the Market Risk Analysis Department at the Federal Home Loan Bank. He’s looking for a Quantitative Analyst, and knows another team looking for a Market Risk Strategy Analyst. If you’ve got less technical friends looking for work, he pointed…
UM Math PhD team takes first prize in Erdos Competition
Big congrats to Math PhD students Anna Brosowski, Sayantan Khan, Nancy Wang, Ethan Zell and Yili Zhang—otherwise known as Team Supermassive Blackhole—who took first place in the Erdös Institute‘s most recent Data Science bootcamp competition! Their project, titled Movie Finder, is a movie search app that gives the title of a movie based on what a…
Why I landed an industry job
by Yiwang Chen (UM Math PhD 2022) Now at Google There is always this question that crosses your mind at least once when you are working on your Ph.D., namely, industry or academia? As many Ph.D. students, my initial thought would be to stay in academia. However, after a summer encounter with the “Invitation to…
Lecturer Jobs Open
The University of Illinois, Chicago just opened several lecturer positions in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science. I can put you in contact with other Math PhD alums who have done this, or with the Chair, Brooke Shipley, who is searching. Let me know. The full consideration date is April 4, 2022, and the…