Opportunities to teach in LSA’s Program for Computing in the Arts and Sciences (PCAS)

The director PCAS reached out asking me to advertise some interesting teaching opportunities for Math GSIs at Michigan. They are looking to hire three GSIs for three different new courses in computing in the Arts. This is a unique opportunity to expand your teaching portfolio and teach something different. Details with links to apply below.…

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…

Last day to register for Erdos institute Boot Camp

Last chance to sign up is today! This free program has been invaluable for PhD mathematicians seeking seeking employment in industry. Please fill out our application form on our website by the end of the day today. We’ll be reviewing applications over the next month and sending out admittance emails on December 15th.  As a…

Zoom Invitations to Industry: Spotify

You are invited to Monday’s  Erdos Institute Zoom Invitation to Industry with Spotify Topic: Invitations to Industry – Archana Anandakrishnan, PhD – Spotify Time: Apr 13, 2020 05:15 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada):  Join Zoom Meeting Password: 016420 Update: Slides from this presentation available:  here.

The Data Incubator’s Spring 2020 Data Science Fellowship

Michael Li, founder and CEO of the Data Incubator, wrote to advertise their bootcamps to transition graduate students and post-docs to Data careers. Note that Erdos Institute is also sponsoring a data science boot camp this May, and we’ll be funding a few PhD students to attend that. See Li’s message below. The Data Incubator’s Spring…

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…

Data Science and AI Careers

The explosion of Big Data means tremendous opportunities for math PhDs. Many alums from the past decade are enjoying lucrative and rewarding careers in various aspects of data science and machine learning, from fighting credit card fraud for Chase Manhattan to computer vision at Amazon to  handling logistics for small businesses. The severe shortage of  “deep analytical talent”…

MIDAS Symposium on Big Data

The Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) warmly invites all of us mathematicians to attend the 2018 MIDAS Annual Symposium, titled “Serving Society through Data Science,” to be held October 8-9 at the Rackham Building. The lineup of speakers has been set, and we are excited to bring several preeminent data scientists to Ann Arbor.…