29th October 2009, 06:26 pm
Guest post by Diane Boumenot, Manager, Membership and Programs, American Mathematical Society
I want to alert the blog readers that much has changed this year about how the Employment Center will operate at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco, January 13-16, 2010. Registration and scheduling are now completely electronic, and registration is free.
We have a new website which combines our job listing service (EIMS) with the Employment Center data. The jobs are publicly viewable and new listings are coming in daily. Note especially the jobs that have the tiny “EC” logo, meaning that job will be interviewed for at the Employment Center.
Continue reading ‘What’s New at San Francisco Joint Meetings Employment Center’ »
20th October 2009, 06:32 pm
By Tom Wright
Andrew Obus’ post on how to do a job search inspired me to do my own post on how not to do a job search. As most are probably aware, the market was unkind last year, to the point where small schools were getting hundreds of applicants for one-year positions offered in April and May. I was one of the semi-fortunate ones, getting a one year position in late April; of course, this means that I’ll be back on the market this year. The good news is that now, I’m armed with all of the information I learned from all of the mistakes I made, as well as all of the mistakes that my friends made. In this article, I’ve listed some of the bigger ones. Continue reading ‘If I Could Do It Over, I’d Make The Same Mistakes All Over Again’ »
19th October 2009, 02:14 pm
by Daniel Erman
I just discovered that Eszter Hargittai has started a career advice column for academics. It’s called “Ph.Do” and appears at Inside Higher Ed. Here are a couple of quotes lifted from her first column, which should give a flavor:
The pieces I will be writing here in the Ph.Do series are built on the premise that understanding the many implicit practices of academia can be extremely valuable in navigating various stages of the system well.
and for graduate students in particular:
The path to tenure begins in the first year of graduate school.
At the moment she has an introductory post as well as two posts on how to get the most out of academic conferences.
11th October 2009, 04:50 pm
by Daniel Erman
I’ve just begun mentoring a pair of first year graduate students as part of Berkeley’s mentoring program (recently revamped by the student group Unbounded Representation). Thus, I’ve been recently wondering about the following question: What is the most important piece of advice for a first year graduate student in mathematics?
I offer my opinion below the fold. In addition, Adam Boocher, who is a 2nd year graduate student (I’m in my 5th year) will offer his opinion in a companion post on this blog. We’re also curious to hear from anyone else with an opinion on this question (especially those of you that diagree with us!) Continue reading ‘Mentoring Advice’ »
6th October 2009, 03:21 pm
Every beginning math graduate student and senior considering math graduate school should apply for an NSF Graduate Fellowship. Applications are due by November 4. Also see the column on Fellowships below.
4th October 2009, 06:26 pm
by ANDREW OBUS
It’s that time of year when graduating students have to start thinking about the job search. I don’t want to give here a comprehensive overview of the job search, but I want to share a few things that I did in my academic job search last year that I think were helpful (and that are not always done)…
1) I kept a spreadsheet of all the jobs I had applied to. Continue reading ‘Job Search’ »
4th October 2009, 05:46 pm
By Kareem Carr
Fields medalist Terence Tao is undoubtedly a very successful mathematician. He works primarily in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, geometric combinatorics, arithmetic combinatorics, analytic number theory, compressed sensing and algebraic combinatorics. I interviewed him over email to gain some insight into how aspiring mathematicians can become successful too.
Continue reading ‘An Interview with Terence Tao’ »
2nd October 2009, 03:50 pm
By Brie Finegold
Baby Felix Klein’s family probably didn’t give him lots of useless presents around the holidays, and he turned out okay (aka brilliant mathematician/physicist). All of the Holiday Sales are already starting, trying to entice all of us poor people to dish out dollars for useless junk. So I thought I’d start a list of mathy gifts under $15 that are sure to please. Everyone knows that mathematicians love to be disoriented — or at least they know that being disoriented is nothing to be ashamed of! I suppose these might also make good extra credit projects to give your students as well (maybe not the first one).
