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New SIAM website - Why Do Math?
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Career
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By dkung
Posted Thu Apr 15, 2010 at 10:39:16 AM PDT
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When students ask, "When are we going to use this?" what's your answer? A new site from SIAM can help:
Why Do Math
[Kudos to my colleague Katherine Socha who works on this project.]
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What school?
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Undergrad Life
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By djokovic
Posted Mon Apr 12, 2010 at 07:42:24 PM PDT
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Hi,I am a senior in high school who wants to be a math major for college.
I have the option of chosing between Princeton, MIT, Caltech and Harvard, or a local university that offered me a full ride (and 12K per year for food, clothing, etc.)
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Carnegie Mellon vs Courant
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By ErdosMagic
from the Mathematics department
Posted Sat Mar 13, 2010 at 01:06:08 PM PDT
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I have been admitted to Carnegie Mellon's Math PhD program with funding and Courant's PhD program without funding...
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Job Search Advice
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Job Search
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By dkung
Posted Fri Jan 22, 2010 at 08:34:05 AM PDT
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Now that the Joint Meetings are over, the next step in your job search is probably a campus interview. We've run lots of stories in the past with advice for going on these always stressful and sometimes fun-filled adventures. Last year we had a couple of people blog about their searches (one from each side of the table.) Instead of making you search the archives (always an option with our search page), I'll put a bunch of links to particularly good posts after the jump...
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Math Job Info Wiki
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Career
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By dkung
Posted Fri Jan 22, 2010 at 08:27:32 AM PDT
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Some folks at UC-Davis have set up a site where job candidates can find out (and post) the status of a bunch of institutions' searches.
There are two parts, the teaching list and the research list. (We're not sure how they draw the distinction...)
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YMN/NExT Poster Session
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Career
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By kroth
from the cool stuff department
Posted Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 07:08:29 AM PDT
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The YMN/Project NExT poster session at the Joint Math Meetings in San Francisco will be held from 2:15 to 4:15 Wednesday Jan. 12th in Room 3001, 3rd Floor, Moscone.
The abstracts for the poster presenters can be found at http://www.youngmath.net/Documents/2010/Posters/ymnabstracts2010.pdf
Come and see some cool math from some early career mathematicians.
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Does an unfunded PhD graduates have a future in academia?
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Career
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By discage
from the mathematics department
Posted Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 06:52:06 AM PDT
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I have to choose between two alternatives: one is accepted into PhD program at Courant without funding, another is a TA position with a 20-30 ranking school.
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