YMN The Young Mathematicians' Network
Serving the Community of Young Mathematicians
Sections: Front Page   Career   Diaries   Editors   Work and Family Life   Grad Life   Job Search   Misc   Paths to Math   Research   Teaching   Undergrad Life   Events   Frequently Asked Questions   News
YMN

Subscribe


About Us
FAQ
Editors
Photos
Support
Search
Comments


Math Links
MAA
AMS
AWM
SIAM
MathForum
MathForge
PhDs.org
Suggest

All Stories
Younger Mathematicians Networking Misc

By overconvergent
from the facebook department
Posted Sun Nov 23, 2008 at 04:50:20 AM PDT
The Younger Members Group of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications in the UK has started online networking using Facebook.

Their Facebook group is here; currently it has pictures from conferences and a mathematical jokes section, as well as a Facebook application to display the IMA logo on your userpage.

Post a Comment Comments >>

budget crunches, word smithing, and the writing of a job ad Job Search

By nowhiring
Posted Fri Nov 14, 2008 at 01:49:51 AM PDT
Whew, that was close! Like many places, the economy's nosedive has hit our university hard. Budgets are tighter than ever and according to some friends across the country, some places are facing hiring freezes. It looked like that might happen here as well. Just this week we finally got the go-ahead to proceed with our search. That meant trying to agree on the wording of the ad...

Post a Comment (4 comments, 434 words in story) Full Story

applying to grad schools Grad Life

By joft
Posted Thu Nov 13, 2008 at 03:57:38 AM PDT
Do I have a chance? Where should I apply? Any advice/recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Post a Comment (3 comments, 417 words in story) Full Story

Typical Grad School Concerns Grad Life

By primetime
from the pure math department
Posted Sat Nov 08, 2008 at 07:06:37 AM PDT
Hey... it's grad school applications season and I was hoping to get a feel of how good my application is. I'm currently in a strong math program at a Canadian university and I want to go to the US for grad studies in pure math. Here's some info about me: General GRE scores: 800Q(94%)/460V(50%)/5AW(77%), GRE Math Subject test: expecting 80-85%ile

Post a Comment (4 comments, 209 words in story) Full Story

What Kind of Job do I REALLY Want? Job Search

By jobhunter08
Posted Sat Nov 08, 2008 at 07:06:04 AM PDT
As I mentioned earlier, this is my second time applying for jobs. When I applied for jobs last time, I had a tough time deciding on what kind of job I really wanted. Did I want a tenure-track job or a postdoc? Would I take a research job or a teaching job? Or would I get out of academia completely and go work in industry? My thesis advisor was pushing me to go the postdoc route, but I wasn't sure that's what I wanted. To be honest, each of these seemed to me to be equally valid options at the time, and I started the job process without having any idea where I would end up.

Post a Comment (1 comment, 402 words in story) Full Story

Four revealing questions young faculty should ask about tenure Career

By rtalbert
Posted Fri Oct 31, 2008 at 07:35:00 AM PDT
Many young mathematicians are either looking for tenure-track positions or are currently in tenure-track positions. In these cases, it's important to ask good questions of the people who oversee the tenure process at a particular school in order to get information about the process -- and to see how good the process really is at those schools. Here are four questions that get to the heart of the matter along with suggestions for how to interpret the responses you might get.

Post a Comment (948 words in story) Full Story

On the Job Market this Year (first blog post) Job Search

By jobhunter08
Posted Fri Oct 31, 2008 at 07:34:42 AM PDT
I am on the job market this year, and was asked to blog about my experiences here. I thought I'd start by sharing a little about me. I currently hold a postdoc that places approximately equal emphasis on research and teaching. My time here is coming to a close, so I'm back on the market again. I do feel fortunate to have a little better idea of what I'm getting into this year. I remember being rather shocked at how many things are required for an academic job application... the research statement, the teaching statement, the vita, the AMS cover sheet, and all that. Hopefully coming into it knowing that I need all those things I'll be better prepared...

Post a Comment (1 comment, 404 words in story) Full Story

Gowers sheds light on the upcoming "math tricks" wiki News

By rtalbert
Posted Wed Oct 22, 2008 at 02:50:27 PM PDT
Timothy Gowers, Fields Medalist and editor of the Princeton Companion to Mathematics, is now about to unveil a mathematical "tricks" wiki known as the Tricki. The Tricki will initially be a collection of wiki articles on general and specific mathematical problem solving techniques. But what's interesting is that Gowers wants to grow the Tricki into a kind of expert system which will semi-automatically guide mathematicians through problem solving tasks using collected knowledge. Here's the article from Gowers' blog about all that.

I wonder if, in the future, instead of having advisors, PhD students will just be pulling open problems off of a discussion board and solving them with the help of a wiki.

Post a Comment Comments >>

Next 8 >>
Poll
What's your job goal this year?
Happily stay where I am
Get a job in May after I finish my BS
Get a job this year after I finish my PhD
Switch jobs - this place bites!

Votes: 70 | Comments: 0
Results | Other Polls

Menu
create account
FAQ
Search
Recent Comments

Login
Make a new account
Username:
Password:

All Stories

Saturday October 18th
Making sense of $700 billion (2 comments)

Friday October 17th
The hiring process as risk management (0 comments)

Friday October 3rd
Blogging our search - the Search begins (4 comments)
What are my chances of PhD admission? (3 comments)

Saturday September 20th
New largest prime numbers known (0 comments)

Wednesday September 10th
The AMS Elections are open (0 comments)

Monday September 8th
Poster Session at the JMM (0 comments)

Friday June 20th
Quantitative Analyst (0 comments)

Sunday May 25th
iSquared, the new mathematics magazine (0 comments)

Tuesday April 8th
Program for Women finishing Math PhDs (0 comments)

Older Stories...

SourceForge Logo Powered by Scoop
All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective companies. Comments are owned by the Poster. The Rest

create account | faq | search