Timeline for "Industry"/Government jobs for mathematicians
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| Jun 18, 2010 at 10:11 | comment | added | Neel Krishnaswami | Google hires a lot of PhDs, but is incredibly secretive about what they do. Word of mouth is they do a lot of systems research and algorithmics -- but they regard this stuff as trade secrets, and so their people don't publish. OTOH, MSR is really wide-open: I'm doing a postdoc at Cambridge 1.0, and it's basically like a postdoc at a university, only with better pay and travel budgets. MSR is strongly CS-focused, though they are happy to hire theoretical CS-oriented people. | |
| Jun 18, 2010 at 8:18 | comment | added | Adam | Google has a division called the "labs", but it doesn't really do research in the sense that Bell Labs or IBM Labs does. I can't remember ever reading a peer-reviewed paper listing that affiliation (which isn't to say they don't exist -- I'm sure they do). | |
| Jun 18, 2010 at 1:47 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | At a government-affiliated lab, you will need at least a low-level security clearance in order to do classified work, and the most interesting projects will usually be classified. Before you can publish anything, the lab will need to okay it first, but if there is nothing classified in it then there is unlikely to be a problem. The vast majority of what we would consider interesting, publishable, pure mathematics will very likely be given the green light by the lab. | |
| Jun 17, 2010 at 17:01 | history | edited | Ryan Williams | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jun 17, 2010 at 16:56 | history | answered | Ryan Williams | CC BY-SA 2.5 |