Timeline for How important is it for one on the job market to have thought about suitable REU projects?
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| Nov 29, 2023 at 23:22 | vote | accept | David White | ||
| Feb 15, 2019 at 12:50 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:58 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Sep 12, 2011 at 15:50 | comment | added | Thierry Zell | @Donu: I found it easy to come up with problems that are interesting for my undergrads to solve, but that would not really be suitable for my own research for a variety of reasons, mostly because they were too far from my main research area. | |
| Sep 12, 2011 at 15:48 | comment | added | Thierry Zell | If you're interested in clarifying the role of UG research and realistic expectations, I would encourage reading: Francis Edward Su. Teaching Research: Encouraging Discoveries. Amer. Math. Monthly, 117:159–169, 2010. available here: math.hmc.edu/~su/papers.dir/leitzel.pdf | |
| Sep 12, 2011 at 13:24 | history | edited | David White | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
realized my last edit deleted a sentence I wanted to keep
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| Sep 12, 2011 at 13:06 | comment | added | Donu Arapura | If I were to write an answer, it would be similar to JSE's. There is no need for two of these. Regarding your question 2, if you found a good (by which I mean interesting and nontrivial) problem that you could solve, then I think you should try to solve it. At this point in your career, it is important. That's my 2 cents anyway. | |
| Sep 12, 2011 at 12:26 | comment | added | David White | @Tom Leinster, I edited it to make it clearer (I hope) to non-US mathematicians. If my assumption above about post-docs in Europe is wrong, then I hope someone will come along and correct me. One of the links is about REU-type experiences abroad, so it's possible this would come up in an application for a Europe post-doc, but it seemed unlikely | |
| Sep 12, 2011 at 12:25 | comment | added | David White | Right now there seem to be two votes to close (unless I'm reading this wrong). Isn't it normal for people voting to close to leave a comment? So far there has been no discussion here or at the meta page about whether or not this should be closed. I'm leaving this comment so that anyone who wants to leave a comment as a vote to stay-open knows that there are votes to close | |
| Sep 12, 2011 at 12:22 | history | edited | David White | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Edited to make it clearer what kinds of jobs I'm looking for. Also, defined REU
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| Sep 12, 2011 at 11:24 | comment | added | Felipe Voloch | tea.mathoverflow.net/discussion/1135/… | |
| Sep 12, 2011 at 7:55 | comment | added | Tom Leinster | I didn't vote it down, but maybe it would be useful to explain the abbreviations R1 and REU, since among other things you want advice about jobs in Europe. | |
| Sep 12, 2011 at 4:59 | answer | added | Alexander Woo | timeline score: 19 | |
| Sep 12, 2011 at 3:45 | comment | added | Noah Snyder | I think I accidentally voted this question down when viewing it on my phone. Fixed now. | |
| Sep 12, 2011 at 1:39 | answer | added | JSE | timeline score: 14 | |
| Sep 12, 2011 at 1:23 | answer | added | Bill Cook | timeline score: 11 | |
| Sep 12, 2011 at 1:14 | answer | added | paul garrett | timeline score: 10 | |
| Sep 12, 2011 at 0:40 | history | asked | David White | CC BY-SA 3.0 |