Questions tagged [career]
For questions about careers and jobs in mathematics (inside and outside academia)
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Are there any informal rules to follow before submitting a paper? [closed]
EDIT Possibly my question might sound strange, sorry about that. I got a PhD in another country years ago. Recently I moved to the US and have a tenured position. Assume I wrote a paper and want to ...
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Does it ever make sense NOT to go to the most prestigious grad school you can get into? [closed]
I'm a senior undergrad at a top-ish(say, top 15) math school. I'm a solid, not stellar, student. This year I'm taking the qualifying exam grad courses in algebra and analysis and have been taken aback ...
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switching jobs when you have a tenure-track position [closed]
I hope this topic is appropriate for MO. I have a tenure-track position at a US university in a location where my spouse is very unhappy, severely underemployed, and has no real prospect of finding ...
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Does one need an external, peer-reviewed grant to become tenured faculty in this field? [closed]
As a secondary question, how important is it to be awarded grants to remain employed as a PhD mathematician at an academic research institution? Is it common or uncommon for PhD mathematicians to have ...
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recommendation letter for teaching [closed]
I need a recommendation letter on my teaching. I want to ask the instructor in last semester for which I was a TA, but I don't know how his impression for my teaching. So do I need to ask him for his ...
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Industry jobs involving mathematics, machine learning and biology [closed]
I have a MSc in Mathematics and a PhD in Bioinformatics (in two different European countries); during the PhD I was developing computational methods to analyse DNA sequence data, mainly using a ...
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Will this be a case of self plagiarism or will it annoy the referee? [closed]
About 2 months ago, I uploaded a fairly long paper (P1) to arXiv and it is currently under review.
Now, I am writing a second paper (P2) on a somewhat different topic. But quite unexpectedly, it ...
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Partial differential equations outside of academia [closed]
I've seen a number of career/jobs questions on mathoverflow before, so I thought I would ask. Please excuse me if this isn't the best place for this specific question. Lately I've been really ...
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How should a professor feel peace of mind when a student leaves academia? [closed]
I apologize if this is the wrong forum for this question -- if so, could somebody please point me to the correct one?
I'm a professor who recently started advising graduate students, and I'm trying ...
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What are an adviser's responsibilities? [closed]
There seems to be a wide variance in what faculty members view as their responsibilities as a student’s adviser. I understand that some advisers go above and beyond what's expected and we can't hold ...
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How to find a topic to do research with as a Post-Doc? [closed]
I will soon finish my PhD in arithmetic geometry. My advisor told me that I will have to find my next research topic on my own. How do I do that? (Except for "continue where the PhD thesis ends") Can ...
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Would it make sense to have someone write separate teaching and non-teaching letters of reference for one candidate?
There's a friend of mine (seriously, not me) who is facing a slight dilemma. There's a particular senior mathematician who he knows well (several co-authored papers, etc.) who also is probably the ...
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State of research in moduli space of flat connections
I am a recent PhD student trying to settle into a research topic. Even though I have a current project I am working on, I am not particularly enjoying it and would like to switch. Before braving the ...
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Computational Algebra and Symbolic Computation - Where? [closed]
Following the line of this question, I'm in my last year of M.Sc., and I'm looking for a place where I can start my PHD. Since that question has been asked 4 years ago, I thought it may be wise to ask ...
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Is it possible to pursue a career in mathematics only working within a small subset of the subject? [closed]
This is a bit of a meta question I guess but I was wondering to what extent does a career mathematician need to use multiple areas of math in their profession?
Example, is it possible to exclusively ...
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transition from academia to industry [closed]
crossposted to https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/23644/transition-from-academia-to-industry
I am currently doing a post-doc in pure Math [teaching and research] in the US.
The academic ...
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How to choose a good place for postdocs [closed]
I am finishing my Ph.D. and I am waiting to hear back from postdocs. I don't have offers yet (although I heard that some schools have already offered) but I have a question about how to tell which ...
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"How not to write an NSF proposal" poster: does any one know where to find it online?
When I was recently at MSRI, they had a big poster of humorous advice on how to get an NSF proposal rejected (for example: "Definitely don't worry about sending it to an appropriate program officer. ...
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Some career start-up (postdoc) questions [closed]
Hi, I hope below can be categorized under career questions.
Based on your experiences what are the major issues/concerns and differences of professor sponsored postdoc positions (compared to ...
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website for jobs in applied or industrial mathematics (or financial math) [closed]
What are the websites for general position in applied or industrial mathematics(or financial mathematics) related jobs (that is if we have to find a non academic job temporarily) ?Thanks!
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going from one subject in PhD to another in Postdoc. [closed]
Hi, my question is:
Is it acceptable to do a PhD in mathematics in a topic such as Number Theory and or Analysis and change subjects in postdoc to something different than these topics such as ...
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Advice on Giving a Talk [closed]
What advice do you have for giving a talk on a mathematical research paper to people in other fields in science (not physics nor astronomy) but without lot of math background?
Thanks.
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Advice on giving a good job talk [closed]
Dear Mathforum,
I am giving a job talk in the next couple of weeks and I am still struggling
to come up with a suitable talk.
I graduated in september of 2010 and so I have been a post doc for a ...
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What to do when your work is 'dissed' [closed]
I'm posting this anonymously, for obvious reasons (if you guess who I am please keep it under your hat).
I recently finished my PhD and am about to publish the first paper from my thesis. No sooner ...
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Job applications: how important is it for letters of recommendation to be on letterhead? [closed]
Hello,
The context for this question: for liberal arts colleges, one of my letter writers is a fifth-grade teacher that I spent a year teaching with. She has written her letter, but is having ...
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How up-to-date do teaching letters need to be?
Let's say that you're thinking of applying for TT jobs in the U.S., though it's not absolutely essential for you to do so this year (but there are some opportunities you don't want to pass up). Due ...
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What happened to Clay Liftoff? [closed]
I noticed the other day that the Clay Liftoff program has been suspended. You can see this at http://www.claymath.org/fas/liftoff/. It also appears that there were fewer Fellows this year then in past ...
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Does research-oriented position requires good teaching experience [closed]
I am wondering if the research-oriented position still requires good teaching experience, for example, is it 1 year teaching experience OK? Or not OK?I understand there is probably no absolute ...
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