Category Archives: Grad School

A Reflection on Giving Talks

Posted on February 29, 2020 by Andrés R. Vindas Meléndez

Acknowledgments: Special THANKS to Matthias Beck, Ben Braun, Pamela Harris, Max Hlavacek, Mariel Supina, Julie Vega, and the Discrete Geometry Group/The Villa at FU Berlin. I recently came back from a research visit to the Freie Universität in Berlin where … Continue reading →

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Dear first year, this isn’t something you can plan for (Part 3)

Posted on January 15, 2020 by Hannah Barta

In case you want to catch up: here are Parts 1 & 2 of my first-year journey. We like to think that our life stories have happy endings, perhaps that we can carefully partition our lives into fourths of each … Continue reading →

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Interviewing New International Math PhD Students

Posted on November 4, 2019 by Error Not Found

En route to my first year of graduate school, I packed up the three good pillows I have, moved a couple hundred miles, and planted myself in an apartment I had only seen in a grainy Face Time video. Hopefully … Continue reading →

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Have questions about applying to grad school? Check out the Grad School Panel on reddit.com/r/math!

Posted on October 25, 2019 by Richard Wong

Hi all, This week I’m here to tell you about an unlikely mathematical community that you might be interested in, particularly if you’re interested in applying to grad school, or if you’re a grad student wondering about life after grad … Continue reading →

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Dear first year, this isn’t something you can plan for (Part 1)

Posted on October 4, 2019 by Hannah Barta

I still remember how hopeful I was when I started. I had come off a high-performance undergraduate career, with a rockin’ CV full of contributed talks (including one at Joint Mathematics Meetings and the Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in … Continue reading →

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