NSF Graduate Fellowship Applications due November 4

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Frank Morgan

Every beginning math graduate student and senior considering math graduate school should apply for an NSF Graduate Fellowship. Applications are due by November 4. Also see the column on Fellowships below.

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Job Search

Posted on October 4, 2009 by Andrew Obus

by ANDREW OBUS

It’s that time of year when graduating students have to start thinking about the job search.   I don’t want to give here a comprehensive overview of the job search, but I want to share a few things that I did in my academic job search last year that I think were helpful (and that are not always done)…

1) I kept a spreadsheet of all the jobs I had applied to.  Continue reading →

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An Interview with Terence Tao

Posted on October 4, 2009 by Kareem Carr

By Kareem Carr

Fields medalist Terence Tao is undoubtedly a very successful mathematician. He works primarily in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, geometric combinatorics, arithmetic combinatorics, analytic number theory, compressed sensing and algebraic combinatorics. I interviewed him over email to gain some insight into how aspiring mathematicians can become successful too.

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D.I.Y. Unorientable Math Gifts

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Brie Finegold

By Brie Finegold

Baby Felix Klein’s family probably didn’t give him lots of useless presents around the holidays, and he turned out okay (aka brilliant mathematician/physicist). All of  the Holiday Sales are already starting, trying to entice all of us poor people to dish out dollars for useless junk. So I thought I’d start a list of mathy gifts under $15 that are sure to please. Everyone knows that mathematicians love to be disoriented — or at least they know that being disoriented is nothing to be ashamed of!  I suppose these might also make good extra credit projects to give your students as well (maybe not the first one).

  • Make a Glass Klein Bottle for your favorite mathematician: What’s a Klein Bottle?   Continue reading →
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To post or not to post, this is for questions

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Brian Katz

by Brian Katz

A lot of the content on this blog is posted when a member of the editorial staff has an idea or remembers a gem of wisdom. If you post a question as a response to this thread, we will happily focus our attention on your current quandary.

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