(or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Matrix, part I)
For those of you charged with teaching a linear algebra course or still struggling to picture the complicated dance of mass arithmetic known as matrix multiplication, here’s a neat visualization tip:
Draw your matrices like this:
This will be the first in a series of posts documenting “lessons learned” from my own academic job search. The earliest deadlines for tenure track positions occur around the first of October (though most are clustered between November and December). Therefore, part one will discuss things to consider leading up to this date. However, there will be no mention of other opportunities like the NSF postdoc.
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Back in May, Alexander Diaz wrote about diversity in the mathematical community and gave some great advice on how to foster a more diverse community. In our mathematics department at CU, we are taking several steps toward that aim, and I want to outline one of the easiest to implement, something we call CHATs.
A CHAT is a time for grad students (and sometimes faculty) to get together and chat about a predetermined topic of interest. The goal of a CHAT is to have a discussion that strengthens the community by uncovering ways that participants can relate to one another and/or focuses on issues that directly affect how our community responds to diversity.
Some of our past CHAT topics include work/life balance, the events in Ferguson last year, and the obstacles individuals have overcome along with barriers they are still facing on the way to their degree. Continue reading
I would like to share with you my first year experience as a graduate student in mathematics at Washington State University, and I want to give you some suggestions about what you should do as a graduate student in mathematics. In Spring 2015, I started my first semester as a Ph.D student in Applied Mathematics, and during that semester, I wrote two math textbooks in differential equations and linear algebra, and I also gave three seminar’s talks in Applied Mathematics, as well as, I participated as invited technical program committee (TPC) member and invited reviewer for many international conferences and journals in applied math, physics, electrical engineering, and computer engineering. Most of these conferences published their accepted papers in major trade peer-reviewed publishing companies such as Springer and IEEE Xplore. Therefore, the following is a list of five different things that I highly recommend you to do as a graduate student in mathematics: Continue reading
From the Director of the Mathematics Division at the NSF:
The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based Master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions. The program provides up to three years of support, including an annual $34,000 stipend, for the graduate education of individuals who have demonstrated their potential for significant achievements in science and engineering research. Continue reading
