Seminars and Colloquia by Series

BIG job opportunities for math PhDs at national labs

Series
Professional Development Seminar
Time
Wednesday, September 27, 2023 - 14:30 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Stephen Young – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

A conversation with Stephen Young, 2008 GT ACO PhD and Senior Research Mathematician at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, on opportunities for mathematicians in the unique combination of business/industry/government afforded by the DOE national labs.

(Coffee will be available at 3:30 following this discussion and before the speaker's ACO Alumni Lecture at 4pm.)

Why industry? Why not!

Series
Professional Development Seminar
Time
Thursday, April 20, 2017 - 16:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 114
Speaker
Adam Fox – MassMutual Financial Group
A conversation with Adam Fox, former GT postdoc who secured his "dream job" as a tenure-track assistant professor at Western New England University, but who recently moved into industry as a Data Scientist.

A career in mathematics research outside of the academy

Series
Professional Development Seminar
Time
Thursday, April 13, 2017 - 16:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 114
Speaker
Amanda Streib – IDA/CCS
A conversation with Amanda Streib, a 2012 GT ACO PhD, who is now working at the Institute for Defense Analyses - Center for Computing Sciences (IDA/CCS) and who was previously a National Research Council (NRC) postdoc at the Applied and Computational Mathematics Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Similarities and differences: faculty positions at research universities versus highly selective liberal arts colleges

Series
Professional Development Seminar
Time
Thursday, March 9, 2017 - 16:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 114
Speaker
Julianna Tymoczko – Smith College
A conversation with Julianna Tymoczko, associate professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at Smith, who received her BS from Harvard and PhD from Princeton and was a postdoc at the University of Michigan and assistant professor at the University of Iowa.

Preparing for a career in academia

Series
Professional Development Seminar
Time
Thursday, January 26, 2017 - 16:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
TBA
Speaker
Christine Heitsch – Georgia Tech
The first meeting of our Spring 2017 professional development seminar for postdocs and other interested individuals (such as advanced graduate students). A discussion of the triumvirate of faculty positions: research, teaching, and service.

Workshop on Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement

Series
Professional Development Seminar
Time
Friday, June 12, 2015 - 15:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Helen G. Grundman – Bryn Mawr College
A teaching philosophy statement is an crucial part of your dossier. This will be a participatory workshop designed to help you write a statement of your teaching philosophy -- one that accurately reflects your personal beliefs and attitudes. We will begin with some simple exercises to help you identify what you feel is important about teaching in general and your teaching in particular. We will discuss how to translate the outcomes of these exercises into a coherent statement. With luck, there will also be plenty of time for questions. (Please bring paper and something to write with (or a laptop or tablet).)

The view from the other side of the table

Series
Professional Development Seminar
Time
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 - 11:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Adam Fox – Western New England University
Faculty jobs at smaller teaching schools are highly sought after by those who value their balance of education, research, and service. Hear what it takes to succeed in this market from a former GT postdoc, who is a new assistant professor and recent veteran of many JMM interviews --- from the employer side of the table!

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