Math and Programming

Phil Grizzard's detailed description of his job application process. A Longtime Math Grad Student's Job Search Experience Totally worth reading if you're on the job market soon. Thanks for sharing!

I've recently read this small book, I devoured the 128 pages within two hours. Thought written in 1993, I think it is still highly accurate. Feibelman, a physicist,  describes several cases of unsuccessful scientific careers, despite hard work and intelligence. He points out the problems and gives advise how to avoid them. Every scientist should read his book early in grad school, refresh his memory when finishing grad school, and again when mentoring graduate students. A PhD is Not Enough on Amazon

I won't give you boring details of how you should format your CV, there's enough resources out there that give you much better advise than I ever could, instead I will tell you what you can and should do during graduate school, to generate the content for your CV and statements. Please keep in mind that I was specifically looking for post doctoral research positions in mathematical biology . If you want to land a teaching or tenure position, some rules might be different. Job Application Timeline Academic Jobs beginning fall 2011 (June – September) Deadlines for postdocs : as early as November 2010 Asked for letters: September 2010 CV, Research Statement, Preprint/publications/thesis Draft of Research Statement August/September 2010 CV: first version in 2008, career services, periodically updated Jobs are advertised on https://www.mathjobs.org/ http://notable.math.ucdavis.edu/wiki/Mathematics_Jobs_Wiki Discussed everything with my advisor, proof-read by a...

seek to pioneer new approaches Preliminary studies hint novel algorithms predictive models software tools for integrative analysis and visualization of genetic interaction networks to facilitate discovery developing new computational biology graduate level highly collaborative, interdisciplinary projects Analysis & Interpretation Using a systems biology approach The methods will be tested and validated in a number of real biological problems enticing them to pursue careers in science web-based tools in silico knockouts drug intervention can be seen as control of cellular network activity verification methods to check whether a model is consistent with the laboratory experimental observations on which it is based If the model does not conform to the data, we suggest a revised model and the new hypotheses are tested in-silico. The hypotheses formulated during in-silico testing suggest new avenues to explore experimentally. emerging field of System...

to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before.

... here's my list of words that I'm always struggling to come up with when writing a technical paper: natural emphasis arising in vital, crucial innovative foster driving instantaneous challenge all aspects of

I wish, we could always have 11,430 participants for a study as in this Nature article , "No gain from brain training".

Here 's a great paper that humorously lays out the challenges of reverse engineering. "Another common inspection tool in biology is gene perturbation experiments. As already mentioned, this technique can provide useful information, but it is also used more blindly, e.g., by deleting in turn every single gene in an organism to see what happens. In software engineering, no one has ever seriously proposed to remove each instruction in a program in turn to see what breaks. One might have a slightly better chance of acquiring useful knowledge by removing all pairs or triplets of instructions, but this immediately becomes unfeasible."

Dear Igor, no thank you, my (not yet written) thesis should not be published as a book. The individual sections have been published in different magazines, so it is available to a "wider audience" already. Let's save some trees and not turn every collection of written words into a book. FH Dear Hinkel Franz, I am writing on behalf of the International publishing house, Lambert Academic Publishing. In the course of a research on the The Department of Mathematics at Virginia Tech, I came across a reference to your work in the field of Mathematics. We are an International publisher whose aim is to make academic research available to a wider audience. LAP Publishing would be especially interested in publishing your dissertation in the form of a printed book. Your reply including an e-mail address to which I can send an e-mail with further information in an attachment will be greatly appreciated. I look forward to hear from you. Kind regards, Igor Mano...

... is coming up. Workshop Announcement Macaulay2 Website Macaulay2 Group

Now I know where I want to work, it's just a matter of working hard enough to get there.

is happening soon . I hope to gain some new wisdom that will be worth sharing. Macaulay2 is a software system for research in algebraic geometry - and it rocks, and we were very productive !

I like my (stolen) design , but Google sites is just so much faster - and you barely know it's Google Sites admg.vbi.vt.edu . And of course we can change the URL , just waiting on the CNAME changes.