MSCI (aka RiskMetrics)

MSCI (aka RiskMetrics) is a  worldwide financial services company with offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Norman. They’re a leading provider of investment decision support tools.

Thanks to the help of Adrienne Jablonski, several people from MSCI will be talking about how they use math to analyze risk and other factors for their clients on

Wednesday, April 20th, in PHSC 1105 at 5pm.

MSCI is also hiring for summer internships and other positions.  They will be talking about those opportunities as well!  If you’re interested in seeing job descriptions for the summer internships, please email Dr. Kujawa and he can provide you with copies.

As a bonus, they’re also fellow bloggers.

As always, Free Pizza!

High Performance Computing REU

Friend of the Blog, Henry Neeman, sent us another REU (Rsearch Experience for Undergraduates) announcement for y’all:

SUMMARY:

Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), June 20 – Aug 12 2011
Interdisciplinary Program in High Performance Computing
Applications and details:

http://www.umbc.edu/hpcreu

Application deadline: Fri Feb 18 2011

Please feel free to forward this announcement as appropriate.

DETAILS:

It gives us great pleasure to announce our NSF-funded REU Site:
Interdisciplinary Program in High Performance Computing for Summer
2011.

The program is an innovative combination of learning scientific,
parallel, and statistical computing skills and applying them in an
interdisciplinary research context.

The webpage

http://www.umbc.edu/hpcreu

has complete details of the 2011 program as well as special events
and a photo album of the 2010 program; monitor the webpage for a
link to a video in the near future!

Please forward this message to any student who might be interested
in a summer research experience with focus on applied mathematics,
numerical analysis, statistics, and scientific and parallel
computing, and their applications.

Also we welcome you to forward to anyone else who might be
interested, such as faculty at other colleges and universities.

If you received this mail by forwarding and would like to be
added to the mailing list, send e-mail to

hpcreu@umbc.edu

The REU Site:

Interdisciplinary Program in High Performance Computing is located
in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at UMBC in the
heart of the Baltimore-Washington corridor of industry and
government.

The program is comprised of learning scientific, parallel, and
statistical computing and of project work on interdisciplinary
applications.

All activities of the program are conducted by teams of students,
closely supported by graduate teaching and research assistants as
well as the faculty of the program.

Key Elements for Summer 2011:

* 8 weeks from Mon June 20 to Fri Aug 12 2011

* UMBC is located south of Baltimore, Maryland, in the
Baltimore-Washington corridor of industry and government agencies

* Team work with dedicated graduate student mentors and faculty
instructors

* Professional development workshops, GRE preparation course

Unique Features:

* Fully transferable three-credit course Math 447 Introduction to
Parallel Computing

* Includes introduction to tools of scientific and statistical
computing: C, Linux, MATLAB, R, LaTeX

* Interdisciplinary projects with clients from industry and
government agencies

* Field trips to local industry and government labs such as NSA,
NASA, NIH

* Poster presentations at the university-wide Summer Undergraduate
Research Fest

Formal Details:

* Program benefits
– Program stipend $3,600
– UMBC campus housing and food allowance provided
– Travel allowance provided

* Eligibility Requirements
– 30 college credits
– U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency
– Courses in Calculus, Linear Algebra, Basic Probability and
Statistics, Introduction to Programming

Sincerely,

Nagaraj Neerchal and Matthias Gobbert

Summer Jobs, 2011 Edition

Summer seems a long way off, but now is the time to think about what you’ll be doing Summer 2011.  Hopefully you’re thinking about a summer internship or an REU (REU stands for Research Experience for Undergraduates).   We talked about them last year here.

What a lot of people don’t realize is that there is many, many cool summer jobs that involve using and learning math.  Much better than working at the local Kwik-E-Mart, eh?

Here?

There are all sorts of opportunities both in the corporate world and in the government/university world.  We’ll post any announcements here on the Math Club blog, but you should also go to OU Math Dept. webpage for math majors to find listings for lots of other opportunities.

Definitely check out the OU webpage about summer research opportunities. There you’ll find a comprehensive list of the math REUs funded by the National Science Foundation along with lots of other good resources.  Including a handy cheat sheet of tips on how to go about applying.

The most important thing to keep in mind is that:

Many deadlines are in January-March!

So act fast! (Especially because you usually need letters of recommendation and professors can become grumpy when asked for letters on short notice! )

Or here?

Another Last Minute REU

Another REU opportunity for this summer was given to us at the OU Math Club Blog HQ to pass along.  This time it’s in more applied areas of math:

The Departments of Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics at Marshall University will jointly host selected students for ten weeks of instruction and research in computational science beginning Sunday, June 6, 2010 (D-Day!).   The students will participate in a variety of activities:

• Mondays will be devoted to lectures, discussions, and hands-on learning.  For about the first half of the summer, we will concentrate on the problems, methods, and tools common to computational scientists from all fields.  During the second half of the summer we will examine the role of ethics for students and scientists alike.
• On Fridays, students will briefly share their progress and problems with each other.  Near the end of the summer, outside experts from industry or government services will give students ideas about the use of scientific computing outside academia.
• Tuesday-Thursday students will work with their mentors on research projects that are carefully selected parts of the mentors’ own research.  No special experience is required — the mentors will explain the ideas, context, and methods needed to understand and perform the research.
• The weekends will be “down time”.  There will be some optional, organized activity each Saturday — a trip to the movies or a bowling alley, a pool tournament, ultimate frisbee, etc.

Student participants will be provided with room and board, a stipend of $4250, all the necessary books, and modest travel allowance to assist students to travel to Marshall University.  Travel support is also available to professional conferences for students who are presenting the results of their research.

It sounds fun, doesn’t it?  So, if you’re majoring in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics, send in your application today!

Last Minute Opportunity

Thinking about an REU?  If you’re quick you could apply to this one which was sent to us to pass along:

REU Program in Mathematics and Computation
Summer 2010, Bard College

Website: math.bard.edu/reu
Application deadline:  April 1, 2010
To apply:  mathprograms.org
To contact us:  mathreu@bard.edu
To download/print a poster: http://math.bard.edu/reu/poster.pdf.

Bard College announces a new REU program in mathematics and computation. Projects are available in discrete geometry, coding theory, computational neuroscience, and mathematical ecology. The program is for 8 weeks starting on June 1, 2010. Review of applications will begin April 1st, 2010.

For more information, please visit math.bard.edu/reu.  To apply, go to https://www.mathprograms.org/db/Bard/26, or go to mathprograms.org and click on ” View Programs”.  Please email questions to mathreu@bard.edu.We welcome applications from both current sophomores and juniors, including students who have decided to major in mathematics as late as their junior year and students who are undecided about a career in mathematics. Applicants must not yet have graduated with an undergraduate degree at the time of the REU. Women and members of underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged to apply.

Note: Financial support is available only to U.S. citizens or permanent residents.

From the looks of it, Bard College looks quite nice:

Somewhere at Bard College