Next month, we are planning a panel discussion on how to find a job once you get your degree. Panel members will be current or past students in our department who have recently competed their job searches, both in industry and academia. This should be an interesting topic for students at all stages in their graduate careers--we will all have to do it someday. The How to Find a Job seminar is scheduled for Wednesday, April 10, 2000 at 4:00 p.m. in room 1310. If you have any questions or would like to be on the panel, please contact Alden Moylan at alden@math.umd.edu.
If you are interested in giving a talk for our seminar in April, please contact Ruth Auerbach at rauerb@math.umd.edu. This is a good opportunity to practice speaking an a friendly atmosphere and to tell others about something you have studied, or just think is interesting. Thank you to the panel members, Ruth Auerbach, Kim Weems, and Bita Khoshvaghti, for our seminar on how to find an advisor. We had a really good turnout for this event and hopefully everyone went away having learned something. If you are looking for more information on this subject, the web pages by Dianne O'Leary (UMCP) which Bita mentioned are featured in the bookshelf of this issue.
These brown bag lunches are a time for women in the math department to get to know one another and chat in an informal setting. At our last brown bag lunch on March 15th, we discussed a possible relationship between WIM and Pi Mu Epsilon, the undergraduate mathematics group in our department. Such a relationship was suggested by Bill Goldman, to give undergraduates a resource for information about graduate life. We decided to add their leadership to our mailing list and encourage undergraduates to come to our seminar. If a member of their group wants to talk one-on-one with a graduate student, we can provide names of people willing to talk to them. Any additional suggestions can be sent to Karen Ball or Ruth Auerbach.
During our panel discussion on how to find an advisor, Bita mentioned these web pages by Dianne O'Leary in the Computer Science department. These pages offer specific advice, not just on how to find an advisor, but on many phases of graduate study from the application process through finding a job. The WIM web site also contains links to several other sites that may be of interest to those looking to find an advisor, or just get advice on how to be a good graduate student.
Read any good books lately? If you have something you'd like to suggest, please let us know! You can send author, title, and publisher information to ktb@math.umd.edu so the editor (a voracious reader) can sink her teeth into it, or you can write the review yourself and send it to wim@math.umd.edu in whatever format is most convenient.