Careers and Opportunities in Industry for Mathematical Scientists

April 07 - 09, 2014

Content

Overview

Poster:

SW4.7-9.14_poster.pdf

Organizers:

Richard Braun	University of Delaware
William Kolata	SIAM
Lalitha Venkataramanan	Schlumberger-Doll Research
Bogdan Vernescu	Worcester Polytechnic Institute

General Information

The target audience for this workshop consists of faculty members, postdocs, and graduate students who are interested in exploring careers in and opportunities for collaborating with industry. By bringing together academic faculty, postdocs, and students with industrial mathematicians and human resources personnel, the workshop aims to inform academic representatives about industrial opportunities and prepare junior representatives for careers in industry.

Industrial representatives will share their experiences with faculty about working in and with industry as well as some anecdotes from their work and careers. Postdocs and students will be informed about industry and the skills needed (beyond mathematical prowess) to make one effective in industry. The characteristics of programs that successfully place students in industry will also be discussed.

Industrial and academic participants will all gather for two days; students and postdocs will stay for an additional day to work with human resources personnel for guidance on resume preparation, the interview process, communicating one’s results, and networking. The workshop will address the following topics:

How does a program successfully place students in industry?
What are industry scientists looking for?
What is the hiring process? (Human Resources representatives share their side of the hiring process—resume preparation, interviewing, hiring procedures, etc.)
How do you network and “work your contacts”?
How do recent graduates find careers in industry?
What does it take to create collaborations? (presented by an industry-academic panel)
What is a mathematical entrepreneur?
What are the emerging opportunities? Data science, business analytics, and more.
Learn How to Communicate: Explain a mathematical concept to a non-mathematician; your one-minute elevator pitch; your three-minute pitch describing your research; and conducting mock interviews.

Resume information

The Career Center in the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota has helpful information about writing resumes and cover letters. Note that at the bottom of the page, there is specific advice for graduate resumes. Use it!

Publicity

A SIAM News article has appeared describing this workshop in the January 2014 issue.

A review of the workshop was posted on Iowa State University's website following the event.

Please contact the IMA at visit@ima.umn.edu with questions.

Acknowledgements

The IMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of Monday's reception and Tuesday's catered lunches: anonymous, 3M Company, Baxter Healthcare, The Boeing Company, Google, Inc., Honeywell International, Inc., IBM, Schlumberger-Doll Research, St. Jude Medical, Inc., Target Corporation, United Technologies Corporation Systems & Controls Engineering Group, VivaQuant, and W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.

Schedule

Sunday, April 06, 2014
			Video
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm	Informal Social Gathering at Buffalo Wild Wings Map

Monday, April 07, 2014

8:00 am - 8:45 am	Registration and Coffee	Keller 3-176
8:45 am - 9:00 am	Welcome	Keller 3-180
9:00 am - 9:30 am	Overview Thomas Grandine (The Boeing Company)	Keller 3-180
9:30 am - 10:00 am	The SIAM Report: Making and Message William Kolata (SIAM)	Keller 3-180
10:00 am - 10:15 am	Break	Keller 3-176
10:15 am - 11:15 am	2 Industrial Case Studies Laura Lurati (The Boeing Company), Jian-Ming Xu (IBM)	Keller 3-180
11:15 am - 11:30 am	Break	Keller 3-176
11:30 am - 12:30 pm	Panel: Emerging Directions Olus Boratav (Corning Incorporated), Robert Calderbank, Clas Jacobson (United Technologies Corporation), Lalitha Venkataramanan (Schlumberger-Doll Research)	Keller 3-180
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Panel: Working in Industry Yusuf Bilgin Altundas (Schlumberger-Doll Research), Catherine (Katy) Micek (WindLogics), John Sabino (The Boeing Company), Richard Sharp (Globys)	Keller 3-180
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm	Break	Keller 3-176
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm	3 Industrial Case Studies Carlos Corrales (Baxter Healthcare), Catherine (Katy) Micek (WindLogics), Peter Shea (Black River Systems)	Keller 3-180
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm	Break	Keller 3-176
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm	Reception with Light Refreshments and Cash Bar	Lind 400

Tuesday, April 08, 2014

8:30 am - 9:00 am	Coffee	Keller 3-176
9:00 am - 10:00 am	Industry vs. Academia Robert Calderbank, Jeffrey Saltzman (AstraZeneca)	Keller 3-180
10:00 am - 10:30 am	Break	Keller 3-176
10:15 am - 11:15 am	3 Industrial Case Studies Paolo Codenotti (Google Inc.), Richard Sharp (Globys), Jing Wang (Pine River Capital Management LP)	Keller 3-180
11:15 am - 11:30 am	Break	Keller 3-180
11:30 am - 12:30 pm	Panel: Mathematical Entrepreneurship Robert Almgren (Quantitative Brokers), Marina Brockway (VivaQuant), William Browning (Applied Mathematics, Inc.), Jeffrey Hoffstein (Brown University)	Keller 3-180
12:30 pm - 12:40 pm	Group Photo	Keller 3-180
12:40 pm - 2:00 pm	Lunch and Networking - Food provided	Lind 400
2:00 pm - 3:20 pm	4 Mathematical Program Case Studies Joaquin Carbonara (Buffalo State - SUNY), Daniel Spirn (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), William Symes (Rice University), Bogdan Vernescu (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)	Keller 3-180
3:20 pm - 3:35 pm	Break	Keller 3-176
3:35 pm - 4:35 pm	Break Out Sessions
4:35 pm - 4:50 pm	Break	Keller 3-176
4:50 pm - 5:30 pm	2 Industrial Case Studies Anthony Sabelli (3M), Andrew Stein (Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research )	Keller 3-180

Wednesday, April 09, 2014

8:15 am - 8:45 am	Coffee	Keller 3-176
8:45 am - 9:30 am	Industrial Resumes and Interviews Marita Johnson (Honeywell), Mark Sorenson-Wagner (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)	Keller 3-180
9:30 am - 10:00 am	Resume Group Work	Keller 3-180
10:00 am - 10:15 am	Resume Group Work Discussion	Keller 3-180
10:15 am - 10:30 am	Break	Keller 3-176
10:30 am - 11:05 am	Interview Practice	Keller 3-180
11:05 am - 11:15 am	Interview Practice Discussion	Keller 3-180
11:15 am - 11:45 am	Professional Communication and Teamwork Lalitha Venkataramanan (Schlumberger-Doll Research)	Keller 3-180
11:45 am - 12:00 pm	Break	Keller 3-176
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm	Networking Fadil Santosa (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)	Keller 3-180
12:30 pm - 12:35 pm	Closing Remarks Bogdan Vernescu (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)	Keller 3-180

Participants

Name	Department	Affiliation
Michael Albright	Department of Physics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Robert Almgren		Quantitative Brokers
Yusuf Bilgin Altundas		Schlumberger-Doll Research
Julia Anderson-Lee	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Marco Avila Ponce de Leon	Department of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Nadia Benakli	Department of Mathematics	New York City College of Technology, CUNY
Nitsan Ben-Gal	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Jesse Berwald	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Andrew Binder	Department of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Marian Bocea	Department of Mathematics and Statistics	Loyola University
Olus Boratav	Department of Modeling and Simulation	Corning Incorporated
Richard Braun	Department of Mathematical Sciences	University of Delaware
Marina Brockway		VivaQuant
William Browning		Applied Mathematics, Inc.
Yiqing Cai	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Robert Calderbank	Trinity College of Arts and Sciences	Duke University
Joaquin Carbonara	Department of Mathematics	Buffalo State - SUNY
Sabyasachi Chakraborty	Department of Mathematics	Texas A & M University
Lakshmi Chandrasekaran		Stowers Institute
Jonathan Chavez Casillas	Department of Mathematics	Purdue University
Nai-Chia Chen	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Ivan Christov	Center for Nonlinear Studies	Los Alamos National Laboratory
Cody Clifton	Department of Mathematics	University of Kansas
Paolo Codenotti		Google Inc.
Erin Compaan		University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Carlos Corrales	Medical Products R&D, Technology Resources	Baxter Healthcare
Timothy Costa	Department of Mathematics	Oregon State University
Ying Ding	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Jason Ekstrand	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Leonardo Espin	Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Brian Estervig	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Ryan Evans	Department of Mathematics	University of Delaware
Rebecca Everett	Department of Applied Mathematics	Arizona State University
Robert Foldes	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Aditi Ghosh	Department of Mathematics	Texas A & M University
Mark Gockenbach	Department of Mathematical Sciences	Michigan Technological University
Thomas Grandine	Department of Applied Mathematics	The Boeing Company
Jason Gregersen	Department of Mathematics	Michigan Technological University
Colin Grudzien	Department of Mathematics	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Mansoor Haider	Department of Mathematics	North Carolina State University
Araz Hashemi	Department of Mathematics	Wayne State University
Nancy Hernandez Ceron	Department of Mathematics	Purdue University
Anil Hirani	Department of Mathematics	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jeffrey Hoffstein	Department of Mathematics	Brown University
Keguo Huang	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Steven Ihde	Department of Mathematics	Colorado State University
Clas Jacobson	Systems & Controls Engineering	United Technologies Corporation
Wonju Jeon		National Institute for Mathematical Sciences (NIMS)
Yi (Jacky) Jiang	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Marita Johnson		Honeywell
Sunnie Joshi	Mathematics	Temple University
Sean Kalafut	Department of Physics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Kaushik Kalyanaraman	Department of Computer Science	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Xingye Kan	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Chulmin Kang	Center for Applications of Mathematical Principles(CAMP)	National Institute for Mathematical Sciences (NIMS)
Janet Keel	Data Science	Target Corporation
In-Jae Kim	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	Minnesota State University
Jieun Kim	Department of Mathematics	Purdue University
Marc Kjerland	Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science	University of Illinois, Chicago
William Kolata		SIAM
Boris Kramer	Department of Mathematics	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Kate Kupcho		Target Corporation
Juliann Leifeld	Department of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Brian Lois	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Maurin Lopez Varilla	High Performance Computing	Mississippi State University
Laura Lurati	Department of Applied Mathematics	The Boeing Company
Kara Maki	School of Mathematical Sciences	Rochester Institute of Technology
Leopold Matamba Messi		Mathematical Biosciences Institute
Francis Medina	Department of Mathematics	Oregon State University
Guy-vanie Miakonkana	Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Catherine (Katy) Micek		WindLogics
David Morrissey	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Jeffrey Moulton	Department of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Lidia Mrad		Purdue University
Elizabeth Munch	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Monalisa Munsi	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Branden Neese	Department of Statistics	Indiana University
Bertran Sedar Ngoma Koumba	Department of Mathematics and Statistics	Auburn University
Brice Merlin Nguelifack	Department of Mathematics and Statistics	Auburn University
Samantha Oestreicher	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Saulo Orizaga	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Alexandra Ortan	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Kevin Palmowski	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Hyungju (Alan) Park		National Institute for Mathematical Sciences (NIMS)
Helen Parks	Department of Mathematics	University of California, San Diego
Angela Peace	Department of Applied Mathematics	Arizona State University
Vincent Quenneville-Bélair	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Hari Ravindran	Department of Mathematics	The Ohio State University
Analise Rodenberg	Department of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Anthony Sabelli		3M
John Sabino	Department of Applied Mathematics	The Boeing Company
Paul Sacks	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Tural Sadigov	Department of Mathematics	Indiana University
Abolfazl Safikhani	Department of Statistics and Probability	Michigan State University
Katerine Saleme Ruiz	High Performance Computing Collaboratory and Center for Advance Vehicular Systems	Mississippi State University
Jeffrey Saltzman	R&D Information Services	AstraZeneca
Fadil Santosa	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Madeline Schrier	Department of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Jessica Senou	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Richard Sharp		Globys
Peter Shea		Black River Systems
Mark Sorenson-Wagner	Career Center for Science and Engineering	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Daniel Spirn	University of Minnesota	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Milena Stanislavova	Department of Mathematics	University of Kansas
Andrew Stein	Advanced Quantitative Sciences	Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research
Thomas Stephens	Department of Mathematical Sciences	George Mason University
Andrew Steyer	Department of Mathematics	University of Kansas
Rebecca Stockbridge	Department of Mathematics	Wayne State University
Ilyssa Summer	Applied Mathematics for the Life and Social Science	Arizona State University
Jiguang Sun		Michigan Technological University
Sumanth Swaminathan	Industrial Products Technology	W. L. Gore & Associates
Drew Swartz	Department of Mathematics	Purdue University
William Symes	Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics	Rice University
Timur Takhtaganov	Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics	Rice University
Krystal Taylor		University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Irena Tesnjak	Department of Statistics and Probability	Michigan State University
Emmanuel Tsimis	NX FREEFORM CORE	Siemens AG
Lalitha Venkataramanan	Department of Math and Modeling	Schlumberger-Doll Research
Bogdan Vernescu	Department of Mathematical Sciences	Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Zachary Voller	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Eric Voth	Cardiovascular and Ablation Technologies Division	St. Jude Medical
Han Wang	Department of Mathematics	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jing Wang		Pine River Capital Management LP
Ke Wang	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Zhu Wang	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Matthew Wright	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Jian-Ming Xu	T.J. Watson Research Center	IBM
Lan Zhong	Department of Mathematical Sciences	University of Delaware
Yuzhen Zhou	Department of Statistics and Probability	Michigan State University