A National Laboratory Internship Experience

Joey Hart is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University I had a very interesting, and on some levels unique, internship experience in the Optimization and Uncertainty Quantiﬁcation Department at Sandia National Laboratories. The origins of my internship came several months before through collaborations with my eventual mentor on another project Bart van Bloemen Waanders. During the 2016-2017 academic year, I was a graduate research fellow in the SAMSI (Statistics and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute) program on optimization. Through this fellowship I began collaborations with several applied mathematicians and computational scientists. Our work led to Bart inviting me to apply for an internship under him in the upcoming summer of 2017, thus the story begins.

February 13, 2018 1

Mathematicians are Needed in Industry

At this point in my career, I have worked at a number of organizations, usually technology companies with military contracts. I am convinced that mathematicians strengthen organizations, and sometimes make revolutionary changes, often in small ways that are not celebrated as often as they should. My ﬁrst job was at the Center for Naval Analysis... Continue Reading →

October 30, 2017 0

The importance and excitement of team science — and how optimization research fits in almost everywhere

I am currently a research scientist in the Computational Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. I got promoted into this position very recently. Before, I was one of the Luis W. Alvarez Fellows in Computing Sciences at Berkeley Lab. My education (MSc and PhD) was in applied mathematics. Early on during my Master’s education,... Continue Reading →

September 18, 2017 0

My BIG Math Experience: A Java Web Development Boot Camp

Joyce C. Yang ~ This summer, Codework Academy at Montgomery College had its first Java Web Development boot camp. The program was in Gaithersburg, MD and taught students how to write and deploy web applications in eight weeks. I participated in the boot camp, which was full-time, 9 am to 5 pm every day. Starting... Continue Reading →

August 28, 2017 0

New Career Brochure from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

The 2017 edition of SIAM’s careers brochure, Careers in Applied Mathematics: Options for STEM Majors , is now available and is a great resource for anyone wondering what they can do with math. Available in both print and PDF format, this full-color, 32-page publication contains personal stories and advice—as well as salary and job skills... Continue Reading →

July 16, 2017 0

NSF-IPAM Workshop – 2017 UPDATE

SUMMARY RECOMMENDATIONS NSF-IPAM Mathematical Sciences Internship Workshop Full report available here. (UPDATES IN BLUE ITALICS) The report above reflects discussions and recommendation from the September 1-2, 2015 NSF-IPAM Mathematical Sciences Internship Workshop held at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at UCLA. The workshop was organized by Russel Caflisch, Mathematics, UCLA; Alan Lee,... Continue Reading →

July 2, 2017 0

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