[exploretech.la] Volunteer Application

Interested in tech and engineering? Want to share your passion with underserved high school students? exploretech.la is back for another year and looking for volunteers and applications are now open!

This year, exploretech.la is a two-day event filled with exciting workshops and panels in computer science, engineering, and technology. We seek to engage students from underserved areas in Los Angeles, introducing them to the thriving tech scene at UCLA and inspiring them to pursue these possibilities.

Volunteers will be responsible for providing mentorship for high school students through our brand new College Buddy Chat sessions and facilitating workshops. All majors and backgrounds are welcome, no prior knowledge in engineering or tech is required!

When: April 10 and 11, 2021 10:00AM-1:30PM

Where: Online!

Applications are due on Monday, March 1st at 11:59 PM PST!

Apply to be a volunteer today!: https://tinyurl.com/exploretechla2021volunteer

Check out our event at: https://www.facebook.com/events/174393870804142

Learn more about us at: www.exploretech.la

Student Writing Opportunity, Harvard Synthesis

Good afternoon,

My name is Colman Freel; I represent the Harvard University Department of the History of Science journal, Synthesis. We are the nation’s only peer-reviewed undergraduate history of science journal. 

This semester, we have started a blog series to offer more students an opportunity to showcase their outstanding research in the history of science. In an effort to include work from students at a range of universities, we are reaching out to history and STEM departments to share submission information. We would greatly appreciate it if you could share our flyer, submission form, and contact information (below) in any newsletters or announcements your department distributes. 

Thank you so much for your time!

Submission Form

Harvard Synthesis Webpage

Contact Information

Colman Freel, Blog Committee Chair: cfreel@wisc.edu

General Synthesis Journal Contact: hsharvardsynthesis@gmail.com

Summer program in Epidemiology and Biostatistics 2021

If you have any questions about the program, you can send them to harvardepisummer@hsph.harvard.edu We are looking forward to reviewing your application!

High school Teaching Job for Graduating Seniors

The Lawrenceville School, a 9th-12th grade boarding school of about 820 students, shares a border with Princeton, New Jersey, and is 40 miles from Philadelphia and 55 miles from New York City. Each year we hire a Mathematics Fellow, typically a recent college graduate with an interest in teaching math. The position is a 2-year, full-time salaried contract and includes housing and healthcare benefits. Candidates would be interested in teaching various levels of math and coaching 2 interscholastic sports. The 2-year program also includes graduate coursework, and the Fellows earn a Master’s degree in Education from UPenn concurrently.

We would appreciate it if you could advertise this opportunity to math majors and minors. Please let me know if you are the right person to reach out to about this, and if not, who I should contact. 

Candidates should apply directly using the link below, or through The Lawrenceville School’s website (About tab, Employment tab). All are welcome to reach out with questions!

School website link

Application Link

Best wishes,

Ian Mook

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Ian Mook | Mathematics Teacher, Kennedy Asst. Head of House

The Lawrenceville School | www.lawrenceville.org | 914.462.6315

pronouns: he, him, his

Student Job Opportunity with UCLA Library

On behalf of UCLA Library, I am reaching out to let you know about a job opportunity for students to join our learner-designer team at the Library, WI+RE, short for Writing, Instruction, and Research Education!

WI+RE is looking for creative and motivated students to join our instructional design team. Our Instructional Design Assistants help their fellow students by designing new approaches to research and writing instruction (such as videos, interactive tutorials, web comics, and more!). There will be plenty of mentoring and training, so there is no need for an extensive background in technology or instructional design. The only thing needed is lots of curiosity and a passion for helping others!

Please help spread the word by posting our job announcement!

Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

Paid Summer Research Experience Opportunities

The Precise Advanced Technologies and Health Systems for Underserved Populations (PATHS-UP) Engineering Research Center (ERC) was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2017. The goal of all NSF-ERC funded programs is to integrate engineering research and education with technological innovation to transform national prosperity, health and security.  

The 2021 PATHS-UP Summer Research Experience Program is live and accepting application until 2/8/2021. The summer program will involve undergraduate students from across the nation as well as 1st year students from our four partner institutions. With funding provided by the National Science Foundation, the PATHS-UP ERC aims to support at least 10 undergraduate students during summer 2021.  For more info, visit https://pathsup.org/reu/

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Applications open for Centre for Doctoral Training in Mathematics of Random Systems at University of Oxford & Imperial College London

See 4 page flyer here.

Applications are now open for fully funded studentships on our doctoral training programme.

https://www.randomsystems-cdt.ac.uk/admissions-criteria

The EPSRC CDT in Mathematics of Random Systems: Analysis, Modelling and Algorithms is a partnership between three world-class departments in the area of probabilistic modelling, stochastic analysis and their applications, the Oxford Mathematical Institute, the Oxford Department of Statistics and the Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, with the ambition of training the next generation of academic and industry experts in stochastic modelling, advanced computational methods and Data Science.

The CDT offers a fully funded 4-year comprehensive training programme at the frontier of scientific research in Probability, Stochastic Analysis, Stochastic Modelling, stochastic computational methods and applications in physics, finance, biology, healthcare and data science.

Students receive solid training in core skills related to probability theory, stochastic modelling, data analysis, stochastic simulation, optimal control and probabilistic algorithms. In the first year, students follow four Core courses on Foundation areas as well as three elective courses, and undertake a supervised  research project, which then evolves into a PhD thesis.

For more information please visit our website at www.randomsystems-cdt.ac.uk or contact info@randomsystems-cdt.ac.uk

Full-time research assistant positions at Chicago Booth

We’re excited to announce additional searches for Research Professionals at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business have opened. We’re currently hiring full-time research assistants to start around July 1, 2021, though other start dates will be considered. The research assistants will work closely on faculty research, with faculty across an array of disciplines hiring this fall.  We currently have positions open with Emanuele Colonnelli & Kilian Huber (finance and macroeconomics), Quentin Vandeweyer (finance), and Giovanni Compiani, Sarah Moshary, and Bradley Shapiro (marketing). Interested applicants can learn more about these positions and the application process by visiting our website, and job seekers can sign up at our mailing list to be directly contacted about new positions as they open.  We are eager to recruit students of diverse academic backgrounds with strong quantitative skills, not just economists.

Research Professionals and similar positions at other universities are relatively new to the academic pipeline, but they are quickly becoming an integral positions in economics departments and at business schools.  Such positions are an excellent option for anyone considering a PhD program who is still uncertain, or as an alternative for anyone considering a Master’s degree as a step toward a PhD.  Anyone who would like to learn more should visit www.predoc.org for more information and an aggregated list of opportunities from several institutions. 

Please encourage interested students to email ResearchProfessional@lists.chicagobooth.edu to learn more.  This position has been an excellent preparation for PhD programs in the quantitative social sciences, with previous participants going on to institutions like Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, Stanford, and UChicago.

The University of Chicago

Booth School of Business

5807 S. Woodlawn Ave.

Chicago, Illinois 60637

Phone: +(1) 773-834-2360

Fax: +(1) 773-702-4480

Goldman Sachs Quantitative Investment Summer Analyst Recruitment

The Quantitative Investment Strategies group at Goldman Sachs is looking for current juniors to apply for a summer analyst position within our client-facing team at our NYC headquarters. This team offers a great opportunity for those who have a passion for quantitative, analytical or programming challenges, but also want to be client-facing and gain a deep understanding of investing with a quantitative methodology.

To give you an idea of our work, I split my time approximately evenly between the following three areas: programming (primarily data analytics and visualization, along with systems for analyzing investment portfolios), prepping for and meeting with our clients (both prospective and existing, some typical finance analyst work in Powerpoint/Excels), and producing analysis and research on our quantitative strategies. However, our team has many diverse skillsets and members will spend different amounts of time on various aspects of the role depending on their unique strengths. I’ve included further information on the team in the attached document.

If this sounds interesting to you, please send your resume as well as a brief description on why you think this role is appealing to Matthijs Dijkgraaf (Matthijs.Dijkgraaf@gs.com) and copy me (Natalie.kennelley@gs.com). We are open to a broad variety of backgrounds and previous work experiences, so do not feel discouraged if you do not have a finance background. Members of our team have come from many academic backgrounds including math, physics, chemical, computer and mechanical engineering as well as math-track economics and computer science.