About the Programs

Our graduates have gone on to research-oriented postdoctoral positions at institutions such as Oxford University, Caltech, MIT, NYU, UC Santa Barbara, the University of Arizona and the University of Minnesota. After their postdoc positions, many of them continue to pursue academic careers and hold tenure-track/tenured positions in the U.S. and around the world. Many of our graduates have also​ established very successful career paths in industry, government labs and research centers. They have taken positions in high-level tech companies, such as Boeing, Merck, Microsoft, Google and Amazon; investment banks, such as Barclays, JP Morgan Chase and Schonfeld Securities LLC; and in the government laboratories and research centers, such as NIST, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research and National Security Agency.

Our program provides incoming students​ with activities that help them to succeed in the first-year course work, teaching assistant duties and transition to a more research oriented mode of subsequent years, in particular:

• In July, the incoming students are invited to campus for an orientation and review of key academic materials during the Review of Advanced Mathematical Problems (RAMP).
• In August, we require completion of university and department training for teaching assistants.
• Foreign students are required to participate in the mandatory training offered by the English Language Institute (ELI) in the month before the fall or spring term in which the student begins studying. It is departmental policy that no foreign student be supported more than two semesters without being certified by ELI for having a sufficient command of English and teaching basics for classroom assignments.
• In January, we offer a preparatory session for the required preliminary examinations.
• In the summer after the first year, students are offered support for either independent study or in our collaborative summer research program Groups Exploring the Mathematical Sciences (GEMS).
• In the first year, students receive help with applying for fellowships in a specially designed fall workshop. Students are invited to attend our Graduate Student Seminar series, and encouraged to attend some of the numerous research seminars and co​lloquia​​ held weekly.​​​

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