Careers in Mathematics

What can you do with a math degree?

A lot! There is extensive information about mathematics careers, with substantial further links, at the following math career sites:

The Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook includes education, employment and earnings information on   Mathematicians, Statisticians and Actuaries. In a 2008 study of 200 professions, "mathematician" was rated NUMBER ONE, as reported in the Wall Street Journal.

One thing you can do with a math degree is be better in another field. About half of UMD's math majors are double majors.

What are some local career resources?

  • The University of Maryland Career Center.
  • CMNS Internships and Career Services.
  • The National Security Agency ("just down the road") is the nation's leading employer of mathematicians.
  • To talk about careers in mathematics, you can contact Ida Chan (), Coordinator of Undergraduate Advising for the Mathematics Department, Room 1115 Math, 301-405-4362

Some other items

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  • Orbit equivalence relations and the compact action realization problem

    Speaker: Alexander Kechris (CalTech) -

    When: Wed, August 28, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Multilevel approximation of Gaussian random fields

    Speaker: Christoph Schwab (ETH, Zurich) - https://math.ethz.ch/research/applied-mathematics-numerical-analysis-scientific-computing/christoph-schwab.html

    When: Wed, September 4, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Branching selection particle systems and the selection principle

    Speaker: Julien Berestycki (University of Oxford, Statistics Department) - https://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~berestyc/

    When: Wed, September 18, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • TBA

    Speaker: Artur Avila (IMPA) -

    When: Wed, October 23, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • From Generative AI to Statistical Physics Through Harmonic Analysis

    Speaker: Stephane Mallat (College de France) - https://blog.umd.edu/nwc/fft/2024fft/

    When: Fri, October 25, 2024 - 4:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Intrinsic Diophantine approximation on homogeneous spaces

    Speaker: Amos Nevo (Technion) -

    When: Wed, October 30, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Ergodic and statistical properties of slowly chaotic systems

    Speaker: Adam Kanigowski (UMD) - https://akanigow.math.umd.edu/

    When: Wed, November 6, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Forbidding Induced Subgraphs: Structure and Algorithms (Brin MRC Distinguished Lecture)

    Speaker: Maria Chudnovsky (Princeton University) - https://web.math.princeton.edu/~mchudnov/

    When: Wed, November 13, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • TBA

    Speaker: Alessio Figalli (ETH Zurich) - https://people.math.ethz.ch/~afigalli/

    When: Wed, November 20, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Martin's Conjecture and order-preserving functions

    Speaker: Patrick Lutz (UC Berkeley) - https://math.berkeley.edu/~pglutz/

    When: Mon, December 9, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Continuous spin systems: group synchronisation and topological phase transitions

    Speaker: Christophe Garban (University of Lyon) - https://math.univ-lyon1.fr/~garban/

    When: Wed, December 11, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Mathematical and Historical Aspects of Breaking the Enigma Code

    Speaker: Zbigniew Blocki (Jagiellonian University and UMD) - https://gamma.im.uj.edu.pl/~blocki/

    When: Wed, February 5, 2025 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Optimal dimensionality reduction

    Speaker: Albert Cohen ( Sorbonne University) - https://www.ljll.fr/cohen/

    When: Thu, February 13, 2025 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Faculty meeting

    When: Wed, February 19, 2025 - 3:15pm
    Where:
  • On stabilisations of symplectic 4-manifolds

    Speaker: Amanda Hirschi (Sorbonne Université) - https://amandahirschi.com/

    When: Wed, February 26, 2025 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • AWM Talk - Katrin Trent

    Speaker: Katrin Tent (University of Münster) - https://www.uni-muenster.de/FB10srvi/persdb/MM-member.php?id=482

    When: Wed, March 5, 2025 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • A counterexample to Viterbo's conjecture

    Speaker: Pazit Haim-Kislev (Institute for Advanced Study) - https://www.ias.edu/scholars/pazit-haim-kislev

    When: Wed, March 12, 2025 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • The P=W Conjecture

    Speaker: Davesh Maulik (MIT) - https://math.mit.edu/directory/profile.html?pid=177

    When: Wed, March 26, 2025 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Proper graph colouring, optimization, and paradoxical decompositions

    Speaker: Robert Simon (London School of Economics) - https://www.lse.ac.uk/Mathematics/people/Robert-Simon

    When: Wed, April 9, 2025 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • The Unitary Dual (this colloquium is cancelled)

    Speaker: Jeff Adams (IDA-CCS and UMD) - https://www.math.umd.edu/~jda/

    When: Wed, April 16, 2025 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206