Some day as a math major you will graduate. It is very useful to prepare. If you are not sure yet which way you'll go -- try to be prepared for different paths. At least prepare consistent with some path.

Taking appropriate courses is not something you can do at the last minute. For general advice about career-appropriate math courses, click here. Also take full advantage of the math department advising staff.

Graduate school is one option. It is especially critical to take the courses which will give you the background to succeed, and the credentials to be admitted and to get financial support. Again, for appropriate course advice, click here.

NOTE!!! Many graduate students in mathematics and the sciences are given financial support by their schools, by some combination of teaching assistantship, research assistantship and fellowship.

You might also go directly to productive work in the "real world". This is a more varied, complex and changing set of possibilities. We hope some of our links to career resources may be useful.

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  • Degrees of maps and multiscale geometry

    Speaker: Fedya Manin (UCSB) -

    When: Mon, August 28, 2023 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Instanton Floer homology and Dehn surgery

    Speaker: Zhenkun Li (University of South Florida) - https://stanford.edu/~zhenkun/

    When: Mon, September 11, 2023 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Minimal surfaces in symmetric spaces

    Speaker: Nathaniel Sagman (Luxemberg) -

    When: Mon, September 18, 2023 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Rigidity of commensurators and its applications

    Speaker: Wouter Van Limbeek (UIC) -

    When: Mon, September 25, 2023 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Surgery Exact Triangles in Instanton Theory

    Speaker: Deeparaj Bhat (MIT) -

    When: Mon, October 2, 2023 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Formalizing the ∞-categorical Yoneda lemma in an experimental proof assistant.

    Speaker: Emily Riehl (JHU) -

    When: Mon, October 9, 2023 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Polygons, horogons, and surface homeomorphisms

    Speaker: Jing Tao (Oklahoma) -

    When: Mon, October 16, 2023 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • An explicit formula for the adjoint twisted Reidemeister torsion

    Speaker: Tian Yang (Texas AM) -

    When: Mon, October 30, 2023 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • A Serre spectral sequence for moduli spaces of tropical curves.

    Speaker: Nir Gadish (Michigan) -

    When: Mon, November 6, 2023 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Morse Theory on Moduli Spaces of Pairs and the Bogomolov-Miyaoka-Yau Inequality

    Speaker: Paul Feehan (Rutgers University) - https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~feehan/

    When: Mon, November 13, 2023 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Right-angled links in thickened surfaces

    Speaker: Rose Kaplan-Kelly (George Mason University) - https://sites.google.com/view/rosekaplan-kelly/

    When: Mon, November 20, 2023 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Nonunique Ergodicity on the Boundary of Outer space

    Speaker: Sanghoon Kwak (University of Utah) - https://www.samkwak.info/

    When: Mon, December 4, 2023 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • How algebraic is space?

    Speaker: Piotr PstrÄ…gowski (Harvard University) - https://people.math.harvard.edu/~piotr/

    When: Fri, December 8, 2023 - 2:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Exotic 4-manifolds, stabilization, and Involutive Heegaard Floer theory

    Speaker: Sungkyung Kang (Oxford University)

    When: Mon, January 22, 2024 - 2:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Combinations of parabolically geometrically finite groups

    Speaker: Brian Udall (Rice University) 

    When: Mon, January 29, 2024 - 2:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 1308
  • (Non-)Recognizing Spaces for Stable Subgroups

    Speaker: Johanna Mangahas (University at Buffalo) - https://www.nsm.buffalo.edu/~mangahas/

    When: Mon, February 12, 2024 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Towards isomorphisms among Floer homologies

    Speaker: Fan Ye (Harvard University) - https://scholar.harvard.edu/fanye/home

    When: Mon, February 19, 2024 - 2:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 1308
  • Volumes of end-periodic mapping tori

    Speaker: Marissa Kawehi Loving (University of Wisconsin-Madison) -https://sites.google.com/view/lovingmath/home

    When: Mon, February 26, 2024 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • A new gauge-theoretic construction of 4-dimensional hyperkahler ALE spaces

    Speaker: Jiajun Yan (University of Virginia) - https://sites.google.com/view/jiajunyan/

    When: Mon, March 4, 2024 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Bordered refinements of the link surgery formula

    Speaker: Ian Zemke (Princeton University/University of Oregon) - https://web.math.princeton.edu/~izemke/

    When: Mon, March 11, 2024 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Combinatorics of sphere graphs

    Speaker: Edgar A. Bering IV (San Jose State University) - https://sites.google.com/view/edgar-a-bering-iv

    When: Mon, March 25, 2024 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Ribbon knots, slice knots and quotients of knot groups

    Speaker: Alexandra Kjuchukova (Notre Dame) -

    When: Thu, March 28, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 2300
  • Automatic continuity and pure mapping class groups

    Speaker: Ryan Dickmann (Georgia Tech) - https://sites.google.com/view/ryandickmann

    When: Mon, April 8, 2024 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • TBA

    Speaker: Daniel Alvarez-Gavela (MIT/Brandeis) - https://danielalvarezgavela.com/

    When: Mon, April 22, 2024 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • TBA

    Speaker: Jonathan Hanselman (Princeton University) - https://web.math.princeton.edu/~jh66/

    When: Mon, April 29, 2024 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • TBA

    Speaker: Tom Mark (University of Virginia) - https://uva.theopenscholar.com/tom-mark

    When: Mon, May 6, 2024 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206