ENGLISH-LANGUAGE VERSION En la primera parte de este artículo "El Primer Año en un Programa de Doctorado: Entrenamiento en Matemáticas (I)", ofrecí algunos consejos para diseñar un plan de ataque efectivo y puse un énfasis especial en uno de los tópicos más importantes, que es como elegir bien al supervisor de tu tesis o tu mentor. En esta segunda parte voy a discutir otros aspectos adicionales, ...
BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX Globalization and electronic communications have made the concept of national borders obsolete. We are closer to each other than ever before! "Six degrees of separation" is not a myth. The Internet and massive air travel are two of the most powerful "connecting" technologies, bringing multiple communities together into a single global family. As economic interdependence ...
PARA LEER ESTE ART?CULO EN ESPANOL HAGA CLIC AQUI. The marriage between mathematics and the sciences (natural and physical) has always fostered strong, deep bonds, but increasingly in today's interdisciplinary world, mathematics may also be associated with other areas such as art, physical education, law, and the social sciences. My hope is that students will not just say, "Math is too hard--I'd ...
ENGLISH-LANGUAGE VERSION En un artículo previo titulado "Admisión y Financiación en los Programas de Doctorado en Ciencias Matemáticas nos centramos en aquellos factores que influyen tanto en el rechazo como en la admisión dentro de un programa de doctorado en matemáticas. En aquella ocasión discutimos aquellas circunstancias de naturaleza no académica que tienen peso en las decisiones finales. S...
Editor's note: Dr. Castillo-Chavez will be lending his talents in a MiSciNet column for students beginning January 2004. The focus will be providing students with information on how to navigate through college and beyond. My name is Carlos Castillo-Chavez and I was born in Mexico City about half a century ago. Although my mother, Estela Chávez Cárdenas, only finished the fourth grade, both she an...
ENGLISH-LANGUAGE VERSION Traducción Belén Hurlé MiSciNet agradece a la doctora Belén Hurlé la traducción de este artículo. La Dr. Hurlé es Investigadora Asociada del Instituto Nacional de Investigación del Genoma Humano de los Institutos Nacionales de la Salud (NHGRI/NIH, Bethesda, MD). La correspondencia con la Dr Hurlé deberá ser dirigida a bhurle@nhgri.nih.gov. Hubo un tiempo, quizás hace una ...
BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX Traducción Belen Hurle MiSciNet agradece a la doctora Belén Hurlé la traducción de este artículo. La Dr. Hurlé es Investigadora Asociada del Instituto Nacional de Investigación del Genoma Humano de los Institutos Nacionales de la Salud (NHGRI/NIH, Bethesda, MD). La correspondencia con la Dr Hurlé deberá ser dirigida a bhurle@nhgri.nih.gov. La globalización y las comunica...
PARA LEER ESTE ART?CULO EN ESPANOL HAGA CLIC AQUI. Mentorship is an essential force in our national efforts to open the doors to all of our fellow citizens. Although mentoring has helped increase diversity over the past 20 years, these efforts have been carried out on an ad-hoc basis with limited human and economic resources. Debates about the best mentoring models generate a myriad of possibilit...
Para leer este art?culo en espa±ol haga clic aqu? In my May 2004 article, "Fellowship and Admission Decisions for Graduate Programs in the Mathematical Sciences," I addressed exogenous factors associated with the process of acceptance or rejection by graduate school programs in mathematics. Because being rejected is not the most thrilling experience, I highlighted some little-known nonacademic fa...
ENGLISH-LANGUAGE VERSION Traducción Belen Hurle MiSciNet agradece a la doctora Belen Hurle la traduccion de este articulo. Dr. Hurle es Investigadora Asociada del Instituto Nacional de Investigacion del Genoma Humano de los Institutos Nacionales de la Salud (NHGRI/NIH, Bethesda, MD). La correspondencia con Dr. Hurle debera ser dirigida a bhurle@nhgri.nih.gov. Las matemáticas y las ciencias física...
ENGLISH-LANGUAGE VERSION Esta es la época del año en la que has de decidir cual es el programa de doctorado en Matemáticas más adecuado para orientar tu carrera profesional. Si eres un estudiante típico, tendrás que escoger entre un número limitado de opciones presentadas por aquellas universidades que han aceptado tu solicitud. Espero que hayas recibido las suficientes ofertas como para satisfac...
ENGLISH-LANGUAGE VERSION MiSciNet agradece a la doctora Belén Hurlé la traducción de este artículo. La Dr. Hurlé es Investigadora Asociada del Instituto Nacional de Investigación del Genoma Humano de los Institutos Nacionales de la Salud (NHGRI/NIH, Bethesda, MD). La correspondencia con la Dr Hurlé deberá ser dirigida a bhurle@nhgri.nih.gov. A pesar de que el número de estudiantes que entran en l...
ENGLISH-LANGUAGE VERSION Traducción Belén Hurlé MiSciNet agradece a la doctora Belén Hurlé la traducción de este artículo. La Dr. Hurlé es Investigadora Asociada del Instituto Nacional de Investigación del Genoma Humano de los Institutos Nacionales de la Salud (NHGRI/NIH, Bethesda, MD). La correspondencia con la Dr Hurlé deberá ser dirigida a bhurle@nhgri.nih.gov. Durante los últimos 20 años, los...
Para leer este art?culo en espa±ol haga clic aqu? In "Starting Graduate School: Mathematics Training, Part 1," I discussed the initial plan of attack for the first year and probably one of the most important topics, selecting an adviser. Part 2 will mention a few more intangibles including grad school philosophy, social activities, and a look back at my first year. First Year at the Great Show Yo...
PARA LEER ESTE ART?CULO EN ESPANOL HAGA CLIC AQUI. According to the American Mathematical Society's (AMS's) 2002 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (Second Report) , the number of U.S. citizens who are awarded a Ph.D. degree in the mathematical sciences continues to drop, although the number of graduate students enrolled in mathematics programs appears to be increasing. This positive lag ...
Para leer este art?culo en espa±ol haga clic aqu? There was a time, perhaps even a decade ago, when student participation at conferences, national meetings, and workshops was rare. Times have changed, and efforts to foster and promote the participation of graduate and, most recently, undergraduate students have steadily grown. Soon, their systematic presence may be the norm. Nevertheless, relativ...
PARA LEER ESTE ART?CULO EN ESPANOL HAGA CLIC AQUI. This is the time of year when decisions about which graduate program (of accepting institutions) in the mathematical sciences is best for you. If you are a "typical" student, only a few of the programs you applied for will grant admission with support. Nevertheless, I hope you receive some offers that meet your intellectual needs. After the appli...
At the beginning of my career in mathematical biology, I focused on forging relationships with Europe--Britain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, just to name a few--but over the last decade, I shifted gears and began to seek closer ties with mathematical biology groups in Latin American countries such as Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Colombia as well as other regions of the world. My recent t...
BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX Twenty-first century science is driven, in large part, by challenges at interfaces, including those between the environmental and life sciences--public health, ecology, genomics, cell biology, epidemiology, immunology, neurobiology, physiology, evolutionary biology ... and the mathematical sciences. Progress at these interfaces has made it possible to address problems at...
If the 20th century belonged to physics, the 21st century may well belong to biology. Just 50 years after the discovery of DNA's chemical structure and the invention of the computer experiment, a revolution is occurring in biology, driven by mathematical and computational science. An explosion of research is reshaping fields such as mathematical ecology, epidemiology, genetics, immunology, neurob...
