Posts tagged: work

A while ago I wrote about my values at work, and that if I had a choice, what would I choose. It is not often that I have that choice, but it is good to aim idealistic and expect realistic. So, in...

I sat through a talk by Clair Sullivan about making a tech career layoff-proof by going solopreneur. I am still deciding how much of it I actually believe. This is my notes from that talk.

Every once in a while I have to revisit this question and this time I took a bit longer to answer it, trying to inform it based on multiple blog posts by Chip Huyen and Eugene Yan. As Maleknaz says I...

After meeting with Susan Parker, the vice provost of the student experience at the University of Calgary, and Brianna (Bree) Huene from International Student Services, the university announced a...

This past summer I was given a course in introductory linear algebra to teach. The topics of the course, as usual, start from solving systems of linear equations, and then matrices, determinant and...

For the past couple of years my colleagues and I organize a session at the JMM (Joint Mathematics Meeting). For the past couple of years that I've been in Canada I traveled back to US several times...

- I've moved to US from Iran several years ago. One of the topics that always intrigued me is the history of white vs. native people. At the beginning I was interested in learning more about history....

I've been a math postdoc at University of Calgary for two years now, and I'll be here for at least one more year. The teaching environment is very pleasant, and the resources are abundant....

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Yesterday I got several emails from various people at charge at the university stating that they are concerned about the people who are directly affected by the US ban on people from muslim-majority...

I've received an email a few days ago to review a paper: > [...] > We have received the following manuscript to be considered for publication in Mathematics (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics/)...

So, here are a few things I tend to view from the perspective of my profession.

> If anything, a continuing over-production of Ph.D.s will only make the problem worse. It creates an ever-growing pool of cheap labor, which administrators are only too happy to employ in place of...

It's been very busy here in Illinois. But away from all the moving, getting used to new things and a lot of courses that I have to teach, I had more of a culture shock when I moved from WY to IL,...

The first week of the new semester is over, and it seems like I'm settling down. Time to get back on some life and math.

I got hired at Western Illinois University as a visiting assistant professor and I'll start my job mid August.

I'm defending my PhD in 13 hours.

I took a selfie with Farhad Jafari, our department head, on the stage after he hooded me.

Listening Shostakovich all day is not a good sign I guess.