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Building Great Careers in Mathematical Sciences

Discover how to choose a career based on passion, talent, and environment, and explore job market options in academia, laboratories, and industry. Learn about opportunities at Los Alamos National Laboratory in fields such as nuclear weapons research, computational sciences, and global security.

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Building Great Careers in Mathematical Sciences

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  1. Great Careers in the Mathematical Sciences Sara Del Valle, PhD Los Alamos National Laboratory March 26, 2010 – IMA Special Workshop LA-UR 10-01727 Slide 1 UNCLASSIFIED

  2. How to Choose a Career • Passion • What are you deeply passionate about? • What are you doing when you are so happy that your simile is pushing your ears back and your heart sings? • If you could do anything for the rest of your life, what would it be? Slide 2

  3. How to Choose a Career Cont. • Talent • Build your knowledge • Use your knowledge to develop skills • Nurture your talent by gaining expertise in applying the skills you excel in • Talents become Strengths through Knowledge, Skills, and Expertise Slide 3

  4. How to Choose a Career Cont. • Environment • Identify an environment where others will support your passions and talents • Working with the right people will be your most important asset • Strive to work in a culture of discipline where people share your work ethic and desires Slide 4

  5. How to Choose a Career Cont. Strengths Engaging Environments Great Careers Passions Slide 5

  6. The Job Market • Academia • Pros: Tenure has security, minimal requirements (teaching), and guaranteed paycheck • Cons: Nine month salary and difficult to balance teaching, students, funding, and management. • Laboratories and Industry • Simple job description: scientific leadership, produce interesting results important to your employer, apply knowledge to real-life issues, and make yourself useful and known Slide 6

  7. Los Alamos National Laboratory • Nuclear Weapons Research • Nuclear design and engineering • Developing high-fidelity computational codes and high-performance computing platforms • Predicting and certifying the stockpile • Predicting nuclear weapons effects • Plutonium Manufacturing & Technology Slide 7

  8. Los Alamos National Laboratory • Science, Technology & Engineering • Theoretical, High Performance Computing, Computer & Computational Sciences • Engineering & Engineering Sciences • Physics, Materials Science & Technology, Neutron Science • Chemistry, Biology, Earth & Environmental Sciences Slide 8

  9. Los Alamos National Laboratory • Global Security • Decision Applications • International & Applied Technology • International, Space & Response • Nuclear Nonproliferation Slide 9

  10. Los Alamos National Laboratory • The National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC) • Mathematical modeling of the spread of infectious diseases • Biological transport and dispersion modeling • Agent-based computational modeling and analyses • Disease spread • Public health and Healthcare • Telecommunications • Transportation • Social network analysis • Social and behavioral analyses Slide 10

  11. Los Alamos National Laboratory • It is hard to be truly happy without: • Having a secure, well-paid job • Accomplishing your goals • Seeing your family • Having free time to enjoy life Slide 11

  12. The World Needs You • The problems facing us in Energy, Water, Climate, Health, the Economy, Food, and World Peace need a new generation of exceptional scientist fully participating in the decision process • Do not underestimate the importance and role of fundamental advances in the mathematical sciences in addressing these problems Slide 12

  13. A Mistake Early in Your Career Can Take a Lifetime to Correct Slide 13

  14. Acknowledgments & Info http://www.lanl.gov/education/index.shtml http://www.lanl.gov/science/postdocs/ Good Choices for Great Careers in the Mathematical Sciences Mac Hyman Slide 14

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