Students Opportunities

This page presents opportunities and information about activities open to students during and after their studies at Smith, whether they want to go to Graduate School or follow other paths.

Check out the very complete AMS page, with information for math undergrads complementing this page.

Undergraduate experience, at Smith or elsewhere...

A Guide to Honors work in mathematics at Smith College

Research Experience of Math Majors at Smith. Includes project research descriptions of available projects and abstracts of Smith students past research projects.

Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)The National Science Foundation sponsors a number of mathematical research projects in which undergraduates participate. For a comprehensive list of REU programs,visit the AMS website

George Washington University, Carleton College and St. Olaf College host summer programs for undergraduate women in mathematics.

Workshops in mathematics for undergraduates.

Budapest Semesters in Mathematics. This program is popular with Smith math majors; an average of 3 students participate each year.

Competitions

Talk to faculty in the department to find out who is coaching students for the following competitions:

Putnam Competition (sponsored by the MAA) . A day solving 12 hard math problems, requiring little more than calculus. Solve one and you're better than average... Early December.
Mathematical Contest in Modeling (COMAP). 3 days where you and your team use mathematical modeling to present your solutions to real world problems. In February. Same organization sponsors an interdisciplinary modeling contest.
Undergraduate Statistics Project Competition New this year. Between January and May, work on a stats project involving real data.

Graduate school, anyone?

Suggestions for choosing a graduate school, by Eleanor Farrington, '03, and Laurel Miller-Sims, '03.
Questions to ask when choosing a graduate school by saramarie belcastro.

A search tool for graduate schools. This site provides detailed evaluations of graduate programs in mathematics (and other disciplines). You choose the criteria you want to count, and also the weight each criterion should have. The search engine then ranks graduate programs according to your criteria, displaying their ranking and how well they perform with respect to each of your criteria. You can also check the RPI site for other links on graduate schools.

A data base of Smith Alumnae mathematicians

NSF Graduate Fellowships - $ 30K a year.... MSWord doc, with links.

Careers in Math

Undergraduate math majors (MAA),
Women in mathematics (AWM)
careers of Smith math alumns
Career Stories of Smith math alumns (Alumns, please contribute your stories!)
saramarie belcastro's page on math careers

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