Advice for UR Probability Graduate Students

Attend Seminars

Read the literature

Paper journals are not as essential as they used to be, and more math is moving to the internet every year. But older papers are a valuable resource, so I'll keep this section up. Modern treatments usually have a different viewpoint than early papers.

Archiving your thesis at UR

At UR, please archive your thesis electronically.
Contact Suzanne Bell, sbellmath library rochester edumath

Use Electronic Resources

The Best Site -- check it daily!

ArXive Probability Preprints

Electronic Journals

Probability Surveys
Latin American J. of Prob. and Math. Stat.
JSTOR    Download articles from the literature.
Project Euclid    Download articles.
The Probability Web   Online resources.

Math Blogs

Terence Tao's blog

Go to Conferences

Nov. 19-20, 2009	Northeast Probability Seminar, Columbia
Mar. 11-13, 2010	Seminar on Stochastic Processes, Orlando, Florida
April 30 - May 2, 2010	4th Grad Student Probability Conference, Duke
June 21 - July 10, 2010	PIMS Summer School in Probability, Seattle
July 19 - 30, 2010	Cornell Summer School in Probability

General Advice

Report on Research Opportunities in Probability
Ravi Vakil's Advice for Grad Students
Terence Tao's web page
AMS Gratuate Student Blog

Jobs

Advice on Getting a Job at a Company
AMS Jobs Listing (all kinds of jobs)
Mathematics Jobs Wiki (for academic jobs)