Advice for Probability Graduate Students
Online Probability Seminar Series
Colloquia-Style Online Talks
For a while I’ve been looking for a “One World Colloquium”. I recommend the Matrix Institute series, as well as the International Congress online talks.
Online Seminar and Conference Lists
- Math Seminars dot org, online seminars in all areas of math.
- Online Math Seminars, another listing for all areas of math.
- Bernoulli Society list of conferences
Conferences
Summer Schools
Math Institutes
Online Resources
- Current Preprints
- ArXive Probability Preprints
- Download Articles (older than 1 or 2 years)
- JSTOR
- Project Euclid
- Electronic Journals
- Electronic Journal of Probability
- Probability Surveys
- Latin American J. of Prob. and Math. Stat.
- Personal Web Pages
- Another good way to find papers.
Opinions and Philosophy
Life in General
- Video on the importance long-term effort.
- Jobs at Companies, from the point of view of Statistics.
Mathematics
- Weinan E, The Dawning of a New Era in Applied Mathematics
- Mumford, The Dawning of the Age of Stochasticity
- Serre, How to Write Mathematics Badly
- Thurston, On Proof and Progress in Mathematics
Avoiding Self-Delusion
- Donoho, Reproducible Research
- Feynman, Cargo Cult Science
- Freedman, Statistical Models and Shoe Leather
General Advice
- Fan Chung’s Advice for Grad Students
- Terence Tao’s Career Advice
- Ravi Vakil’s Advice for Grad Students
- Steven Weinberg, Four Golden Lessons
- Harvard’s Guide to Graduate Study in Math.
Online Books
The following archives have huge numbers of wonderful math books and papers. Their status is uncertain; use at your own discretion.
Special Pages
- Women in Probability
- The Big Math Network, about jobs at companies.