Advice for Probability Graduate Students

Online Seminar Lists

Math Seminars dot org, online seminars in all areas of math.
Online Math Seminars, another listing for all areas of math.

Online Probability Seminar Series

Online Conferences

New Developments in Probability

Sponsored by Women in Probabilility

May 12 - 14, 2021

Online Summer School

CRM-PIMS Probability Summer School,

May 24 - June 18, 2021.

Hybrid format, registration deadline for in-person participation (in Montreal) is February 21.

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
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.

Math Institutes

Travel is now difficult or impossible. Please click on the above link to see my list of institutes.

In-Person Conferences

Almost all of these are canceled, but may start again soon.

Online Books

The following archives have huge numbers of wonderful math books and papers. Their status is uncertain; use them at your own discretion.

Special Pages

Women in Probability
The Big Math Network, about jobs at companies.