Math & Science News

American Mathematical Society: EMPLOYMENT TASK FORCE

Employment outlook for new PhDs

HIRZEBRUCH PROBLEM SOLVED
A problem formulated by Friedrich E. P. Hirzebruch more than 50 years ago has been solved by Dieter Kotschick (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich). Kotschick showed that a rational combination of Chern numbers is an oriented diffeomorphism invariant of smooth complex projective varieties if and only if it is a linear combination of the Euler and Pontryagin numbers. That is, except for the obvious cases, no Chern numbers are topologically invariant. The paper will appear in the Proceedings of the National

NSF Math Institutes create new jobs

May 11, 2009 - Washington, DC

The seven NSF Mathematical Sciences Research Institutes announce the creation of 45 new one- and two-year positions for young, highly-trained mathematical scientists across the country.

http://www.mathinstitutes.org/news/

The Hardest Jobs to Fill in America

Thursday, June 4, 2009

For the second year in a row, engineer is the hardest job to fill in America.

Why are engineers so hard to find? "We have whole generations of people loving liberal arts, not going into science and math," says Larry Jacobson, executive director of the National Society of Professional Engineers.

http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/107149/the-hardest-jobs-to-fill-in-america?mod=career-leadership

http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/03/hard-jobs-fill-leadership-careers-employment.html

Degree programs with low enrollments may be cut at Rhode Island’s public colleges

01:00 AM EDT on Sunday, June 28, 2009

By Jennifer D. Jordan

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