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Computer Science chair Michael Soltys says job outlook for math, statistics, computer science majors “excellent.” #DiscoverCI

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A thank you to Prof AJ Bieszczad for providing the references below; as you can see, the job outlook for Computer Science and IT is excellent!

Articles about jobs:

• http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/rankings/the-100-best-jobs
• http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/rankings
• http://money.cnn.com/pf/best-jobs/
• http://www.forbes.com/pictures/fjle45heli/no-1-data-scientist/

Information from .gov regarding career outlook:

• http://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/software-developers.htm
• http://www.bls.gov/ooh/math/home.htm

For example, just Software Developers have 1,018,000 jobs available, and the page for Mathematicians states 3,900:

• http://www.bls.gov/ooh/math/mathematicians.htm

There are ten categories of jobs for CS graduates together with 3,200,000 jobs with 615,000 growth between 2012-2022.

For security specialists there are 75,000 jobs with 27,000 predicted growth; see:

• http://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/information-security-analysts.htm

Here are all ten categories with the number of jobs:

• http://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/home.htm

Refreshments will be served

Title: A combinatorial-topological method for automatic classification of global dynamics in multi-parameter systems

Speaker: Pawel Pilarczyk

Date and Place: Wednesday, February 25, at 6pm, in Del Norte 2530

Abstract: A dynamical system is a mathematical concept for describing an object varying in time, using a fixed rule that depends on the current state of the object (and not on its past). Dynamical systems can be used to describe a variety of phenomena, such as the growth of a population or spreading of an infectious disease. In this talk, a computational framework will be introduced for automatic classification of global dynamics in a dynamical system depending on a few parameters (such as fertility rates or disease transmission rates). A set-oriented topological approach will be used, based on Conley’s idea of a Morse decomposition, combined with rigorous numerics, graph algorithms, and computational algebraic topology. This approach allows to effectively compute outer estimates of all the recurrent dynamical structures encountered in the system (such as equilibria or periodic solutions), as perceived at a prescribed resolution. It thus provides a concise and comprehensive classification of all the dynamical phenomena found across the given parameter ranges. The method is mathematically rigorous (a.k.a. computer-assisted proof), and has a potential for wide applicability thanks to the mild assumptions on the system. Effort will be made to ensure that the talk is accessible to non-specialists in the discipline.

Short bio: A Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria. Research interests: computational analysis of dynamical systems and computational methods in algebraic topology. MSc in Mathematics, MSc in Computer Science, PhD in Computational Mathematics. Conducts inter-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary research, with international collaborators. Post-doctoral experience at the Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland), Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA), Kyoto University (Japan), and the University of Minho (Braga, Portugal). Author of 16+ publications in peer-refereed academic journals. Delivered 20 talks invited to international conferences and workshops, and 30+ seminar talks at academic institutions in several countries.

Using: http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu

Nicolò Fontana Tartaglia (year & location unknown)
Ostilio Ricci (Università di Brescia)
Galileo Galilei (1585 – Università di Pisa)
Vincenzo Viviani (1642 – Università di Pisa)
Isaac Barrow (1652 – University of Cambridge)
Isaac Newton (1668 – Cambridge)
Roger Cotes (1706 – Cambridge)
Robert Smith (1715 – Cambridge)
Walter Taylor (1723 – Cambridge)
Stephen Whisson (1742 – Cambridge)
Thomas Postlethwaite (1756 – Cambridge)
Thomas Jones (1782 – Cambridge)
Adam Sedgwick (1811 – Cambridge)
William Hopkins (1830 – Cambridge)
Edward John Routh (1857 – Cambridge)
Alfred North Whitehead (1884 – Cambridge)
Willard Van Orman Quine (1932 – Harvard)
Hao Wang (1948 – Harvard)
Stephen Cook (1966 – Harvard)
Michael Soltys (2001 – UofT)

Cynthia Flores, an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at CSUCI, has just attended the SACNAS conference this past weekend, and has noted several great opportunities for students in Computer Science:

• Tapia Conference Codeathon: although applications for funding are closed for the TAPIA conference in Boston, MA, the Code-a-thon is accepting applications for a hands-on workshop. Perhaps some students may still have an opportunity to attend the Code-a-thon.
• The following links are of interest to us as a Hispanic serving institution, and also the CI Computer Girls:
  – CAHSI
  – NCWIT
  – Anita Borg 

The original source code for two of Microsoft’s most widely-used products, MS-DOS and Word For Windows, has been made publicly available for the first time.This means developers and home computing hobbyists can now get their hands on the source code for the version 1.1 1982 edition of MS-DOS, as well as version 2.0 that dates back to 1983.

via MS-DOS & Word for Windows original source code released | IT PRO.

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wants to bring some metrics and rigor to the nascent but rapidly growing field of data science.

The government agency is embarking on a project to develop by 2016 a framework that can be used by all industries to understand how to use, and measure the results from data science, and big data projects.

via NIST seeks to bring rigor to data science – Network World.