Wednesday, May 8: Math Tea, Career Panel, and Pizza Party!
Please join us for our last Math Tea of the semester, 3pm in HR 222.
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Come to the Career Panel we're hosting in McLaren 252, from 4.00-5.30pm.
(Capped off with awards presentations, at the end.)
Speakers:
Keith Bailey has 18 years combined of
actuarial consulting experience at Milliman, Fidelity Investments, and
Buck Consultants, all in San Francisco. He became a fellow of the
Society of Actuaries in 2005.
Erik Lewis graduated with a Ph.D. in
applied mathematics from UCLA in 2012 where he worked closely with the
mathematical crime research group. Erik has returned to the Bay Area
where he works at Kontagent as a Customer Success Manager/Data
Scientist.
Lindsay MacGarva is a 2011 USF graduate
with a degree in mathematics. She is now completing her MA in education
at USF while teaching mathematics at Stuart Hall High School in San
Francisco.
Dimitri Skjorshammer graduated from
Harvey Mudd College in 2011 as a math major. He worked for a bit in
finance, got bored, and cofounded ClassPager to help teachers understand
students better. He is currently the CTO at ClassPager in San
Francisco.
Holly Toboni double majored in math and
mechanical engineering at Santa Clara University. She then received an
MS in statistics from the University of Maryland. Now Holly is senior
manager of customer analytics at Williams-Sonoma here in San Francisco.
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Lastly, but not least, come to the pizza party!
Villa Romana: 731 Irving (betw. 8th & 9th Aves), 6.30pm.
Private room at the back of the restaurant. [map]
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