{"id":1362,"date":"2017-10-13T16:21:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T16:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2025-06-25T14:55:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T14:55:31","slug":"big-math-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/2017\/10\/13\/big-math-network\/","title":{"rendered":"BIG Math Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"BIG Math Network\" href=\"https:\/\/bigmathnetwork.wordpress.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1365\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2017\/10\/big_math_network-300x139.jpg\" alt=\"BIG Math Network Logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2017\/10\/big_math_network-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2017\/10\/big_math_network-768x357.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2017\/10\/big_math_network.jpg 952w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><!--more-->The <a title=\"BIG Math Network\" href=\"https:\/\/bigmathnetwork.wordpress.com\/\">BIG Math Network<\/a> connects mathematical scientists in business, industry, government, (BIG) and academia and provides <a title=\"resources for students\" href=\"https:\/\/bigmathnetwork.org\/resources-for-students\/\">resources for students<\/a> learning about BIG careers in mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>The BIG Math Network brings together the Mathematical Sciences community (including pure and applied mathematics, statistics, operations research and data science) to<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Build job opportunities for mathematical scientists<\/li>\n<li>Communicate the value of mathematical science in the workplace<\/li>\n<li>Facilitate connections between students, faculty, recruiters and managers<\/li>\n<li>Increase knowledge about internships and how to prepare for them<\/li>\n<li>Provide viable models for internship logistics (timing, intellectual property, training)<\/li>\n<li>Create regional networks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Harvey Mudd College\u2019s Professor Rachel Levy started thinking about the BIG Math Network at the 2015 Joint Mathematics Meeting. \u201cThe idea came from my own experience working as an undergrad in an OR practicum at NASA, which I believe is an experience that kept me in mathematics and led me to grad school in applied math. I also had been talking with Reza Malek-Madani who was concerned about equity and access with respect to information about careers.\u201d The BIG Math Network was launched at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The BIG Math Network is a collaborative effort. The <a title=\"steering committee\" href=\"https:\/\/bigmathnetwork.org\/steering-committee-2\/\">steering committee<\/a> , <a title=\"advisory board\" href=\"https:\/\/bigmathnetwork.wordpress.com\/advisory-board-members\/\">advisory board<\/a>, and various partners have worked together to provide this valuable resource. This collaborative effort is also seen in the blog posts where mathematical scientists share their experiences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Unsolicited Basketball Coaching Advice from a Student Researcher\" href=\"https:\/\/bigmathnetwork.wordpress.com\/2017\/10\/09\/unsolicited-basketball-coaching-advice-from-a-student-researcher\/\">Unsolicited Basketball Coaching Advice from a Student Researcher<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Summer Internship with an Impact\" href=\"https:\/\/bigmathnetwork.wordpress.com\/2017\/08\/18\/summer-internship-with-an-impact\/\">Summer Internship with an Impact<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Academia trained me for a BIG career\" href=\"https:\/\/bigmathnetwork.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/26\/academia-trained-me-for-a-big-career\/\">Academia trained me for a BIG career<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Carla Cotwright-Williams: Go BIG or go home? Go BIG.\" href=\"https:\/\/bigmathnetwork.wordpress.com\/2017\/02\/09\/blogpost-carla-cotwright-williams\/\">Carla Cotwright-Williams: Go BIG or go home? Go BIG.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To learn more about or join the BIG Math Network, visit their <a title=\"About\/Contact\" href=\"https:\/\/bigmathnetwork.wordpress.com\/contact\/\">About\/Contact<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The BIG Math Network is a partner organization of the <a title=\"Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference\" href=\"http:\/\/widsconference.org\/\">Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3844,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions\/3844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}