Getting your PhD in 2017?  There are things you should be doing NOW to plan for your career. In this workshop, we will talk about every aspect of the successful academic job search.  This will include

1.  Writing a CV, Teaching statement, Research statement, and cover letter
2.  Choosing and cultivating letter writers
3.  Finding job listings
4.  Interviewing and negotiating job offers
5.  Meeting those early deadlines (and what you need to do by mid-August)

The focus will be on the search for academic jobs, but some resources regarding the non-academic job search may also be mentioned.

All are welcome, including post-docs and students that are still more than one year away from finishing.  If you plan to take the job search seriously, there are plenty of things to start thinking about now that will make you a better job candidate when you finish.

Boundary theory for one-dimensional diffusions is now well understood. Boundary theory for multi-dimensional diffusions is much richer and remains to be better understood. In this talk, we will be concerned with the construction and characterization of obliquely reflected Brownian motions in all bounded simply connected planar domains, including non-smooth domains,
with general reflection vector field on the boundary.  
We show that the family of all obliquely reflected Brownian motions in a given domain can be characterized in two different ways, either by the field of angles of oblique reflection on the boundary or by the stationary distribution and the rate of rotation of the process about a reference point in the domain. We further show that Brownian motion with darning and excursion reflected Brownian motion can be obtained as a limit of obliquely reflected Brownian motions.

Based on joint work with K. Burdzy, D. Marshall and K. Ramanan.