Some Hopefully Useful Resources
Workshops and Short Courses
Workshop on
Networks and Criminality (includes some presentation materials;
20-21 April 2015)Workshop on
Time-Dependent and Multiplex Networks (includes presentation
materials; 8-9 July 2013)2021 American Mathematical Society Short Course on Mathematical
and Computational Methods for Complex Social Systems: videos of
talks and panel discussions and slides
and data repositories (3-5 January 2021)
2021
DSOFT/GSNP Short Course (at the American Physical Society March
Meeting): Introduction to Topological Data Analysis (14 March
2021)
Job Application Materials
Research Statement from my final big
year on the junior faculty job market (9/26/06)Teaching Statement from my
final big year on the junior faculty job market (9/13/06)Cover
e-mail sent to University of Oxford [I got this job!]
(9/14/06)Cover Letter - LaTeX file [to show
different personalizations for different universities] (10/12/06)Job-Talk Slides (20 Minutes) from
University of Oxford (10/25/06; near final)
Other Academic Materials for Promotions and Fellowship Nominations
My 4-Page CV for my
Nomination to be a SIAM Fellow (9/25/18)My EDI
(Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) Statement for UCLA
(12/01/17)My
EDI Statement for UCLA (12/22/19)My EDI Statement for
UCLA (8/20/21)Self-Assessment
(12/01/17--8/29/19) (8/29/19)Self-Assessment
(focus from 2014--9/29/21) [this was for promotion to Step 6 of
full professor, so this covered my full ccareer, with a focus on
activities since becoming a full professor] (9/29/21)Statement of
Interest for 0% Appointment in the Department of Sociology
(3/20/23)
A Few Terse Words of Advice about Writing Theses and Academic Papers
A list
of exposition items for finishing PhD thesis and scholarly papers
(8/15/22)
Introductions to LaTeX
A Hitchhiker's
Guide to LaTeX (by MAP; 7/02)The Not
So Short Introduction to LaTeX (by T. Oetiker et al; Version 5.05,
7/18/15)
Videos
Video
Tutorial on Paper-Writing in Applied Mathematics (4/20/18)