I’ve found there are releatively few examples of applications to programs in (applied) math available publicly online (although increasingly more and more). This creates an opportunity gap between folks coming from schools with many institutional resources to support applicants (e.g. internal repositories of past applications) and those from institutions with fewer resources.

Tenure track jobs

• second try (we did it!)
• first try

NSF Computational Math 2023

• Summary
• Description
• Recommendation/Reviews (G,V/G,V: Decline)

Postdocs 2022

• Research Statement
• Teaching Statement
• Applied to 40+ positions, interviewed at 9, offer at 5
  • Assistant Professor / Courant Instructor (accepted)
    • $80k/9mo+possible summer, 3 years, $2.5k research expenses, 1-1 teaching, full time faculty bennefits, subsidized univeristy housing (not officially guaranteed)
  • departmental VAP (HCoL area)
    • $60k/9mo (negotiated to $65k), 3 years, $1.5k research expenses, 2-2 teaching (low-workload though), $4k moving
  • departmental postdoc (HCoL area)
    • $60k/9mo, 3 years, 1-1 teaching, $1k moving
  • departmental postdoc
    • $60k/year, 2 years, $1k research expenses, 1-0 teaching
  • individual postdoc from grant (HCoL area)
    • competative (iirc, around $70k), 2 years + possible renewal, option to teach 1 class

NSF MSPRF 2022

• Bio Sketch
• Summary
• Description
• Recommendation (E/V,V,V: Recommend)
• Final Decision (not funded)

NSF GRFP 2018

• Personal Statement
• Proposal
• Reviews (E,E,V/G: Recommend)

NSF GRFP 2016

• Personal Statement
• Proposal
• Reviews (F,V/E,G/F: Decline)