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Her CV [1] lists her job title as Assistant Professor. Also, this quibble seems to drastically miss the point of the article? [1] https://sites.google.com/view
by papeda 6y ago
Her CV [1] lists her job title as Assistant Professor. Also, this quibble seems to drastically miss the point of the article?
[1] https://sites.google.com/view/lpiccirillo/research/cv https://sites.google.com/view/lpiccirillo/research/cv
- pmiller2 6y agoYes and no. It really depends on how you're reading it. It's certainly unusual for a grad student to move straight into a tenure-track position at a research university, although not so much at a primarily teaching-oriented institution. If the point you're taking from it is "here's a cool breakthrough in knot theory and low dimensional topology," then her title is irrelevant. If the point is "this woman made a discovery so awesome that it was published in the Annals, and got her a tenure track position straight out of grad school," then it's quite relevant.
- generationP 6y agoOh, that means the CV is more up-to-date than her homepage. Still, that's 1 year between her PhD and her tenure-track (an MIT tenure-track, by the way, is not a near-guarantee of tenure; MIT is one of the few maths programs that regularly don't tenure their tenure-tracks). I've made that comment because the error made the article unbelievable to me, and probably made it unbelievable to other readers who are familiar with the current functioning of the academic job market in maths. I found it somewhat reassuring when I realized that the error was only a minor misunderstanding as opposed to the kind of fabulism I've gotten used from news media.