For the eninth episode, we are joined by three Mathematics PhD students from our institute: Anne-Men Huijzer, Dijs de Neeling and Armin Pirastehzad.

They share their perspective as final year PhD students in Mathematics, answering some questions from our listeners and sharing their views on what is like to pursue a doctorate, including some obstacles they encoutered and many useful tips for current and perspective students.

Episode links:

• Blog post on doing a PhD in STEM, with some useful links
• Steven Weinberg advice to students at the start of their scientific careers: four golden lessons
• For perspective PhD supervisors, there is a very nice free course on future learn on Successful PhD Supervision developed at our faculty and specifically targeting STEM subjects

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Produced by Marcello Seri and Marit van Straaten

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Illustrations by Henrieke Krijgsheld

The podcast soundtrack is derived from the royalty free track Starving by OctoSound and used in agreement with pixabay license https://pixabay.com/music/funk-starving-170377

We are grateful to the Faculty of Science and Engineering of the University of Groningen for allowing us to use their equipment for this recording.

Welcome to the eight episode! This time we are joined by two Mathematics students, Naná Giadresco and Anna de Bruijn. They share their perspective as Mathematics students, as we discuss studying and teaching during the pandemic, expectations about studying Maths and who will be the co-host next year!

Episode links:

• The fruit puzzle of Naná’s thesis, and a paper discussing a more general version of the equation

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The podcast soundtrack is derived from the royalty free track Starving by OctoSound and used in agreement with pixabay license https://pixabay.com/music/funk-starving-170377

We are grateful to the Faculty of Science and Engineering of the University of Groningen for allowing us to use their equipment for this recording.

Welcome to the sixth episode of It's Not Just Numbers! For this episode we challenged a probabilist, Gilles Bonnet, and a statistician, Marco Grzegorczyk, to sit in the same room and explain us the commonalities and differences among their disciplines.

As usual we get to know our guests and then we head straight into the theme of the episode, exploring what probability and statistics are about and their complementary relationship, paving the road for some interesting future episodes.

Episode links:

• Gilles's website: https://www.math.rug.nl/gbonnet
• Marco's website: https://www.math.rug.nl/stat/People/Marco

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The podcast soundtrack is derived from the royalty free track Starving by OctoSound and used in agreement with pixabay license https://pixabay.com/music/funk-starving-170377

We are grateful to the Faculty of Science and Engineering of the University of Groningen for allowing us to use their equipment for this recording.