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 Zoom sur les métiers des mathématiques (Profes
sions with mathematics)

• Booklet realized by 4 french mathematical
  associations SMF, SMAI, SFdS and  femmes et
  mathématiques 
• (January 2007)
• Partnership with Onisep
• (National Office of Information on Education and
  Professions)

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Our sponsors

• Ministery of National Education
•  Haute-Normandie  Region
• INRIA (National Institute of Research in
  Informatic and Automatic)
• Rennes Metropolis
• Bertin Technologies
• Sofinnova
• Ilog
• Research Federation in Mathematical Sciences
  (Paris)
• Doctoral School in Mathematical Sciences
  (Paris-center)
• INRA (National Institute of Agronomic Research)
• Bouygues SA
• IMACS

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Aim

• Show that mathematics
• Play an essential role in many sectors of
  activity (not usually well known and which does
  not only deal with research and teaching)
• Offer many possibilities of jobs, even with only
  2 years in university (sometimes with only a
  technical certification)
• Are not reserved to males !
• Finally, the mathematical formation (preciness,
  rigour ) is very well appreciated in industry,
  services ...

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Target

• Pupils, students
• Their parents
• Their professors and people in charge of their
  orientation
• Justification of the partnership with Onisep
  (distribution within secondary schools, high
  schools, universities )
• Distribution among professors (APMEP)

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Editorial Mathematics are everywhere !

• Omnipresent in industry (aerospace, imaging,
  cryptography ), in services (bank, insurance, )
• Math appear in various sectors of activity
  study of risks, data protection, polls
• They interact with our life, every day
  (transport, telecommunications, medecine,
  meteorology, music )
• They contribute to adressing important challenges
  of the future (energy, health, environment,
  climatology, )
• Jobs accessible from two years after high school

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Contents introductive pages

• Mathematics are useful with
• - they furnish to other sciences an efficient
  language and tools (solve equations, derive,
  integrate )
• - they play an essential role in the development
  of new technologies which transform our daily
  life mobile phones, internet, meteo, smart
  cards, medical imaging,
• - they help adressing important challenges
  energy, global warming, sustainable development
• - they develop rigour, reasoning, intuition,
  imagination, and (why not ?) dreams

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Contents introductives pages

• Mathematics for which job ?
• Various sectors of activity traditional sectors
  (meteorology ) and transverse sectors (security,
  fiability-quality, )
• Jobs with strong added value (high technology,
  research and development )
• Jobs accessible from 20 years old (or less)
• Many opportunities for the next years (many
  retired persons )

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Contents 20 single sheet  job descriptions 

• 20 profiles of young people (31,5 ans) who
  recently started a job with a formation
  essentially based on mathematics
• Level of study 3 from technical institutes
  (IUT), 9 from university, 8 from engineer schools
• 3 with 2 or 3 years after high school, 10 with 4
  or 5 years, 7 with a thesis (8 years)
• Profiles splitted in two groups
• the  favorite  sectors
• the  horizontal  sectors
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  Pages of formation lexicum

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The  favorite  sectors

• Teaching
• Math teacher in a secondary school (10-14 years
  old)
• Medecine and pharmacy
• Statistical technician in an hospital
• Econometrician in a pharmaceutic laboratory
  (Lundbeck )
• Banks, finance, insurances
• Head of data-mining in a bank (Banque Populaire)
  
• Head of tradefloor income in Ixis corporate
  Investment Bank
• Head of structured products in Morgan Stanley,
• Actuary in BNP Paribas insurance
• Meteorology and space
• Researcher in meteorology,
  Astronomer in an Observatory (Grasse)
• Transports
• Manager of air traffic,
  Customer analysist in car industry (Renault)

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The  horizontal  sectors

• Fiability-quality
• Head of quality and security at   la Poste 
  (international mail)
• Engineer in statistics at UTAC (technical center
  of car industry)
• RD engineer at France Télécom (trafic control
  in telecommunications networks)
• Decision help
• Research engineer industrial risks in EDF
  (electricity)
• Manager at Bouygues (decision process in complex
  environment)
• Cryptography and security
• RD Manager in France Télécom (data protection
  for multimedia products)
• Cryptologist in CELAR (french army)
• Imaging and music
• Consultant in Medical imaging, Alten group
• Researcher in music and acoustics at IRCAM

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Where can you find the booklet ?

• Web sites of the 4 mathematical associations
• smai.emath.fr smf.emath.fr
• www.SFdS.asso.fr www.femmes-et-maths.fr
• 2 web sites of Onisep
• www.onisep.fr www.onisep-reso.fr
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