Project Number : TP 08 Project Title : Mathematics Genealogies and . The Movements of Academics Supervisor : Mason A . Porter Word Count : 6462

From the Mathematics Genealogy Project, a database of maths-related PhD theses, I extract the movements of academics between universities on an international scale. I show that the extracted movements are incompatible with several features of a random graph based on the configuration model. Using Bayesian hypothesis testing, I find evidence that an academic is more likely to move after their PhD if their supervisor has moved since their own PhD. I discuss how assortative mixing potentially gives rise to this correlation. Considering only the movements between 187 US universities , I show that academics move, at least indirectly, between every pair of universities. Finally, I explore time dependent trends in the movements and, in two cases, show how they are consistent with historical events.