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2013/01/19 | 925 | 3,852 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing a reference letter for a colleague applying for a US green card. Given that I don't know much about the process and expectations of the immigration bureaucrats who will handle the application, I asked around for examples of such letter. Obviously, they are all glowing, an... |
2013/01/19 | 1,065 | 4,483 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm doing a masters course at a different university than I did my undergrad (both in maths). I did well in my undergrad but now I'm finding it very difficult. The shock of the change is hard to cope with.
I'm not just finding it very difficult, but I get zero feedback: we don't have any tests... |
2013/01/20 | 1,530 | 6,477 | <issue_start>username_0: Should I put on my CV papers (or "talks") that appeared in (peer-reviewed!) conferences that have no proceedings? Should I avoid duplicates if the same paper also appears in another conference (with proceedings)?
Should I make it clear that the conference has no proceedings, or just list it in... |
2013/01/20 | 1,391 | 6,002 | <issue_start>username_0: When engaging in research, I know its a good idea to read lots of papers and talk to others about what has been done before and what is currently being researched to avoid "reinventing the wheel". That is, to avoid researching/publishing a result that has already been discovered.
In fields wh... |
2013/01/21 | 460 | 1,898 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it a good practice to include an abbreviation in a title of a research paper.
for example : PC , IDE , RAM<issue_comment>username_1: It is acceptable if (Edit: and only if) the abbreviation you are using is common (in your field or in general) and there is no risk of confusion.
I have two ... |
2013/01/21 | 670 | 2,758 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been notified by the IEEE organizing committee that my paper has been accepted for their conference and requested to register. and the status of the paper is **AAR**. Please see the quotation below.
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> [AAR]This paper need thorough revision to be accepted as a full paper
> for the con... |
2013/01/21 | 873 | 3,593 | <issue_start>username_0: First of all, I know that your work speaks for you, and if you have really good papers, you have better chances, but just bear with me, and for the sake of argument lets assume that your research is only one of the points to consider.
I did my undergrad in what could be considered the best Uni... |
2013/01/21 | 1,520 | 5,990 | <issue_start>username_0: Going to conferences induces some costs on a researcher's personal budget. In all places I know, expenses directly related to travel and accommodation are usually covered (travel, hotels, food), but there are also some indirect expenses that aren't typically covered.
I'll only give one example... |
2013/01/22 | 1,922 | 7,763 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about 1, 5-2 years in my Ph.D. studies in the no-man's-land between bioinformatics, systems biology and proteomics. (If you are not sure what those terms are, read: "biomedical research")
Coming from a more mathematical/technical background I was thrilled to work in this field, and my M.S... |
2013/01/22 | 420 | 1,726 | <issue_start>username_0: I wish to apply for M.Sc studies in Computer Science to 3-4 universities. Only one of them requires the applicants to take a GRE (general test), and my question is as follows: is it a good idea to send the scores to the rest of the universities even though they do not specifically require it? W... |
2013/01/22 | 1,647 | 7,150 | <issue_start>username_0: As my field, Computer Science (CS), has many sub-areas and specializations. I found myself having a *not-so-good* impression about different areas within CS. For example, I see working on Software Engineering as a waste of time while working on Artificial Intelligence (AI) is much more worthing... |
2013/01/22 | 1,018 | 4,230 | <issue_start>username_0: I teach an undergraduate course in thermodynamics. In class pop (surprize) quizzes account for about 10% of the grade. I use [canvas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructure#Canvas) for my in-class quizzes (and to collect homework assignments, start discussions).
The class room I teach in doe... |
2013/01/23 | 1,041 | 4,538 | <issue_start>username_0: Does using a bibliography software actually save you time aside from when converting citation style?
I have used refworks and endnote for years and from 3 years ago I decided to ditch them both and do the whole referencing business by hand because of frustrating problems they caused many time... |
2013/01/23 | 1,828 | 7,466 | <issue_start>username_0: The question of [how to choose PhD committee members has already been asked and answered](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/1192/2700) in general terms, but I have the following more specific questions regarding the choice:
* Is it more important that your advisor already know your committe... |
2013/01/23 | 634 | 2,360 | <issue_start>username_0: For example, I am interested in the research related with "Quantum Hall Effects", and want to have a list of institutions/universities that have good contributions in this topic, with number of publications during the recent years. Any idea how? Is there any website provide such searching servi... |
2013/01/23 | 1,487 | 6,252 | <issue_start>username_0: My research lab organizes monthly “internal” seminars, where we give the opportunity to talk to PhD students around the middle of their PhD, as well as newly arrived post-docs (who can talk about what they did before and present their project). However, attendance is a big problem, and it's the... |
2013/01/23 | 930 | 3,481 | <issue_start>username_0: For example, University of Maryland, Baltimore County [is said to be](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Maryland,_Baltimore_County) a **research university**. (Same thing for [Rice University](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_University), for example.)
Are there "non-research univers... |
2013/01/24 | 1,477 | 6,390 | <issue_start>username_0: It is an expectation that the PhD would make an original contribution and/or advance knowledge in a given field. I understand this is a universal assumption for this level of study across all universities.
One of my friend's research experiment has not produced a single positive result. This w... |
2013/01/24 | 3,513 | 14,662 | <issue_start>username_0: This situation is not uncommon; in my case, I have to submit abstract for conference in September by the end of January already. But the problem is I have no results yet. I'm pretty sure that in those 8 months I will get pretty interesting results. But..
How to write smooth abstract without re... |
2013/01/24 | 1,603 | 4,992 | <issue_start>username_0: Like many professions, academia is a challenging environment for women. In some disciplines (e.g. computer science), the number of women remains low despite efforts to increase it. Have there been any academic studies on the ways of improving the working conditions for women, specifically focus... |
2013/01/24 | 509 | 2,125 | <issue_start>username_0: I had an inteview day for a PhD program at a US institution. I met 4/5 professors and a few phd/post docs students. Should I send a thank you email to my host professor or not? What about the other professors?
I think the interaction we had that day was good enough so I am not sure if an email... |
2013/01/24 | 589 | 2,509 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm sorry if this is a bit subjective, but I really don't know where to find the truth.
In my hometown, lecturers usually will only approve research in computer science & information system where the result is new software. The goal is creating a software that can be used directly by business.... |
2013/01/24 | 964 | 4,125 | <issue_start>username_0: I am reading a paper and have questions about the details of the procedure described. I have read other papers by the same team but they don't explain too much about that procedure anyway. I think it might be common, but my supervisor doesn't know it too.
I am stuck and I want to get out of it... |
2013/01/25 | 1,876 | 7,291 | <issue_start>username_0: I am wondering, for full time university teachers (not those who also have research responsibilities), what is *generally* the number of hours per week that they teach? I currently teach 20 hours per week and find the load quite heavy giving me little time to prep new modules with quality. Addi... |
2013/01/25 | 787 | 3,257 | <issue_start>username_0: I had started my PHD last year on a topic that has several interesting problem to solve in the area, however I don't find the problem interesting enough to spend 4 to 5 years. As time went by and I came across a new problem through my course work and interactions with various professors. I have... |
2013/01/25 | 866 | 3,667 | <issue_start>username_0: I am wondering where I could find global statistics on the flow of students between countries. This would include numbers such as "how many students with US bachelor went to UK for a master" and "how many Spanish master students went to US for a PhD"
They always say that the academic world out... |
2013/01/25 | 527 | 1,945 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to ask if there is some algorithm how to arrange courses to timetable. I study at the university and we can choose a few different lesson times for each subject.
The problem is how to coordinate all subjects with student's requirements, for example to have school only 2 days a wee... |
2013/01/25 | 1,064 | 4,276 | <issue_start>username_0: I received an invitation to nominate students for an award that could be for *an undergraduate, a graduate or a post-graduate student*. I've seen those terms used before, but never been sure what they mean. I know *Bachelor* student, *Master* student, *PhD* student and *post-doc*.
The timeline... |
2013/01/25 | 544 | 2,267 | <issue_start>username_0: I wonder: everyone in academia handles a lot of email, on all aspects of their work. I mean, emails about conferences, emails about journals and papers, emails about research, teaching, supervized students, and so on. So if you have a big announcement to send to many people (eg seminar or confe... |
2013/01/25 | 809 | 3,538 | <issue_start>username_0: One of the master's student is working on a research problem. I am a PhD student. I have an idea which I proposed to my advisor on the same problem. Now he wants me and the masters student to work on that idea and publish a paper. Would I be treated as a first author in that paper or would I be... |
2013/01/25 | 3,160 | 13,103 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently on the academic job market, and scheduling on-campus interviews with institutions that might want to hire me.
Suppose I am invited to an on-campus interview at the University of X, and must travel there by air. They handle travel on a reimbursement basis: I buy the plane ticket,... |
2013/01/25 | 2,575 | 9,594 | <issue_start>username_0: **Observation:** According to [OECD stats](http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DatasetCode=RFOREIGN), the number of international students at US higher education institutions is the highest in the world and still rising (see also [Wikipedia here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_student#... |
2013/01/26 | 653 | 2,756 | <issue_start>username_0: *Q*: How common is it for a faculty/school to request/demand the good PhD applicants to come in for an interview?
For someone that lives outside of the U.S. and wants to apply to do a doctorate in the U.S., should that person temporarily relocate to the U.S. (at the correct time and for the co... |
2013/01/26 | 1,141 | 4,509 | <issue_start>username_0: One of my advisor's students asked me how frequently I have meetings with him. And since at that time we had very few meetings I replied:
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> "We have a very few meetings and the advisor does not allocate time to me."
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The advisor heard it and has started retaliating by reducing th... |
2013/01/27 | 787 | 3,196 | <issue_start>username_0: I have had a different set of professors every semester and as batch sizes are pretty big ~80, and with every professor dealing with 3-4 separate batches of equivalent size, for barely 3-4 months at a time, it has been hard to develop one to one relationships with professors. In such a scenario... |
2013/01/27 | 2,972 | 12,244 | <issue_start>username_0: There's perhaps a better title for this question, but I can't immediate think of one - suggestions for amendment welcome.
I'd like to clarify the purpose of reading textbooks. It sounds obvious at first, but what I mean is opaque to me.
I'm currently reading a textbook describing ~35 problem-... |
2013/01/28 | 1,056 | 4,332 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to graduate with a B.S. in mathematics and will (hopefully) be attending a PhD program somewhere starting in the fall.
What is one supposed to do the summer between? I don't have any money, so I can't "travel." I would love to do another REU, but I don't think they generally admit g... |
2013/01/28 | 7,298 | 31,207 | <issue_start>username_0: When you do a research presentation, what is usually the focus that you take.
Some professors tell me to make the slides as self explanatory as possible, and I quote:
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> Someone should be able to understand your slides without you being there
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To me, this approach seems counter int... |
2013/01/28 | 1,098 | 4,533 | <issue_start>username_0: If I have works that are almost submitted to journals, or are in journal review, is it appropriate to include these on my CV?<issue_comment>username_1: Don't put anything in your CV you cannot justify if asked. A CV is not just a list of your accomplishments, it's a list of material you can pro... |
2013/01/29 | 1,631 | 6,502 | <issue_start>username_0: Should I mention my Stack Overflow (and other Stack Exchange sites) reputation in my CV while applying for a post-graduate position?<issue_comment>username_1: If I was to hire a Postdoc, Phd student, a Master student or a programmer for my project and that position had a related component (lets... |
2013/01/29 | 2,032 | 8,451 | <issue_start>username_0: I do not understand what good it does them. A professor said it gives opportunity to read papers he would not read on his own. I am sure there is more to it but I do not see what they gain by participating in peer review process. It takes time, it is not paid and not even publicly acknowledged.... |
2013/01/29 | 405 | 1,529 | <issue_start>username_0: Are there any ways of getting to know about new PhD positions in CS other then just looking trough university/research groups web sites? Maybe people from different branches can name some specialized mailing-lists where PhD positions announcements are quite usual. I am particularly looking out ... |
2013/01/29 | 1,203 | 4,962 | <issue_start>username_0: I have finished my thesis, it's been proofread by my advisor and myself, yet I have 24 hours to make last-minute changes to it. What should I be looking for? I will not make any substantial changes to the content, but what about the form? For such limited amount of time, where should I focus my... |
2013/01/29 | 596 | 2,475 | <issue_start>username_0: Over the past two years, I've been collaborating with a PhD student. He did experimental work, and I did modeling and data analysis based on his experiments. Now that my colleague is about to write up his PhD thesis, in which way can he ethically include the modeling and data analysis results i... |
2013/01/29 | 818 | 3,526 | <issue_start>username_0: I have received an admission offer for a PhD at a prestigious US university. However I am also currently working in another lab outside the US with a potential to also receive PhD admission there.
I think the deadline to respond to the US school is April 15 but the professor asked me politely ... |
2013/01/30 | 624 | 2,554 | <issue_start>username_0: I completed my undergraduate study in computer science outside of the US. I hope to obtain a PhD degree in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in the US, but I don't feel that I am qualified enough (in terms of research experience). So I am hoping to find a research internship opportunity in US/Ca... |
2013/01/30 | 3,732 | 15,872 | <issue_start>username_0: In academia, there has been recently some cases that came to light of very well known scientists that have fabricated their data out of thin air.
In some instances these papers have been cited many times by other researchers and some of them have even been praised. Thus, when the truth came to... |
2013/01/30 | 1,774 | 7,298 | <issue_start>username_0: I often end up frustrated over the pace of my work, or rather the lack of "worthy" results. During my feedback talks with my colleagues and superiors I usually get good feedback but I find it distressing that most of it is qualitative arguments.
I sometimes feel like I have not progressed as m... |
2013/01/30 | 1,405 | 5,594 | <issue_start>username_0: When I started my Masters thesis one advice I got for getting good material to read was to subscribe to several journals' alerts system, so that I would get mails with eTOC (electronic Table of Contents).
This was pretty cool then, for months I could stay on top of what's been published out th... |
2013/01/30 | 3,620 | 13,407 | <issue_start>username_0: I am teaching a freshman science course for the first time and I am doing also outreach activities in high schools. To be able to attract the young generation to science one has to connect the concepts with everyday applications.
So I build my power point slides using pictures from the textboo... |
2013/01/30 | 773 | 3,354 | <issue_start>username_0: It's come up in our lab that we should probably have business cards for when we attend conferences, however, we've been given very little guidance for what is appropriate for a graduate student.
Some questions that have come up:
1. Should we be trying to standardize the cards to look like the... |
2013/01/30 | 2,715 | 11,300 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first year PhD Student, writing a conference paper with an Italian Professor, very senior and renowned in our field. Every commit he makes to the SVN is riddled with spelling and grammar errors. I have been fixing the errors and also trying to improve the expression but I have this impre... |
2013/01/30 | 407 | 1,850 | <issue_start>username_0: In my actual research work, I need some functionality that is not supported natively by any existing solid tools. So I have two choices: rather I implement this functionality my self, or I use an emerging tool which is in beta version.
So, can this have a negative impact on the acceptance of m... |
2013/01/31 | 898 | 3,690 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm teaching a programming course with ~20 students, guiding them through coding assignments and helping them understand what they are doing, and why it works or doesn't. Tasks expected of them range from trivial to medium-complexity in the range of a 40-hours curriculum.
Now, toward the end o... |
2013/01/31 | 2,090 | 9,257 | <issue_start>username_0: Related to this question: [How to buy plane tickets for job interviews?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/7484/how-to-buy-plane-tickets-for-job-interviews)
What does it mean to accept a job offer? Or maybe more accurately when have you accepted a job offer?
The latest and most con... |
2013/01/31 | 732 | 2,817 | <issue_start>username_0: What does it mean when it says under a journal article that it has been communicated by "XYZ" where XYZ is not the author but some other scholar with a very strong reputation? What is the relationship to the actual author and/or the content? Is this some sort of seal of approval to get results ... |
2013/01/31 | 649 | 2,708 | <issue_start>username_0: When I was a grad student, I participated in a bunch of conferences, and sent papers to journals and the like.
But now I'm no longer in academia. I've been out for more than three years, and I still get a few emails a week notifying me of new conferences, hotel discounts for those who register... |
2013/01/31 | 318 | 1,349 | <issue_start>username_0: Often publications resulting from funded research are published after the grant ends. It seems nowadays more and more publishers are requiring fees (submission fees, page charges, and open access fees). How does one pay for these fees after a grant ends?<issue_comment>username_1: **I refuse to ... |
2013/01/31 | 2,979 | 12,514 | <issue_start>username_0: One of the issues we have at my English-language institute is the problem of getting our doctoral students to write papers in English. For some, writing isn't a big challenge. For others, however, the process is about as pleasurable as pulling teeth or a lobotomy (without the benefit of anesthe... |
2013/02/01 | 2,633 | 10,694 | <issue_start>username_0: Over the past few days, my advisor and I had been going really hard. We got a really good idea and the preliminary results looked good, so I started spending long days in the lab, going home only to sleep. My advisor saw this and he started spending a lot more time with me and we had long meeti... |
2013/02/01 | 1,307 | 5,055 | <issue_start>username_0: There are many times when I am faced with the task of extracting data from a published graph (usually a bitmap image in an paper). For example, a scatter plot from which I would like to get a list of individual (*x*, *y*) coordinates for the points.
One option is to ask the contact author for ... |
2013/02/01 | 1,974 | 8,641 | <issue_start>username_0: Occasionally I find myself currently reviewing a paper where I find that many of the criticisms I have are addressed in papers in which I am an author (and often as lead author).
I don't want to make my identity known to the writers of the papers—but how do I make my points clear without break... |
2013/02/01 | 1,637 | 6,695 | <issue_start>username_0: In business (e.g. IT industry) remote work (aka "telecommuting") can be relatively common (see e.g. a recent StackOverflow [blog post](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/02/why-we-still-believe-in-working-remotely/)). It is exceedingly rare (or even nonexistent) in academia, even though most pa... |
2013/02/02 | 2,061 | 9,015 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is based on some observations which could be wrong (in that case, let me know).
I am applying to PhD program in various universities in US in theoretical computer science (TCS). Some of the things that I heard is that getting admission in TCS in top 15 theory universities is toug... |
2013/02/02 | 3,953 | 16,152 | <issue_start>username_0: When writing academic papers, I am really bad at improving what I have already written. I have heard that most of the time writing should be allotted to revisions. I know a few academics who are really good at keeping on revising until they are happy, but I simply can't do it. Knowing that a se... |
2013/02/02 | 531 | 2,274 | <issue_start>username_0: I have some papers to review and I am wondering whether I should do an ***in-depth inspection*** over the whole paper format? I see nothing major but there might be some tiny format errors here and there..
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> Does the organizing committee *expect* reviewers to check submissions
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2013/02/03 | 2,146 | 9,471 | <issue_start>username_0: Many journals sometimes publish [Festschriften](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festschrift), i.e. special issues in honor of a distinguished (but still alive) researcher in their field. Articles for such issues are typically invited articles by other groups in the same field, and current and form... |
2013/02/03 | 803 | 3,602 | <issue_start>username_0: **Why are a majority of jobs in academia offered on a fixed term basis?**
I have noticed that most teaching or researching positions have a contract term (e.g. 3 year contract). Some contracts may be renewed, subject to additional funding, while others simply end.
I am wondering if there is... |
2013/02/03 | 2,852 | 12,345 | <issue_start>username_0: I tried asking this question in cstheory.stackexchange.com but it was closed and it seems like this question is more appropriate here.
I am an undergraduate and an American citizen who recently applied to Computer Science PhD programs in the US. Based on conversations with friends and posts on... |
2013/02/04 | 339 | 1,444 | <issue_start>username_0: **What is a "publishable" thesis?**
I have often heard this term thrown about in conferences and even as advice to new grad. students.
From what I know, it is indeed rare for a thesis to be published entirely as a book, though one can publish papers out of the thesis.<issue_comment>username_1... |
2013/02/04 | 1,643 | 7,003 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the process of designing a major. However, I am worried that using a self-designed major can make an application look bad. As it stands, this potential major is about 70% computer science classes, 30% psychology and neuroscience classes. As such, this leads me to the questions:
* Are t... |
2013/02/04 | 3,176 | 12,856 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to cite something that I have learned from a Wikipedia page. However, I'm loathe to cite Wikipedia because of the perception of it by my tutors, so I try to cite the original source.
What should be the correct thing to do when I'm unable to have sight of the primary source myself, or fi... |
2013/02/04 | 1,360 | 5,466 | <issue_start>username_0: In many fields of academia, a professor must get grants to fund his research (e.g., medicine, biology).
Early in academic career, a scientist can have naive expectations about how things work in academia and later may be surprised by the reality. One such surprise is the compete and collaborat... |
2013/02/04 | 671 | 2,565 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on a project in which I have a direct supervisor in addition to the head professor of the lab. The direct supervisor only agrees to being written first or last on the article we are writing. Needless to say, my professor won't agree to be anywhere but last. He also feels that I des... |
2013/02/05 | 1,110 | 4,534 | <issue_start>username_0: I just started a PhD and I was looking for some guidance on what I could expect in the following years, more specifically, what is the recommended way to progress, how should I allocate my research hours and other responsibilities, and , finally, when and how should I start writing my PhD thesi... |
2013/02/05 | 830 | 3,489 | <issue_start>username_0: In my experience, academics are almost always expected to contribute some of their time to activities beyond their principal teaching or research roles. These extra tasks include, for example, attending open days, visit days, serving on one or more committees, acting as head of a student year g... |
2013/02/05 | 1,962 | 7,752 | <issue_start>username_0: Although this stackexchange seems to be a little hostile towards metrics (especially when they are about research productivity), it is still sometimes fun to indulge in a little bit of arbitrary measurement and quantification. Sometimes it can help you set targets, or let you know what is possi... |
2013/02/06 | 1,337 | 5,802 | <issue_start>username_0: What are some guidelines and best practices for PR statements and releasing a project summary to the general public? My first tendency is to always shorten the project summary, reduce the length of sentences and use more "crisp" words. But what else?
Does anyone have any pragmatic/practical/ ... |
2013/02/06 | 612 | 2,611 | <issue_start>username_0: There are a lot of post about peer review of papers, but how about graduate/undergraduate thesis?
Is there somewhere on the vast internet, where one can submit his thesis for a peer review.
The reason I am asking this is because I am finishing my master's in engineering and so far my advisor h... |
2013/02/07 | 753 | 3,155 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been reading that many students have a PhD committee. I assume this is a group of experts supervising the student.
In my case, and I think this is quite common, I had two people. One was the principal supervisor and the other was the associate supervisor.
Almost all my contacts were wi... |
2013/02/07 | 905 | 3,513 | <issue_start>username_0: No textbook is perfect. So if I want to supplement my course with some material (a few pages from different references every now and then, on topics I find lacking or weak in the textbook):
* is it legal to make copies of those a few pages and give them to the
students as hand outs?
* is it le... |
2013/02/07 | 623 | 2,639 | <issue_start>username_0: I noticed that some conference have different deadline for paper submission: an "abstract" submission deadline, before the usual "paper" submission deadline.
For example, on the [International Semantic Web Conference 2013 webpage](http://iswc2013.semanticweb.org/content/call-research-papers) y... |
2013/02/07 | 1,880 | 7,864 | <issue_start>username_0: I just started a research position coming from the industry. I am supposed to work on an ongoing project and branch it out to a new direction.
There is one member of the research group that did quite a lot of work on what I am supposed to modify. So I asked him if he could share his work and c... |
2013/02/08 | 1,396 | 6,111 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm the kind of graduate student that finds many research topics interesting and wants to participate in lots of student organization activities related to science and academia. But recently, one of my professors warned me against "doing too much" beyond my research focus, both in terms of publ... |
2013/02/09 | 906 | 4,165 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a physics undergrad who has worked with profs mostly on areas in Quantum field theory, string theory. However, my interests have changed slightly over the areas, and now I want to pursue a PhD in Pure Mathematics, perhaps in algebraic geometry or topology. Is it OK, if I apply for a math g... |
2013/02/09 | 2,699 | 11,075 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a fairly new chemical engineering graduate student. I've been doing research for one semester so far (in molecular dynamics) and in the process have learned about journals and "impact factor" (a concept I didn't even know existed in my undergrad).
My advisor has told me that getting in Nat... |
2013/02/09 | 774 | 3,263 | <issue_start>username_0: When I read research papers I often come across many things that I'm unclear about and would like to talk over with someone. My advisor is not available to do this with me as she does not have time. I'm not sure with whom should I discuss these research papers with, in order to help me understa... |
2013/02/09 | 909 | 3,742 | <issue_start>username_0: This question expands a bit on my previous one [Acknowledging funding](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/2685/acknowledging-funding).
I am unsure how to write proper acknowledgments at the end of a research paper. The wording that I read most often is *Author XY is [partially] suppo... |
2013/02/09 | 3,525 | 14,021 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm at a North American, state-run university (not an elite institution), which is relatively modern in terms of supporting mobile devices. The school is proud of its WiFi coverage in every classroom, and recently rooms were updated to have electrical outlets at every student's seat (even in au... |
2013/02/10 | 481 | 2,059 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there any significance of having received multiple "best paper awards" (in the field of theoretical computer science) when applying for faculty positions after a postdoc? Do the hiring committees watch out for such awards or do they fall into the category of "nice to have but no one cares"?<... |
2013/02/10 | 2,364 | 10,177 | <issue_start>username_0: I am trying to reproduce published results in a paper. Those results come from numerical simulations. The original authors and I do not use the same software, and theirs is proprietary (I don't have access to it). I have tried to reproduce their results, and it works qualitatively but not quant... |
2013/02/10 | 715 | 3,039 | <issue_start>username_0: I am planning to start running a group seminar, with talks scheduled regularly, at my institute.
The seminars might be of interest for people in neighbouring areas, too, so I would like to have an "archive" website with all the abstracts and a calendar of the upcoming seminars, and of course I... |
2013/02/10 | 921 | 3,883 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been approached by an international student about doing a PhD with me. As an MSc student in his home country he has published 3 articles in pay-to-publish venues, that are known to have little peer-review process, with his supervisor as second/senior author. These articles are not partic... |
2013/02/11 | 1,329 | 5,314 | <issue_start>username_0: While peripherally related to [Flying with a poster tube as a hand luggage](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/2448/flying-with-a-poster-tube-as-a-hand-luggage/2488#2488), I am trying to avoid this. I would like to print my poster at the conference. I am considering this for two reaso... |
2013/02/11 | 1,384 | 6,200 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Physics undergrad who is interested in pursuing a PhD in pure maths in the future (algebraic geometry/topology) but I am a bit unsure. My question is quite general, and I don't wish to provide more background for fear of bias in the answers.
My question: Is it is advisable/possible/unfa... |
2013/02/11 | 1,018 | 4,198 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm asking for approaches to include interesting, but not perfectly fitting results in a dissertation or a paper.
During my PhD project I have made an accidental discovery, which is what I believe you call *serendipity*. The finding is related to the overall topic of my dissertation and certai... |
2013/02/12 | 476 | 2,143 | <issue_start>username_0: I am unsure for books but I know for certain that selected journal articles are peer-reviewed. (This just shows I am not in academia!)
**Do books go through a peer-review process? If so, how does this happen?**
If one is approached by a small publisher, does it matter if this publisher does ... |
2013/02/12 | 1,789 | 7,649 | <issue_start>username_0: I quite enjoy paying attention to how I design my documents and presentations. I usually spend hours thinking over and designing my slides for a workshop or presentation, so that they are aesthetically pleasing and as intuitive as possible. Likewise I recently started revising my CV I figured a... |
2013/02/12 | 815 | 3,607 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently applying to faculty positions, primarily teaching positions at 4 year colleges and universities. I am told many of these jobs have more than 100-200 applicants. Some of the jobs ads themselves say they get hundreds of applicants, and go on to say something to the effect 'you prob... |
2013/02/12 | 463 | 1,943 | <issue_start>username_0: My department has several non-tenured/non-tenure-track faculty in teaching-only positions. My department is also hiring at the tenure-track level this year and these non-tenured faculty are taking an active role in the search, even voting with the tenured and tenure-track faculty on who should ... |