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<p>One thing to keep in mind is that there are international differences as well. In Germany, for instance, doctoral programs almost <em>never</em> require coursework as part of the research program requirements (although it may be mandated for purposes off establishing degree equivalency, if you come from a foreign co... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/148 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>I believe that a sandwich thesis (sometimes called an integrated thesis / stapler thesis) consists of a collection of published or in-press articles (some schools also allow submitted articles). These articles are included in the thesis verbatim. The publications are usually preceded by an elaborate introduction th... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/149 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>Supplementing GWW's excellent answer somewhat, the "sandwich thesis" or similar concepts, seem to be rising in popularity. For example, in my University, they're afforded equal standing to the more traditional "book"-style thesis, and in my Department, they're the <em>required</em> form of a dissertation.</p>
<p>Th... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/149 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>As such, requiring doctoral students to produce something like that is counter-productive - they gain no experience in the future requirement to publish journal articles, and leave graduate school with a body of work that isn't represented in the journal literature. The idea of the sandwich thesis is to get around t... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/149 - chunk idx 1 |
<p>If you can get any information, don't underestimate the importance of simple personality factors---do you expect to be able to get along personally with your potential advisor? This is hard to gauge if you don't have the chance to meet the person, but talking to current or former students may give you some idea.</p... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/158 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>You listed it in your question, but just to state it as an answer, you will <strong>always</strong> want to look into any professor before joining their lab. This includes:</p>
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<li>Looking up their publications and becoming familiar with their research <em>style</em>; do you agree with how he performs research... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/158 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>Remember, you will be spending numerous years with this person, and there's a very high cost of switching professors as the years add up. Make sure that you not only like their research but you also get along with them.</p> | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/158 - chunk idx 1 |
<p>There are a few things I would generally look at in a potential advisor beyond just their research/publications:</p> | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/158 - chunk idx 0 |
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<li><strong>Who were the co-authors on their papers?</strong> Are they actively collaborating with people in your field - people who could be potentially useful for post-doc posts, etc.? Do their students often show up as primary authors on publications, or are they invariably buried in the middle of a long list o... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/158 - chunk idx 1 |
<li><strong>How are their students funded?</strong> Your funding stream can have serious impact on your completion time and productivity. If every semester, its a desperate Pick-N-Mix of funded side projects, TAships, etc. you're going to have a lot on your plate that, while potentially an interesting experience, will ... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/158 - chunk idx 2 |
<p>I know it's a "personal" answer, but I don't think it depends only on the university, but also on the department. For instance, I did my PhD in Computer Science at Paris 6, in France, and the thesis had to be an original document (although it's clearly possible to use content from published papers, but not in a copy... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/159 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>It's essentially impossible to know if you'll be able to do a stapler thesis or not, because the decision also lies with the thesis supervisor, who may not allow you to do that, <em>even if</em> it is allowed by the rules of your university or department. I was co-advised, and one thought a stapler thesis was an inh... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/159 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>The department where you are going to submit the thesis probably has a document of <strong>PhD/thesis regulations</strong> that specify if such a thesis is allowed. For example, <a href="http://www.et-inf.uni-hannover.de/fileadmin/institut/promotion/englisch/Promo_DrRerNat_Engl.pdf">my department's regulations</a> h... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/159 - chunk idx 0 |
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<li><p>As you mentioned, the postal address does not matter - but in any case, I'd lean towards the newer address!</p></li>
<li><p>Its definitely OK to do so - I submitted my Masters thesis with my gmail.com account, due to the exact same scenario as outlined by you (currently working, am hoping to go to grad scho... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/164 - chunk idx 0 |
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<li><p>I agree with you and shan23, it doesn't really matter, but the newer is probably better. </p></li>
<li><p>Well, to be bluntly honest, I tend to have a negative a-priori when I see an author of a paper with a gmail address (especially when I review it, when it's not double-blind). I know it's stupid, because... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/164 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>There are certain (informal) nuances I believe:</p> | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/165 - chunk idx 0 |
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<li><p><strong>Symposium</strong> - Prestigious conferences, generally leading venues in their respective fields. Example: <a href="http://www.siam.org/meetings/da12/">Symposium on Discrete Algorithms</a>, <a href="http://ets2012.imag.fr/">European Test Symposium</a>, <a href="http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~rafail/FOCS11... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/165 - chunk idx 1 |
<li><p><strong>Meeting</strong> - I'm not so sure there are many of these, but I understand that it is more of a forum for interaction/surveys/posters than for publication of full papers. (I based my answer on the description for <a href="http://www.siam.org/meetings/an12/">SIAM Annual Meeting 2012</a>, which describes... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/165 - chunk idx 2 |
<p>Nothing. They're synonyms. See also "Workshop".</p> | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/165 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>"Conference" or "meeting" are catch-all terms that can refer to any scientific gathering. However, I'd argue that a "Symposium" tends to be smaller than the others, and more narrowly focused. "Conferences," "Congresses," and "Meetings" can all be huge affairs, but it's hard to think of many "Symposium" with a simila... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/165 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>As far as your research stature is concerned, grades would matter <em>least</em> of all, below other non-academic stuff as your soft-skills, your personality etc. There are a number of reasons for this:</p> | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/173 - chunk idx 0 |
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<li><p>No one cares about your GPA once you are a researcher! While it certainly looks nice to have a stellar GPA, it's the work that you do and where you publish that would matter. Look up some resumes of notable faculty in your field - how many even list their MS/BS grades?</p></li>
<li><p>I might even say that ... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/173 - chunk idx 1 |
<p>PS: I'm actually waiting for <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/65/jeffe">JeffE</a> to comment on this: His credentials are such that I'm not even qualified to state them, and he himself claims that <a href="http://compgeom.cs.uiuc.edu/~jeffe/" rel="noreferrer">he had the lowest undergraduate GPA</a> ... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/173 - chunk idx 2 |
<p>In some graduate schools I've been to (I've worked at a few and tried working on a masters at one), a <code>C</code> lands you on probation, and a second <code>C</code> gets you dismissed. Other than this, you're correct, they're irrelevant as the important measures involve funding and publishing. </p> | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/173 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>To be a bit blithe about it, grades matter until they don't. When you are a PhD student, the grades will matter until after you've completed your "qualification" process, in whatever form that takes. If you do well on the exams, then your grades don't matter much; if you're "on the bubble," you might be helped by so... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/173 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>Just to note one place where they do matter: they may help you find a willing advisor. I am not inclined to take on students who don't do outstanding work in the first-year graduate course that I teach. On the other hand, students who are at the top of the class may find faculty trying to attract <em>them</em>.</p... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/173 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>I will actually take a strong opinion that my subpar grades from undergrad and graduate school are a large factor in why my PhD is going to take a long time. As <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/81/david-ketcheson">David Ketcheson</a> mentioned, quality grades and GRE scores are important denominator... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/173 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>I currently direct a graduate program and as others have said, grades are most important while you're in a graduate program when decisions about funding are being made. C's may get you dismissed, and B's could lead to no funding in programs where funding is limited to a handful of students. If you are in a terminal... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/173 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>Straight A's didn't get me into trouble with my advisor. My committee didn't care either. </p>
<p>I was always told there are three grades in grad school: excellent (A), adequate (B), and failing (C). </p> | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/173 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>My answer depends on how far along you are in your research and whether you are in PhD or MD?PhD program. </p>
<p>If you are in a PhD program and you are less than a year in leave the lab. If you are more than a year in at you next Thesis Committee meeting, if it's scientifically reasonable, try to either set a dat... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/174 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>I, sadly, think that checked-out PIs- even those without the excuse of having to go see patients- are increasingly the norm. Getting to be a professor is a great way to age rapidly and burn out, especially in the biomedical sciences. Also, professors aren't selected for their mentoring skills so much as scientific p... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/174 - chunk idx 1 |
<p>In addition to the department chair, is there a head of graduate studies or the like (e.g., an ombudsman)? You may want to consider talking to them.</p>
<p>Generally speaking though, unless it will <em>severely</em> derail your progress, I'd consider changing advisors, and starting to talk to your committee members... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/174 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>(I speak from limited experience, and none on the "reading applications and deciding" side. Technically my undergraduate degree was in a program somewhere between math and CS, but I'd taken a fairly math-oriented slant on it.)</p>
<p>Having a masters degree in a related field certainly doesn't make you ineligible ... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/177 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>If you want to continue working in a closely related area that's a bit more in the mathematical direction, it shouldn't be very hard to explain why you've decided to continue that work in mathematics rather than CS. It's a bigger issue if you want to do something very different in math---the worry would be that wha... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/177 - chunk idx 1 |
<p>Short answer: Yes. Absolutely. You are already doing mathematics.</p>
<p>A few bits of advice:</p>
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<li><p>Ask your advisor and other references to specifically address your mathematical depth and maturity in their recommendation letters.</p></li>
<li><p>Include a <em>technical</em> summary of your past rese... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/177 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>I've served on graduate admissions committees for a math department in a research university. It really won't matter what your degrees are in, as long as the substance is there, but you need to be careful of several points:</p> | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/177 - chunk idx 0 |
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<li><p>You need recommendations from people the committee is familiar with, preferably at least one or two mathematicians. The more they committee knows about your letter writers, the better. (For example, if someone says you are one of the best students in recent years, is that because you are great or because ... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/177 - chunk idx 1 |
<li><p>You need to demonstrate that you have mastered the undergraduate material that is less relevant for computer science. For example, mathematical analysis along the lines of Rudin's <em>Principles of Mathematical Analysis</em>. Even if you know a lot about algebra and discrete math, you might still not be in a p... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/177 - chunk idx 2 |
<li><p>You need a compelling story for why you are changing departments. If you focus on not liking what you are currently doing, or on wanting a fresh start, then it will not go over well. There are much more positive stories, about gradually coming to appreciate that pure math is your real interest, but you should ... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/177 - chunk idx 3 |
decide where your real interests are. (Being unsure in the past comes across better than having thought you were sure and then realizing you were wrong.)</p></li> | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/177 - chunk idx 4 |
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<p>I don't think there can be any studies to confirm or deny something like that, simply because neither "good teacher" nor "good researcher" can be quantified objectively without bias, and in the absence of that, how can you compare? </p>
<p>But qualitatively, I think the conclusion naturally follows in most cases - ... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/183 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>It seems likely that there's some nonzero correlation. Certainly, there are factors that should lead to positive correlation; for example, some personality traits (like conscientiousness) should lead to both better research and better teaching. There are also factors that should lead to negative correlation; for e... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/183 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>Let's distinguish between two aspects of teaching, namely exposition and psychology. Exposition means finding simple explanations, coming up with illuminating examples and analogies, mapping out the most important topics and the relationships between them, etc. Psychology means understanding where students are com... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/183 - chunk idx 1 |
<p>Expository ability is almost certainly correlated with research ability, since they both rely on a deep, creative understanding of the subject matter. In mathematics, the standard example is Jean-Pierre Serre, who is both a brilliant mathematician and the author of several amazing graduate textbooks, and one can se... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/183 - chunk idx 2 |
<p>I see this split as perhaps explaining why there's so much debate about whether good research and good teaching are correlated, with some people saying obviously yes and others obviously no. The answer depends on which aspects of teaching you view as most important.</p> | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/183 - chunk idx 3 |
<p>Only reference I know of:</p>
<p>Feldon et al (2011) Graduate student's teaching experiences improve their research skills. Science, 333, 1037-1040.
<a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6045/1037.full">http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6045/1037.full</a></p>
<p>The authors found a that students who t... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/183 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>I haven't seen any statistics on how many tenure professors have been fired, but most articles on the topic treat tenure as though it's a lifetime position (e.g., <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/324/5931/1147.summary?sid=a7d9043f-a59f-499d-b610-d4092920493c">this Science article, "Tenure and the Future of... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/185 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>It does happen occasionally that entire departments are shut down. An example I remember being in the news a lot was <a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/10/04/albany">several language departments at SUNY Albany</a>. But it's an extreme measure and even with the current severe economic situation it did... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/185 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>In practice, a tenured appointment is one of the safest job positions out there. Essentially, the number of things which can get a tenured professor "sacked" are exceedingly small, and most of these involve criminal actions. (Even in such cases, the university tends to pressure resignations rather than try to fire t... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/185 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>Even if you don't get fired, the department can still make you miserable enough to want to leave. Tenure contracts often only guarantee a small salary, say 50% of the base salary when you were originally hired. Years later, that could be a pittance due to inflation. </p>
<p>Your department could tell you that your ... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/185 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>I've seen one case that almost led to firing a tenured faculty member. The university had found him guilty of misconduct and tried to get him to resign; as far as I can tell this involved incentives more than threats. But when that approach failed, the university began proceedings to revoke his tenure and fire him. ... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/185 - chunk idx 0 |
like me who were only indirectly involved, were informed by the university's lawyers that, under the resignation agreement, we are not allowed to divulge who this person is. As far as I know, that gag order is still in force.</p> | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/185 - chunk idx 1 |
<p>The following is condensed from advice for academic job hunts that I've read <a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/oleary/gradstudy/node12.html#SECTION000124000000000000000">here</a> and <a href="http://matt.might.net/articles/advice-for-academic-job-hunt/#timing">here</a> - I imagine it should be somewhat applicable... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/187 - chunk idx 0 |
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<li><p>If you would be applying for a position at Fall, begin applying from summer the previous year - applications tend to be sorted during committee meets, and the earlier you apply, the fewer applications are there, so there are higher chances of getting your application noticed. Hence, you'll want to draft you... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/187 - chunk idx 1 |
<li><p>Get your letter writers primed as early as possible. You'll need at most six letter writers, but no less than three, and you'll want to ask them at least a month in advance with all your documents.</p></li>
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<p>If you're talking about job searches in general, it's <em>never</em> too early to start making contacts with potential future employers. Getting on their "radar screen" early can only help you when it comes time to apply formally for jobs; in addition, if you are their "preferred" candidate, you may find a job posti... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/187 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>I would say that one of the best online resources for Software Engineering is <a href="http://www.sigsoft.org/seworld/" rel="nofollow">SEWORLD</a>. You can browse their archives and look for summer schools there. </p>
<p>Note that their search engine is a bit weird, if you go through "search the archive", put Summe... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/199 - chunk idx 0 |
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<li>ISSSE 2012 - 9th International Summer School on Software Engineering</li>
<li>Summer School Marktoberdorf 2012] <em>Call for Application</em></li>
<li>LASER Summer School 2012: Innovative Languages for Software Engineering</li>
<li>CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - 4th RiSE International Summer School (RISS) - Next Gen... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/199 - chunk idx 1 |
<li>Summer School on Programming Languages for Concurrent and Parallel Computing</li>
<li>8th International Summer School on Software Engineering (ISSSE 2011)</li>
<li>[Summer School Marktoberdorf 2011] <em>Call for Application</em></li>
<li>LASER Summer School 2011: Tools for Practical Software Verification</li>
<li>[... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/199 - chunk idx 2 |
<li>6th REASONING WEB Summer School "Semantic Technologies for Software Engineering"</li>
<li>Summer School on Mining Software Repositories - June 2010, Kingston, Canada</li>
<li>CfP: UPCRC Illinois Summer School on Multicore Programming</li>
<li>LASER Summer School on Software Engineering</li>
<li>TiC'10: Third Intern... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/199 - chunk idx 3 |
<p>This is a partial representation of the truth. On the one hand, departments are always looking to retain masters students as PhD students; it's better for the department (better numbers), it's better for the professors (more research from PhD relative to masters), and it's better for the university. On the other han... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/206 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>If you look at the description for <a href="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/grad/MEngProgram/index.htm">Cornell M.Eng program in computer science</a>, you'd find it describes itself as: </p>
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<p>The M.Eng. program in Computer Science is a one-year (two semester) professional development program designed to ... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/206 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>So, I would have said it depends from program to program, but I won't - most MS programs in computer science in US have the same (unstated) goals, and while candidates entering the PhD program find it convenient to have already had a MS degree (reduces course credit requirements), the majority of the graduates take ... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/206 - chunk idx 1 |
<p>There are two very different kinds of computer science master's degrees:</p>
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<li><p>Professional master programs involve taking lots of classes, but have no research requirement. These are almost universally considered (academically) terminal degrees. The actual degree is usually <em>not</em> "M.S.", but som... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/206 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>Also keep in mind that this is <em>very</em> field-dependent as well as program dependent. There are no hard-and-fast rules. </p>
<p>In a lot of fields in the natural sciences, an M.S. is the standard working degree, and so in many fields people traditionally do a stand-alone M.S. regardless of whether they plan on... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/206 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>Both are common precursors to a PhD (it's very common in geoscience to do an M.S. on a fairly different project than your PhD). However, the first type isn't seen as its own degree, and is often looked down upon (e.g. "he/she dropped out with an M.S." vs. "he/she got their M.S. at XYZ").</p> | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/206 - chunk idx 1 |
<p>Its extremely field and program dependent. For example, in my field, Epidemiology, there are (I'd argue) actually three types of Masters degrees. Annoyingly, they're not named consistently, so you have to read a program's description to figure out which is which:</p> | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/206 - chunk idx 0 |
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<li>Preparation for PhD degrees (MSPH, MPH): These degrees are intended to be stepping stones towards a PhD in the field. Emphasis is on advanced classwork and research, they may actually be joint admissions (get your MSPH and then your PhD), etc.</li>
<li>Post-doctoral terminal degrees (usually MPH): So you alrea... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/206 - chunk idx 1 |
<li>Masters-as-Final-Degree (MSPH, MPH): <em>Tons</em> of public health work doesn't need a doctorate, and everyone knows it. Data manager or statistical analyst for the government, industry or academia? That's a Master's level position. Most local/state public health work can and is done by people with Master's degree... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/206 - chunk idx 2 |
<p>So many master's degree programs are oriented toward the PhD track, but there's a considerable number in some fields that are designed for people who don't want to head into academia, but need an advanced degree for one reason or another - going into industry, government service, etc.</p> | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/206 - chunk idx 3 |
<p>For questions 1 and 2: it <strong>depends</strong>: you have to find out from your individual advisor/department/university. Furthermore, you characterisation</p>
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<p>In most (if not all) PhD programs, incoming grad students are supposed to take relevant courses...</p>
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<p>is certainly n... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/213 - chunk idx 0 |
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<li>The <a href="http://www.ams.org/student-travel">American Mathematical Society</a> offers travel grants for any full time graduate student in mathematics to go to one of their sectional meetings, and for any last year graduate student in mathematics to go to the Joint Mathematics Meetings.</li>
<li>The <a href=... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/213 - chunk idx 1 |
<li>Conferences like the <a href="http://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2011/stgrant.shtml">Association for Computing Machinery's CCS</a> also offer student travel grants. The website states: "Any graduate student in good standing, regardless of nationality, or any other criteria, except as noted, may apply."</li>
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<p>In fact, aside from actual full graduate student fellowships, and some scholarships directly sponsored by the US government, many <strong>travel funding</strong> opportunities do not have the US residency requirement. (What they may have, however, is a pesky requirement for you to travel on US flag airlines.) </p> | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/213 - chunk idx 3 |
<p>As Willie Wong says, it depends on your school and your advisor. As an obvious general rule, departments and advisors with more research funding are more willing to spend it. (As a reference point, my department does <em>not</em> offer such funding, because individual faculty generally have enough money to support... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/213 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>As others have said, it depends on your school, department and advisor.</p>
<p>There are a couple ways a first-year student might be able to secure funding:</p>
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<li>If you're already tied to a project with an advisor, they may have travel funds as part of their grant support for some of their graduate student... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/213 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>The good news is I think the pressure you might be feeling to <em>go</em> to a conference your first year is a little off. I got very little out of conferences (including the all-important networking) until much later in my program, when I both understood what was going on better, and had more interesting things to ... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/213 - chunk idx 1 |
<p>Well, clearly, it depends on many factors (my answer is probably strongly influenced by the Computer Science field). </p>
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<li><p>If you want to apply for a non-research industry position, then clearly, the postdoc might not appear as a strong point, unless you can travel, attend conferences, manage a budget, d... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/217 - chunk idx 0 |
<p><strong>No</strong>. There are many reasons you may want to do a postdoc; gain experience in a particular subfield, get to know the research of a particular advisor, work with a particular research group or department, or even to work with a industry group, in the case of industry-sponsored postdocs. You may be aske... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/217 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>I am currently involved in a Marie Curie financed Academia-Industry collaboration. I am doing one year in industry (hired as a software developer) then two years in academia (hired as a postdoc) then one final year back in industry (again hired as a software developer). I have no interest in an academic career path ... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/217 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>I'm writing in from the biotech industry. I hold an MSc, but obviously I work with a lot of PhDs and have observed many PhD hires. Most PhD level industry positions REQUIRE time spend at a post-doc position. This would be either in academia or industry, but academic post-docs are infinitely more common. If you are b... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/217 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>My recommendation for a transition into industry would be: </p>
<p>Do your PhD and post-doc research in the most prestigious labs possible and publish in the most prestigious journals possible. This is because other PhDs will hire you and be impressed by your boss' name and publication record - so it's the same ide... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/217 - chunk idx 1 |
<p>And bottom line: no hiring manager will blink if they see a post-doc on your resume, as long as it lasted less than 5 years and you have results to show from it. And in many cases, managers expect or require some type of post-doc experience for a career position. </p> | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/217 - chunk idx 2 |
<p>Read <a href="http://sidsavara.com/personal-productivity/how-to-to-network-at-conferences">this</a> and <a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Network-at-a-Conference">this</a>.</p>
<p>My professor put forth 3 simple rules for networking:</p>
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<li>Talk to the guy beside you</li>
<li>Talk to top 3 (sort by relevance o... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/223 - chunk idx 0 |
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<li><p><strong>Start Early.</strong> You should begin preparing before the conference starts. Start reading on who will be there, emailing people you want to meet, and determining which events you will attend. You may want to contact the speakers whose talks you will be attending before the conference; try to set ... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/223 - chunk idx 1 |
<li><p><strong>Bring Business Cards</strong>. Make sure they're up-to-date and details your preferred mode of communication.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>Research people and get involved in their networks.</strong> If a certain professor is giving a talk; read his previous research papers, frame interesting questions and ge... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/223 - chunk idx 2 |
<li><p><strong>Prepare the elevator speech</strong>. A common question will be "So, what is your research about?" Make sure you have an answer for every audience. For e.g. If you are in Computational Science, the answer may vary depending on who you are talking with. Plus, make it interesting and digestible. </p></li>
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<li><p><strong>Read "<a href="http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0385512058">Never Eat Alone</a>".</strong></p></li>
<li><p><strong>Follow Up</strong>. Prepare for this even before you leave for the conference. Have different modes of follow up ready. Will you have anything to say that is worth writing an email f... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/223 - chunk idx 4 |
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<li>Know why you're going in the first place: only go to conferences where you can get something useful out of it. You can usually get access to the proceedings (and at lower cost) without going to the conference. So just access to the proceedings is usually not enough. You're there to present your stuff and get f... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/223 - chunk idx 0 |
<li>Have a big stack of business cards. Give them away liberally to anyone vaguely connected to your field. Get some more printed. Repeat.</li>
<li>Collect business cards of anyone vaguely connected, voraciously. Add their email addresses to your database of interesting contacts. Follow them on your networking sites of... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/223 - chunk idx 1 |
<p><strong>Pros</strong></p>
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<li>If you stay at the same school (this applies even more when you join grad school immediately out of your undergrads), it'll be a matter of remaining in your comfort zone - same department, a faculty who know you, even the same apartment/neighborhood! This can be a major factor, de... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/224 - chunk idx 0 |
<p><strong>Cons</strong></p>
<p>An important advantage of going to another school is that you will be exposed to a completely different department, with faculty who may have diverse research ideas for you to work on. The department, in turn, will benefit as well as a new student from another school will cross-pollinat... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/224 - chunk idx 1 |
<p>As Henry points out in the response to Artem's answer, many graduate departments—especially at top schools in the US—have a "no undergrads admitted from our department" policy. Both my undergraduate and graduate schools have adopted such policies.</p>
<p>In general, unless you have a very strong reason for staying ... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/224 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>With due deference to Wikipedia, colloquially, the two terms are used interchangeably.</p> | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/241 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>In my experience, a person can <strong>serve as a reference</strong> and be contacted by the potential employer/school, usually by phone. Alternatively, a person can <strong>write a letter of recommendation</strong> which they mail themselves. </p>
<p>So when a job application asks to "give references who can pro... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/241 - chunk idx 0 |
<p>As per the definition given on the webpage of <a href="http://www.mcgill.ca/caps/students/graduate-studies/references/">McGill University</a>:</p> | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/241 - chunk idx 0 |
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<p>A "<strong>letter of recommendation</strong>" is one that is specifically requested by someone for a determined/defined employment position, academic program or award application. Generally, these letters are sent directly to the requester and not seen by the student. They can be categorized as:</p>
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<p>As <a href="http://examplereferenceletter.com/what-is-the-difference-between-recommendation-letters-and-reference-letters/">this site</a> also explains, a recommendation letter is more specifically related to skills and qualifications of a person with respect to a definite position/program, whereas a reference lette... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/241 - chunk idx 2 |
<p>Funding for non-research positions comes from either direct or indirect sources. </p>
<p>Direct sources means writing a proposal that includes funding for personnel such as a lab technician or an administrator for a research center. In this case, the funding is obtained directly through grants. </p>
<p>Most of the... | https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/248 - chunk idx 0 |
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