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58,092 | I wrote a research paper in high school in the field of lasers and optics but did not get published. It is on the internet open for anyone to read. How should I go on citing this? I want to refer to it in an application where it asks me to cite all works I have been a part of. | [
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58,097 | Several times now I've had desk rejections from journals in pure mathematics that are variations on the theme of 'we have a large backlog of very good articles, so unfortunately we won't even be sending your paper to a referee even though we might ordinarily do so'. I suspect this is just euphemism for 'we aren't inter... | [
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"text": "Although I've not been \"an editor\", I've been involved-enough with refereeing in \"pure math\" for almost 40 ye... | 2015/11/12 | [
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58,122 | Can a person who doesn't like to talk much still become a good lecturer/academician? Do you have any experience like this or know anyone like this? | [
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"text": "Yes, I have known several. They may be a better \"lecturer\" because they will use other teaching tech... | 2015/11/13 | [
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58,128 | I have read [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/16265/you-are-paid-to-answer-my-questions-how-to-handle-silly-questions), where the OP asked how to handle silly questions. In the excellent answer of Irwin, the 6th point attracted my attention:
>
> If it's a matter of the student talking on an... | [
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"text": "My solution is a partial solution.\n\nThis student seems very reluctant to change his behavior. Maybe you could int... | 2015/11/13 | [
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58,133 | I just received a decision letter from a journal editor (after three rounds of major revision). The letter shows that the reviewers "have asked for some other minor revisions". After getting the minor revision letter, I immediately completed the revision in accordance with the feedback from the reviewers (the suggested... | [
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"text": "The answer depends on the associate editor, and mostly on you. Imagine you drastically change your manuscrip... | 2015/11/13 | [
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58,152 | I have plans to apply for some TT positions in the US. However, I'm Brazilian and I don't even have a visiting visa. I've never been to the US.
Therefore the whole immigration process is mainly unknown to me, with the exception of a small amount of information I managed to gather online.
Ignoring the CV, merits, et... | [
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"text": "Caveat: I'm a US citizen, so my experience with this is from the hiring side and from discussions with colleagues wh... | 2015/11/13 | [
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58,153 | I often see in the US that many engineering programs are listed as a BSc or an MSc for Master's.
In my country (New Zealand) one can obtain a BSc in three years in a science field, or, if wanting to pursue engineering, a bachelor of engineering (BE) can be attained, most often with an honours component (BE(Hons)) in ... | [
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"text": "1. Most ABET-accredited programs in the US offer a 4-year Bachelors of Science in XYZ Engineering (sounds like the... | 2015/11/13 | [
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58,157 | Say I gained knowledge from a review article. However, I don't cite that review article. I do cite articles cited by that review article, but not the review itself.
Should I still include that review in my bibliography? | [
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58,180 | I am student at a UK institution and looking to apply for a PhD programme in the USA. The application deadlines are nearing and I haven't taken the GRE general test yet. It seems that if I take the test at the first available date, the scores will arrive after most deadlines.
How important is it to have the GRE tests ... | [
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"text": "I am just going to add some details to **HERO Shor**'s comment.\n\nNowadays, the GRE General score has an important i... | 2015/11/14 | [
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58,187 | Due to financial issues, I've had to work in order to support myself alongside my degree, and unfortunately due to work obligations I've had to miss some lectures and classes. Due to not spending much time at the university, I also don't have many friends who would be willing to help me catch up.
Would it be appropria... | [
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"text": "The appropriate way to do it is explain what you want, and why you are willing to pay for it. You have to be car... | 2015/11/14 | [
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58,190 | Scientific literature has items called letters, communications and journal papers. They all seem quite similar in terms of format and content. What are the differences between them? | [
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58,197 | On mathjobs.org, each posting often has at the bottom of the listing "further info." Sometimes the name and contact information for a faculty member is listed. Instead of addressing my cover letter, "Dear Hiring Committee Member," would it be better if I wrote, "Dear (name of faculty member)?" | [
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58,200 | I am applying for mathematics PhD programs in the United States.
I did not major in mathematics as an undergrad and I did not do so well the first time around on the GRE Math subject test (about 60th percentile). I have since completed a Master's in mathematics and my score has improved to about 90th percentile.
I t... | [
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"text": "Send your best one. GRE is typically used simply as a filter and including your lower score will probably hurt you... | 2015/11/14 | [
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58,214 | I have been invited to review technical content in the past. However, if I want to be part of review process for specific conference/journal – how do I go about and suggest my availability? | [
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"text": "In a word: networking.\n\nMost conferences and journals don't have any formal process for people to offer themsel... | 2015/11/15 | [
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58,217 | I am about to publish my first paper, but there is a little question bothering me. I have two middle names and I've noticed that most authors with two middle names choose only one to use as a initial. So their abbreviated names become "Last AB", not "Last ABC" (which apparently doesn't look so good).
However, I've rea... | [
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58,222 | The [Elsevier policies](http://www.elsevier.com/about/company-information/policies/sharing#acceptedmanuscript) state:
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> Authors can share their accepted manuscript: by updating a preprint in arXiv or RePEc with the accepted manuscript
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I haven’t arxived a preprint; the paper is published already; yet I’d s... | [
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58,225 | My TAing mostly involves helping students working on their programming assignments during classes.
A student asked me to give him private, paid, tutorials for the module, being concerned that all 'usual' resources to which he has access for free (book, classes, a bit of time outside of classes with me) won't be enoug... | [
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"text": "It's too much of a risk of a conflict of interests - even when trying not to, as an insider you might give undue... | 2015/11/15 | [
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58,228 | I have seen some discussions in this community about **Academia vs. Market world**. However, they couldn't satisfy my this question:
Assuming what is written in answer of [Why is Paper Publishing and getting a patent completely unrelated?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/2122/why-is-paper-publishing-and-g... | [
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58,238 | Recently I was in a large research conference mostly targeted at undergraduates, so there were people from many universities recruiting for summer programs, grad schools and academic societies.
It seemed like an excellent opportunity to make myself known, but I didn't have much success when interacting with them.
Mo... | [
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"text": "The best way to do what you want (get your name out, learn about how to improve your application) is to contac... | 2015/11/15 | [
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58,246 | I am trying to evaluate pros and cons for working at universities as tenure-track (and eventually, hopefully, tenured) and research scientist at national labs. I realize that not much is discussed on what it means by working at national labs (except a few specific questions such as [Are faculty positions more competiti... | [
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58,254 | I'm a Ph.D. student in linguistics and a relatively new course instructor. My understanding of the material is not in doubt. But I'm doing a really poor job of catching small errors. Even when I check my lecture slides afterwards, I don't find them all. Almost every week, I'm having to email my students at least once t... | [
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58,255 | I wrote my graduate advisor asking him to updated his reference letters for me, but he has yet to respond. I e-mailed him again, but he and I did not have the best relationship, and I am worried that now that I have graduated, he may not do this for me. I was curious about I should do in the situation that he refuses t... | [
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58,257 | I am a university student and have recently found out how much easier it is to use my smart phone to take snapshots of notes professors write on the blackboard during lectures (since I am quite bad at understanding and writing at the same time, it is very useful).
To make sure the professors do not have problems with ... | [
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58,284 | I've heard a few pros and cons about each.
If you go right away, you'll just get it out of the way.
If you wait to go, you'll learn way more and understand what's useful to focus on.
On the other hand, if you've been earning money, it will be harder to go back to living on a graduate student wage. One professor i... | [
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58,289 | I'm a postdoctoral fellow working on computer science. I've been a postdoc for one year and three months so far, and I think my job will last for three years in total.
Thinking about the future, I suppose I'll apply for a second postdoc position after this, in another university or scientific research institute. But s... | [
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58,293 | I'm a dedicated person, very passionate about physics and pursuing my PhD at a good school is crucial to my life. I've been preparing my application documents for a while now. GPA is almost 4 and Physics GRE is 980. My general GRE is at the 97 percentile. Good recommendation letters. I have other few decent ranks since... | [
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58,301 | One of my collaborators recently sent me a link to a video of someone presenting at a professional conference. In the presentation, they use some of my published research that I did as an intern, including figures from my paper, but they never credit me in the presentation.
I have several questions about this:
1. Is ... | [
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58,303 | I am nearing the conclusion of my first course as an adjunct instructor and I'm searching for some useful and engaging activities for reviewing the semester's content as a group. This is a required undergraduate survey business systems course that covers a fairly wide range of concepts and terms, with students represen... | [
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58,317 | I am applying to graduate school, and I am having a problem with recommendation letters. I need three recommendation letters with two of them being academic reference letters. Honestly, last year, I had requested two recommendation letters from two of my former professors for my law school applications. However, in the... | [
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"text": "I am not in your field. But from a faculty's perspective, the lack of response does not necessarily entail that t... | 2015/11/17 | [
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58,328 | I've been working as a PhD student in biology and currently in my last year. However I realised just a year into my PhD that I hated doing experiments, I really hated it. I think one of the reasons may be that in the beginning, most of my experiments did not work. Also, I couldn't justify spending years of my life work... | [
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58,329 | The response to many questions which connected/related issues of religious beliefs and adequate/correct behaviour of academia? For instance the recent ([Will ISIS attacks hurt my PhD application as a Muslim?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/58293/will-isis-attacks-hurt-my-phd-application-as-a-muslim)) feat... | [
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"text": "I don't understand the question. It is word salad. Academia is – or, perhaps more accurately *should be* – secular.... | 2015/11/17 | [
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58,330 | Is there a way to check which journals are available in a specific library/university? For example, my university library has access to some, but not all, the scientific journals related to Machine Learning in Springer. It would be helpful in case I need to move in order to get access to a specific topic or group of re... | [
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58,336 | Noise canceling headphones are quite expensive (up to 300 USD) compared to normal headphones, but can boost productivity by creating a sound isolation in noisy environments. Would it be ethically justifiable to buy those for non-research purpose (i.e., it's not needed for experiments)?
On one hand, I feel like good of... | [
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58,362 | I have the forum data for several MOOCs. Can I legally share it with someone else without going through IRBs or some other administrative process?
The data contain timestamp, post title, post body, and username. Since all data was publicly available by browsing the forum as a MOOC user, I would tend to believe I can l... | [
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58,366 | A named reviewer has made some suggestions, which I'm exploring, and I'd like to ask for input on a particular point. I have exchanged emails with this person before asking for input on the same work. Would it be appropriate to email directly to ask? | [
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58,374 | We are submitting a journal paper to ASME Journals of Mechanisms and Robotics for the first time. The manuscript is prepared in LaTeX. In the final submission, it is required that we submit "text-only" file along with the final PDF.
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58,376 | There are plenty of journals and conferences in my research area. And there are things we could look up in advance, like impact factor, journal rank and so on.
But I would like to find a place where I could put my **personal experience** with the journal (or conference).
For instance, in Amazon the customers can re... | [
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58,382 | **For an application cover letter, is it better to sign it with just my name, or with "Ph.D." after my name?**
What I am not sure of is that at the beginning of the letter, I do state when and where I got my PhD from. For reference, I am applying for positions in mathematics. | [
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58,386 | For my Ph.D work I used large volume of data which can not be put into my thesis. So, I am planning to put all this data online, so that other could download freely and cross check my work. It would also help future scholars to do the same work conveniently in future. Providing data online used for research is not comm... | [
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58,390 | I am a PhD student.
My paper got accepted with minor changes and then re-submitted again and accepted by the journal. In the meantime, I had conflicts with my supervisor who is a co-author of my paper and I decided to change the lab. Now, he sent an email to the editor stating that the paper was not confirmed by him a... | [
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58,397 | I am in my first year of a PhD in France. My adviser recently bought a laptop for me using the research funds on which the computational codes for my research work are installed. According to my adviser, I can take the laptop to my residence when I leave the lab.
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58,406 | To me, it seems that "Fully Convolutional Networks for Semantic Segmentation" (<http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.4038v2>) has quite a bit of impact. However, I would like to support this feeling with data.
On [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.de/citations?view_op=view_citation&continue=/scholar%3Fhl%3Den%26as_sdt%3D0,5... | [
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58,410 | When it comes to postdoc positions in mathematics in the US, does it make any difference for the hiring committees if your thesis adviser is a big name (say, someone like Jfomav or Milnor)? | [
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58,413 | I have a MS in CS with couple extra courses in statistics at graduate level. I am interested in statistical machine learning, however the research can be carried out in Statistics and Computer science department both. I was wondering if anyone has an insight on how hard it would be to get into a statistics PhD with a M... | [
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58,414 | I recently sent the following letter to a journal of questionable reputation:
>
> To whom it may concern:
>
>
> In the [Journal Redacted], in the paper titled [Paper Redacted] by [Authors Redacted], the following section is plagiarized from Wikipedia:
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> [Text Redacted]
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58,417 | I was recently asked to review a paper (for a very reputable journal). In the cover letter, it says
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58,432 | I am considering (for a variety of reasons) submitting an article to a philosophy journal, which happens to have a Scientific Journal Impact Factor of 4.699. This would be my first submission.
Is this considered to be a decent impact factor?
Or should I try a higher ranked journal? | [
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"text": "IFs vary dramatically in different subjects. For Mathematics, for example, IF of 4.7 is **huge**. For P... | 2015/11/18 | [
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58,433 | I am applying to a few Ph.D programs in mathematics and I found that most schools only admit about 5% of applicants. I know most programs fund students; some schools give stipends to all incoming students; some schools give stipends to only a fraction of students, but no one pays out of pocket.
Why not admit a larger ... | [
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"text": "Money is only a part of equation in academia. Other constrains are the following:\n\n1. **Supervision**... | 2015/11/18 | [
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58,435 | Imagine "a person" who may or may not be brilliant in her field, but certainly has new things to contribute, some of them (in her opinion) fascinating.
Imagine she adores her field, relates to it spiritually, and has been convinced for years that her life purpose is to do this research. She cannot imagine spending her... | [
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58,444 | As an undergraduate, I had a problem: I could work very efficiently during the week, but over the weekend I could get absolutely nothing done. Usually my plans for the weekend would include errands, studying, working on papers and projects, getting ahead with reading, and taking care of numerous chores (laundry, bills,... | [
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58,445 | There is another answer sort of regarding this topic [Academic dismissal from PhD program. What next?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/14971/academic-dismissal-from-phd-program-what-next) . but my situation is different.
I am currently completing applications for PhD programs in Economics and Statistics. ... | [
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58,446 | So, I had somewhat of a thought experiment idea.
I'll be honest: I define plagiarism as misrepresenting who wrote (or provided the ideas of) parts of your papers. I don't believe you can self-plagiarize. If the goal of the assignment is to teach you something, and you already learned it in the past (by writing a paper... | [
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58,459 | I don't really like other people seeing my source file. Are there good reasons to upload the source file (.tex) on arXiv over uploading just the PDF? | [
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58,460 | I was aware that there are a few REU programs that began offering positions before their stated deadline. Is there an advantage to submitting my application early, besides the reassurance that my supporting materials like letters of recommendation will be received on time? For example, if the admissions committee start... | [
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58,464 | So I was wondering whether the [SJIF (Scientific Journal Impact Factor)](http://www.sjifactor.inno-space.net/) calculation was authentic and accepted.
How can someone identify whether an alternative impact factor is generally accepted and from a reputable source? What kind of things should one look for in evaluating a... | [
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58,471 | I'm taking a distributed systems course at a well known university in the U.S.
I've noticed my professor has three primary forms of responding to student questions during his lecture:
* Immediately answers with, *just a minute, we're going to cover that*
* Immediately answers with, *that's what we just covered*
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58,479 | I've downloaded the source code and data published in a paper. I've followed their methods, in particularly, copied and pasted their sample code. Unfortunately, I've failed to reproduce the figures in the paper with their software. For example, the variance accounted by the first principal component reported in the pap... | [
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58,483 | While waiting for the outcome of my application for a research fellowship, I was offered a job at a university in another country. It turned out that my fellowship application passed the first stage, but after some consideration, I decided to accept the job offer and not to pursue my fellowship application any further.... | [
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58,488 | I finished the Master of Science and got my diploma in Belgium. Before obtaining my Masters, I did a Bachelor's in Architecture in Serbia. Altogether I studied six years (4+2).
**"The holder of this degree can use the title of Master. The holder of this degree is also authorized to bear the Dutch language title of Bur... | [
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58,493 | In my country, job rank is not aligned to tenure. You can be an Assistant Professor with tenure (i.e. a permanent contract at the university) or without tenure (on a temporary e.g. 5 year contract), or you could be an Associate Professor with or without tenure. I have tenure, but I am an Assistant Professor... which I ... | [
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58,496 | I am working on a manuscript for publication in a chemistry journal. I find that my approach to the problem is very different to previous work on the matter. I find very hard to fit its argumentative line into the common scheme: Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgements, Referen... | [
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58,501 | I am looking to apply for a teaching position near my town at a local community college. It's a part time position teaching mathematics (and from my research its up to highschool/first year calculus).
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58,508 | I'm applying to Master's programs for Statistics. In my personal statement, I mention the names of some R packages like car, ggvis, and effects when I talk about professors that I would be interested in working with and some of my own research. Typically when people write about these, they are just all lowercase letter... | [
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58,519 | Background: I am a fourth year math graduate student working in differential geometry in the US.
I'm currently preparing a presentation for a graduate seminar at my university, and today I met with my research advisor to go through my outline. Shortly into our discussion, he became rather serious and expressed concern... | [
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58,529 | I gave a talk a few months ago, and one member of the audience made a particularly insightful suggestion. My advisor and I are still working on this topic, and it seems like our research is heading in a direction where his suggestion may end up being incorporated into our work in a fairly significant way. We haven't sp... | [
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58,532 | My question is quite simple. In Industry, you get your job, be productive, get an MBA (in many cases), get into management, etc., etc.,
In academia, you are productive, get your research published, etc, etc.
To what extent are the promotional and "climbing the ladder" procedures similar? How can academics learn from... | [
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58,537 | I am applying for a few different masters' programs and I need three recommendation letters total. I graduated from university last year spring, and when I send emails to the professors I had for my major courses, the majority of them do not respond (they responded when I was a student on campus).
* Are professors mor... | [
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58,543 | A few days back I emailed a potential supervisor in one of the Top schools in Computer Science. To my surprise I got an instant reply from him mentioning that I should apply and he has funding for research assistants like me. He also mentioned a few questions about research topics so to follow up I sent him the answer ... | [
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58,552 | Is it commonplace to give a presentation at a conference and not have *anyone* ask a single question afterwards? What should one make of such silent feedback? | [
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"text": "Except for tier 1 and 2 conferences, *its usual*.\n\nThis can be due to one or more of the following reasons\n\n... | 2015/11/20 | [
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58,568 | Is the number of accepted papers normally determined before papers are submitted? Or is it determined based on the quality of the papers?
I'm primarily interested in CS conferences. | [
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58,580 | This question is motivated by [Should you list irrelevant work experience on graduate school applications?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/58440/should-you-list-irrelevant-work-experience-on-graduate-school-applications)
In that question, the OP cited text from one graduate school's question about employ... | [
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58,587 | I am in my first year of a PhD in France. I recently attended a competition of best presentation by PhD students. It was a 15 minutes visual presentation and 7 minutes of questions. After the presentation, one of the members of review committee openly stated the following;
>
> Since we have an audience from diverse ... | [
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58,599 | I'm applying for a PhD in the US (I'm from Italy).
I was thinking that maybe I could ask the primary professor of the school I'm applying for to review and give me his opinion about the statement of purpose I'm writing.
I'm afraid though, that in the US academic environment, this could be seen like ethically not fine... | [
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58,602 | I'm applying for a research postdoc fellowship in mathematics (I just finished my PhD) at a prestigious UK university. I've been told to write a research plan for what I intend to do with the fellowship. Unfortunately I have no idea who is going to be reading my plan.
Should I start off by introducing them to my area... | [
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58,603 | I am applying for academic mathematics positions, and I noticed that a few job applications ask for experience using technology in the classroom.
**What use of "technology" in the classroom are these hiring committees looking for in an applicant?**
The only things I can think of for mathematics is the use of computin... | [
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"text": "It's hard to guess exactly what the authors of the advertisement meant. However, there are lots of technologie... | 2015/11/21 | [
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58,608 | I suffer from OCD and intrusive thoughts.
I was once in a test and we were given this extract on a page. I had been analysing the top part of the extract, only. Then, I may have seen the other candidate analysing the bottom part of the extract - I saw nothing of their answer, just their pen moving around that area. Th... | [
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58,610 | Background:
In the final year of my masters. Not seeking to apply for a PhD program in the future.
Situation:
I have a potential opportunity to TA a grad level course. Highly confused about taking it up. The opportunity is good however along with the 2 courses that I have to take for graduation, I also wanted to take ... | [
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"text": "I can't really comment on the financial side, that all depends on your own financial situation. The main advanta... | 2015/11/21 | [
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58,622 | (Asking on behalf of a friend.)
I work in math, in a field where reviews are not double-blind: reviewers are anonymous, but review copies of papers include attribution. I’ve received several reviews recently (on different submissions) which were similar in style, all negative, and rather light on substantive criticism... | [
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"text": "I've had a similar experience, but on the other side of the table. I was the reviewer (the journal ... | 2015/11/22 | [
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58,645 | How much of a change is online learning through open courseware (OCW), etc., actually making? Are there any peer reviewed studies regarding the same? | [
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58,649 | I am applying to a few different masters' programs this fall after having applied to a different program last year. In the end, I decided not to pursue that option due to financial reasons. I graduated from my university in May 2014, and I have visited many of my professors during their office hours while I was a stude... | [
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58,651 | Recently, I’ve noticed a few popular comments that got me thinking. The first were left on [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/57619/what-are-some-good-ways-to-keep-students-coming-to-lectures), asking:
### What are some good ways to keep students coming to lectures?
One comment reads:
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> ... | [
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58,652 | Background
==========
I did my masters research project with Prof X. While doing this I joined his lab, where he used to ask me to do random tasks i.e. taking part in different projects, conducting lectures to undergrad students, help him preparing presentations, doing literature reviews not related to my project. I d... | [
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"text": "I think your concern is on good grounds. \n\n> \n> *they require one of the referee must be the main research supe... | 2015/11/22 | [
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58,659 | I am doing a degree in Computer Science. I am not in my final year, however my lecturer has asked me to do a dissertation over the whole of this year as a sort of dry run. This is so when I go to do my actual dissertation next year - the whole process won't be foreign to me.
My project (which I have had signed and app... | [
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58,663 | I am writing an academic paper with some co-authors and we are thinking of including a word in parentheses in the title. So the title would look something like
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> XXXX (YYYY?) XXXX
>
>
>
I have two questions:
1. Is there any style issue/argument against this? The fact that I need to ask this question in the fir... | [
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58,672 | I always wonder whether there are some particular rhythms (or tones) people use while presenting their work. It seems many people I have seen talking have some particular style and they repeat that through out the talk.
Personally, I feel very uncomfortable while giving a talk although my English is not that bad. Tho... | [
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58,679 | I just want to find out if this is normal, and see if anyone has any advice.
I recently decided to apply for a PhD program, and have been trying to get letters of recommendation. I first went with the professors I thought could give me the best recommendations because they knew me best, but when a week went by with no... | [
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58,689 | My efficiency is very high during exam week. How do I keep this high efficiency at other times? | [
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58,701 | I am a final year student and applying to graduate schools in the USA for Fall 2016. Recently, a professor was filling out my recommendation section in a college's admission portal.
In that portal, there was a question asking to rate the student in terms of intellect, communication ability, and such other things base... | [
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58,702 | Which of the following is correct?
>
> a) Muhtson et al. (2010) **prove** that all snow is yellow.
>
>
> b) Muhtson et al. (2010) **proves** that all snow is yellow.
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>
>
I suppose the question boils down to whether I'm citing the authors or their paper. If the paper is the subject of the sentence, it's singul... | [
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58,707 | I'm a PhD student in mathematics, working in a quite unpopular field (recursion theory). As I'm now applying for postdoctoral positions in the US, I've encountered the following problem: The number of mathematics departments in the US having notable researchers in my field is quite small. As I'm quite flexible with my ... | [
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58,710 | I wrote an email to Prof. X to ask about a PhD student vacancy and talk about a topic in one of his papers. He refused to accept me because of his retirement and replied with a warming email. In that, he cc-ed two others that he thought might be interested in me, Prof. Y and Prof. Z. Prof. Y refused because his area is... | [
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58,721 | I have a student in my course that does well on the exams, and his answers to the exam questions show a deep understanding of the material. However, this student has not been handing in the assigned homeworks and has a missed a few lab assignments, as well. I've been told by other faculty that he has a job which keeps ... | [
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58,743 | I am in mathematics on the job market.
**How should I thank my interviewer?**
Does an e-mail suffice, a verbal thanks, or should I mail a handwritten note?
Although I do love writing handwritten notes expressing thanks to my family and friends, I don't want to come off as looking for favors. I am also not sure what ... | [
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58,747 | I'm aware of very similar questions previously asked - all with good answers. These usually pertain to following up with a professor after a recommendation. My question is specifically about sending a thank you letter to a professor at the end of a semester.
My current semester is ending in three weeks and it has bee... | [
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58,755 | I reached the point in my PhD where, besides focusing on performing and analyzing the last experiments and starting to write the thesis, I should also start thinking about the next step - what to do once I finish it?
Since I would like to have some more research time to publish as many papers as I can from my PhD work... | [
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58,756 | In mathematical scientific papers, which section would I detail pseudo code or sample source code? Would that be included in an Appendices section or above under Methods? | [
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58,762 | I have been teaching for 10 years. During this time I have also been developing and contributing to open source software. The collaborative nature of open source projects and scientific research has contrasted strongly with my experience of teaching. People publish their research results in journals for peer review and... | [
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58,768 | I am a PhD student and I recently won a young scientist award and prize money (~500 USD) at a conference for the "best presentation". I did the majority of the work for the presentation, and I was the only one present at the conference.
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58,777 | I have recently applied to a postdoctoral position, I reached the interview stage (which took place by video conferencing with the group leader and a postdoc), and was ultimately rejected.
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58,782 | So I have been on my own completing a paper that I had started with initial discussions with a professor more than an year ago. In the meanwhile I have lost contact with that professor and I haven't heard back from him when I emailed him the recent state of the draft.
I had showed the draft to another expert in the fi... | [
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