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66,224 | I was admitted to the MPhil masters program in "Advanced Computer Science" at Cambridge, UK, but unfortunately I wasn't offered a scholarship. I browsed the internet a bit, but as I'm not from England (though from the EU) I couldn't find any possibility of loans or studentships, that would cover the whopping 20000£ nee... | [
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66,226 | In the past days I was accepted in two PhD programmes about biomedical imaging processing and I have a big dilemma about which one to choose. Both of them are in similar biomedical imaging fields but the mathematical and computational techniques to develop are not the same. Lets call them Phd program A and B.
I find P... | [
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66,245 | Is there a special database somewhere where you can see how often other scholars have cited you or your publications in their scholarly works?
My professor is always saying, "No one has cited me on this..."
Is that just his general assessment or does he know this from a verified source? | [
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66,248 | I got a job offer shortly after starting my PhD. So my question is: What should I say to my advisor about why I am quitting my PhD? Is it fair to tell her that I have accepted a job offer? And What should I say to an employer about why I am leaving my PhD? Will it not cause them suspect that I can't survive a PhD, let ... | [
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"text": "This is pretty common in my field (applied math). Students see the amount of money they can be making, an... | 2016/04/04 | [
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66,252 | I know that many Statistics PhD students come from undergraduate / master's level math / applied math backgrounds. So, many will have taken a full-year of introductory real analysis and most likely also complex analysis (and lots of linear algebra and linear algebraic courses, such as scientific computing) -- but perha... | [
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"text": "Measure theory is essential for higher level probability.\n\nHowever, I believe most graduate schools will have a... | 2016/04/04 | [
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66,262 | I have no research experience and I'm in my junior year of college. I'm very interested in doing research in any field at this point (combinatorics or linear algebra would be especially preferred) and I fully intend to apply for math grad school during my senior year.
I have a decent amount of coursework (abstract alg... | [
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66,267 | In the US one seldom reads about Master and much more about Graduate schools. I have the feeling that Graduate school can also mean doing a doctorate/pursuing a PhD degree; thus I am confused with the lack of clear separation here as it isn't a problem with the European distinction of Bachelor, Master, and Doctorate.
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66,270 | I am writing my M Phil thesis in engineering, on the development of a new process for treating a particular type of wastewater.
In my literature review I have a background section, which describes the nature of the problem to be solved.
Originally I used this section to thoroughly describe the problem my thesis is tr... | [
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66,275 | Someone referenced my work in a journal paper but they did not cite it the right way.
They only included my first name, my supervisor's first name, the name of the paper and the date. They did not include our last names or the journal that the paper was published in.
Do I contact the authors or the journal to correct ... | [
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66,283 | I have created a software and the assisting methodology for its application to some kinetic studies. I used a lot of theory. E.g., I used kinetic model, reactor model, data analysis (about 7 methods to analyse the results totally). Now I have prepared an article where I report this methodology and demonstrate the resul... | [
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66,289 | I taught my first class last quarter. The results for evaluations are very polarized. The raw data shows that my scores are either very high or very low for a majority of items. That implies some students loved the class and some hated it.
Honestly, this teaching experience has been so tiring that I am seriously thin... | [
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66,295 | I am planning to drop a course in my master's program as it has been really difficult for me to score well in it while looking for internships this semester.
If I don't drop it I will end up with a C in that course. I already have a B- and I don't want my GPA to drop.
How badly will it my hurt my future prospects when ... | [
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66,296 | I recently applied for an intensive language program at my university; the program's relatively expensive, but many students get full or partial scholarships to cover some of the cost. I just got a letter confirming my acceptance into the program, along with a modest scholarship. I'm thrilled, but, unfortunately, there... | [
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66,301 | This question is specifically about a high school course, but it should be applicable to any online course in general.
I was taking a physics course online to skip it in school, those courses are really expensive, so I took the cheapest one that my school was allowing me to take, and it was understandably low quality.... | [
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66,308 | For one of my pieces of coursework I have to make a game engine and I wasn't completely understanding what my lecturer was going on about. So I looked online and found a tutorial on how to make one and its been really useful and I understand better how it all works but my coursework is basically just the tutorial code.... | [
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66,314 | Just a curiosity: after how many years does publications become public (cannot be kept behind a paywall anymore)? | [
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66,320 | I recently reviewed an article. I found weaknesses in assumptions that meant none of the conclusions that were made could *actually* be made; basically they had absolutely no result.
As such, I gave a detailed review (~ 2000 words) explaining why the assumptions made by the authors were wrong. I was civil and polite ... | [
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66,328 | I've heard some conflicting reports on this, but in general, how many graduate credit hours are required to teach in a department or secure a professorship in it?
I'm an interdisciplinary PhD student with a heavy focus on computer science, but I will have close to thirty credit hours in social sciences when I'm done ... | [
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66,331 | I have been part of several classes where no-one wants to answer questions or actively take much part in the discussions. I am sure this must be frustrating for the lecturers, who try really hard to get us to answer and get an interesting discussion going.
Obviously, one answer to fix this is to suck it up and just an... | [
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66,343 | During my PhD I suffered from Generalized Anxiety Disorder, that was officially diagnosed. I had to stay away from the University for a year, however this issue didn't affect at all my productivity and I carried on my research with several publications.
When asking for recommendation letters, my supervisor told me he ... | [
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66,348 | Which is a better poster orientation: Vertical/portrait (taller than wide) or horizontal/landscape (wider than tall)? Assume that the content does not "naturally" fit either of these formats so as to make one choice obvious.
Are there any studies that explore the differences between these two?
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66,352 | Forty years ago, London University was still offering degree registration to "external" students, who might be living anywhere in the world. To prepare themselves for the London exams, many studied at local institutions; but it was also acceptable for external students not to study at any institution but to study "priv... | [
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66,370 | Is it accepted/appropriate to take pictures of presentation slides at conferences for private use?
I am not talking about putting those pictures out in the public afterwards, I know this is illegal without consent of the presenter.
Should it matter, I am talking about math conferences. And I am asking because I don... | [
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66,372 | I have an online interview for a PhD program via Skype. I want to ask the panel if my girlfriend can join in the interview. She will turn off her microphone and camera, so there will no interrupting sound from her. She will only hear our conversation and see our faces (if they turn on the camera). She is there just to ... | [
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66,377 | Each paper should be able to provide enough evidence that its claims are correct. Nowadays, where the number of joint industry-university projects grows exponentially, many confidential documents produced by private companies become available to researchers in academia under Non Disclosure Agreements (NDA).
My questi... | [
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66,379 | I have been working on a paper as the first author. The paper looks good to my advisor and other collaborators, and we are almost ready to submit. I have already submitted the abstract for a good conference, and the full-paper is due in a few days. In the past week, my advisor let me know about a special edition of a r... | [
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66,396 | Some professors direct large research programs. What is the typical practice for compensating them?
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66,399 | Does a research/study have an 'expiry date' that prohibits it from being published in a journal after it has been completed? | [
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66,409 | I am about to start my graduate studies in an American university, moving from my native Peru. Over the course of my under-graduation, I have developed this strange habit of watching porn at odd times, say afternoon, or morning. Sometimes I watch in classroom too, of course, reducing the volume to zero. I ensure I do n... | [
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66,413 | I am about to start applying for Ph.D programs (mathematics), and while compiling my CV, comparing it with many examples avaliable across the internet, I noticed that almost everyone attended one or two conferences during his bachelor/master years.
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66,432 | I have applied in a US university (let say it is **A**) in a natural science department for PhD admission.
One weeks ago I emailed the graduate director to know my status because I received admission from another university. I wrote him that, I will not accept the other university's admission offer if I'm in their cons... | [
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66,438 | So I have an advisor who seems to be kind of peculiar. He is quite famous in his field and has good reputation.
However, his way of working with students is more like waiting for him to come up with ideas for students. And since he has "good taste", he is always aiming for big goals which makes it take a lot longer to... | [
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66,442 | For one of my classes (upper-level), the professor seems to be quite unprepared for the class. More specifically,
1. As they openly disclose, they haven't looked at the course material in many years (prior to the preparation of the course), and are formally teaching that specific class for the first time **ever**. Alt... | [
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66,449 | I have copied several paragraphs from our course textbook in my homework, however before starting the section which is from the textbook I have clearly stated that following sections are from textbook (name of book, author, chapter). But I did not put them in quotation marks.
Is that plagiarism? | [
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66,459 | I am an applicant of Graduate program in Biological sciences of X University, USA. My application deadline was Dec 15, 2015 and I submitted application with required documents on time (PhD application). For the past 4 months my application status in portal shows "In review". In the university website,no specific decisi... | [
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66,491 | I'm an undergraduate student majoring in mathematics; I totally love it and I want to get Ph.D in pure mathematics.
I'm also interested in physics, especially the theoretical field; my favorite areas are relativity and quantum theory. Of course, I'm more into mathematics than physics, that is why I majored in math; p... | [
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66,492 | I only agree to write a reference letter if I can write a positive one. Although it is only hypothetical at this point, I would hesitate to write a reference letter for an individual who chooses not to waive their right to see it. That said, I have sometimes shown students my letters for them since I feel it is useful ... | [
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66,501 | When it comes to how much one is allowed to copy from a book or a journal article, I often read about it as being 10% of the total pages number or a whole complete chapter (whichever is higher). However, how can one apply this rule if, for example, the journal article is only 10 pages? Copying just 1 page is often poin... | [
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66,511 | I am a suspended student and I have been getting counseling for three months. During those three months, I have noticed extremely unprofessional behavior from my counselor.
When I started counseling, he was late each time. The first time he was late 10 minutes, the next 20 minutes and the third time 30 minutes.
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66,516 | This is a follow up to [my other question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/61912/is-it-common-to-offer-a-position-to-someone-before-the-position-is-advertised).
In November last year I accepted an informal offer of a position at a university outside my country of residence. Since then, I have in good fai... | [
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66,521 | I will be attending a conference to give a presentation
in approximately two months.
I would like to buy plane tickets to and from the conference location,
especially because I am living outside the US
and the conference is in the US,
so travel to the conference is not an easy thing.
Unfortunately, the conference orga... | [
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66,536 | When I was doing my postdoc, there was a PhD student who shared the same office with me; he didn't get along very well with me or anyone in the office. He could be described as unfriendly and a little bit rude.
As we were working on different projects, I didn't know much about his research ability.
I am now a lectur... | [
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66,545 | In my area (computer science) it is standard to publish several papers during the course of your PhD and then only "write" your thesis in the last few months of graduate school --- often you only start compiling the thesis once you have secured a job for after graduation.
I realize that in other areas this is differen... | [
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66,554 | Winter semesters ends on April 13th. Summer research/classes - May 15th
I am a second-year civil engineering student. Juggling between options, I planned on cold emailing many people for job internships/taking summer classes/requesting a professor for a research option.
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66,566 | I'm currently a first year information technology student majoring in software development. I applied for an internship at a software development company. I got an interview and now they're asking to see some assignments that I've done at school to prove my experience. Is it usual that a school (in Canada) own all the ... | [
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66,581 | Is it a good practise to involve a child in a statement of purpose to say how my point of view has changed since the birth? | [
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66,583 | I'm wondering if this is case especially for time-consuming work like programming problems in computer science spanning several thousand lines of code.
Or when a professor teaches a new course they are not intimately familiar with e.g. did not take it during undergrad.
For professors that don't do this, how (if at a... | [
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66,584 | The matter of fact is, I graduated from university (physics and mathematics) more than 4 years ago. I remember myself enjoying most of the subjects, communicating with professors and study mates, researching other non-curriculum topics.
Ever since graduation I have been working in IT industry. IMHO, those are not dire... | [
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66,586 | I've seen profiles of researchers who, over time, come to work in both theoretical and applied areas, although I suspect (having seen profiles of other researchers who recently finished their PhD) that these researchers had one forte to begin with.
As an undergraduate hoping to become a researcher, I'd like to develop... | [
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66,592 | After presenting a paper at a conference last year, I was invited to submit an expanded version of the paper as a journal paper. The review of the paper has recently been concluded, and the editors recommended acceptance subject to minor revision.
While the paper was under review, however, we developed a more accurat... | [
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66,593 | The [Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-university_Consortium_for_Political_and_Social_Research) maintains a persistent URL for each DOI. Example: <http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06849>. However, the link often points to some pay-walled article, eve... | [
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66,605 | My domain is Image processing.
While submitting papers to conferences, authors are usually asked to select a primary and secondary topic for there paper.
1. What is the actual purpose of this?
2. What if authors by mistake select a wrong (not completely) topic instead of a more suitable topic? Does this get changed ... | [
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66,613 | How can someone become a multi-disciplinary researcher?
For example, can one study a multi-disciplinary domain that combines signal processing, artificial intelligence (neural net, machine learning), robotics, instrumentation and control engineering, and embedded systems? Is there a path that could make a candidate a ... | [
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66,614 | In the United States, federal law prohibits professors from releasing any student's grades to any party other than the student and any party whom the student authorizes to receive the grades.
One of my professors appears to be violating this law by uploading each student's lab grades in one file, which is accessible t... | [
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66,618 | In [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooI7Jimh0M0&t=2m30s) on mathematician [Maria Chudnovsky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Chudnovsky), she says "with the MacArthur Fellowship, I'll be able to work exactly on the problems I want to work on."
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66,623 | In high school and college I remember whenever doing some research for a class, my English teacher then will look at the citation at the end and use a red pen to mark out any place where MLA format is not strictly followed. This is probably the reason that there are 106 million hits for "MLA How?" on Google.
Doubtless... | [
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66,629 | I am a PhD student in Germany and my supervisor has suggested me to change the research group because he has told me I cannot write a good quality dissertation within the time framework of three years. He assumes that the maximum possible time for doing the PhD is three years and this time framework cannot be extended.... | [
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66,657 | I am very new to this...
I need to give a short talk at a conference soon, on which I am going to talk about something my advisor and I work on together. Alphabetically, he should go before me, but would it be confusing since I am the one giving the talk?
Should I just list my name and put "Joint Work with xxx" on t... | [
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66,681 | I was looking around on the internet and I found some notes with homework appended to them ([for those interested, it is math](https://math.la.asu.edu/~halsmith/MDS.pdf)). What struck me is that these questions are not only lengthy, notationally challenging, but also appears to be quite complicated. For a biology cours... | [
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66,687 | This question is specifically aiming at the UK PhD admission system.
Having spent roughly 6 years in the UK - 2 years A-Level and 4 years undergraduate, I am now moving forward into applying for PhD programs. To my surprise, I discovered that I would have to face a lot of difficulties regarding my eligibility for fun... | [
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66,696 | I am applying for a university, and on their website they have divided topics in “Areas” and “Themes”. For example, *Areas* contains *Information Systems* and *Computer Science* and *Themes* contains *Big Data* and *Cybersecurity.*
As the heading says, what is the difference between *areas* and *themes* in this contex... | [
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66,709 | I've already earned my degree (B.S. in Neuroscience, Psychology and Music), but need to take some pre-requisite classes before applying to a Masters in Physician Assistant Studies program. These courses are going to end up costing about $10,000 total. I imagine I'll need to take out another loan, but who should I talk ... | [
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66,713 | I'm writing an academic paper, which hopefully will be accepted and published in the conference proceeding.
In order to explain my idea, I'm also drawing a figure including a free image licensed by Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).
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66,723 | I have heard of 'green' (self-archiving in a repository) and 'gold' open access (immediate open access in a journal), but what is 'diamond' open access? How does this differ from green or gold open access? | [
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66,735 | For example, if one were to apply to Top 50 business schools for a full-time MBA program, one could get rankings from the NYTimes, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, U.S. News and World Report, and the Economist, just to name a few sources - I bet there are plenty more.
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66,736 | I started my PhD within the last one year in a STEM field in the US ,and I cannot seem to convince my advisor about any of my ideas.
I usually don't get concrete research directions from my advisor, ie. a direction of research that might be valuable to look more into. I am completely free, which can be good and bad.
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66,739 | Are there people out there who can provide first hand account or refer me to literature that discusses the influence of PhD advisor on your chances of getting a faculty job? | [
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66,749 | Suppose we have a Psychology class of 20 people. They have an exam scheduled on, say, Tuesday April 12 2016. One of them, Shion, is sick and so takes a make up exam on Tuesday April 19 2016.
Edit: The make-up exam is different from the original exam. It is also significantly more difficult.
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66,756 | During the follow-up discussion during the PhD defense, would it be okay if I open up the thesis pdf file to answer some questions, for example to refer to a figure or equations? or should everything be already on the slides and prepared before? | [
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66,762 | How ethical or common is it for grad students to actively hire undergrads into their lab for the sole purpose of outsourcing tedious labour?
Is this frowned upon and is it really any different than a typical undergrad research opportunity. | [
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66,766 | I am an undergraduate student (in maths) looking for a topic and supervisor for my thesis.
What criteria should I use to judge whether a project/supervisor combination will make for a good thesis and productive experience? Especially in the context of preparing for graduate school. (I thought about asking separate que... | [
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66,771 | I am a first year PhD student in France, born and raised in India. It is not customary in here where I am doing my PhD to call one's adviser *boss* but I do, partly due to my reluctance to call her by the first name, partly attributed to the culture in which I am brought up. As one comment suggested, "Dear professor" w... | [
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66,793 | I am invited as a speaker to a international conference to present a published paper. I want to ask if is it usual to not pay the conference fee and the hotel? Should I ask them via email? | [
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66,800 | My undergraduate thesis was completed almost a decade ago and is not available online, nor was any publication made from the findings. I would like to share it online, but looking back on it I notice many grammatical errors and conclusions that make less sense to me after gaining research experience. Is it unethical to... | [
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66,815 | Is this generally expected? It seems to me that most people develop something in their MPhil and then continue working on this field for the PhD. What would I do if I had a change of interest, and work on sub-field A for the MPhil, but then want to do subfield B for my PhD. Is this generally o.k. ? | [
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66,819 | I am finishing my third year in PhD program, and have at least 1.5 more years before finishing.
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66,820 | I'm a bachelor student in mathematics writing my thesis at a small university in the US. A PhD student that has the same supervisor has spent a very significant amount of time working exclusively on a theorem which he hasn't been able to prove, so the supervisor offered me a thesis on the topic. No one was really expec... | [
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66,828 | In the past year, colleagues or collaborators have informally extended an invitation to visit their University, maybe to meet potential collaborators and give a talk. In general, is it normal for the "host" institution to provide any support? Does one's "home" institution normally provide support to do so?
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66,833 | These days it is very common to have some course evaluation towards the end of a course, in which students respond to standardized questions on a numerical scale (e.g. between 1 and 5) and can additionally give free-form comments.
Sometimes individual lecturers make student comments (and their responses) available to ... | [
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66,846 | *This is a canonical question on this topic as per [this Meta post](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3274/should-we-have-a-canonical-question-for-should-i-quit-my-phd?cb=1). Due to its nature, it is rather broad and not exemplary for a regular question on this site. Please feel free to improve this que... | [
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66,852 | I'm not so sure what to do in this situation. I'm a final year PhD student who submitted a manuscript for publication in a clinical journal (paediatrics) about 5 months ago. I've been tracking the online status of the manuscript and as of February 2016 it indicated "all reviews complete". Its been over 1 month now and ... | [
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66,869 | Can you commit fraud in a mathematics publication? Or is this a privilege of empirical sciences?
If a mathematician jumps from one bit of information to another that does not follow logically, from more basic principles, then, that's not fraud, but a logical fallacy, akin to saying 1+1=3.
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66,895 | It’s always been hard for me to stay focused and motivated when writing any kind of a longer text, e.g. an article, paper or *gasp* thesis, even if I’m interested in the topic and enjoy the work. The Stack Exchange and Wikia gamification systems with points and badges being awarded work well for me. I tried to reward m... | [
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66,905 | I got accepted to one of my top choice schools for a math Ph.D.
However the graduate students there said in the past few years, the Ph.D.s before them (both pure and applied math) had quite a bit of trouble finding postdoc positions after graduating. But they are able to find nice jobs in industries.
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66,906 | I'm a tenth grader in high school and I'm passionate about my research in computational neuroscience. I'm in a unique situation, and I'm wondering whether I should leave tenth grade early this year to accept a research position for four months at a leading university.
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66,914 | I recently won the "Best Student Paper" award at a moderately significant conference in my field (subfield of CS).
This came with a Trophy and a Certificate.
The trophy I will put in the corner of my the lab, and use for motivation.
But I don't know what to do with the certificate.
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66,917 | In a nutshell, I hate one of my fellow PhD students. I am sitting in the office with that fellow graduate student who frequently interrupts me when I want to focus on my work. He also often is very insulting to me in front of other fellow graduate students.
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66,926 | I've been admitted to more than one PhD program, and I'm having a very hard time making a decision.
The programs I'm accepted to have advantages and disadvantages with respect to one another. How do I weigh the relative importance of difference aspects of the program in order to make an optimal decision?
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66,939 | I have a list of citation keys (entry names in bib file) but I don't have the name of article. How can I find the article link?
For example, according to bib file of [this article](http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-15618-2_17), the citation key is `JagadeeshChandraBose2010`. Suppose I only have `Jagad... | [
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66,944 | The universities and programmes I am going to apply emphasizes their research, hands-on experience, startup environment, etc as well as strong academia.
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66,947 | I received an "offer" to become the publication chair of a high profile IEEE conference. Before accepting the "offer" I would like to know what are my responsibilities, and I would like to plan ahead as what portion of the available time such a commitment would eat up.
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66,953 | Usually we need a few recommendation letters when we apply for a job or academic positions. Im wondering if there is any online server to make it easier on my referees so that they only write once their letters and later I only share the link with the companies or who asks for a recommendation.
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66,959 | I frequently come across PhD dissertations that have spawned multiple journal papers, either while the author was working towards their Ph.D. or after completion. My field is not one with "stapler" dissertations that merely collate a number of papers, so there are often differences between the details of the paper and ... | [
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66,966 | Would it hurt the student's evaluation, if I were to send their recommendation letter from my gmail account as opposed to the institutional?
I use my gmail account for all my correspondence, it is listed on all my papers, university website, etc. | [
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66,967 | I am currently a Ph.D. student at a U.S. university (oe of the top 10 public universities) I am taking my final modules to complete my program, (after this semester, only two courses left) after which based on the U.S. PhD system I would have taken my complementary exams and submitted my dissertation proposal in Fall 2... | [
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66,969 | Considering how the complexity of science is growing with each passing year, it would make sense for people to start working on their degree as soon as possible. However the academic system in place in most countries doesn't seem to accommodate for that, as even the talented children still graduate after the age of 18.... | [
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66,975 | Due to unforeseen circumstances, I am not able to present my paper at a Computer Science conference. Without the presentation the paper will not be published. My instructor has said that she will present the paper instead, but wants to move me from the primary author to the second author. I did all the work as a gradua... | [
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66,982 | Is there anything to be done when a department has hot young assistant professors with much stronger research records (in books and peer-reviewed publications) than the associate professors? Must the assistant professors just accept that they are less well ranked and less well paid than associates who have been less pr... | [
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66,983 | I'm close to finishing my PhD and I'd like to evaluate the quality of my PhD. I'm doing my PhD in the field of software engineering at a Central European university. My PhD thesis consists of published conference papers and a synopsis. I first-authored two papers in the top conference of my field and I also had a few o... | [
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