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7,345 | I am currently writing a reference letter for a colleague applying for a US green card. Given that I don't know much about the process and expectations of the immigration bureaucrats who will handle the application, I asked around for examples of such letter. Obviously, they are all glowing, and I started writing in th... | [
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"text": "There a few signs that you might have gone over the top:\n\n* Have you used many *absolute* superlatives (\"*the best*\"... | 2013/01/19 | [
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7,348 | I'm doing a masters course at a different university than I did my undergrad (both in maths). I did well in my undergrad but now I'm finding it very difficult. The shock of the change is hard to cope with.
I'm not just finding it very difficult, but I get zero feedback: we don't have any tests and I was not able to ma... | [
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"text": "Feelings of inadequacy are quite common when starting a new graduate program—you are surrounded by talented people (if t... | 2013/01/19 | [
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7,352 | Should I put on my CV papers (or "talks") that appeared in (peer-reviewed!) conferences that have no proceedings? Should I avoid duplicates if the same paper also appears in another conference (with proceedings)?
Should I make it clear that the conference has no proceedings, or just list it in the "Conferences" sectio... | [
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"text": "If the conference has no proceedings, it is indeed unpublished. Usually those kind of conferences do not have an... | 2013/01/20 | [
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7,360 | When engaging in research, I know its a good idea to read lots of papers and talk to others about what has been done before and what is currently being researched to avoid "reinventing the wheel". That is, to avoid researching/publishing a result that has already been discovered.
In fields where physical experiments ... | [
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"text": "> \n> How common is it to inadvertently publish a finding that was already discovered?\n> \n> \n> \n\n**Far more common than... | 2013/01/20 | [
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7,362 | Is it a good practice to include an abbreviation in a title of a research paper.
for example : PC , IDE , RAM | [
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"text": "It is acceptable if (Edit: and only if) the abbreviation you are using is common (in your field or in general) and there... | 2013/01/21 | [
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7,365 | I have been notified by the IEEE organizing committee that my paper has been accepted for their conference and requested to register. and the status of the paper is **AAR**. Please see the quotation below.
>
> [AAR]This paper need thorough revision to be accepted as a full paper
> for the conference.
>
>
>
I have... | [
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"text": "If the Journal/Conference editor/chair has accepted your paper, it is guaranteed to be published, given that you ... | 2013/01/21 | [
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7,371 | First of all, I know that your work speaks for you, and if you have really good papers, you have better chances, but just bear with me, and for the sake of argument lets assume that your research is only one of the points to consider.
I did my undergrad in what could be considered the best University in my Country (Me... | [
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7,374 | Going to conferences induces some costs on a researcher's personal budget. In all places I know, expenses directly related to travel and accommodation are usually covered (travel, hotels, food), but there are also some indirect expenses that aren't typically covered.
I'll only give one example, that is directly applic... | [
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"text": "Usually, if an \"indirect cost\" will be reimbursed by the university, it must be a cost that would normally be allowed ... | 2013/01/21 | [
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7,378 | I am about 1, 5-2 years in my Ph.D. studies in the no-man's-land between bioinformatics, systems biology and proteomics. (If you are not sure what those terms are, read: "biomedical research")
Coming from a more mathematical/technical background I was thrilled to work in this field, and my M.Sc thesis was pretty succe... | [
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"text": "Everything is possible: I'm pretty sure, from a large enough population of former PhD students, most will tell you that th... | 2013/01/22 | [
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7,385 | I wish to apply for M.Sc studies in Computer Science to 3-4 universities. Only one of them requires the applicants to take a GRE (general test), and my question is as follows: is it a good idea to send the scores to the rest of the universities even though they do not specifically require it? Will it affect my chances?... | [
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"text": "A good GRE score *can* help your chances at admissions; a poor GRE score does not do anything to help your chances, but ... | 2013/01/22 | [
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7,389 | As my field, Computer Science (CS), has many sub-areas and specializations. I found myself having a *not-so-good* impression about different areas within CS. For example, I see working on Software Engineering as a waste of time while working on Artificial Intelligence (AI) is much more worthing an investigation.
This ... | [
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"text": "Just like the grass is always greener on the other side, it is somewhat usual for people to think that their particular ar... | 2013/01/22 | [
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7,395 | I teach an undergraduate course in thermodynamics. In class pop (surprize) quizzes account for about 10% of the grade. I use [canvas](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructure#Canvas) for my in-class quizzes (and to collect homework assignments, start discussions).
The class room I teach in doesn't have computers so wh... | [
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"text": "Given the limitations of the material of the students and at your disposition why do you do a quiz on internet? You can be... | 2013/01/22 | [
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7,397 | Does using a bibliography software actually save you time aside from when converting citation style?
I have used refworks and endnote for years and from 3 years ago I decided to ditch them both and do the whole referencing business by hand because of frustrating problems they caused many times (references showing up ... | [
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"text": "How easy it is to manage references depends a lot on your working conditions.\n\nIf, for instance, you're an academic in... | 2013/01/23 | [
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7,399 | The question of [how to choose PhD committee members has already been asked and answered](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/1192/2700) in general terms, but I have the following more specific questions regarding the choice:
* Is it more important that your advisor already know your committee members or that you do ... | [
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"text": "You first have to check to see what the university rules are for a Ph.D committee. Many universities have rules that lim... | 2013/01/23 | [
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7,401 | For example, I am interested in the research related with "Quantum Hall Effects", and want to have a list of institutions/universities that have good contributions in this topic, with number of publications during the recent years. Any idea how? Is there any website provide such searching service? Google scholar, arXiv... | [
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"text": "This is not that good, but is the closest I can think of something like that.\n\nMicrosoft Academic is very good... | 2013/01/23 | [
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7,408 | My research lab organizes monthly “internal” seminars, where we give the opportunity to talk to PhD students around the middle of their PhD, as well as newly arrived post-docs (who can talk about what they did before and present their project). However, attendance is a big problem, and it's the same people who never sh... | [
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"text": "In my university, we have the students seminar around 12pm with pizza at the end. Using a time slot when most people are ... | 2013/01/23 | [
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7,417 | For example, University of Maryland, Baltimore County [is said to be](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Maryland,_Baltimore_County) a **research university**. (Same thing for [Rice University](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_University), for example.)
Are there "non-research universities" also? What is the ... | [
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"text": "In the US context (and many other countries) the difference can be somewhat foggy. However, in the past (1900-1930'... | 2013/01/23 | [
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7,421 | It is an expectation that the PhD would make an original contribution and/or advance knowledge in a given field. I understand this is a universal assumption for this level of study across all universities.
One of my friend's research experiment has not produced a single positive result. This was a science experiment, ... | [
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"text": "Your friend might not want to hear this, but there's nothing you *can* do except for start over - with a different experi... | 2013/01/24 | [
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7,428 | This situation is not uncommon; in my case, I have to submit abstract for conference in September by the end of January already. But the problem is I have no results yet. I'm pretty sure that in those 8 months I will get pretty interesting results. But..
How to write smooth abstract without reporting results?
I start... | [
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"text": "**Don't write results you don't have**. Neither in the present, past or future tense. Just don't do it. Yet, I agree with ... | 2013/01/24 | [
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7,430 | Like many professions, academia is a challenging environment for women. In some disciplines (e.g. computer science), the number of women remains low despite efforts to increase it. Have there been any academic studies on the ways of improving the working conditions for women, specifically focussing on women in academia... | [
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"text": "In the UK there is [Athena SWAN Charter](http://www.athenaswan.org.uk/) which\n\n> \n> recognises commitment to advan... | 2013/01/24 | [
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7,432 | I had an inteview day for a PhD program at a US institution. I met 4/5 professors and a few phd/post docs students. Should I send a thank you email to my host professor or not? What about the other professors?
I think the interaction we had that day was good enough so I am not sure if an email follow up is really that... | [
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"text": "It depends a bit, I guess... I personally think that it's always nice to send a mail and thank the person for the hosp... | 2013/01/24 | [
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7,436 | I'm sorry if this is a bit subjective, but I really don't know where to find the truth.
In my hometown, lecturers usually will only approve research in computer science & information system where the result is new software. The goal is creating a software that can be used directly by business. Usually, research that c... | [
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7,439 | I am reading a paper and have questions about the details of the procedure described. I have read other papers by the same team but they don't explain too much about that procedure anyway. I think it might be common, but my supervisor doesn't know it too.
I am stuck and I want to get out of it. As a student working on... | [
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"text": "You can definitely contact a paper author. They might be of the 'it obviously follows' == after 5 pages of calcula... | 2013/01/24 | [
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7,450 | I am wondering, for full time university teachers (not those who also have research responsibilities), what is *generally* the number of hours per week that they teach? I currently teach 20 hours per week and find the load quite heavy giving me little time to prep new modules with quality. Adding to that the responsibi... | [
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"text": "20 hours per week for most teaching only positions is normal. I have seen Profs with major research responsibilities... | 2013/01/25 | [
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7,460 | I had started my PHD last year on a topic that has several interesting problem to solve in the area, however I don't find the problem interesting enough to spend 4 to 5 years. As time went by and I came across a new problem through my course work and interactions with various professors. I have started liking a differe... | [
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7,465 | I am wondering where I could find global statistics on the flow of students between countries. This would include numbers such as "how many students with US bachelor went to UK for a master" and "how many Spanish master students went to US for a PhD"
They always say that the academic world outside US suffers from brai... | [
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"text": "I don't have the statistics at hand for the case of students. But there was recently a publication of mobility st... | 2013/01/25 | [
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7,467 | I would like to ask if there is some algorithm how to arrange courses to timetable. I study at the university and we can choose a few different lesson times for each subject.
The problem is how to coordinate all subjects with student's requirements, for example to have school only 2 days a week and/or to select some h... | [
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"text": "There are algorithms for timetabling, but I doubt that you would want to get into the level of detail required for u... | 2013/01/25 | [
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7,469 | I received an invitation to nominate students for an award that could be for *an undergraduate, a graduate or a post-graduate student*. I've seen those terms used before, but never been sure what they mean. I know *Bachelor* student, *Master* student, *PhD* student and *post-doc*.
The timeline:
Being a Bachelor stude... | [
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7,473 | I wonder: everyone in academia handles a lot of email, on all aspects of their work. I mean, emails about conferences, emails about journals and papers, emails about research, teaching, supervized students, and so on. So if you have a big announcement to send to many people (eg seminar or conference) does it matter WHE... | [
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"text": "First, **I don't think it makes much difference.** Researchers deal with information, and a lot of that information is com... | 2013/01/25 | [
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7,478 | One of the master's student is working on a research problem. I am a PhD student. I have an idea which I proposed to my advisor on the same problem. Now he wants me and the masters student to work on that idea and publish a paper. Would I be treated as a first author in that paper or would I be a second author? | [
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7,484 | I am currently on the academic job market, and scheduling on-campus interviews with institutions that might want to hire me.
Suppose I am invited to an on-campus interview at the University of X, and must travel there by air. They handle travel on a reimbursement basis: I buy the plane ticket, and then they reimburse ... | [
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7,486 | **Observation:** According to [OECD stats](http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DatasetCode=RFOREIGN), the number of international students at US higher education institutions is the highest in the world and still rising (see also [Wikipedia here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_student#United_States.2C_United_K... | [
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7,490 | *Q*: How common is it for a faculty/school to request/demand the good PhD applicants to come in for an interview?
For someone that lives outside of the U.S. and wants to apply to do a doctorate in the U.S., should that person temporarily relocate to the U.S. (at the correct time and for the correct duration of course)... | [
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7,493 | One of my advisor's students asked me how frequently I have meetings with him. And since at that time we had very few meetings I replied:
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> "We have a very few meetings and the advisor does not allocate time to me."
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>
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The advisor heard it and has started retaliating by reducing those few meetings to zero ... | [
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7,508 | I have had a different set of professors every semester and as batch sizes are pretty big ~80, and with every professor dealing with 3-4 separate batches of equivalent size, for barely 3-4 months at a time, it has been hard to develop one to one relationships with professors. In such a scenario,
* How do I decide whom... | [
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7,514 | There's perhaps a better title for this question, but I can't immediate think of one - suggestions for amendment welcome.
I'd like to clarify the purpose of reading textbooks. It sounds obvious at first, but what I mean is opaque to me.
I'm currently reading a textbook describing ~35 problem-solving and improvement m... | [
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7,521 | I am about to graduate with a B.S. in mathematics and will (hopefully) be attending a PhD program somewhere starting in the fall.
What is one supposed to do the summer between? I don't have any money, so I can't "travel." I would love to do another REU, but I don't think they generally admit graduates. | [
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7,523 | When you do a research presentation, what is usually the focus that you take.
Some professors tell me to make the slides as self explanatory as possible, and I quote:
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> Someone should be able to understand your slides without you being there
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>
>
To me, this approach seems counter intuitive to the principle o... | [
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"text": "Gott Yiqht, a rather young professor, has an interesting style, encompassing the minimalistic approach. Have a peek... | 2013/01/28 | [
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7,549 | If I have works that are almost submitted to journals, or are in journal review, is it appropriate to include these on my CV? | [
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7,552 | Should I mention my Stack Overflow (and other Stack Exchange sites) reputation in my CV while applying for a post-graduate position? | [
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7,556 | I do not understand what good it does them. A professor said it gives opportunity to read papers he would not read on his own. I am sure there is more to it but I do not see what they gain by participating in peer review process. It takes time, it is not paid and not even publicly acknowledged. Why do they do it? | [
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7,579 | Are there any ways of getting to know about new PhD positions in CS other then just looking trough university/research groups web sites? Maybe people from different branches can name some specialized mailing-lists where PhD positions announcements are quite usual. I am particularly looking out for computer systems, mai... | [
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7,586 | I have finished my thesis, it's been proofread by my advisor and myself, yet I have 24 hours to make last-minute changes to it. What should I be looking for? I will not make any substantial changes to the content, but what about the form? For such limited amount of time, where should I focus my effort? Or, said another... | [
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7,589 | Over the past two years, I've been collaborating with a PhD student. He did experimental work, and I did modeling and data analysis based on his experiments. Now that my colleague is about to write up his PhD thesis, in which way can he ethically include the modeling and data analysis results in his thesis?
I don't ne... | [
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7,594 | I have received an admission offer for a PhD at a prestigious US university. However I am also currently working in another lab outside the US with a potential to also receive PhD admission there.
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7,596 | I completed my undergraduate study in computer science outside of the US. I hope to obtain a PhD degree in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in the US, but I don't feel that I am qualified enough (in terms of research experience). So I am hoping to find a research internship opportunity in US/Canada.
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7,602 | In academia, there has been recently some cases that came to light of very well known scientists that have fabricated their data out of thin air.
In some instances these papers have been cited many times by other researchers and some of them have even been praised. Thus, when the truth came to light, it also appears t... | [
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7,611 | I often end up frustrated over the pace of my work, or rather the lack of "worthy" results. During my feedback talks with my colleagues and superiors I usually get good feedback but I find it distressing that most of it is qualitative arguments.
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7,615 | When I started my Masters thesis one advice I got for getting good material to read was to subscribe to several journals' alerts system, so that I would get mails with eTOC (electronic Table of Contents).
This was pretty cool then, for months I could stay on top of what's been published out there and was up to date in... | [
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7,620 | I am teaching a freshman science course for the first time and I am doing also outreach activities in high schools. To be able to attract the young generation to science one has to connect the concepts with everyday applications.
So I build my power point slides using pictures from the textbooks which we officially us... | [
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7,624 | It's come up in our lab that we should probably have business cards for when we attend conferences, however, we've been given very little guidance for what is appropriate for a graduate student.
Some questions that have come up:
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7,630 | I am a first year PhD Student, writing a conference paper with an Italian Professor, very senior and renowned in our field. Every commit he makes to the SVN is riddled with spelling and grammar errors. I have been fixing the errors and also trying to improve the expression but I have this impression he is not very happ... | [
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7,636 | In my actual research work, I need some functionality that is not supported natively by any existing solid tools. So I have two choices: rather I implement this functionality my self, or I use an emerging tool which is in beta version.
So, can this have a negative impact on the acceptance of my results by the research... | [
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7,641 | I'm teaching a programming course with ~20 students, guiding them through coding assignments and helping them understand what they are doing, and why it works or doesn't. Tasks expected of them range from trivial to medium-complexity in the range of a 40-hours curriculum.
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7,643 | Related to this question: [How to buy plane tickets for job interviews?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/7484/how-to-buy-plane-tickets-for-job-interviews)
What does it mean to accept a job offer? Or maybe more accurately when have you accepted a job offer?
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7,645 | What does it mean when it says under a journal article that it has been communicated by "XYZ" where XYZ is not the author but some other scholar with a very strong reputation? What is the relationship to the actual author and/or the content? Is this some sort of seal of approval to get results out and known quickly? (I... | [
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7,650 | When I was a grad student, I participated in a bunch of conferences, and sent papers to journals and the like.
But now I'm no longer in academia. I've been out for more than three years, and I still get a few emails a week notifying me of new conferences, hotel discounts for those who register, extended deadlines and ... | [
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7,655 | Often publications resulting from funded research are published after the grant ends. It seems nowadays more and more publishers are requiring fees (submission fees, page charges, and open access fees). How does one pay for these fees after a grant ends? | [
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7,656 | One of the issues we have at my English-language institute is the problem of getting our doctoral students to write papers in English. For some, writing isn't a big challenge. For others, however, the process is about as pleasurable as pulling teeth or a lobotomy (without the benefit of anesthesia).
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7,668 | Over the past few days, my advisor and I had been going really hard. We got a really good idea and the preliminary results looked good, so I started spending long days in the lab, going home only to sleep. My advisor saw this and he started spending a lot more time with me and we had long meetings whenever I requested.... | [
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7,671 | There are many times when I am faced with the task of extracting data from a published graph (usually a bitmap image in an paper). For example, a scatter plot from which I would like to get a list of individual (*x*, *y*) coordinates for the points.
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7,696 | Occasionally I find myself currently reviewing a paper where I find that many of the criticisms I have are addressed in papers in which I am an author (and often as lead author).
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7,698 | In business (e.g. IT industry) remote work (aka "telecommuting") can be relatively common (see e.g. a recent StackOverflow [blog post](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2013/02/why-we-still-believe-in-working-remotely/)). It is exceedingly rare (or even nonexistent) in academia, even though most part of academic work consi... | [
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7,711 | This question is based on some observations which could be wrong (in that case, let me know).
I am applying to PhD program in various universities in US in theoretical computer science (TCS). Some of the things that I heard is that getting admission in TCS in top 15 theory universities is tough. The toughness is obvio... | [
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"text": "There are several models for funding graduate students: often times the professor is responsible for funding. However, i... | 2013/02/02 | [
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7,713 | When writing academic papers, I am really bad at improving what I have already written. I have heard that most of the time writing should be allotted to revisions. I know a few academics who are really good at keeping on revising until they are happy, but I simply can't do it. Knowing that a sentence/paragraph/section ... | [
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7,723 | I have some papers to review and I am wondering whether I should do an ***in-depth inspection*** over the whole paper format? I see nothing major but there might be some tiny format errors here and there..
* >
> Does the organizing committee *expect* reviewers to check submissions
>
> against the conference form... | [
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7,737 | Many journals sometimes publish [Festschriften](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festschrift), i.e. special issues in honor of a distinguished (but still alive) researcher in their field. Articles for such issues are typically invited articles by other groups in the same field, and current and former collaborators of the r... | [
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"text": "In two such instances that I have been involved since November (invited papers for special issues but not Festschrif... | 2013/02/03 | [
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7,752 | **Why are a majority of jobs in academia offered on a fixed term basis?**
I have noticed that most teaching or researching positions have a contract term (e.g. 3 year contract). Some contracts may be renewed, subject to additional funding, while others simply end.
I am wondering if there is an **academic reason** f... | [
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7,753 | I tried asking this question in cstheory.stackexchange.com but it was closed and it seems like this question is more appropriate here.
I am an undergraduate and an American citizen who recently applied to Computer Science PhD programs in the US. Based on conversations with friends and posts on gradcafe I am very likel... | [
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7,754 | **What is a "publishable" thesis?**
I have often heard this term thrown about in conferences and even as advice to new grad. students.
From what I know, it is indeed rare for a thesis to be published entirely as a book, though one can publish papers out of the thesis. | [
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"text": "In some cases it might mean that the thesis could be published as a book. However, I'd generally interpret the phras... | 2013/02/04 | [
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7,756 | I am in the process of designing a major. However, I am worried that using a self-designed major can make an application look bad. As it stands, this potential major is about 70% computer science classes, 30% psychology and neuroscience classes. As such, this leads me to the questions:
* Are these self-designed majors... | [
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"text": "The disadvantage of having a \"made it myself\" degree is that in situations in which you are being compared with your peer... | 2013/02/04 | [
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7,768 | I want to cite something that I have learned from a Wikipedia page. However, I'm loathe to cite Wikipedia because of the perception of it by my tutors, so I try to cite the original source.
What should be the correct thing to do when I'm unable to have sight of the primary source myself, or find it in a collection (fo... | [
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"text": "First, I would **try harder to get the primary source**. Really. But, if that isn't possible (price, availability, etc.),... | 2013/02/04 | [
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7,774 | In many fields of academia, a professor must get grants to fund his research (e.g., medicine, biology).
Early in academic career, a scientist can have naive expectations about how things work in academia and later may be surprised by the reality. One such surprise is the compete and collaborate paradox.
Later in care... | [
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7,775 | I am working on a project in which I have a direct supervisor in addition to the head professor of the lab. The direct supervisor only agrees to being written first or last on the article we are writing. Needless to say, my professor won't agree to be anywhere but last. He also feels that I deserve to be written in the... | [
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"text": "> \n> Is it possible to write both of them in the last place as co-last authors?\n> \n> \n> \n\n**No**.\n\nAs expected, an... | 2013/02/04 | [
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7,794 | I just started a PhD and I was looking for some guidance on what I could expect in the following years, more specifically, what is the recommended way to progress, how should I allocate my research hours and other responsibilities, and , finally, when and how should I start writing my PhD thesis.
Is there any book wr... | [
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"text": "Have a look at this excellent memoir by a recent CS PhD: [The Grind by Shilad Guo](http://pgbovine.net/PhD-memoir.htm)\n\... | 2013/02/05 | [
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7,805 | In my experience, academics are almost always expected to contribute some of their time to activities beyond their principal teaching or research roles. These extra tasks include, for example, attending open days, visit days, serving on one or more committees, acting as head of a student year group, admissions officer ... | [
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"text": "At my university, we have this system for PhD students.\n\nI am a PhD student. In my contract, I have \"up to 20% depa... | 2013/02/05 | [
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7,809 | Although this stackexchange seems to be a little hostile towards metrics (especially when they are about research productivity), it is still sometimes fun to indulge in a little bit of arbitrary measurement and quantification. Sometimes it can help you set targets, or let you know what is possible. In this case I am cu... | [
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"text": "I don't know if it is the answer you are looking for, but I would be cautious with looking at blog views (or even li... | 2013/02/05 | [
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7,816 | What are some guidelines and best practices for PR statements and releasing a project summary to the general public? My first tendency is to always shorten the project summary, reduce the length of sentences and use more "crisp" words. But what else?
Does anyone have any pragmatic/practical/ advice and is there any s... | [
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"text": "It may be worth looking to see if your university has a press office. My university has a press office. They are happ... | 2013/02/06 | [
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7,824 | There are a lot of post about peer review of papers, but how about graduate/undergraduate thesis?
Is there somewhere on the vast internet, where one can submit his thesis for a peer review.
The reason I am asking this is because I am finishing my master's in engineering and so far my advisor has not seen my thesis eve... | [
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"text": "**There is a full-blown, high-quality peer-review process for a thesis**: it's called **the thesis committee**.\n\nIf you... | 2013/02/06 | [
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7,833 | I have been reading that many students have a PhD committee. I assume this is a group of experts supervising the student.
In my case, and I think this is quite common, I had two people. One was the principal supervisor and the other was the associate supervisor.
Almost all my contacts were with the principal supervis... | [
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7,835 | No textbook is perfect. So if I want to supplement my course with some material (a few pages from different references every now and then, on topics I find lacking or weak in the textbook):
* is it legal to make copies of those a few pages and give them to the
students as hand outs?
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7,843 | I noticed that some conference have different deadline for paper submission: an "abstract" submission deadline, before the usual "paper" submission deadline.
For example, on the [International Semantic Web Conference 2013 webpage](http://iswc2013.semanticweb.org/content/call-research-papers) you can read:
>
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7,849 | I just started a research position coming from the industry. I am supposed to work on an ongoing project and branch it out to a new direction.
There is one member of the research group that did quite a lot of work on what I am supposed to modify. So I asked him if he could share his work and code with me. He told me t... | [
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7,865 | I'm the kind of graduate student that finds many research topics interesting and wants to participate in lots of student organization activities related to science and academia. But recently, one of my professors warned me against "doing too much" beyond my research focus, both in terms of publications and in terms of ... | [
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"text": "The issue is fundamentally that of \"categorization\": people want to have a box to put you in. \"Dr. X is an expert in ... | 2013/02/08 | [
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7,870 | I am a physics undergrad who has worked with profs mostly on areas in Quantum field theory, string theory. However, my interests have changed slightly over the areas, and now I want to pursue a PhD in Pure Mathematics, perhaps in algebraic geometry or topology. Is it OK, if I apply for a math grad school with recommend... | [
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"text": "**No** I don't think you need to worry about it as long as you have a good track record and evidence for your intere... | 2013/02/09 | [
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7,872 | I'm a fairly new chemical engineering graduate student. I've been doing research for one semester so far (in molecular dynamics) and in the process have learned about journals and "impact factor" (a concept I didn't even know existed in my undergrad).
My advisor has told me that getting in Nature or Science is very di... | [
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7,875 | When I read research papers I often come across many things that I'm unclear about and would like to talk over with someone. My advisor is not available to do this with me as she does not have time. I'm not sure with whom should I discuss these research papers with, in order to help me understand the papers better. I a... | [
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7,876 | This question expands a bit on my previous one [Acknowledging funding](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/2685/acknowledging-funding).
I am unsure how to write proper acknowledgments at the end of a research paper. The wording that I read most often is *Author XY is [partially] supported by...*, which does n... | [
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7,886 | I'm at a North American, state-run university (not an elite institution), which is relatively modern in terms of supporting mobile devices. The school is proud of its WiFi coverage in every classroom, and recently rooms were updated to have electrical outlets at every student's seat (even in auditoriums), so they can c... | [
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7,895 | Is there any significance of having received multiple "best paper awards" (in the field of theoretical computer science) when applying for faculty positions after a postdoc? Do the hiring committees watch out for such awards or do they fall into the category of "nice to have but no one cares"? | [
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7,900 | I am trying to reproduce published results in a paper. Those results come from numerical simulations. The original authors and I do not use the same software, and theirs is proprietary (I don't have access to it). I have tried to reproduce their results, and it works qualitatively but not quantitatively: the difference... | [
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7,902 | I am planning to start running a group seminar, with talks scheduled regularly, at my institute.
The seminars might be of interest for people in neighbouring areas, too, so I would like to have an "archive" website with all the abstracts and a calendar of the upcoming seminars, and of course I'd like to send out e-mai... | [
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7,908 | I have been approached by an international student about doing a PhD with me. As an MSc student in his home country he has published 3 articles in pay-to-publish venues, that are known to have little peer-review process, with his supervisor as second/senior author. These articles are not particularly good and likely wo... | [
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"text": "That is indeed a tough question.\n\nWhat would raise the most red flags for me is the fact that he does not have any arti... | 2013/02/10 | [
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7,924 | While peripherally related to [Flying with a poster tube as a hand luggage](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/2448/flying-with-a-poster-tube-as-a-hand-luggage/2488#2488), I am trying to avoid this. I would like to print my poster at the conference. I am considering this for two reasons. First, it means I don... | [
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"text": "I had your problem 1 when I accidentally forgot the poster tube in the taxi when I arrived at my hotel. The problem was ... | 2013/02/11 | [
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7,927 | I am a Physics undergrad who is interested in pursuing a PhD in pure maths in the future (algebraic geometry/topology) but I am a bit unsure. My question is quite general, and I don't wish to provide more background for fear of bias in the answers.
My question: Is it is advisable/possible/unfavorable/favorable to appl... | [
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7,931 | I'm asking for approaches to include interesting, but not perfectly fitting results in a dissertation or a paper.
During my PhD project I have made an accidental discovery, which is what I believe you call *serendipity*. The finding is related to the overall topic of my dissertation and certainly interesting, but it i... | [
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7,944 | I am unsure for books but I know for certain that selected journal articles are peer-reviewed. (This just shows I am not in academia!)
**Do books go through a peer-review process? If so, how does this happen?**
If one is approached by a small publisher, does it matter if this publisher does not have a peer-review se... | [
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"text": "Typically, after an author presents a book proposal to a publisher, the publisher will circulate the proposal to some sel... | 2013/02/12 | [
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7,948 | I quite enjoy paying attention to how I design my documents and presentations. I usually spend hours thinking over and designing my slides for a workshop or presentation, so that they are aesthetically pleasing and as intuitive as possible. Likewise I recently started revising my CV I figured and I wanted to make it st... | [
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7,955 | I am currently applying to faculty positions, primarily teaching positions at 4 year colleges and universities. I am told many of these jobs have more than 100-200 applicants. Some of the jobs ads themselves say they get hundreds of applicants, and go on to say something to the effect 'you probably aren't going to hear... | [
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"text": "It is certainly appropriate to ask whether they got your application. It is also appropriate to enquire about how t... | 2013/02/12 | [
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7,962 | My department has several non-tenured/non-tenure-track faculty in teaching-only positions. My department is also hiring at the tenure-track level this year and these non-tenured faculty are taking an active role in the search, even voting with the tenured and tenure-track faculty on who should be hired. Is this appropr... | [
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