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16,831 | Is it legal to upload a paper to arXiv when it is under **double blind review** for one of the IEEE journals? I am suspicious that it may violate the double blind review requirements and I couldn't find any thing in the journal's homepage specific to this issue. In general IEEE allows preprint versions to be uploaded t... | [
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"text": "Legal? Sure. There's no law against it. \n\nContract violation? Possibly, ask the editor. \n\nEthical? Somethin... | 2014/02/12 | [
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16,832 | The recent question [about the legality of uploading to arXiv](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/16831/is-it-legal-to-upload-a-paper-to-arxiv-when-it-is-under-double-blind-review-for) made me realize that I don't have any understanding of why one would upload to a preprint site. (I don't work in a field wher... | [
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"text": "In mathematics, there are several reasons to post to the arXiv:\n\n1. It provides free access to papers... | 2014/02/12 | [
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16,837 | I'm a third year undergraduate right now. I submitted a review on Cell motility, waited 6 months and got a rejection. The first reviewer appointed the manuscript as "publishable with corrections" and gives recommendations. The second reviewer didn't like it at all and made harsh comments. It seems that the first review... | [
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"text": "Congratulations on submitting a paper as an undergraduate that one referee found to be publishable with correcti... | 2014/02/12 | [
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16,841 | I am a research scientist, and as part of my role I am expected to perform some form of public outreach and engagement. I enjoy outreach activities and giving public lectures.
I have a suspicion that free public lectures are usually poorly attended. I suspect that the attitude is one of "Well, it's free and you get w... | [
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"text": "I doubt exclusivity as represented by an entrance fee would attract people to a lecture. After al, it is the s... | 2014/02/12 | [
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16,847 | I'm already in the second year of my PhD studies and my advisor insists on pursuing a very vague track, in order to produce *some* results that *may* be publishable. The problem is that the topic itself was extensively studied in the past two decades and there's little maneuver space without overlapping with others' pa... | [
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"text": "I believe you are rushing ahead of yourself. In popular areas as applied CS, all areas one way or another may b... | 2014/02/12 | [
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16,852 | When delivering a presentation at an academic interview, what are some keywords which should be included in the title of the presentation? Should the title be in the first person? What are some good examples?
The position I am considering is **assistant professor / lecturer**
I imagine some choices to be:
1. The in... | [
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"text": "Just throw it out here. Perhaps others can upload their suggested topic slide as well? That would be fun.\n\n... | 2014/02/12 | [
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16,858 | I have a lecturer at university that I find very hard to understand. My lectures are taught in English, but my lecturer is of East Asian origin, and English is not his first language.
I find the lectures incredibly hard to follow, just trying to understand what is being said requires a substantial effort, and I find t... | [
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"text": "Partially this will depend on how specific the course is. If this is a general \"Graduate level intro to X\" c... | 2014/02/12 | [
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16,862 | After my PhD (Mechanical engineering) in 2013, I have been employed as a "visiting assistant professor-TERM" for 2013-2014 at the same university (in the USA). In this time I have been applying for several post-doc and faculty positions all around the world. The following fortuitous situation has now developed:
* I wa... | [
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16,866 | If research was done and paper was mostly written at institute A, but then it finally got accepted while the author moved to institute B, say, 3 years later. Should the affiliation of the author be
1. Only Institute A: because 95% of the support was from here, and work was done here
2. Both Institute A and B: in some ... | [
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"text": "Firstly, **some journals have specific rules about what counts as an affiliation**. So if the journal has such... | 2014/02/12 | [
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16,870 | There are now many different ways to increase your research visibility: Google Scholar, laboratory/faculty/industry or even personal websites, and LinkedIn, to name a few.
In your opinion, how does [**ResearchGate**](https://www.researchgate.net/) fit into all of this? Is it really a good way of increasing the visibil... | [
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"text": "I personally find one aspect of [ResearchGate](http://www.researchgate.net) very useful, although I find that its b... | 2014/02/12 | [
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16,879 | I have been working on a graduate level research project, with the bonus of being listed as a co-author if I make a significant contribution (which I likely will). I am still an undergraduate, but have significant experience (professional and educational) in the field.
My question is: Is this a big deal? If I go to gr... | [
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"text": "It doesn't exactly \"allow you to get a Ph.D quicker\". However, you would have more experience in academic writing tha... | 2014/02/12 | [
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16,886 | Let's assume that I've contacted professors in the United States and referred to them appropriately as "Dr. Swoth" or "Professor Swoth" based on their having attained a Ph.D.
**If they respond to me informally, should I continue to address them formally? If so, for how long?** | [
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16,888 | I am a US-based researcher who recently accepted a postdoc in Sweden. My offer letter states that I will be entitled to a 6-week annual vacation during my appointment. Being from the US where I have been in charge of structuring my own schedule (except for teaching), this obviously confuses me for several reasons.
1.... | [
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"text": "Welcome to European vacation regulations :-).\n\nYou are entitled to X days of vacations per year. Literally. Ther... | 2014/02/12 | [
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16,893 | I am wondering how the search committees take into account feedback that is provided by faculty members who meet one-on-one with a candidate. I am curious about both the process as well as how the committee considers the feedback when making their decision.
So, for example, does the faculty member who meets with the c... | [
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"text": "I've been on a hiring committee twice. We don't typically have formal \"one-to-one\" meetings, but we do make a ... | 2014/02/13 | [
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16,898 | Or how would you like to be addressed?
As a graduate TA, I went by my first name. But I thought that some students were becoming too friendly. They took things for granted (for example, asking for a homework extension every week without even bothering to make up an excuse, or showing up to my office hours and interjec... | [
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"text": "Like JeffE's comment, I always prefer students to call me by my first name. My male **and** female, Asian **and** ... | 2014/02/13 | [
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16,906 | I have an upcoming interview/campus visit for an assistant professor TT position with a US R1 university in the sciences. They have asked that I bring a details about my desired startup package to the campus visit. I have never heard of anyone being asked for details about their startup package prior to an offer being ... | [
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16,910 | Suppose candidate A has only published alone, and in an alternate universe candidate B has an identical list of publications, most of which are with coauthors. All else being equal, would a typical hiring committee rate A higher?
I suspect the answer depends highly on the field; I'm especially interested in (pure) mat... | [
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16,919 | Some people use ps over pdf format for their paper.
Are there some advantages of ps format over pdf format?
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16,933 | I have never seen this happen in other research labs in my university and I am trying to get into the mind of my advisor and understand what his intentions are! We are an HCI lab of two people. In last year, we have hired and fired *seven* people. They get hired, work for a month or two, my advisor is not satisfied the... | [
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16,937 | Assume you are just about to finish your PhD and you are facing the decision of whether to go for a postdoc position or for an assistant professorship. Which one should you choose?
Let's ignore the salary for the sake of this question. Then which of the two is better? What about the benefit of short-time employment an... | [
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16,946 | I'm interested in teaching a class at the community college level. I'm not interested in it as a career, but rather because I like teaching people about computer science. How likely is it that I would be able to teach a evening class at a local community college with a masters degree (Computer Science).
I don't have a... | [
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16,954 | I have been fortunate enough to get accepted with 5 years guaranteed funding to my 2nd choice graduate school. While the guarantee is great, the funding is only for 9/months out of the year. Would it be rude to ask them to guarantee summer funding to me for the first year until I can write a grant to get on a RAship? I... | [
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16,958 | If a person is working in the industry and wants to ask a few questions to an academic researcher (based on a paper published by them), what is the correct protocol to follow?
1. Should they disclose their affiliations right away? Should the academic ask for it right away?
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16,960 | I am a PhD student. I've never taught a lecture-style course before. I just filled in for my advisor at the last minute, giving a lecture in an undergrad course.
I taught from the lecture slides that my advisor had prepared, drawing diagrams and examples on the whiteboard where I thought it was warranted. I stopped of... | [
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16,970 | Short: It's easy to find bibliographical info, but how to guess page numbers?
I'm writing a paper in English. I want to cite certain book, originally published in French. It is translated to English and Russian. I own a Russian translation. I'd like to reference English translation. I don't have access to other langu... | [
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16,973 | Do people in the industry consider HCI a non-technical field? Do they expect an HCI researcher to have more design and social science skills than technical ones? | [
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16,976 | I am an Indian student. I am not related to any kind of mathematics research. So I do not have proper idea about it. I may join in as a PhD after a few months. I want to get a picture of the research status in India.
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16,983 | I’m approaching the end of my PhD adventure and I’ve started looking around for job opportunities. Recently, I found a job posting that fits my career goals quite nicely, but it has more managerial ingredients in it than pure research. It is concerned with managing/coordinating multiple research teams – something I’d l... | [
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16,985 | Having just spoke with my advisor, and speaking on occasion with other professors, I have come to the impression that one should not "subpublish." Let me say what I mean. I'm a 3rd year graduate student right now, and the professors I talk to seem to say that it is not a good idea to publish many small papers along the... | [
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16,995 | I am soon to finish a long PhD, and am thinking about postdoctoral applications.
As a PhD student I did a lot of quality work and have some publications in respected journals/conferences. However, I did not develop my own research ideas or objectives as a PhD student. This was just the state of affairs and there wasn... | [
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16,996 | On 13th August 2013 I received the following email. I have cut and pasted it below. I haven't bothered to insert back any of the links, but can do so if anyone is interested. I would not normally post private email to a public forum, but this is obviously a form letter, one step up from spam.
At the time I dismissed i... | [
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16,998 | I have started solving problems from the American Mathematical Monthly. While I will definitely continue this, I am not sure how much this will help for math graduate school admissions (assuming I submit my solutions and they are recognized by the Monthly). How significant would multiple solutions to Monthly problems b... | [
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17,005 | Do I need a consent to record audio of a presentation at a scientific conference in USA (provided that the conference does not explicitly prohibit such recording)? I'm guessing since it is not a private conversation, it's okay to record it.
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17,010 | The faculty senate at my school recently took a position on a professional issue that was highly confrontational toward the administration. After union negotiations resulted in a pay raise, the senate reversed itself on this issue. It was later revealed that the original position had been advocated by the union as a wa... | [
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17,012 | I am a CS/EEE person. A resident of India. I am hoping to apply for an internship in either BARC or TIFR. These are internships related to research. A senior told me that having a Research Internship in his CV counted against him for a technical job interview.
Is this true? Should I rather apply for a Technical Inte... | [
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17,013 | Some time ago, a recently-graduated PhD has sent me a physical (book) copy of his dissertation. The graduate works in a somewhat-related field, but is personally entirely unknown to me (I have some loose connections to the advisor, though). I was reasonably confused by this - I personally have never heard of a custom o... | [
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17,016 | I'm a master student and I'm the phase of preparing my thesis. I've searched many papers related to my thesis but I'm a bit confused in what to focus. Do I need to take only a paper (or few papers) and to focus basically on that? | [
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17,022 | It has often been said that there is no such thing as a dumb question. And yet - perhaps due only to inattention, lack of sleep, or hunger - otherwise brilliant people sometimes manage to ask some pretty inane questions during talks. ("Yes, but how does the rover manage to drive around on the moon in the first place - ... | [
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17,033 | I have been in a rush to accomplish academic goals since I remember myself. Started my PhD right after undergrad and did my Masters on the same time. Now I am about to submit my thesis and feel kind of burned out, having spend so many years in a far from perfect working environment.
Academia has always been my goal (... | [
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17,050 | While writing a paper I discussed its first draft with a certain colleague (he is from a *different* university, so it is not likely that he will be automatically ruled out as a reviewer as suggested in the Visoft's answer). He made a few helpful suggestions but by and large didn't like the paper: he would like the res... | [
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17,051 | I have a desire to teach at one of the colleges/universities in my area. I think my experience in industry and my own educational background would be an asset to an IT program. However, I'm finding that when looking for positions, all require previous teaching experience. This requirement exists at the technical colleg... | [
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17,066 | Research is an activity, a process to obtain knowledge, which has been greatly empowered by the scientific method.
We can collect lots of information about research, consider impact factors, etc.
There is data and information there, that data could possibly become knowledge through some analysis, hypothesis testing,... | [
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17,070 | I value the reputation of the journals to which I submit articles. Mostly, I wish to confront my work with the most competent researchers in my field through peer review, in order to have an expert opinion on its quality. In my field, the best ranked/most reputable journals are dominantly subscription-based (although a... | [
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17,094 | Although in mathematics the *letters*, i.e., really short articles, just a few pages long, are perhaps less common than in the other fields (see e.g. the comments by Poko R. Xlark under his answer to [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/17050/acknowledging-the-discussion-with-someone-in-the-pape... | [
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17,097 | For some reason, I was always under the impression that people that are included in the acknowledgement section of paper are not contacted to review your paper because they would be predisposed to give a favourable review. However, after reading the discussion in [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/170... | [
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17,103 | As the title puts it, what is the real meaning of this stage of a peer reviewing process and how are the odds for having a submitted paper accepted change if it's accepted for this stage? (Does it mean anything other than the editors decided not to reject it from the start?) | [
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17,111 | Since I need a break from the reviewing...
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17,113 | I will soon start my thesis, and have read a bit of literature, particularly a few short papers. One professor recommended using a template, displayed below. However, I generally feel that the questions in the template don't apply well to the papers I have read, and my answers get very "artificial" or "forced", while s... | [
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17,117 | A couple of weeks ago I met this person who had come to our institute for an invited talk. Her domain of work was same as my area of research. Later I discussed with her some of the topics and asked her if there are any openings in her company (she is in the industry as an R&D head). She responded: *"Send me your CV, I... | [
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17,128 | I have a paper already submitted to a journal. Now, I want to try and submit an abstract to International Congress of Mathematicians 2014. The abstract basically contains the same thought and spirit of the submitted paper though I plan to rephrase it differently from the abstract and introduction of the submitted paper... | [
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17,135 | Note that in experimental fields it is not uncommon that an abstract is required to have "specific" unpublished results 9 months or so before the conference. The problem is if you are a theoretical/mathematical researcher in these lab based fields often your mathematical model and derivations are the crux of your resea... | [
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17,136 | Say you develop your own research project during your PhD years and want to carry on the research project with you to post-doctoral and beyond, are there any restriction that you can or cannot carry on the project? | [
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17,145 | First of all, this is about plagiarism in the sense of stealing ideas. Copy-and-paste plagiarism is included but not likely to happen in the cases relevant for this question.
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17,150 | What are the most common ways to find open postdoc positions in physics, in Europe?
I use [inspires](http://inspirehep.net/collection/Jobs) and [academicjobsonline](https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo), but on both sites, there almost haven't been any new positions in my field (4 in total since december).
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17,151 | My university recently made a direction that lectures attendance is mandatory. Now my question is, are there any studies that compare mandatory and not mandatory lectures quality? The university is trying to increase its quality and this was its main step this year.
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17,153 | Here is my situation, I got a MSc from a renowned university in Europe and I have been working as a lecturer in a non-EU country until now. I am in my mid thirties (upper part =)) and I have came to an important decision to make:
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17,161 | For the past year I have been doing a postdoc in a Neuroscience lab, the position advertised was for computer science.
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17,165 | I'm writing my professor. She has two surnames. So far, I've been using only her first surname; however, I'm curious whether that's, generally, how I should address a professor with two surnames. I don't know whether the addressee's culture affects the answer, but the professor is from Spanish South-America. (I've noti... | [
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17,169 | I am interested in pursuing a degree in Computer Science. Universities I've reviewed have "Major In Computer Science" , but give "Bachelor's in Informatics or Computing". There is no "Bachelors In CS", I simply couldn't find it. So **are Informatics and Computing the same as CS ? or IT?**
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17,175 | I work in a lab. This evening, thinking that my advisor had already left for the day, I started telling my peers in the lab that she has a bad attitude about a few things, and she was showing off a lot about her work last summer. Out of nowhere, she walked into the lab and was visibly upset, and I feared that she had h... | [
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17,178 | following different CS conferences I see the following phrase very often:
>
> Due to many requests, the submission deadline has been extended.
>
>
>
Or something similar to this.
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17,181 | I'm preparing an NSF proposal. I ordinarily like author-year citations because they seem more scholarly and give the reviewer instant information about who(m) I am citing. However, multiple people have advised me that it makes the text hard to read, and I've heard that the *most important thing* for NSF proposals is th... | [
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17,192 | I'm in mathematics, though I don't know if the answers to this will be field-dependent. There have been previous good questions that answer what to ask graduate students [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/353/what-are-some-good-questions-to-ask-current-graduate-students-when-visiting-scho) and only som... | [
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17,199 | Last year I have been submitting my CV to different faculties for a lecturing position. Of all the ones that I applied only one was more serious and wanted to keep in touch (institution A), the other one (institution B) was completely silence and only they reply with a general "we are interested, but we will tell you w... | [
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17,200 | Our university provides computer lab rooms for the students. We will soon build some new ones, and possibly re-build some of the old ones, and we are looking for new solutions.
What we have now looks like this:
From my experience, and a [Google ima... | [
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17,201 | A student at my college will graduate soon and go to the US to study full-time, on a visa. His family however, are planning an important event sometime in the middle of the semester, and they hope that he can return to his home country for two weeks, then return to the US to finish the semester.
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17,207 | Is there examples of mathematicians who had to lose years before proving themselves in the field? I'm asking since in most of the cases I noticed a steady career path for most of the mathematicians. | [
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17,209 | This forum looks like the perfect place to ask a question that is being bothering me for a long time.
I'm 22 and a college dropout for numerous reasons (economic and mostly because I didn't like the major that I was studying, which led to depression, etc.)
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17,211 | I think I have good results for publishing a paper in a math journal, but I've never published one. I need a propose about any good math journal in mathematics for young mathematicians who have never published a paper. It can be with impact factor or with international board.
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17,214 | Due to various department sortings and organizations, I have a degree that is, functionally, a computer science degree but because it belonged to the College of Mathematics, the degree is formally "Mathematics".
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17,224 | My CS department greatly lacks invited talks hosted by faculty members and/or seminars organised within/by the department. Except for the seminars done by graduate students as a requirement for their degree, during the last year there was no seminar organised by the department/faculty member. If curious, the department... | [
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17,230 | We are writing a paper, and want to share the raw data.
My advisor suggests that I share the data as an Excel file, but I believe that a plain text file (such as a text-delimited or comma-delimited file) would be better.
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17,231 | I'm a TA/grader for an online course in introductory programming. We have students ask us questions related to homework/labs/etc. on Piazza where we can have quick back-and-forth with questions and answers.
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17,232 | I am studying a combined bachelor of engineering (electrical) and bachelor of mathematics; I just started this year and will graduate in 2018. The reason why I am doing double degrees and not a single degree is because I love both electrical engineering and mathematics and I could not ignore any of them. So with this i... | [
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17,239 | The field of research is the biological sciences.
Graduate student B worked on the project for 2 years: he did experiments to gather genome-wide data and analyzed part of that data. He defined the direction and feasibility of the project, and developed the methodology; if it were not to him, there wouldn't be a paper.... | [
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17,253 | Progression in academia, in general, seems and feels extremely linear, i.e. you do your undergrad, then you do graduate studies, then you do a post-doc (or two, or three ... ) and eventually if you are good/persistent/well-connected/... enough you might get funded to start your own group and live the rest of your profe... | [
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17,265 | I am a first year Master's degree student of computer science in Northern Europe. I am paying for my living expenses and do not have any kind of assistantship or funding. I have a full funding admission for the same subject in Canada. I would like to know if it is a good idea to accept the offer and start my studies th... | [
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17,277 | I am a PhD researcher in my first year. For the first 3 months all my supervisor made me do was read related papers on IEEE, so a LOT of literature review.
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17,294 | My work got accepted into a very good category in a very good conference in my field. Due to complicated visa issues it will be very hard for me to attend that conference.
If I don't attend the conference they are certainly going to remove my work from the proceedings.
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17,299 | My GPA of bachelor is about 3.0, and I just want to know how much it would approximately be in German Grade? Would it be lower than 2.7 in German Grade?
I have read other questions on this website, but none of them could help me, can you simply tell me how to convert GPA to German grading system? | [
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17,300 | After so many incidents happen that my advisor trying to bad mouthing to my committee, sobstege my publication, secretly removing me from my PhD projects I feel I cannot trust my advisor anymore. Now, I feel everything he said was insincere and full of lie. My advisor always says positive thing but all end up negative.... | [
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17,307 | I have decided to apply to PhD studies and in one part it says that my CV should contain: *"Study curriculum with rankings"*.
What does that mean? because they are also asking me to submit my studies transcripts. | [
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17,309 | **Background:** There is currently a proposal for a new Math Teaching site that will be entering private beta once enough people sign up. One question that came up during its question is (basically): Is teaching math significantly different from teaching any other subject? Would it be better to broaden the scope to all... | [
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17,320 | I recently came across a friend who is applying for a PhD in my lab. He happens to be from Brazil, on an F-1 visa. He was told by my advisor that his citizenship status affects the sources of funding available to support his work. I was always under an impression that the principal investigator applies for research gra... | [
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17,347 | I am soon finishing my PhD in computer science and I decided to leave academia for the industry (not industry research).
I am not clear about what to include in the CV.
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17,362 | I've been in engineering PhD for 6 months and now considering transferring to another university. The reason is not academic, but family -- I'm in a long distance relationship with my boyfriend. We're both serious about this relationship and plan to get married. However if I keep doing my PhD in my current university, ... | [
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17,363 | As a male Ph.D. student in engineering, I have not had a problem with long hair at any of the reviews I've attended with funding agencies, conferences, etc. However, I wonder if search committees will view long hair in a negative light.
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17,365 | I'm in a conundrum.
Due to a change in areas half way through my PhD, I find myself at the end of my training with no significant publications. I have one in press, and several in prep so in the next year I should have 3-4 if all goes well. I'm also at a top ten university in the US and have good recommendation letters... | [
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17,368 | I'm having some trouble understanding exactly what the [American Physical Society (APS) transfer of copyright agreement](http://journals.aps.org/authors/transfer-of-copyright-agreement) does and does not permit, and I was wondering whether someone here may have a clearer insight or previous contact with them to know ex... | [
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17,374 | I have published a paper in a fake journal. I want to withdraw the paper from that journal.
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17,378 | I'm struggling with deciding to which type of school to go in order to gain a better research experience. Basically, the research experience is the most important factor for me to decide my college, since I want to be a strong applicant in PhD admission. Most reputable, research universities are far larger than LACs (l... | [
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17,379 | This question is in response to [this very interesting question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/17374/how-to-withdraw-publication-from-fake-journal-and-resubmit-to-legitimate-journal). The original post mentioned that they wish to retract their paper from a "fake" journal. I don't know what a fake journal... | [
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17,383 | I'm interested in going to grad-school but I have been working at a "real job" as a software engineer for the past few years (since I graduated with a BS in Mozh in 2010). What are the best ways to to break back into the academic world? How can I spin my work experience in a positive way to departments?
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17,405 | **Main concern:** I am looking at PhD programs in Germany and the UK (vs US programs). Ideally, I would like to end up at a small liberal arts college (I got my BA from one). So I know I want a program with teaching requirements. I think this rules out France and Switzerland, but I believe many German PhD programs have... | [
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17,407 | I'm a first-year student at a top 100 university studying computer science. I have looked at all the different fields of software for which I can get into and I am personally most interested in exploring a career in AI and/or machine learning.
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17,409 | After you have finished a PhD when does it become inappropriate to ask your advisor for advice, read over a manuscript, or do any other "advisor things"? Presumably if every student an advisor ever had continued to act as if the former advisor was still his/her advisor, the professor wouldn't get anything else done. Ba... | [
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17,421 | I am trying to understand this regarding aspects of funding only and not quality of research.What is difference between funding an PHD and an MS student.
I thought both took courses, get some stipend and advisor funds them.Maybe for PHD they fund students for 5 years instead of 2 years of MS ?
Is there any other ma... | [
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"text": "*Disclaimer: this is US-specific and quite likely engineering specific.* \n\nThe only potential difference is that the ... | 2014/02/26 | [
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17,430 | I just finished my masters studies. My question is, **will my age (29) affect my chances of getting a funded PhD position?** I finished Bachelor of Engineering when I was 24 (took 6 years to graduate, normally my program was 5 years). I worked as a Lab course assistant (teaching the practical part of the course at a lo... | [
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17,431 | I recently saw this infogram circling around various social networks:
It appeared in [this Tweet](https://twitter.com/AdamGDunn/status/432520636716441600/photo/1) with the following claim:
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> Got a PhD? Your chance of becoming a Professor is 0.45... | [
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17,438 | When using an online library, tool, framework or something similar, what is the proper way to reference it in an article?
(I work in Computer Science). For example, I want to say that many popular implementations of the method presented in *[article reference]* use a slightly modified version of the main formula. I me... | [
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