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37,986 | I see that many professors spend all of their time applying for grants, minus a little bit of time to interact with the graduate students on their grants and a little bit of time to fulfill their teaching obligations. They are of course doing a great service to their graduate students, who perhaps otherwise would not b... | [
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37,988 | I have a question regarding what tense form should I use to refer to an earlier self publication in a monograph chapter.
For example, if I want to say (in the chapter), "most of the results **were** published in [1]", is that OK? Or should I use the present perfect tense? | [
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"text": "Yes, writing \"Most of the results were published in [1].\" is OK.\n\nBonus tip: Don't treat citations as nouns / noun ph... | 2015/01/30 | [
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37,998 | I shall soon get my degree in Biochemistry. Recently I attended several professional master-classes on film-making and producing, and now I want to get a MA in Film. For this masters, my CV is needed. Thinking that the master-classes I attended will help me in my admission, I am unsure under which sub-category I should... | [
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37,999 | I receive many questions from colleagues about homework in a certain course which I took a while back. I try to answer them and help them solve homework which are very similar to the ones I did when I was taking the course. There is no TA for that course, so they come to me with their questions.
I am not sure if what... | [
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"text": "To \"answer their questions\" may mean different things, and some of them are OK, while others are not. E.g. answering qu... | 2015/02/01 | [
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38,000 | I'm not a native English speaker. I would like to cite a book originally written in German for a writing sample to be sent for admission purposes to a graduate school in the UK (MA programme).
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38,022 | What education does one need to be called "Professor" in the United States of America? A woman with a law degree in a junior college paralegal program insists on being called professor at a local community college. She is the only one in the whole school that does this. Is this normal? | [
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"text": "I'll answer the general question in the title of your post:\n\n> \n> What education does one need to be called “Prof... | 2015/02/01 | [
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38,023 | I was wondering if it would be ethical for a PhD student in the field of Computer Science to hire a programmer in an specific domain; so that he could focus more on the algorithmic or mathematical part of the thesis. Would that be something ethical to do? Should the PhD student include this assistant as a co-author in ... | [
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"text": "I don't think it is *inherently* unethical to do this. If all relevant parties know about it and you scrupulously... | 2015/02/01 | [
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38,040 | As universities provide short deadlines for faculty position offers, applicants can accept an offer-1 (verbally or by signing a contract) and which is not the best. What is the recommended option if a late and a better offer-2 arrives after accepting offer-1?
* Reject offer-2 and stay with offer-1.
* Reject offer-1 an... | [
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"text": "Although some would argue about the ethics of the situation, I'd say accept the better offer... *unless* accepta... | 2015/02/02 | [
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38,053 | In some journals, "notes" are original research papers that are not significant enough to be a "regular contribution". If I've published a note, can I list it in my CV as if it is a regular publication (i.e., not mentioning that it is a note)? Could this be considered as dishonest? | [
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"text": "I wouldn't consider it dishonest, if only because I personally don't list them separately. The fact that they are n... | 2015/02/02 | [
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38,054 | I wanted to know whether it is allowed and also plausible to submit two papers at the same conference? Does the acceptance or rejection of one affect the acceptance or rejection of the other paper? | [
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"text": "> \n> I wanted to know whether it is allowed and also plausible to submit two papers at the same conference?\n> \n> ... | 2015/02/02 | [
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38,057 | I have just received my master's degree. And I am wondering, is it academically conventional to give a copy of my thesis to those professors that directly or indirectly supported me? | [
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"text": "It is nice to do so (especially if you mention their support in the acknowledgement - which may even be the only things th... | 2015/02/02 | [
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38,065 | In one of the courses I'm teaching this semester, each student has to give a 20-minute in-class presentation of a paper relevant to the topic of each class. One of the students has approached me asking to be excused for this requirement, on the grounds that she is terrified of having to speak in front of others. She is... | [
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38,068 | I have to do a review of a "symposium" that will take place in a major conference in the business / management field. The document I recieved for review consists of:
* Abstract + Overview of the symposium
* Proposed format of the symposium
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* 5 Article summaries, each about 4-5 pages long
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38,073 | For certain undergrad classes, I assign a take-home exam, rather than the more familiar in-class exam. When I distribute the exam, I remind the students that this is an individual exam, and that they may not work in groups, and then I add "Believe me, I *can* tell when you cheat". This, however, is a bluff. Unless it i... | [
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"text": "One way to do it: if the assignment has many small questions, you can make it more difficult taking a random draw f... | 2015/02/02 | [
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38,077 | I have read that there are some good Computer Science conferences that are not indexed by Scimago or Scopus, but instead they appear in sites like ACM DL, IEEE Xplore or DBLP. I have tried to find information about those conferences, but not success at all. For that reason, I was wondering if anybody in the field knows... | [
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38,079 | I'm concerned about a scientific & tech. conference which has set the page limit to 3!
I'm wondering if that means the quality of submitted paper in this conference is considered low.
What do they expect from authors to put into 3 pages? | [
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38,081 | I have a paper in linguistic which was written when I was in high school. I would like to mention it in my SOP. When I ask if I should mention it, [xLeitix has raise this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/37788/is-putting-the-statement-conclusion-first-considered-to-be-cliched#comment83479_37788):
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"text": "The main problem with citing a popular science book is that it is a *secondary source*. Almost certainly, the ... | 2015/02/02 | [
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38,083 | I sent two different articles to two different mathematics journal. The fist one review process is 6 months(accepted). The second one is still under review(14 months ago) and it may be rejected. A third one took 9 months and editor said
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"text": "**Are there journals with fast reviewing process?**\n\nThe really quick ones are the \"questionable\" journals ... ev... | 2015/02/02 | [
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38,086 | From my understanding many CS conferences are highly selective and the papers are peer-reviewed. The CS field also seems to publish traditional journal articles. I do not understand the difference between the two and in particular I am curious about the advantages of having two different publication streams. The type o... | [
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38,103 | Should expository papers (e.g., in American Math Monthly) be listed in CV as if they are regular publications? These are usually not totally original research papers. For example, [this](http://www.maa.org/publications/periodicals/american-mathematical-monthly#AuthorInfo) is the description of articles to be submitted ... | [
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38,117 | I'm currently working towards a master's in mathematics, and I would like to continue with a PhD. I have good grades and I'm aiming at something equivalent to a first class honours, at a highly ranked university in maths.
The problem with applying for a PhD now (starting next fall) is that I have barely begun work on ... | [
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38,126 | I am a PhD student, and am being asked to do increasing amounts of non-thesis work. Some of this is general lab paperwork and small extra projects, which I'm happy to do and expect to lead to opportunities to present or publications. However, one project is run on clinical samples as patients present to the hospital, s... | [
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38,132 | I went into an engineering graduate school interview totally unprepared today and may have totally wrecked it.
The interview began like any other interview. The professor introduced his area of research, then I discussed my area of interest and academic background. I asked him a few questions regarding funding, numbe... | [
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38,133 | One of my faculty position applications requires me to write a student success statement. I'm unsure what such a document should contain. Is this similar to a teaching statement? | [
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38,138 | One of the comments I received on my journal paper was that it lacks a "running example":
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> the paper would benefit much from a running example that could be used in the introduction to motivate the idea and referred to in later sections to illustrate algorithms
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38,143 | I am a mathematics Ph.D. student who are in my final stage of completing my Ph.D. programme. My advisor is visiting an institute for a few months. The institute that he is visiting is in another country; because of the visa requirements and many other practical reasons, I cannot go there with him.
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38,155 | I am contemplating creating a scientific journal. How many editors should I try to get on board? | [
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38,157 | I heard this suggestion from a mathematics professor:
**In writing a mathematical Ph.D. thesis, it is far more tolerable to be tediously-lengthy than having a gap in the proofs.**
I think what he means is that whenever in doubt, adding more details to make the argument clearer is always better, even if sometimes doin... | [
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38,160 | How do you say in your paper that "due to a limited number of pages allowed, I'm not going to discuss the details how and from where this equation is derived..."
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38,175 | Recently, I have worked out a solution manual for a book.
I have not found on the Internet any existing complete solution manual for this book.
Since the solution manual of mine contains every exercise given in the book,
my question is: In order to publish or distribute publicly this manual, do I have to first reque... | [
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"text": "*I am not a lawyer.*\n\nYou should talk to a copyright lawyer before getting into contact with the publisher, as t... | 2015/02/03 | [
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38,177 | I sit on my department's academic misconduct committee. Today we had one of those cases where it wasn't clear what the right answer was. The assignment was for the students to design an experiment based on a previous experiment of their choosing and to write it up like a research proposal. The student took large blocks... | [
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38,179 | I am most likely leaving my permanent position at my current university for a permanent position at a new university. I have been given an unofficial offer and we have agreed to terms. I have been told it could take over a month to generate an official offer and contract and that I should not give notice until then. I ... | [
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38,196 | I have a PhD from a reasonably good program in pure math, but I had no support from my department or adviser and so went into industry afterward. I'm unhappy with the situation, and I'd love to return to academia. The situation is a bit tricky, though, and I was wondering if a second doctorate (whether again in math or... | [
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38,198 | There are journals which employ double-blind review. Suppose I want to submit in such journals but my paper to be submitted depends on another paper of mine which was already accepted in another journal but does not appear in its issue. In my view, this might reveal my identity and hence defeats the purpose of the doub... | [
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38,201 | I was a final year PhD student (into the last quarter of year 4) in cancer research (passed my qualifying 2 yrs back) but was let go thereafter due to 'unsatisfactory progress' as my data is not sufficient for a PhD thesis. I have to admit here that I've gradually lost my enthusiasm in the project and kinda burnt up af... | [
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38,213 | I was recently invited by Springer to publish a book: I proposed a table of contents, it was internally (in Springer) reviewed and accepted to be published as a monograph. I am at the stage of finalizing a first draft.
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38,229 | I am working on my Master CS project. I would like to have this published as article before my Master ends.
Now I see 2 options:
* I try to get it accepted and published at my own (not a affiliated with my university/supervisor, more as a independent scholar). I will use a ghostwriter (Master CS, native English) to ... | [
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38,236 | Should a figure/table go before or after the first paragraph that references it in an academic paper? I cannot find a definitive answer on this. The general advice is to place the figure/table as close to the reference as possible. | [
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38,237 | *This is a special community wiki 'canonical' question that aggregates advice on a frequently-asked question. See [this](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1560/what-should-we-do-with-the-can-i-get-into-x-program-with-3-xx-gpa/1563) meta discussion. Please feel free to edit this question to improve it.*
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38,243 | My adviser asked me to come up with a research topic for a PhD student. As I'm expected to graduate in early 2016, my mentor considered this a good "exercise" for a tenure track career. Of course, this is not intended to be final, I am supposed to propose to my adviser this topic and then it will be decided whether it ... | [
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38,258 | I am currently deciding graduate school between several different groups in my school's engineering department. A few faculty in electronics, signal processing and control system has expressed interest in working with me.
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38,261 | I have noticed that it can be hard to figure out how old a paper is from the paper itself. It is not that it is impossible: most of the time it can be found by a Google search. But why is there usually no publication data on the first page of a paper?
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38,264 | I'm looking for a repository of journal data.
More specifically, a listing of every known journal name and various attributes such as ISSN, rankings, peer review, etc. I know Cabell's offers this information, but expressly forbids mass-downloading.
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38,269 | How would I address a professor with a Chinese name?
I am unsure whether I should use only the surname, or both forename and surname, because the order of mentioning forename and surname is reversed.
When my professor's name is *forename: Yi*, *surname: Zhang*, should I then address him with
>
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38,271 | I am preparing to submit a paper with a friend who is working at a tech company. The company that he is working with is in no way associated with our research work. Is it appropriate to list his employer as his affiliated institution? Otherwise, I would leave his affiliated institution field **blank**. Or, should I lis... | [
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38,290 | Are there any ethical guidelines that would prohibit the use of penalties against individuals who sign up for a research study but have not yet provided consent and are therefore not yet officially subjects?
Please provide references.
**Background**
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38,301 | I submitted a paper recently and one of the major revisions that they ask for was this: "The references in general are not current."
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38,309 | This is a very tough question to ask because there are so many advisors on this forum so I am expecting most inputs from the current grads. This question largely stemmed from a post I read online about [picking advisors](http://theprofessorisin.com/2014/02/23/the-5-top-traits-of-the-worst-advisors/).
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38,315 | I'll base the scenario of this question on the PhD thesis defence committee recommendations in place in my university in Ireland. Similar may apply to other countries.
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38,320 | I am an IT post graduate (with no thesis but project) from IT industry and I have practical experience of about 10 years in the industry. I want to carry a PhD research in a subject related to IT field. Practically and theoretically, I know the subject very well, but I don’t have any prior real research experience or a... | [
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38,322 | In recent years there has been a drive to make science more open. This includes making the software used to perform research open source. The main argument in favour of this idea is that research should be reproducible, which has been addressed in other questions on this site.
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38,324 | A free book publisher, Globe Edit, contacted me.
They offered to consider creating a book from my MSc thesis. They said that I wouldn’t have to pay for anything. After reading their website, it appears that they are trying to contact many if not all thesis writers (and other writers, too).
They want me to transfer ex... | [
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38,325 | I think my research interests and experience are perfectly aligned with a professor. And I plan on applying to the department when the admissions open.
But when is the right time to email the professor as a prospective PhD student? I don't want to shoot off an email and get ignored by being either too early or too la... | [
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38,330 | I recently finished a round of PhD applications.
I always knew I wanted to do research, but when I applied I didn't know what sub-field of Computer Science I wanted to do my research in. I was already out of school a year when I decided that I may never figure it out just by sitting around, so I just bit the bullet an... | [
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38,343 | Being that I am currently awaiting offers of admission/rejections for some of my PhD applications in the US, i regularly frequent the website <http://thegradcafe.com>, which, if you've never heard of it, has a forum where just about any subject relevant to graduate students is being discussed, and, most importantly, ma... | [
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38,346 | Say you want to conduct a research study that observes people engaged in a generic activity. Rather than record this evidence oneself, would it be wise to try to gather recorded evidence that was part of other research studies? I am asking about gathering raw evidence, to re-analyze for the purposes of a new study, not... | [
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38,364 | I was just wondering if I should include an edited expletive in an essay I have to write for a Software Development class. I'm currently writing a paper about debugging techniques and I wanted to talk about reading documentation to ensure the correct use of libraries and algorithms. This is commonly referred to as RTFM... | [
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38,366 | As an instructor, I have been fortunate to have had some great TAs, who went above and beyond what was expected of them, and put in a lot of effort to ensure students' learning.
I would really like to do more than just say "Thank you." How can I show my appreciation to them after the class ends?
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38,369 | For my first time I submitted a manuscript to a journal special issue months ago. The special issue had a proposed schedule as follows:
* Submission deadline: 1st date
* Papers reviewed: 2nd date
* Revised papers reviewed and accepted : 3rd date
* Notifications to authors: 4th date
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38,371 | I would like to know how graduate admission committees at US Universities look at alphabetical authorship publications in a CV (particularly in high energy physics). Since the convention in high energy physics is to have authors in alphabetical order, how do the committees determine the contribution of the applicant (I... | [
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38,376 | I'm having an upcoming phone interview for a tenure-track position and I expect that I will be asked the usual "Why would you want to work here?" question. Apart from reasons relating to the research competency and culture of the university, a major reason for me would be that moving to that institution would essential... | [
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38,384 | This question has two intents. Firstly sharing an email I received, as an academician, with other academicians and also clarification on the contents of this email and the way it works.
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> Dear XYZ,
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38,385 | My university uses [TurnItIn](http://turnitin.com/) to check student's work for plagiarism and collusion. I think the underlying TurnItIn database includes both submitted work and material it has found by crawling the web, but not material behind pay walls. One major issue with TurnItIn, and presumably all plagiarism d... | [
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38,395 | As a new university professor, I have been informally tasked with making sure the MSc students in my program are prepared for their dissertations, by prepping them in my research methods course. My students are generally very motivated but they are from academically diverse backgrounds and, frankly, many are ill-prepar... | [
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38,397 | My question is all about academic job offers. This is my first time on the job market post PhD, so I'm completely new to this. Here's my dilemma:
I was interviewed for an academic position last month at University A and they made me an offer today, but want me to decide within the next two weeks. The job at Universit... | [
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38,401 | I recently finished a paper in which I received valuable feedback from two professors (neither supervisors nor coauthors) at some specific points, which ultimately leaded to localized significant improvements. I highly appreciated it and of course I added explicit mentions in the acknowledgements section stating their ... | [
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38,405 | Scientists not only need to discover new knowledge but also have to share the knowledge to others. For the former, we have things like universities, collaborate groups and journals to take charge. For the latter, we have various forms from teaching, developing and maintaining softwares to writing or translating books, ... | [
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38,413 | I'm about to receive a tenure-track offer and was already informed about the offered salary. Unfortunately, the salary is barely an increase over my current postdoc salary. (In fact, taking into account the tax differences at my current location vs the location of the tenure-track institution, it's going to be a net pa... | [
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38,419 | I applied to 10 schools and have heard formally from 3, 2 rejections, 1 admission. I just received an email from another school (a very good one) saying that they are seriously interested in me, but would like to know if I am still interested in them. While I am very interested in this program, which is in my top 4, si... | [
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38,424 | For sake of argument, let's say I obtain a bachelor's degree in physics, a master's degree in physics, and then a PhD in physical chemistry but from a department of chemistry. Can I then go on to be a physics professor? Or would I be confined to teaching chemistry?
One can imagine equivalent situations for other fiel... | [
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38,430 | *Premise:* I originally asked this on MathOverflow, but it was pointed out to me that it could be better fit for Academia Stack Exchange.
*Note:* I have received extremely varied advice on the following matter by various students slightly older than me, so I post the question here in the hope to get an objective 'tech... | [
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38,435 | I want to reply to the reviewer's comment (see below) on my paper,
>
> My concerns have been addressed satisfactorily and the paper is acceptable.
>
>
>
My own reply would be like:
>
> Your recognition of our work is much appreciated.
>
>
>
or
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> Your encouraging comment is greatly appreciated.
>
>
... | [
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38,449 | It is well-known that LinkedIn is used by scholars too, but I think that the business-friendly structure of your profile-page makes it markedly less suitable for academic purposes. Is there a specifically academic website that includes the same characteristics as LinkedIn plus the possibility to add some *more scholarl... | [
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38,455 | I have gathered some fMRI and eye tracking data, from several subjects. I can process them using the server in our lab, but I would like to take advantage of my own cloud servers on Linode and DigitalOcean, even EC2.
Before these data were gathered, in the consent form we did not mention the possibilities that data mi... | [
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38,457 | So I am finishing my MSc in Europe and it looks like I will be headed to the US for a PhD. Along the way I have collected a small set of textbooks that I find particularly useful. From my experience, most academics have a reasonable number of textbooks in their offices so I cannot be the only one in this situation. The... | [
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38,467 | The journal editor accepted my paper and told me to ask his assistant about the next steps in the publication process. Four months ago I corrected some minor points and sent an updated manuscript to the assistant. Since then the editor's assistant remained silent. About two weeks ago I asked him about the status of the... | [
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38,476 | When I was an undergrad, I had instructors who did not tell students that there was more than one version of the exam until afterwards. I also had instructors who told students that there was more than one version, before the exam started. The question is: should an instructor tell his/her students before the exam that... | [
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38,484 | [University of Malaya](http://um.edu.my), Malaysia's oldest public university has recently deployed a new system for issuing graduation certificate named [e-scroll](https://graduand.um.edu.my) (it seems be the 1st university in the world to deploy e-scroll system). Under this new system, university will not issue any h... | [
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38,489 | Some papers have co-first authors, which are supposed to have contributed equally. However, there is still an order issue.
Imagine a paper co-authored by A, B, and C. The paper goes like:
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A Very Long Paper Title
A*, B*, and C
Our work i... | [
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38,494 | UPDATE:
So, am I to understand there is no such thing as a "verified research statement" besides an actual "recommendation" ? I already have a sense of the department(s) and professor's in the target phd proram know me from some elementary classes (but not that familiar with my academic background/research etc...)
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38,503 | This may be a very general and subjective question, I know. But, I have applied to some postdoc positions, and after 3 weeks I haven't received any response yet. I suppose this is normal, because many people should have applied to those positions, too. However, I don't know if it would be ok to write back to the profes... | [
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38,509 | How is it received by the academia if someone thanks to his/her girlfriend/boyfriend in the acknowledgements of the thesis?
I have seen writers including his/her fiancee in the acknowledgements, however I don't know if including an informal relationship in the thesis will be received well.
If it is acceptable, how sh... | [
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38,511 | I need to include some basic definitions, and simple proofs from a standard text book to my thesis. Those definitions and proofs are very basic, e.g. probability, entropy etc. Everybody knows they should be in some text books.
Consider, for example, [this proof from wiki](http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/a/6/f/a6fc9ac... | [
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38,514 | I found this on Page 34 of [IEEE EDITORIAL STYLE MANUAL](http://www.ieee.org/documents/style_manual.pdf), it's about how to edit the reference. I don't understand the following sentence:
>
> NOTE: The only exception to this rule is PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE, which never carried an acronym on the masthead
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>
>
Doe... | [
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38,518 | No matter who you talk to, students or professors, they all say that the materials they once learned can be quickly forgotten without further experiences that utilizes or enhances on that prior experience.
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38,537 | I am considering including a glossary and a list of notations in my PhD thesis on mathematics. Is it a good idea to write them separately or combine them?
For example, a typical entry of the list of notation is:
**[a,b]** `The commutator of a and b, defined by [a,b]=a^{-1}b^{-1}ab.`
An entry of the glossary is:
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38,550 | If you apply to a university to be enrolled as an undergraduate, and are rejected, and then apply to the same university's graduate program, will they look at and/or take into consideration your undergraduate application? Or is it considered irrelevant? | [
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38,566 | I had an amazing research professor I conducted research under for my last two semesters of undergrad. I graduated in December and am currently waiting to hear back from graduate programs. This professor wrote me a letter of recommendation and I sent him a thank you email. However, I wanted to send him a hand written t... | [
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38,571 | "Underwater basket weaving" is often used as a placeholder for "irrelevant, useless university course." (Despite the fact that it's an [actual thing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0cn8iUOc5k).)
More generally, "Basket weaving" and related courses (e.g. "quantitative basket weaving") are often used as a placeholder ... | [
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38,575 | If one is intending on leaving a graduate program before completing their PhD, is there value in obtaining candidacy status before leaving?
Does it depend on where they are leaving to? If so, consider the cases where the candidate is either leaving for industry or leaving for another PhD position. (And say they are c... | [
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38,580 | I was talking to some colleagues at work and they strongly advised me to contact people that I know at the universities I applied and let them know that I submitted my application and have interest in joining their departments.
I thought about writing a message but I struggle on what I should ask them specifically. I ... | [
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38,591 | On the one hand, I want to warn students not to come to my program. On the other hand, I don't want to be "that one," and I also don't want to tarnish the reputation of the specific people I worked with (who I mostly like).
More specifically:
I want to warn students about lack of funding, administration being uncarin... | [
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38,613 | I am applying a position, which requires applicants to send cover letter and other materials by email. I think that in the application email I would present almost the same content in the cover letter: my interests in the job, my achievement, etc. So I am wondering that whether a cover letter as an attachment is still ... | [
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38,619 | I can't help but notice that even in CS, professors' websites are almost always difficult to navigate, poorly-organized, and just generally hard to look at (poorly-tiled backgrounds, inconsistent fonts, etc.).
Why is this? Is it *expected* of academics? I'll be applying to graduate programs in the Fall and took a few ... | [
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38,620 | In my compilers class assignment, we were asked to write some MIPS code. One of the problem involved implementing `fact()` function as a sub-problem. I wanted to implement the standard recursive version
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int fact ( int n )
{
if ( n == 0 || n == 1 ) return 1;
return n * fact(n-1);
}
```
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38,645 | So I am planning to apply to grad school sometime in the future and would need a letter of recommendation from an awesome professor who I took a time series class with.
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38,648 | I was considering writing Emails to professors in US universities regarding PhD opportunities at their departments, however I noticed there is a formal PhD application with deadlines in December to follow. So what is the point in contacting professors for placements in their team when there is already an application pr... | [
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38,650 | I have requested a teaching consultation from my university's Center for Teaching & Learning. First I'll meet with a couple of consultants, then they'll observe my regular class, and then they'll meet with me again to give me feedback on the classroom observation.
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38,655 | I am looking for a bit of advice on how to handle the workload in a PhD while juggling several collaborative projects plus family pressures.
I am in the final year of my PhD which, overall, has been fairly successful to date. I am currently collaborating on a number of projects with other academics - most of which hav... | [
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38,656 | First a little bit of background.
I am a graduate student (Bachelor) who will finish the Master degree in June or July at most. I am working on my thesis at my university with a professor which I know quite well. I am getting a Master of Electronics Engineering, thus my thesis includes some practical work and I got to... | [
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