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40,382 | So I have just accepted (via some online function on the website) an offer of PhD admission into a prestigious US university. I have also been in telephonic and email contact with staff at this university. I still feel like it is rather informal. The department told me more information would arrive in April.
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40,385 | I would like to ask a researcher in a foreign institution to do my master thesis ( 5 months worth of research in Experimental Physics ) under his supervision.
I have written both a motivational letter and a short, coincise email stating what my intentions are.
Should I only send the coincise email, and wait for them... | [
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"text": "I do not know what the customs are in physics, but professors get requests like this a lot, and most of the... | 2015/02/22 | [
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40,392 | I got in a dispute with a professor I TA'd for, and now my department is not giving me TAships. What should I do? I am required to teach more classes in my department in order to satisfy a graduation requirement. In addition I do not have research funding and I'm dependent on TAships to make money.
Nobody actually tol... | [
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40,397 | Is it possible (if not usual) to do consulting work during summers while working as academics in Aus/NZ universities? I guess the more important point is, is it allowed by the universities to earn extra money/work through outside consulting work?
Thanks,
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40,412 | I am department head. An adjunct professor teaching two courses in my department left without notice. He did not deliver the grades to me.
We have no staff in that field to give the final exam again. Even so, I wouldn't know how to convince the students to take the exam again, and I do not know what to do with the cla... | [
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"text": "I assume you've already tried to convince/pressure the instructor to provide enough information to ass... | 2015/02/23 | [
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40,420 | It is common that PhD students have teaching duties as TA. In this case, the person ultimately for the course (the **instructor of record**) is a faculty member. I should note that I am talking only about enrolled PhD students at the same university as where the undergraduate course is taught.
In some places, it seems... | [
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40,421 | How could I verify that a person is a student/faculty/researcher at a specific department of any university in world? I could ask the user to verify the official email address provided by that university to him but not all universities in world provide a email address to their people. A considerably large percentage of... | [
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40,422 | I have been feeling miserable about my PhD degree situation for a bit of time, and I just started therapy. So far I've tried not to take drastic decisions such as quitting, because I know I am strongly influenced by my condition, but lately I can't think about anything else.
I wonder if it is possible to convert my co... | [
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"text": "Talking about quitting with your supervisor (or someone else in your supervisory committee or department) is not a... | 2015/02/23 | [
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40,424 | I saw on a conference website that the "delegate registration is up to the end of March".
I'm wondering what that "delegate" really means? | [
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40,425 | Let's say a person really wants to go to school **X** for his PhD, but he was not able to get admission in this round of applications. However, he has an offer from another school **Y**, where a person with strong ties to school **X** has agreed to be his advisor in case he attends **Y**. Is there any good strategy tha... | [
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"text": "I know more than a few people who have transferred schools. A couple of them passed their comps (comprehensive exams)... | 2015/02/23 | [
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40,442 | I was looking for some information on the site that might help for applications to the [GRFP](https://www.nsfgrfp.org/). I found [JeffE's answer](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/1457/24682) to an old question extremely useful. However, I noticed that some of the advice he gives appears to be somewhat outdated. For... | [
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"text": "First off, as a single data point, I was awarded the GRFP this year with only three reference letters.\n\n> \n> Each... | 2015/02/23 | [
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40,443 | In a technical course, our professor refused to introduce any textbook. He officially stated (included in the course syllabus) that all the course content will be discussed in the class, and cover all questions in the final exam.
I think this is a trick to bring the students to the class instead of relying on self-stu... | [
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40,466 | I'm 34. I received a degree in computer in 2008 and have been running a business ever since. Recently, I decided to apply for a postgraduate program in healthcare in January.
To show that I was interested in health care, I completed a one year certificate course in a related field last year. A few days after I had sub... | [
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"text": "I think the faculty member who mentioned this is treading on very thin ice. Age should **not** play a role in US admiss... | 2015/02/23 | [
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40,468 | I'm looking to tour a few grad schools in the near future, but I can't find any dates for tours for any of the schools I'm interested in.
The school I attend has tours for potential grad students, but I'm not sure this is a thing all schools do.
Do grad schools typically have days where they hold tours?
Should I cont... | [
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40,476 | Suppose a person spends their PhD at an institute with a high ratio of PhD students to other students, resulting in a very low teaching load for PhD students, resulting in no or almost no teaching/tutoring. Suppose he/she spends years in postdocs, where each postdoc is funded by supervisor grants, and involves no teach... | [
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40,482 | I am an undergraduate in computer science. I worked on a professor's project, and he submitted it to a conference with me being the second author (he and I are the only authors). If it is accepted, I would really love to attend the conference (I have never done so before), both for knowing what other people are doing a... | [
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"text": "It is perfectly fine for the second author *(if it matters: many people do use alphabetic ordering where second aut... | 2015/02/24 | [
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40,487 | I am a first year graduate student in a computational math program. Based on my background (I just finished a one-semester graduate real analysis course), instead of reading a specific textbook, my supervisor suggested me starting reading papers. And if I find unclear concepts, I can refer to some books in library, lea... | [
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"text": "You are definitely looking at the wrong factor here. The question for you should not be *\"Should I solve the exam... | 2015/02/24 | [
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40,489 | If someone is on a tenure track in a science or engineering department at U.S. institution (Tier 1, if that makes the question more focused), and it is time to review his case to be tenured and promoted to associate professor, what is a typical range for the number of the external reviewers for his file? Does the numbe... | [
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40,497 | When I search for papers using some keywords in academic databases (like Google Scholar), there are lots of papers, but I would like to read literature reviews first because I’m new in that area. (By *literature reviews,* I mean article-length papers that analyze existing work on a specific topic.)
So I think it would... | [
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40,502 | This is probably a question quite opposite to the general vibe of people in academia, but oh well.
I am a UK-based PhD student and as I progress through my programme I notice more and more that my tutoring duties bring me a lot more enjoyment and fulfilment than research. Thus I started to wonder if there are ways of ... | [
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40,509 | I know that using an origin other than 0 for numeric data is considered misleading. But for plots in academic publications, is it ever a good idea to break an axis so that patterns and outliers can be more easily seen?
Or would you always try to find an alternative (e.g., using a logarithmic scale, faceting, using mult... | [
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40,511 | I've recently finished in Masters in Neuroscience in Germany ( & bachelors in pharmacy), and I'm trying to find a PhD position in European countries like Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, etc. In most of them, I have to contact the professor I'm interested in working with myself. I've already emailed a lot of them ( app. 2... | [
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40,515 | I am a first year graduate student with thesis topic on computational math, in particular inverse problem. Based on what I know, this area requires a solid background of functional analysis and numerical PDE.
Currently I am wondering what kinds of seminars I should attend. My department have weekly student seminars o... | [
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40,519 | I'm EPSRC ([Engineering and Physical Science Research Council](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_and_Physical_Sciences_Research_Council), the biggest UK funding source in the sciences and engineering) funded. Several months into my PhD an industrial sponsor came along. In exchange for additional funds they wante... | [
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"text": "Unfortunately, we won't be able to provide you with legal information. (And you shouldn't trust random stran... | 2015/02/24 | [
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40,532 | Suppose I have a paper rejected from a top tier journal. The anonymous reviews highlight a number of strengths of my paper, but ultimately judge that the paper does not merit publication in that lofty journal. When I resubmit to a lower-tier journal from a different publisher - presumably after addressing some or all o... | [
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"text": "Personally, this isn't something I would do. And honestly, the transparency argument is a little bit of a non-starter u... | 2015/02/24 | [
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40,533 | Is it legal to include another person's result in my research paper?
For instance:
Theorem (Name of the author): Statement
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40,554 | The papers for a conference are limited to 3 pages. On the website, however, it says Transactions of the IEEE offers a special feature edition (whatever it means?), so I think it would be good to submit the full manuscript to this special issue.
But that means I'm submitting two papers with the same title to a journal... | [
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40,557 | In the last assignment I've given my students, one of the questions has two subquestions that go as follows.
1. Explain how Theory X, as developed in Smith (2010) accounts for dataset A.
2. Briefly summarize the additional data that, according to Smith (2010), fall under the scope of Theory X.
A number of students ha... | [
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40,558 | I have had more than one undergraduate student who I have very strongly suspected of routine plagiarism that I cannot prove. There is a certain style of writing that is just inexplicable except as an effort to avoid plagiarism detection.
I will give an example from a case I was actually able to prove. The student wrot... | [
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"text": "[HassQx](http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/) page states:\n\n> \n> it shouldn't matter whether the suspect co... | 2015/02/25 | [
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40,572 | I 'm at the start of my second semester of college and I don't have any real practical experience with programming, but I have to take a class on OOP that is usually taught to juniors.
My OOP class teacher recommended "C++: How to program" 4th ed. by Deitel & Deitel as a textbook, which is a book with many horrible th... | [
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40,585 | Can anyone advise on how to tailor a CV for travel grant applications?
I've seen a number of computer science conferences and workshops where the application for travel grants consists of simply sending your CV.
Is there anything that one can do specifically for this type of application? | [
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40,587 | Where can I find statistics for jobs to applicant ratios for engineering professorships or assistant professorships?
The reason I'm asking this is I'm thinking this might be the best metric to determine whether become a professor in an engineering field is "easier" (greater probability of being hired) than a humanitie... | [
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40,591 | A few months back I contacted a potential advisor I am interested in doing my PhD with and he replied that he is considering my application and will be back in contact with me.
Today, I received another email from him basically saying:
>
> Dear [My Correct Name],
>
>
> Are you still interested in doing PhD with m... | [
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40,595 | By chance, I have the same last name as one of the supervisors of a project I worked on. If I ask him to write me a recommendation letter, will the admission committee misconstrue that we are related and how do I provide proof that we are not? By the way, I am Chinese, so there is perhaps more overlap in last names. | [
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40,597 | I'm completing a master's in history (one year in), and am beginning to look at possible PhD programs. I have noted in a lot of forums that it looks *really* good if you have one (or several) publications to your name.
How does one even begin this process? Also, with coursework and the thesis writing process having ju... | [
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40,598 | I'm currently an undergrad, and work as a researcher in an EECS lab. Recently, I discovered a novel application to work on, and so for the last few weeks I've been staying at the lab late almost every day, leaving at midnight or later. Since I live in a dorm on the opposite end of campus, I usually don't get to sleep u... | [
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40,605 | **Disclaimer:** I asked this question on academia since it is very much so a student/professor relationship despite both him and me being significantly more industry oriented.
**About Me:** I recently graduated from a degree (4-5 months ago) and am working in industry. I'm 20 years old.
**Dilemma:** I recently found... | [
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40,609 | I'm a PhD student, in medical physics at a very good collegiate university in the UK. I did a four-year undergraduate masters' (in physics), and I'm just finishing a four year PhD. I'm now at the awkward stage of applying for grants, junior research fellowships and postdoctoral fellowships -- and I'm experiencing an aw... | [
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40,612 | I'm having the following problem: There is some interesting paper (in machine learning) which is cited by 180 other papers (according to Google Scholar). From these 180, I want to find the papers that build up heavily on the original paper. I mean, not the ones that just mention the original paper briefly and are not R... | [
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40,615 | I know this question may be off-topic on academia SE, but really am not sure where to ask. I was admitted to a great PhD program recently, and was also invited to participate in their Open House in March. I was informed that I would be reimbursed for travel expenses. However the email says to book flights as early as p... | [
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40,619 | I refereed a paper after a skim-through and a careful examination of about (1/3) of it after a couple of weeks, and then sent it back due to expository issues, a few gripes about certain things not being correct, about a dozen notes, and suggestions on what needs cleaning so that I could rigorously go through all the a... | [
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40,626 | I have been reading that a publisher called WIT Press has the following copyright agreement:
<http://www.icsis.org/WITcopyright.pdf>
It has one part that says:
>
> We will not withhold permission for any reasonable request from you
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40,635 | I was asked to review a paper which was submitted to a conference. The author of the paper was one of my former professors\* and of course I declined to review the submission due to conflict interest.
I was wondering however, would it be unethical to write an email to my professor give him a feedback on the paper and ... | [
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40,637 | I'm giving a talk summarizing someone else's paper and I'd like to show some figures from their paper during my presentation. It's an informal talk to fellow students and a few professors at my school. Would it okay to just have a PDF of their paper up on the screen showing the figures needed? Should I obtain permissio... | [
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40,647 | I have been curious about why so many journals only accept EPS for vector graphs rather than PDF.
It is indeed weird because these journals have to convert EPS figures to PDF anyway. Adobe also suggests to use PDF instead of EPS.
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40,649 | I have written a math paper on combinatorics (a generalization of a math olympiad problem) and am looking to get it published. I believe I have discovered something new (although I don't claim it is "important" in the sense of being a breakthrough or anything) and want to get credit for it. Unfortunately I haven't been... | [
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40,657 | I am working in a highly technical field (quantitative finance/ statistical analysis) for a private company with a Master of Science degree in economics.
Does it make sense to get a PhD (in quantitative finance, math, statistics) if I do not want to be in academia and prefer to stay in business.
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40,661 | I have been accepted to a Ph.D. program in St. Louis, MO and will be visiting the school in late March. I will be reimbursed for flight tickets. The scheduled Open House runs from Thursday to Saturday, and I have been told to book my flights with arrival on Thursday and departure on Saturday. The flight ticket per thos... | [
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40,675 | or to other research organizations for example government labs?
I am currently a post doc at large and would like to co-write a proposal (probably NSF) with a Professor at a nearby University. With the funding, I'd be getting a salary and doing the majority of the work and the lead PI (the prof) would work partial tim... | [
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40,687 | When I worked in industry,
I had unchecked access to a huge stationery cupboard.
As did hundreds of other employees.
Full of useful things like:
* Files, folders, binders
* coloured pens, mechanical pencils, markers
* BlueTack, bull dog clips, coloured masking tape
* index cards, A3 sketch books
* postage paid envelo... | [
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40,690 | Is there a way for me to be notified automatically when a ACM or IEEE conference proceedings is published? I was unable to find such option in either of their websites. How else do researchers (professors, students, industry folks) who are interested in a particular conference, know that the Proceedings for a particula... | [
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40,713 | Do professors get paid for supervising PhD students / honours student's projects?
If so, typically how much? | [
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40,722 | (Please excuse my ignorance if this is an obvious question, but my Googling skills don't seem to be up to par today.)
I was just wondering if there is a branch of sociology that deals with health and wellness - like nutrition and exercise - when looking at a community or nation as a whole. If there is, would this be s... | [
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40,725 | I am a PhD candidate in literature, finishing my degree in August. Due to a combination of factors, I did not line anything (academic) up for the coming academic year. However, I will be spending that year on the job market. I had planned to simply teach a couple of courses if possible, and to work on getting some publ... | [
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40,727 | I am a young researcher already having published several papers, and in the same time I have participated several times in bids for national and European (fp7, h2020) projects. So I could say I have some experience in proposal-writing.
I am now preparing my cv to apply for a lecturer position in UK. The question is: s... | [
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40,731 | I am a second year PhD student. I am still in the process of finding a research topic. I have a couple research ideas at early stages with two different professors.
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40,732 | I am the editor of a student-edited journal at a graduate school. We extended a publication offer to an author that has published with the journal in the past, and with whom I do not wish to burn any bridges. The normal process of an offer goes like this: (1) extend the offer, (2) author either accepts or rejects, (3) ... | [
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40,739 | My mental health is declining and as a result I haven't been a good TA. For example I let my students out of section early because I was too tired to present some of the material, and I did not understand some of my section notes because another TA prepared them, and I didn't read them in advance.
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40,745 | I had submitted research paper to a journal two and half months ago. It was under review for two months and now the status is showing that the paper is with editor from last ten days. If the paper has got reviewed why I am not getting any response from the editor. | [
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40,773 | I have a question related to this post,
[Is it legal to upload a paper to arXiv when it is under double blind review for one of the IEEE journals?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/16831/is-it-legal-to-upload-a-paper-to-arxiv-when-it-is-under-double-blind-review-for)
What should I do if I uploaded my manu... | [
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40,783 | It has been discussed and explained many times that in (at least some subdisciplines of) Computer Science, conference publications have a special status compared to many other fields - where in other fields, journals are the only way of publication, in Computer Science, many conferences allow publications with a compar... | [
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40,785 | I don't want to release too many details in this inquiry, but I do have a very legitimate question to ask. My senior class (aerospace engineering) has been hard at work for nearly nine months reverse engineering a particular [X-Plane](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_X-planes). We have done detailed analysis on alm... | [
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40,786 | I recreated an image from a paper I liked (didn't use the same image to get out of the asking permission which could take a while). Now the reviewer asked us to give credit to the original paper. How do I do that? Is it okay to write that my image was 'inspired' from this other paper, as I didn't copy the image but use... | [
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40,791 | Update:
I found 8 students cheating in today's quiz despite stern warning and personal threatening to kick them out of the classroom if I notice cheating behavior again. 4 of them also likely cheated last time. The main reason is I left 5 minutes to fetch old quiz from last time.
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40,794 | I am collaborating with a foreign author. As I am still pursuing my degree, I have to add my supervisor's name in that paper, even though my supervisor has not contributed to the preparation of this manuscript.
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40,809 | I am currently lecturing at a private tertiary education college where I am obliged to lecture, on average, 12 distinct subjects per year at both diploma and degree level. I lecture 6 to 8 subjects per week or around 4 or 5 unique subjects per day across all graduate levels (first, second and third year students). Some... | [
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40,814 | Among my other duties as a tenure-track assistant professor (in math), I serve as an advisor to undergraduates: they are required to meet with me and get my approval on their choice of courses before they can register.
I dread this job every semester, because I suspect that I do a poor job of it. Some of the reasons:
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40,816 | I've attended a few workshops consisting of some talks, and then maybe 10-15 hours of "group work" over the course of a week. At one, my group more or less solved the question we set out to answer, which was mildly interesting but not particularly ambitious. (Essentially, it was a computation a few of us had wondered a... | [
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40,823 | I am currently in my first year of a general mathematics PhD program at a state university that isn't rated particularly high. As far my classes go, I put in little to no effort towards them and instead dedicate my time to the research I've started, and still am at/near the top of my class. The students in my classes j... | [
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40,825 | I am curious as to how academia continues itself without replication or reinventing the wheel. So many academicians in so many areas of work, how would one ever find out whether the work he or she is about to embark on can be considered an original work? That someone didn't already publish the very same result?
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40,832 | I am doing a technical presentation on *Minimizing Real-Time Data Stream Latency: Node.js and Asynchronous Operations.* I've done some thorough research on the topic and I want to add some code blocks to a few slides to visually show Asynch Programming in Node.js as well as to visually show pros and cons.
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40,842 | I'm currently finishing up my masters degree and hoping to apply to quite a few good PhD programs. I've gotten perfect scores in all my classes thus far as a graduate student and as an undergraduate, I got perfect scores in my major classes.
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40,851 | I'm studying maths, and I've found it beneficial to write my notes as if I were writing a textbook for someone else's self study - forces me to understand the material to some extent.
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40,854 | I have 1 Bachelors degree and 2 Masters degrees. They are in different subjects, not closely related. I am now planning to apply for a PhD program.
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40,860 | The [Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS)](https://oeis.org/) is a large online database of number sequences. It's popular among professional and amateur mathematicians, and its entries are widely cited. Like Wikipedia, most of its content is authored and edited by the community; no particular qualifications... | [
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40,864 | Let's say I go to someone's website, look up the source and use some of the JavaScript idea/pattern/code that is not a part of the wider framerwork/something similar, but a unique code that was written by the author of the website.
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40,871 | I have contributed significantly to the paper and I was not listed as co-author instead I am listed in acknowledgement section in the end saying that thanks to my preliminary studies. I had sent the data to my supervisor before I left the lab and I have all evidences of work reports and weekly meetings. They repeated m... | [
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40,890 | I'm working on a paper for IEEE Transactions on Computers, and I can't find any guidelines on how to format code (C++) that is included in the paper.
I found some other papers with short code snippets, and it looks like they just used Courier New for the font, but I'm not sure of the font size. Do I need to include li... | [
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40,895 | I am trying to decided whether pursing a Master's in Computer Science will make me more competitive for a job designing video games. I went to a prestigious undergraduate school and finished strongly. The graduate schools which offer Master's programs with concentrations in video game design are less prestigious than m... | [
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40,910 | Reviewing an article in your field is an interesting and rewarding experience. Any scientist has, of course, a moral obligation for reviewing other people's work just like he has his/her own work reviewed.
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40,920 | My colleague and I work at an Open Access journal, published by a regional scholarly association. The field is Communication and Media Studies. Recently we started to encounter problems with reaching out for authors. We use a small set of professional email lists, listservers and newsletters to disseminate our Call for... | [
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40,925 | I'm an undergrad and I have invited a speaker to come and speak in my department. He's a mathematician at another university, and although what he will talk about is relevant to mathematics, it's not an academic talk or seminar. It is an academic speaking to other academics and students in an academic setting, however.... | [
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40,935 | I got some impressively lengthy, detailed and mostly positive feedback in a double-blind peer review for a paper. Is it ok (or even possible), or is it against best practices (and considered taboo), to try to find out who the reviewer was - just in case you can get more feedback and share ideas related to the topic at ... | [
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40,936 | I completed a PhD a couple of years ago and am looking at postdocs abroad, but not in my original field, so my advisors aren't able to suggest good places to apply to. Are there any programmes (official or unofficial) where a UK PhD is highly regarded that facilitate exchanges of academics between UK and worldwide univ... | [
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40,950 | There has been a lot of buzz about how difficult it is to achieve tenure, however, even getting into graduate school seems harder every day. My case (and the case of a lot of people too): I graduated early from school in a developing country and decided to study Biology with more passion than reason (low salaries compa... | [
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40,953 | My paper has been under review for 2.5 months now at PLoS ONE. I am still waiting for the first review result.
I have sent three inquiries to ask about the progress, and all the responses were telling me that the paper is out for review and PLoS ONE is doing their best to process my paper efficiently.
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40,955 | One of the students whose work I'm grading has just handed in a piece of work which is much better than what I've come to expect of them after several classes. I was just about to write some rather positive comment on their work, along the lines of *"Good job! You're doing much better than you used to."*, when it struc... | [
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40,968 | In my thesis I have several photographs, which have captions in the form of
`Photograph of building X, taken on date by the author of this thesis`
Citations to referenced papers follow the [1] (BibTeX plain) format. My supervisor suggested to cite my own photos by using the following caption format:
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41,000 | I observed some very good math journals are not indexed by Thomson Reuters. The basis of my evaluation is the composition of the editorial board, the university or press that house the journals and the authors that publish with them. My question is what is likely the reason for this non-indexing? | [
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41,005 | I've just graduated in Brazil and I plan to apply in some different Master courses in US. I plan to apply to different universities and I did not want to ask my professors to write many different letters.
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41,013 | I'm getting my Software Engineer degree in one year here in my country, and I want to continue my studies with a Master degree in the US.
Since here in my country is not a common practice to ask or write such letters, I'm not sure about some details.
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41,016 | Question
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I'm wondering about people's experiences with navigating job offers while pursuing a Ph.D. How did you make the decision to stay or leave? If you left, how did you break the news? Were you satisfied with the decision you made?
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41,019 | I made several applications to Universities in the US, Canada, and Europe. One of the universities in Europe asked me for an interview which I attended several weeks ago. I felt like they dedicated resources to interview me as there was 5 professor present. They interview was completely technical in nature.
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41,020 | I am familiar with what the US Code says about copyright and fair use, and am specifically interested in actual practice regarding academic publications which use small amount (under 10% of the original) of a protected work, without obtaining permission. Specifically, I would like to know if an infringement suit has ev... | [
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"text": "Half an answer...\n\nI no longer have a copy of [*Permissions: a survival guide*](http://www.press.uchicago... | 2015/03/04 | [
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41,023 | I'm a Msc student, and my project is to develop a novel software tool for use in neurosurgery.
There is a current tool that is considered the standard of care for the procedure, but it has low rates of clinical adoption (~45%) due to archaic technical limitations. We propose that we can develop a new system, exploitin... | [
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41,031 | I would like to build up my publication profile, including the writing of book reviews. I am not well-known by any means having just completed my PhD, though I am now working full time (contract) as a level A academic in research and teaching in my field.
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41,032 | I am applying for a post that requests me to provide student feedbacks. While my evaluation scores are pretty good, the feedback written by students sometime contradict each other. Some student wrote, "He is very nice and caring," while another wrote, "He is too harsh! :(" (*yes, with the :(* )
The contradicting one ... | [
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41,044 | Is there a date when interview invitations stop going out? Some said that interview invitations will come between mid-Jan and mid-Feb, so can an applicant assume that by March or mid-March there will be no more interview invitations? | [
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41,045 | When I was applying for PhD programs, I got into my first choice school. Some time later, a school that was lower-ranked but still a good school offered me a Skype interview. Should I have declined the interview so they could give the spot to someone else? Or would that have been considered rude? | [
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41,052 | I submitted a paper to a Tawxur and Fvancoc journal that uses the ScholarOne submission system. The manuscript status has changed from "Under Review" to "Awaiting Reviewer Scores".
What does this change mean?
What is the flow chart of the different statuses for a manuscript? | [
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