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43,795 | I read this question [Does rigor/thoroughness of undergraduate program matter (for graduate/PhD applications)?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/19248/does-rigor-thoroughness-of-undergraduate-program-matter-for-graduate-phd-applic?rq=1) and became very worried when I saw everyone blasting the OP for contemp... | [
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43,798 | A book I have been reading1, has two (complimentary) recommendations for PhD students:
* Add everything you read/encounter to your reference management system
* Keep a annoteded bibliography of everything you read.
They argue that (as I read it):
* If you looked at a resource and found it was bad, then having a note... | [
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"text": "I think it is somewhat misrepresenting the concept to call it an \"annotated bibliography\". That term suggests someth... | 2015/04/18 | [
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43,808 | What is a professional student, in the context of a "Graduate and Professional Student Organization" in the United States (cf. [this one](http://www.indiana.edu/~gpso/archive/www/index.php))? How are they different than or similar to post-docs? | [
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"text": "My experience with the term is frequently derogatory. It is usually applied to a person who either doesn't know... | 2015/04/18 | [
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43,810 | This is a debatable issue given for me to make inquires on: some people said that coursework should be introduced at the doctoral level while others insist that it should not be introduced, as a PhD student is already a Master in the area of study.
What are the arguments for and against introducing coursework for PhD ... | [
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43,812 | Every month, I receive several emails from India or similar countries for a postdoc position in my group.
I am an assistant professor in a small university. I wonder how many applications/emails receive famous professors at top universities?
When a PI has funding for a postdoc position, he post the position, and will... | [
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"text": "I think that what has happened is that there are stories floating around, rumors with some kernel of truth, tha... | 2015/04/18 | [
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43,828 | For background, I am a mathematics graduate student.
Now, it happens once in a while that I find an interesting conference/workshop which I would be happy to attend, but which I'm not sure about (for reasons which might appear later on, such as not enough funding, finding a better conference etc.).
Suppose that in ca... | [
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"text": "If you submit a paper, it gets accepted for presentation, and then you decide not to go, that is a negative ... | 2015/04/18 | [
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43,837 | It seems to me that academic settings have a very high degree of social hierarchy and I find it very hard to deal with it while being at the bottom of the ladder. Any tips on how to deal with it?
I attend research meetings where I am the newest student in the subject while the other grad students are all very senior ... | [
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"text": "> \n> Like if one of these senior students has something to say which could\n> be very silly or trivial or even w... | 2015/04/18 | [
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43,840 | I'm elaborating a small scorecard for a comparison between two technologies, I was wondering if it would be formally acceptable to use "and/or" in my bullet points, e.g., "Not automated and/or involves excessive configuration." | [
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"text": "The construction \"and/or\" generally betrays a weak sentence construction. It's almost always possible to replace the u... | 2015/04/18 | [
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43,844 | I will be entering my first year of college next Fall. Even if most of my AP classes don't count for credit, I will *probably* be eligible to graduate after six 15–16 credit semesters. Though my desires might change throughout the next few years, I intend to pursue a PhD in Computer Science, Neuroscience, or something ... | [
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"text": "You are absolutely allowed to reapply to schools in successive years. However, unless you have had a substantial update... | 2015/04/18 | [
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43,863 | I have been working for some time on a paper that I hope to submit to a mathematics journal. Buried deep in the guts of the paper is a technical lemma that I struggled with for some time before finally posting the question to MSE, where it [promptly received an answer](https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1238197/p... | [
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"text": "In your case, the user who helped you participates under his real name (he's from my hometown :)). I would includ... | 2015/04/19 | [
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43,879 | Short version: Graduate prelims include lots of topics which are only distantly related to your particular research area. How does one motivate oneself to learn and do this stuff?
Long version with personal background: I'm a 3rd year undergrad who's planning on applying to graduate schools in the US next year (in math... | [
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"text": "In this case, the best way to motivate yourself to study this uninteresting material is to try to become interested i... | 2015/04/20 | [
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43,890 | I am a US graduate student, and recently I have had the great honor of being awarded a large fellowship that provides a sizable monthly stipend for tuition, living expenses, and conference travel.
I plan to travel to a couple of conferences in Europe this summer where I have accepted/pending submissions. However, ther... | [
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"text": "The only problem would be if you were to misrepresent your financial position to secure the registration fee waiver. If... | 2015/04/20 | [
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43,907 | I am from a small country where we do not have many eminent professors, but I did work hard and published over 30 papers which were cited more than 400 times. I am applying for research jobs internationally, and a key factor is references.
It does matter who has written the recommendation letter. In addition to my unk... | [
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"text": "> \n> I contacted several ones who have even cited my papers, but they simply replied \"they cannot be my referenc... | 2015/04/20 | [
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43,910 | Is accepting or rejecting a paper the reviewers’ responsibility? Or is it left to the editor to decide based on all the reviewers’ comments? | [
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43,915 | My abstract/paper has been selected at 2nd International MISG-2015 conference held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I would like to know if it's valuable for an Undergraduate student to present paper at this conference and will it have a high impact when I apply for an university for Masters? | [
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"text": "As mentioned in the comments, you can see discussion about this conference [here](https://academia.stackexchange... | 2015/04/20 | [
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43,926 | This is actually just a revision of [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/42918/does-one-need-a-masters-in-math-before-taking-a-phd-in-math) in relation to [this answer](https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/42923/22511).
I ask "Does one need a master's in math before taking a PhD in pure math?" ... | [
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"text": "I am a mathematician. One of my academic siblings has an undergrad degree in mathematical finance. As Indveac Bcals c... | 2015/04/20 | [
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43,927 | This question is a bit different from this question: [What to do if asked to write a letter of recommendation for a weak candidate?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/2717/what-to-do-if-asked-to-write-a-letter-of-recommendation-for-a-weak-candidate)
Instead of not knowing the student well enough, I know the... | [
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"text": "If you do not feel that you can avoid writing him a letter, then tell him precisely what you wrote here: ... | 2015/04/20 | [
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43,928 | The research (Delphi study) started with NN study participants in Round 1 (gathering demographics). Ten percent of the participants dropped out and did not complete Round 2 or (of course) Round 3.
I'm unsure how to report this.
Do I report the demographic results and then add a note to the Round 2 and Round 3 result... | [
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"text": "It is a very bad thing to remove people who dropped out from your data set. The problem is that you do not know w... | 2015/04/20 | [
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43,940 | I'm a new graduate student and my adviser asked me to set up a meeting with some out-of-state colleagues (whom I haven't met yet) to start working on a collaboration that I'll be playing a major role in. One of these colleagues suggested a "webinar" or video conference for the meeting. I was wondering what kinds of vid... | [
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"text": "I use Skype and Google Hangouts all the time. No stigma attached. Go for whatever is convenient for ever... | 2015/04/20 | [
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43,953 | If a phd student is completely funded by an outside institution and don't cost the school or the university anything, what impact would that have on the student relationship with his advisor? Especially on things like interest on the student progress. | [
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"text": "The main effect of external support on a student/advisor relationship is that there is less external pressure for ... | 2015/04/21 | [
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43,959 | Assume you are writing a manuscript and you have uploaded your raw data to a relevant hosting site (e.g., The Dataverse Network, FigShare, etc.). Where in the manuscript should you indicate a link to this?
This question was posted on [twitter](https://twitter.com/nicebread303/status/590395191359582209) and one suggest... | [
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43,969 | In chemistry and physics, there are now a number of scientists who appear as authors on over 1,000 papers. Famous professors can have good funding and then a large research group where their research fellows work in parallel while they apply for more funds.
However, when it comes to 1,000 papers, to me it no longer se... | [
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43,974 | I am currently a PhD student in a biomedical related field.
I came a long way. I first did my undergraduate and worked for a few years, though not research related. Later, I identified my research interest before embarking in the PhD with the hope of fulfilling my career dreams. I used to love and enjoy science, but... | [
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"text": "> \n> * Should I change project?\n> * Should I change to dry lab?\n> \n> \n> \n\nA PhD can be extremely frustr... | 2015/04/21 | [
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43,977 | I want to know if it is ethical to present the same paper in two different conferences, where the conference that is to be held earlier does not publish in it any journal/conference proceedings, while other conference will publish it in a conference proceedings.
The field is mathematics. | [
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43,981 | I am a full professor of chemistry from Iran. I want to move to the United States. I have a good record of publications, teaching, executive positions, conference participation, etc.
However, as I applied for full professor position, I was not successful. Apparently, my credentials are equal to successful candidates o... | [
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43,982 | I recently published a paper in a journal which does not offer a notification system to send email alerts when a paper is cited. The journal is a well known and has a high-impact factor in my field. Are there free services which can automatically send me an email alert when my paper is cited in another publication? | [
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44,013 | In computer science, I often see companies sponsoring academic conferences. What do companies hope to gain from doing so, and is there any evidence that these hopes are fulfilled? | [
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44,014 | I'll be attending a accredited/well-recognized university for my undergrad this coming fall, and I'm just curious about research correlating with publications. I have a particular yearning passion in enhancing the field of pediatric robotic surgery, a new field of medicine that just opened up very recently, and I am fi... | [
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44,017 | I was assigned a research topic for one of my psych classes this term. I designed the study, collected and analyzed data and then wrote a paper. After I presented my paper to my professor, she was very excited and said this paper was publishable. She would definitely run follow-up studies on this topic. I then offered ... | [
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44,019 | There is a degree called “Masters by research” in Australia, in which a researcher basically researches for two years(full time) on the topic or research problem(differs from Phd on many aspects especially minimum requirements).
What is its equivalent degree in USA?
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44,026 | I have been working on a research project and have submitted the paper to two different venues(not simultaneously), and both times I have gotten reviews which criticize the paper for a lack of novelty. What exactly makes an algorithm or system design novel? How can I judge the novelty of my solution? | [
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44,039 | I will have my master thesis defense in one week and today my advisor wrote me he is not sure about a method I used to obtain a result (this will not ruin the entire work, but still will make some results useless).
I explained him the theory behind the method (which I found in a highly reccomended book, and I decided... | [
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44,044 | Apparently, Iowa's politicians intend to enrich the tenure experience by annual [gladiatorial games](http://academeblog.org/2015/04/21/culling-the-iowa-faculty/) at state schools, regardless of tenure:
1. those being evaluated below some threshold shall be terminated, and
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44,045 | I will just project my mind here and see where it goes. A lot of this will seem childish/immature/ Due to various problems from a multitude of directions in my life; some serious, some idiotic (mid-life crisis at 18?! What the hell was I thinking); I decided to defer my enrollment to Imperial College London last year. ... | [
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44,048 | I currently work full-time for the Department of Defense. I usually get three-weeks worth of paid time off every year. This has been helpful because I like to go back home to visit family for about two weeks or take a long weekend and visit friends around the country.
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44,055 | Suppose a work (a book with abstract math research) is presented as LaTeX source under a copyleft license available at a public Git hosting service.
Will scientists be reluctant to cite such a work, because it was not published "officially"?
Having asked this question, I mention that in my opinion that publishing und... | [
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44,059 | I have sent an article for a conference in Computer Science and in the Important Dates of the call for papers, it says the notification to the authors is April 20. Now we are at April 22 and the status of my paper still appears as Under Review. I was wondering how many days should I wait for sending a remainder email t... | [
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44,061 | So, this is a question that I do not know much about. I might get called on not having done a ton of research on graduate school, but I am really curious about this. I am an undergraduate student of mathematics and I am certainly planning on pursuing a graduate degree. I have looked at the top schools of math and they ... | [
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44,065 | I am a computer science student from India. I noticed that most of the résumés and thesis papers etc. I see are written in LaTeX.
If I write my résumé in Word (say) rather than LaTeX, will it have a negative affect when I apply to graduate schools in the U.S.?
If not, then should I even learn LaTeX for my future ac... | [
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44,078 | Principal investigators (P.I.s) are not immune to things like traffic accidents, fatal diseases, or acts of terrorism.
Is it common to have contingency plans as to what will happen with funding, experiments, PhD supervision, and everything else that a P.I. is supposed to be responsible for? And if so, what do these p... | [
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44,083 | A week ago In one of my classes I e-mail the professor and asked to reschedule one of my quizzes due to illness generated from sleep deprivation, she accepted and was highly considerate of my situation.
Now, due to my intense anxiety & stress of exams (to perform excellently) and lack of sleep for the last couple of d... | [
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44,089 | One of my friends (a math graduate student from my department) didn't work hard during his undergraduate studies, and his GPA was, naturally, low. He barely (and with some luck) got into grad school, where he works harder.
The problem is that as it seems, most of the professors have a very bad impression of him, both ... | [
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44,100 | I obtain many of my reading sources from online, instead of form a hardcopy in the library, even for books or book sections. The APA citation requirements for citing printed books and citing e-books are different. If my source IS indeed an e-book, I wonder whether I should really cite e-books according to the e-book ci... | [
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44,107 | I am a student from India and I have been reading a lot about graduate admissions in US lately. I have read in some article that an average(below average) applicant from the "maybe" pile is moved to an "accepted" pile when their resumes contain something like "hiked in Himalayas".
Now I realize that it is a great achi... | [
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44,112 | I am a graduate student in English working on my final paper for a class. I was assigned a particular author to write on, but about halfway through the semester another student wanted to write on that author so I agreed to write on a different author. I had already read some articles on this second author so I thought ... | [
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44,113 | At my school, I see some professors, associate and higher, teach only 1 course per semester while others, assistants and full, teach 3 or 4 per semester. Some semesters, the ones teaching only one course may teach an upper PhD level course, while other semesters they'll teach a junior or senior level undergrad course, ... | [
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44,120 | Is a three years bachelors degree in Commerce and three years bachelors degree in Law from India termed to be equivalent to have a four years graduate degree from the US? | [
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44,122 | College admissions in the U.S. takes into account many factors that are rarely considered in other countries and seem unrelated to academics. For example, legacy status (children of alumni may be given preference), athletics, extracurricular activities, etc. Why do these nonacademic criteria play a larger role in the U... | [
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44,139 | I am currently studying at an university in Europe (undergraduate, first year)and would like to transfer (next year or in two years) to an university in UK. UCAS requires a reference to accompany your application.
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44,143 | I am getting closer to the end of Ph.D. studies and in some months I expect to stop the research to seriously work on the thesis. My supervisor has two other students working on slightly different fields than mine. He is involved in many projects and loves to help other people.
I think he trust me deeply, sometimes he... | [
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44,152 | A comment on [this question on undergraduate admissions](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/44122/why-do-undergraduate-admissions-in-the-u-s-take-into-account-nonacademic-criteri/44132?noredirect=1#comment98485_44122) notes that a good college might get 10x more applicants *who all have the maximum possible g... | [
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44,156 | I am currently a postdoc in a US University (I'm French).
I am in between astrophysics and computer science.
My work is currently funded by NSF (work related to the Dark Energy Survey).
Are there some program/award/grant out there I could apply to, to gain some autonomy (additional funding I could use in the way I... | [
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44,159 | As stated by the title, I want to know what a researcher in his early career, i.e., having not had any graduated PhD student yet, can do to attract good candidates. The reason I am asking this question is because PhD applicants usually look for supervisors who have many successful PhD students. | [
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44,166 | We have had a couple of papers rejected from conferences quite a while ago, and we now would like to post them in arXiv. We are considering indicating on the paper which conference it was rejected from, mostly to state when the paper was actually written (we are also writing a new paper with additional results). Is thi... | [
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44,173 | I've read that after you "pass" the first year of your Ph.D.program you can either continue normally or stop and get a masters degree.
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44,183 | I am a high school student so I don't know much about academia, but I would like to clear up some confusion I have over research in mathematics. Please excuse my naivite/ignorance on this topic.
I get the impression that mathematics research at the graduate and post-doc level is hard. It could take months of getting ... | [
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44,213 | If you change your name, can you list both names as authors?
For example, consider a PhD student named Jozw Cie who after finishing his PhD undergoes a sex change and name change to Vana Doe before starting a postdoc. After the sex change Vana continues to work on a project that she started as a PhD student. Assume th... | [
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44,215 | I have been accepted into Cornell for M.Eng in Biomedical Engineering. I had originally applied for an MS but since they've stopped enrolling students for MS I got into M.Eng which is an industry oriented course. I would like to get a PhD eventually in the field. Will going for an industry oriented course (M.Eng) over ... | [
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44,217 | In the U.S., colleges typically don't use entrance exams to select students. For test results they rely instead on standardized tests like the SAT or ACT. I heard that the top technical math/science schools in Russia administer entrance exams which are similar to math Olympiads. I am wondering: is this a Russian thing ... | [
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44,218 | The [*Manager Tools* and *Career Tools* series of podcasts](https://www.manager-tools.com/podcasts) are industry-oriented, but I find great value in them as I retool for an academic career. I was never a manager in my industry career, but the communication skills and practical understanding of organizations imparted ar... | [
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44,227 | My question has to do with whether my responsibilities as a reviewer also includes copyediting duties.
I am in the midst of reviewing a manuscript for a mid-tier applied health sciences journal. While the topic is potentially important, the manuscript is poorly written and the methods used were simply inadequate to an... | [
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44,236 | I've been asking around my department recently for opportunities assisting with research (I'm in electrical engineering). Some of my professors work in labs, but others do largely computer-based work. The computer-based work interests me more.
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44,242 | My Department – Physics – is preparing to modernise its entire syllabus at all levels, from undergraduate through to graduate courses. We are looking at what material should be taught, as well as methods for teaching that material. This will be a significant, multi-year project.
I have found plenty of accounts of how ... | [
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44,245 | I am an undergraduate student working for a professor this summer. Up to this point, I have referred to the professor as Dr. LastName. I have met his research group; his graduate and PhD students refer to him by his first name. Moreover, he signs his emails to me with his first name.
Is it acceptable to ask, through e... | [
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44,259 | Can someone explain the difference between *hypothesis, thesis statement* and *research goal* based on an example? | [
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44,260 | I'm teaching an advanced undergraduate computer science course that requires a 5-7 page term paper worth about 20% of the student's grade.
The class has several international students, and some of them do not have a strong command of the English language. Clearly, these students are at a disadvantage when it comes to... | [
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44,263 | How can a search be made at google-scholars, Scopus etc for only patents?
I want to search patents on a given topic or a set of keywords, but the results mostly include papers. Where I have to scan through all the results manually to reach a patent. | [
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44,267 | Suppose that a certain school is very popular for its computer courses, but its non-computer related courses are virtually unknown. Is it possible for that school to have only one or few students finishing, say, a degree in economics? | [
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44,271 | I have some research papers in PDF format that are actually scanned (and then OCRed) instead of being the original PDF. Some are so badly created that text cannot be properly searched inside.
For example [this paper](http://www.aaai.org/Papers/AIPS/1994/AIPS94-037.pdf) published in 1994 is all about advanced computer... | [
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44,280 | I'm from the US but I work as an engineer in the UK. In the US, part-time engineering PhD students at high-profile universities are possible, but rare and usually limited to special cases.
* In the UK, it seems nearly every school has a part-time PhD option. How does a part-time engineering PhD at elite schools [Oxfo... | [
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44,283 | I am not sure if this holds true everywhere, but here in Germany you only get two attemps at getting your PhD. I am currently wondering at which point it counts towards those two attempts. If I were to start a position and quit during the first few weeks, would it still count? | [
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44,296 | I have done some research on this, but I still don't know what is carried out in a workshop. What activities are arranged? How are they different from conferences? | [
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44,300 | I have a Masters Degree in Computer Science from India.
I have been working in IT sector from last 10 years
From last 5 years I am working in US
I am very much interested in Teaching Undergrads(Bachelors Degree) at College.
I am not aware of Education /Degree/Credentials needed to teach at College Level in US. Can some... | [
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44,301 | I recently defended my Ph.D. dissertation (Information Systems) and now it's time to apply for some positions. While I would love to stay in academia, my current highest priority is to find a good job in IT and/or management consulting. Since I've designed my coursework with partial industry (consulting) focus in mind,... | [
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44,310 | In my language, name structure are different to Western names, and they have a lot of diacritics. To make it less confusing and easier to use for international work, we usually "transliterate" it to a non-diacritics version and reorder the position of components. The problem is, for different people, they will choose d... | [
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44,326 | My graduation ceremony is coming up in a few months,
and I have the option of buying or renting a graduation cap and gown.
I will be starting an assistant professor job this year, so I suspect (but am not sure) that I will need to wear the dress at graduation ceremonies at my new institution.
If I were to buy the gra... | [
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44,333 | I'm doing my PhD in computer science and am working in computer vision. I have come up with an algorithm that my supervisors consider to be promising and publishable. It took me a long time to get these results.
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44,348 | If I have taken an idea or quote from somewhere I will of course reference it properly.
However my question is every time I mention someone e.g
'Joe Bloggs said..."
do I need to reference every time I mention that person if I have referenced him at least once?
Or if I say 'this proof is given by xyz book'
if I h... | [
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44,356 | I'm about to graduate and would like to give my research mentor a book as a gift. It is common in my institute (which is in the US) to give professors gifts as students graduate. However, the problem is my research mentor last year became the dean of the college, and I'm not sure if there is a different set of rules fo... | [
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44,365 | This question was motivated by a desire to have a clean set of terms to describe the life cycle of a manuscript from draft to publication from the perspective of the author.
I could say:
>
> I am "revising" my paper and "resubmitting" it.
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44,367 | I had a really reputable person write me a recommendation letter for colleges. He told me that he wrote the best recommendation letter in his life. He told me that the recommendation letter hints that I'm the next Lhate Jubs and that I'm enlightened etc.
I waived my right to view the letter. I was accepted at many co... | [
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44,374 | Open any research article and it is littered with citations. I’ve recently been wondering what is expected of us when citing the literature:
1. Are we expected to cite every reference relevant to our research article?
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44,382 | Is there any possibility that I could be awarded a Ph.D. degree based on my work or life experience and good educational background?
Can you guide me to any institution offering such Ph.D.s? | [
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44,392 | Especially in the the more experimental subfields of computer science like systems, how often are results faked? If there is no verification process for any code used, do researchers sometimes fake results to save time? | [
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44,413 | I am a psychology undergrad student. I am currently working on a project that will be submitted for publication later this year. However, the project I am working on is in the sub-field of psychology that is not of my interest (environmental psychology). I am planning to apply for PhD programs in social/personality psy... | [
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44,417 | When applying to grad school, is it a good idea to mention professors you want to work with? For example, "I am applying to this program because University X has leading experts in the field Y, such as Professor Z. I studied some of Professor Z's papers and would like to learn more about this particular topic in field ... | [
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44,426 | A few months ago, I submitted a paper to a journal, and received a "can be published if such-and-such issues are addressed properly". I know who one of the reviewers (the one that wrote the most helpful review, in fact) is, largely because he decided to reveal his name in the review. In a couple of weeks, I'll happen t... | [
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44,438 | I am a PhD student in computer science: is it worth spending time organizing a contest for a conference (e.g. a shared task for a conference in natural language processing)? I think that would be a great experience to have, and fits very well my research interests, but I am afraid it might slow down my research and the... | [
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44,440 | In terms of judging a doctoral program--and possibly also relevant for postdoc-ships(?)--which is the more important consideration, who your advisor is or the institution at which you study?
Obviously both are important, but when it comes down to it, which should weigh more heavily?
For example:
Professor Aljja is a... | [
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44,446 | I am a first-year PhD program at a certain top-10 graduate school in my field on the East Coast. I wish to transfer to a certain top-10 graduate school in my field on the West Coast.
I have been dealing with health issues that have made living a normal life in addition to carrying out my academic duties quite difficul... | [
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44,447 | If a graduate student or postdoc develops or plays a large role in developing an idea (this could be anything from a new experimental method or new code for running simulations), what's supposed to happen when they move to a new institution?
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44,455 | In a paper, there is an Acknowledgements section, in which I can thank everyone that helped me along the way. But what do I do in a 15-minute presentation (e.g. in a non-archival conference)? I do want to thank the people that helped me, both for my and for their benefit (in case they may be sitting in the audience, or... | [
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44,459 | In Europe it is somewhat common to apply directly to professors for a PhD project at any time of the year. Specially in chemical engineering, bioprocessing, process engineering, material science and similar areas.
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44,461 | I'm a 3rd year PhD student of Computer Science in the UK and I was considering joining the IEEE-CIS and/or ACM as a student member. As much as the annual memberships in both are very reasonably priced, I was wondering if there was any point subscribing to both and whether if anybody who signed up for both would recomme... | [
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44,476 | Is it convenient to include in your CV papers that have not been cited at all along several years? | [
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44,483 | I am currently using Google Scholar to receive alerts (emails) for new publications in my field. However, *to my understanding* (I might be wrong) Google Scholar doesn't allow to:
* Use regular expression
+ might very useful for looking at variants (noun, adjective, adverb) of the word of interest
* Indicate the fiel... | [
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44,485 | Say a PhD student has a salary paid through a RA/TA or a fellowships but said student has no money for conferences, lab experiments, or to visit another lab for a few months to develop an important part of the thesis.
Should the student pay for these expenses out of his personal money? Is this acceptable, or should th... | [
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44,488 | Paper submissions always put weight on our resume, specifically for students who are applying for a Ph.D. Conference papers are different from journal papers, at least in few cases. Which one puts more weight on our resume? For example, if two students have same level of qualifications except one student has a journal ... | [
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44,493 | My husband received an acceptance letter in February to get his Ph.D. in History. We are in the US. When he e-mailed to the funding department asking what else he needed, the funding department said they had everything.
Now in April he e-mailed to the Department where he supposedly is going to do his Ph.D. to ask abou... | [
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44,500 | I was reading a conference paper relevant to my area of study, and I found it interesting - they did what I was planning to do anyways, and had some extremely promising results.
Now, I don't really believe their claims, as the success seems a bit extreme (300-400x speed up for an algorithm by switching from CPU to GPU... | [
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