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2016/09/22 | 671 | 2,807 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a PhD position in Canada. I have already talked to a Professor and for some reasons, he really wants to hire me as his student. The problem is that currently, I have no TOEFL score requirement. The professor told me that he may convince the graduate committee to conditionally ... |
2016/09/22 | 321 | 1,349 | <issue_start>username_0: If I were to refer to the work of X et al. [YYYY] several times within a paragraph does one need to write the date every time? It appears to disturb the flow of the writing and reads better without, however I'm unsure of the convention.
I've never taken notice either way when reading papers an... |
2016/09/23 | 316 | 1,244 | <issue_start>username_0: I sent one abstract to my supervisor, which he approved and said it is fine. Later on, when the same abstract was published and circulated on university email, he sent me an email and stating that this Abstract is not good and you should have checked it with me before sending for circulation. I... |
2016/09/23 | 809 | 3,532 | <issue_start>username_0: I am supposed to present my work at a technical conference with mostly software/network scientists or engineers and my work is centred around a mathematical model, a MILP, and the related performance evaluations with it. I'm a little confused about whether to present the mathematical model in i... |
2016/09/23 | 577 | 2,442 | <issue_start>username_0: While it is clear to me why time from submission to acceptance can vary a lot (given that this involves that most fickle of creature: the reviewer), it is less clear what determines how long it takes for an accepted paper to be published.
Is this purely a matter of all accepted papers being pu... |
2016/09/23 | 928 | 3,665 | <issue_start>username_0: Occurred to me that some office-based private for-profit companies offer the opportunity of sabbatical periods to their staff.
Do most higher education institutions offer sabbatical periods for administrative / support staff?
Is the concept of sabbatical for support staff as well as for acad... |
2016/09/23 | 883 | 3,678 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a second year undergraduate psychology student in Australia. As a mature-age student, I have a very clear focus in that, I'd like to transition from my undergraduate degree to a PhD, post doc and into academia proper.
It is hard to pin professors down for "pathway" advice.
I am currentl... |
2016/09/23 | 451 | 1,841 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a final year Computer Science student from South Asia and expected to graduate by August 2017. I thought of starting to contact professors for masters program from now. Today I received a reply from the professor I mailed first. He said,
>
> Thank you for your interest. I would suggest ... |
2016/09/23 | 1,503 | 6,617 | <issue_start>username_0: A former PhD student at our lab had this idea for an algorithm for solving an engineering problem that has many well known solutions. The student developed preliminary results but ended up applying the algorithm to some other simpler engineering problems instead and graduating. I 'inherited' th... |
2016/09/23 | 1,346 | 5,674 | <issue_start>username_0: I am 5 years into my postdoc, which has been up and down but I now have a decent publication record. I like what I am doing, am ready to manage people and can't wait to get out of the lab and no longer be a postdoc. I have many ideas and not enough hands. But, it is becoming clear that to be "s... |
2016/09/24 | 880 | 3,504 | <issue_start>username_0: I'd really love to have your valuable advice!
I have a professor who I respect very much and he adores me as his student, often says I'm his best student. And we kept in touch even after I graduated recently. I email him a lot about grad school and he usually responds really fast, like within ... |
2016/09/24 | 1,008 | 4,350 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate chemical engineering student who has been participating in research for a little less than a year now. I was able to get a paper published on one of my previous projects. Since I do not feel that the automotive industry is for me, and since I really like doing research, I ... |
2016/09/24 | 757 | 2,881 | <issue_start>username_0: I have wrote a paper almost a year ago which it was accepted by a peer review in a conference. However, I never got to present it there due to excessive fees of the event. I want to cite this paper now, so my question is, can I treat this paper as unpublished work or is there a formal way to sa... |
2016/09/24 | 3,035 | 13,069 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been assigned to a section of student where I am teaching probabilistic models. From the starting day itself, I feel something strange is happening in the class. For example:
* I like to have two-way communication inside the class. i.e. I prefer to have some sort of active discussions. ... |
2016/09/24 | 825 | 3,420 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student, and just gave a talk about a model that my advisor and I have been working on in a small conference. During my talk, a professor pointed out that our model will have an serious issue in his field, which my advisor and I are not familiar with, so the model might not work. I w... |
2016/09/25 | 1,354 | 5,711 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm on the job market for tenure-track positions in mathematics in the US this application cycle. I was advised by various people to contact the people in the institutions that I would really like to go to, so I have just contacted 4-5 top institutions that I am planning to apply to.
In the us... |
2016/09/25 | 1,021 | 4,294 | <issue_start>username_0: How would one properly format a department/office/lab/subsection of a university? If say I work in Lab X of University Y, should I format it like this?
Lab X, University Y
or
University Y, Lab X? Or something else?<issue_comment>username_1: Don't stress out about the responses, since it's near... |
2016/09/25 | 720 | 3,244 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently working on a research paper in Computer Science which involves quite a few math equations. I am using MS Word currently to write the paper. I haven't yet included the equations. I am planning to send it to a journal.
I have a previously published paper in IEEE Digital Xplore fo... |
2016/09/25 | 2,622 | 10,791 | <issue_start>username_0: My research area is Computational Biology. My work involves in silico methods, I do not carry out any wet lab related experiments. My supervisor wants 4 chapters (apart from introduction and conclusions) for my PhD thesis. He said each chapter should be a journal paper (must be SCI indexed, wit... |
2016/09/25 | 403 | 1,329 | <issue_start>username_0: If I graduated from a university (named `X` for example) in 2014 and my average (or GPA) was the highest among all students who graduated that year from the same major (let's call it Y). So I want to say in my CV that my rank was the first. How to say that in a proffesional way?
What I'm curre... |
2016/09/25 | 1,739 | 7,177 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in the process of writing a recommendation letter for a female student to be admitted to some honors program within the university.
She is fantastic and I assume that she will get admitted with or without my help, so my question isn't necessarily specific to this particular letter, but I d... |
2016/09/25 | 1,277 | 4,396 | <issue_start>username_0: [Crelle's Journal](http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/crll) is a nickname of a Mathematics Journal, and it's full name is "Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik". It's commonly called Crelle since it is founded in 1826 by <NAME>.
Now I want to cite a paper in Crelle, but I realize that... |
2016/09/26 | 1,026 | 3,855 | <issue_start>username_0: Are there research papers which are written on **understanding** (rather than deriving new facts and theorems) of topics of Mathematics in some new and unique *approach not used before*?
For example, a paper that would give a new type of proof of a known result and things like this.
If the a... |
2016/09/26 | 632 | 1,977 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently writing my paper, and I have to compare some DNA sequences. But I found some samples have already been analyzed.
So I used analyzed data from NCBI and my own new data (different species) for the comparison.
Now I want to state clearly that I used their data in my paper.
What is ... |
2016/09/26 | 1,354 | 5,821 | <issue_start>username_0: When getting reports for papers submitted to a peer-reviewed journal, referees sometimes suggest that some missing items be added to the list of references. In my short career I have seen all possible cases, from honest additions that were clearly necessary, through border-line literature where... |
2016/09/26 | 615 | 2,747 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in my last semester of a double degrees in the bachelor of electrical engineering (honours) and bachelor of mathematics in Australia. During my studies, I watched a series of video lectures about convex optimization by <NAME> from Stanford university and I got very interested in control th... |
2016/09/27 | 1,102 | 4,973 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on a project in biostatistics involving some private companies.
Specifically, these companies share data about their customers with us and we try to apply our algorithm to this data. The good part is that both the algorithm and the application are very new, and seem to work quite w... |
2016/09/27 | 1,490 | 6,466 | <issue_start>username_0: Edit: Since teamwork has come up in the answers, I think it would be useful that I add this. The other student has requested to team up with me, and the advisor has rejected this. Besides, I already have the solution to my research question. Not much left for teamwork on that section. I will ha... |
2016/09/27 | 1,009 | 4,220 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to use this website in my report but I do not see the produced year of the following pdf `https://www.astm.org/BOOKSTORE/DS68/pg41.pdf`
How can I do the reference of that pdf ?
Is this correct : `ASTM international, "Ultrasonic Testing," ASTM international,. [Online]. Available: https:... |
2016/09/27 | 793 | 3,357 | <issue_start>username_0: After getting the conference's decision to publish a paper there is a short period of time to prepare and sent a camera ready version. However, during the review period, it was found that the paper can be improved significantly or that the minor bug can be fixed.
Is it acceptable to change the... |
2016/09/27 | 5,651 | 22,860 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a recently graduated PhD, but for the past few years I have been on an 8:00-16:30 schedule with a lunch break at noon. I arrive between 7:45-8:00 and get started immediately.
Now I am on as a continuing research scientist and have been assigned to supervise two graduate students and anoth... |
2016/09/27 | 4,920 | 20,154 | <issue_start>username_0: My PhD supervisor and I are co-authoring a paper. We have an excellent relation, and he is both a well-regarded scientist in its field and a deeply religious person. In our co-authored paper, he wants to include, for the first time in his career, a perfunctory thanks to God in the acknowledgeme... |
2016/09/27 | 1,212 | 5,561 | <issue_start>username_0: Background: A little over a year ago, I wrote a paper for an internship (during high school) at a major university medical center. My contribution to the paper was basically everything except conception and some editing/revision (mainly phrasing, not content). The author list, in order, is: imm... |
2016/09/27 | 1,259 | 5,580 | <issue_start>username_0: I've seen a recent journal paper that presents a solution to a problem, and it in the introduction it has a statement that the problem has not been solved yet.
That wouldn’t be very strange if I didn’t publish a paper with a solution a few years ago, which is not cited.
I understand that no o... |
2016/09/27 | 630 | 2,692 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the first semester of my masters degree in a professional field. I have been assigned to a group with a (fake) political stance. Every week of the semester we are expected to make presentations to the class advocating our groups position in various formats (town hall, internal meeting, ... |
2016/09/27 | 1,418 | 6,339 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a very significant number of publishable projects and have a very large data set that can be used to publish dozens of articles. I have published a number of top peer reviewed journal papers but do not have the time and resources to do this myself and am looking for research collaborator... |
2016/09/28 | 617 | 2,546 | <issue_start>username_0: 1) My degree demands me to have around 50 lbs. of *new* books and reading each year. Second-hand books are not possible for my subject that changes every year.
2) The total cost of all this material is around $5000 USD.
3) I must have all this material with me while I travel repeatedly betwe... |
2016/09/28 | 801 | 3,389 | <issue_start>username_0: After a phd and a 1 year boring job in a private company, I finally found a postdoc position than looks very interesting to me.
I am very excited to perform research again, but I would like to avoid the mistakes I did during my Ph.D. to be more efficient.
I would say that my main waste of time... |
2016/09/28 | 469 | 2,071 | <issue_start>username_0: I have to talk into a paper of mine about a new proposed operator: do you think it is of any use to talk about it within the introduction? My problem is that, by doing so, maybe a reader/reviewer could arise more problems than the ones he could motivate by reading the whole description later on... |
2016/09/28 | 479 | 2,016 | <issue_start>username_0: I am starting a PhD in computer science, and have noticed that a number of classmates will write on LinkedIn or their academic websites that they are getting a "PhD in Machine Learning" or "PhD in Artificial Intelligence" and so on. Is this common/acceptable to write "PhD in [Area of Interest/E... |
2016/09/28 | 2,603 | 11,156 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently working on a paper in Computer Science. I am the sole author of the paper. Every aspect of the paper, the idea, the implementation, figures, plots, results are all solely based on my efforts. Since I wanted it to be accepted into a good conference/journal, I wanted it proofread. ... |
2016/09/28 | 1,066 | 4,680 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a MA student, and I think I've made a big mistake submitting to my first conference...
I submitted an abstract to a regional academic conference over the summer, and it was accepted. I had to submit the full version of the paper for the student competition a few weeks ago. I was having tro... |
2016/09/29 | 5,362 | 22,822 | <issue_start>username_0: I am teaching an honors class for seniors (at a very good university, top 5 in my field). Most students are fantastic. They are very interested, they often surprise me with insights in class, and the class is very lively not because I am a particularly engaging lecturer but because the students... |
2016/09/29 | 727 | 3,077 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, in my research lab we were able to achieve a performance of *X* % for some problem. This *X* is far better than the performance *Y* which was achieved by some other research group for the exact problem, very recently (two months ago).
Yes, we can always compare *X* and *Y* and publis... |
2016/09/29 | 516 | 2,230 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a physics student and I am presently writing my Master thesis.
My work has been a theoretical/numerical analysis of data produced by a simulation written by my advisor.
I would like to write explicitly somewhere that I wrote all the programs for the data analysis and performed the analys... |
2016/09/29 | 1,075 | 4,750 | <issue_start>username_0: My advisor told me to write a blog post, so I wrote a draft of it. He didn't like it, so he told me to write another draft. He didn't like that one either, so he wrote a third draft himself, which contained none of the words from the previous two drafts. He listed me as the sole author of the b... |
2016/09/29 | 2,413 | 10,583 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a doctorate student in mathematics, having returned to finish my Ph.D after a long absence. Four years after my initial departure, I returned after gaining maturity in the working world and rekindling a personal interest in higher-level math, and to become competitive for work nearer to ho... |
2016/09/30 | 851 | 3,102 | <issue_start>username_0: In Google Scholar, I want to create a compound alert, which returns papers that are relevant to two concepts. Concept 1 is all about a branch of machine learning, which can be triggered by the words "deep learning" and "neural network". Concept 2 is all about a branch of robotics, which can be ... |
2016/09/30 | 923 | 3,890 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a student of a technical college. My MSc. final project supervisor liked my work, so he hired me for his company. Where I live, it's actually quite common (my bachelor thesis professor also hired me for a part time job, but that was after I've finished my bachelor's degree).
The thing is, ... |
2016/09/30 | 467 | 1,985 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted a paper. The reviewers might agree to accept its publication, but they have asked that I revise it. I have not yet submitted the revision to them. What can I say about the paper ? Should I say that the paper is under revision or under review, or something else ?<issue_comment>u... |
2016/10/01 | 1,235 | 5,652 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate who recently was involved in writing a paper where I did most, if not all, of the work writing the manuscript. The PhD student basically "dumped" his project into my lap after a year of sitting on the results, and asked me to write it. I wasn't really involved in the projec... |
2016/10/01 | 1,081 | 4,958 | <issue_start>username_0: What are advantages and drawbacks of starting a computer science PhD funded both by the university and a company, compared to a PhD fully funded by the university?
I can provide more details about the context pointing out some hypotheses that I have done so far.
A company:
* will provide pro... |
2016/10/01 | 1,423 | 5,665 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there any research/study/survey/... that tried to estimate how much it would cost to remove paper pay-walls so that all existing research papers are made publicly available free of charge?
E.g. [France paid Elsevier 172 million EUR](http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/2014/11/10/france-prefere-payer... |
2016/10/01 | 797 | 3,547 | <issue_start>username_0: This comes following my other question. When writing a research plan/statement when applying for an assistant professor position, how should be the document structure?
I have to explain a few (e.g., 3- 5) topics for my future research.
Should these be general topics or as specific as a resear... |
2016/10/01 | 746 | 2,959 | <issue_start>username_0: The university theses repository is not indexed in the main scientific literature search engines. This issue makes finding a thesis difficult, and it's a problem especially because after PhD many are looking for a postdoc position.
Is it a good idea to upload a biology related PhD thesis on Bi... |
2016/10/01 | 1,672 | 6,895 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been working in academic career in several years. I have noticed that almost all professors spend most of their time to write proposals?
And to my surprise, they are not working on research papers. This is reflected by the fact that the number of technical papers with first author (sing... |
2016/10/02 | 250 | 1,074 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying to Columbia's journalism school and it asked me if I have any publications. Since I worked as a reporter before for the local newspaper, and I did write a few headline stories, I thought this might help my journalism application. But since they're nor academic, I'm not sure if I sh... |
2016/10/02 | 432 | 1,902 | <issue_start>username_0: I wrote a paper of 17 pages and containing 37 citations, could this large number of pages and citations affect its acceptance in any scientific journal or magazine?<issue_comment>username_1: 17 pages of manuscript usually shrink to eight or ten in the journal, and 37 citations does not sound li... |
2016/10/03 | 2,073 | 8,896 | <issue_start>username_0: I received an email from a student today. The email said that she was applying to a program, and that she needed her professors to fill out a recommendation form. She added that it shouldn't take long, because it should be easy to fill out. The deadline is exactly a week from today.
I am curre... |
2016/10/03 | 382 | 1,645 | <issue_start>username_0: Should I indicate on my CV that one of my papers is an invited paper, when I am one of the authors, but not the invited author? If yes, how do I do this? Should I list it with my other conference papers but with a remark, or should I create a separate 'Invited papers' heading?<issue_comment>use... |
2016/10/03 | 374 | 1,486 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the middle of my master studies in math and need to decide which subject I want to choose for my master thesis, geometry or statistics. I have the following questions:
>
> Is it possible to start the PhD (say in statistics) in a different subject as the master/master thesis (say in ge... |
2016/10/03 | 638 | 2,705 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, my paper has been accepted in a journal(ENDM). They asked to reduce the number of pages. When I used their template, it exceeded the number of pages allowed. I tried my best to reduce the number of pages, but no use.
Can I reduce/change the margins given in the template of a journal t... |
2016/10/03 | 566 | 2,398 | <issue_start>username_0: There is a faculty member of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study (a mathematician), whose research is particularly enticing to me. Do faculty members of the IAS take PhD students? If so, should I just contact him directly?<issue_comment>username_1: Are you a Princeton graduate student alre... |
2016/10/03 | 500 | 2,160 | <issue_start>username_0: Simple question: how do you know that you are an invited speaker for a conference?
For example, receiving an email "For your information, this is our next conference" is obviously not an invitation. What about "I would like to invite you to contribute"? Is there an strict definition of *Invite... |
2016/10/03 | 674 | 2,729 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm editing a dissertation for APA style. I'm encountering a number of transcribed interviews that appear similar to the following:
*I'm very consis-...ah, -consistent...yeah.*
The ellipsis issues aside, this is the first time I've encountered dashes as shown above.
It appears that the dash... |
2016/10/03 | 582 | 2,360 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student in mathematics currently applying for jobs in the US, mostly at small liberal arts institutions.
I have accepted an invite to give a talk at a school in mid-November. May I list this talk on my current CV and expect people to realize that as it's dated "November 2016," ... |
2016/10/03 | 425 | 1,623 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it plagiarism if I use other peoples formulations and phrases? What if I do so massively? Or let's say, the structure or rough form of their essays?
(I think it should be, but I would like to know what most people think, leaving aside that it might be difficult to discover it when somebody ... |
2016/10/03 | 864 | 3,591 | <issue_start>username_0: I am now applying for postdoc (mathematics) and starting to search for jobs in mathjobs. In quite a lot of situation, the job description ask for three letter of recommendation. My question are:
* When they ask for three letter, for example [here](https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/jobs/9243), can... |
2016/10/04 | 847 | 3,633 | <issue_start>username_0: Last week I emailed a professor from my undergrad whom I was close with to say hi and inform her that my undergraduate thesis had been published. I am currently in a master's program and asked her if she would be willing to write me a letter of recommendation for upcoming PhD applications for n... |
2016/10/04 | 703 | 3,157 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student, and am using a term to study with a professor. We got along well in his class and I thought he had a keen interest in helping students.
From what I understand, initially I was supposed to work on a project that some other group would deliver to us. We waited unti... |
2016/10/04 | 1,231 | 5,568 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently in the process of turning my math doctoral thesis into articles to submit to journals. This is my first time writing anything mathematical for publication.
My thesis was on the long-side, and referenced a lot of background material from areas of math that do not often communicat... |
2016/10/04 | 2,137 | 8,094 | <issue_start>username_0: How does one get involved in technical committees in international conferences or commissions? Does one need an invitation or does one volunteer him/herself? Also, why are many relatively more experienced or outstanding academics often not involved in these committees?
I think the first part o... |
2016/10/04 | 1,363 | 5,854 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm on a team of 10 people contributing to a book organized by the department. As the only contributor under 30, I'm in charge of technical stuff.
The team is comprised of members who are not computer savvy.
Management of citations and changes in a large text are critical to the project.
W... |
2016/10/04 | 1,539 | 6,538 | <issue_start>username_0: I have my Bachelor's and want to go to grad. school—and I want to go as soon as possible. I recently quit my industry job (I hated it) and am now searching for a job at a university. I can't register for the GREs now, it's after the deadline, but there are some other options I've thought of:
*... |
2016/10/04 | 1,027 | 4,559 | <issue_start>username_0: I am up for tenure at a US university. It is a regional comprehensive 4-year primarily undergraduate university; it's mostly teaching school but has 10-15% graduate students.
I am allowed a maximum of 5 letters of support. I have two from department colleagues (both long-term tenured and one i... |
2016/10/05 | 604 | 2,544 | <issue_start>username_0: I have an issue with my professors not responding and I wish that you could help me.
So in May, I talked to a few professors about recommendation letters and they all agreed to write me letters. I emailed two of them three days ago, and I emailed a new professor about whether he could write m... |
2016/10/05 | 2,214 | 8,408 | <issue_start>username_0: What federally protected legal rights does a transgender student in the U.S. have re gender pronouns used in referring to the student?
This question was inspired by the [recent discussion](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3484/gendered-pronoun-usage) of gender pronouns at Acad... |
2016/10/05 | 754 | 3,233 | <issue_start>username_0: My PI has just asked me what she should call me when introducing me to visiting researchers. I couldn't give her a definite answer.
I work in a research project where I supervise its research data in terms of versioning, formats, conversion, storage, etc. In this function I've, e.g., written a... |
2016/10/05 | 664 | 2,930 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been offered a PhD position, but I'm forced to decline it due to family reasons. However, once the situation becomes more stable, I will re-apply again. What concerns me most is whether it's still possible for me to pursue a research career after a long (2-4 year) break?
I hope that perha... |
2016/10/05 | 579 | 2,619 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it possible to have a masters degree in business engineering or management engineering when you don't have a first degree? But i have more than 10 years professional experience<issue_comment>username_1: I'm not sure what your background is so this is very general. One way to go about it is t... |
2016/10/05 | 2,876 | 11,631 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a postdoc position in my dream lab with PI, who leads the field and has very cool projects for me. The thing is, I have two small kids (youngest is 3 weeks old) and I live one hour away from my prospective place of work. I have a great nanny and a wonderful daycare, but I am still worrie... |
2016/10/05 | 5,144 | 20,926 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a math major grad student at a big public school, and we need to do TA every semester.
I got assigned to lower level classes last couple semesters, and it's been quite difficult for me. Even though I am a pretty nice person in general, I have so much trouble tolerating my students' sloppi... |
2016/10/05 | 1,320 | 5,700 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a contract-limited faculty member in the United States. My subfield is small, but known for its warmth and intimacy.
A friend of mine in a different country recently sent me a job posting advertised by another institution in the United States. I have absolutely no idea where he found it. ... |
2016/10/06 | 757 | 3,437 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm wondering if it is ethical to withdraw an accepted conference paper because the registration fees exceeded my budget?
The fees were only announced after the paper submission deadline thus I didn't know the fees would be so high when I submitted my paper. Now when it got accepted to be pre... |
2016/10/06 | 2,078 | 8,842 | <issue_start>username_0: "Prependum" clarification:
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Strictly speaking, the supervisor has no actual authority in this decision (I think)-- it is between myself and the course convenor. However, I feel that `overruling' my supervisor by appealing to the convenor is unprofessional, and would i... |
2016/10/07 | 2,344 | 9,955 | <issue_start>username_0: I am five weeks into a two-year MS program in statistics at a public university in the US. To be honest, I do not think my graduate program was the right choice for me. I am struggling a lot with the work. I do not find my instructors helpful in class or in office hours; what is taught in class... |
2016/10/07 | 547 | 2,266 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm going to apply for an assistant professor position in a European university's campus in China. The problem is that I do not have any formal, class-based teaching experience while the job specification says that I need to teach four courses. The university also asks for a teaching statement.... |
2016/10/07 | 1,281 | 5,496 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing a referee report on a paper. This paper is interesting and, if correct, would be worth publishing. However, I believe they have a major mistake in their method which invalidates their results more or less entirely. I am 90%+ confident that this method is in error, which will affect ... |
2016/10/07 | 393 | 1,536 | <issue_start>username_0: For the application of remote sensing, a satellite imaging of an urban land cover is required. The image I require is readily available in Google Maps.
Who must I contact to receive permission to include a portion of the map as a figure in my paper?<issue_comment>username_1: Why, of course you... |
2016/10/07 | 2,799 | 11,388 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD Student in computer science.
During my my first 2 years I developed an algorithm that seems to work fine in a certain field of applications.
My adviser recently told me that he is starting a spin-off with a colleague of a different department and that he plans, in a couple of years... |
2016/10/07 | 270 | 1,066 | <issue_start>username_0: One of my papers has recently been accepted!
We received an e-mail informing us that
we have a short time frame in which we need to do a bunch of work
to get the paper ready for publication.
In particular, one of the components which we need to submit is
a brief author biography for each co-aut... |
2016/10/07 | 1,497 | 6,567 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently graduated with a BA in physics. Towards the tail end of my undergrad career I took the Putnam exam (scored 28 w/o having taken any upper div math), and subsequently took a couple core math courses (one quarter of real analysis, one quarter of proof-based linear algebra). These were t... |
2016/10/07 | 1,363 | 5,837 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a university level student of Computer Science. I like to know what really differentiates Bioinformatics from Computational Biology in terms of the core area of study and the nature of subjects and curriculum. In addition, which discipline is more Math/Stats oriented or in other words whic... |
2016/10/07 | 1,046 | 4,842 | <issue_start>username_0: In our research I had many meetings and discussions regarding our work (i.e., solutions, implementation, related work, etc) with three other researchers. When I wrote the papers, they were also responsible for reviewing the manuscripts and making decisions together about anything related to the... |
2016/10/08 | 976 | 4,090 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a paper that illustrates a technique that is superior to a technique presented in a separate paper that I am citing as part of my work. The technique in the prior paper is not wrong, but it has several major drawbacks that my results address.
My question is, what is a polite way t... |
2016/10/08 | 654 | 2,625 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in a bad situation with a professor. He shared my grades and my classmates grades with the class. He had our names and everything put up on a projector!!!! He even scrolled through it slowly so we could find our name and see what we are getting in the class... It was like everything...I wa... |
2016/10/08 | 1,457 | 5,674 | <issue_start>username_0: I have seen some of the PhD holders sign as "Dr. [First Name] [Surname], PhD".
Is it academically correct to write "Dr. <NAME>, PhD"?<issue_comment>username_1: I'm sure this must have been dealt with in previous questions, but the short answer is:
This is correct if you are both a medical doc... |
2016/10/08 | 1,073 | 4,546 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD candidate. My advisor told me to make and organize a lecture course, for which he is formally listed as the instructor, but he has little knowledge about what the lecture course will deal with. I have more knowledge than him.
Students attend class two times per week.
* One day, th... |
2016/10/08 | 2,847 | 11,464 | <issue_start>username_0: As a professor, are you permitted to prohibit Ph.D. students from joining your research group if you know they have a boy/girlfriend, are married, don't come in on weekends, who don't stay late, etc...?
The professor does not intend to make them work on stuff related to his/her research outsid... |
2016/10/09 | 954 | 4,004 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a second semester PhD student. I have no publications until now. In the lab I am currently, we use some sort of academic journal to keep track of our progress. Due to classes and TA workload I did not make research progress for two weeks. When I saw my advisor I had not properly structured... |