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2017/10/03 | 6,562 | 28,168 | <issue_start>username_0: My question has different emphases from [Why are recommendation letters highly relied upon?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/12874/why-are-recommendation-letters-highly-relied-upon).
As we know, the letter of recommendations are heavily relied upon in the process of university/gra... |
2017/10/04 | 3,148 | 13,474 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a humanities professor at a middling university in the United States. My department has a poorly funded Ph.D. program, which attracts second-tier students at best. (The good Ph.D. students go to programs that can afford to fund them fully, it seems.)
Each year, I typically have my Ph.D. s... |
2017/10/04 | 2,076 | 8,432 | <issue_start>username_0: I am asking this question because I simply do not know.
The story is that some department (northern continental Europe for what is worth) is (unofficially for the moment) negotiating an Assistant Professor position. The offered teaching/research load is 50-50 which sounds OK in theory.
In re... |
2017/10/04 | 1,164 | 4,904 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm searching for a PhD position in theoretical physics. My question is:
Should I do my PhD with a prominent professor who is 60 years old and does not care too much about their students or with a junior professor who is not famous and does not have published too much papers, but cares too muc... |
2017/10/04 | 1,346 | 5,750 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to write a literature survey on a topic, let's say it's risk of crime due to a new technology, let's say due to the Gutenberg press. However, when I search for the overall theme (crime and "Gutenberg press"), it returns few results. Yet, I know of some papers that fit into the topic that... |
2017/10/05 | 1,716 | 7,357 | <issue_start>username_0: I work in the field of algebra (more specifically the representation theory of groups). I published most of my papers in journals of algebra and another algebra journal of similar quality as journal of algebra and think about having some papers now in slightly better journals. (It would be good... |
2017/10/05 | 1,496 | 6,381 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a teaching assistant for multivariable calculus this semester. As an undergraduate, I took the course but we learned few. To add, it has been more than 5 years since I took the class. So, every week I have to solve about a dozen question from one chapter. Even though I have got the solutio... |
2017/10/05 | 1,588 | 7,247 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an assistant professor of chemistry. My department strongly values international collaborations. I contacted some research groups working on the same topics as mine, but half of them wanted my fund, and the other half thought I want theirs.
My imagination of research collaboration was tha... |
2017/10/05 | 972 | 4,124 | <issue_start>username_0: A colleague of mine has recently edited a book whose subject I find very interesting (I know several of the authors personally as well). Unfortunately, like most things published in academia, the copies available from the publisher are quite expensive (and I would have to pay with my own person... |
2017/10/05 | 491 | 2,077 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate (Bachelor's) student and I'm thinking about attending a conference which exactly matches the topic of a research project that I'm working on at the moment. I have never attended a real conference.
I wouldn't go to present anything, but just because I have a great personal ... |
2017/10/05 | 508 | 2,083 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a staff scientist in a medium-sized lab and I'm organizing a large event for high school students at my university, a large public research institution. I'd like to invite a professor or senior researcher to give a talk at the event.
Is it generally considered okay to invite your close co... |
2017/10/06 | 638 | 2,480 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an Indian student enrolled in an integrated master’s-of-science program and currently in my fifth (final) year of the program. So should I be called a *senior graduate student* or *senior undergraduate student?*
**[Edit]**: I read this <https://www.numfocus.org/programs/john-hunter-techno... |
2017/10/06 | 2,562 | 11,501 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently reviewing an interdisciplinary computer science paper which is heavily based on previous works in logistics and process engineering that have been unfortunately published only in German (18 out of total 30 references). The overall idea is sound, but as the logistics structures ar... |
2017/10/06 | 2,310 | 10,345 | <issue_start>username_0: On another SE site i have read that
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> Self-study often leads to rapid but shallow knowledge acquisition.
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I'm a software engineer and i spend a lot of time taking math and physics courses on different online platforms. And this sentence makes me worry. Is that true?<issue_comment>u... |
2017/10/06 | 953 | 3,970 | <issue_start>username_0: I am considering where to submit a recently finished preprint, and one of the best fits is a journal associated with the country where I'm working. That is, I'm a postdoc in one of main cities of X-land, and the jounal is called *'X-land Jounrnal of Mathematics'*. Is the connection an argument ... |
2017/10/06 | 482 | 1,873 | <issue_start>username_0: Luckily I got in academia after having a serious conflict with my previous advisor. The problem was that he gave my dissertation proposal to his previous student (another his previous student said that he loved her a lot). She even got $100,000 NSF grant with the proposal.
I said it was unfai... |
2017/10/06 | 1,647 | 6,405 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a post-doc in the physical sciences and I am finding that people have very different expectations of what a post-doc's priorities should be. Typically people are somewhere between two camps. I call these two extreme views "Laundry list" vs. "Research trumps all".
The "Laundry list" view i... |
2017/10/07 | 340 | 1,482 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a fourth year mathematics postdoc and I am looking at tenure-track jobs this year. I see some jobs that have a targeted research area but often have a caveat sentence along the lines of "Exceptional candidates from other areas may also be considered."
I am trying to decide if putting my f... |
2017/10/07 | 1,131 | 4,961 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm pursing an online engineering degree at ASU. In a introduction circuit class, I have a flimsy idea of what I'm doing and little time (each class is only 7 weeks long) to try to figure it out, so for some assignments I take my best guess and my mentality is if I miss some points, so be it, a... |
2017/10/08 | 1,063 | 4,549 | <issue_start>username_0: I know it is TA's responsibility to help students understand the course material. But there are always some students don't like to think independently, or maybe just not smart enough. Is it ok for TA to tell students that "I can't help you. You should figure it out by youself." for some lame qu... |
2017/10/08 | 1,262 | 5,225 | <issue_start>username_0: I maintain an email group for my class where the reading list and other course materials are made available to the students. Despite sharing all relevant information with them, I still have students asking me exact page numbers and sections from the book, and whether 'Topic X or Y will be on th... |
2017/10/09 | 1,224 | 5,267 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say that I've been part of a research lab at a U.S. university for awhile but do not plan to continue on for my PhD. What does one typically do with all of their research work, e.g. experimental write-ups, code files and email correspondence with researchers external to the lab? Does one ... |
2017/10/09 | 1,384 | 5,554 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there any research/study/survey that tried to compare the earnings generated by open-access papers (researchers/institutions pay when publishing) vs. paywalled papers (researchers/institutions pay when reading)? I.e., for a given paper, do publishers make more money through the open-access m... |
2017/10/09 | 342 | 1,403 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a bachelor-level (software engineering) student. I made [a GitHub repository](https://github.com/guillaume-chevalier/LSTM-Human-Activity-Recognition) more than a year ago, where I use machine learning and deep learning to identify movements in accelerometer signals.
As of now, the GitHub ... |
2017/10/09 | 645 | 2,732 | <issue_start>username_0: I receive sometimes one line instructions from my PhD supervisor on work I need to do and send. Not always clear though.
He sometimes forgets what he had discussed in our last discussion, or does not explain the rationale. Under such circumstances, how do I communicate with him? Redoing done ... |
2017/10/09 | 1,194 | 4,939 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been given my first manuscript to review for a journal. The topic is a very good one, it fills a research gap nicely and is an area that I specialise in. However, the execution of the paper is lacking. I am about halfway through making comments on it. The English is consistently poor in ... |
2017/10/09 | 1,595 | 6,641 | <issue_start>username_0: Forgive the question for being silly, but I do not live in the US and work in a different field.
I am developing an application I believe would be a wonderful (free) asset to the study and comprehension of a particular subject (history, which I suppose brings with it philosophy, sociology, and... |
2017/10/09 | 868 | 3,734 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently become a Master's student that is in a research group on theoretical elementary particle physics. The program lasts for 2 years and I am expected to have a Master's thesis written up by the end of it. However, I have been told that the research has to be done completely on my ow... |
2017/10/09 | 3,631 | 14,585 | <issue_start>username_0: I committed plagiarism at the end of my PhD. My psychiatrist found that the plagiarism is related to a psychiatric disorder (mental health problem). I have published many papers in top journals and this behavior was clearly out of character.
I was asked to voluntarily withdraw from my PhD prog... |
2017/10/09 | 612 | 2,374 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a friend at another university that I met at a conference a couple years ago. Since then, we usually make an effort to attend each other's sessions, grab coffee, etc. Last year he organized a session at our flagship conference, and I think he's organized a similar session several times b... |
2017/10/09 | 851 | 3,714 | <issue_start>username_0: I was recently forced out of a PhD program at XX early in the dissertation stage. Without going into details, XX acted in bad faith and also broke the law. So even though a good academic case can be made for re-admitting me, XX won't touch me.
The problem is that in order to avoid a lawsuit, ... |
2017/10/10 | 515 | 2,193 | <issue_start>username_0: How should a bibliography cite works titled in several scripts?
Up to now I've been putting all titles into a single list, in the original scripts and in the alphabetical order informed by their otherwise unused transliterations. For example, *Матюшкин* (Matyushkin) could come right after *Mas... |
2017/10/10 | 604 | 2,614 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm not professional scientist. I work a normal job and don't make my living out of science. In fact I have never gained any money by doing science. However, I have my scientific ideas, I browse journals, collect publications and am trying to built a research program on my own. I have been doin... |
2017/10/10 | 502 | 2,077 | <issue_start>username_0: I remember reading an article (in popular magazine I think) that attributed to de Tocqueville a quote along the lines of:
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> To engage in science, one has to own a farm.
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meaning that a person has to be financially secure in order to undertake (independent) successful scientific end... |
2017/10/10 | 1,624 | 6,470 | <issue_start>username_0: Apparently, this [varies](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1212/22511) even in the same country (I'm in [country A](https://academia.stackexchange.com/revisions/75677/7)).
**Case 1. University releases recommendation letter questions right away.**
* recommendation letters are submitt... |
2017/10/10 | 575 | 2,453 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated with an excellent master's degree from one of the western European countries. I thought it would be good for my career development to do a PhD in another university but unfortunately I now find myself in a lot of trouble. The lab I am working at has several issues and there are many... |
2017/10/10 | 1,709 | 7,070 | <issue_start>username_0: I was always a distracted kid growing up. I found it difficult to pay attention to anything for more than fifteen minutes. Growing up in Asia, teachers at the school and college levels always put it down to me being a “bad student” and made sure I knew that I would never amount to much.
After... |
2017/10/11 | 1,722 | 7,123 | <issue_start>username_0: Publication bias. Reproducibility problem. Abusing statistical tests.
These are some of the many criticisms received by all fields of science for a long time. If I read an article on Psychological Science and am sceptical of their results, or if I want to apply another statistical techniques t... |
2017/10/11 | 5,171 | 21,309 | <issue_start>username_0: In the next semester, I will be teaching for the first time
a seminar course which is composed of about 25 students.
I am not sure how to respond to prospective students
who have asked me about the grade distribution of the course.
For courses with large enrollments,
I have the impression from... |
2017/10/11 | 1,482 | 6,115 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student on an integrated masters degree, currently getting started on the journey of looking for potential PHD projects/supervisors. I have just written up my academic CV (by the way - this wasn't the point of this question, but one page or two? Do people care?), and I had... |
2017/10/11 | 1,254 | 5,082 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted the PhD thesis for examination more than 2 months ago. I am currently working with full time job as a researcher in industry. While I am still subject to my supervisor as I have yet to undergo viva voce, I am tired with how my supervisor is treating me now. She likes to boss me... |
2017/10/11 | 405 | 1,796 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Ph.D. student in computer science and still in my first year. My professor just assigned a review task of a A-ranked conference to me in order to review research papers submitted by original authors (almost 8 papers).
So far, he wants me to take over the coordination with my fellow Ph.... |
2017/10/11 | 387 | 1,625 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a computer science paper that has a keywords section that comes directly after the abstract. Currently I have just one keyword in there, how important is that section? Do I have to come up with as many related keywords as I think of, or nobody actually uses this section and I can i... |
2017/10/11 | 581 | 2,415 | <issue_start>username_0: ***Background Information***
I would soon be graduating with an engineering degree from a "no name" university somewhere in Nigeria. My performance during my degree was above average. I am hoping to apply for a PhD program in US.
The professors with whom I interact with regularly (with PhD's f... |
2017/10/11 | 1,091 | 4,187 | <issue_start>username_0: I have heard if you send papers to a journal/conferences there are some conditions that might be dangerous for you academic progress! I researched about it but I wasn't able to find a good definition to be aware. My main question is how they add an author to black list and how is the procedure?... |
2017/10/11 | 1,234 | 4,999 | <issue_start>username_0: I have done my own research independently from any academic institution. The theses are mainly biochemical, and aquaculture. I would like to have the work peer reviewed.
I tried to use researchgate.net but they have created a barrier to entry for autodidacts, and non-institutional researchers.... |
2017/10/11 | 772 | 3,452 | <issue_start>username_0: My graduate student utilized some particles produced by a collaborator's lab in some animal imaging experiments, which were designed and analyzed by my student and me. The protocol for synthesizing the particles has already been published by my collaborator, and a technician in the collaborator... |
2017/10/12 | 629 | 2,656 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a former classmate of mine who wasn't successful in his/her application to top-tier PhD/MD programs this past application cycle.
Over the phone and through email, I've been sympathetic when I learned about his/her disappointment and offered words of encouragement, reminding him/her of ... |
2017/10/12 | 1,360 | 5,984 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a young postdoc at a large crowded university in the USA. Also, I am not from the USA, so my school experience has been very different from the high school experience of my students.
Since I am teaching mathematics classes, I wonder whether there is a good and comprehensible summary the ... |
2017/10/12 | 741 | 3,123 | <issue_start>username_0: Many of my peers in my program, Computer Engineering, are of the opinion that what you do in school is a "head-fake", that you take all this intense math and science essentially to prove that you can accomplish difficult tasks quickly. A "real job" doesn't actually use any of that junk except f... |
2017/10/12 | 1,981 | 7,825 | <issue_start>username_0: If I'm already at a decent school but don't feel like graduating, and a professor at a university agrees to take me as a pure math PhD student, can I join the PhD program or *must* I get a Bachelor's. The universities I am interested in are medium-upper level math universities (Northwestern, Be... |
2017/10/12 | 1,201 | 4,411 | <issue_start>username_0: We know that women in much of the developed countries are less represented in STEM studies. However, such a statement hides the fact that women are approx. half of the students in biology, chemistry and maths (check e.g. [here](https://www.aps.org/programs/education/statistics/womenmajors.cfm) ... |
2017/10/12 | 287 | 1,264 | <issue_start>username_0: I want two of my letters to come from individuals I did research with (at different times) but neither has taught me or has a full professor title - one is adjunct and the other is a scientist at a university-affiliated lab. I think my academic advisor (the schoolwide kind not the department-sp... |
2017/10/13 | 510 | 1,980 | <issue_start>username_0: Most conferences have registration fees that can be paid online. However, some conferences (such as [IBIMA](http://ibima.org)) don't offer Web-based payment processing and instead require that fees be paid by (a) wire transfer or (b) by sending all credit card details (including card number, ex... |
2017/10/13 | 1,852 | 6,652 | <issue_start>username_0: If I use the word "Doctor" amongst laypeople, they will think I actually work as a doctor, treating people or advancing medicinal research on a daily basis.
If I use the word "Mathematician", they will think I work at a university where I spend some of my time lecturing students and some of my... |
2017/10/13 | 579 | 2,452 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a student who, due to circumstances beyond my control, is having to take a gap year.
I want this gap year to be productive, however! And would love to engage in citizen science projects/activities. However, given where I live, the citizen science projects and open-lab type spaces are non-ex... |
2017/10/13 | 1,211 | 5,286 | <issue_start>username_0: Summary: was targetted as a 'troublemaker' for missing time in PhD due to illness, PhD went badly, I dropped out halfway through. Should I seek formal acknowledgement of discrimination, to clear my name and limit damage to my career?
I did 2 years of a 4 year course at a university in the UK. ... |
2017/10/13 | 465 | 1,914 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying to an executive MBA program. Of course, letters of recommendation are needed. My supervisor has, on multiple occasions attempted to discourage me from applying to any graduate program. He has said than an MBA is a "waste of time". He has said that a PhD would "not help" me. The on... |
2017/10/13 | 445 | 2,038 | <issue_start>username_0: I had a few medical cases that I presented in conferences as an eposter, I sumbitted the case as eposter, It was presented as a slideshow in big screens in the conference
My understanding is that eposters are not considered publications; so can I submit these cases to journals?
Some journals ... |
2017/10/14 | 828 | 3,562 | <issue_start>username_0: I just stumbled across an article directly related to what we just discussed in class. Is it appropriate to email it to my professor? For some reason it feels improper and I don't want to look like a teacher's pet.<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, it's appropriate. No halfway reasonable instructo... |
2017/10/14 | 2,822 | 11,080 | <issue_start>username_0: I always thought that the phrase "note that" in a mathematical writing is simply something you say to express that what comes after "note that" is a fact. Due to its neutrality and versatility, I use it a lot, without even thinking the possible sentiments that might possibly make some people ge... |
2017/10/14 | 924 | 3,840 | <issue_start>username_0: I work at a midwestern university in a very small department in a specialised field in the Humanities. I've been working here as a non-tenure track assistant professor, and have been offered a TT position.
I genuinely dislike the place I live in, not for aesthetic or social reasons, but becaus... |
2017/10/14 | 1,383 | 6,159 | <issue_start>username_0: The guidelines for a certain funding source ask me to address *gender aspects*. This call is open to all scientist, but I work with pen, paper and computers and I see no gender aspects in my work (only that usually in the institute there are clearly more men than women, but this is not somethin... |
2017/10/14 | 4,236 | 17,354 | <issue_start>username_0: Rephrased question: Can a PhD supervisor take unpublished ideas from a student's dissertation and work on them hence denying the student the opportunity to work on her ideas herself?
I completed a PhD and took on a short postdoc immediately afterwards with the same supervisor. The idea was to ... |
2017/10/15 | 896 | 3,784 | <issue_start>username_0: I had a course in which the instructor let the markers make the midterm marking scheme and had students ask the TAs to resolve any marking issues instead of talking to him, though the instructor provided sample answers. As far as I know, many TAs are inexperienced and I think leaving the job of... |
2017/10/15 | 607 | 2,584 | <issue_start>username_0: How to find out if someone holds a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Technical University of Budapest?
I know that the university changed its name to Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
He claims he got a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from that university in 1972. Wh... |
2017/10/15 | 2,103 | 9,231 | <issue_start>username_0: In light of the deep, systemic changes that are being proposed for traditional engineering curricula (especially proposed reductions in lecture hours devoted to hard technical material), what in your opinion is the best argument in favor of the notion that the existence of the Google search box... |
2017/10/15 | 3,784 | 15,150 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Muslim student in a non-Arab country. Would it be unwanted/inappropriate for me to dedicate my thesis on Tauber theory to <NAME>, and more generally to all those Jewish mathematicians who died in Nazi concentration camps during WW2? I thought it would form a nice opportunity for some rem... |
2017/10/15 | 3,836 | 15,471 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a lecturer position in Australia in computer science. The application process asks for "a statement addressing the selection criteria outlined in the position description". An enumerated list of *n* (say, *n*=8) selection criteria is available in the job announcement. The crit... |
2017/10/15 | 1,307 | 5,523 | <issue_start>username_0: I've currently decided to get a second bachelor's in Statistics over 1.5 years after finishing my first bachelor's in math. Both of these degrees are debt free and follow a passion of mine. The next goal is to work in industry for about three years at my parent's home while taking one class a s... |
2017/10/16 | 1,571 | 6,537 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a lab assistant at my university and one day some of my coworkers who are underclassmen asked me about my experience with a professor I had taken a couple classes with. I told them that every class that professor teaches is hard and that one specific class, is a "flipped" course in which st... |
2017/10/16 | 955 | 4,026 | <issue_start>username_0: So I plan on applying for a PhD program pretty soon. I’ve done quite a lot of research into the people who do interesting things in my area and I’ve come up with a list of universities that I want to try to get into and people in those universities with whom I’d like to work. My problem is that... |
2017/10/16 | 3,545 | 14,986 | <issue_start>username_0: This is perhaps less a question and more of a cautionary tale, but I've seen a few people asking how best to talk to their supervisor about mental health and I wanted to share my experience with this and perhaps get some advice for if I find myself in a similar situation further down the line.
... |
2017/10/16 | 2,434 | 10,485 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for PhD programmes very soon and I have recently been trying to get in touch with my potential referees. At my previous institution there is a professor who knows me the most out of all academics I know; we had plenty of conversations regarding the field I want to pursue my PhD in... |
2017/10/17 | 262 | 1,298 | <issue_start>username_0: For the purpose of applying for a lecturer position in Australia in computer science, what is actually a "contribution to technical achievement"? This phrase occurs among the selection criteria but seems to me way too broad from a purely linguistic viewpoint. According to the text describing th... |
2017/10/17 | 1,741 | 7,068 | <issue_start>username_0: >
> "Program MARK: A gentle introduction" by <NAME> and <NAME>
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is a guide to using a particular piece of statistical software. It is available in print form as well as in a [free, online version](http://www.phidot.org/software/mark/docs/book/).
The foreword to the book contains the ... |
2017/10/17 | 435 | 1,731 | <issue_start>username_0: The situation: You did your B.Sc. and M.Sc. in CS with focus on subfield X1 and are now pursuing a PhD in subfield X2. There is a Masters program in subfield X2 available where you do your PhD that offers courses that allow you to advance in this subfield (which is pretty new to you).
**Does i... |
2017/10/17 | 2,797 | 11,446 | <issue_start>username_0: I build simulations and make them open-source. Depending on the context I either license them with Apache or GPL. I publish the simulation results in paper and link to the code.
However sometimes some parts of the code are useful for others regardless of the overall original simulation.
Is the... |
2017/10/17 | 1,203 | 5,148 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a grad student. I recently produced a paper myself. The topic of the paper does not have much to do with my advisor's research area, but my advisor was put on the paper as an author.
What are your analyses of this incident (especially how would it affect my contributions to the work if i... |
2017/10/17 | 560 | 2,445 | <issue_start>username_0: Hypothetically, suppose one applies to and is admitted to both **a funded PhD program in Field A and a master's program in Field B** at the same university, in different departments. Suppose there was a structure in place at the university for both programs to be undertaken concurrently (an imp... |
2017/10/17 | 621 | 2,648 | <issue_start>username_0: I hold a degree from a European country, and at that time we didn't have a system similar to the common "Bachelor + Master". My degree has been considered as equivalent to a Master by the University of another European country, and in this other University I obtained a Doctorate.
Now, I have b... |
2017/10/18 | 396 | 1,753 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a beginner instructor teaching undergraduates, and I seem to have their attention and am working hard to inspire them. Recently several of them have told me that they now approach the subject with a newfound enthusiasm because of me.
Anonymous teacher evaluations will probably be an impor... |
2017/10/18 | 1,415 | 5,915 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a PhD thesis in robotics and I was wondering if it sounds good to start a phrase with: 'According to Wikipedia ...'
Do you think I can do that or not?<issue_comment>username_1: "According to some unknown guy on the Internet, I can say that according to Wikipedia..."
No, you shoul... |
2017/10/18 | 1,138 | 4,597 | <issue_start>username_0: I have seen something *similar* has been asked but I seriously don't know what to do.
I applied to 3 PhD programs all from quite good Universities. For all of them I contacted a potential supervisor, and they agreed to supervise me after a skype interview. Recently I finally got an answer from ... |
2017/10/18 | 711 | 3,165 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently interning for a small R&D company. The boss is notoriously tight fisted and prone to cutting corners to save any amount of money he can. In the past, he has attempted to use my student status to get free or discounted software for company use to avoid paying licensing fees. (To cl... |
2017/10/19 | 1,487 | 6,048 | <issue_start>username_0: When entering my MS I had an advisor assigned to me because I didn't finish undergrad in the university I'm now in. I want to research graph theory but my advisor researches in computational geometry, and every problem I proposed to him he dismissed as being too difficult (without really explai... |
2017/10/19 | 1,348 | 5,219 | <issue_start>username_0: [<NAME>'s *Why The Professor Can't Teach*](http://www.marco-learningsystems.com/pages/kline/prof/profchap2.html) mentions many problems in current mathematical education in university. The author said the [Doctor of Arts (D.A.)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Arts) in Mathematics was c... |
2017/10/19 | 2,928 | 12,274 | <issue_start>username_0: This question geared towards STEM but can definitely be expanded for courses in the arts as well.
Imagine the following scenarios:
* A student has taken a course, but passed the course with barely a 60
over the 50 percent required to pass the course.
* A student has taken and passed a course... |
2017/10/19 | 909 | 4,241 | <issue_start>username_0: I have to give a presentation about progress in my PhD after the first six months. I am not sure what is expected from a PhD student at this stage. I have done mostly literature review and a few initial experiments with the existing technology.
I am planning to divide the presentation into di... |
2017/10/19 | 344 | 1,485 | <issue_start>username_0: When a candidate is applying for a faculty position and the university asks for their reference letters, does this say anything about the chance of getting an interview? Obviously it's not a bad thing. But have they made the short list? Does this mean the application wasn't desk rejected (but n... |
2017/10/19 | 4,526 | 18,071 | <issue_start>username_0: Today we (professors + teaching assistants) proctored a midterm exam for a class of about 80 students. There was undoubtedly a "hardest" question on the exam, since nearly the entire classroom of students asked us how to proceed with that question. To be fair, we didn't give any hints, but it w... |
2017/10/19 | 1,410 | 6,231 | <issue_start>username_0: Last year I completed an exam at University and a friend is doing the same exam/class this year.
Would it be cheating if I gave her my revision notes of the semester (written before I did the exam)? They don't have any exam-related answers, just summarized lecture notes.
I read that it is che... |
2017/10/19 | 866 | 4,148 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm working on a paper that there is no previous paper for it to distinguish. its an old tool like ant colony optimization that is used on a new approach. I have sent the paper to a journal and they have said it doesn't have a good benchmark.<issue_comment>username_1: A benchmark is a standard ... |
2017/10/20 | 230 | 1,049 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing the introduction for a research proposal and am **trying to express that our approach is "experimental" in the sense that it uses more exploratory and alternative methods rather than that it uses a controlled experiment.**
Is the phrase "experimental approach" appropriate in this c... |
2017/10/20 | 911 | 3,975 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been following 7 journals at the same time for may be about 10 years now. 4 of them are relatively unpopular and publish may be about 50 papers per year, so they are easy to follow, 1 has 100+ papers so it sometimes requires an effort to read about everything they publish but the other 2... |
2017/10/20 | 7,948 | 34,425 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postdoc helping in the supervision of a PhD student who is finishing his 2nd year now. This is in Europe, meaning the student came in with a MSc degree and these 2 years have been of research. "Helping in the supervision" actually means here that my professor is nominally appointed as su... |
2017/10/20 | 981 | 4,025 | <issue_start>username_0: Peer-review is an important part of decision-making in academia. Journal reviewers do not get paid.
BUT funding agencies pay for the same peer-review (of research proposals). OR universities pay the external referees for reviewing PhD dissertations.
My question is: if peer-review is voluntary... |
2017/10/20 | 5,278 | 22,401 | <issue_start>username_0: Context: I am an assistant professor of mathematics at a small liberal arts college in the US.
I generally find student questions during tests and quizzes to be somewhat annoying. I disliked them when I was a student, and they're even worse as an instructor.
To elaborate on my dislike:
As a ... |
2017/10/20 | 1,520 | 6,365 | <issue_start>username_0: How do I as a solitary student with no guide and no research lab and limited access to research material and books perform research that is of good quality? The field I am interested in is AI, NLP, Generative Art and Artificial Life.
I know the single, simple answer is "Just Do It!", but my un... |
2017/10/21 | 1,362 | 5,887 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently doing research and I know a fellow graduate student who is very intellectually curious. Let's call him/her C. However, I feel that C has a very consistent habit for not crediting people who have discussed problems with him. We work in the same lab/department, so we cannot avoid e... |