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2017/12/11 | 549 | 2,277 | <issue_start>username_0: As any modern student knows, nearly all published research these days is in English. That's just the way of the world. But it didn't used to be that way. Many of the most pivotal pieces of scientific literature in the world, like the writings of Riemann, Cantor, Einstein, Galois, Schrödinger, (... |
2017/12/11 | 786 | 3,227 | <issue_start>username_0: More than one math Ph.D. program I am applying to has a section where I am to list relevant coursework. An example is as follows:
"Enter under each category list the two most advanced courses or course sequences you have had or will definitely take before you come to (School)."
Under each cla... |
2017/12/11 | 460 | 1,911 | <issue_start>username_0: I was working on topic 1 which wasn't the most interesting topic, but my prof was great. Then prof 2 suggested that I work with him on topic 2 on the condition that I stop topic 1 as he wants full dedication. I didn't wanna disappoint and ruin my reln with prof 1 and leave my old project incomp... |
2017/12/11 | 1,909 | 8,024 | <issue_start>username_0: Yesterday, my mum was recently diagnosed with cancer. However, we have yet to know what stage is her cancer and whether the cancer can still be removed from her body or it has metastasized to other parts of organs. This is a major health concern and it will of course affect my health and mental... |
2017/12/12 | 3,393 | 14,638 | <issue_start>username_0: A student in an undergrad class seems to have forgotten to answer the last few questions on a written essay.
This student has achieved an average of A+ so far (over the term)
The last few questions are not worth much, but is the difference between receiving an A and an A+
This student has al... |
2017/12/12 | 460 | 2,096 | <issue_start>username_0: I read somewhere online, how one shouldn't show their interest in genetic algorithms to a potential grad school, as its not the 'in' thing in todays CS community, compared to Machine Learning algorithms. I am interested in genetic algorithms and reading such a notion left me a little bothered, ... |
2017/12/12 | 1,037 | 4,127 | <issue_start>username_0: Most published math papers are answers to open questions posed by the authors of the papers, right? So why is this problem that the paper responds to is never explicit in the text by the authors? Would not that be an important thing since it would save time for other mathematicians not to waste... |
2017/12/12 | 2,618 | 10,994 | <issue_start>username_0: I started my PhD three months ago in the UK. I am a biologist, but my project lies more in the synthetic chemistry field and all the experiments I have to do are completely new for me.
My problem is that at the moment, I am alone in my group because everyone else have finished their PhD/Maste... |
2017/12/12 | 2,506 | 10,546 | <issue_start>username_0: There is a professor in Department X. I will be applying to Department Y & Department Z for a MA that really fits my interests. Now, I am wondering whether the professor in Department X will also hold classes in Department Y & Z, or whether these classes are shared and accessible over multiple ... |
2017/12/12 | 717 | 3,162 | <issue_start>username_0: About 5 years ago, I did a Masters of Research (MRes) part of which was a supervised research project. Because of time constraints (Masters degrees are only one year in the UK) I was unable to gather enough data to generate any publishable material (though I did produce a thesis which I believe... |
2017/12/12 | 961 | 4,184 | <issue_start>username_0: My friend is on his way to graduate with PharmD (outside US). He wants to apply for PhD program in US, and have asked his professors that he has worked with in the lab for recommendation letters. However, his professors refused to write him a recommendation letter unless he stays in the lab for... |
2017/12/12 | 865 | 3,451 | <issue_start>username_0: I planning to drop out of a PhD program after one semester because of my encounter with a professor with little experience.
This professor is also very intervening, non-perceptable, unapproachable, and worst of all, willing to go to any extent to sabotage my career.
The advisor altered credit... |
2017/12/13 | 512 | 1,913 | <issue_start>username_0: What does it mean - status changed from "with editor" to "decision in process" directly in Elsevier within 10 days of submission?<issue_comment>username_1: >
> When a journal displays the “decision in process” status, it means
> that the editorial board is in the process of making the final
>... |
2017/12/13 | 895 | 3,899 | <issue_start>username_0: I used to work in academia. I was lucky enough to publish important papers in peer reviewed journals that now regularly get cited by other papers in peer reviewed journals. I have left academia to work in the private sector, so every time I get a notification that my work has been cited elsewhe... |
2017/12/13 | 1,283 | 4,868 | <issue_start>username_0: I have just reviewed for a journal that allows me to transfer my information to [Publons](https://publons.com/home/). It seems Publons is a relatively new thing with limited uptake. It also seems like the type of thing that would be better suited to be managed by a non-profit in a free (at leas... |
2017/12/13 | 523 | 1,934 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there any rule concerning the use of lower/upper case letters in figures, charts, diagrams etc. to be used in scientific papers?
I tend to use lower case only (e.g., axis labels and legends), but a reviewer recently suggested that I should start each word with a capital letter.
I would be ... |
2017/12/14 | 1,047 | 4,442 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a 2nd year PhD student in physics. Tenure-track positions are highly competitive and I do not love research enough to pursue it as a life career. Since I like programming and playing with data, I want to have a job as a data scientist after finishing my degree. I read some success stories ... |
2017/12/14 | 1,584 | 6,879 | <issue_start>username_0: Graduate admissions in an EECS field, either Ph.D or Masters. I know research experience is the most important but is having prior teaching experience also desirable?
I want to TA (it seems fun), but I'm debating on whether it will be worth it or not if it won't help me with either job prospec... |
2017/12/14 | 1,737 | 5,917 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently read an interesting article on number theory, published in a well-known mathematics journal. As a keen amateur mathematician, I have tried to develop some of the ideas presented in the paper. Surprisingly, I have come to a remarkable conclusion that might be worth publishing. Na... |
2017/12/14 | 356 | 1,464 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently an Australian studying at ANU. I have worked as a tutor for about a year and now I am about to apply for a Ph.D. program in the states. Since the US uses *TA (teaching assistant)* instead of *tutor* (at least my institution uses this term.) When listing my teaching experience, sh... |
2017/12/14 | 884 | 3,468 | <issue_start>username_0: I've noticed that in the ACM article document class you can now list authors' "ORCID" registration key.
I've not heard anyone mention that to me before. They Orcid website [says](https://orcid.org/about/what-is-orcid/mission):
>
> ORCID provides an identifier for individuals to use with thei... |
2017/12/14 | 649 | 2,581 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a second year mathematics undergraduate and will be undertaking a research placement (in topology/decision problems in group theory) at a maths faculty in England this coming summer.
My supervisor has asked that I apply for research grants. Currently I have the potential to be ... |
2017/12/14 | 2,183 | 8,956 | <issue_start>username_0: I sent a reminder email one day before the due date for a couple of my applications to grad school. It said something along the lines of
>
> This is just a reminder that first due dates are tomorrow: [list of a
> couple of schools]. Hope you aren't too busy to write still. If you
> haven't... |
2017/12/14 | 5,547 | 19,312 | <issue_start>username_0: Not so long ago an Austrian institution posted a job ad titled "Assistant Professor Position (Tenure Track) for a female Researcher". The description says further
>
> As part of a special measure towards increasing female employment in scientific positions and promoting young researchers, the... |
2017/12/15 | 399 | 1,871 | <issue_start>username_0: One of the programs I'm applying to doesn't even mention a personal statement, but I have one written for other programs that do require it. Should I submit it anyway under the document upload section, or just leave it out?<issue_comment>username_1: You can certainly ask the program if they'd b... |
2017/12/15 | 659 | 3,131 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm working in an empirical field and have recently had a paper about a data collection effort and subsequent analysis thereof which was provisionally accepted, conditional on revisions. The negative remark most difficult to address is that the dataset I acquired was considered relatively small... |
2017/12/15 | 751 | 3,204 | <issue_start>username_0: I am starting to think about a problem, inspired by a series of papers on similiar questions. Is it correct for me to e-mail the professors that wrote these papers, and ask them if they already thought about it? If they did, would it be fair to ask for the ideas they had, and what they tried (o... |
2017/12/15 | 628 | 2,402 | <issue_start>username_0: The W2 professorship ads of all universities of applied sciences in Germany have a passage requring (e.g., for Bavaria)
>
> darüber hinaus besondere Leistungen bei der Anwendung oder Entwicklung wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse und Methoden in einer mindestens fünfjährigen beruflichen Praxis, ... |
2017/12/15 | 7,557 | 32,791 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the field of computer science, and I have noticed a trend among a group of students when dealing with undergraduate programming projects. The situation is that there are some students that when faced with a programming project they seek for students who have that skill; so that in the l... |
2017/12/15 | 639 | 2,653 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Master's student. Recently, my professor offered me a project mentioning that funding has been granted for the project and that I will be getting paid for my work. I would like to know if I can ask him the exact amount and if yes, what will be the polite way to ask?<issue_comment>usernam... |
2017/12/15 | 4,041 | 17,142 | <issue_start>username_0: I had a student in one of my courses that for every graded assignment would come to me and challenge the grade given, even though I provided a rubric to show exactly why the points where taken off.
For one of the last assignments, which was a class presentation, this student went off into ano... |
2017/12/15 | 4,237 | 17,986 | <issue_start>username_0: I have had a very rocky PhD candidacy. My first supervisor left academia half way through my candidacy; the replacing supervisor passed away a year after that. So two and a half years through a three-years PhD candidacy, the head of the department gives me two choices: Either I have to change m... |
2017/12/16 | 454 | 1,782 | <issue_start>username_0: How can I start to write my final paper? I have been doing nothing during the whole week. I just stayed at home and slept. I'm afraid to do anything even cooking. I can't focus and can't concentrate on work. I'm just afraid to write a single sentence. I don't know how to start. I mean that I kn... |
2017/12/16 | 1,438 | 5,930 | <issue_start>username_0: In August, I had surgery and shortly thereafter started chemotherapy. Despite being sick, I was only enrolled in 8 credit hours and felt I would be able to handle it. (I did very well in my other classes.)
There was a period shortly after the start of the semester where I got sick from the med... |
2017/12/16 | 1,425 | 5,585 | <issue_start>username_0: In my lecture, I am thinking of using a famous [quote](https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/421900-a-good-speech-should-be-like-a-woman-s-skirt-long) by <NAME>:
>
> A good speech should be like a woman's skirt;
> long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.
>
>
>
I l... |
2017/12/16 | 3,166 | 13,357 | <issue_start>username_0: At my large American university, we have the opportunity to fill out course evaluations. They are not mandatory and are allegedly anonymous. I wrote a negative review for Dr. Smith's course. I stand behind what I wrote and it is all true, but it was scathing and lengthy (over 1500 words) since ... |
2017/12/16 | 623 | 2,737 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying to graduate school programs, and for a few applications due yesterday only 2/3 of the professors I asked to write rec letters for actually sent them in. Will I be removed from consideration from the programs where the third person didn't send them in? Note:they did send them in for... |
2017/12/17 | 768 | 3,297 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted a research paper to a peer-reviewed journal two months ago. It is my first submission. I have noticed two unfortunate elements in my introduction:
1. I wrote the same sentence twice in my introduction.
2. In one of the sentences, I have repeated the same word twice consecutive... |
2017/12/17 | 816 | 3,692 | <issue_start>username_0: Someone I know has recently submitted a course evaluation form in which he complained about how poorly the unit was organized and that the lecturer didn't seem to be well prepared for the class. Following the day this course evaluation form was submitted, the lecturer decided to revise the mark... |
2017/12/17 | 1,051 | 4,376 | <issue_start>username_0: In China, how much research funding do faculty members in physical science departments tend to receive?
What are the approximate grant sizes and grant success rates in natural sciences from the National Natural Science Foundation of China?
For example, would a 100,000-USD/year grant be consid... |
2017/12/17 | 6,690 | 27,289 | <issue_start>username_0: I teach engineering at a community college in the US. I currently have a student with very poor hygiene. He stinks pretty badly, has obviously greasy hair, doesn’t change his clothes frequently, and I usually seat him in the back of the room (during exams and labs, when I have power over seatin... |
2017/12/17 | 859 | 3,447 | <issue_start>username_0: Good afternoon,
Often times (in my experiences) tests questions are based upon irrelevant specific details that do not necessarily reflect a student's knowledge of the subject matter. For instance, I was once faced with a test on "The Once and Future King" that asked, "What was the name of the... |
2017/12/17 | 635 | 2,751 | <issue_start>username_0: My postdoctoral adviser would like to co-write grants; however, I am at a stage in my career where I believe it would be better for me to write grants on my own. I will soon be faculty (in 5th of postdoc and on job market) and to my knowledge it is important to demonstrate that I have an indepe... |
2017/12/17 | 1,332 | 5,351 | <issue_start>username_0: Would spending one more year as an undergraduate adversely affect my chances of getting into a graduate program?
I wasn't really thinking about economics PhD until recently so my GPA is not too impressive and I lack in math courses so I've decided to spend one more year to boost my GPA taking... |
2017/12/17 | 656 | 2,720 | <issue_start>username_0: Earlier this year I applied to 3 PhD programs in physics in Europe, and one (Germany) informed me they can't provide me a PhD position while the other two (Germany, Netherlands) didn't inform me their review status or decision. I afterwards sent them e-mails to inquire about the status but they... |
2017/12/17 | 1,189 | 4,574 | <issue_start>username_0: **Relevant background:**
Freshman at large public research university, pursuing Engineering/Applied Mathematics dual major.
Labeled 'gifted' after neuropsych evaluation in Elementary school. Processing speed about 2 standard deviations lower than other subscores, this may have contributed to... |
2017/12/18 | 611 | 2,727 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently, I am in the second year of a Ph.D. program. However, I am really worried about the amount of time Faculty takes to confer the degree, since It could be detrimental to my academic and professional future.<issue_comment>username_1: It's understood that it takes some time from the date ... |
2017/12/18 | 412 | 1,929 | <issue_start>username_0: Often textbooks don't have solutions to problems and if they do they are often password protected for instructor use only.
Has any research been done (in peer reviewed journals) that looks at whether providing solutions to students actually benefits the student in their actual understanding of... |
2017/12/18 | 505 | 1,915 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently learned that eminent physicist [<NAME>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson) does not have a doctoral degree. Does he have a graduate (magistrate) degree though? Or can he be described as a highly successful graduate-school dropout? The only formal degree listed in [his offic... |
2017/12/18 | 2,304 | 10,069 | <issue_start>username_0: I am intending to purposefully try to fail a course to stay an extra semester, so I can finalize some research projects which can't be finalized otherwise. My current GPA is 3.82. How badly would that be reflected on my master's admission?<issue_comment>username_1: Explore all other options fir... |
2017/12/18 | 2,379 | 10,381 | <issue_start>username_0: Some conferences provide both the *regular paper* track and the *tool paper* (sometimes called short paper) track. My question is: Is the latter category of papers generally regarded as of lower standards than the former one? What would be your first impression before you start reading a paper ... |
2017/12/18 | 2,586 | 11,121 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a CS student at 4th year in my university. I have done a lot of real-world projects, worked as a freelancer for many years, and have released a lot of software in use by thousands of people. I believe I have good experience about topics which I am interested in.
My question is about wheth... |
2017/12/18 | 795 | 3,441 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writing a document that needs pictures for visual representations of my topic. I’ve been browsing around on the Internet to find such picture. I found a very good picture that could be suitable for my topic. Unfortunately, I do not know how to cite this picture.
The reason why I... |
2017/12/18 | 973 | 4,239 | <issue_start>username_0: I have in the next few days an interview for a post doc with a top UK university. The interview is on Skype, directly with the PI, in applied computer science.
I am preparing for that interview and I have a question. In your experience, how common are technical topic-related questions, like th... |
2017/12/19 | 644 | 2,733 | <issue_start>username_0: I have applied to graduate school (EE) and am currently at one of the schools to which I applied to. Is it a bad move if I go to a professor's office and express my interest to work with her, and show her my relevant skills?
**Why I think this is a good idea:**
I am an engineering physics maj... |
2017/12/19 | 391 | 1,641 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postdoc and will soon(er or later) begin a faculty position. At the moment, due to a rough academic job season and an increasing sense of feeling limited in what I can do in my current postdoc, I am feeling very closed off from others in the field and a strong desire to make connections.... |
2017/12/19 | 920 | 3,790 | <issue_start>username_0: I have had a very bad experience with a journal. After nine months under review, the system showed that a decision had been made; I have checked and was “revise and resubmit”. Two days later, the editor contacted me to let me know that the paper has been rejected.
I don’t how to proceed with ... |
2017/12/19 | 281 | 1,041 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there a reason for it being 130 - 170, rather then 0 - 40? Is it to make it easier to use the value in some other calculation?<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, there are several reasons for the change. Some of them are:
1. Since the new scale does not superposes with the old one, you are able... |
2017/12/19 | 727 | 3,163 | <issue_start>username_0: I am scheduled to defend my thesis in February. I've been sending my advisor bits and pieces of my thesis, but he hasn't been replying to my emails. Is this normal, and can I still graduate even if he doesn't read my thesis?
All of the papers in the thesis have already been written, so he know... |
2017/12/19 | 765 | 3,301 | <issue_start>username_0: I was planning to apply for a Ph.D. program and I asked a Prof to write me a letter of recommendation. The prof already agreed. After that, I didn't feel confident about applying and informed the professor to not write LOR for me.
Deep inside, I still want to apply but I haven't made up my mi... |
2017/12/20 | 1,040 | 4,565 | <issue_start>username_0: So I just read my evaluations for this past semester, and they are absolutely horrible. The worst I've ever gotten. I put so much effort into teaching, but almost nobody thinks I did a good job. Do you think this will prevent me from teaching next semester? I have a 9-month renewable instructor... |
2017/12/20 | 485 | 1,574 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied for a Ph.D. position.
A new assistant professor who would join that university next year reached me and asked whether I wanted to work with him. I have been working for two years since my Master graduation. I think his direction suits my interest.
He began his Ph.D. right after un... |
2017/12/20 | 650 | 2,661 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper to an IEEE conference, and this paper was rejected despite of almost all of the reviewers’ comments being positive. In particular, all three of the reviewers recommend to *weak accept* the paper, and even the TPC chair recommend to *weak accept* it. However, the paper has be... |
2017/12/20 | 3,039 | 11,879 | <issue_start>username_0: As a researcher in computing science in Western Europe, I get depressed seeing the number of female students in our department. (Hint: near-zero.)
I recently heard that certain words in a PhD candidate ad seem to "scare" female applicants off, for example, "excellent", "commitment", etc. (I go... |
2017/12/20 | 716 | 2,922 | <issue_start>username_0: Last week we got an article accepted into PRL (Physical Review Letters). As is standard, they afterwards sent out an email saying
>
> To help defray editorial and production expenses, APS, a
> not-for-profit, society publisher, expects authors of manuscripts to
> pay appropriate publication... |
2017/12/21 | 2,085 | 8,671 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a naive question, coming from someone who has never had an academic job. I'm asking what is involved when a junior professor is promoted. My question is wide, since I don't understand academic life. Some answers are obvious, but I'd still like clarification:
1. **Funding**. Professors ... |
2017/12/21 | 1,564 | 6,523 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the process of writing my PhD thesis, and I would like to extend the state-of-the-art part into a review article. Although I am confident that I have investigated and understood the existing literature thoroughly, I think the overall quality and visibility of the review article would in... |
2017/12/21 | 276 | 1,150 | <issue_start>username_0: Is being employed by a university during a PhD tied to receiving a salary/stipend/scholarship? Or am I considered an employee until I am awarded the PhD degree?
Because for the state I am considered unemployed, however I have finished my thesis but I am waiting for the PhD defense, so I think ... |
2017/12/21 | 3,516 | 15,297 | <issue_start>username_0: I just failed a university-level course that the instructor assured me I was passing. We've discussed my grade in emails but we continue to disagree on how it should be calculated and even on what assignments should count. (The instructor did not adhere to the grading policy in her syllabus - t... |
2017/12/21 | 3,437 | 14,957 | <issue_start>username_0: I had a conversation with a professor who told me that getting into a PhD programme at some university (in the UK) is *very* difficult without also having an MSc from that same university. Is this true?
If it's relevant, we were specifically taking about Economics PHDs.<issue_comment>username_... |
2017/12/21 | 211 | 756 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in math, and we usually apply to most academic jobs (in the US) through a generic application at mathjobs.org. Is there an equivalent in physics?<issue_comment>username_1: I am not aware of any physics-wide collection of jobs. The closest thing I know of is the HEP (particle physics) rumor... |
2017/12/21 | 505 | 2,165 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in a weird spot. I have been a PhD student for 1.5 years and in May 2018 it will be 2 full years. I already have an MS in the same subject from another school. I was told recently that I will be asked to leave the program at the end of this semester due to lack of research funding. I asked... |
2017/12/22 | 569 | 1,952 | <issue_start>username_0: 
I would like to know the specific meaning of *<NAME> Professor* in the above screenshot. It is a title for MIT faculties or the award with the same name (<NAME>)? Or something else?<issue_comment>username_1: It's a named professorship, which means a cou... |
2017/12/22 | 1,089 | 4,742 | <issue_start>username_0: So I'm doing my senior thesis (undergrad) on the politics of emerging technologies and how that applies to artificial intelligence policy. I've been trying to look at past examples of technologies as they were emerging and how research communities, industry, civil groups, and governments react.... |
2017/12/22 | 1,073 | 3,718 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm trying to get an engineering post doc which I will conduct at a company's R&D labs, however I need to jump through all of the sponsoring university's hoops. I just received their application form and some of the questions are very personal. I thought such questions would be illegal in any E... |
2017/12/22 | 765 | 3,067 | <issue_start>username_0: I will be teaching a new course for the first time.
Fortunately,
I found a massive open online course (MOOC) on [edX](https://www.edx.org/)
which is similar to the course that I want to teach.
However, the difficulty of the MOOC is significantly higher than
the level of the students at my insti... |
2017/12/22 | 339 | 1,150 | <issue_start>username_0: [Browsing academia.SE](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/100956/9646), I discovered the existence of "endowed chairs" or "named chairs", i.e. professorships named in the honor of someone else and paid for by a donor with a gift to the university. I've never heard of anything like that before... |
2017/12/22 | 1,915 | 8,259 | <issue_start>username_0: The following is an extension of the question [Job applications reviewed "until the position is filled" (i.e. soft deadline): What does that really mean?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/18025/job-applications-reviewed-until-the-position-is-filled-i-e-soft-deadline-w).
In most US ... |
2017/12/23 | 1,477 | 5,899 | <issue_start>username_0: This is for a PhD application at the department of computing in a UK university. It says I need a research proposal with the following
>
> Your research statement should incorporate a brief description of the
> general research areas and topics that interest you, as this may be
> used to se... |
2017/12/23 | 2,257 | 9,479 | <issue_start>username_0: I am wondering if a professor is already an Associate Professor, do they still care about their reputation in the eyes of the department considering tenureship is already granted?<issue_comment>username_1: I occasionally check RateMyProfessor, and I do care (a little) about what students say: m... |
2017/12/23 | 530 | 2,261 | <issue_start>username_0: I am well aware of the decorum and tact expected of professors, teachers and TA's. But in the rare instances where an instructor swore to emphasize a point, the class and I **remembered** the outburst clearly and with vivid detail.
Without going into detail the gist of the situation was that a... |
2017/12/23 | 1,098 | 4,272 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Ph.D. student in a country where *everyone* is addressed by their first name (professors etc.). I call my advisors by their first names and when we have visitors in our research group I go by this rule. However, now I am visiting a German university and I don't really know how to address... |
2017/12/23 | 3,193 | 12,834 | <issue_start>username_0: In an upcoming publication, I need to link to the data I used for the publication so that others can see/use the data as well — both for reviewing the given work and also for intended use in the future. However, my institution has not offered any hosting solutions and I have not (yet) found any... |
2017/12/23 | 1,307 | 4,907 | <issue_start>username_0: I just received my (passing) grades for my last remaining courses for my BSc. I’ve completed all my requirements, but the next convocation ceremonies don’t take place until Summer 2018. Likewise, I don’t think I will receive my diploma (the physical, official certificate) until then. Usually wh... |
2017/12/24 | 689 | 2,907 | <issue_start>username_0: Clearly the position must come with some added responsibilities. What are they?
If the extra duties are purely administrative, why does one need a professor to be head of department? Can a non-full professor be the head of department?
If the answer varies by field, I'm most interested in the ... |
2017/12/24 | 1,512 | 5,907 | <issue_start>username_0: **Context**
I am a double major (in CS and physics) at a top-5 university in both. I was really hoping to do graduate studies in physics and have been keeping up a 3.8 GPA taking 18-19 units per quarter (max is 20). However, my first semester of junior year I began taking serious graduate cour... |
2017/12/24 | 1,744 | 7,311 | <issue_start>username_0: This happened a few months back. By that time I had just finished my masters and was looking for a research position.
I approached a professor who was working in a field in which I did my masters. After some initial conversation about my masters' work. He asked me if I will be ready to work fo... |
2017/12/24 | 664 | 2,875 | <issue_start>username_0: I received an email from a prospective supervisor telling me he'd like me to join his lab and that he'll forward my name to the grad office. Assuming my entire application is strong, does this mean an official acceptance is very likely? Or is there a chance I could still get rejected by the adm... |
2017/12/24 | 4,183 | 18,059 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to teach a course in algorithms to 2nd-year undergraduates. The grade in this course is composed of 90% exam and 10% homework. The problem is, this year we do not have enough personnel to grade the homework.
Theoretically, it may be possible to change the grade struture and make it... |
2017/12/24 | 2,038 | 8,343 | <issue_start>username_0: My brother is severely depressed and has absolutely minimal support, in any form, from my family. He's a very bright guy with no direction and no resources at home. After graduating from high school, he spent 3 years at a dysfunctional relative’s home playing video games, and finally enrolled i... |
2017/12/25 | 880 | 3,717 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently I have reached the final stage of my Ph.D study in Germany. Nevertheless, I want to find a new supervisor within the same university or in other German university for Ph.D defense, is this possible?
Long story short, due to the fact that my current supervisor could provide hardly an... |
2017/12/25 | 1,361 | 5,787 | <issue_start>username_0: I’ve led a small research project with another researcher. I’ve proposed a certain approach to a problem, but in fact, this approach doesn’t work, as even its simplest toy version doesn’t work. In retrospect, this toy problem should have been tested right after my part of algorithm was complete... |
2017/12/25 | 3,797 | 15,955 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a follow-up question to [How are junior professors evaluated for promotion?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/100923/how-are-junior-professors-evaluated-for-promotion) and probably an even more naive question. If I'm understanding the answer correct, professors need funding ... |
2017/12/25 | 878 | 3,777 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's assume that some of your applications go for W2 professorship positions at the German universities of applied sciences. One of such potential employers asks the candidates to supply
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2017/12/25 | 840 | 3,353 | <issue_start>username_0: Many times topics in courses are week-aligned, i.e., topic1 is studied on week1 (say in lecture1 on Monday/Wednesday and then in TA-section-1 on Friday), then topic 2 is studied on week2, etc.
Say the semester is 10 weeks long, and that there are 5 homework assignment (1st assignment covers to... |
2017/12/26 | 1,071 | 4,325 | <issue_start>username_0: I have started to build my personal phrase bank since I’m a non-native speaker and struggling to build my arguments and sentences correctly. So I decided to mimic the structure of native authors who write in academia in general. To make it clear, I will provide an example:
An established phra... |
2017/12/26 | 317 | 1,218 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m a low-vision person. I want to print research papers to read. But the font size is very small for me. Is there any way to make it bigger and print it?<issue_comment>username_1: If the paper is in PDF (the standard) you can print using the Poster option. You will need to print the page in a ... |
2017/12/26 | 1,726 | 7,762 | <issue_start>username_0: A lot of backstory but I will try to be brief. I am employee of USA university but work abroad at a research nonprofit serving industry. (industry meaning an industry in general; many companies) My assigned handlers at the research nonprofit have power to ban me from the research non-profit fac... |
2017/12/26 | 554 | 2,509 | <issue_start>username_0: We found that a paper, published in an important CS conference, presents incorrect results in its experimental evaluation section.
Merely reading the paper is not sufficient to spot these mistakes, as the source of incorrectness lies within the the experimental evaluation and none of the algor... |
2017/12/26 | 699 | 2,901 | <issue_start>username_0: As a junior academic I am beginning to get requests to review papers.
What standards do you people out there use to decide which review requests to accept and which to turn down?<issue_comment>username_1: It comes down to personal preferences to some extent how you'd like to weight the various... |