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2018/08/16 | 2,296 | 9,867 | <issue_start>username_0: (Sorry for the long question in advance! If it's too long, you could skip the first two paragraphs.)
I'm currently enrolled in a PhD program in a relatively prestigious school, which is very well-known in my field and in the specific area I'm interested in. Despite the department being a very ... |
2018/08/16 | 1,598 | 6,619 | <issue_start>username_0: My apologies if this is not the right place to be asking this question.
My pregnant wife is an osteopathic medical student in New Mexico, and she tells me that the school does not always give them a lunch break or bathroom breaks during the day. Today she tells me that they are expected to sta... |
2018/08/16 | 1,000 | 4,395 | <issue_start>username_0: My understanding is that editing a special issue helps encouraging research in a particular area, and gives the special issue editor a higher reputation in the field.
But what makes this better than organizing a workshop in a conference, for example? is it just more reputable (i.e. similar to... |
2018/08/16 | 5,837 | 23,748 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently working as a Senior Engineer (Mechanical) for a large company. However, I am increasingly finding the work to be dull and lacking in challenge. I don't think I can bear to spend the next 20-30 years like this - I feel that I am not making use of my true abilities and I yearn to be... |
2018/08/16 | 1,013 | 4,076 | <issue_start>username_0: *This is a follow-up to [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/115353/7734), which I ask due to debates arising in the comments. While I ask it in the first person to keep things simple, it is not based on a real experience of mine.*
One of the students in my course shares a last... |
2018/08/16 | 1,100 | 4,836 | <issue_start>username_0: An employer owes me wages and I have not been able to get them to comply without escalating matters. As a result, I have been preparing to take them to court, but I have an exam for my masters that I have not been able to focus on at all due to the substantial stress and uncertainty caused by d... |
2018/08/16 | 1,146 | 4,973 | <issue_start>username_0: I am curious why would some professor from another university come to my university (in Turkey) merely for my defense.
What benefit does this professor have in it?
Do universities pay professors for being an "external member" of any student's thesis defense?<issue_comment>username_1: Some ext... |
2018/08/17 | 1,097 | 3,959 | <issue_start>username_0: Can someone finish a PhD, say, in 2 years in the USA or in 1.5 years in the UK?
Can someone take, say, 16 years in the USA or 12 years in the UK to finish a PhD?<issue_comment>username_1: There are no definitive rules. However, some general guidelines apply:
* Usually students must be in resi... |
2018/08/17 | 658 | 2,706 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to finish my first year of MS leading to Ph.D. Our team works on cable Robotics. At first, when I joined prof asked me to do a computer vision problem of tracking. I spent 5 months to do that job with my coursework as well, and then he asked me to do a human-robot interaction job. I ... |
2018/08/17 | 1,199 | 5,393 | <issue_start>username_0: Do professors truly get to work on whatever they want, in research?
I just read a job description for a post-doc position; the job sounds extremely specialized, with no room to do anything else outside of that job requirement.
And generally professors are funded by external agencies to do pr... |
2018/08/17 | 693 | 2,979 | <issue_start>username_0: I received a lot of help from an active Stack Overflow user in my undergrad summer research project, which was based on statistical physics. Now, I'm writing a paper on it under my professor's supervision. The professor knows about the help I received and asked me to mention it in the "acknowle... |
2018/08/17 | 1,194 | 4,533 | <issue_start>username_0: I am now developing a database having information about universities. The database has a feature to prevent a duplicate name for the university title. I actually wonder of whether it is possible for 2 universities/colleges to have the same name in one country or different countries.
**EDIT:** ... |
2018/08/17 | 333 | 1,505 | <issue_start>username_0: There's a problem 'A' and there are already algorithms to solve it but I came up with a totally new algorithm. My doubts are:
1. Should I find time complexity?
2. Where can I publish my algorithm without time complexity?
3. Should I publish an algorithm in a math or computer science engineerin... |
2018/08/17 | 849 | 3,792 | <issue_start>username_0: Consider a situation in which a professor starts a position at one institution on the 1st of a month, and finishes their position at their previous institution of the 30th of that month.
What are the potential legal, conflict of interest, and professional issues? Would these be mitigated if th... |
2018/08/17 | 1,700 | 7,109 | <issue_start>username_0: It's well-known that unethical acts can render research virtually unpublishable, but the cases we hear about tend to involve situations in which the *methodology* is tainted - for example, fabrication of data or unethical experimentation on humans.
Do unethical or unlawful acts that are *tange... |
2018/08/17 | 851 | 3,706 | <issue_start>username_0: I just moved to a new state (California) for a temporary job and am planning to apply to graduate school (physics PhD programs) at state schools here. If I want, I can establish residency here; this would be somewhat expensive and a take a bit of time, so I have not been particularly motivated ... |
2018/08/17 | 1,017 | 4,420 | <issue_start>username_0: In many of my classes (mainly with undergraduate students), I begin every class session with a reading quiz, that is, a short, simple multiple-choice quiz on their assigned reading, to make sure that the students have read before class so that I can spend class time on more challenging and inte... |
2018/08/18 | 730 | 3,048 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a Graduate Teaching Assistant in a Mathematics at a large state university. In the fall semester, I will be expected to be a TA for Calculus I, which will be taken by first year students. The course coordinator has set aside 5% as the 'recitation grade.' The coordinator has allowed the teac... |
2018/08/18 | 574 | 2,328 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for graduate physics and I was wondering to work with a well-known professor in Caltech. He is a pioneer in the field that I am interested in. I have a kinda outstanding background, however, I am not sure if the professor is looking for *exotic* genius students who have completed ... |
2018/08/18 | 792 | 3,278 | <issue_start>username_0: My wife is looking for a faculty position. It seems its not so easy to get a position in biology though she is doing postdoc at top 5 genetics programs in USA. I am wondering if I can offer a school funding equivalent to her pay for 5 years plus some more for research? I am wondering if good sc... |
2018/08/19 | 788 | 3,327 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently trying to decide what to major in undergrad and I'm between math and CS. I've taken multivar/linear alg/intro to abstract math so far and would really like to continue with math as my major rather than CS. The problem, though, is that I want to go into software engineering (couldn... |
2018/08/19 | 1,260 | 5,562 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted a mathematical investment article to a new journal (maybe two years old), based on the suggestion of the editor-in-chief, whom I had sent it to earlier, and who claimed he liked our article very much. A version of the article had been sent to a number of individuals, one or two... |
2018/08/19 | 811 | 3,441 | <issue_start>username_0: I am starting a Master's conversion course (in Computing and IT Management) but I am still very unsure about all of the details about doing a PhD such as where and what I want to do it in. Some programs require that you have you Master's certificate to hand when applying too, and I haven't even... |
2018/08/19 | 399 | 1,633 | <issue_start>username_0: I sent a research paper to one of the reputed journals through email to the editor.
I used the salutation *Dear editor* and didn't specify anything about my academic position either in email or in my research paper.
In response to my email, the editor replied to me as *Dear professor*. I am t... |
2018/08/19 | 223 | 932 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a master's degree and I would like to study for a doctorate in Austrian universities and among the questions that are in the application is "Where do you want to carry out your project ? (library, archive, institute)".
How can I answer this question?<issue_comment>username_1: I guess I... |
2018/08/19 | 1,371 | 6,078 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing this because I'm in a real trouble and I need to hear from experienced people.
I'm new here so please excuse me if I get anything wrong.
I'm doing my masters in Deep Learning and I'm having toughest time ever.
I have a research paper very similar to what I wish to make, with th... |
2018/08/19 | 508 | 1,761 | <issue_start>username_0: In Europe there is <https://www.euraxess.de> or in the Netherlands there is <https://www.academictransfer.com/en/> to find postdoc positions.
Are there any similar website to find postdoc positions in Canada?
I only could find <https://jobs.sciencecareers.org>. I am wondering if there are any... |
2018/08/19 | 1,303 | 5,583 | <issue_start>username_0: I completed my PhD about a year ago and I'm currently one year into my post-doc. I had a first author in a mid-level journal and have only one citation to date. I also published a chapter in a textbook but I don't know how much weight that holds. While there are prospects of getting some data p... |
2018/08/19 | 606 | 2,744 | <issue_start>username_0: I have completed a MSc thesis in image processing. But, I can't submit it yet as I don't have the money needed to finish my study. I still have 2 semesters left before graduation.
I implemented a research article so that I can verify its proposed theory and previously found result.
What can I... |
2018/08/20 | 1,421 | 6,029 | <issue_start>username_0: I managed to successfully publish my old bachelor thesis in a good quality national journal in my country. However, I am thinking of retracting the article due to certain circumstances. First, I felt really embarrassed by the low quality research methodology used in my bachelor thesis. I only u... |
2018/08/20 | 280 | 1,316 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper for a conference and I was just wondering since it's a paper submission is it sure that it will be an oral presentation or they can still ask for a poster presentation?<issue_comment>username_1: The official conference scientific committee, frequently supported by a selected... |
2018/08/20 | 391 | 1,743 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a paper to an applied mathematics journal. I have since found a way to generalize one of the results.
**Is it acceptable to update the paper during the first review step even if I have not been requested to improve on this particular aspect?**
I understand that this would create e... |
2018/08/20 | 795 | 3,548 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student pursuing my masters in physics, with the intention of eventually getting my PhD (just not from my current institution). This past summer, I taught a physics course, and several of my students asked me to write letters of recommendation for them, and I offered to write le... |
2018/08/20 | 2,104 | 8,447 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate and I've taken part in a summer internship. Part of the internship was writing a paper based on a model we developed, which we're hoping to submit.
The paper is "finished" now, and so we're ready to send it off for peer review. I'm really nervous about this as while I've c... |
2018/08/21 | 788 | 3,155 | <issue_start>username_0: I have perhaps a common doubt, a common conundrum. I'm an MS graduate, and my goal is to become a researcher in a very specific area in biotechnology, which is a branch of neurotechnology.
I'm currently looking for a PhD degree, and by searching through programs at different institutions, I ha... |
2018/08/21 | 644 | 2,529 | <issue_start>username_0: At what age does breaking into academia as a professor, e.g. recent PhD / recent post-doc, in the United States become effectively impossible?
Is it at the age of 30 or 40?
I keep hearing about this from people who are at the very elite institutions, e.g. Harvard and Princeton.
I'm asking ... |
2018/08/21 | 945 | 3,950 | <issue_start>username_0: In small classes (with <50 students) I have mostly had positive experience for assigning homework. The homework allows the students to better learn the concepts and to better prepare for the exams. Usually, the score of my homework has been 10% of the total grade. Usually the homework are grade... |
2018/08/21 | 1,080 | 4,709 | <issue_start>username_0: My paper is accepted in an A-rank conference in computer science as a short paper. I need to reduce it to 6-pages instead of 10-pages.
All the reviewers said the paper has all the required elements to be a decent paper, but the presentation and problem introduction should have been better.
Al... |
2018/08/21 | 460 | 2,121 | <issue_start>username_0: I received reviewers' feedback after the first round of major revision. One reviewer recommended acceptance, but the other is still not satisfied. The unsatisfied reviewer discounted what I have revised and pointed out specific questions that were not asked in the 1st round.
I feel his/her co... |
2018/08/21 | 819 | 3,540 | <issue_start>username_0: In my (mathematics) PhD program, the administration has started to crack down on students who are not making their way through the program in a timely manner. This has only started in the last year, and is being aimed mostly at the lower years students who have not passed their qualification ex... |
2018/08/21 | 896 | 3,824 | <issue_start>username_0: A scientific paper to be published contains an image of someone famous. An image is just picked from the Internet.
My questions:
1. Is it a violation to publish such image without permission?
2. From whom a researcher needs to seek the right to this image: the famous individual or photograph... |
2018/08/22 | 1,064 | 4,255 | <issue_start>username_0: As a bachelors student in mathematics, I took various courses in Algebra, Analysis, Number Theory, Geometry and Topology. I am pretty much interested in every field and I don't want to specialize in a single field--I like the research part.
Since my bachelors duration is 3 years, I'll have to... |
2018/08/22 | 952 | 3,698 | <issue_start>username_0: Assume the hiring committee (Computer science) are reviewing the CVs of two Ph.D. graduate's with almost equal skills/expertise.
Regarding their **best publications**, one has 1-2 short papers (e.g. 6 pages) in A\* conferences (top-tier) whereas the other one has 1-2 full papers in B\* confer... |
2018/08/22 | 1,856 | 8,468 | <issue_start>username_0: I've recently been trying to get one of my papers published, and have come across the following issue. I started by submitting it to a fairly high-impact journal. It got three reviews, two of which were positive. The third reviewer seemed to find it personally offensive for some reason and hate... |
2018/08/22 | 7,491 | 30,886 | <issue_start>username_0: Background
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Due to a change in schedule, I recently had to swap one course section (with a supposedly outstanding instructor) for another (with a different instructor).
Problem
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Based on a number of reliable sources, I have come to learn that my new professor is an extremely... |
2018/08/22 | 887 | 3,770 | <issue_start>username_0: As a professor in a North American university, I receive a number of what I consider to be form letter graduate school application emails from outside the country. These emails generally feature some statement about being familiar with my research or offering generic praise for my research, fol... |
2018/08/23 | 540 | 2,007 | <issue_start>username_0: I am planning to request an override via e-mail for a class which is taught by two professors; one of them holds a PhD, while the other hold a master's; I have never met either of them. Usually my first line would be something along the lines of:
"Hello Dr. X, Dr. Y"
However, I feel like if I... |
2018/08/23 | 1,177 | 5,173 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background**
I recently was enrolled in a science course where I believed that the lecturer had a really poor understanding of the material at hand. I have had some bad lecturers before but this lecturer is one of the most difficult academics I have ever dealt with.
I was warned by all the... |
2018/08/23 | 2,174 | 9,452 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm doing a PhD with a professor with serious funding problems. He invited me to prepare a presentation for a conference, making it clear that he wouldn't pay for my travel expenses. I, in turn, replied that I didn't have the money to travel to that conference. He offered that another student g... |
2018/08/23 | 813 | 3,498 | <issue_start>username_0: Hello I am doing my masters and I got relatively bad grade from a professor. I am going to do another project with him in this semester. I think I deserve a better grade but the problem is that only way to re-evaluate my report is to make a complaint to study committee or to dean. My professor ... |
2018/08/23 | 929 | 3,934 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a government researcher in R&D and have spent my career doing and publishing my own work. Some time ago I was asked to take over some research from another scientist that was being transferred. She barely started the work and all I ended up receiving were some rough notes for background inf... |
2018/08/23 | 777 | 3,476 | <issue_start>username_0: I remember reading somewhere about someone who started publishing referee reports they had written online, along with sending them to the journal (or after). Unfortunately I do not remember where I saw this and can't seem to find it now.
I see strong arguments for this practice.
1. A lot of t... |
2018/08/23 | 681 | 2,929 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m a first year grad student beginning this year. My professor was diagnosed with cancer and won’t be in, probably all year, maybe even the entire time I’m in class.
He’s a great man, and also a nice man, which are two things that don’t always go together, so I’ve spent a while just being sad... |
2018/08/23 | 931 | 3,995 | <issue_start>username_0: To keep it brief, I am thinking heavily about leaving my current PhD program with a MSc after 4 years to embark on a PhD in a field I am more interested in, as I have grown to dislike my current field. There are a series of problems within my group, from a completely unaware and ambivalent supe... |
2018/08/23 | 483 | 2,186 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm majoring in math and am considering graduate school in either pure math, applied math, or stats. The problem is that, due to schedule constraints, I can only take either Complex Variables or Topology. How necessary is Topology for pure math admissions? Is complex Vars. more necessary? Does ... |
2018/08/24 | 1,476 | 6,217 | <issue_start>username_0: **Has anyone tried this technique and how has it worked out for you?**
Essentially, there are several problems with doing teaching assistant work (TA),
1. You might not even be from the institution where you are doing the TA, you are unfamiliar with the course structure and the textbook, but ... |
2018/08/24 | 573 | 2,406 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently applied for a postdoc in the USA, and because I am on a different continent any interview that I may be offered will almost certainly be by videoconference. I assume that at postdoc level, nobody is going to offer to pay for an intercontinental visit for a second interview (am I... |
2018/08/24 | 636 | 2,853 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm reviewing a conference manuscript (computer science) and i found 2 other recent methods related to the same problem which were published on arXiv.
So, i think it is highly recommended to compare their method to those ones. The arXiv papers also claimed to beat the state-of-the-art, but on d... |
2018/08/24 | 468 | 2,119 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently writting my first manuscript and there is no specifications about tables format in the author guidelines of the journal. If I follow the text format (double spaced, Times New Roman 12 pts) some of my tables which are very extensive will look awfull.
Should I modify their structu... |
2018/08/24 | 563 | 2,373 | <issue_start>username_0: I wanted to ask if you have any specific paper calendars or planners which cover an academic year (October - September) and which you can recommend for PhD students? Thanks a lot!<issue_comment>username_1: Welcome to Academia @Stack Exchange!
From your question it is unclear, whether you are h... |
2018/08/24 | 466 | 1,900 | <issue_start>username_0: I took a course with my supervisor this semester. the class is finished.
I really enjoyed every moment in class. I could ask all of my questions very easily and he always was available to answer them. it was an interactive class.
The final exam is not taken yet.
I wanted to write a thank you l... |
2018/08/24 | 1,390 | 5,363 | <issue_start>username_0: I've found questions answering [where or when](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/58756/pseudocode-in-scientific-article) to write pseudocode in scientific papers, but I haven't found any addressing any sort of convention for pseudocode, such as syntax, what type of symbols or notatio... |
2018/08/24 | 925 | 4,073 | <issue_start>username_0: I burned out while pursing a PhD in mathematics but have a masters, and am currently pursuing a masters in philosophy with the hope that it may show continued interest in academia before I re-apply to competitive PhD programs in either mathematics or philosophy (of math or logic etc.) I'm curre... |
2018/08/25 | 786 | 3,483 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for math graduate school. I have two people that I did research with: A professor and a postdoc. I have a strong connection with the professor, but the postdoc I do not. He was very passive aggressive with me and our relationship does not seem to be a good one. I do not want to as... |
2018/08/25 | 721 | 2,656 | <issue_start>username_0: In one of <NAME>'s papers, on the first page there's a footnote where he says,
>
> ∗St.Petersburg branch of Steklov Mathematical Institute, Fontanka 27,
> St.Petersburg 191011, Russia. Email: <EMAIL> or
> <EMAIL> ; I was partially supported by personal
> savings accumulated during my visi... |
2018/08/25 | 452 | 1,822 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student graduating next month. I wrote a research paper done by myself, but it's been rejected by two journals sofar so I haven't been able to publish it.
I am applying for scholarships and having a published paper would improve my chances.
If i upload my paper in arxi... |
2018/08/26 | 801 | 3,466 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to make a variation of one question already answered [here](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/109486/is-it-ethical-legal-to-publish-master-thesis-manuscript-as-a-journal-paper?rq=1).
I have also submitted my Master thesis manuscript to the university library and I have ... |
2018/08/26 | 734 | 3,028 | <issue_start>username_0: My advisor is trying to patent an idea without me. I got to know that he is registering the patent through the IP officer at our University. When I asked him about it, he did not give me a straight answer and has not responded to any of my emails inquiring about this. The idea he is trying to p... |
2018/08/26 | 2,276 | 9,401 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a theoretical computer science student working on algorithms. I am doubting myself a bit, as I have spent the last 6-7 months working on one problem. Although I am not able to solve the desired problem, I have been able to solve some specific cases. I am currently writing a paper as my res... |
2018/08/26 | 851 | 3,686 | <issue_start>username_0: Given that computer scientists publish in conferences, which typically require that presenters be present, how do computer scientists who are disabled, have broken legs due to a car accident, or have any similar travel restrictions, publish?<issue_comment>username_1: Equality of access for disa... |
2018/08/26 | 1,068 | 4,627 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an academic researcher with a very good publication track record in computer science.
I'm considering the possibility of applying for a research position at a well known telecommunications company with a large research department. But I still would like to have the possibility of publishi... |
2018/08/26 | 887 | 3,539 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a junior faculty in one of the top-tier research US institutions. I just joined the department and hired two GRAs meanwhile. In addition, I would like to appoint one more individual in my research group who could be appointed as a research engineer/technician. His/her role would be to supp... |
2018/08/26 | 536 | 2,306 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose a researcher comes up with a mathematical theorem, which can be obtained trivially from discovered theorems, but with an approach, that was never used before to describe or prove the theorem.
Then do the journals accept the paper because of the new approach or reject the paper because ... |
2018/08/26 | 1,215 | 4,998 | <issue_start>username_0: This community is introduced by a friend of mine about a week ago and I hope I can write my questions clearly (English is not my first language and I normally have poor communication skills...)
My story: I started my BSc in mathematics about 22 years ago (when I was age 9) and I decided (had ... |
2018/08/27 | 1,884 | 7,617 | <issue_start>username_0: I was wondering if I was rude to a professor.
I am a Japanese student at a Japanese university and I'm planning to apply for a British graduate school. Then, I contacted a professor at the graduate school and asked some questions about the school. The professor replied to me very politely. Due... |
2018/08/27 | 592 | 2,678 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a researcher in the computer science / interactions field. One year ago, I published a demonstration paper at a conference presenting and using quite briefly an algorithm A.
This year, I'm submitting a journal paper to the same conference and my work uses this algorithm. I wonder whether ... |
2018/08/27 | 1,059 | 4,381 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a researcher at a company C and I'm going to submit a paper as main author in the next few days for a conference next spring. The thing is, I applied to a University U for a PHD and still waiting for an answer. So in spring, I might not be in the company anymore and they will have no reaso... |
2018/08/28 | 1,586 | 6,790 | <issue_start>username_0: I have scoured the internet and everyone seems to be saying different things. These range from
* "You will have no problem getting a job in quant/finance etc", to
* "You are in a hopeless situation and are completely unemployable"
Consider the following situation:
* I am at a PhD student at... |
2018/08/28 | 929 | 4,155 | <issue_start>username_0: While writing my paper, I was unaware of the existence of a sequence and I named the sequence (say X). Later I found that the same sequence is already known with some other name (say Y). Currently if my paper is under review, then can I change to Y according to the literature and resend? Or is ... |
2018/08/28 | 368 | 1,688 | <issue_start>username_0: I am doing my Phd study. My supervisor attended a new conference and after that, she asked me to update my literature review based on new works mentioned in this conference. I looked at all the presented works which are relative to my work, however, I just found the abstracts of these works. I ... |
2018/08/28 | 825 | 3,318 | <issue_start>username_0: Good morning. I recently posted a question on Math Stack Exchange [here](https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2887978/binomial-coefficients-involving-prime-powers-minus-1/2896848#2896848) and got a fantastic solution. The problem in question is one that I've had for some time, and both myse... |
2018/08/28 | 2,897 | 12,593 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD student and one of my research assistants (undergraduate student) applied for a non-research volunteer position on campus. He asked (via email) for me to be one of his references **on the day of the application deadline**. I didn't see the email until the day after. In my reply email,... |
2018/08/28 | 2,352 | 10,291 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to defend my MS thesis in Physics. How much detail of the methods should I add in the presentation? In my thesis, I have compared the results of my method to an other method's results. Should I give a brief introduction of that method too?
One of the members of the defense committee... |
2018/08/28 | 2,223 | 9,448 | <issue_start>username_0: When I was a PhD student, I wrote a collection of papers that comprised a large portion of my dissertation. These papers were written using grant money from one of my advisors. (I had two advisors. The "second" advisor funded me for two semesters).
After I had graduated, this professor expres... |
2018/08/28 | 2,928 | 12,887 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm reviewing a paper in pure mathematics. A lot of results in the paper depend heavily on computer computations, and the authors have provided in the article a link to the Magma code they used for most of these computations. However, this code is almost impossible to understand due to the mess... |
2018/08/29 | 803 | 3,669 | <issue_start>username_0: For my Masters degree I am studying at an Armenian university. There is only one professor at the department who speaks English, who I do my Masters by research under. None of the other professors speak English and I have not learned Armenian.
If I want to continue my studies in Canada/US I n... |
2018/08/29 | 1,713 | 7,774 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a student researcher in high school. Over the summer, I did some research on a rather obscure math topic, so there was not much research done on it. I found some decent results on the topic, and through all my searching for articles or other sources, I did not find similar results, so I dec... |
2018/08/29 | 1,532 | 6,516 | <issue_start>username_0: As any other late-stage PhD student, I am applying for jobs. But I noticed that my supervisor's behaviour changed a bit after she heard that I want to go to industry, although she has been a great admirer of my work and encouraging me to pursue my academic work. I was wondering if I should be c... |
2018/08/29 | 336 | 1,505 | <issue_start>username_0: What does "awaiting reviewer reply" mean? Is it same as "under review" and "awaiting reviewer scores"?"<issue_comment>username_1: It means reviewers have been invited but have not responded to the invitation.
It's not necessarily the same as 'under review' and 'awaiting reviewer scores'. The l... |
2018/08/29 | 1,124 | 5,055 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a research assistant. I've helped a PhD student from another department throughout her studies by providing and maintaining human cells for her project. She's now about to published, and I'm not sure she would acknowledge my contribution in her papers. Is it acceptable to remind her to ack... |
2018/08/29 | 563 | 2,324 | <issue_start>username_0: Say that I have achieved a Masters degree in Physics, then a Masters degree in Mathematics. Then for a couple of years, I focused on different fields. I have had placements related to agriculture and botany, as well as taken online courses in Machine Learning. After careful consideration I deci... |
2018/08/29 | 911 | 3,231 | <issue_start>username_0: How I can cite a submitted manuscript **which I am not supposed to publicly archive (e.g. on arXiv)** because the review process is double-blind (i.e. the manuscript is anonymized and should not be archived in a way that reveals authors' identities) and/or the journal has a restrictive archival... |
2018/08/29 | 908 | 3,557 | <issue_start>username_0: According to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletic_scholarship):
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But are there areas (e.g., countries or cities) where there are some universities that offer ... |
2018/08/29 | 3,658 | 14,924 | <issue_start>username_0: One of my engineering friends told me how e once had to take a make-up calculus I exam due to being hospitalised and so self-studied a lot of the missed topics. For the make-up exam, e used L'Hôpital's rule, although we weren't taught that until 1 or 2 exams later. My friend told me that the pr... |
2018/08/29 | 465 | 1,896 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently submitted an article to a tylor & francis journal which uses ScholarOne.
My co-author submitted the article 22 days ago, and since then, the status has remained as "Awaiting Editorial Office Process".
Is it alright that it hasn't been changed for so long?
Should I contact the ... |
2018/08/29 | 1,093 | 4,658 | <issue_start>username_0: I am presenting (PPT) my regular research paper in a computer science conference. Additionally, the conference has a poster session of 2 hr. What I find difficult in poster session is that the process of redundantly speaking the same things again and again.
E.g. If 1 person comes, I need to st... |
2018/08/29 | 1,144 | 4,358 | <issue_start>username_0: I don't know maybe this question seems off topic but anybody get the chance to look at vixra.org archive?
It seems it is blown up by some manuscripts from a guy, which is called "<NAME>", and more interestingly all of them are about some ridiculously (excuse me I didn't find another appropria... |
2018/08/29 | 681 | 3,004 | <issue_start>username_0: I was wondering, I'm interested in both some aspects of pure math and some aspects of theoretical computer science. I'm currently in a PhD program in computer science at a pretty decent institution (let's say, top 5 in most TCS people's minds), but I think my interests are more mathematical tha... |
2018/08/30 | 844 | 2,990 | <issue_start>username_0: I graduated with a bachelor of math advanced (honor) with first class honor from an Australian university with a WAM (weighted average mark) of 93. My university does not have any GPA system.
I am applying for a graduate program in math in US and somewhere in their application, they say:
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2018/08/30 | 956 | 3,807 | <issue_start>username_0: As the title suggests, I am interested to know the chances of a middle-ranking journal's acceptance of a paper by an unknown author, detailing comparatively elementary results. By elementary, I mean results which are simply stated and simply proven: requiring knowledge only up to perhaps underg... |