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2018/09/27 | 443 | 2,012 | <issue_start>username_0: Question might be a bit strange. I am looking at a series of activities that we run every year. These activities have some intended learning outcomes (ILOs), but these outcomes are stated in terms of what students will know or be able to do at the end. I'm trying to explain not just the ILOs bu... |
2018/09/27 | 304 | 1,290 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a BA in philosophy and I'm working on an MS in computer science specializing in "Interactive Intelligence" (a blend of HCI, AI, ML). My end goal is a PhD in philosophy but specializing in AI.
A quick Google search hasn't revealed much that fits this. Would cognitive science be a better ... |
2018/09/28 | 500 | 1,960 | <issue_start>username_0: Thus far in my postgraduate academic career I have leaned towards addressing my (US MD) medical school professors who are MDs, MD/PhDs, or PhDs as "Professor", since we are not in a clinical setting. Today two of my classmates addressed one such MD as "Dr." in an email chain following my reply,... |
2018/09/28 | 1,225 | 5,333 | <issue_start>username_0: I find it hard to find a comprehensive overview about what kind of citation styles there are, and what should be taken into consideration to choose one.
It seems to me that the most important factor is when the journal/conference requires a specific citation style. Another factor is that it m... |
2018/09/28 | 1,219 | 5,238 | <issue_start>username_0: Say I received a paper for review. Afterwards I discover that there are cited references that are not related to the discussed subject, or there are elements in the bibliography that are not referenced in the manuscript.
As a referee, is it ok to ask for the removal of such references?
I ask... |
2018/09/28 | 1,801 | 7,608 | <issue_start>username_0: It was only recently that I heard about the academic "chalk talk" at job interviews (from biologist friends). As I understand, this is a closed-doors talk the applicant must give to the existing faculty. I was shocked that even through I am preparing to apply for faculty positions, I never hear... |
2018/09/28 | 760 | 3,278 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a recent PhD graduate looking to work in academia. I have applied for an assistant position (let's call it position A) that I think I have good chances of getting, that starts really soon. However, there is a postdoc position advertised (let's call it position B) in a different institution,... |
2018/09/28 | 800 | 3,448 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Ph.D. student in applied math (graduating) with the following difficulty. I have recently completed a work by myself where I think it has decent potential impact. But the work is in a niche in applied math, and though interesting to anyone, much more likely to be meaningful to people in ... |
2018/09/29 | 2,872 | 12,613 | <issue_start>username_0: One college lecturer often does not care about failing his students, another does. Say we are talking about a Calculus I class.
A. One fails students because they simply do not achieve the minimum grade set by him and/or the university.
B. One fails students because they cheat or break rules ... |
2018/09/29 | 2,007 | 8,850 | <issue_start>username_0: In short, I am a Ph.D. student computer science ( theory ) currently in the mid-stage. I have one serious doubt about the research process. I have worked on just two problems in the past and from that experience, I have felt that the research problem in the initial phase of research will be vag... |
2018/09/29 | 1,213 | 5,164 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a double columned paper to a journal and the editor returned my email with requests such as:
1. Several formatting changes including making the paper single column, no automatic features such as paragraph, figure or reference numbering.
2. Two referees to review the paper.
I assum... |
2018/09/29 | 1,232 | 5,170 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm studying for a postgraduate degree and my courses with a certain professor will start in some time. I have been meaning to speak to him since a very long time but I'm scared to go over to his office. I want to develop off-class relations as well for multiple purposes - opportunity to have g... |
2018/09/29 | 4,446 | 18,640 | <issue_start>username_0: I am HoD for a department with over 30 members.
* The dept is socially inactive with only one or two social gatherings per academic year.
* No politics or "serious personal issues" among members.
* Just teaching while doing some research.
I got a green light from (very) top management to mak... |
2018/09/29 | 542 | 2,279 | <issue_start>username_0: I am concluding my Ph.D. in the UK, and currently I have two postdoc offers one from the US and one from France. I am not a British/EU citizen and would like to take on an academic path preferably in an English speaking institute. Both projects that I managed to get a postdoc offer for are very... |
2018/09/30 | 1,169 | 4,853 | <issue_start>username_0: For various valid reasons, I was not able to sign up for a certain math course that I need. The professor is amazing, and I really hope to get into her class. I went to her class every day for a week, and hoped to continue doing so until the last day to add, which is two weeks after the term st... |
2018/09/30 | 992 | 4,344 | <issue_start>username_0: It would be nice to make a case for funding pure mathematics projects strictly on their own terms, as good mathematics, but this is increasingly not the world we live in. Legislators and funding agencies want to see "useful" proposals, which puts anyone who does pure mathematics in the position... |
2018/09/30 | 1,133 | 4,972 | <issue_start>username_0: In some undergraduate programs, "Statistics" courses (including probability) are listed under the "Math" department. In others, they are "cross listed" with Math courses. And in some others, they are listed as entirely separate disciplines.
Switch over to the admissions department of an Americ... |
2018/09/30 | 1,559 | 6,565 | <issue_start>username_0: This may seem like a naive question, but its one I've had on my mind while working through readying my applications for a PhD in the UK. It seems bizarre to me that PhDs here are not funded by default - from my point of view, a PhD is effectively a job. It is a sort of long term graduate progra... |
2018/09/30 | 580 | 2,017 | <issue_start>username_0: I presented a paper at a conference but the conference never got around to publishing their proceedings. They kept saying it was going to happen "soon" but after six months, I have lost hope.
Is there any way to submit such a paper to Google Scholar? It's not hosted anywhere and Google is an i... |
2018/09/30 | 242 | 1,071 | <issue_start>username_0: I contacted my professor to ask for a recommendation letter and I knew from him that he left my institution and asked me to use another e-mail address for him in the recommendation which is a Gmail. Will this affect the credibility of his recommendation in my application?<issue_comment>username... |
2018/10/01 | 1,452 | 6,051 | <issue_start>username_0: After long thought, I have decided to quit my master's program.
I fully understand the shame and failure that this is.
What is the professional way to leave, I do not wish to waste anyone's time but I feel just ducking out with an email would look bad.
Should I simply arrange a meeting with m... |
2018/10/01 | 2,174 | 8,406 | <issue_start>username_0: Most people are familiar with the [controversy over citing Nazi medical experimentation](http://theconversation.com/is-it-ethical-to-use-data-from-nazi-medical-experiments-39928) and related unethical findings. *I'm not questioning that*.
*Assuming that citing unethical research in order to bo... |
2018/10/01 | 1,769 | 7,307 | <issue_start>username_0: Today was the first day of my PhD. It's a very prestigious institution and I was extremely excited to start. However, it seems there is a general feeling of discontentment with people in the group and I was told some stories that, quite frankly, shocked me to the point where I was legitimately ... |
2018/10/01 | 1,014 | 4,200 | <issue_start>username_0: I realize this question may not have an explicit *answer* - if so I will remove promptly as per guidelines.
I have an upcoming visit to my top-choice program where I will be meeting potential committee members and the grad program director. I am very nervous.
*Details about the visit itself:... |
2018/10/01 | 2,116 | 8,652 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I wrote an article, and I'm trying to submit it somewhere, but two journals told me that my article is plagiarized even up to 70%!
* I'm 100% sure that it's not plagiarized because I wrote it by myself.
* The only thing that I suspect caused this problem is that I posted the pre-pri... |
2018/10/02 | 724 | 2,847 | <issue_start>username_0: How important is it for a professor to direct a thesis?
I mean, what can the professor get from it? I know it will help for his/her curriculum, but is it too much?
Is the merit equivalent to the publication of an article?
or is it not so important?
or is it more important than the publicati... |
2018/10/02 | 3,607 | 15,553 | <issue_start>username_0: In my mathematics program, one of the qual prep courses is being taught by a professor who, put bluntly, is not putting in the effort.
He is essentially reading from the book (which I don’t particularly like but it’s a standard text so fine), but his notes were clearly made years ago and he do... |
2018/10/02 | 1,407 | 5,721 | <issue_start>username_0: On their "guide for authors," they state the following regarding referees:
>
> (1) Please prepare a list of 8 (eight) proposed reviewers. You MUST
> include Full Names, Department, University, Country and Email
> Addresses for each proposed reviewer. It should be a globally
> geographicall... |
2018/10/02 | 1,313 | 5,603 | <issue_start>username_0: I just started grad school this year. I met with my advisor over three weeks ago, on the first week of school. We talked about the school, she told me a bit about the department and showed me around the office. She also talked to me a bit about putting together an advisory committee, but that's... |
2018/10/02 | 824 | 3,287 | <issue_start>username_0: I found [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/17379/what-are-fake-shady-and-or-predatory-journals) regarding [a list of predatory journals](https://web.archive.org/web/20170111172309/https://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/). This list is said to record many fake or s... |
2018/10/02 | 841 | 3,499 | <issue_start>username_0: I asked this question a few months ago about addressing in-group bullying during my PhD.
[How to address in-group bullying without compromising PhD/career?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/113841/how-to-address-in-group-bullying-without-compromising-phd-career)
Things have not im... |
2018/10/03 | 410 | 1,797 | <issue_start>username_0: During my master thesis I implemented a software in c programming language. My thesis is in the Earth Science (Geodesy) field and this software is just GNSS data processing software.
Is a [Call graph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_graph) suitable for explaining different parts of my softw... |
2018/10/03 | 2,897 | 11,577 | <issue_start>username_0: Google scholar suggested a paper for me to read, I opened it and boom it was my master thesis work. My work was based on Arabic language but they claim their work is based on Telugu language. Even they did not bother to change the title. they just switched the Arabic to Telugu. Not only that, t... |
2018/10/03 | 600 | 2,651 | <issue_start>username_0: One of my friends has a lot of research works, but he is kinda of lazy in the publishing process. As a result, he has a lot of unpublished research materials. Right now, he is realized that he needs citation count to be able to get some benefits which I don't want to disclose here but I could j... |
2018/10/03 | 567 | 1,928 | <issue_start>username_0: Sometimes you need to refer readers to a reference for more details about a subject. I wonder what is the best way to accomplish this. Or if there is a specific way to do it for scientific papers that target journals in the field of computer science and engineering.
I use something similar to... |
2018/10/03 | 1,431 | 6,175 | <issue_start>username_0: There was a highly cited paper published earlier this year in my field which introduced a highly theoretical, non trivial, algorithm that relied on extremely heavy theory. The algorithm was exact (Gave the correct solution) but 3 papers were published later on criticizing **that it was highly n... |
2018/10/03 | 973 | 4,183 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in a professional evening program, it is full of students like myself that have full time jobs. Recently we had a professor give us a take home exam that said "no collaboration, no internet usage" (this is because the program is very compressed and doesn't have time for in class exams). Wh... |
2018/10/03 | 2,794 | 11,547 | <issue_start>username_0: My coworkers are pursuing a generalization of one of my (recent) results. **Is it wrong of me to frown a little on this?** I would prefer it if they had an original idea of their own, or that if that they had to generalize a result, it would either be one of their own or one of someone they do ... |
2018/10/04 | 539 | 2,265 | <issue_start>username_0: Planning to do PhD research about to find the link between 2 things.
What if there was no link between these 2 things?
does that mean all years of research is worthless? and no PhD degree?
is the PhD more about the results of the research or about the research itself?<issue_comment>username_... |
2018/10/04 | 900 | 3,598 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a paper in mathematics. It relies heavily on a result from a different topic that I phrased, felt that it should be true, but I did not know how to prove that result. I asked someone who works on this different topic to help me with the proof, and he has found a proof for the desir... |
2018/10/04 | 579 | 2,357 | <issue_start>username_0: I will be conducting exams, and I need a tool that can let me shuffle and select random , small questions from a pre-defined question pool. My questions are typically matched and complete.
It would be ideal if I can export to word after that. Any idea or suggestion is appreciated.<issue_commen... |
2018/10/04 | 2,388 | 9,169 | <issue_start>username_0: I was a PhD student and forced to quit as my PI doubted the new work I did and this PI did not mention any constructive feedback or comments. I signed a resignation letter. Then, I submitted my work to a conference and it was accepted to be published, despite the fact that the supervisor did no... |
2018/10/04 | 1,408 | 5,830 | <issue_start>username_0: I sent my paper to one journal, which took about 3 months to respond to me.
They decided to reject my paper, and gave me some comments and reasons why my paper was rejected. The first reviewer said a little about my paper and he/she wants to reject my paper because I do not have co-authors wi... |
2018/10/04 | 416 | 1,779 | <issue_start>username_0: What would be the most appropriate place for someone to upload their Master thesis in Education? (Their institution does not upload electronic versions of theses.) The thesis is original research and a paper version has already been accepted to a conference; the author just wants to share their... |
2018/10/04 | 1,784 | 7,827 | <issue_start>username_0: In academia, researchers live by the mantra of "publish or perish". This is because the contribution to society that academia gives is the expansion of human knowledge.
However, given the importance of software to conduct research, I don't understand why implementing many algorithms or buildin... |
2018/10/04 | 352 | 1,485 | <issue_start>username_0: Foe example the following image in Wikipedia article.
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2014.06.23._Charles_Aznavour_Fot_Mariusz_Kubik_01.jpg>
To best of my understanding it has creative common license. Can I use it in my scientific paper without obtaining copyright permission?
Many ... |
2018/10/04 | 419 | 1,898 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently in the process of applying to grad schools, and I'm emailing profs whose work I find interesting. I always read a bit of their work, and then customize both, the email I send them, and the CV I attach. I discuss their work in my email, and slightly change the listed research inter... |
2018/10/05 | 2,582 | 11,448 | <issue_start>username_0: I started a PhD program recently. I never had any doubts about the fact that I want to do a PhD and I still don't doubt it for a moment. I love working in the area of my interest, but it seems like the department I'm in isn't what I expected. Things are going very poorly for me. I'm losing my c... |
2018/10/05 | 2,743 | 11,293 | <issue_start>username_0: I do this often because this is when I wrap up the stuff for my day. But I wonder if it is considered intrusive.
I imagine a scenario where a phone that is linked to gmail rings due to my email, and that wakes up the person I intend to email.
Can people chime in whether it is out of the norm... |
2018/10/05 | 1,357 | 5,936 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on a special topic in applied math. We are trying to explore a new and largely unexplored area in our line of research. **Our hope is to be the first researchers to have solid results in this new line of research.**
Couple days ago, my co-author and I have stumbled upon a paper th... |
2018/10/05 | 375 | 1,637 | <issue_start>username_0: I am submitting a paper and the submission requires a taxonomy or topics . I am not sure about this requirement. Taxonomy with respect to a research paper<issue_comment>username_1: The need you to classify your subject using predefined codes specific to your general field. In mathematics we oft... |
2018/10/05 | 564 | 2,478 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently started (last week) a post-doc position and I have a submitted paper which got an R&R before finishing my Ph.D and having this post-doc position.
I will resubmit the paper this week and my current director says that I should change the affiliation on the revised version of the paper... |
2018/10/05 | 627 | 2,387 | <issue_start>username_0: The Lancet, one of the top medical journals in the world, requires 'Type decimal points midline (ie, 23·4, not 23.4)'. Does anyone know why this is? As a mathematician, I'll always read 23·4 as 92. Seems odd to me that such a high profile paper would insist on such a strange formatting choice, ... |
2018/10/05 | 424 | 1,953 | <issue_start>username_0: When the editor of a paper I recently reviewed circulated the final decision letter to myself and the other reviewer, I was surprised to see that the other reviewer had apparently had access to my peer review before submitting hers. This was clear because her review explicitly referred to comme... |
2018/10/06 | 1,164 | 4,679 | <issue_start>username_0: I've had one full time job in my life. It was a teaching job and I got about 2.5 weeks of annual vacation. I had a great time my first year, learned a lot, and I think I improved quite a bit as a teacher. I really liked my students as well.
But going from the second year into the third, I foun... |
2018/10/06 | 2,048 | 7,577 | <issue_start>username_0: A few months ago an Elsevier representative contacted me asking for permission to reproduce one of my thesis figures in one of their books. Since this figure is only in my thesis (introduction section) and is not published elsewhere, I retain full copyright.
Because I am truly concerned about ... |
2018/10/06 | 952 | 4,144 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a friend who's doing a STEM PhD at one of the top programs - think e.g. Harvard / Princeton / MIT - and they are getting ready to drop out after the faculty there have told them that they don't have a real chance at academia since their published papers have been "too applied", and that ... |
2018/10/06 | 1,064 | 4,670 | <issue_start>username_0: Background: 25 years old, I have a BA in Anthropology, graduated in 2016, but currently working in a field unrelated to my degree.
I have been involved within a scientific organization for the past 3 years doing anthropology related projects. The whole involvement was completely voluntary, tho... |
2018/10/06 | 932 | 3,728 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say I write a paper and use a result from someone that is rarely cited. Would it be polite/acceptable/unacceptable to email them and let them know of my application of their result before publishing my paper?
This would be primarily self-serving on my part, as I'd want to know if they s... |
2018/10/07 | 430 | 1,969 | <issue_start>username_0: Does the ability to perform mental maths calculations predict ability to do research in mathematics?<issue_comment>username_1: This is a ridiculous idea. Ability to do mental arithmetic is just that. Ability to do mental arithmetic. It measures nothing else. Research isn't about performing "stu... |
2018/10/07 | 7,783 | 33,289 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student, working as a Homework marking TA in a school where cheating is extremely blatant. The university has an extremely strict policy against cheating. Hundreds of students in math courses alone are reported each year, and suspensions are given to severe/repeat offenders. I have p... |
2018/10/07 | 580 | 2,222 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to ask whether it is possible to add a presentation and data in google scholar. I am asking that because during conference there were people interested in using my data and presentation, however, these data hasn't been published yet.
So, my question is: could the presentations and... |
2018/10/07 | 925 | 3,896 | <issue_start>username_0: I haven't started preparing for the GRE and I have my exam in a week's time (15th Oct.). I know I'll get a low score which is why I don't want to report the score to any university. So, I have two options:
1. Reschedule the exam to something like 10th Nov.
2. Take the exam on 15th Oct. and tak... |
2018/10/08 | 411 | 1,768 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a submitted a paper to a IEEE letter. Unfortunately, at a later stage I noticed that letter is still in process to have an impact factor.
I already received reviews from reviewers and the journal is willing to
accept the paper after minor revision.
Is it ethical to withdraw the paper ... |
2018/10/08 | 2,061 | 8,973 | <issue_start>username_0: As far as I know, nowadays most of the mathematical literature is written and published in English and mathematicians communicate with each other in English. Although there are certain number of books written in other languages (like EGA), but at the same time their counterparts also appear in ... |
2018/10/08 | 1,022 | 4,239 | <issue_start>username_0: Basically, I have two questions.
First question: Anyone knows EnPress publisher is just a scam/predatory publisher or not? Cause they sent an email to me to invite me to join editorial board of a journal, which is related to my field. But I'm wondering is this a predatory journal, which is cal... |
2018/10/08 | 703 | 3,047 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a recent college graduate, and I'm currently four months into a research internship. My original plan was to take a year off before applying to graduate school (in physics) and use this internship as an interim job. The full story is complicated, and I don't want to go into especially much ... |
2018/10/08 | 1,737 | 7,613 | <issue_start>username_0: **Background:**
I have done my masters in computer science/artificial intelligence. I want to do my PhD related to data science, applied machine learning. I do not have degree from world's top ranked universities nor I have top quality research publications. I have had some domestic issues sin... |
2018/10/08 | 1,084 | 4,692 | <issue_start>username_0: If a student is cheating, he can be caught or not caught.
If he is caught, it's not obvious what to do.
There are options with different strategies:
1. The students are themselves responsible for not cheating.
2. The teacher is responsible for preventing cheating.
3. The organisation is resp... |
2018/10/09 | 1,394 | 5,737 | <issue_start>username_0: Over the summer I visited a research station at a different university to collect data for my PhD work. I received an invoice (nearly two months after the fact) for bench fees related to my stay in the amount of $100/day. I used a few square feet of floor space in one of the labs and some outdo... |
2018/10/09 | 1,175 | 4,176 | <issue_start>username_0: [**QS** Graduate Employability Rankings 2019](https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/employability-rankings/2019)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/S2AWG.png)
Why do Australian universities have higher employability (... |
2018/10/09 | 512 | 2,312 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing my thesis and I added a glossary at the start with the more complex terms and their definitions.
The definitions usually come from scientific papers. My question is: should I cite those papers if I use their definition? (Even though I'd say a definition is something that is global.... |
2018/10/09 | 772 | 3,263 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm almost finished at my PhD, and I am currently looking for postdoc opportunities. My current field is quite a small one (a rare disease), and consequently all the postdoc positions I've found so far are in other fields - but still within biological/biomedical sciences.
At this stage I am st... |
2018/10/09 | 1,106 | 4,931 | <issue_start>username_0: I have almost finished my PhD, and I'm looking for postdoc positions. I have found many of the job specifications mention having a good publication record, and some explicitly say the applicant should have impactful first author papers.
I currently have a first author review article and middle... |
2018/10/09 | 4,539 | 18,816 | <issue_start>username_0: Setting is math in the US.
It's quite common for a student who is not doing super well or is worried that they might not be to approach me and ask how they should be studying/what they should be doing do succeed in the class.
I never know what to say. I just don't see it as part of my job to ... |
2018/10/09 | 3,107 | 14,216 | <issue_start>username_0: For a long time, I have been confused about the purpose of having (roughly the same) qualifying requirements and breadth (course) requirements for every mathematics PhD student (in many, if not most, mathematics departments in the United States).
I have heard that European math gradaute progr... |
2018/10/09 | 598 | 2,605 | <issue_start>username_0: About two years ago, I did a review for a journal (Engineering Failure Analysis, which is published by Elsevier). At that time my affiliation was different from today and I used my institutional email at that time to register as a reviewer in the Elsevier website. But right now that email is de... |
2018/10/10 | 410 | 1,773 | <issue_start>username_0: Earlier this year I started writing my first article with a former professor of mine. The article is almost done, but until now he hasn't written a single sentence or provided any data. It has been all my work. We have met about 10 times where each meeting lasted about 90 minutes to discuss the... |
2018/10/11 | 1,336 | 5,797 | <issue_start>username_0: During the past years of my PhD program in biology, my advisor has developed a habit of lending my service to other labs/groups for potential collaborating opportunities. In addition to helping fellow students in the lab with their projects, I've helped a handful of other labs/groups with vario... |
2018/10/11 | 405 | 1,608 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to apply math grad schools this year.
But, the problem is now I'm 30 years old.
Do you know anyone who is 30 or over 30, but got admission from top math grad school?<issue_comment>username_1: I can't give you any well-known examples from the top of my head, but for postgraduate prog... |
2018/10/11 | 959 | 3,970 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose I'm writing an article about topic X. During research I come across a related article in which the author has made statement Y and referenced publication Z. For one reason or another, I haven't read Z. Perhaps it is an expensive textbook or I'm just lazy. Can I in my article also make s... |
2018/10/11 | 407 | 1,655 | <issue_start>username_0: I've heard of people taking a break for getting work experience or internships and jobs and so on ... is this the norm ?<issue_comment>username_1: I can't say if it's the norm, but I don't expect that working for a year or two after undergrad would be frowned upon by graduate admissions committ... |
2018/10/11 | 1,382 | 5,694 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in a difficult situation and I am looking for some guidance. I have done my research and I have come to the conclusion that it is best for my mental health to take master and leave. Unfortunately, I already have a master's degree (in another field) and I am a 4th year PhD student and have ... |
2018/10/11 | 513 | 2,103 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it OK to use bullet points in the statement of purpose for graduate school applications?
I'm applying for a PhD program in physical science. I want to organize some information in a bullet points form. However, I didn't see this done in any of the statements that I have seen online.<issue_c... |
2018/10/11 | 1,158 | 4,684 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a named researcher (but basically a Postdoc) on a funded project in the UK which pays my salary. I've got a good CV and currently do 4 hours of teaching per year.
The principal investigator (PI) has asked if I would take over their teaching, marking and project students in exchange for re... |
2018/10/11 | 5,601 | 22,896 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate student, rising senior. I've been immersed in academia now since freshmen year, and I'd like to pursue a PhD in Computer Science in the future. I'm posting here because I just feel hopeless right now.
I've had research experiences at top schools, like MIT, and now, at a to... |
2018/10/11 | 1,166 | 4,999 | <issue_start>username_0: I have all the respect for students of sciences who go to a university to fully divulge themselves into a certain topic and understand it in and out.
But the truth is, that description simply doesn't fit most students. Most students go to university because they want a degree so they can get ... |
2018/10/12 | 4,028 | 17,070 | <issue_start>username_0: I just started my 2-yr postdoc, but things have gone sour really fast. So, I really need some career advice as to what to do.
Over several months, I did the interviews with the supervisor and the lab and things seems to be really great (although I got a strange feeling that the lab members were... |
2018/10/12 | 512 | 2,092 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a foreign research internship/ scholarship that requires the applicants to first approach their potential adviser over email.
I had sent my first email around the end of August and then a follow up email around September 18.
I heard back from the professor the next day, who ... |
2018/10/12 | 1,262 | 5,390 | <issue_start>username_0: My paper is rejected based on a wrong (I am almost certain that it is wrong) comment of a **single** reviewer and the content is as below
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> The manuscript focuses on the problem of "*Some Technical Things*". This problem has been solved in several papers of "*Mr. X*" : See, for example "*Th... |
2018/10/12 | 903 | 3,634 | <issue_start>username_0: A little background first, as this is maybe not familiar to people outside Germany: In Germany there are universities that can not award PhDs. So called "Hochschulen/Fachhochschulen". This means they have to cooperate with a university that can award PhDs at which the student is then enrolled a... |
2018/10/12 | 916 | 3,753 | <issue_start>username_0: Today, I had a PhD interview and the interviewing professor asked me about my plans after completion of PhD. I clearly stated that I wanted to fund my own startup and setup my own venture, to which he cross-questioned that why do I need a PhD for founding a company. Even though, I tried to to c... |
2018/10/12 | 886 | 3,460 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to submit a paper to <https://www.siam.org/Conferences/CM/Main/sdm19> (deadline is today) and I have supplementary material contains further evidence, proofs, examples and the like.
I want to reference my supplementary material, like this:
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> ... however, we found that the runtim... |
2018/10/12 | 1,171 | 4,891 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say you had a doctoral student who you were main supervisor for {~advisor) throughout their data collection and most of their write-up, but just before they finished they changed to another main supervisor and you became deputy supervisor (you moved to a new institution in another country... |
2018/10/12 | 2,293 | 9,786 | <issue_start>username_0: Tl;dr:
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I have serious issues with self-confidence and indecision that have already negatively affected my academic career and that persist despite significant improvement. What strategies can I use to prevent these issues from impairing my decision-making when applying to grad school?
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2018/10/13 | 1,049 | 4,499 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm teaching a course on computer-science paper writing, and I aim to turn my notes into a book for publication. It's designed specifically for Chinese postgraduate students who are writing their first paper.
In my course (and thus in the book), I use examples from real publications by Chinese... |
2018/10/13 | 2,715 | 11,173 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been an invigilator for several exams for large classes. I am not formally affiliated with the classes.
One thing I routinely notice is that, despite warnings, there will always be some students who will very quickly and brazenly flip through the entire exam (booklet) and look at the qu... |
2018/10/13 | 823 | 3,591 | <issue_start>username_0: More often I am approached by some of my students asking for my take in matters that are personal to them. Truly random matters from politics to relationships.
What ought I do? If I offer the advice they come back for even more, if I fail they plead for an opinion at least.
Which approach sho... |
2018/10/13 | 2,076 | 9,065 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the last semester of my undergraduate degree in computer science. I plan to apply for masters and PhD positions thereafter. I did not have a good classroom experience in my bachelor's programme – I did not find my professors to be great (in terms of knowledge, research or teaching). As ... |
2018/10/13 | 645 | 2,849 | <issue_start>username_0: I sometimes receive a comment from 1-2 of my reviewers saying something similar to "the contributions and novelty of the work/method is limited".
Consider it in the context of CS where you develop methods and algorithms which increase the performance of the state-of-the-art in a specific proble... |