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2018/10/13 | 961 | 3,933 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a Korean student applying to math graduate schools this year. I'm mainly applying to American universities but I will also be applying to some schools in UK and Europe.
I wanted to know if it would be worth mentioning my subject GPA in the statement of purpose. My overall GPA is 3.7/4.3, b... |
2018/10/14 | 1,030 | 4,291 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a private math tutor, and I have an adult student right now (age 28), who is enrolled in algebra II in a community college. He is both very bright and has a kind of inferiority complex about academics because his siblings were much more successful than him in school and employment. This is ... |
2018/10/14 | 946 | 3,700 | <issue_start>username_0: I came to the US on 4th of August, 2013 from India on F1 visa as a Master's student. I was 1 day shy of being 24 and eligible for a late registration for Selective Service. But I had no idea that was even a thing back then.
Things happened and I was out of status for a while and my education w... |
2018/10/14 | 1,050 | 4,186 | <issue_start>username_0: Here is the situation: I am working with 2 others on a paper A, and simultaneously by myself separately on a paper B (which is a thesis).
* A and B are on very much similar topics.
* I started with paper B slightly before we started working on paper A, but the ideas in paper B build upon the ... |
2018/10/14 | 916 | 3,690 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm quoting a book (To Kill A Mockingbird) and using a quote where the n-word is used. Later I'm going to have to read that out loud while my teacher also has a copy. Should I censor the word when reading or writing it?<issue_comment>username_1: I'd suggest being faithful to the original. If yo... |
2018/10/15 | 195 | 786 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to apply for a PhD. I applied to 2 universities before and got rejected. Is it OK to send my PhD proposal to multiple universities at the same time in the hope that I get approval from one of them?<issue_comment>username_1: Yes.
In the United States, it is expected that applicants are a... |
2018/10/15 | 2,754 | 11,637 | <issue_start>username_0: My PhD project is a very little part of a big study that my supervisor is currently running. I am already four months into my PhD and I just have a 3 years position to finish my thesis. So far I haven’t worked in my PhD topic because I’m helping her with other aspects of this big study. She say... |
2018/10/15 | 1,382 | 5,447 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently an undergraduate student in computer science, rising senior.
I have had extensive research experiences throughout college at competitive universities and research companies (but no publications).
I do not feel prepared to pursue graduate school right after college (due to burno... |
2018/10/15 | 2,521 | 11,054 | <issue_start>username_0: I am halfway through my 2 years masters now. I am doing my masters abroad in Asia and slipped into a bit of an unfortunate situation.
I originally studied general science as an undergrad and during this time I discovered my nack for programming, machine learning. I had no previous research expe... |
2018/10/15 | 2,179 | 10,035 | <issue_start>username_0: Some graduate students and post-docs have reported serious problems with their advisors and supervisors. Some of the problems are severe enough to be career ending. Not all problems can be avoided but it is possible that some can be if the student or post-doc takes some actions, especially in t... |
2018/10/15 | 967 | 3,742 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m currently doing a PhD in neuropsychology, however 6 months down the line I have fell out of it. I realised I’d like to do research in a field such as health psychology or clinical psychology. Would it be possible for me to get picked for a postdoc position in one of those areas coming from ... |
2018/10/15 | 719 | 3,064 | <issue_start>username_0: My supervisor told me I’d need 5 papers (preferably all published) in order to get my PhD degree. However , attending a PhD workshop, I was advised to discuss a feasible plan with my supervisor within my allotted time (3 years) . The formal guidelines of my faculty say that there are no number ... |
2018/10/15 | 309 | 1,057 | <issue_start>username_0: **Simple question:** What alternatives are there to Google Scholar for finding citations, doing lit searches, and most importantly, downloading citation data in BibTex?
There are lots of specialized databases (e.g. MathSciNet, ACM, etc.), but I am not aware of any that index across all discip... |
2018/10/16 | 516 | 2,002 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying for research-based Masters in Oceanography. So far, I've lined up advisors at University of Massachusetts (an intercampus program), South Florida, Georgia, and New Hampshire. According to [here](http://www.shanghairanking.com/Shanghairanking-Subject-Rankings/oceanography.html),they... |
2018/10/16 | 694 | 2,847 | <issue_start>username_0: Why do some conferences have a variable number of reviewers for each submitted paper?
For example, I read on <https://redd.it/9nomv1> that the [AAAI 2019 conference](https://aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-19/) has between 3 and 5 reviewers for each paper submission. Why isn't the number of reviewer... |
2018/10/16 | 737 | 3,001 | <issue_start>username_0: I am asking this question to seek some perspectives from graduate advisors.
My question is: what qualities of a student makes him or her difficult to supervise? It is all the more valuable if this is based on actual experience.
Note that "difficult" is open to interpretation. The student may... |
2018/10/16 | 656 | 2,453 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently preparing to submit my NSF mathematics postdoctoral fellowship application, with deadline tomorrow on October 17. You must be a U.S. citizen (or permanent resident, etc.) to apply. There is a line on the application to indicate this:
>
> **CITIZENSHIP (check one)
> \_\_ US Citi... |
2018/10/16 | 1,204 | 5,269 | <issue_start>username_0: I have seen many instances where authors used the term "reproducibility" and "replicability" interchangeably in the social and behavioural sciences. Sometimes, they distinguish between the "repeatability" of experiments (same measurand/same measurement conditions) and "replicability" (same meas... |
2018/10/16 | 305 | 1,344 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been studying microbiology for a while (undergrad sophomore). I've been finding something to do other than my regular academic work and projects.
Someone told me that Nature allows freelancers to edit some articles. Is it true ?
What are some other places where I can use my biology/writin... |
2018/10/16 | 2,084 | 9,043 | <issue_start>username_0: While working on my PhD I have diverged from the area of expertise of my supervisor and other people in the group. In particular that allowed me to find a near solution to a problem that was not solved for some time in the field where we all worked.
Towards the end of my PhD track I have star... |
2018/10/16 | 2,849 | 12,363 | <issue_start>username_0: A colleague of mine has asked that I write him a letter of recommendation (LOR). I will call him Steve. He recently was denied tenure and is looking for a new position at several other universities. Steve is currently a co-author on three papers I am trying to publish. He has been extremely dif... |
2018/10/16 | 1,204 | 5,384 | <issue_start>username_0: What tools do you use to manage co-authored papers? This is similar to questions active [4 years ago](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/2071/what-are-useful-tips-and-tricks-for-collaborating-remotely) and [5 years ago](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/1261/simplest-way-to... |
2018/10/16 | 1,246 | 5,742 | <issue_start>username_0: As a part of TA work, I need to give questions for major exams. I need to evaluate the answer sheets of students later.
Let us consider the following simple examples of questions:
**1) Briefly describe natural numbers.**
The answer to this question is not unique. It depends totally on the st... |
2018/10/16 | 1,361 | 5,962 | <issue_start>username_0: As a researcher in CS, I give often presentations, where I always ask about the feedback from my colleagues. I personally don't like to put equations in my slides because I believe that nobody will have enough time to read the understand the equation (especially because in CS the equation is a ... |
2018/10/16 | 1,193 | 5,401 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted my paper in IEEE Transcations of XXX and got a rejection. But the comments were really helpful and has helped me a lot in improving the paper. But, unfortunately, I cannot resubmit that paper to this same journal again and now I am looking for another journal.
I am writing a prope... |
2018/10/17 | 3,369 | 13,792 | <issue_start>username_0: Generally speaking, peer reviewed journals will not publish research on human subjects that did not receive IRB approval.
If a study was done *without* the proper IRB approval, but the study itself was ethical and clearly *would* have passed IRB approval if it had been properly submitted, is i... |
2018/10/17 | 877 | 3,834 | <issue_start>username_0: [Choosing your research area](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/5579/choosing-your-research-area)
Relevant and adding to that.
I am planning to pursue a PhD (currently at masters) and have many research interests. Some of my interests are more attainable and my knowledge in the do... |
2018/10/17 | 372 | 1,598 | <issue_start>username_0: University retired researchers often get privileges to use Libraries etc. When a retired member uses the university library for research are they obliged to mention the university affiliation in subsequent publications?<issue_comment>username_1: TL;DR. A retired member of staff should **use any... |
2018/10/17 | 487 | 1,866 | <issue_start>username_0: Thats the question. I'm writing a paper in Spanish and I need to cite (APA) several citations in Spanish of books written in English that doesn't have translated versions. My reviewer is telling me that I need to be explicit about it but I don't now how to do it. Should I write "Name (2001, tra... |
2018/10/17 | 802 | 3,474 | <issue_start>username_0: Last year, I submitted a post-doctoral fellowship application but didn't get it. This year, I thought about submitting basically the same research statement; slightly updated and refined, but having the same project in mind.
My thoughts are that my improved track record this year, and having ... |
2018/10/17 | 830 | 3,532 | <issue_start>username_0: When I was a master student I worked in a PhD proposal with my master's supervisor. I applied with that proposal to obtain a scholarship from the university, however because I did not get the scholarship, and she didn't have money for paying the research expenses for the study I couldn't pursue... |
2018/10/17 | 1,236 | 5,032 | <issue_start>username_0: I'd want to get perspective on what I feel is an unjustified case of academic misconduct.
I am taking a mathematics subject and part of my assignment was to submit answers to questions given.
One of the questions I was unsure of what method I should apply, I searched on youtube and found tut... |
2018/10/17 | 3,073 | 12,304 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a teacher assistant for a big course and I am expected to conduct weekly quizzes. Last week, my bag containing a week's worth of quizzes got stolen. My question is what should I tell my students and is there a fair way to make it up to them?<issue_comment>username_1: Oops - that doesn't so... |
2018/10/17 | 878 | 4,111 | <issue_start>username_0: Many students have asked for a letter of recommendation to support their grad school applications at US universities. Most of them aim for business schools, but many also go for science.
Now, admission committees to American undergraduate programs consider not only the prospective student's sc... |
2018/10/17 | 728 | 3,416 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently finalizing my master's thesis and am working on the discussion and limitations part.
I did some relatively standard statistical tests on my data, which gave promising results. My supervisor suggested trying some machine learning to create a predictive model. While I did take a b... |
2018/10/17 | 803 | 3,556 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the second year of my masters program and am sure that I want to go straight on to a PhD position when I finish in July of next year. I'm aware that some funding deadlines are as early as January to start in September of the same year, so should I start contacting potential supervisors ... |
2018/10/17 | 651 | 2,940 | <issue_start>username_0: As I understand about writing a research project report or master thesis report, it must be complete, self-sufficient. The readers can understand the report/book by reading it thoroughly without the need to consult other sources.
I can think these two ways:
1. just stated that "the complete m... |
2018/10/18 | 1,067 | 4,559 | <issue_start>username_0: When you submit a paper / manuscript to a peer-reviewed venue, the organizers usually forward your work to 2-3 other "experts in your field" to assess your work.
I'm curious how this process of selection works, i.e. how is this pool of reviewers put together? and how are the best people from t... |
2018/10/18 | 394 | 1,598 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a paper selected in a very prestigious conference in our field. Is it appropriate if I ask the contact person that I am interested in chairing any conference session? Note that I am a Ph.D. student as of now and not a faculty member or qualified Ph.D. doctor.<issue_comment>username_1: Ye... |
2018/10/18 | 586 | 1,714 | <issue_start>username_0: I know about tools like [CitNet Explorer](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi5hPGR2o_eAhUMgHMKHbFTB3IQFjAAegQIAxAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.citnetexplorer.nl%2F&usg=AOvVaw01-A_uQFe03PdGig2vJLGA) and [VOSviewer](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&... |
2018/10/18 | 1,054 | 4,129 | <issue_start>username_0: I was recently asked this question by an academic colleague and realised I didn't know the answer.
Academic X is about to retire from a computer science department and has a set of undergraduate lecture slides he is very proud of. He would like to put them online so they are available to the w... |
2018/10/18 | 829 | 3,640 | <issue_start>username_0: What does it actually mean by the sentence "tuition is paid for by the supervisor" ?
Why would the supervisor pay the tuition fee for a PhD student?<issue_comment>username_1: Different schools, departments and supervisors approach tuition payment differently. As far as I'm aware, most universi... |
2018/10/18 | 624 | 2,498 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently agreed to review a journal paper (in theoretical computer science). After I started to read it in depth, I found out it is much harder than I expected - over 60 pages with over 20 theorems with detailed proofs. Also, the topic is not exactly my expertise - I do not know a lot of the ... |
2018/10/18 | 705 | 2,859 | <issue_start>username_0: So I just took a very simple, all-multiple choice test. I will straight up say I did not cheat, put bags phone etc across the room from where I sat, and the test was very easy. I marked all questions that I’m not sure of with an asterisk, and then when I went over the test papers, I wrote down ... |
2018/10/18 | 1,404 | 5,941 | <issue_start>username_0: I have now experienced multiple instances where a group of researchers involved me in a grant application where the total awarded funds were quite small compared to the number of researchers in the group. Thus I find the benefit of a successful application very small compared to the time spent ... |
2018/10/19 | 2,993 | 12,161 | <issue_start>username_0: It's no secret that computer science is a heavily male-dominated discipline. It's so male-dominated that some people have [given up trying to attract more women](https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3919/my-answer-on-writing-ads-to-attract-female-phd-candidates-was-deleted-why). Ye... |
2018/10/19 | 500 | 2,239 | <issue_start>username_0: I am thinking a bit ahead of time and I would like to do some networking with some groups in my research field, for probably a future postdoc opportunity with them after my PhD. However I am afraid my supervisor prevents me to do that, she doesn't seem very happy with the idea of me doing some ... |
2018/10/19 | 8,132 | 33,209 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a PhD candidate from Asia currently visiting a prestigious university in Europe. Recently I've noticed quite some "strange" behaviours of male "colleagues" around me (by "colleagues", I don't mean that we work on the same projects or from the same office. They are just people who work at or... |
2018/10/19 | 1,653 | 7,011 | <issue_start>username_0: I have seen colleagues present the same data analysis multiple times over several years.
By present, I mean two things. First, present the work to other faculty and PhD students in departmental seminars and informal brown bags. Second, I mean present the research to journals by submitting it f... |
2018/10/20 | 2,882 | 12,271 | <issue_start>username_0: As a Computer Science student, I have to deal with a lot of new information every day. While learning new concepts, we also have to learn multiple programming languages at the same time, learning mathematics and a lot of other stuff. I am a very committed student, and i invest almost all my tim... |
2018/10/20 | 479 | 1,866 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently completed my MS and joined as a Ph.D. candidate in the same university. But I want to move out. I am filling the application for an other position where they have asked the following:
>
> Please give the full contact details for you at your permanent institute.
>
>
> If you ... |
2018/10/21 | 1,564 | 6,890 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a first year undergraduate student of mathematics. Nevertheless, I have (self-)studied a total of 19 (UG and PG) books, cover to cover already, at home not in classes. The method of studying was to study a book (i.e. for first time) without doing the exercises with understanding at least 8... |
2018/10/21 | 1,148 | 4,714 | <issue_start>username_0: I have just started a thesis-based masters degree.
My supervisor has asked me to help with another student's project. So I am working with another student of my supervisor. We work together and send him a report weekly. We send reports on time.
One time our report had a mistake, the professo... |
2018/10/21 | 549 | 2,376 | <issue_start>username_0: Last week I met my mentor (and also my potential supervisor) for my PhD. He suggested me to read a paper which is also related to my master's thesis.
I read that paper and some questions popped into my mind and I want to share them with him. Also, I would like to impress him and show him I ful... |
2018/10/21 | 702 | 2,998 | <issue_start>username_0: I had worked on a project for my bachelor thesis in 2012 and in 2013, I moved to Germany for further study. Now when I am facing several interviews for Ph.D. and the supervisors ask if I have published my bachelor thesis or not. So I was thinking to add some computational data and publish my wo... |
2018/10/21 | 558 | 2,428 | <issue_start>username_0: My Masters adviser (computer science) is demanding I hand over all my work including data sets, code and configurations. I do not want to be overly specific just in case. This seems fishy... or am I paranoid.
* Notes:
He demanded that "we" publish an additional paper in addition to the thesi... |
2018/10/21 | 894 | 3,910 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose one is starting their math PhD in the US and is considering doing research in logic. Let's roughly split "logic" into "pure logic" and "applied logic".
How hard will it be for them to get academic positions to a math PhD with specialization in logic (given that they don't come from a t... |
2018/10/21 | 1,190 | 5,204 | <issue_start>username_0: Between
1. [Doing a PhD by joining a predetermined research problem](https://www.kit.edu/research/phdprograms.php)
2. [Doing a PhD by formulating one's own research problem](https://www.wi.tum.de/programs/doctoral-program/applicants/)
is it possible to say that option #1 is a more advantageo... |
2018/10/22 | 1,412 | 6,250 | <issue_start>username_0: I have just completed my first year of a 50/50 coursework/research masters program in physics. I have a supervisor, but have not yet started the research component, which is meant to run until the end of next year.
After a year of graduate study I've realised that a lot of the theoretical phys... |
2018/10/22 | 1,646 | 7,267 | <issue_start>username_0: So I'm faced with an ethical dilemma and want some second opinions on how to approach this situation with a poorly calculated decision that my professor made.
So we have groups of 4 people for group projects which were created randomly by the professor. A new student joined the late (1-2 weeks ... |
2018/10/22 | 1,466 | 6,342 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to submit an abstract for a poster presentation, I'm just worried that if I tell my supervisor before submitting, she might say I shouldn't do it, because she rarely wants me to be away from the office. So I was thinking on submitting the abstract and once I'm accepted telling her ... |
2018/10/22 | 2,017 | 8,741 | <issue_start>username_0: I started a new graduate program in September. After a few weeks weeks, I chose to withdraw due to personal/health concerns.
One of the reasons I accepted the offer of admission was because it included a scholarship that covered tuition. After I withdrew, they took away the scholarship (expect... |
2018/10/22 | 696 | 3,033 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say that a person assigned male at birth identifies as a woman. At which stage of their transition process would they be allowed to claim themselves as a woman in the context of college applications or scholarships? Is merely identifying as a woman sufficient? Or maybe legally changing yo... |
2018/10/23 | 663 | 2,900 | <issue_start>username_0: Some papers have the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) which uniquely identify them, some other have an oai identifier (e.g. oai:arXiv.org:1402.3722). Even though I inspected the metadata of different sources like [core](https://core.ac.uk/), [microsoft academic](https://academic.microsoft.com/),... |
2018/10/23 | 1,228 | 5,093 | <issue_start>username_0: I was wondering if there are any computer science related conferences or journals that review their submissions publicly. So everyone can see what the authors submitted and what the reviewers responded with.
I was told that this will create bias between academics but I don't think that will be ... |
2018/10/23 | 1,611 | 7,038 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in my 3rd year of postdocs and started to apply for Lecturer positions in Computer Science the UK (the entry level permanent faculty positions). As part of my interview process, I am required to give a 15 minute presentation about my current research and my three year research plan, and am ... |
2018/10/23 | 602 | 2,578 | <issue_start>username_0: Last year I was doing a PhD in an area I happened to not be interested in after a while, and I decided to change PhD project which end up taking me to a different university and different country.
At the moment my topic is good, of my interest, but I don't like the way my supervisory team wor... |
2018/10/23 | 1,245 | 5,542 | <issue_start>username_0: I am interested in astronomy/astrophysics and cosmology. It is my understanding that choosing the best supervisor/team to work with for the PHD is more crucial than choosing the best (and most reputable) university.
If the above statement is correct. How can one identify the desired supervisor... |
2018/10/24 | 1,813 | 7,587 | <issue_start>username_0: I was writing a 3-question examination today (undergrad) with 1200 other students when our professor comes in after ~2/3 of the exam and changes a question to make it solvable. This was a 1.5 hour exam where each question was designed to take 30 minutes so unless you did the other two questions... |
2018/10/24 | 1,433 | 5,972 | <issue_start>username_0: Here's the situation: She was an undergrad, I was a grad TA. At that point, our interactions were totally professional and limited to the classroom. However, she and I both since graduated and left the college/city where we got our degree. I now am at another university working as a postdoc and... |
2018/10/24 | 498 | 2,141 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm reviewing a paper after minor revisions, and can partially see another reviewer's comments in the response letter.
The other reviewer asks the authors to do X, but the authors argue that it's not worthwhile doing X. I've done things like X myself, and have found it not worthwhile (for the ... |
2018/10/24 | 1,256 | 5,551 | <issue_start>username_0: In my department (math, US, medium-sized public university), the current practice is that undergraduate students declare a major when they enter, and are assigned a faculty advisor. The advisor is always a full-time faculty member, and will normally continue to advise them until they graduate. ... |
2018/10/24 | 2,908 | 12,503 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I have graded exams (50 pcs.) together with a colleague from another department. I felt like my colleague was awarding too many points for wrong/incomplete answers. For example, awarding points for just writing information of the question (value and units of parameters) on the answer ... |
2018/10/24 | 1,071 | 4,350 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been asked to become a [MathSciNet](http://mathscinet.ams.org/) reviewer. I personally find the database very useful, but I am a bit held back by the fact the database is kept behind a paywall.
What is actually the licensing/copyright status of reviews submitted to MathSciNet? Do author... |
2018/10/24 | 320 | 1,206 | <issue_start>username_0: Do I still need to write e.g. "willingness to pay (WTP)" when there is already a list of abbreviations containing WTP at the beginning of my paper?<issue_comment>username_1: I would say that it isn't essential, but it might be a service to your readers to do that. They will, then, see the term ... |
2018/10/24 | 647 | 2,851 | <issue_start>username_0: I have read several papers written by the professor and want to ask for him to collaborate with me, that is, to help revise my paper and finally make it publish.
I'm concerning with:
1) is it okay to do this?
2) how to effectively ask for help?
3) is it safe to deliver an unpublished work t... |
2018/10/24 | 3,069 | 13,959 | <issue_start>username_0: I am assisting a statistics course in a university, and my main job in the course is conducting problem solving sessions. The course is taught in English, and students interact with me in English. However, there is one particular student who keeps using their native language. Whenever he does t... |
2018/10/24 | 835 | 3,514 | <issue_start>username_0: So I'm doing a research project on a problem in graph theory and my conference deadline is just 3 weeks away. I need to develop a novel approximation algorithm for this problem and test it on synthetic data. I've already read a bunch of papers and have done a bunch of experiments to discover ce... |
2018/10/24 | 844 | 3,658 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted a manuscript to a reputable journal, the article was rejected because it didn't pass the grammar check. The journal editor also mentioned the low quality of the figures.
My ex-supervisors never trained me how to write a research article. I would be grateful for recommendations... |
2018/10/25 | 962 | 4,168 | <issue_start>username_0: During my short career as a researcher I observed a few seemingly unethical behaviors by Editors and Associate Editors:
* being asked to include a particular new author in order to be accepted
* being asked to cite articles with no apparent link with my article
* being told by the conference T... |
2018/10/25 | 592 | 2,465 | <issue_start>username_0: Context: Say author A writes: "the authors B in Ref [30] found two consequences of the standing posture i.e sitting in the workplace on the health of industrial workers".
Actually, it should be "the authors B in Ref [30] found two consequences of the standing posture i.e **not** sitting in th... |
2018/10/25 | 4,860 | 21,135 | <issue_start>username_0: My class is currently further learning our relational database / SQL as part of the course.
The lecturer we have currently is restricting us to learning specifically Oracle SQL syntax rather than allowing us an option to using PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, etc.
When we brought up our preference ... |
2018/10/25 | 826 | 3,164 | <issue_start>username_0: The role of supervisor is a key role. The relationship between the supervisor and the students should be healthy.
In this context, in India, there is a lot of difference between male and female students. If a male supervisor frequently holds meetings outside of the workplace, male students ca... |
2018/10/25 | 765 | 3,468 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm applying for PhD programs in Computer Science, which allow a year of rotation and courses, before the student officially joins a lab for their thesis. I've had research experience in Computational Biology, but being a Math major, I've had a relatively (relative to average CS graduates) larg... |
2018/10/26 | 583 | 2,536 | <issue_start>username_0: In a *semi*-hypothetical situation, assume that I'm a postdoc at a certain university and my supervisor pushed (forced) me to work on a journal paper that I hated but finished eventually. I say I hated it because the work is so silly, not at par with my previously published excellent work and w... |
2018/10/26 | 503 | 2,072 | <issue_start>username_0: This is related to [the "what to say in a diversity statement" question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/60094/faculty-positions-what-to-say-in-a-statement-on-diversity), but I'm asking something slightly different:
>
> Who reads a Diversity Statement in a faculty application (ex... |
2018/10/26 | 650 | 2,520 | <issue_start>username_0: Many have suggested me to include a sentence like this while asking for recommendations:
"Do you feel that you are able to give me a strong reference?"
I am afraid that my third referee, who was only a professor of one my courses, knows me but not well enough to give a "strong reference". So ... |
2018/10/26 | 470 | 1,826 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate student and recently I've been trying to find a private tutor to help me further expand my knowledge (outside of a scope of my courses). I've discovered one of the TAs advertises themselves as a private tutor. Would it be ethically wrong to hire them? Are there any potentia... |
2018/10/26 | 805 | 3,472 | <issue_start>username_0: Consider the following scenario:
Assume you try to publish a paper in a journal, but before sending the paper, you place the paper on Arxiv.
Then, the journal rejects the paper because of it lacks novelty due to an improper literature survey.
Furthermore, Arxiv does not permit permanently d... |
2018/10/26 | 386 | 1,630 | <issue_start>username_0: In some C.V. I see the statement "To appear in X Journal" in front of some papers. What is the exact meaning of that? Does it mean that the paper has been submitted to X journal?<issue_comment>username_1: It probably means more than that - it indicates that the paper has been accepted. If it's ... |
2018/10/26 | 1,246 | 5,148 | <issue_start>username_0: Hi I am a perfectionist electrical and electronics student who struggles with studying because I cannot focus on the subject or context as I cannot let go of the questions or details that trouble me. I always feel like I must be an expert regarding the subject and be able to answer all the ques... |
2018/10/26 | 554 | 2,393 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm looking to clean up our citation database and would like to be able to record the institutions that authors are affiliated, especially in cases where a publication is reporting on a collaboration beyond a single lab or institution. However as far as I can tell, Zotero, Mendeley and Papers (... |
2018/10/26 | 1,092 | 4,611 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a senior finishing dual degrees in chemistry and mathematics and missed an exam in an upper level chemistry course due to a brief hospitalization which was fully documented. I was granted a make-up exam by the instructor along with a few other students. Our exam was 14 pages long, five pag... |
2018/10/26 | 1,222 | 5,307 | <issue_start>username_0: How do you decide how much money to request? Must you have a detailed list of costs? How much money can be taken by the PI, for instance, for summer pay? I really don't understand how the numbers are reached; they seem totally arbitrary to me.<issue_comment>username_1: For senior personnel (lik... |
2018/10/27 | 1,561 | 6,621 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a grader for a CS course at the college institution I attend. The professor I am TAing for is a full-time employee at a company. He is teaching this CS course on top of doing that. The first exam and homework assignment have been collected. He has effectively told me that he "trusts my jud... |
2018/10/27 | 903 | 3,660 | <issue_start>username_0: Although it is generally believed that grades in one's PhD program are deemed as unimportant (so I am not asking whether grades are important for PhD students or not), I still see many PhD students include their GPA in their CV and I guess there might be a reason for them to do so.
I wonder if... |
2018/10/27 | 877 | 3,590 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently pursuing a Bachelor if Finance, but I have a huge interest on Statistics. I was wondering whether BSc in a non technical subject (With technical I mean Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science etc.) affects a potential academic career in Statistics.
Can MSc and PhD in Statistics or... |
2018/10/27 | 2,098 | 9,137 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a math PhD student in a foreign country. When finishing my papers, my advisor (who is a big name in the field) always proposes me to submit them to a journal. The problem is that so far none of these have been top-tier journals. On the other hand, in my mind, there is no doubt that the res... |
2018/10/27 | 2,204 | 9,665 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been in distress for the last several months because of this. My PhD advisor somehow decided to start her own field research in the same region where I have been working on for a few years now. Then when I was doing my fieldwork last time, she was there too and she used the same resources ... |
2018/10/28 | 648 | 2,920 | <issue_start>username_0: I have had an admission for Spring semester (2019) with funding for PhD in Physics at a USA university. In my application, I mentioned that my area of interest is biophysics and experimental condensed matter physics. However, if my area of interest got changed (Assume for high energy physics or... |