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2019/11/03 | 998 | 4,286 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to apply for PhD program in mechanical engineering at Stanford. Furthermore, I want to conduct research in the area of computer vision and computer graphics with application to robotics, manufacturing and mechanical industry. However, there are not any professors in mechanical engineerin... |
2019/11/04 | 2,873 | 11,155 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently completed my Ph.D. in Germany. I believe my dissertation was evaluated extremely unfairly. For my dissertation, I published seven papers in high-impact international medical journals (IF from 3 to 6). I used four of them as core papers and three of them as additional publications. I ... |
2019/11/04 | 726 | 2,870 | <issue_start>username_0: The title says it all, I studied very hard I would say, and it’s seemed to amount to nothing. I mainly focused on one part of the material since we only had to solve 2 out of the 4 problems on the exam and usually 2 questions where from what I focused on. As luck had it, there was only 1 proble... |
2019/11/04 | 7,266 | 30,967 | <issue_start>username_0: 10 years ago, I got an undergraduate degree in IT/CompSci from a good school. I spent most of my hours playing video games or drinking beer, and learned only enough to get a barely passing GPA. I never used the degree, as I joined the military and did the minimum amount of time for my paid educ... |
2019/11/04 | 1,207 | 4,865 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently applying for PhD positions in the US, having completed a Master's degree in Engineering in the UK and then working in Industry for the past 13 years. I'm a bit confused as to the extent to which (if at all) a Master's thesis is considered to be 'published'?
To my knowledge, my Ma... |
2019/11/04 | 498 | 1,806 | <issue_start>username_0: I am attempting to identify how Google Scholar chooses which publications to rank highly in search results.
I'm aware that Google Scholar uses metadata from academic websites, but therein my understanding of the process ends.
My query: What parts of Google Scholar's process for indexing and r... |
2019/11/05 | 1,034 | 4,276 | <issue_start>username_0: I have just began my first year as a math graduate student at a US school. I am having an issue in the fact that
During my undergraduate years, I would only take 2-3 classes a semester, and usually only one or two of them were a math class. This got me used to a particular style of learning; ... |
2019/11/05 | 430 | 1,778 | <issue_start>username_0: In one of my PhD papers I am using a statistical model that is not known in my field, and many readers (including my PhD supervisors) will not be familiar with it. I therefore dedicate a subsubsection of the paper to describing the method. Essentially I restate the mathematics of the original p... |
2019/11/05 | 631 | 2,757 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a post-doc researcher for two-months at a department (say A). I also graduated with my PhD from the same dept. The post-doc is not funded with any project but with department money and I am expected (pushed) to bring funding from industry partners as soon as possible.
I recentl... |
2019/11/05 | 684 | 3,062 | <issue_start>username_0: It sometimes happens that I receive referee requests for theoretical papers which deals with the same phenomena I do in my research, but from a totally different specific theoretical starting point. I am familiar enough with the "competitors'" theoretical framework that I can read the papers, b... |
2019/11/05 | 877 | 3,789 | <issue_start>username_0: My PhD research will be in numerical modeling of Selective laser melting (SLM) process. I will be using finite element method, Fortran and python programming and a bit of machine learning in my research. My research is going to be completely computational based. I will be using Abaqus finite el... |
2019/11/05 | 1,032 | 4,400 | <issue_start>username_0: I've heard a lot of horror stories about PhD programs taking several years, and that US universities typically force you to go through many steps before you're able to be considered for graduation.
I'm interested in pursuing a PhD in the field of artificial intelligence, I already have a prett... |
2019/11/05 | 554 | 2,454 | <issue_start>username_0: Research has become more and more complex and difficult to be successfully conducted by a single person. However, there are fields (such as some branches of engineering) in which a researcher can conduct pretty high standard research without wasting anybody's time or resources (for example, usi... |
2019/11/05 | 638 | 2,493 | <issue_start>username_0: I accepted a PhD offer from a major public research university in the US this year. However, turns out that the university makes students compete for funding and try to join a group in the first month of the first year. So my POI's chose different students and were not able to take me in. So I ... |
2019/11/05 | 538 | 2,369 | <issue_start>username_0: I believe that including references is important, especially for a chemistry conference poster. However, I have more than two dozens of citations so it is way too lengthy.
Should I still include the reference section or should I simply explain when asked?<issue_comment>username_1: Of course y... |
2019/11/06 | 1,517 | 6,722 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there such a thing as a "quick paper"? My experience is that whenever someone proposes writing a "quick paper," it turns out to take much more time than expected, and/or gives poor results. But perhaps I am approaching it wrong.
In your experience, do "quick papers" ever turn out to be quic... |
2019/11/06 | 505 | 2,203 | <issue_start>username_0: Do professors who are in a position to write a recommendation letter for me "have to" write a recommendation letter? For example, my PhD advisor, can he suddenly (without any reason) say that he won't write a letter? I mean does it depend on their will?
More specifically, if some professor has ... |
2019/11/06 | 1,263 | 5,509 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a postdoc in mathematics. I had a conversation with a professor after he gave a talk at my university, and he seemed interested in my ideas. I sent him an email the next day to elaborate on our discussion, and he replied by inviting me to give a talk at his university. I accepted the invita... |
2019/11/06 | 845 | 3,692 | <issue_start>username_0: As departments grow, they tend to hire people in the same area of research. And different people from different communities call things differently. For example, people in Statistics may call it "Statistical learning", while others "Pattern recognition". If several departments or people within ... |
2019/11/06 | 548 | 2,057 | <issue_start>username_0: I came across several collections that are of great interest to me: they are books that summarize the knowledge of a specific field in about a hundred pages. There is, for example, the "Que sais-je?" collection in France or Oxford's "Very Short Introductions".
I was wondering if an equivalent ... |
2019/11/06 | 740 | 3,150 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it normal to contact people from an old postdoc position interview and ask if a job is still available? Last time I withdrew my application before results were announced. I was from a different country, had some family issues etc.
I noted that some positions in academia remain unfilled for ... |
2019/11/06 | 6,018 | 26,403 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently a third-year mathematics student at a top-20 private research university in the US (though mostly known for the humanities). We have a small undergraduate mathematics department, but we were offered the option to take many graduate courses. I’m always passionate about studying pur... |
2019/11/06 | 508 | 2,182 | <issue_start>username_0: Currently, I am an undergraduate majoring in biophysics and minoring in astrophysics. I've always had a deep passion for learning about the universe (especially the field of astrobiology) and I also have strong interests in "applied" biophysics.
Initially, I wanted to pursue higher education ... |
2019/11/07 | 2,525 | 10,200 | <issue_start>username_0: I am new to the field of academia, and when performing a literature review for really any topic, I am puzzled as to why some papers have so many co-authors.
Most papers have only about 1-5 authors which I can understand but I can't seem to understand how 10-20 people could all meaningfully con... |
2019/11/07 | 714 | 3,158 | <issue_start>username_0: I attended a conference in computer science recently, where we were not given any proceedings at the registration desk.
They said the papers are available online on the website of the conference inside the program detail.
However I know that the publisher (ACM) is not open access, and for exam... |
2019/11/07 | 500 | 2,125 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted a manuscript to an Elsevier journal on 8 days ago. However, the "Current Status" of the manuscript is still "Submitted to Journal".
Is it common that the status "Submitted to Journal" lasts over a week?
When I click "Send E-mail" in the "Action Links", it shows that "This letter... |
2019/11/07 | 1,359 | 5,773 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a second year PhD student in Canada. My first year was spent pursuing courses and getting a hang on the PhD topic that I am supposed to work for the next 4-5 years.
I always wanted to work in nanomechanics of materials, however, after applying for a year, I got accepted in just two progr... |
2019/11/07 | 859 | 3,755 | <issue_start>username_0: During university I had 3 professors I did close work with and that were really familiar with my work. Unfortunately one of them retired and as such is no longer willing to give me a reference letter.
I have been working in my field at a startup, and the CTO of the startup knows my work really... |
2019/11/07 | 1,561 | 6,783 | <issue_start>username_0: I am supervising a senior reading course. As I cannot give a name to a problem I am having with one of the students, I will give an example.
We are reading a paper, and he was not making progress. He was not able to read the introduction and present an overview of the paper's method and main r... |
2019/11/07 | 981 | 3,914 | <issue_start>username_0: I completed my Ph.D. a few months ago, but it was 4 years of a living hell. My PI was super abusive, I had severe depression and when I said I wanted to defend (6 months earlier than the deadline) because I couldn't bear it any longer she said: "you will only defend if I want you to".
Anyway, ... |
2019/11/07 | 757 | 3,114 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say that a journal article submission wordcount limit is 10,000 words. Does this mean that only really awesome or important submissions should be over 9,500 words? Or any article can be at 9,999 without predisposing the editors against it?<issue_comment>username_1: If you have 9,000 words... |
2019/11/07 | 1,233 | 5,415 | <issue_start>username_0: I've worked at several UK institutions over the past 10 years and one aspect that consistently raises my eyebrows is the reaction to student-staff liaison meetings\* from senior members of the team. Often, these meetings are merely an opportunity for the 'representative' to voice their **own** ... |
2019/11/08 | 2,087 | 7,690 | <issue_start>username_0: There is a concept circling in the air that
1. [doing a Ph.D. is a waste of time](https://medium.economist.com/why-doing-a-phd-is-often-a-waste-of-time-349206f9addb)
2. [a Ph.D. is worthless](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-phd-worthless-lesley-crane-phd-ma-bsc-hons/)
3. and [more](https://... |
2019/11/08 | 5,996 | 23,708 | <issue_start>username_0: Here's my rough understanding of differences in higher education in different countries:
* In the U.S., college is paid for in general by the individual student, not the state. On the other hand, access is basically universal, as anyone can attend a [community college](https://en.wikipedia.org... |
2019/11/08 | 1,335 | 5,019 | <issue_start>username_0: Can a professor (let's say a math professor) do something like an internship at a tech company during the summer as a way to keep their industry skills sharp / relevant? Does anyone ever do this?
Perhaps the word "internship" is not quite right, but the idea would be to show up, be useful for ... |
2019/11/08 | 402 | 1,591 | <issue_start>username_0: (Note: For international students)
If someone has a gap of more than 5 years after obtaining a masters degree, are they eligible for a PhD in the USA?<issue_comment>username_1: There is no restriction that a PhD should be done right after a Master's degree.
For instance, I knew a returning P... |
2019/11/08 | 3,210 | 11,707 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to find a better way of naming publications which I store on my local computer as PDFs. So far I have been doing something like this:
*<NAME>., <NAME>., <NAME>., <NAME>. (2014) - A GIS-based model to estimate flood consequences and the degree of accessibility and operability of st... |
2019/11/08 | 711 | 3,117 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm wondering what it is commonly considered to be of high value/importance amine the types of publications in applied linguistics/language teaching ? Is it journal article, conference paper, book chapter, books...?
What would be the best choice for Phd students seeking a position in Academia (... |
2019/11/08 | 736 | 3,209 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm thinking about conducting a research at a specific division of the university from which I received my PhD. I had a negative experience while I was there. And I keep hearing that many other students there are going through horrific experiences of abuse. I'd like to conduct a study case and ... |
2019/11/08 | 374 | 1,631 | <issue_start>username_0: How do European PhD interviews work when a candidate is not local? Are virtual interviews common?
Edit: In particular, I am interested in interviewing for a German CS position when I am in Slovenia.<issue_comment>username_1: Your question is too wide.
But in general, if you have a particular... |
2019/11/08 | 1,249 | 5,313 | <issue_start>username_0: I teach at a teaching university. Research is not a priority. I'm new to the university and am teaching full-time. I believe I've developed a rapport with the current cohort of senior students.
During one our classes, the discussion moved to the teaching of other faculty. This is a group of se... |
2019/11/09 | 2,040 | 8,658 | <issue_start>username_0: I have seen in certain types of questionnaires that the content is very similar, and that, possibly by coincidence, certain phrases are the same.
Let me give you an example: the organizational culture measurement questionnaires.
If one compares different questionnaires, you normally will fin... |
2019/11/09 | 1,963 | 8,307 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for faculty positions as assistant professor. I have two questions regarding recommendation letters.
(1) Is there is a limit for the number of references? For me, I have many research collaborators who I can ask them to write me a reference letter. Most of faculty positions ask ... |
2019/11/09 | 289 | 1,074 | <issue_start>username_0: I emailed a professor in Australia for a PhD program. In the response, and as a part of that, he told me "For scholarships, you need to be at least 85% and over". What does it mean? Is this refer to GPA or something else?<issue_comment>username_1: It may be GPA. It may be rank in your class. It... |
2019/11/09 | 1,188 | 4,713 | <issue_start>username_0: As part of a research project, I use results from [this paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.4995). It seems to have been published at least 3 times:
* [as an arXiv preprint from January 2012](https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.4995)
* [in a Springer book from 2012](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... |
2019/11/10 | 3,161 | 12,740 | <issue_start>username_0: I'am 2nd year PhD student and I'm in the phase of problem definition and exploration for my research. Other than research, I also do both RA (working on paper review, grants, etc) and TA jobs as well. On the TA job there are many things that I do, and she only recites the PowerPoint in front of... |
2019/11/10 | 404 | 1,758 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently filling out an application for gradute study, which includes a section on employment history.
During my time as an undergraduate, I carried out two summer research projects in pure maths. One of them was based at my home institution, for which I obtained a monthly stipend from ... |
2019/11/10 | 530 | 2,165 | <issue_start>username_0: At least in the field of computer science, I have noticed this to be a common practice.
Why exactly is this done? I find it harder to read and follow.<issue_comment>username_1: There are some established standards for page layout in publications. One that I'm familiar with is a set of patterns... |
2019/11/10 | 476 | 2,231 | <issue_start>username_0: I hold a masters in mathematics and philosophy (emphasis on logic) and, for personal reasons, I will be joining the US Navy as an officer doing cryptology. I'm curious if I apply afterward to programs (math or computer science programs) specifically doing cryptology (or number theory or related... |
2019/11/11 | 965 | 4,200 | <issue_start>username_0: The pool of applicants for a PhD program consists of people applying straight after undergrad, and also people who have done masters programs. Do students with masters degrees have an edge over undergrads in the process? Do admissions officers judge undergrads and masters students differently? ... |
2019/11/11 | 677 | 2,798 | <issue_start>username_0: I spent 5 years on my mechanical engineering PhD. I think that my thesis work could have been done in 2 years by a serious student. I have wasted my time on futile work.
I don't know how to justify the time spent aon my PhD and my low research output to my committee.<issue_comment>username_1: ... |
2019/11/11 | 441 | 1,743 | <issue_start>username_0: If everyone made an equal contribution in effort to write the paper, but no on the team but myself decided to post the paper on arXiv and no one opposed my decision to arXiv post, should I myself, the poster, or the corresponding author be the first author, or should the authors be listed alpha... |
2019/11/11 | 1,548 | 6,738 | <issue_start>username_0: A friend of mine is considered a minority in her research field, for being female. Recently, her advisor wanted to nominate her paper for an award sponsored by a kind of Women's Engineering Society. (Not actually the WES; I don't want to give away field-specific information for her sake.) To qu... |
2019/11/11 | 4,185 | 17,638 | <issue_start>username_0: **TLDR:**
I am attenting a seminar where the grade is based entirely on a talk I hold. The responsible lecturer fell asleep during the talk multiple times, and I am worried about my grade, feel insulted and am unsure how to communicate these issues.
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For a seminar, I was required to hold a... |
2019/11/11 | 832 | 3,586 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently a final-year student on a BSc Mathematics programme in the UK. For the first two years of my degree I've mostly adopted a '2:1 will do' approach and didn't focus on my studies all too much, sometimes even cramming in an entire course the night before the exam. As a result, my gra... |
2019/11/11 | 1,658 | 6,967 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I have started to regularly write on chalkboards. I have also found out that I am quite terrible at it, although my handwriting is quite good.
Any tips or strategies for a beginner are welcomed.<issue_comment>username_1: I assumed that chalkboards were last used when dinosaurs ruled ... |
2019/11/12 | 394 | 1,653 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it allowed to take notes during the "read instructions" stage of TOEFL? At this stage the timer is stopped and it's a good time to take notes such as drawing tables for speaking and writing sections. But I'm not sure on whether it is allowed in the exam. I'm asking this question because I di... |
2019/11/12 | 2,807 | 11,477 | <issue_start>username_0: I was the teaching assistant (TA) for a very introductory physics course at a large state university. In the course of grading for this class, I came to learn that my university used the same course material as many other universities had for the equivalent course for more than twenty years. Th... |
2019/11/12 | 2,459 | 9,893 | <issue_start>username_0: So in writing a math paper, if I am writing a proof of a theorem and I need to refer a lemma that comes later in the same paper. What is the proper way
to say that? For example if I am proving a theorem in page 10 and I need a lemma
in page 15, how should I say that in the proof?<issue_commen... |
2019/11/12 | 1,453 | 6,279 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in a situation where my paper is accepted conditionally, thus I need to revise it in some way as stated by the reviewers. While two reviews were encouraging and mostly constructive, the third review is way off from the other reviewers in their judgement and included sources that I "forgot" ... |
2019/11/12 | 529 | 2,229 | <issue_start>username_0: I am preparing a conference paper. I have been looking for references for a specific topic related to my research. I have not found any that were not written by current/former members or my research lab.
How common is it and how acceptable is it to submit a paper where most or all of the refer... |
2019/11/12 | 585 | 2,418 | <issue_start>username_0: Although I have seen a lot of questions similar to this, my situation is substantially different. I want to pursue a Ph.D. but since the deadlines are soon approaching for this academic year (most of the deadlines are in December) and due to my lack of readiness (partially due to my poor planni... |
2019/11/12 | 426 | 1,825 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm doing some history of science research. I want to build networks of researchers that cite each other (or otherwise do similar research).
I'd like to search: **For a researcher X, find which *researcher* has cited them most frequently**.
Is there some tool that can do this kind of thing? ... |
2019/11/12 | 419 | 1,823 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm currently solving a coding problem. I remembered that i came across this problem in another book i studied myself to improve my coding in the summer. That book has the same problem to this assignment. I understand the answer and know how to explain it but not sure if it is cheating to use t... |
2019/11/12 | 1,116 | 4,284 | <issue_start>username_0: It seems like a very difficult problem to discern whether a "peer-reviewed" journal is reputable. When a journal claims to be peer-reviewed, is there a commonly-agreed-on definition of what this means? Is there a publicly verifiable process to verify whether a journal is peer-reviewed?
[This q... |
2019/11/13 | 3,438 | 15,347 | <issue_start>username_0: Let's say Alice has written a paper that attacks a well-known problem in a clever new way. Her paper ends with "these methods work up to N = 10; for larger N, the calculations are prohibitively expensive".
Bob reads the paper and successfully duplicates Alice's results, but where Alice only ha... |
2019/11/13 | 810 | 3,435 | <issue_start>username_0: I am paying for my studies and I have chosen my own theme for my MS thesis. It is in artificial general intelligence and symbolic methods, rather rare theme. I am promising to do all the work fully myself, with some guidance by external researchers. Noone in the department is willing to be the ... |
2019/11/13 | 929 | 3,880 | <issue_start>username_0: I saw some reports about how corrupt teaching staff in some colleges in some countries forces their students to comply with their unreasonable demands (e.g. to conceal a huge flaw in the teacher's research, or to stop speaking their own native language) by threatening to write negative emails a... |
2019/11/13 | 779 | 3,135 | <issue_start>username_0: From the very first assignment an undergraduate student has been submitting work which has been heavily and repeatedly revised by her father (who is an A level teacher of the subject of her degree). Is that collusion? If so, how can it be proven?<issue_comment>username_1: If you state it accura... |
2019/11/13 | 960 | 3,894 | <issue_start>username_0: Some background, for my bachelor of science degree I have to do a practical research (thesis) for a company that develops software.
At the end of my Introduction chapter I arived at the following central question:
>
> Which testing strategy should company X implement to decrease the
> time... |
2019/11/13 | 347 | 1,363 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to submit a short math paper to a journal. During the process of submission I am asked to suggest the Editor \ Reviewers. In this respect, can I write the name of my co-advisor of my Ph.D as a potential reviewer? Need to say, we have a joint paper with my co-advisor.<issue_comment>us... |
2019/11/13 | 669 | 2,991 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying to graduate programs and one of my research professors will write me a recommendation letter, but wants me to write a rough outline of the letter. He will add his own content and edit all my work, but wants me to highlight things he might not know.
I am not sure how to write this... |
2019/11/13 | 841 | 3,664 | <issue_start>username_0: US [REU programs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Experiences_for_Undergraduates) sometimes accept "self-funded" international students. However, **do they also sponsor the student visa (J1 or F1) for the selected international candidates?** Or do the students have to use a tourist visa?... |
2019/11/13 | 1,457 | 5,727 | <issue_start>username_0: **TL;DR** My bachelor's degree didn't leave me with a solid education in mathematics and I'm not sure how to start a career in pure mathematics from there.
To start with, I'm 24 years old, living in Indonesia in Southeast Asia, and I just graduated from a low-ranking university (even for this ... |
2019/11/13 | 1,053 | 4,401 | <issue_start>username_0: I have graduated from university and am no longer enrolled. Even while there, I didn't really have any experience finding and reading research papers written by others.
Is there an online database where people post their papers so that others can download to read?
Looking for a list of these... |
2019/11/14 | 1,768 | 7,517 | <issue_start>username_0: For some context, I am enrolled in a PhD in applied mathematics.
There is a recent work where I, my thesis adviser and a friend of his in industry have worked together, with at least half of the work done by me, I even tutored the colleague to help him start at the beginning.
This work got p... |
2019/11/14 | 565 | 2,027 | <issue_start>username_0: My paper was accepted in one of Elsevier's journal and it was recently published, but there is no pagination instead they have this "article number" for example "Volume 123, Article No. 212021" similar to those in some Springer and Royal Society journals. The paper is already included in an iss... |
2019/11/14 | 261 | 1,095 | <issue_start>username_0: How should I describe the relationship between me and postdoc in our lab if I am getting recommendation letter for phD admission?
Advisor? Superviser? reasearch advisor?...
She has a title of research professor.<issue_comment>username_1: Why not just ask her/your lab's PI if you're not sure? Th... |
2019/11/14 | 567 | 2,133 | <issue_start>username_0: As a follow up to [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/139733/how-to-manage-publications-on-a-local-computer) I am now trying to use JabRef along with @Jonas Steins [python script](https://github.com/jonasstein/pybibtexcleaner) to manage a small literature database on my... |
2019/11/14 | 1,116 | 4,714 | <issue_start>username_0: I have got an official postdoc offer letter. The HR now is requesting my signature and then return the letter back asap. But I haven't made a final decision to sign it or not, because there may be another offer coming very soon, which seems better to me. I wonder if it is appropriate to delay t... |
2019/11/14 | 2,788 | 11,401 | <issue_start>username_0: I was in a library and by opening at random a book about university tests I crashed against this page
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8yv2S.jpg)
This is meaningless, a finite set of numbers can't define a succession and this is ... |
2019/11/15 | 4,019 | 17,122 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working in a academia-related field and the type of relationships tend to be pretty much as kind of mentor-students. I have mentored many persons in the past with very nice experiences and results. But today I am worried about the current one.
As acknowledged by past and current colleague... |
2019/11/15 | 1,869 | 6,941 | <issue_start>username_0: There is this excellent thread about teaching workloads across the world on Academia SE: [Is 100 hours per year of teaching a heavy load for a lecturer?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/91364/is-100-hours-per-year-of-teaching-a-heavy-load-for-a-lecturer/135890)
I would now like to... |
2019/11/15 | 444 | 1,786 | <issue_start>username_0: I am IT Director of a Company and I'm regularly invited by Italian universities to do lectures on Innovation or Information Systems, usually 5/6 lectures per year. Can I claim University Guest Lecturer title in my CV?<issue_comment>username_1: A "lecturer" is usually considered an academic titl... |
2019/11/15 | 535 | 2,181 | <issue_start>username_0: Last summer I failed my comps/quals of my PhD program. I did not have a chance to take a second try, as my spring semester grades were poor. The first semester (fall) was good, though.
I could not fully concentrate on my studies during the spring semester as there were some family issues in m... |
2019/11/15 | 1,581 | 6,854 | <issue_start>username_0: I pointed a professor (my major advisor) to a resource (a data set), in an email exchange during the beginning of the semester, he published a paper based on this data set several months later, however I had no idea he was working on the project. He did not notify or mention to me about using t... |
2019/11/15 | 1,382 | 5,890 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a student in the technical field A in a European university. I'm currently doing a master thesis in a field that's notoriously at the interface of subjects A and B, I haven't officially started the thesis time yet, but I've been doing preliminary work for about a month and a half and there ... |
2019/11/15 | 2,157 | 9,582 | <issue_start>username_0: Here's the scenario: I was asked to review an article for a given journal. I did, the authors addressed my comments/corrections, and now the manuscript is back with me for a second time to review the reviewed version.
I don't think that there's anything *particularly wrong* with the article at... |
2019/11/15 | 635 | 2,737 | <issue_start>username_0: When a conference gathers more money (e.g., from sponsorships, registration fees, or public subsidies) than what was spent for organizing the conference, where does the conference budget surplus go?<issue_comment>username_1: In many (most?) fields, conferences have sponsors. In my field (CS) a ... |
2019/11/16 | 877 | 4,085 | <issue_start>username_0: In many countries there are funding sources that enable students or postdocs go study or work at a university of their choice, usually abroad. Usually for these applications, the applicant has to get in touch with a potential supervisor to get a letter of invitation and approve their research s... |
2019/11/16 | 278 | 1,305 | <issue_start>username_0: My professor wants to give me a letter of recommendation for a graduate school that I am applying which I will submit via scanning. She didn't give offline recommendation to any One. So she wants to know, when I will submit the recommendation, will there be any email sent from the admission cou... |
2019/11/16 | 754 | 3,008 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently working on PhD applications in Engineering to start in Fall 2020. I am in my late 30s and have one child. I am planning to apply to at least one quite highly-ranked school in the US.
I am wondering if it might be seen as a negative for the admissions process that I have a child?... |
2019/11/16 | 486 | 2,061 | <issue_start>username_0: Usually distinct journals have their own templates for latex, some of them require you to use specific format for pictures etc. However sometimes you write an article and you do not know what journal will be your target for submission. What temples do you use in such scenario? Do you have any c... |
2019/11/17 | 846 | 3,403 | <issue_start>username_0: I had a very bad experience with a colleague and just do not like/trust him. (Eavesdropping, lying, ...) I am working on a project with my mentor, and know they shared information with the colleague I do not trust. How can I politely point that out to them?<issue_comment>username_1: As a meta c... |
2019/11/17 | 1,411 | 5,401 | <issue_start>username_0: It's everywhere, but no matter who I ask I can never get a straight answer, only "I don't know"s. What is the advantage of using multiplication and negative powers over just using division when writing out units, as in the question title. Granted, in most cases they use superscript rather than ... |
2019/11/17 | 1,044 | 4,373 | <issue_start>username_0: I missed a class where I was supposed to hand in an assignment.
I arrived at my school at the end of the class, and the teacher had already left, so I sent them immediately by email.
It has been a week, and I understand that they are probably busy.
I imagine that a professor's inbox can receiv... |
2019/11/17 | 3,792 | 15,283 | <issue_start>username_0: I am presenting my PhD thesis in front of my committee next week and I feel that I have just not done enough. My work is simple and I also feel that I have poor theoretical foundations and am going to be an embarrassment when quizzed by my committee.
I am not feeling confident about presenting... |
2019/11/17 | 300 | 1,308 | <issue_start>username_0: Me and my supervisor were written a paper on medical imaging as a part of my master thesis, we sent a paper to a journal for publishing, after a period of time the journal send us back the paper with some comments from each reviewer. In our perspective a number of questions from reviewers comes... |
2019/11/17 | 989 | 4,149 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently an undergraduate in Canada, but I am interested in math/comp sci PhD in the US. I heard that an academically supporting environment(the environment of the school? of the department?) in PhD study is very important. Also, I heard in some schools, PhD students don't like helping ea... |
2019/11/17 | 1,161 | 4,485 | <issue_start>username_0: I have seen a number of postings along the lines of "Am I too old for tenure track?". While the consensus was "no," I am suspicious of the meritocracy holding for F grants. These are training grants designed to develop the next generation not scientists. Someone who is applying for an F31 at 40... |