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2020/01/18 | 865 | 3,627 | <issue_start>username_0: I am supervising a PhD student, enrolled at another University, where the co-supervisor is employed. We developed some useful software in her thesis and published 3 papers. In this development another member from the other university also participated. Now she will defend her thesis and leave, ... |
2020/01/19 | 450 | 1,978 | <issue_start>username_0: For a PhD student in my University, there will be a doctoral review committee presentation for every six months.
Course work is for first eighteen months.
But from fourth semester, student has to present his research work. In general, the presentation includes the summary of research papers... |
2020/01/19 | 342 | 1,484 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted my paper to a conference A, where it has been presented and is included in the proceedings and is yet to be published online and would be completed in few months. How do I cite this paper in my follow up work to be submitted to another conference B, whose deadlines are way befo... |
2020/01/19 | 603 | 2,832 | <issue_start>username_0: My ideal experiment to test my hypothesis would involve launching a large apparatus into deep space - and would cost millions of dollars, which I dont have.
Instead, if I develop a software model/simulation to test my hypothesis, is this an acceptable alternative? (in order for my ideas to be ... |
2020/01/19 | 904 | 3,748 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Masters students in mathematics at a University in Asia.
I am applying to European Universities for Phd position in number theory.
I am interested in Analytic number theory and wanted to do my Masters dissertation in it, but no one in my university works in analytic number theory.
... |
2020/01/19 | 2,316 | 9,620 | <issue_start>username_0: For a little background- I'm a 3rd year engineering student, planning to do masters in pure mathematics. I've been studying abstract group theory and real analysis, although I'm extremely interested about these kind of thinking and reasoning what worries me is that during my high school days th... |
2020/01/19 | 1,601 | 7,072 | <issue_start>username_0: I teach several courses for computer science undergrads, including algorithms, programming and game development. In all my courses there are weekly homework assignments. I encourage my students to do the assignments in teams of 2 or 3, both to practice team-work and to learn from each other's i... |
2020/01/19 | 1,029 | 4,550 | <issue_start>username_0: [The department I am applying to](https://icme.stanford.edu/admissions/application) doesn't explicitly require a resume (and doesn't even recommend it), but there is an item named "resume" in the "supplemental material" dropdown menu which I have overlooked. I realized that I didn't upload the ... |
2020/01/20 | 614 | 2,347 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been looking into master's programs in Spain. 95% of the Spanish programs I've been seeing tend to meet in the evening, with times like 3-6 PM or 6-9 PM. It's not clear to me whether this is particular to the courses I'm looking at, or a national, or international phenomenon. I only have... |
2020/01/20 | 1,579 | 6,567 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the fifth year of my PhD and seriously depressed. In my first year of graduate school I was not funded. In my desperation for funding I chose an opportunity that came my way even though I did not like the topic. The research I would say is pretty mundane, I was providing experimental su... |
2020/01/20 | 561 | 2,374 | <issue_start>username_0: Due to lack of foresight, I did not take any graduate level advanced mathematics or numerical analysis course. Nor do I have good grades on the subjects during my undergraduate studies.
However, I have 3 publications in Q1 interdisciplinary journals (not mathematical or numerical analysis jour... |
2020/01/20 | 850 | 2,992 | <issue_start>username_0: A famous person in my hometown claimed that she was awarded a "1.5 Ph.D. degree" by her thesis committee in a famous law school in London in the early 1980s (which was noted on her diploma, according to her memoir) -- is there really such a thing in academia?<issue_comment>username_1: **No.** I... |
2020/01/20 | 493 | 2,042 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD candidate now writing my thesis.
I have recently submitted an article to a very good journal (for a particular yearly issue). Along with the article, authors were encouraged to send "cover images" for the issue. I enjoy drawing and illustrating, so I did. First the paper got accept... |
2020/01/20 | 968 | 3,769 | <issue_start>username_0: I know it has been asked several times on here whether giving a professor a gift is appropriate or not. The general consensus seems to be that it is unethical to both give and receive the gift [[1](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/137706/is-it-unethical-to-give-a-gift-to-my-professo... |
2020/01/20 | 1,360 | 6,075 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently received a decision letter calling for minor revisions prior to acceptance. One anonymous reviewer was extremely knowledgeable and provided many helpful suggestions to better explain and clarify my work which I have implemented. However, the other anonymous reviewer simply listed sev... |
2020/01/20 | 1,059 | 4,370 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a second year fully-funded PhD student in a stem field at a large American public university. In my department, most students spend the first two years (and sometimes three years) only doing coursework and working on the qualifying exams. This is unusual in other programs, but here it is n... |
2020/01/21 | 2,753 | 11,593 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a final year undergraduate student and had worked on a very fundamental project(there is no available literature on this field presently) during my sophomore year. The results obtained were quite interesting but there was no available literature to back up my results. My supervisor suggest... |
2020/01/21 | 624 | 2,717 | <issue_start>username_0: In making an application to a Master's program, would I be wise to seek recommendations from academics, practitioners, or both in balance? Or would any credible letter meet the required threshold? Or does this not matter?
I can easily imagine that for PhD programs the balance would be tipped t... |
2020/01/21 | 974 | 4,116 | <issue_start>username_0: I have read whatever I could find online about W1 (junior) professorship in Germany, and to me it seems it is somewhat close to a full time lecturer and the tenure possibilities are slim if none, all the more slimmer at the same university. However, the person who has invited me for an intervie... |
2020/01/21 | 566 | 2,288 | <issue_start>username_0: In the question: [Lengths of review process of mathematical journals](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/17615/lengths-of-review-process-of-mathematical-journals/17617) a nice question was asked and answered: how to compare journals in terms of time for the review processing. The arti... |
2020/01/21 | 668 | 2,962 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a decade of experience as a network engineer. At this point I'm consulting large ISP in a network design role.
I am thinking about applying for a Master's in computer networking without a Bachelor's degree.
Any recommendations on how to approach admission?<issue_comment>username_1: Wi... |
2020/01/21 | 2,149 | 9,264 | <issue_start>username_0: **Context:**
As a researcher you need to read many research papers by others. In the case of mathematics, a paper consists of:
1. Results (theorems, lemma, propositions)
2. Proofs that consist of the technique or method by which the researcher obtaining their result.
Clearly, results can be u... |
2020/01/21 | 506 | 2,370 | <issue_start>username_0: I am in the final stage of completing a thesis.
Context: I propose a new knowledge representation to tackle information overload in science (E-Science, scientific communication, linked data). Specifically, I created a knowledge representation of scientific problems.
In the introduction, I mot... |
2020/01/21 | 284 | 1,204 | <issue_start>username_0: A colleague just told me about a paper he submitted to a conference, I'd love to have a look at his work out of curiosity.
How can I ask without him thinking I'm off to steal his ideas or something?<issue_comment>username_1: If he is a colleague, he is unlikely to think that. Just express you... |
2020/01/22 | 474 | 2,196 | <issue_start>username_0: I might have the opportunity to submit a paper to an academic journal and also submit my code for it as well. However, I tend to do my projects across different coding languages because sometimes i'll be working in one language and then find a particular package available in another - so I work... |
2020/01/22 | 1,743 | 6,431 | <issue_start>username_0: In my field at least, a lot of people sign their papers with just their initials. For example, the author list would be "<NAME> and <NAME>". Why do people do this? It seems that it's just a recipe for creating homonyms-related problems. I can't see a reason to not include the full first name in... |
2020/01/22 | 381 | 1,611 | <issue_start>username_0: I tried to contact my classmates to ask for their notes, I email 5 of them and none of them have replied back.
I have a high GPA and this course is my last course at the university, I really want to get a perfect mark.
I was wondering if you could please tell me how can I study this course re... |
2020/01/22 | 410 | 1,810 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been a member of TPC (Technical Program Committee) of some famous conferences for few years. But this year, I, along with many, were not invited.
Wondering how is TPC selected? I guess the TPC chairs select those? But TPC chairs are actually the same as before!<issue_comment>username_1: T... |
2020/01/23 | 2,224 | 9,474 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently I worked as a teaching assistant for a digital logic course. The topic for the day was full-adder. Professor explained the full concept of the full adder, along with question and answer session and then it is now the turn of TAs to clarify doubts of the students. One student asked me t... |
2020/01/23 | 2,106 | 9,517 | <issue_start>username_0: First, some context: I'm a PhD student, and this term, I'm running a bunch of seminar groups for first years (I believe these are what would be called "discussion sections" in the US - essentially, each group is 20-ish students out of a much larger course, and I'm doing stuff to support the lec... |
2020/01/23 | 1,287 | 5,408 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to attend a conference as I have been selected to a voluntary position and it is mandatory to meet up with the organizers. At this conference, my abusive ex-supervisor is chairing sessions and probably he is going to attend, he does not know I will be there.
I hate him so much as I ... |
2020/01/23 | 468 | 2,017 | <issue_start>username_0: If I request say 3 months summer salary at the rate I'm being paid by my academic institution, where would that money come from?
(a) Would I be paid directly from NSF?
(b) Would the NSF pay my institution, and then my institution funnels that money to me?
(c) Would my institution pay me dire... |
2020/01/23 | 1,016 | 4,345 | <issue_start>username_0: In the not-too-distant past, I was teaching a course on cognition and language. One class focused on language and communication in different species. A student later emailed me to ask a number of clarifying and follow-up questions. One of which was "If God wanted animals to communicate, why wou... |
2020/01/24 | 1,278 | 5,534 | <issue_start>username_0: I applied for some PhD's in differential geometry in the UK, and I was offered an interview this coming Wednesday and they said this in the confirmation email:
"The interview will be conducted by *insert prof name* and myself and
should last around 30 minutes
In the interview we will ask about... |
2020/01/24 | 370 | 1,061 | <issue_start>username_0: For example, we use pp. 4-7 for pages from 4 to 7 and ch. 2 for chapter 2, but how should we cite a subsection of a book when a chapter is divided into multiple subsections, e.g. 2.1, 2.2, ... in a way that's compatible with IEEE writing style?<issue_comment>username_1: Going by this [descripti... |
2020/01/24 | 1,101 | 4,411 | <issue_start>username_0: Can political escalation between Iran and the western world affect Iranian students in getting admission from university in Canada, Australia, and European Countries?
After two years of hardworking, TOEFL exams, publishing articles in journals, etc. I am ready to apply for many universites to... |
2020/01/24 | 945 | 4,242 | <issue_start>username_0: I received a decision notice on a paper this morning. Reviewer 1 gave a positive review, suggesting relatively minor cosmetic adjustments, etc. However, the editor was apparently unable to obtain a second review, replying:
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> ... the Editors have decided that your manuscript cannot be accep... |
2020/01/24 | 2,189 | 9,137 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a student who wrote a final paper for a class in a masters program. He was disappointed with his grade. His paper had extensive copying, so I had a zoom call with him explaining why that was a problem, and then both my teaching assistant and I gave extensive written feedback on his paper... |
2020/01/24 | 1,327 | 5,310 | <issue_start>username_0: <NAME>'s [slides (PDF version)](http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/avigad/meetings/fomm2020/slides/fomm_buzzard.pdf) at a recent conference have really unsettled me.
In it, he mentions several examples in what one would imagine as very rigorous areas (e.g., algebraic geometry) were the top journa... |
2020/01/24 | 1,649 | 7,125 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate mathematics major. During office hours I asked a question to a professor which was not a homework problem, but which was related to a homework problem (and I had made the connection clear). He answered my question fine enough, but at the end he said, "My office hours are f... |
2020/01/25 | 1,014 | 3,797 | <issue_start>username_0: I have already read [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/143363) and its answers. However, I believe my question is slightly different.
I was born in Iran but I am from a religious minority called Bahai faith and the followers of the Bahai faith are persecuted in Iran.... |
2020/01/25 | 1,843 | 8,104 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a student and another student asked me to study together for an exam and I agreed. But when we started studying he didn't know much about the subject, and I had to explain to him how to solve the problems and waste a lot of time in doing so.
Should I keep studying with him?<issue_comment>... |
2020/01/25 | 1,346 | 5,552 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a 3rd year PhD student (started in fall 2017) in Canada in Materials Engineering. I have completed my qualifying exam and proposal last year. I am soon to publish my first publication in a decent journal. However, I am not feeling enthusiastic about my research and future prospects. I join... |
2020/01/25 | 1,217 | 4,984 | <issue_start>username_0: Life doesn't allow for a redo. I have been a decent student in my undergrad and got placed in a reputed company right after graduation. However, research and academia always inspired me. I got into a prestigious school in India for my master's and decided to work on a particular field as part o... |
2020/01/25 | 1,351 | 5,788 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, after the acceptance of a paper, the journal said some sentences were exactly copied in my manuscript. I was shocked as I was the first author. Later, we found that during the preparation of the revised manuscript, one of the co-authors exactly copied two sentences from a reference. T... |
2020/01/26 | 564 | 2,537 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate mathematics student in the United States. I'm applying to many REUs in a certain topic. My only coursework in this topic is a graduate-level course I took last year. However, for some reason, none of the students in the class have received a grade. The professor who taught... |
2020/01/26 | 1,217 | 5,262 | <issue_start>username_0: My Uni is in Minnesota and classes started a couple weeks ago. I'm taking a class for my undergraduate degree. I knew it was going to be writing intensive from the syllabus. Every week we're going to have at minimum one short writing assignment due. In the syllabus he said we would be graded on... |
2020/01/26 | 1,495 | 6,355 | <issue_start>username_0: Research student in Japan here.
Recently, my professor (Japanese but studied in the U.S. for long) introduced me to his friend who was a guest lecturer. I got the guest’s contact information and communicated with him through e-mail. When I reported that at the next weekly meeting, my professor... |
2020/01/26 | 687 | 3,117 | <issue_start>username_0: My university has signed a cooperation agreement with a different university overseas, and we are encouraged to find potential collaborators in that university. I looked at the university's website, but could not find an easily searchable index of the faculty members by their research topics (I... |
2020/01/26 | 1,324 | 5,728 | <issue_start>username_0: I started my postdoc 5 mounts ago and I am totally unsatisfied about it. To be honest, since the first weeks I understood that I was going to be unhappy here and I had immediately the temptation to leave. When I came here nothing was as expected.
I hate the working environment. My boss create... |
2020/01/27 | 282 | 1,236 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an international student who's currently in a bureaucratic mess regarding my work permit application. I will get my permit possibly in February end. I completed my PhD thesis submission in December. Now, my PhD supervisor offered me a postdoc position soon after my defense, but I cannot of... |
2020/01/27 | 974 | 4,246 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been reading a research paper for my university course. The paper is the PhD thesis of a student of Berkeley mentored by a reputed engineer. I strongly feel that an expression mentioned in the thesis is wrong, although it has been mentioned only once in paper and his analytical and simul... |
2020/01/27 | 1,269 | 5,299 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an international Physics PhD student who is currently finishing his second year successfully, with one publication and others in preparation. However, I have a problem that has not let me sleep properly since day 1 and I need to vent it out with you.
When I applied, for some stupid reason ... |
2020/01/27 | 871 | 3,854 | <issue_start>username_0: Some time ago I met someone at a conference who was doing research in an area that I was just beginning to delve into. We've had a few (minimal) e-exchanges since, and recently they suggested we "work together on something" - the "something" being the project I'm developing, I think.
I like th... |
2020/01/27 | 875 | 3,536 | <issue_start>username_0: My situation:
I applied to school A (R1 school, US News ranked, aligned research) and is nominated by POI for a competitive Fellowship. This fellowship covered tuition + stipend for a couple of years and comes from the school itself (not department). The fellowship offer is only through email,... |
2020/01/27 | 1,881 | 7,647 | <issue_start>username_0: In some months my contract at a research university will end.
During my employment I have developed tools and methodologies that are of interest to the research group.
At present, I am the only person in that group that has in-depth knowledge on several topics.
Nonetheless, my employment will ... |
2020/01/28 | 1,208 | 5,016 | <issue_start>username_0: I was recently interviewed for a TT position, and was asked a question "`how to develop yourself into a national or international research leader`". It looks quite a big question. I stumbled on it, and so want to seek some ideas or inspiring thoughts to answer this questions effectively.<issue_... |
2020/01/29 | 3,313 | 13,124 | <issue_start>username_0: On several occasions of my first-round faculty interview, I was asked about the diversity questions, such as:
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> "How do you work with diverse students?"
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> "How do you contribute to the university's diversity mission?"
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I want to seek some insights into the questions. Which as... |
2020/01/29 | 644 | 2,659 | <issue_start>username_0: I have received an e-mail from "Advances in Engineering". Is it a predatory-platform? Is it reputable?
...
Dear Dr. XYZ,
We are pleased to inform you that Advances in Engineering selection committee identified your paper “Another XYZ” as a key scientific article contributing to research exce... |
2020/01/29 | 792 | 3,198 | <issue_start>username_0: It gives me the impression that an 'endowed' (named) postdoc is more prestigious than ordinary postdoc (e.g. grants postdoc). My question is how important it is compared to other factors (e.g. publications, the brand of the university, etc) if one wants to find a TT position in an R1 research u... |
2020/01/29 | 491 | 2,200 | <issue_start>username_0: **The background:** I work in a quite narrow field in physics. Recently I submitted a comment on a published paper. Before doing this I discussed my remarks with the authors directly and they gave me some interesting suggestions and comments. In the end they suggested to publish as a rapid comm... |
2020/01/29 | 606 | 2,522 | <issue_start>username_0: What should I do if I am asked to review a paper that should have been reviewed by an ethics committee, but was not? Assuming the paper is missing the statement that it was reviewed, and the paper clearly states that data was collected from human subjects.<issue_comment>username_1: Your first s... |
2020/01/29 | 861 | 3,150 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working at a German research institute as a HiWi.
HiWi jobs pay hourly wages based on the education level of the employee.
For instance there is a "without bachelors" and "with bachelors" wage.
Prior to taking the job, I was told that I would be paid the hourly rate "with a bachelors" be... |
2020/01/29 | 1,155 | 4,983 | <issue_start>username_0: An engineering graduate with a below average grade, being in industry not related to math, for almost 10 years, with no previous publication record in any field, while still working full time, publishing a single authored research paper in a reasonable mathematics journal with zero guidance fro... |
2020/01/30 | 1,024 | 4,615 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a beginning researcher in a particular real-world application space of machine learning, with papers published in the application space, but not in machine learning itself. I have identified a paper that is important to my program of research to replicate, have dedicated myself to its repl... |
2020/01/30 | 523 | 2,280 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking to leave my career in computing and go back to university to study a History MA.
The trouble is I only have a 3rd class degree in Computing from around 1990.
What would you recommend I do to get myself back in the saddle, and to make myself more attractive to MA courses?<issue_co... |
2020/01/30 | 1,465 | 5,440 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm publishing my first ever paper in my career. Given my name is <NAME>, how should it be broken into the first name and last name?
Also, what should I write when asked for the [Initial][Surname] format?
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NB: Aaron is my name, Sabu is the name of my father and John his father.
Also, I d... |
2020/01/30 | 320 | 1,264 | <issue_start>username_0: I completed one of my theses under the co-supervision of a (back then) PhD student. Said person has since completed his degree and is now officially "Dr. supervisor".
Since I want to reference his supervision in my CV, I was wondering whether I use the formal title that he holds now, or whethe... |
2020/01/30 | 465 | 1,985 | <issue_start>username_0: I was part of a small group preparing an overview paper for a special issue, and we missed a final deadline. All except one of us completed our assigned tasks; the last person had not touched her files for months and was frequently unresponsive with no explanation. To complicate matters, she is... |
2020/01/30 | 961 | 4,008 | <issue_start>username_0: Professors of my institution use PowerPoint presentations or written papers or some other aid material for delivering a lecture in the classroom.
But doesn't it indicate less expertise?
I have this doubt because it will be easy for an expert professor or well-prepared professor to handle a c... |
2020/01/30 | 610 | 2,678 | <issue_start>username_0: The Problem: I'm trying to finish up my teaching credential this semester, but one of the last classes I need isn't offered by my campus. But they say if I can find an online version of the class offered by another CSU (California State University) campus, that I can take that.
But all the CSU... |
2020/01/30 | 3,179 | 13,613 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently started my first postdoc, after completing my phd in a different field. I managed to come up with some results that I hope to publish at a reputable conference. All the work, including the creative/theoretical part, as well as the programming part was done by me. My plan was to have ... |
2020/01/30 | 2,748 | 11,637 | <issue_start>username_0: I have made a campus interview. I want to send a "thank you" email to research committee. Is it make sense to do ?<issue_comment>username_1: Without knowing what your advisor's motivation is, this question is difficult - not to mention dangerous - to answer. For all your know, you could ignore ... |
2020/01/30 | 521 | 1,993 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing my Master's thesis on topological quantum field theories, and would like to cite the following paper:
* arXiv version: <https://arxiv.org/abs/q-alg/9503002>
* Published version: <https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.531236>
The published version is from 1995, while on arXiv th... |
2020/01/31 | 795 | 3,290 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to know whether there is any **necessary** entity (quality/property) in the traditional **classroom** teaching that cannot be done without a physical classroom with intended students. Please keep aside the administrative responsibilities such as minimum teaching hours in classroom, avail... |
2020/01/31 | 586 | 2,497 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a junior at a large state university. Lately, as you all have probably heard, the coronavirus is spreading like a wildfire and we all should be scared.
My instructor is from China, and my school is also filled with Asian students. How do I ask for excused absences so that I can stay at ho... |
2020/01/31 | 1,414 | 6,302 | <issue_start>username_0: During my Ph.D. work at a university, I followed up on someone else's doctoral work (I am no longer associated with that university). This person provided me with the source code for his work. I subsequently discovered that this source code is a slightly modified copy of some publicly available... |
2020/02/01 | 813 | 3,360 | <issue_start>username_0: Background:
I hold citizenship of a country included in the Exchange Visitor Skill list for J1 visa holders (my research area, biological sciences, is on the list as well). My postdoc project is funded by NIH/NSF grants to the lab (not in a university). I completed a Ph.D. in a major US univers... |
2020/02/01 | 994 | 3,907 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a question about the Harvard referencing system.
I've written a paper and cited two publications, each with a single author, both published in the same year. These authors are unrelated - one is a man and the other is a woman - but they have the same surname and the same two initials.... |
2020/02/02 | 1,506 | 6,728 | <issue_start>username_0: I was initially in the field of pure math, but I successfully transitioned to being a researcher of machine learning with much less effort than I expected. My strategy was, instead of learning CS and ML from scratch, to read many interesting recent ML papers and, whenever I encounter with unfam... |
2020/02/02 | 694 | 2,559 | <issue_start>username_0: I am writing a scientific paper and I won't be able to go in the details of a certain topic.
I am considering to write something like: "The topic XXX is beyond the scope of this paper.".
I know that this is a common practice in research and it will not be a problem to write such a phrase.
Ho... |
2020/02/02 | 717 | 2,874 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate who will be applying to graduate school in the fall.
In my academic career, I have published 1 paper in a not so well known journal ([International Journal of Applied Pattern Recognition](https://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijapr)) and I believe the paper is sub-... |
2020/02/02 | 1,338 | 5,973 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an incoming PhD student. I did some research during my undergrad and master. One of the things my advisors told me was to read papers but not too focused on "technical details". This did help me navigate literature faster by just skimming for the "main ideas" in the paper. But is this the r... |
2020/02/03 | 507 | 2,035 | <issue_start>username_0: I've submitted a paper to a computer vision conference (a top one), and recently recieved reviews from the reviewers. An issue was that one of the reviewers provided an incorrect review (i.e., a review meant for another paper than ours).
At the moment, I do not know which Area Chair (AC) mana... |
2020/02/03 | 2,335 | 8,797 | <issue_start>username_0: I am facing a problem, the article seems a very important reference that everyone talking about the subjects is citing it. However, looking at these articles, they can't give a reference or link to the cited article. Even I use the volume number, article number to search on the net, I still can... |
2020/02/03 | 2,170 | 8,197 | <issue_start>username_0: In historical research I came across a novel question and, after investing time in it, I have an answer. This helps my original project, but the explanation to the novel question is so substantial that I would like to publish it separately.
It is well known that X did Y. The thesis of the prop... |
2020/02/03 | 691 | 2,943 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I found that my friend published two journal papers. He listed my name as a co-author without my permission.
He used to send me a draft of the 1st paper, and wanted to add me as a co-author. After reading the manuscript, I found that this paper has a lot of serious problems. Thus, I... |
2020/02/03 | 2,169 | 9,435 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it typically preferable in academia to pursue postdocs in institutions other than the one one has received a PhD from? I have heard on the grapevine that this is the case, but is there anything to back up this assertion?<issue_comment>username_1: The extent to which it is frowned upon differ... |
2020/02/03 | 713 | 2,839 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm doing my MS in Astronomy and Astrophysics so almost all of the literature I need is readily available on NASA ADS website (ui.adsabs.harvard.edu) with links to downloadable PDFs and HTML articles. But sometimes I come across conference proceedings, or some old articles where only abstract i... |
2020/02/04 | 1,400 | 6,146 | <issue_start>username_0: I have completed M.tech and submitted my thesis. A year later I realized my thesis was used to publish an article which was a replica of a section of the thesis. Even the values were the same. I was shocked and contacted my supervisor/Guide and the other author to which they responded that it w... |
2020/02/04 | 649 | 2,936 | <issue_start>username_0: We have a paper that is a second round R&R at a Journal that is a cognate field which is less technical than ours. The editor has been extremely conscientious and supportive through the process, but has made several suggestion that reveal he doesn’t really understand some of the deeper methodol... |
2020/02/04 | 1,398 | 6,211 | <issue_start>username_0: Background information: Field: Neuroscience (neuroimaging); Country: India; currently: grad student
Working in a country that may not always have a lot of financial resources, we usually face problems like not having funding to pay for journal charges or the scarcity of funds that allow studen... |
2020/02/04 | 824 | 3,105 | <issue_start>username_0: In short, How does one go about hiring a professor or someone really well established in their field for a private tutoring session?
I tried looking online but can’t find much, mainly websites for tutors that are practitioners or “experts” as in with with *n* years of experience at best. This ... |
2020/02/04 | 1,935 | 8,017 | <issue_start>username_0: I have worked for the past year as an intern in a company that is partly based in my university. I have been receiving a scholarship for my work.
We agreed on how much time I was going to spend at the company and how much money I would receive. My scholarship amount was determined by the time ... |
2020/02/04 | 951 | 3,959 | <issue_start>username_0: So, I am an undergraduate student taking partial differential equations. This class can be so stressful at times because I do not understand the lecture material, and thus it makes it hard to do homework. Moreover, we have a quiz every Friday based on the homework, and homework is due on Friday... |
2020/02/05 | 1,279 | 5,539 | <issue_start>username_0: How do you deal with the constant flow negativity from an advisor? Examples:
1. How worthless I am, how I am the worst student he ever had. Absolutely good for nothing.
2. Whatever I am doing is meaningless, trivial, or pointless.
3. I never did/can-do anything correct.
4. I just don't have th... |
2020/02/05 | 644 | 2,625 | <issue_start>username_0: The title pretty much says it all - it's a 2.5 hr class and he thinks it's 2 hrs. The first 3 classes have been rushed and I want to tell him - but when I mention it to my classmates they tell me it's not our problem and adamately say not to mention it - I don't think anybody wants the class to... |
2020/02/05 | 5,362 | 22,287 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in mechE. After paying the first year tuition out of pocket, I accepted a PhD project due to desperation for funding. However, after an year I realized that I hate the project. Here I made a mistake of not leaving/changing the project, I just waited out hoping I would like th... |
2020/02/05 | 1,459 | 6,176 | <issue_start>username_0: From point 9 of Google's philosophy "[You can be serious without a `suit`](https://www.google.com/about/philosophy.html)". It revolutionised office culture. It helped put the focus on the content of work, rather than needing to wear a suit or formals and a tie to work, just because people assum... |
2020/02/05 | 2,188 | 9,346 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m currently receiving my bachelor’s degree in Sociology from am American university and have no clue how the process for applying to Master’s programs in Germany works. I’m not sure if it’s okay to email professors directly about their research as it would be here. I guess my questions are:
... |