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2020/04/02 | 769 | 3,122 | <issue_start>username_0: I am sure this question has been asked in some capacity on this site. I am a first year graduate student. I was contracted for a summer program that would have looked very good on my CV about 6 weeks ago.
However, due to the spread of COVID-19 the program was cancelled. Is there any way I can... |
2020/04/02 | 698 | 2,649 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a pre-university individual.
About a week ago I cold-emailed university professors inquiring about interning at their biology research labs. A professor replied on the same day expressing possibility of an interview. He also made it clear it would be unpaid - which, after some thought, I'... |
2020/04/02 | 1,164 | 4,198 | <issue_start>username_0: Are Israeli degrees recognized in Muslim-majority countries?
If someone gets a Ph.D. in Israel, can they work in universities in Muslim-majority countries?
**Edit:**
I give you 3 names so that you can focus on the answer:
1. Saudi Arabia
2. Pakistan
3. Malaysia
I think some countries prohi... |
2020/04/02 | 992 | 3,731 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm emailing a graduate STEM admissions department in the UK, and don't know the modern preferred way to begin the email.
Many authors suggest "Dear Sir/Madam," but of course this implies a problematic gender binary. A common, gender-neutral option, "To whom it may concern" is often criticized... |
2020/04/03 | 1,995 | 8,661 | <issue_start>username_0: I am the first author of a paper that we want to submit (Neuroscience). The journal requirement states that the authors should seek permission from any person that they have acknowledged in the paper. [Quoted](https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/submission-guidelines/preparing-your-manuscri... |
2020/04/03 | 585 | 2,549 | <issue_start>username_0: Should I write a bilingual email to a professor who can't speak German very well?
That's basically the question. I don't know if this is the right thing to do, because it could mean that I underestimate his abilities. His native language is English, but mine is German and German is the local l... |
2020/04/03 | 731 | 2,913 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it possible to spend most of your academics career as a post-doc, or senior researcher in research institutes or in research groups, and get a faculty job later in your academics career? I mean, of course, it is possible, but how likely is it?
Field: Physics & Biology. Region: mainly Europe... |
2020/04/03 | 894 | 3,776 | <issue_start>username_0: Sometimes in correspondence with faculty I get emails that end with a sentence like "happy to find a time some time to chat more about it though, just let me know."
What medium do people usually mean when they say this? Is this an invitation to schedule a phone call? Or because this is on an e... |
2020/04/03 | 925 | 3,848 | <issue_start>username_0: Expedia and the airline I booked a trans-Atlantic flight with, have told me I cannot get a reimbursement. Only a refund for airline credit for a future flight. I do not need this.
The grad school I was traveling to for the open house (which was canceled obviously) is not reimbursing me because... |
2020/04/03 | 884 | 3,661 | <issue_start>username_0: Some commercial services sell certificates to manuscript authors. Frequently these certificates are marketed to authors in developing countries where English is not widely spoken. These services claim that the certificate indicates that the manuscript meets a certain standard of quality. Often ... |
2020/04/04 | 243 | 882 | <issue_start>username_0: What is Springer's “version of record”? Is it the final originally published version of an article or book?
According to the answers that I received, yes it is.<issue_comment>username_1: A version of record is *the article or contribution as published including copy editing and lay out*.
Sou... |
2020/04/04 | 2,301 | 9,568 | <issue_start>username_0: When I sit and start writing my master thesis, I write the first couple lines, then I don't know what to write and get stuck.
I feel like I'm not creative enough for writing.
The questions are. How to get around this blockage? How to organize the ideas? How to stay focused? Is this think typica... |
2020/04/04 | 495 | 2,039 | <issue_start>username_0: We are six co-authors in an applied CS paper (AI). This paper has a "strong" first author who worked on this project for years. Two student authors (let's call them Alice and Bob) contributed to the paper, and the other co-authors are seniors.
Since Alice and Bob have roughly the same contribu... |
2020/04/04 | 1,264 | 5,116 | <issue_start>username_0: Due to the recent COVID-19 event, all of the members in our group have been working at home. My advisor proposed to get us some items to make us more productive or happy when working at home. I feel like a tablet would be very helpful in reading paper and books. Additionally, I'm working home u... |
2020/04/05 | 1,356 | 5,487 | <issue_start>username_0: hope everyone's well.
To explain my situation, I'm waiting to hear back from Columbia University's MSOR program. It was my #1 choice when I applied, and I'm considering sending an email to restate my strong interest in the program and to strengthen my position as an applicant.
Briefly put, I ... |
2020/04/05 | 554 | 2,325 | <issue_start>username_0: So in my first year of my PhD I was strongly encouraged to apply for fellowships. I submitted fellowship applications happily, but at some points was concerned about how urgent it seemed to my advisor for me to win a fellowship. Examples of this behavior would be saying its very advisable for m... |
2020/04/05 | 959 | 3,930 | <issue_start>username_0: Disclaimer: My PhD supervisor, while not a bad person, is a bad mentor and has given me bad advice in the past. So discussing this with him isn't really productive. I have talked to other people in real life about this, and the opinion of this community would also be welcome.
I'm set to finish... |
2020/04/05 | 1,559 | 7,041 | <issue_start>username_0: I have children who attend UK universities. Because GDPR, the university forbids email forwarding or accessing @ac.uk on Outlook. However, the university's @ac.uk system is more user unfriendly than Outlook, and they prefer to use Outlook!
Some instructors and department admin agree, and are ... |
2020/04/05 | 2,869 | 11,973 | <issue_start>username_0: **I've included lots of context because I thought it may be useful. If it's too much to read, I've marked the important parts of the question.**
I graduated from college last May with a degree in Computer Science and Math and just recently turned 23. I'm in San Francisco now working in tech. T... |
2020/04/05 | 833 | 3,640 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a CS undergrad interested in Machine Learning. During the past year, I've delved deep into a theoretical book in Machine Learning and wrote many programs to demonstrate / visualize concepts and algorithms. I hope, when I apply to a PhD program, the advisor can know about this, because it di... |
2020/04/06 | 688 | 2,684 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been waiting for my PhD thesis results for a long time now. Last week, I sent an email to the university, asking for the results.
Few hours ago, my supervisor has sent me an email saying that she got a notifications that the examiner reports were ready, and once I get the official email... |
2020/04/06 | 1,700 | 7,244 | <issue_start>username_0: I am looking for international standards that speak specifically of a professor taking the thesis work of an ex-student that they had supervised and publishing a journal paper on that work (and just that work) without the student's name.
This relates to a specific case that I am aware of where... |
2020/04/06 | 1,358 | 5,213 | <issue_start>username_0: I am reading this 2016 article: [EI benefits (The Globe and Mail)](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/liberals-take-regional-approach-to-ei-benefits/article29336192/)
The article is written by the reporter <NAME>. In an academic paper, I am talking about a specific the... |
2020/04/06 | 2,586 | 10,971 | <issue_start>username_0: When asking a peer or colleague **why** they are pursuing a certain research direction, I have often heard the answer "because it's fun". This bothers me: Shouldn't we all be capable of providing an honest narrative explaining why our chosen research direction is of value (other than personal p... |
2020/04/06 | 605 | 2,466 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a question about how my dissertation embargo period would affect my future work, so please help and share your ideas. I will appreciate any thoughts here.
My PhD degree is high performance computation. I finished my PhD degree oral defense last week, and I am about to submit my final di... |
2020/04/06 | 3,101 | 13,130 | <issue_start>username_0: With travel restricted by the COVID-19 pandemic, many academics are organizing online seminars and conferences as a substitute for regular in-person university seminars, colloquia, and research conferences.
In real life, seminars are usually open to anyone who wants to drop in, and every atte... |
2020/04/07 | 251 | 1,064 | <issue_start>username_0: My query is about whats the main difference between thesis and research paper, and as i am undergrad, which is more easy for an undergrad to do!!<issue_comment>username_1: A thesis might be longer and might be written over a longer period of time. There is not guaranteed to be any difference.
U... |
2020/04/07 | 377 | 1,572 | <issue_start>username_0: My mother tongue is Dutch and I'm writing my thesis in English. I am required to write a summary both in English and my own language, Dutch. Would it be ok to write the Dutch summary in a dialect? Which is still comprehensible to everybody, just slightly different spelling. I have a deep connec... |
2020/04/07 | 654 | 2,729 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a 4th-year undergraduate student and have been working in two joint research groups (voluntarily, no credit from a course, no pay) for more than a year. I have applied to some Master's and PhD programs but while I was doing that I have talked with PIs of the research groups and they said t... |
2020/04/07 | 573 | 2,463 | <issue_start>username_0: Given that there were much less to learn 100 years ago, was the duration of degrees shorter then than it is now?<issue_comment>username_1: I would argue that on average these degrees take longer now, so yes, they would be shorter back then. Why do I say this? Because today there are many studen... |
2020/04/07 | 871 | 3,730 | <issue_start>username_0: I have finished my high school and did 1 year program of FOUNDATION IN BUSINESS. I left my degree (BBA/Accounts and Finance) after completing 2nd semester. Now I have done an online 3 months course and certified in digital marketing, and also certified in another online course of Fundamental of... |
2020/04/07 | 600 | 2,596 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a English PhD student (focusing on literature), but this year one of my assistantships through my university has involved some grant writing for local non-profits. Recently I've been working on a small grant for a local non-profit, which will help this non-profit pay for some consultants t... |
2020/04/07 | 921 | 3,994 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on a coauthored paper which I would like to step away from. How can I do so very tactfully and gracefully?
I want to step away because I don't quite agree with the direction the paper is taking in terms of analysis; the publication prospects are not terrific; and, frankly, I am n... |
2020/04/07 | 1,943 | 8,033 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student in physics. A few months ago, I submitted a paper (which has meanwhile been accepted, but not yet published). The preprint is on arXiv.
Now, I saw that a few days ago, another manuscript, from a different group, has appeared on the arXiv, and I think there are large parallel... |
2020/04/08 | 494 | 2,087 | <issue_start>username_0: Let us assume person X and person Y. Both entered grad school in the same year, X as a PhD student (without a prior masters degree) and Y as a masters student in the same field. Towards, the end of second year, X realized that a PhD was too much for him and decided to quit but was eligible for ... |
2020/04/08 | 612 | 2,718 | <issue_start>username_0: I was flying from Canada back home, after all the in-person classes and tests were canceled.
So my country(Kazakhstan) has strict laws that were enforced in regard of the new pandemic. They include closing a passenger of an international flight coming in to Kazakhstan in a quarantine hospital.
... |
2020/04/08 | 1,542 | 6,333 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an associate editor for a journal. I have asked an academician to perform a review for the journal, to which they agreed. The reviewer is already 6 weeks late (6 weeks after the deadline), not replying to our reminders (2 already), and recently I noticed on my social media feed a number of... |
2020/04/08 | 907 | 3,881 | <issue_start>username_0: I [learn](https://mathoverflow.net/users/118688/praphulla-koushik?tab=profile) and [produce](https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.00375) mathematics. In that process, I had to read quite a number of research articles.
Question :
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> What are some efficient ways to keep a note of results of a research... |
2020/04/08 | 1,324 | 5,403 | <issue_start>username_0: To help finance my studies, I have been offering tutoring services for other students throughout the past year. Business has been good and students have been grateful for the help I have given them.
Today, a student I tutored one year ago e-mailed me and asked me to write an online exam for th... |
2020/04/08 | 1,195 | 4,925 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I began my work on an independent research project. A few months ago, while I was writing the research proposal for submission, I talked with a peer of mine who hadn't done independent research. As a good gesture, I told her that we could work together on it, since it would help her r... |
2020/04/08 | 2,180 | 9,246 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a professor at uni, and I have been experiencing a number of unreasonable requests from students on these days, some of them arguing that they need a special treatment due to the current Covid-19 situation, such as students asking for:
1. additional exam papers with full solutions (there ... |
2020/04/09 | 1,112 | 4,691 | <issue_start>username_0: A few years ago we wanted to open a new program that will be based on distance learning, however, getting accredited for having a master degree program that is based on distance learning and not on campus is literally a bureaucratic nightmare.
First, no one allowed us to use Zoom, Microsoft Tea... |
2020/04/09 | 2,416 | 9,815 | <issue_start>username_0: I was involved in some not-safe-for-work (NSFW) photoshoots and amateur videos with a photographer in my undergrad (in the US) when I was going through a rough time. The media include my face in them (yes, stupid decision), and since I signed a model release he owns the pictures and videos.
H... |
2020/04/09 | 615 | 2,604 | <issue_start>username_0: Can I use paragraphs from an already published article in a new article?
I want to repeat some ideas as an introduction and there is no point in re-writing them when I already reached my desired precise expression. I have the copyright of the original article (but I guess the journal that publi... |
2020/04/09 | 585 | 2,438 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing a four page research proposal as a reply to a call for proposals for funding.
Should my document be organized by sections ? or it should only contain text ?<issue_comment>username_1: **No.** That's [self-plagiarism](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/2893/attitudes-toward... |
2020/04/10 | 2,312 | 10,416 | <issue_start>username_0: As a response for the Covid-19 pandemic, my university built an electronic platform, and is now ordering professors to share their courses on it.
The school platform is open to the public, so I'd rather not share my documents on it. I've been using Google Classroom to share content with my st... |
2020/04/10 | 1,407 | 6,034 | <issue_start>username_0: YouTube rules the roost. It is first resource that people refer to when they want to learn something new. After all, who would teach me how to replace a RAM on my laptop or to change the new windshield wiper blade on my old car?
YouTube is an extremely valuable resource. However, things do not... |
2020/04/10 | 2,094 | 9,121 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm finishing my undergraduate studies and I've been interested in several branches of math to research in the future, to say: functional analysis, differential equations, dynamical systems, differential and riemannian geometry, (general, differential and algebraic) topology, algebraic geometry... |
2020/04/10 | 1,800 | 7,755 | <issue_start>username_0: This question could also be read as :
As a professional researcher, you wish you would have done some things differently than you did when starting your research career. Things that would have benefit you more in being a successful researcher. By successful, I mean having the most impactful co... |
2020/04/10 | 3,889 | 17,157 | <issue_start>username_0: Today, I got accused of cheating on an exam I took yesterday. It was a lockdown browser exam, my exam as well as several other students exams were also flagged because of the following reasons.
This was a 20 multiple choice question exam, and here is the response I was given,
* the answers we... |
2020/04/10 | 1,206 | 4,822 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergraduate in the US.
My professor just told us via email that he will not be able to grade an exam until next week because his family member died from complications due to COVID-19. I don't care much about the delay, but I do like my professor, both as a person and an educator. Woul... |
2020/04/11 | 438 | 1,926 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a second year PhD student in computer science. I am having trouble finding an advisor who shares the same research interest as me. I have been working on my own (for the most part) for these two years and obtained some publishable results (a faculty suggested I publish a single author pape... |
2020/04/11 | 435 | 1,916 | <issue_start>username_0: Does submitting two (substantially different) versions of a same paper count as dual submission?
To be specific, let me take this as an example:
Say I've done a research and a paper A was written about the research. However, later I found that I can make some improvements on the method of A, a... |
2020/04/11 | 528 | 2,308 | <issue_start>username_0: I have written a research paper (in the field of Education & Social Science, and I am not a professional) and I want to publish it in a reputed peer-reviewed journal.
I am not in cooperation with any of my professors in terms of research activity.
Should I give my writing to one of my profess... |
2020/04/12 | 530 | 2,211 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently in my master's and about to start my research. Is it possible that I can do my research with any institute in Europe or do my Ph.D. at the same time but from different universities?<issue_comment>username_1: The other way around is a little more common. People in PhD program do a... |
2020/04/12 | 389 | 1,603 | <issue_start>username_0: I have submitted a manuscript to a journal. After some months, the submission is in the revised statute.
One of the referees suggested the following to me.
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> Sections 2 and 3 should be synthetized
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What should I do over Sections 2 and 3?
My field is math.<issue_comment>username_1:... |
2020/04/12 | 725 | 3,044 | <issue_start>username_0: Me and my girlfriend are currently studying in the same university and same department. We both applied couple of master's degree programs abroad.
One of the programs is in both our interest and she already got accepted for that program. I want to apply for the same program too but there is n... |
2020/04/13 | 715 | 3,057 | <issue_start>username_0: Sometimes I have trouble coming to conclusions on my own sometimes and I really do love learning but...
I sometimes scour the internet looking for answers to homework questions and then paraphrase them. I honestly retain and understand better from this, although I know I'm avoiding penalties b... |
2020/04/13 | 2,273 | 9,086 | <issue_start>username_0: I am Ph.D. student in India working in computer science. I will be graduating soon. I have two options: 1) post-doc 2) join a "tier 2 institute" (i.e., an institution ranked between #11 and #20 in India) as a faculty. I don't have sufficient publications to join a tier 1 institute.
I am inclin... |
2020/04/13 | 1,918 | 8,257 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm finishing a really messed up dissertation. Maybe decent in some sense, but all the PhD has been done without following any of the supposed methodology and criteria. Since I'm in a sort of arm wrestling with the supervisor from years and since I didn't miss the chance of exposing some soft v... |
2020/04/14 | 707 | 3,033 | <issue_start>username_0: I am organizing a math conference of about 70 people later this summer, and we have decided, in light of COVID-19, to make it an online conference. I would like to have opportunities for small discussion groups, such as naturally happen at coffee breaks, as well as having standard talks.
I am ... |
2020/04/14 | 925 | 3,732 | <issue_start>username_0: Earlier this year, I was anonymously informed of the existence of a fraudulent journal, Reactive Oxygen Species. When I investigated, I found that the "Editorial Team" of "international experts" consisted of three rather unlikely names -- middle initial Z -- and on further investigation, I foun... |
2020/04/14 | 2,848 | 12,463 | <issue_start>username_0: When I was previously an undergraduate research assistant in a small lab group (seven members), there was a situation where the PI had pitched a research study idea to multiple students independently, with none of us knowing that the others had been told about the idea. The PI encouraged each o... |
2020/04/14 | 4,024 | 16,707 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm close to the end of a troubled PhD experience. However this closeness might be extended to the infinite if I would get to the point of having something that is good enough.
I might be too self-critical (maybe considering the standard of my institution) but at the moment the best scenario is... |
2020/04/14 | 475 | 2,043 | <issue_start>username_0: I had applied to some PhD programs to start the upcoming fall semester. I have got two offers. Tomorrow, April 15th, is the deadline for accepting or declining admission offers. I accepted one of the offers. Some people wrote on online forums that their offers of admissions have been rescinded ... |
2020/04/14 | 642 | 2,652 | <issue_start>username_0: As a preface, I would like to explain that have ADHD and anxiety issues and tend to be very slow at writing (mostly due to overthinking/over-analyzing and having OCD-like tendencies when writing). I also made the dumb decision of not going into academic services to ask for accommodations (partl... |
2020/04/14 | 466 | 2,049 | <issue_start>username_0: My supervisor is publishing a paper and naming me as the first author. I did the data analysis for the paper but part of the interpretation in the paper I regard as wrong.
I argued with him but he insists that he would not change that point. (The point serves many of his other papers.) The pa... |
2020/04/15 | 1,025 | 3,227 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a book, for simplicity’s sake let’s say it’s written by “A. Smith *with* B. Jones”. Note the *with,* not *and.* This how the authorship is credited both on the cover and inside the book.
This is because one of the writers did by far the majority of the work. So, how should I cite it? I ... |
2020/04/15 | 1,281 | 5,373 | <issue_start>username_0: I do not want my professor to know that I wrote this question, since that would just escalate the situation further, so I will not be very specific about certain details.
I am in a research course that has weekly meetings. There is a software that the research group that I am in uses, and tha... |
2020/04/15 | 451 | 2,001 | <issue_start>username_0: I worked in the Geospatial industry for 12 years+ with 4 companies and am currently in an academic field. One of the companies was forest plantations and no longer exists.
I have a lot of geospatial data (satellite imageries, radar, UAV aerial photos, field records etc.) which I think is a wa... |
2020/04/15 | 458 | 1,747 | <issue_start>username_0: Is writing *Author A & Author B* the same as writing *Author A, Author B* in the author list?
To make it clear, this question asks about formulating the author list in the author section when publishing a paper.
The field is computer science. Is there a way to signify that Author A is the f... |
2020/04/16 | 817 | 3,622 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student collaborating with a professor (not my advisor). I did the work while the professor came up with the idea and funded the project. The research project centered on an experiment.
Initial experimental results were consistent with Theory A, but they could (with some stretch of ... |
2020/04/16 | 376 | 1,493 | <issue_start>username_0: I am located in the U.S. and the field in question is pure mathematics.
I am wondering, as a doctorata degree holder at a lower tier institution ([AMS Group III](http://www.ams.org/profession/data/annual-survey/groups_des)), how much of a disadvantage will I be at when trying to obtain a postd... |
2020/04/16 | 2,511 | 10,876 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a doctoral student in economics and have problems with the progress of my doctoral thesis because my supervisor hardly cares about my work.
I currently need some feedback and comments from him, as I cannot publish my results before.
This problem is not a current problem, but has existed si... |
2020/04/16 | 2,996 | 12,485 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a grad level student and I am completing my last course this semester.
The professor is reducing our grade by 20%/day if we submit our assignment late.
It is a lot. For example, my grade is 18/20 and he reduced it by 4 because I submitted it a day late. My total GPA is A+. It is a signifi... |
2020/04/17 | 326 | 1,415 | <issue_start>username_0: I see some papers use "research team" while others use "research group". Do they mean the same thing, a few of researchers that form a team dedicated to a research?<issue_comment>username_1: I would use “research group” to describe the set of people that is the students that I advise and any re... |
2020/04/17 | 1,064 | 4,535 | <issue_start>username_0: I (try to) do research in Computer Science/Deep Learning. I recently did some work developing a novel idea and am writing a paper on it. I have only written one paper before, and I'm currently being paralysed by the related works section.
It seems impossible for me to have a thorough understan... |
2020/04/17 | 1,074 | 5,005 | <issue_start>username_0: In research fields such as computer science, academic publication mostly happens at two kinds of venues: peer-reviewed journals, and peer-reviewed conferences. The main difference is that conferences usually require that some author presents the work at the conference and pays a registration fe... |
2020/04/17 | 2,652 | 11,284 | <issue_start>username_0: I understand that in the field of computer science, publishing in a conference is the default, as opposed to other fields where it's normal to publish your research in a journal. But does the word conference here carry the same meaning as it does in other fields?
If your paper is accepted in ... |
2020/04/17 | 939 | 3,816 | <issue_start>username_0: >
> The subject of velocity therefore also **concerns** itself with the capacity to process real-time data...
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Would the above sentence be appropriate in an academic paper, specifically the use of the word *concerns?*
This is a habit I consistently notice in my writing when explaini... |
2020/04/17 | 688 | 2,854 | <issue_start>username_0: I am hosting a podcast related to our field where we invite the stars of our field, the podcast has grabbed an audience from different demographic regions and it becomes very well know in the community. Before that, my ex-supervisor who is in the field and somehow is well known in the field was... |
2020/04/17 | 1,165 | 4,521 | <issue_start>username_0: If I wanted to write a scholarly paper on, say, Native America wars, would I be able to cite oral traditions as reliable sources of information?
As a made-up example, "the war lasted exactly seventeen days, with 3,000 men on either side. The enemy had initiated the rebellion by capturing one o... |
2020/04/18 | 797 | 3,099 | <issue_start>username_0: What does *resident* mean in title like *resident mathematician?*
And what are the main subjects where *resident* is attached to a title? For example, does a resident statistician exist? Or a resident medieval historian?
What are the place where the mathematician resides? I think they are not... |
2020/04/18 | 490 | 2,083 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a campus visit two weeks ago. The search committee chair told me that if I got a positive feedback, they will contact me, otherwise they will contact me after three weeks and half ( I assumed that I may be the second choice). I read many answers that suggest not contacting the search com... |
2020/04/18 | 3,916 | 16,237 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a PhD student and I have been thoroughly searching for future supervisors.
I have been speaking with current PhD students about a certain professor to get to know more about them, and they let me know their experiences as well as the experience of a previous student.
Apparently, it seem... |
2020/04/18 | 1,661 | 7,474 | <issue_start>username_0: So to describe the scenario, here is what happened. We were assigned a group task for business throughout the entire semester. Each of us discussed what topics to cover and came up with an equal amount of workload for each member. I had noticed that close to the due date, we were quite far away... |
2020/04/18 | 399 | 1,826 | <issue_start>username_0: That non-enrolled people can access, of course.<issue_comment>username_1: In the US, universities are required to provide information on the web about required textbooks to students so that they can purchase the books from wherever they want without necessarily having to buy the textbooks from ... |
2020/04/19 | 928 | 3,690 | <issue_start>username_0: I am conducting an independent research on a tourism-related topic. However, data sets on the internet require premium registration.
I was wondering: what are the best websites that offer data sets for free? Can experienced researchers give any good leads?<issue_comment>username_1: First - loo... |
2020/04/19 | 5,179 | 21,834 | <issue_start>username_0: Right now with the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada I believe most Ontario universities and colleges have their classes online, and my university decided to do that as well. With this in mind, many of our final exams are now being taken online with a camera and microphone recording, a lockdown brows... |
2020/04/19 | 1,015 | 4,397 | <issue_start>username_0: I noted from a previous paper I worked on, that when it was published an abstract was included in Spanish as well as English (<https://bjssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bjs.11422> and <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31976560>). The article itself was in English.
I have... |
2020/04/19 | 1,052 | 4,647 | <issue_start>username_0: For my problem-solving classes I prepare presentations which include a reminder on the theoretical parts, statements of the problems to be solved, some (partial) solutions, tips and so on. These presentations are then displayed to the students by means of the screen sharing. Then we discuss the... |
2020/04/19 | 764 | 3,104 | <issue_start>username_0: I think I understand that someone should do a Ph.D. under a strong advisor and have a solid publication record, and I know going to a more prestigious university helps. Now, this is where I get confused. Let's say person A goes to Princeton and person B goes to Iowa State, for example. Let's sa... |
2020/04/19 | 972 | 4,297 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm wondering if someone can advise. I have a BA in Literature and a pretty low GPA under 3.0 from 2008. I've worked in varied industries, teaching (preschool, ESL) and IT (Data Analysis). I want to change careers and go into journalism. I am planning to take some online courses and submit web ... |
2020/04/19 | 1,230 | 5,428 | <issue_start>username_0: This question might be a variation of similarly asked questions, however, there is some different details that I think might make it different. So thank you in advance for reading.
I was admitted into a M.S. program in Electrical and Computer engineering as a full-time student in a good privat... |
2020/04/20 | 1,006 | 4,414 | <issue_start>username_0: I think latex is a fine language, especially for typesetting math, but sometimes the lack of features for instance making text wrap around an image (\wrapfig can cause issues in places far from where you use it), various commands such as \mathbb not working properly in certain beamer templates ... |
2020/04/20 | 775 | 3,191 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a Ph.D. student at a top 15 program in my current social science field, I'll call it field X. My research is interdisciplinary standing at the intersection of field X and another field Y.
I genuinely like graduate school and my work here, but as I've developed as a scholar, it has become... |
2020/04/20 | 2,751 | 10,560 | <issue_start>username_0: I am 39 and I have a good position in a European university, on my way to tenure (in the Economics Department). I am miserable in Academia, and I have been saying for many years that I want to do something else. I hate teaching, and I feel my research is totally useless. Still, I manage to publ... |
2020/04/20 | 1,139 | 4,821 | <issue_start>username_0: In a mathematics thesis I am currently working on, I use a statement we proved in the exercise classes of a lecture I attended last year, but neither the exercises nor the lecture notes have been published. I am wondering whether it is still possible to cite the exercise, and if yes, in what fo... |
2020/04/20 | 2,735 | 11,403 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently teaching an upper level course, and have caught a student plagiarizing this semester. This course is required by our department for a degree. I have strict policy on my syllabus that states plagiarism will result in failing the course, a judicial review incident report, and refus... |
2020/04/20 | 2,641 | 11,049 | <issue_start>username_0: In many UK universities Classics courses (study/research of the history and culture of ancient Greek and Roman civilizations) are singled out and presented distinct from History courses. They even might be provided by a different department or college at the university - for instance, History c... |