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2020/09/01 | 1,882 | 8,415 | <issue_start>username_0: I have two questions about grants:
1. If someone wins a grant, do they have to perform research exactly
about the questions they proposed in the grant? Or, is there room to
change the research question later?
2. What to do if there is uncertainty when I do not know which lab
or even country I ... |
2020/09/01 | 611 | 2,595 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying to a grad school in the US and I am asking application questions through emails. In one of the emails, I accidentally addressed the admissions director as *Miss*, even though the title of her choice is *Ms.*, as shown in her signature. We've had a few email exchanges before where ... |
2020/09/02 | 2,500 | 10,769 | <issue_start>username_0: Watching various COVID-related briefings, I notice there is always a sign language interpreter. This is clearly necessary, yet thinking about all the conferences I've attended in the past, literally none of them have had a sign language interpreter.
How do conferences work for deaf scientists?... |
2020/09/02 | 287 | 1,289 | <issue_start>username_0: A while back, I remember seeing a service, and I believe more than one, that claimed that they would store letters of recommendation for you and send them on your behalf or the person writing the letter. That is, the letter writer would submit the letter to them, and then you could submit that ... |
2020/09/02 | 1,544 | 6,074 | <issue_start>username_0: Problem
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I have to familiarize myself with a new sub-field fast, to the point where I can recommend an agenda/recommendation for further research. I thought about doing a systematic literature review to achieve this, but have to work somewhat cost-efficient due to external deadlines tha... |
2020/09/02 | 1,745 | 7,105 | <issue_start>username_0: Context - need to understand the 1-year taught MSc programmes offered by universities in the UK, in order to make a choice regarding higher studies (masters level) in Computer Science.
Specific confusion - Generally, an MS degree elsewhere will be of 2-years duration with enough time for lectu... |
2020/09/02 | 1,097 | 4,460 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergrad who worked at a computer vision related lab. The lab I used to work at raised some red flags by saying that even if I contributed, my name could not be on the paper. I also transferred schools, so I left. The problem is, I have this potentially great research idea that I'd lik... |
2020/09/02 | 793 | 3,403 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently self-studying The Art of Computer Programming as an undergrad in my free time. To do all of the exercises (or even a portion of them) would be incredibly difficult and time-consuming; however, there are solutions at the back of the text. I am wondering if I would miss out on some... |
2020/09/03 | 1,369 | 6,075 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose that a PhD (in engineering) student has 3-4 review/survey papers in their domain, and has received more than 500 citations in total. In a situation like this, can they pass the oral defense and get the PhD degree without a research paper?
What I want to know if review/survey papers can... |
2020/09/03 | 966 | 4,176 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a few results during my math PhD that I used in a black-box or grey-box sense. I have a rough idea of how it is proved but the proof itself is extremely long and detailed. I cannot reproduce it off the top of my head without looking at the paper and going through it line by line again. S... |
2020/09/03 | 1,296 | 5,184 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a postgraduate student in mathematics. I am writing my thesis, for which I need to prepare some Matlab plots and figures. I had sent some plots to my supervisor, and he suggested to use black for the line color because most journals want to make sure that plots look good when printed black... |
2020/09/03 | 651 | 2,858 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a graduate student in a US chemistry department and found a class (mechanical engineering) that would be somewhat helpful for my research but is out of my discipline. I'm not familiar with a lot of the methods used and so I was considering emailing the professor to see if it would be possi... |
2020/09/03 | 699 | 3,060 | <issue_start>username_0: Very recently, a paper has been published that says:
```
I plan to incorporate X into my research in the future.
```
The aforementioned paper was published recently, so the follow up containing X is not published (nor do I know if the author is working on it right now). Would it be OK for me... |
2020/09/04 | 703 | 2,864 | <issue_start>username_0: From *[<NAME>’s bullying: lab members speak out](https://forbetterscience.com/2020/07/17/bullying-lab-members-speak-out):*
>
> Not everything in Jan’s lab was bad and I think it’s also important to point out that my relationship with Jan was often professionally respectful. For example, Jan r... |
2020/09/04 | 1,365 | 6,442 | <issue_start>username_0: I am asked to review a paper for a fairly highly regarded conference.
The paper presents some 'novel' algorithms to do a particular job, but it fails to mention any of the various related previous work which address the very same issue.
Even if the algorithm is sound and their method is thoro... |
2020/09/04 | 1,854 | 7,983 | <issue_start>username_0: Let me tell you the story. I am a researcher in Mathematics and I have been the past months developing an idea that seems simple but potentially fruitful. The idea is so simple and straightforward from the current literature (at least for me) that I was even concerned that something like that w... |
2020/09/04 | 1,015 | 4,221 | <issue_start>username_0: I have seen the other questions on linkedin on the Academia stack exchange page but had a slightly different one.
For a PhD student who is looking to becomes a professor post grad school, is a linkedin helpful?
From what I see, the interview process for academia is the following:
1. The stude... |
2020/09/04 | 1,241 | 5,229 | <issue_start>username_0: I see that there are many questions on whether putting/putting how many affiliation(s) on a paper. My situation does not quite fit into all the existing questions, so I am posting my question here.
First of all I am currently working as a part-time lecturer at two different colleges in the sam... |
2020/09/04 | 422 | 1,767 | <issue_start>username_0: EDIT: I asked the question poorly, so what follows is an edit of the original.
When submitting an abstract for a presentation on research that is based on joint-work, should all authors be listed or only the presenter(s)?<issue_comment>username_1: Most conferences require the attendance of at ... |
2020/09/05 | 910 | 4,103 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm just wondering to what extent I can hire someone to collect data for me. This would be secondary data, collecting patient records from clinics. I have no clue how to organize data or use databases, so the research assistant would also be helping me do that. I would, of course, be reading th... |
2020/09/05 | 1,684 | 7,156 | <issue_start>username_0: [MATLAB vs. Python in industry](https://or.stackexchange.com/questions/4170/matlab-vs-python-in-industry) at Operations Research SE contains the following statement:
>
> I am a beginning PhD student in math, and I would like to focus on optimization. I am learning programming for the first ti... |
2020/09/05 | 3,637 | 16,046 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been asked to serve on the examination committee for a PhD thesis. It's in the area of machine learning. It's from a university in a developing country. My job is to provide a written report, recommending whether to award the degree (possibly with minor or major changes), or even not to ... |
2020/09/05 | 4,596 | 18,697 | <issue_start>username_0: I work in an engineering field (related to AI, machine learning, etc.) and something I found interesting is whenever I use "big words" or even long words like "substantiate" or "corroborates" while compiling a draft to be submit to a conference and such, I will get a request from my co-authors ... |
2020/09/06 | 600 | 2,566 | <issue_start>username_0: I have just noticed something very weird, some months ago, I was looking in google scholar an article of <NAME> called "The Vapor Pressure of Metallic Tungsten", it had 761 citations, some time passed
and I searched the same article again and now it has 744 citations. I don't know if maybe I di... |
2020/09/06 | 2,077 | 8,693 | <issue_start>username_0: I am starting my PhD in a few days. One of the faculty told one of his students that me and another incoming PhD student just made it in terms of the initial admission ranking, i.e. we were in the bottom of the pile among those who made the cut. The reason that we got in was because the top can... |
2020/09/06 | 985 | 3,842 | <issue_start>username_0: I know that similar questions have been posted before but i cannot find a specific and complete answer.
Suppose that i post a preprint article on ArXiv/TechRxiv. Then, i submit the paper to an IEEE Transaction journal. After revisions it is accepted. In IEEE [author's FAQ](https://www.ieee.org/... |
2020/09/06 | 5,086 | 20,852 | <issue_start>username_0: I just received an email from an undergrad student in a course that I am teaching.
The student informed me that his girlfriend's father passed away,
and so he will be unable to attend my class because
he "needs to stay with her to help her with official processes related to her father's death".... |
2020/09/06 | 1,586 | 6,777 | <issue_start>username_0: How would potential research advisors view someone entering graduate school because of interest in particular "real-world" problems, with the ultimate hope of leaving or changing fields if these particular issues are resolved?
I can come up with a few examples. Perhaps someone is very passiona... |
2020/09/06 | 550 | 2,251 | <issue_start>username_0: I've been thinking that sometimes here on Stack Exchange, people make very good questions and give very good answers, in my case, I have learnt a lot from the community and when I post a question I try to make an effort to formulate it in a proper manner to avoid downvoting, so, when applying f... |
2020/09/07 | 512 | 1,970 | <issue_start>username_0: What is meant by a conference indexed in Scopus? It's easy to know which journals are indexed in Scopus from the Scopus homepage. Are there any conferences in Mathematics which are Scopus indexed? Does there exist any page like this <https://www.scopus.com/sources.uri> where I can identify Scop... |
2020/09/07 | 928 | 3,913 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in a very strange situation. I have been accepted to a PhD program in the UK which was supposed to be financed by an external company (this was arranged by the advisor). I've already accepted and met my conditional offer and stipend but the external company withdrew their support and I (imp... |
2020/09/07 | 702 | 2,806 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is similar to [the date of PhD award in France](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/112063/the-date-of-phd-award-in-france), but for the case of Oxbridge (maybe all of UK, but I don't know).
There is the date of the defense (behind closed doors), after which one may reci... |
2020/09/07 | 2,059 | 8,674 | <issue_start>username_0: I was wondering if it is common for professors to ask a new international postdoc to work without compensation while waiting for paperwork to be completed.
I was in an interview and the professor hinted at something along this line, when I brought up the topic of the lengthy visa process to be... |
2020/09/08 | 537 | 2,396 | <issue_start>username_0: Me and my friends did a project during final semester. It got accepted for publication. Later I came to abroad for studies. My friends didn’t add my name as a co author.I have given my input and it’s my project idea to initiate. Can we add my name as a co author later?<issue_comment>username_1:... |
2020/09/08 | 2,503 | 10,795 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to know why some PhD students don't publish their works in a journal.
For example, I have seen many good, high level German theses which were written around 1970-90, but were not published in any journal.<issue_comment>username_1: The obligatory journal publication of scientific work do... |
2020/09/08 | 984 | 4,190 | <issue_start>username_0: Last year I did some work to help out my friend and his supervisor on a project that they were working on. I wasn't very involved with the project, but the work that I contributed was important for them to be able to find the main results that they were interested in. I asked at the time if the... |
2020/09/08 | 2,159 | 8,995 | <issue_start>username_0: I am planning to hire a postdoc (in mathematics), and have never done this before. My department is far from diverse. I have read that a good way to achieve a diverse pool of candidates is by advertising widely, including circulating them to special interest groups.
I can definitely see the be... |
2020/09/08 | 602 | 2,618 | <issue_start>username_0: It's been several weeks that I sent an email regarding to an open call for a position.
The position is advertised in a personal webpage with the message "[...] suitable candidates feel free to contact me," as opposed to the "job vacancies" page which the faculty has. There is no mentioned deadl... |
2020/09/08 | 719 | 3,185 | <issue_start>username_0: While conducting research for my dissertation, my collaborator and I discovered a mathematical error in published work and this error was confirmed by the author through personal correspondence. On the surface, it appears as a minor error, however it effects certain mathematical statements. The... |
2020/09/09 | 520 | 2,143 | <issue_start>username_0: For someone who has just finished his M.Sc. with extremely good grades, is it possible that their not so extremely good grades during undergrad might affect where they get their PhD?<issue_comment>username_1: Depends - but I feel if you can convincingly communicate why you want the PhD position... |
2020/09/09 | 1,156 | 4,734 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a Master's in Computer Science and I currently work in a manufacturing company. My current role is IT Manufacturing Technical Leader with responsibilities split between technical and business tasks evenly. I've always wanted to move closer to more-technical-less-business tasks.
So my qu... |
2020/09/09 | 1,189 | 4,942 | <issue_start>username_0: I learned yesterday that an idea (let's call it Idea A) I came up with on my own and that will appear in a paper I'm writing actually appeared in a paper 15 years ago. (My field is math, I'm a PhD student, for context.)
The paper has other ideas that I think are significant on their own so I c... |
2020/09/09 | 1,058 | 4,126 | <issue_start>username_0: Unlike the question [Safely negotiate a salary for a PhD offer - Germany](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/18950/safely-negotiate-a-salary-for-a-phd-offer-germany) where the goal was to negotiate the % of the salary of a PhD position, my post instead focuses on the specific level (S... |
2020/09/09 | 736 | 3,046 | <issue_start>username_0: I did my Ph.D. 2 years ago. After that, I moved into the industry where I am now working in a similar field. I like to think that they would be happy to get a mail every now and then on what I have been up to or if I bump into some interesting research questions. I have been sending them a mail... |
2020/09/09 | 3,714 | 15,250 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a student in college, and while I was taking a linear algebra exam, I noticed that there was a mistake in the last exercise. Our exam is composed of two parts: multiple questions and exercises. I usually prefer to start with the second part while everybody starts with the first one.
I spen... |
2020/09/09 | 779 | 3,104 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to know how to compensate a low overall grade for past education for a Ph.D. application in computer science in the UK ?
Thanks<issue_comment>username_1: Retired Director of UG Studies here...
While you will learn a lot doing a PhD, it is, more than anything else, a process in learning... |
2020/09/10 | 911 | 4,261 | <issue_start>username_0: I submitted to a journal, in which I got a minor revision. In the minor revision, I was asked to do nothing other than to include a future research direction in the end after the conclusion. I submitted with the minor revision two days ago and today, I got a mail saying that a major revision is... |
2020/09/10 | 2,130 | 9,289 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a current graduate student at a research-oriented university. Nonetheless, for me, it is a big mystery why and how the professors are incentivised to recruit and train the graduate students.
In an experiment-oriented research group, graduate students are the work-force of the principal in... |
2020/09/10 | 730 | 2,910 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an undergrad student, and I intend to start assisting a senior PhD student with her research work. I'm really interested in the work (definitely don't want to let go of this opportunity), but I'm unsure if the *position being offered to me* is **official**, i.e. if I would be a *research as... |
2020/09/11 | 449 | 1,894 | <issue_start>username_0: Say, I want to publish a research paper. But, for some reason, I don't want to expose my identity.
Is it possible to publish a research paper using an alias?<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, it's possible and plenty of people will have done it.
Rather than try to repeat what has already been sa... |
2020/09/11 | 619 | 2,678 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I defended my PhD thesis in the final viva-voce session. Post the presentation, one of the panel members questioned that I should not have stated my own definition of a particular concept. The panel member suggested that I should have rather given a industry-standard definition for th... |
2020/09/11 | 1,372 | 5,870 | <issue_start>username_0: I will be graduating this year with a PhD in mathematics. My research background is in analysis in a top 20 program in the US. However, my family situation is such that I can't uproot my family any more than I already have, and I am thus geographically limited in our "in-person" options. There ... |
2020/09/12 | 2,035 | 8,467 | <issue_start>username_0: **Summary:** *Student got defensive when I suggested he might have some neurologial issue that should be checked, should I apologize or how to address the issue?*
I am a PhD student advising a student midway through his master. This student has always been a very slow learner which has caused ... |
2020/09/12 | 1,351 | 5,683 | <issue_start>username_0: **First a bit of chronological background:**
PhD in pure math (2 publications, 1 preprint), 1 year of postdoc in pure math (unproductive) 2 years of postdoc in computational medical imaging (1 publication each, and one of these postdocs were in application of differential geometry and machine ... |
2020/09/12 | 2,863 | 11,646 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m an Indian PhD student at a mathematics department in the US. A few months back, I was deliberately shoulder-bumped for a few seconds by another PhD student. This student had previously chased me across the department (literally), invaded my personal space, and stared me down. I asked to cha... |
2020/09/12 | 581 | 2,474 | <issue_start>username_0: I will be teaching for the first time to both undergraduate and graduate students in computer science, not in the US, and I am wondering
1. if I should take time to meet & greet with students
2. if so, what should I ask them? I know some questions are uncomfortable (anything that gives away so... |
2020/09/12 | 1,164 | 5,055 | <issue_start>username_0: After being offered a postdoctoral position by email, I was asked by the university’s administration to submit some documents allowing them to start the hiring process. According to them, this process will take 2 months.
I was wondering if it is wise/safe to wait this long without an official ... |
2020/09/12 | 330 | 1,377 | <issue_start>username_0: All of the acknowledgment examples I have read online address the supervisor with formal title and full name (i.e. Prof WhatNot). In my case, I'd rather use the first name only ("nickname" actually), is that so uncommon? I should probably ask him, but I wanted to understand what is the general ... |
2020/09/13 | 400 | 1,717 | <issue_start>username_0: I have almost finished my master's in Computer Science the only reason that I don't want to directly continue with a PhD is my advisor and co-advisor. I was left out during almost all my master's projects and it has been a bad experience.
Is it okay to finish a master's and look for another ad... |
2020/09/13 | 1,293 | 5,248 | <issue_start>username_0: I was recently awarded my master's degree. This was a very difficult process since my master's thesis advisor completely abandoned me halfway through. She literally did not answer my e-mails . No -one in my institute was specialized in the branch I wanted to write thesis so , I wrote to a profe... |
2020/09/13 | 779 | 3,387 | <issue_start>username_0: I read an interesting topic entitled "PhD candidate vs. PhD Student". I understood that the distinction between the use of those terms is strongly linked to the structure of PhD programs in the US/Canada. I wonder how should I phrase it for an application to a doctoral workshop that requires me... |
2020/09/13 | 3,985 | 16,202 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been preparing for a very important exam for 2.5-3 years. And now I am completely exhausted, the exam was scheduled to happen in May, but due to COVID-19 it got delayed to September end. This delay and uncertainty did break my motivation a bit but I still kept on pushing, and now I'm com... |
2020/09/13 | 420 | 1,806 | <issue_start>username_0: All the guidelines for writing a Statement of Purpose emphasize on how you need to properly explain why you would like to pursue an Master's in the specific branch along with proper examples
However, a Master's in Computer Science is a very vast branch. So how do you mention that you want to d... |
2020/09/13 | 491 | 2,187 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm writing my master thesis in network formation theory. I believe that a picture with network nodes in the introduction will help the readers understand what my model is and what I am trying to prove. I doubt most readers would read past the introduction anyway so if they do not understand th... |
2020/09/13 | 286 | 1,286 | <issue_start>username_0: I have just addressed reviewers’ comments to one of my papers. I am the first author and did most of the job.
One of the authors does not want to resubmit. They offered no explanation and have been avoiding me. How to behave in this case?<issue_comment>username_1: Ask both the editor and the c... |
2020/09/13 | 2,173 | 8,732 | <issue_start>username_0: A lot of graduate students/applicants, it seems, suffer from "imposter syndrome." Typically, these are bright, high-achieving students, who nonetheless doubt their ability, and this most likely stems from the competitive and selective nature of grad. school and academia. However, how can one te... |
2020/09/14 | 814 | 3,464 | <issue_start>username_0: 31 years old, with a PhD in mechanical engineering. Graduated last December, I did not get any decent postdoc position due to my poor publication record during my 5.5 years duration PhD (1 first author and two co-author papers).
Early this year I published 2 more papers from my PhD thesis and ... |
2020/09/14 | 754 | 3,210 | <issue_start>username_0: Recently, I was talking to some fellow grad students and the issue of money came up. I was shocked to find out my two friends who are TA's in the philosophy and physics departments at the same university make $600 less than I do per month. They make about $1100/month while I make almost $1700/m... |
2020/09/14 | 1,044 | 4,414 | <issue_start>username_0: I have applied for an assistant professorship at a top-tier Chinese university. After interviewing with them, they are now offering me a position: an *associate* professorship!
I find this very surprising. It’s not that I don’t think I deserve it: I have been a postdoc for seven years, and my ... |
2020/09/14 | 1,034 | 4,506 | <issue_start>username_0: I was recently asked to write a letter of recommendation for a young women that I coach for a sport. I am aware that she is a good student, however my only interaction with her is through coaching. She is an Olympian and I have coached her since she was a child. I have never written a letter of... |
2020/09/14 | 1,290 | 5,439 | <issue_start>username_0: (I'm a math PhD student)
I'm writing a paper and part of my work relies on an old result of my advisor.
Recently, I started to become concerned that the old result does not have a proof (only a sketch) and I have a hunch that the proof is considerably harder (or possibly just much trickier) t... |
2020/09/14 | 2,479 | 10,188 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an independent researcher and have spent the past year writing a fairly extensive (60+ pages) research paper on a topic in probability/statistics. The paper is almost complete but there are a couple minor loose ends that I am having issues with proving. Furthermore, given the length of the... |
2020/09/14 | 986 | 3,999 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to apply to few PhD programs in Microbiology (I'm particularly very interested in Microbial ecology) but I'm afraid my undergrad gpa (8.5/10 for the first 6 semester as I'm currently in my 7th semester) might hold me back (however I have scored 9/10 in all core biology subjects). But... |
2020/09/14 | 909 | 3,986 | <issue_start>username_0: I am starting a permanent position this year, and while I am very happy here, the admin part seems a bit overbearing. I know from my previous positions as a postdoc, that other places are not that bad.
And it made me think about changing universities in some ten years or so. But that raises th... |
2020/09/14 | 501 | 2,113 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a first year math Phd student. I'm undecided between focusing on mathematical computer science (MCS) and pure maths, so I'm taking courses in both. To keep my workload light enough to avoid stress, I've opted to audit one of the courses in MCS. The course is not in my research interests, so... |
2020/09/15 | 862 | 3,664 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm worried that my advisor is sabotaging me either knowingly or unknowingly. I'm entering the 5th year of my PhD in a hard science. I had prior publications, but I have yet to publish any papers with my advisor -- because I get scooped whenever I get close to submitting one. The group that kee... |
2020/09/15 | 1,545 | 5,948 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently doing a PhD. My professor, which is my first supervisor, is a man. My second supervisor is a woman and works for my first supervisor. The etiquette and the courtesy, at least in my country, requires to greet the female first, e.g.:
>
> Dear Dr. Female,
>
> Dear Prof. Dr. Ma... |
2020/09/15 | 605 | 2,700 | <issue_start>username_0: Just surfing the net to find useful resources, came across to the university course page, and course materials were well explained. However, when trying to download them, Unfortunately, there was a canvas page to do the university authorization.
* Is it a mistake to ask the instructor for the ... |
2020/09/15 | 695 | 2,896 | <issue_start>username_0: I’m Nick, a postdoc currently working on publication of my PhD work. There are several authors on the paper - two former graduate students as co-first authors (myself and Aubrey), followed by five undergraduates (all of who have graduated now) and another younger current graduate student as the... |
2020/09/16 | 371 | 1,572 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an undergraduate student planning to apply for Ph.D.
The thing is that I spent the first year of my undergraduate at another university. I did transfer some credits but I didn't transfer any major credits. The question is - do I need to include my transcript for the first year in the appl... |
2020/09/16 | 497 | 2,259 | <issue_start>username_0: Today, an increasing number of research papers are publicly available. At the same time, a community of researchers and students are reading those materials. We are highlighting, commenting, finding connections between topics, contradicting... in general digesting that knowledge.
Where does al... |
2020/09/16 | 418 | 1,661 | <issue_start>username_0: I am going to join a PhD position in one of the TUs in the Netherlands. This question pertains to the salary I can expect. I have worked 2 years after my bachelors and 3 years after my masters. For the doctoral candidates, according to Collective Labour Agreement by Dutch universities, the init... |
2020/09/16 | 3,649 | 15,316 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a PhD in statistics and teach statistics for humanities students in a university. One week before the start of the semester I posted all the required information regarding the course textbook, as well as guidelines for how to access it (it is available online). I also explained all of th... |
2020/09/16 | 2,653 | 11,825 | <issue_start>username_0: I found a mistake (not a misprint) in an article which has been published in a very good math journal. According the available data, the article was in peer-review process for more than 8 months. But I do not know why the referee(s) did not notice that. What are reasons for this kind of article... |
2020/09/16 | 1,231 | 5,431 | <issue_start>username_0: I am working on a website that contains a list of free courses. My aim is to promote our field (semidefinite programming).
Each course consists of a number of articles.
Each article is built using different resources (books, posts, talks). Those resources are listed in each article.
I strongl... |
2020/09/17 | 877 | 3,756 | <issue_start>username_0: As research grows even more intricate in fields such as pure and applied math (and other technical areas), very few reviewers now have a complete picture of any single field. Thus it should be common for more mistakes to be published (in a journal or in a conference).
This said, it is very unc... |
2020/09/17 | 5,614 | 22,535 | <issue_start>username_0: I am teaching an **undergraduate** mathematics course to software engineering students. I often ask my students to prove some mathematical identities as their homework. The identities could be, for example: trigonometry identities, [Laplace transform](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace_trans... |
2020/09/17 | 640 | 2,650 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm in the sciences in the USA, and a very relevant to my field, well respected journal just advertised. I have been encouraged to apply. The workload is advertised as not egregious. I already sit on several editorial boards.
I worry that this kind of service may be better left for post tenure... |
2020/09/17 | 700 | 2,824 | <issue_start>username_0: A certain fraction of personal websites of researchers has a hint along the lines of "CV available on request." I always found that a bit odd. Are there any situations where a researcher would
1. Actively ask another researcher for their CV; and
2. Would be more inclined to do so because they ... |
2020/09/17 | 823 | 3,564 | <issue_start>username_0: I have an undergrad thesis idea that involves transformers. I am trying to take the lead on the idea before I contact a professor about it - i.e. figuring out exactly how I'd make it happen, and if it is realistic. The problem is that because of covid, the largest research funding I can get fro... |
2020/09/17 | 1,398 | 6,442 | <issue_start>username_0: In the summer, I took a math course where one of the homeworks involved a question where answers were expected to include several diagrams alongside an explanation. At the time, I thought it was a difficult question and I had been complaining about how confusing it was to a friend who was also ... |
2020/09/17 | 546 | 1,764 | <issue_start>username_0: I am applying for a Ph. D. program after a 10 year career of secondary classroom teaching - I have held several positions in that time should I cut some of these teaching experiences out to make my CV fit one page (the teaching experiences are not at the college level, and not necessarily direc... |
2020/09/18 | 1,211 | 5,242 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently saw my ratings on RateMyProfessor.com and it's very disheartening to see all the negative reviews from a course for which I worked so hard. Comments like "sh\*\*\*y professor" are very difficult to accept. It's taking a toll on my mental health for sure. What are strategies for deali... |
2020/09/18 | 645 | 2,781 | <issue_start>username_0: My field of study is purely theoretical, meaning that there are a ton of equations and a bunch of numerical simulations. I am targeting groups that align with my field and I am trying to read their research. I know this question has probably been asked before, but how much of the group's resear... |
2020/09/18 | 1,131 | 4,504 | <issue_start>username_0: I have applied to a PhD position some weeks ago. After thinking about the given topic and institute for a longer time, I don't want to do my PhD there anymore. They want to interview me but since I would not even accept an offer, I don't want to do the interview (additional stress).
How can I ... |
2020/09/18 | 1,144 | 4,979 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose someone is pursuing PhD in mathematics from a third class university and their supervisor has little knowledge about their own field. Is it possible to publish a good research paper in good journal?<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, it is possible. The institution doesn't matter. The advis... |
2020/09/19 | 969 | 4,333 | <issue_start>username_0: On another post of mine, someone said that the idea of a qualified candidate is "elusive" because there are always more qualified applicants than open spots in any program. I thought that was a valid point, and I wanted to ask how most programs select candidates once they've met or exceeded the... |
2020/09/19 | 603 | 2,452 | <issue_start>username_0: I plan to start my Ph.D. quite late at age 31. I wanted to know if this would have any implications on my career if I decide to stay in academia and apply to faculty positions after completing my Ph.D.<issue_comment>username_1: Officially, age discrimination is illegal in hiring in the USA afte... |
2020/09/19 | 2,955 | 12,873 | <issue_start>username_0: I just started advising graduate level students, but I am having a lot of problems. I thought I would be a patient, understanding, helpful advisor but really I am being tested.
One of the students only copies things, she did some literature review and presented it, fine, but when I ask the fin... |
2020/09/19 | 844 | 3,491 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a student who sends me emails twice a week showing me his updated dissertation. At first I supported him a lot. But he literally does what I say word by word and never goes beyond what I tell him in doing further research. I have been clear to him that his limits are the sky. But when he... |