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2012/03/03 | 934 | 4,017 | <issue_start>username_0: When you look at a paper, what order to you assume the authors are in? Most important/most work done first or alphabetical? In my group we usually use alphabetic order, but I've been wondering if that might create a misleading impression with lots of people.
On a related note, would you expect... |
2012/03/04 | 944 | 4,133 | <issue_start>username_0: Are they almost always kept confidential? Or is there protocol for sharing them?<issue_comment>username_1: It varies substantially by field and journal. (As I keep saying, this is true of pretty much every question on this board.) Often they are shared not just with the author but the other rev... |
2012/03/04 | 622 | 2,836 | <issue_start>username_0: I know that a couple of UChicago professors told me that, especially if a graduate student ends up co-advised with two professors. Maybe there's an additional factor too: maybe students actually have the time and flexibility to communicate with other professors, which could possibly help initia... |
2012/03/04 | 1,213 | 4,825 | <issue_start>username_0: I am often faced with questions in areas which cross my boundaries of knowledge. For instance, as an engineer, sometimes I am needed to study the basics of Anatomy or something like that.
This might be a temporary interest or might be permanent (There is no way of telling beforehand)
During ... |
2012/03/04 | 365 | 1,506 | <issue_start>username_0: (A followup for [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/535/order-of-authors-on-publications))
Say your field's convention is to have alphabetical-ordered author list. What should you do when your work is accepted to a (multidisciplinary) journal in which the convention is... |
2012/03/05 | 857 | 3,767 | <issue_start>username_0: Do they discuss the graduate student in meetings with each other? Or do they have any obligations to interact with the graduate student in other ways?<issue_comment>username_1: I think the variations here are national rather than by discipline.
In the U.S., the thesis committee's primary role... |
2012/03/05 | 702 | 2,853 | <issue_start>username_0: I know that the time greatly varies from professor to professor, but what are some good 25th percentile to 75th percentile estimates? And does the time spent reading/replying to emails generally increase when the professor is teaching a class?
What are some other factors that influence the num... |
2012/03/05 | 521 | 1,928 | <issue_start>username_0: [This blog post](http://scienceblogs.com/catdynamics/2010/09/nrc_the_rankings.php) argues so, but I have my doubts since the author works at a graduate program whose S-rankings are much better than its R-rankings. I have a feeling that R-rankings do capture some things that S-rankings don't cap... |
2012/03/05 | 748 | 3,131 | <issue_start>username_0: [Here's](http://www.quora.com/Graduate-Advisors-Advising/What-are-the-primary-causes-of-conflict-between-PhD-advisors-and-their-students) a very interesting analysis from a professor's point of view on the primary causes of conflict between PhD advisors and their students:
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> In my experienc... |
2012/03/05 | 1,586 | 6,899 | <issue_start>username_0: I have always refrained from making notes from my childhood. But now, my adviser wants me to make notes of what I study saying that it would be very beneficial for me in future. So, following his advice, I started making notes. But it turns out that it is quite boring and time consuming. And I ... |
2012/03/05 | 1,097 | 4,567 | <issue_start>username_0: It seems I'm about to have a bad application season, as all schools I'm waiting to hear from have given out offers of admissions to other applicants. I'm trying to come up with a viable plan to turn my application into a successful one for next year's season.
Here are some important things to ... |
2012/03/06 | 477 | 2,045 | <issue_start>username_0: When an academic is invited to give a talk at another university, are their food and travel expenses usually fully reimbursed by the university that invited the professor?<issue_comment>username_1: The short answer is that it depends (no surprise there). If it's to give a talk in a department c... |
2012/03/06 | 983 | 4,198 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently applying for research and faculty positions. After an initial phone interview, how can I politely ask for feedback on the status of my application?
What are the necessary, optional, and unwise topics of such a letter?
As a concrete example, here is a quick draft:
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> I am wri... |
2012/03/06 | 870 | 3,780 | <issue_start>username_0: And does it depend on the type of field? Undergrads in biology can do the menial work, but what about undergrads in the computational sciences?
Are they more or less likely to benefit from undergraduate research in schools/fields where the undergrads tend to be especially self-motivated? (I do... |
2012/03/06 | 3,437 | 14,363 | <issue_start>username_0: I have never written a verbatim script for a talk. I have at times written notes or outlines, but I never read from them when presenting (and rarely when practicing). With enough (weeks) of practice, I can give a pretty good talk. With less practice, I sometimes digress and sometimes omit an im... |
2012/03/06 | 1,461 | 5,517 | <issue_start>username_0: Can anyone suggest sources of online graduate-level education, as well as some criticism of them? Both free and paid are valid. I'm familiar with these sources:
* [Academic Earth](http://academicearth.org/)
* [MIT OpenCourseWare](http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm)
* [Kahn Academy](http://www.khanac... |
2012/03/06 | 558 | 2,272 | <issue_start>username_0: For most conferences in my field it seems to be invitation-only, i.e. somebody has to suggest you/remember you. Are there any conferences that have open calls for applications to the programme committee?<issue_comment>username_1: It's rare. I know of one conference though (in theoretical comput... |
2012/03/06 | 2,177 | 9,089 | <issue_start>username_0: How important is web-presence to researchers? How does its importance vary by fields? (My interest is STEM, theory in particular)
I noticed that there is a pretty large variation in amount of web-presence even within a single field (I will use theoretical computer science/related math as an ex... |
2012/03/07 | 1,726 | 6,821 | <issue_start>username_0: A question I have been wondering for a while is if there exists an actual proof that a blind reviewing process (i.e. where the reviewers are anonymous, and the reviews not published) is better than an open one (i.e. where the reviewers are not anonymous and/or the reviews are published along wi... |
2012/03/07 | 1,621 | 6,813 | <issue_start>username_0: When it comes to reading, there are literally thousands of methods from [Speed Reading](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_reading) to [SQ3R](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQ3R) to Sequential(Word by Word till the end). My question is regarding reading mathematically/theoretically dense books as... |
2012/03/07 | 1,826 | 7,909 | <issue_start>username_0: I received my PhD in 2009 and my adviser will not provide a good recommendation for me. This is mostly because we have fundamentally different approaches to science, and in retrospect I see that I could have avoided a breakdown in our relationship if I had been more deferential.
At this point,... |
2012/03/08 | 2,787 | 11,997 | <issue_start>username_0: I understand that in a lot of big-lab fields it is common for the principal investigator to append their name to a paper even if they did not write the paper, design the experiment, or collect data since they spend energy securing funding, and managing the whole lab. What about for small labs?
... |
2012/03/08 | 3,103 | 13,534 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a follow-up question to [Open versus Blind reviewing process](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/625/open-versus-blind-reviewing-process), and is somehow related to [What happens to the reviews that people write for journal articles after they're sent back to the author?](http... |
2012/03/09 | 1,291 | 5,472 | <issue_start>username_0: There are some clear reasons to decline a review request, such as conflict-of-interests or not enough free time (e.g., going on a vacation..).
But what if you are just not interested in the paper you got (i.e., it is loosely related to what you do, but not entirely irrelevant)?
On which occasi... |
2012/03/09 | 1,757 | 5,524 | <issue_start>username_0: This question was written by a friend of mine. I'm helping them by posting it here, with permission.
How should I use the name-year referencing system (loosely speaking, the Harvard system) in such cases where there are multiple works that have the same first author but a different set of coau... |
2012/03/09 | 1,070 | 4,192 | <issue_start>username_0: According to [a recent international study on work-life balance within academia](http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/03/09/scientists-are-unhappy-their-work-life-balance)
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> "a majority of researchers and scientists had conflicts between their work schedules and personal lives at least t... |
2012/03/10 | 639 | 2,403 | <issue_start>username_0: Or is this the exception to the norm? I know that it's allowed at Brown - but I wonder if it's unique.<issue_comment>username_1: At many (most? all?) universities, a committee is **required** to have at least one professor from outside the department (other than the chair, if the chair holds a ... |
2012/03/10 | 2,220 | 9,501 | <issue_start>username_0: I am an M.Sc. student in mathematics. I was recently invited by some Ph.D. students and Post-Docs (a group of 5 people, including myself) to join their study group. We are reading a specific text, which should get us ready to read some more advanced work. This work is relevant to the research o... |
2012/03/10 | 399 | 1,617 | <issue_start>username_0: As in, it's certainly not a standard 8-5 job of 40-50 hours per week. Is it common (and expected) for them to sometimes put in 80 hours a week, and to occasionally put in 10 hours? (say, during times of personal crisis or of particularly intense coursework?)<issue_comment>username_1: It depends... |
2012/03/11 | 2,388 | 6,325 | <issue_start>username_0: And are there differences in average income between different types of fields, or different types of schools?
The diagram below says that the average income for grad students is $17k/year. But I'm more commonly seeing incomes in the range of $25k-$30k/year on PhysicsGRE.com...
 is a recent KickStarter-like startup for crowdfunding science.<issue_comment>username_1: These fundin... |
2012/03/13 | 2,187 | 9,318 | <issue_start>username_0: I have noticed that there is no real workshop or conference in my particular field of research, that tends to be across different fields (for instance, security and risk). There are of course general conferences where I can submit a paper, but they are very general (i.e. either security, or ris... |
2012/03/13 | 2,335 | 9,297 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to get my bachelor degree in computer science. I have applied PhD programs of US universities to earn doctorate degree in computer architecture subject. I kept my hopes high and applied the most of top US schools, but rejected from the most of them (mostly because my GRE, TOEFL grade... |
2012/03/13 | 1,985 | 8,352 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently discovered that several of my papers have been plagiarized in order to create one paper, and that this paper has been published at a conference. I informed the organizers of the conference and the editor, and there is now notice of violation attached to the online version of thi... |
2012/03/14 | 738 | 3,261 | <issue_start>username_0: I would like to know how willing would staff in CS department of reputed universities would be to hire doctorates from relevant non-CS departments, for example, say, management science or operations research students. I see a dilemma for the recruiters here: research-wise the new member may be ... |
2012/03/14 | 1,184 | 5,154 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently saw a listing of professor salaries at various departments in Stanford. I found that the folks at GSB earn significantly more than what other Dept. people do. This is the motivation for my question:
1. How different are B-school professors? Many of them work on areas that lie on the... |
2012/03/14 | 2,746 | 10,142 | <issue_start>username_0: This some kind of follow up question to [How to prevent plagiarism of my papers?](https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/712/102), since I've been clearly convinced that it was in my best interest to put my own papers on my webpage.
Now, since I need to make the effort to put them, I might as w... |
2012/03/14 | 1,847 | 7,889 | <issue_start>username_0: This question is mainly about building useful contacts during the course of the doctorate. How does one keep the relevant community in other universities informed about his/her research work? One way is obviously to publish the work in reputable journals, but the volume of work that people do t... |
2012/03/15 | 1,084 | 4,138 | <issue_start>username_0: Whenever I write an article, I feel the result is not good enough. Although every theorem is solid and correctly proven, something is always "squeaky".
The main evidence for my feeling shows itself when my co-authors revise theorem I've written. Suddenly everything becomes compact, precise and... |
2012/03/15 | 2,066 | 8,378 | <issue_start>username_0: The following might be a slight generalization for all fields but something I've noticed especially in the field of Scientific Computing:
1. Why don't people publish failures? I mean, if they tried some experiment and realized at the end that they tried everything and nothing worked. Why don't... |
2012/03/15 | 1,140 | 4,703 | <issue_start>username_0: When does a PhD end? I know this is a very general question on this forum, but let us consider a CS-engineering group. What is the usual and primary consideration for letting the student finish officially?
Is it the number of years spent, when the professor feels nothing more useful will come... |
2012/03/15 | 436 | 1,780 | <issue_start>username_0: A few years ago for every fresh PhD graduate in Management Information System (MIS), there were three open faculty positions. Then the ratio of graduates to positions dwindled to 1: 2, then to 1:1.5, later to 4:1. Finally MIS departments all over started shutting down or being merged into Manag... |
2012/03/15 | 718 | 3,155 | <issue_start>username_0: When advising students performing research in one's group, what's the best way to make sure that they keep on top of the literature?
* Is it best to forward any article of interest to the student?
* Should we keep a list of journals the student should follow independently of me?
* Are there ot... |
2012/03/16 | 1,045 | 4,537 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose there is an engineering PhD student who is unsure whether to join academia or the industry after his PhD. He does not want to take chances and applies for internship positions during the course of his PhD. Here is a dilemma: the internship is certain to eat into vital amount of time he ... |
2012/03/16 | 1,162 | 5,129 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose a student applies for PhD at a university and his application is replete with problems: average academic record, poor SOP, so-so recommendations, etc and he is rejected outright. He gets an admit at another university, does very good work and completes his doctorate successfully. Now he... |
2012/03/16 | 1,338 | 5,419 | <issue_start>username_0: Background: I have the opportunity to pursue a Computer Science graduate degree at a well respected program (around top 20). I spoke with the professors at the university and I feel like I am a good fit with their research program. My ultimate pursuits are to complete a PhD in CS. I've done res... |
2012/03/16 | 706 | 2,849 | <issue_start>username_0: One of my advisors suddenly passed away while I was in graduate school. We had some discussions and ideas about future publications, but he passed away before any of the work was completed. When the work was finally completed and published, I and my co-authors were therefore presented with an e... |
2012/03/17 | 6,288 | 26,682 | <issue_start>username_0: I am most of the way through my freshman year at Washington State University, pursuing a BS in Computer Science. Going away to school has been rough, and I have been pretty depressed for most of the time there. Right now, I am leaning towards not wanting to continue my education, but my parents... |
2012/03/17 | 1,602 | 6,889 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose a student applies to a few good graduate programmes, but for some reasons, gains an admit in one great school and rejects in a couple of equally good ones. How necessary is it for the student to be truthful about his rejects? There are a couple of circumstances that arise here:
1. The ... |
2012/03/17 | 364 | 1,482 | <issue_start>username_0: * How easy is it for faculty members working at a reputable university to become entrepreneurs?
* If the faculty member sees an opportunity for a great product and wants to set up a small office with a few engineers working with one or two students, will the university sponsor such a venture?
*... |
2012/03/18 | 1,532 | 6,441 | <issue_start>username_0: This is related to "[Skimming through a math paper with a group](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/670/skimming-through-a-math-paper-with-a-group)" and "[What do professors gain out of teaching reading courses with individual Ph.D students](https://academia.stackexchange.com/question... |
2012/03/18 | 1,585 | 6,786 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a computational scientist and I often find myself much more productive when working with others with resonating mind. When working alone, my motivation level is lower, distracted more easily, and I feel the progress is slower. However, in academic jobs, I often hear that it is important to... |
2012/03/18 | 624 | 2,663 | <issue_start>username_0: While I was searching for materials for my research topic, I found a research paper which is signed as copyright by "Some organization". Does that mean that I could not use the content of this paper nor the ideas it presents until the paper owner gives me permissions?<issue_comment>username_1: ... |
2012/03/19 | 527 | 2,264 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm an international student in a master program in applied math department in the United States. There are two ways that I have known in which the person like me can find the research opportunities:
* Independent research: do it on your own. Is it common for most math students to do research ... |
2012/03/19 | 531 | 2,362 | <issue_start>username_0: I know there is nothing preventing me from publishing an article in a different research field, but is it beneficial other than for satisfying my own interest/curiosity? Presumably these may be added to my CV, and possibly included for funding applications?<issue_comment>username_1: I'd say it ... |
2012/03/19 | 521 | 2,347 | <issue_start>username_0: Consider a conference publishing papers related to any EC/CS engineering field. What is the exact difference between different types of papers published in such a conference, i.e., main conference paper, mini-conference paper and workshop paper? Is it inferior to have one's work published in a ... |
2012/03/20 | 1,067 | 4,384 | <issue_start>username_0: What steps must an educational institution wanting to recruit good faculty take? There is a cycle in the academia:
* Good doctorates from top universities invariably join other top universities as faculty members.
* Good students aspire to study in top universities under excellent faculty mem... |
2012/03/20 | 1,152 | 4,683 | <issue_start>username_0: I've got *a pretty awesome CV* (I think), through hours of trailing through websites and reading tips. However that was back when I'd just finished University and now it needs updating!
I'm 25 and I am into my 3rd job since university and so have quite a bit of experience about these roles.
I... |
2012/03/21 | 1,025 | 4,589 | <issue_start>username_0: Does the department determine it, or does the president determine tenure after the department recommends it? Or does the process go through both ways?
And how does this vary from institution to institution?<issue_comment>username_1: The process varies from place to place but in most places the... |
2012/03/21 | 622 | 2,520 | <issue_start>username_0: It seems very common for them to normally prefer being addressed by their first names (since Mr./Ms. seems to be very rarely used in Academia).<issue_comment>username_1: My policy : the first time you contact the person, go with <NAME> (or <NAME>), but sign with your first name. The latter is a... |
2012/03/22 | 1,772 | 7,573 | <issue_start>username_0: I have seen a number of résumés of doctoral students, but only a few of them listed their evaluation scores when presenting their teaching experience.
* How important are these scores in evaluating the teaching capabilities of a student?
* How does one ensure that the students are sincere in ... |
2012/03/23 | 838 | 3,440 | <issue_start>username_0: So, I'm applying for jobs as an instructor/lecturer. They explicitly only require a master's degree, which I have, in addition to some valuable industry experience. It's plausible that I could get one of these jobs.
If I get one of the jobs, I would be hoping to potentially stay in academia fo... |
2012/03/23 | 1,524 | 6,265 | <issue_start>username_0: This is a related question to my previous one about [keeping advisees aware of literature](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/754/keeping-advisees-aware-of-literature).
Given the relatively large number of papers that are out there, it's inadvisable to force every student to start f... |
2012/03/23 | 549 | 2,219 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm looking for a way, tool or technology that allows me to define keywords and/or authors and/or conferences for which I want to be notified if a new paper is published on [ACM](http://www.acm.org) or [IEEE](http://www.ieee.org/index.html). I couldn't yet find a way to achieve that. What are m... |
2012/03/24 | 1,292 | 5,513 | <issue_start>username_0: I am currently an undergraduate student taking an Honours Pure Mathematics degree with an additional major in Astrophysics and I plan to go to a good graduate school (as good as I can get into) for Pure Mathematics to research either Geometric Topology or Convex Geometry.
I know that academia ... |
2012/03/25 | 1,509 | 6,347 | <issue_start>username_0: After some bad experiences in a master's program, I decided to become a PhD student in the same program. My plan was to finish a paper and leave as soon as possible, meanwhile earning the recommendations that my bad early experiences prevented. That's basically been the situation for a couple y... |
2012/03/25 | 663 | 2,812 | <issue_start>username_0: I am really fascinated by ancient civilizations and cultures.
I do not know what subjects one has to take up to study Archaeology (like what subjects in A Levels or High School) at an academic level?
I would just like to know in general but would appreciate any details about United States and... |
2012/03/25 | 1,036 | 4,542 | <issue_start>username_0: Simple and short question: as a postdoc (or a senior grad student), is it a good idea to mentor an undergrad?
How much edge will it provide perhaps for a future (NSF) grant, or a job application?<issue_comment>username_1: Assuming the mentoring has a measurable successful outcome (student goes ... |
2012/03/26 | 520 | 2,052 | <issue_start>username_0: Some authors use "her" whenever they employ a pronoun referring to a noun whose gender is immaterial to the discussion.
Is there any rule (university or journal or conference-specific) which dictates this? Is it good practice to stick to the same pronoun throughout a paper? Or is it better to... |
2012/03/26 | 493 | 2,056 | <issue_start>username_0: Lets say an undergraduate student does some research in their free time and wants to write a paper about the findings. What are the rules regarding affiliation when the student tries to publish?
* The student is **required** to include the university as affiliation, because they are enrolled i... |
2012/03/26 | 1,932 | 8,092 | <issue_start>username_0: I go to school at a University in the US. We use a competitive grading system where teachers give grades based on how you do relative to other students. This type of grading system doesn't encourage students to work together or help each other because we are all competing against one another. I... |
2012/03/27 | 1,108 | 4,334 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a manuscript that has been in review for 60 days. The journal asks for reviews within four weeks. At what point is it acceptable (and not detrimental) to contact the editor for an update? How should I phrase the request?<issue_comment>username_1: I don’t know your field, but in mine (the... |
2012/03/27 | 1,338 | 5,645 | <issue_start>username_0: I originally posted this on math.stackexchange but was recommended to post here.
I have been admitted to two Master's Programs in math (both with funding). One is 1 year long and the other is 2 years long. I plan on obtaining a PhD directly afterwards.
The 1 year option lets me save one year.... |
2012/03/27 | 2,665 | 11,258 | <issue_start>username_0: I am 33. I live in the US. I am a neither a US citizen, nor a green card holder. I have worked in various jobs as a research assistant (physics, biology, economics) usually involving programming, mathematics or statistics. As a newly minted undergraduate, I didn't really have much confidence in... |
2012/03/27 | 2,192 | 8,698 | <issue_start>username_0: This is one question that has been bugging me for a long time now. Why do universities consider GRE/TOEFL scores at all? Perhaps it is fine for master's degrees, where there will be an enormous number of applicants whose language abilities cannot be otherwise established. But what is the necess... |
2012/03/28 | 1,285 | 5,499 | <issue_start>username_0: Suppose a student is applying to a graduate school. Who is typically on the admissions committee? Is the chair of the department on the admissions committee?<issue_comment>username_1: It's highly unlikely that the chair of a department serves on a graduate admissions committee. The committee is... |
2012/03/28 | 1,308 | 4,714 | <issue_start>username_0: I have my GPA in the 100 point system,
how could I calculate it in 4.0 point system?
I searched, and I didn't find a good answer,<issue_comment>username_1: You should ask your university if they could provide a mapping to a 4-point system. If they don't, you simply have to calculate GPA\*4/100!... |
2012/03/28 | 1,283 | 5,223 | <issue_start>username_0: I know many master's students who get an opportunity to talk to their potential PhD advisors well before applying. In most cases this opportunity is available by the professors with whom they worked for their master's. Moreover, there are many others who establish a contact with professors by m... |
2012/03/29 | 732 | 3,179 | <issue_start>username_0: * How important is citation count for fresh doctorates? Is this number more important for joining the academia than the industry?
* What is the importance of citations for someone seeking tenure? Does this depend on the field, as papers in an esoteric area can be expected to have few citations?... |
2012/03/29 | 700 | 3,208 | <issue_start>username_0: I have been on both the author and the referee sides, but I was wondering how editors approach their task. In particular, to what level of detail do you read the paper you assign to referees, and when (i.e. before or after receiving the reviews)?<issue_comment>username_1: From conversations wit... |
2012/03/29 | 1,051 | 4,601 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm about to embark on a research project in complex systems on my own spare time. It seems like the idea I have is a good one. However, it would be better, for obvious reasons, to have an experienced person guide me. What are the chances that a university professor would agree to guide me whil... |
2012/03/29 | 823 | 3,513 | <issue_start>username_0: In the last decades, many international scientific associations have been created. Organizations such as AAAS, IEEE, ACM, involve thousands of scientists and professors that have similar scientific backgrounds and objectives.
However, besides technical and resource taks (such as providing docu... |
2012/03/29 | 402 | 1,709 | <issue_start>username_0: What's the best approach for talking to faculty that are in distant/unrelated areas during a campus visit for a faculty position?
Is it preferable to show that you are interested in their research and open-minded about learning new things by asking them about their research, or to try to focus... |
2012/03/29 | 257 | 1,049 | <issue_start>username_0: I got two papers accepted and I am just wondering how to know their policy towards publishing my papers also on CoRR. is it fine to publish the same paper in CoRR and in the conference?<issue_comment>username_1: Normally, it's fine, as long as you submit a pre-print and not the camera ready of ... |
2012/03/30 | 1,062 | 4,266 | <issue_start>username_0: What are good practices (does and don'ts) when writing a rebuttal for a conference?
For example, for a journal rebuttal letter you can make changes to your paper, and resubmit it for another revision. However, for conferences (and for the tough ones) you cannot make changes to your paper (as f... |
2012/03/30 | 1,000 | 4,489 | <issue_start>username_0: As I've already saw, many people here are related to admission process. And I want to ask their opinion on what is priority of all stuff from application: what is the most important (letters of recommendation or personal statement, GPA or maybe test scores), what is less important for admission... |
2012/03/31 | 846 | 3,675 | <issue_start>username_0: Before diving into "real research", there are some students who prefer to learn bare minimum prerequisite courses/material and then start off reading survey papers and develop their skills.
There are others who prefer to go through courses from Introduction to Advanced to Independent Study bef... |
2012/04/01 | 2,777 | 10,323 | <issue_start>username_0: I am expected to finish my Ph.D in mathematics (if relevant, more specifically - in commutative/homological algebra) by the end of this academic year. I am studying in a somewhat minor university, although my supervisor is a well know figure in his field.
Following my supervisor's advice, I su... |
2012/04/02 | 936 | 4,117 | <issue_start>username_0: This question in some sense, complements [this question](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/324/how-do-you-get-a-bad-transcript-past-ph-d-admissions). Suppose a good student completes his master's degree in a less-than-top-ranked university. He has excellent academic grades both in h... |
2012/04/02 | 906 | 4,011 | <issue_start>username_0: My research paper was stolen by the co-author and published as his own. What do I do? All the data the paper is based on is my own work. I got it accepted in another journal but now I cannot get it published according to the copyright terms and conditions.<issue_comment>username_1: The first th... |
2012/04/02 | 1,289 | 5,558 | <issue_start>username_0: OK, here is the deal:
I am a computer science student in Turkey graduating this June. I have applied to PhD programs in the US to work in computer architecture. I have a decent bachelor's degree, and my college is reasonably respected. Before admissions, I contacted some professors, and they s... |
2012/04/02 | 654 | 2,784 | <issue_start>username_0: By reading the very intersting question [*Priority of application materials for admission decision*](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/958/priority-of-application-materials-for-admission-decision) about which material is most important to be admitted as PhD candidate, or PostDoc or r... |
2012/04/02 | 609 | 2,564 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm a exchange student that just arrived in the US. The professor is asking us to do this:
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> Please write and submit brief synopses of each paper before class which include the following:
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> * the title and authors
> * a one paragraph summary of the paper (do not copy the abstract - ho... |
2012/04/02 | 439 | 1,868 | <issue_start>username_0: In May, I'll be visiting a department at Columbia University in the US for a few days. What's the etiquette on visiting (answers relevant to US in general are welcome, to prevent this question getting too localised)?
I'd like to spend some time with quite a few of the researchers, and compare ... |
2012/04/02 | 1,161 | 4,589 | <issue_start>username_0: I am a finishing doctoral student (graduation in ~7-9 months) and I would love to get an year or so of postdoctoral experience. I've come to understand that a postdoc is generally paid by funds created for the project (s)he is a postdoc for.
How should I go about "growing my own" postdoc oppo... |
2012/04/03 | 1,215 | 5,005 | <issue_start>username_0: Many researchers have unpublished data. Some of this data may never be published as a manuscript. But I would like to make scholarly contributions of data that I have no intent on publishing, e.g. by publishing a "data paper"
The term "data paper" may be too new to be familiar, so here is a de... |
2012/04/04 | 1,189 | 4,564 | <issue_start>username_0: I would be interested in creating with some colleagues a [FET Young Explorers](http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fet-open/ye_en.html) project, in which I would be Work Package leader.
I've been involved in several european projects, but always as a postdoc recruited by a PI (or WP leader), and I ... |
2012/04/04 | 1,074 | 4,494 | <issue_start>username_0: Most universities (at least in North America) have the concept of "Qualification Exams" taken one year after the student joins the graduate course. These usually encompass all that was done in the first year and as undergraduate and might also test some other (research abilities) of the student... |
2012/04/04 | 1,285 | 5,080 | <issue_start>username_0: It's not clear to me, looking over all the various regulations and requirements, how (or even *if*) it is possible for students holding a four-year or five-year bachelor's degree from the US can work at a university as a part-time or full-time researcher. Is this possible? If so, are there spec... |