texts: Does every paper in mathematics have Zbl and MR?

texts:
I need to insert the Zbl and MR of papers given in the reference of my paper. I can't find Zbl of some the papers. for example the paper On Inverse Eigenvalue Problems for Two Kinds of Special Banded Matrices. I search in the https://zbmath.org/ database to find Zbl but it returns no result, I also search inhttps://mathscinet.ams.org/mrlookup to find the MR.

Thanks


texts: If lab partners form a hypthothesis together and write the same hypothesis worded differently, is that considered plagiarism?

texts:
My bio lab TA seems to think that lab partners cannot have the same hypotheses. My partners and I formed the hypotheses together, then we individually wrote them down our own ways. Now she's claiming we plagiarized, but I don't see how that could be considered plagiarism?

For reference, I put "There will be no change in population density between days 7 and 14." My lab partner put "There will be absolutely no change in the density between days 7 and 14."


texts: Should I ask a highly involved PhD committee member to be a co-advisor?

texts:
I just started my second year of grad school (this spring) in a quantitative field. I have already chosen an advisor.

My advisor is a full professor and extremely busy, but has a ton of resources. I knew this going in, and I chose their lab for a variety of reasons (I have no regrets). One of my committee members is an assistant professor, and they meet with me for an hour every week to help me with projects. I've even started various additional projects with this committee member.

Question:  Should I ask the committee member to be an official co-advisor?

I feel bad that the committee member is essentially putting in more time than my official advisor, but not getting much "credit" for it. I know assistant professors need to mentor a certain number of grad students to get tenure, and I want all the time this assistant professor spends mentoring me to actually "count" towards their own career goals.

However, I don't want to make my official advisor upset, or insult them, by asking for this other person to be a co-advisor. (Note: the reason I didn't just ask both of them to be co-advisors at the very beginning of grad school is that the committee member was working within my main advisor's lab, and wasn't even an assistant professor yet.)


texts: If a reference is applying for the same position, are they obligated to inform you?

texts: If a reference applies for the same position do they have a professional obligation to inform you that they are applying for that same job?


texts: Advice about job applications in the US (mathematics)

texts:
I did my Phd in mathematics in Europe and am at the end of my second year of postdoc in Europe too. I plan to apply for jobs in the US in the fall (ideally tenure track, but I wouldn't mind too much doing a second postdoc, as I finished my phd early). I think it's the best place for me, as most of the researchers in my field are in the US. But I'm not familiar with the american system at all, so I would be happy if you could help me answer a few questions:

I know most applications go through mathjobs.org and that there are hundreds of applications for a every position. What is the best technique for an application not to be overlooked? Is it common in the US to email a professor at the university which offers the job and let them know that you applied/tell them that you would like to work with them? If yes, is it even ok to email a professor that I don't know personnaly but who I think knows my work or would be interested in it? In Europe it is very common and even necessary, at least in the countries I know, but I wouldn't want to do something that is weird or unethical in the US.
Someone told me that US universities tend to favor people who are already working in the US, especially for tenure-track positions (something about not wanting to pay a flight from overseas for the interviews). Is that true? Is it the same for postdocs?
Is it weird to apply for both a tenure-track position and a postdoc position at the same university? If I did so, would they automatically think that they'd rather give me the postdoc as I'm ok with both, and give the tenure-track to someone who applied only to tenure-track?
Are the chances of getting hired in an university where no one works on the same things as I do very low? Of course I would prefer to be in an university with nice collaboration opportunities, but just in case I was thinking of applying to others too.

Thank you very much in advance for your replies!


texts: What should an undergrad CS student know to publish to a conference?

texts:
I'm a junior looking for insights on intro to academia. My GPA is considered low (~3.2), but I believe I have a reasonable understanding and experience in the field I'd like to study and would like to try to submit a paper to a conference to aim for top-10 CS grad schools and see if I really have research interest and potential.

I'm not sure what I should expect and how to plan for the next 1~2 years. Grad school applications are usually due before the spring semester, so I have roughly ~1.5 years to prepare, right? I noticed that the first deadlines for a lot of conferences in the field are between April~June. Will I have enough time to write one? How long does it usually take to publish a first research paper?

I'm planning on asking professors if I can join a project when the semester starts (or ask for a review when I write one? I'm not sure what the options are). I wasn't planning on going to grad school until recently, so I'm not very familiar with this process, and I'd like to hear what you think.


texts: Can the university you work for or study at protect your identity by listing you under a pseudonym?

texts:
Some people have reasons to want their identity protected from a Google search, such as a dangerous stalker ex-spouse.

When you become a grad student, assistant professor, etc. at a university, and if the university wants to put your name on their website (directory, course catalog, departmental page, to name a few), can you refuse it or have them at least put out a pseudonym instead, assuming you have been publishing or contributing to articles (or intend to) with that pseudonym?


texts: Is my adviser supposed to be assigning me my research?

texts:
I have just finished my bachelor's degree in computer engineering. I am doing an REU with the professor who will be my adviser this fall when I enter grad school.
Currently my future Adviser has me working on research that involves image processing. I was hoping to head in other directions in embedded computing and security.

From our weekly research meetings it seems like my adviser will be assigning me research topics through out my grad school career. Is this normal that an adviser would insist on determining the research topic of the PhD students under them. I have not pushed back on this yet but I am not prepared to go in depth in image processing. I am not a math major or CS major and that field gives me little interest.

--ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BELOW--

As far as funding goes I am currently funded by and REU(research experience for undergraduates) and am unsure of where this funding comes from(NSF, department, professor). Here in 2 weeks though I will be funded by a Distinguished Academic Fellowship(DAF) that my university graduate school awarded me.

In order to get my DAF I had to write a research proposal. I proposed research into microprocessor, GPU, FPGA unification. As I understood it from those within my department I am not required to carry out that research as the proposal is more a way for the DAF committee to see that I can write a coherent proposal for later on in my academic career.

Concerning the union of my professors research interest and mine: He focuses on embedded system design for single specific applications. It just happens that in the current path of research he is onto it involves cameras. This then introduces the field of image processing into the project.

It seems that all his grad students are doing peripheral work on UAVs that will be coalesced into a UAV platform of some sort.


texts:
I'm applying from Europe to US or US-styled Ph.D. programs and I'm wondering about who to choose for referees.

I graduated 2 years ago and my undergraduate professors don't remember me well, or at least I don't think so. In those two years I have worked as a research assistant in one lab, with three different post-docs. Should I diversify the source of my references and try to get references from my undergraduate institution or should I just opt for the people that I've been working with?

I think the latter group knows me better and has, generally, a better opinion of me and my work. Then again, I'm afraid that the single source of references will be suspicious.

I mentioned having studied in Europe because the undergraduate research options are typically limited, compared to American institutions where research experience is strongly encouraged. I only did a research thesis during my undergrad.


texts: Can copyright prevent claims of self-plagiarism?

texts:
So, I had somewhat of a thought experiment idea.

I'll be honest: I define plagiarism as misrepresenting who wrote (or provided the ideas of) parts of your papers. I don't believe you can self-plagiarize. If the goal of the assignment is to teach you something, and you already learned it in the past (by writing a paper that fits), I see no point in the busy work of making the current paper different enough just for the sake of it.

I realized that in the US, authors are granted a copyright to their creative works by default. (Even if few of them realize this or ever claim copyright to their works.)

Could a student use their copyright of their works to prevent (or at least seriously restrict and complicate) faculty's checking of self-plagiarism in the future? Couldn't the student just not grant the right to copy their works? If the teacher/professor hands graded work back, then they would have no copy left, and if they don't, they would have to share that one original copy with everyone who wants to check a student for self-plagiarism.

Personally, I have never (in 3+ years) had a case where I could reuse (parts of) a paper. I haven't yet had instructor specify that assignments had to be written for that assignment only. If an instructor did specify that, I would follow their rules. I would, however, try to convince them to change their mind, and this thought experiment might be part of that discussion.


texts: Is it legal to add your publications to ResearchGate?

texts: I recently created a profile on ResearchGate. And to add your publications list it requires you to upload the paper. Is it legal to upload published journal articles on public servers, where everyone can download it for free?


texts: What is a computer science conference, really?

texts:
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 a conference in computer science, does it simply mean that it will be published in a proceedings rather than a journal? Or does it really mean that you have to travel to a physical conference and present your work as a talk? If the latter, what happens if you have multiple papers accepted at different conferences in the same year but can't afford to travel to all of them? I imagine that in this situation, trying to publish any work would result in a scheduling nightmare, both on the part of conference attendees and organisers. If this is the case, how did this situation arise and why is it allowed to continue?

Or have I got the wrong end of the stick and in computer science, the word conference is just a synonym for journal?


texts: Is it appropriate to ask for a pay raise as an adjunct professor with a Master's degree?

texts:
I am currently a Ph.D. student with a Master's degree. Throughout my time in grad school, I have been an adjunct at a local university. Recently, this university has started a Master's program in my field. However, the department is quite small and those faculty who are able/interested in teaching these classes is even smaller thus, I have been asked if I would like to teach one of the graduate classes for this new program.

My question is whether or not it would be appropriate for me to ask for a pay increase to teach this course. Currently the adjunct pay is determined by a per unit rate depending on level of education (in my case Master's). What I am unsure about is if this rate should change, or if it is common in other institutions for pay to increase when teaching grad level courses.


texts: Academic dishonesty: Sending material to other group members?

texts:
To help with the rest of the members for the group assignment I sent some images of a guide on how to do academic research for assignments.

This ordinarily came from another unit of mine, which was composed by a librarian to help with an assignment in that unit.

The image includes the unit code for that unit and I’ve mentioned it to them that it came from another unit of mine and told them not to send it to others.

I’m very worried now. Is this considered to be academic dishonestly? It didn’t actually cross my mind until one of my friends told me.

Is the mere fact that I’ve sent material that came from another unit to group members who don’t study this unit considered to be academic dishonesty? Thanks!!!


texts: Supervisor choosing PhD topic for student

texts: When a student is undertaking a PhD in pure mathematics, is it the case that the supervisor typically chooses the topic for the student?


texts: Is there a polite way to rescind a request for recommendation letter?

texts:
I am reconsidering whether I want a professor's (call him X) letter of recommendation for a PhD program. The basic facts are these:

I took Dr. X's class and did well. He encouraged me to apply to a PhD program in his field, and I took his advice. At that time, he offered to write me a strong letter of recommendation.
More recently, I requested via email a letter of recommendation from X. I'm certain that he expected this request, and we are on good terms.
He did not respond to my request. I managed to find him in person to ask; he said that he's already responded to my email and agreed to write it, and brushed me off in a somewhat impatient manner.

I found this interaction off putting and certainly unexpected.

This is my rationalization for what happened:

X is very busy and does not want to write me a letter. But he promised in the past and I remained in contact with him since.
Moreover, I already have stronger recommendation letters that I can use.

Here is my current plan:

I will see professor X at least one more time to give him materials for the recommendation. I plan to see his reaction then, and how to proceed.

Question: Is there a polite way for me to ask whether he wants to write the letter, and possibly "let him off the hook"? (I don't even know whether this is the right question to ask, because honestly I don't what the right thing to do is.)

The problem is that I don't want to second-guess him, but I don't want a negative letter either. Additionally, if he's already written a letter, I don't want to waste his time.

I am based in the US, if that matters.


texts: Who should approve changes in curriculum?

texts:
In the US and UK higher education system, who is responsible for a program curriculum?

For example, if planning to modify the curriculum by adding an uncommon course, who should approve this modification?

Consider that the change is truly uncommon. Can the department head decide about it? or needs the approval of higher officials (such as dean or VP for Academics) or there are boards and committees to decide uncommon changes (for the sake of education quality assurance).


texts: What University Affiliation should I list on my paper?

texts: I wrote a paper with my colleagues at my alma mater, fresh graduated from my undergraduate degree. At that time I had no University Affiliation. Now I'm studying a Masters in ANOTHER university, should I put this new Institution as my Affiliation? or none?


texts: I have a paper which is a literature review about a specific topic. How can I reference some texts from this literature review if I want to paraphrase that in my research proposal for PhD?


texts: A day before I am supposed to give an invited talk at a conference, I find myself battling an awful flu. Can someone help me figure out the right etiquette here? Do I tough it out and travel to the conference to give the talk anyway (and risk infecting dozens of people), or pull out of it citing bad health?


texts: What is the rationale for having references before the article text?

texts:
Certain journals (for example, Optics Express) place the references of papers in between the abstract and the article text:

How common is this practice? Is there some specific design reason for this? As a casual reader, I find it disconcerting and annoying, and tend to see it as another barrier between googling the paper and actually getting at the text. However, I understand there may be other workflows for which this is useful. Can anyone point out possible justifications for this practice?


texts: Am I obligated to continue to work on a paper I contributed significantly to?

texts:
As an undergraduate, I did some group research a little over a year ago which is now being compiled into a paper. My advisor at the time is contacting us to request feedback and help writing it. I am especially important to the effort, because I am the only one who knows some of the results (and proofs) well enough to be able to explain them and structure the paper around them.

However, I am just beginning a PhD, in a completely different field than my undergraduate research. This comes with a new set of challenges to focus on, including that I have to find an advisor here within my first year. I would like to be primarily focused on making the most of my PhD program and thinking about current research, rather than having to worry too much about this old research I did as an undergraduate, which I do not feel will impact my career. Even if our research gets published (which it might not), because it's not in my current field it does not seem that it should be my top priority.

In summary, I do not think that assisting with the writing of the paper is in my personal best interest. However, I also understand that I have some obligation to the research group I was in and the research we did, and that it could be rude and irresponsible, even unethical, to drop out of the picture entirely. What exactly are my obligations to writing this paper? What is the most ethical thing to do in this situation, which also preserves my interests as much as possible?

Finally, if I should avoid working too much on this paper, how do I communicate this to my undergraduate advisor and to my fellow researchers? It would be rude to cut back on the work without any explanation.


texts: Can you increase your undergrad gpa after graduating?

texts: I've googled this question a few times and I've seen multiple different answers. I read that you can raise your undergrad gpa using a post bacc and I also read that post baccs provide a separate gpa. So, I'd really appreciate if I could get a definitive answer, preferably with a source. Thank you.


texts: How to have productive meetings with Ph.D supervisor

texts: I am a Ph.D. student in theoretical computer science. I meet my research supervisor once a week for around 2 hours. I prepare some of my research and try to present in front of him. I always try to make a list of theorems and claims given in the paper to discuss with him in a certain flow but most of the time he starts asking questions and then we go in other directions (which is okay from a research point of view). Due to this, it sometimes takes 2 months to read a single paper.  I always try to follow my designed plan but it rarely works. Also, I don't feel satisfied most of the time because many times I am only able to discuss 50-60 percent of what I have planned. Please help.


texts: What is the expected time commitment for a part time Research Master's Program?

texts:
Let's say I get accepted to a Master's Degree Program in Applied Mathematics with a Research Thesis component. If I take 1 class a semester for 6 years and work on my thesis each semester, what could the time commitment for my most difficult semester look like? Assume I am trying to get an A in every class and publish a great thesis.

Does spending 40 hours a week on that single class and research for an entire semester every few semesters sound plausible?


texts: How do you discover new papers as a mid-career academic?

texts:
As a Professor, how do you identify new papers to expose yourself to new ideas?

Most of what I read now is derivative of old favorites or my own work. Journals in my area don't do a good job of grouping my somewhat interdisciplinary interests. I have found more new interesting work through popular sources like newspapers, Pocket, and magazines reporting on journal papers than any other source in the last year.

I want new favorite papers, unconnected to my present pet ideas. This is hard for me, and for several of my peers, when I asked. How do you do it?

I'm interested in useful strategies (a unconventional search ritual?), services (Pocket for journal articles?), or products (tinder for papers?).  I'm interested in things outside of what a google search about this will provide. Yes, I have heard of researchgate and google scholar.


texts: How to manage literature when writing a dissertation/paper

texts:
How do you manage (workflow) writing the literature review for a paper or a dissertation?
Unfortunately my current method of going on binge reading stretches while scribbling notes on random bits of paper inevitably lead to a situation where I dread trying to write a coherent literature review because everything is disorganized.
The one time I did try to be more organized by using a template to capture and summarize info for each paper such as sampling, methodology, results, papers I want to read, etc., I ended up with so much information I became overwhelmed trying to synthesize it all.
I also developed this nasty habit of trawling through the citations of every paper I read and downloading like 80% of them. I then soon end up in a situation where I have hundreds upon hundreds of pdf's, most of which I literally don't have time to read. I'm basically a paper hoarder.
Any tips on how I can streamline my search, processing and writing up of literature?


texts: Is it better to go to class, or watch the recorded lectures?

texts:
I'm in a large class where lectures are recorded and posted online.  The lectures are difficult enough that I benefit a lot from being able to pause the videos and stare at the slides for a few seconds, or even rewind the video if I realize I missed something from an earlier part of the lecture.  It's also nice to be able to pause the video if my mind starts wandering, so I can give the lecture my full attention.

However, if I don't go to class, it's easy to get behind on the lectures, and it's easy to get distracted while watching the videos (so watching a lecture online takes me a lot more time than I would have spent in class).  What do you think is the best approach?

If it makes a difference, it's my advisor's class, and the lectures are at 9 am.


texts: Is there a way to get rid of "enhanced pdf"s?

texts:
It has become increasedly more common that when I try to access an article from the publisher's website I get redirected to a sort of online reader instead of a plain old pdf file to download. Elsevier calls it enhanced reader, Wiley enhanced pdf, and Springer luckily has not caught on yet.

I don't like this approach and prefer to download the 'un-enhanced' pdf file to read or save it locally (but I will spare you the soapboxing).

Is there a way to circumvent this system and automatically rewrite links to point to the true pdf file instead? I am thinking to something like a browser extension or a Greasemonkey script, if it exists. If it worked on the websites of the major publishers it would already be a time saver on the long run.


texts: Tons of People Cheating on Exams which hampers my grade

texts:
To give you some context we recently had our final exams and I barely managed to cross the threshold to get a 10 GPA in the course. I later found out tons of people had cheated on that course and cruised through it. These groups of people formed towards the end of the semester but now I'm worried they'll do this again from the beginning of the next semester which will make it even more harder for people who don't. Even our teacher acknowledged that cheating has happened but can't take any actions due to 2 reasons majorly, numerical based questions have more or less the same way to solve and identical calculations and proofs are bound to be similar in a class of 600-700 students.
To sort of counter this for some reason the professors decided to make the paper more difficult and more lengthy by adding more parts to each questions compared to previous years but this only made it more difficult for people who're attempting it honestly as when 5 people group together even if each person handles 1-2 questions they can easily finish them off.
Now I know the standard BS that focus on learning and I do but grades do matter, they matter everywhere and they matter in the long run as well and I'm genuinely worried that over time this will hamper by grades over time. Proctored exams also don't really make a difference as they can't really look at what a person is doing with like his other devices and there are tons of excuses people have. I even know a guy who tried solving a question got some wrong values then copied the second part correctly from some other person. He got through by making up some excuse with the TA.
How can I approach the professors or the administration or even try to suggest ways to make the process more fair, I don't want to snitch on others specifically and neither do I know everyone who cheats, I only know some people who would mention this at times and even invited me


texts: Is it a good practise to involve a child in a statement of purpose?

texts: Is it a good practise to involve a child in a statement of purpose to say how my point of view has changed since the birth?


texts: Can not having any research papers be a reason for rejection for an MS program?

texts: I am applying to an MS program in CS. I have not published any technical papers, mainly because I had little opportunity to do research and I did not want to write a paper just for the sake of it. Will I be rejected for this reason? Also, do I stand a less chance of admission than my friend who has written an average technical paper (dumb topic IMHO)?


texts: I hope to contact a professor in the grad school i want to work under him. What are some tips and things I should pay attention to in my email?

texts:
I will go to a grad school this summer. I don't want to make mistakes in that email as I really work to work under him. I wrote an email before I applied and he said we can talk.
What should I write now?


texts: Is it ok to ask for H1-B visa during postdoc interview? How?

texts:
I will have a couple of interviews for postdoc positions in the US (at big universities). I have read that it might be very convenient to get an H1-B visa (I'm from a non-US & non-EU country).

Shall I talk about this and/or try to negotiate it during the initial interview? Or maybe only after getting an offer? Or isn't it just 'not' under discussion?


texts: Weightage of a review paper on an undergraduate CV

texts:
Background: CS Undergraduate applying to CS PhD (USA)
I am involved in a review paper as a 2nd author. The review paper is of a very high quality and most likely will get accepted in a journal with a high impact factor. There will be 2 other authors who are both Co P.I. s of the project.
Question:
Does that hold any weightage in front of a PhD Admit Panel?
Note: The paper length is around 30 double columned pages so ample research is covered and future prospects are suggested in depth.


texts: Why attend predatory colleges in the US?

texts:
I just read this article about predatory colleges in the US:

  S. Cagle, These students were ruined by predatory colleges. Now they’re getting even.

I am not from the US and didn't ask in the comments of that site because I wouldn't want to insult anyone concerned.

I just wondered: before you enroll for any degree, would you compare what the college's officials say with reality? Like, looking on the internet to find people with a degree from that school who got jobs, asking a local employment worker, asking at a local employer if they would consider giving a job to someone with a degree from that school, etc.

How is it this article says the students were so young they could not possibly have known they were being tricked? If you are old enough to go into debt with thousands of dollars for a college education, how can you not be old enough to check for the quality of that education first?

Why would people attend predatory colleges?


texts: Is independent research a good long term goal for a bachelor's degree holder with experience and interest?

texts:
Bear with me while I put some biographical information here.

I'm a bachelor of engineering graduate from India with approximately a decade of work experience in design, engineering and project management. I've got a real fascination for the following subjects:

Optimization methods
Chaotic and dynamical systems
Data analysis and statistics (a field in which I work - as a quality management professional)

I have presented a couple of papers in international conferences in the first subject - based on work I did by teaching myself optimization methods. Learnt the ropes on researching papers/work, contacting researchers, running my own studies, writing concise papers, over many attempts in unpublished papers. I have only read books and papers on the remaining two subjects (#2 and #3) for over seven years but haven't really contributed anything significant or original.

Since I never was in the right financial state to pursue a masters or a PhD, I never earned one. I turned down an MS admit at Duke in 2010 for financial reasons too (didn't manage to secure funding). I considered and visited Indian universities including the IITs but find the entry barrier high for any univs worth going to, because I have a 7.0/10.0 GPA on my Bachelor's degree. Moreover, I hate going back and asking for recommendations from professors that I share no common interest with or who had no bearing or influence on my technical interests whatsoever. My mentors have all been in the industry, and all MS/PhD applications seem to want only academic recommendations, which I thought was stupid.

Having read a number of reports and accounts from researchers on the troubles PhD scholars face and the standard of life, I'm inclined to think that I wouldn't be happy giving up my job and my lifestyle (and compromising my wife's lifestyle) for a decade of research which may or may not lead to a PhD. I love the subjects but I'm looking for a way to learn and discover things in them without subjecting myself to the financial commitment that comes with a huge loan.

Is a life of independent research (something that is exciting for me personally) a viable way to move forward, or should I consider getting a formal research postgraduate degree? I'm eager to hear thoughts, advice, comments. Thanks for taking time out to read this.


texts: How much detail to include for an award listed on a CV

texts:
I would like to have a section titled 'Awards/Honors' in my CV and I am confused about how much detail to include for the items in this section. Here are some formats and levels of detail I am considering:

Harry Potter scholarship.
Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter scholarship.
Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter scholarship: awarded to one student every year for demonstrated excellence in horcrux-gathering.

For certain things, I feel like the first does not include enough context, beyond some very well-known things (such as a Fulbright or Goldwater, neither of which I have received). For some particular names I have in mind the second looks pretty clunky and does not always fit on a single line. The third option is even clunkier, and might be perceived as an attempt to add fluff to inflate the CV. I am personally leaning towards the second option, but I don't know that it adds much value beyond the first option.

Is there an accepted way to list awards/scholarships? Should I even be listing them at all?

Some context. I am a PhD student in Mathematics and I will be on the academic job market this coming year. I am currently based in the US and intend to apply to jobs here as well as internationally if I find any that are interesting. I am wondering both about the CV I keep that lives on my professional website and the one I hope to send as part of my job applications.

Edited to add: The first couple of answers suggest that one might choose the format/level of detail based on the type/prestige of award. If I were reading a CV and came across inconsistent formatting within a section, I would find it quite jarring. Is this something that only worries someone mildly-OCD such as myself (I notice things like en-dashes and em-dashes) and therefore perhaps to not be worried about, or should I be careful about such things (e.g. consistency of formatting) when creating a CV?


texts: Can I patent a model that I described in a paper or that I adapted from a model proposed by someone else? Is a patent more prestigious than a paper?

texts:
Academic papers in engineering sometimes propose a new model to tackle  prior difficulties. These proposed models are not usually patented. For example in experimental papers and many power electronic papers, the models are fully available.
I have a published work that proposes a new model, but it is pure computer simulation and math.

So, my questions:

Can I patent my own published paper?
Can I use others' paper and patent their idea? (specifically
experimental for papers)
If the answer of 1 or 2 is not, how many modifications do I need to
apply in my model be able to patent it?
If I have an original idea to propose a new model, what should I do then: A patent or good rank ISI paper?


texts: How can I let google scholar find conference name of an arXiv paper?

texts:
I uploaded a paper to arXiv, and google scholar made its index.
The paper is then accepted for a conference, but the website of the conference does not have any link to the pdf of the paper.
The search result of google scholar shows that the paper is on arXiv, but it does not show the conference name.
As arXiv suggests, I put the conference name in the "comments" field when I submitted to arXiv. However, it seems like google scholar cannot recognize it.

How can I tell google scholar the conference name of the arXiv paper?


texts: Finding it difficult to keep up with coursework after joining a strong master's program in mathematics. How should I study?

texts:
I am doing M.Sc. in Mathematics from a reputed college in India. But I have a humble background in mathematics. At my undergraduate college most of my batch mates were not interested in mathematics, and the teacher taught in a way that we could sail through exams. But I tried to learn on my own from online courses like NPTEL and OCW lectures and somehow I got a position for doing master's. At that time I used to study for just an hour and manage to understand, and I didn't solve any problems.
But here, the teachers are extremely good and they take 3-4 hours of lectures (i.e., one hour for each course). But now I am not able to grasp the concepts (develop intuition, visualization, looking at the big picture, etc.). To understand what my teacher/course instructor taught takes me 2-3 days of work and I am left behind. If I include memorization time then almost a week or so.
I am becoming overweight and suffering from lower back problems. If stay late up at night then I don't get sunlight giving vitamin D deficiency.
I don't know but I know I want to do research.
But how should I deal with this, I have 6 (5courses+seminar under professor).
And here we have to write an exam and be in the top 100 percent to get admitted for PhD from a reputed college with proper funding.
Please guide me, help me. How can I maintain my health and study?


texts: Is there such a thing as a "1.5 PhD degree"?

texts: A famous person in my hometown claimed that she was awarded a "1.5 Ph.D. degree" by her thesis committee in a famous law school in London in the early 1980s (which was noted on her diploma, according to her memoir) -- is there really such a thing in academia?


texts: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, how much input from one's own advisor is ethical?

texts:
I know someone who recently got the fellowship and unfortunately everyone else in his circle of friends and colleagues are complaining that he got an amount of help and input from his advisor that they feel was unfair.  (He was the only fellowship winner in his group.) My friend is currently feeling like crap because of these hurtful comments, instead of getting congratulatory comments.  He admits to being lucky for having a caring advisor but he also worked extremely hard on his application.

What amount of help from the advisor is bordering on unethical, when it comes to the NSF GRFP application?


texts: Should I continue to work on a project I'm less interested in for publications?

texts:
I'm going to be entering my second year of a PhD program, which I entered straight from undergrad.  I haven't published anything yet, neither since I started my PhD program or as an undergrad.

I'm currently working on a project that, should I choose to continue with, should go on for a year a two.  It has only the slightest relation to the area I'd ultimately want to do my research in, if at all.  That said, I'm doing well, and I think this could lead to publications if I continue down my current path.  There may not be funding available for the exact type of research I'd like to be doing in the immediate future, but this project may be a one or two year commitment.

My question is, am I better off continuing with the project to get some publications, or waiting an indeterminate amount of time for something closer to my original interest to come along?  If that's too vague, then are there any general guidelines for me to follow?

If it matters, my field is CS.

Thanks in advance for any help.


texts: Can you mention that you were a paper reviewer after it has been published?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Are the referees of a journal allowed to reveal the title of the papers they review after the review process?

Suppose you were a single-blind paper reviewer (i.e. you could see the author's name, but they couldn't see your name) and you didn't obviously de-anonymize yourself during the review. If the paper gets accepted and published, and you are writing a review/summary of it (in its published form, not in any pre-publication form you have seen) on your blog after it appears in print.

Can you mention the fact that you were a reviewer for this paper?
Can you make comments about pre-publication versions of the paper? For instance: 'when submitted the paper lacked X, but other reviewers and I suggested it to be added and after revisions the author provided a full proof of X'.


texts: Public university refuses to support ERC application

texts:
I'm from university from Central and Eastern Europe (btw. underrepresented in ERC). I contributed to the research proposal of my colleague for ERC starting grant. However, within internal review process at university level, representatives decided not to support the grant application and in addition they forbidden to apply even with another host institution with arguments

that the application may damage reputation of university
and may compete for funding with another "more preferred" team at university.
the outcome of the possible evaluation of the proposal may prevent application in next calls.

(Btw. the topic of research is mathematics and computational biology. No experiments on animals or humans or other possibly disputable ethic issues are involved :-) )
I've found in some ERC guides that there are restriction for unsuccessful applicants - thus point 3) is relevant.
But are points 1) or 2) relevant? Are there any "quota" for host institution. Is host institution restricted if application evaluation outcome is "B" or "C" or worse like "breach of research integrity"?
PI now do not expect funding from ERC, as success rate is only 12% and almost no support were given by university to improve proposal further. But is it worth to try to apply with support of another host institution (small spin-off company) just to get feedback from review panel?


texts:
My college (IIT) follows a relative grading system and each professor was given freedom in choosing how to grade the students.

As far as I know, Some professors give 5 students (less than 8 percent of the batch) the grade of S and others give A grade to 6-7 people in the class. I am looking for to apply for Phd, where I see colleges asking for a certain percentage in marks, like X percent in a taught module.

It is almost impossible for me to know how much I scored in a particular subject as we were just given relative grading. How should this issue can be resolved?


texts: Mentioning placement offer in a curriculum vitae?

texts:
I have been offered an engineering position from a reputed multinational corporation working broadly in Communications and Microprocessors. Meanwhile I am applying for a MS/PhD position in a different specialization but can still be broadly classified as Electrical Engineering.

Is it advisable to mention a Placement Offer in a curriculum vitae? If so, will it be relevant in the above case?


texts: Why do PhD admission committees focus on your bachelor's degree grades when you have better master's degree grades?

texts:
I've heard various occasions where students with mediocre bachelor's degree grades, but superb master's degree grades, get rejected by PhD programs due to their poor bachelor's degree grades.
What could be the rationale behind focusing on the now likely outdated bachelor's degree grades when more recent and up-to-date master's degree grades are available?
(Note I am not guessing they were rejected due to their bachelor's degree grades, the professor who interviewed and wanted to take the student in, explicitly stated that he/she could not due to the student's poor bachelor's degree grades)


texts: Research norms, looping in other researchers for ideas

texts: Let's say that I and a couple of a researchers have made good progress on some work but got stuck on something, say, a biological system that we derived but it's not quite working the way it should.  Would I be breaking any research norms by looping in one of my former professors (in the same department) who specializes in computational biology and can likely help us?  Or should I really let the advisor of our group decide on who to loop in for ideas and help?


texts: What relevance do law school grades have on admission to a Master's degree in economics?

texts:
I am currently a rising 2L law student who passed up an opportunity to do a joint JD/MS in Economics. I didn't think I was adequately prepared to take on the Economics degree, though. (Not enough math background.) I am considering pursuing a master's degree part time after finishing law school, though, because it seems to be more interesting and more valuable in the job market than law.

What bearing will my law school grades have on admission to a master's program, and would that calculus change if I took the requisite math courses (Calculus I, II, and potentially III,), as well as a remedial stats course?


texts: Getting into gradschool from a "real job"

texts:
I'm interested in going to grad-school but I have been working at a "real job" as a software engineer for the past few years (since I graduated with a BS in Math in 2010).  What are the best ways to to break back into the academic world?  How can I spin my work experience in a positive way to departments?

Ideally I would be getting a phd to study Mathy CS, or CSy Math.


texts: On the importance of an "honours degree" for PhD applications

texts:
I am currently studying in an undergrad programme in the social sciences/humanities in North America, and I am debating whether I should pursue the honours degree option (which would require me to take additional coursework, choose a concentration, as well as write and present a honours essay).
I want to apply to grad schools (MA programmes, but I want to try to apply directly to PhDs as well) when I finish my BA, so I'm wondering what is the impact of the "honours degree" in the application process? Will this improve (significantly?) my chances of receiving an offer?
The main reasons why I'm hesitant about the honours degree are (1) that it would cost me more money and (2) that since I've already graduated from a different programme (in a different discipline) this is my second BA and time is starting to be an issue.


texts: How to start in updating a published paper

texts: In 2004 I published a paper on Graduate Surgical Education in a local journal. For some reason the paper has received a lot of credit and now I am approached by a Society in the USA that wants to re-publish it because according to them it is a reference paper. How do I start updating it. I never had to do this before. Thank you


texts: Need some pointers for starting an application essay

texts:
I am looking to write a letter of application for a Information Systems Security program but I'm not certain how to begin.

The requirements are seemingly simple, describing relevant work and volunteer experiences, which I have none to speak of.  Transferable skills, knowledge of the field and commitment to professional growth is the other part of the application letter.  I feel more comfortable writing about the second part but my problem is how to being the letter.

I did find a few sample letters from the University but the trouble is this letter of application has a 250 word maximum.  So I'm stuck with what parts to leave in and what parts to omit.

Any pointers would be extremely appreciated!


texts: Will mathematics journals accept a non-novel theorem, but with different approach

texts:
Suppose a researcher comes up with a mathematical theorem, which can be obtained trivially from discovered theorems, but with an approach, that was never used before to describe or prove the theorem.

Then do the journals accept the paper because of the new approach or reject the paper because of no novelty?


texts: Reviewer asked for dataset section within the manuscript

texts:
Recently, a paper of mine received a major revision. Among different comments, one reviewer asked "the authors to include dataset section in MS".
Now, my problem with this request is that the data is too big (monthly precipitation and temperature for 30 years from 11 stations!) to be included within the MS itself.
The data should be requested to upload as supplementary files, rather than inside the paper itself. And I know the reviewer was not accidentally misusing the word "MS", since his other requests were completely precise.
So...
My question is, am I missing something? Did the reviewer mean something else? Beside the raw data itself?
These are his exact words: "The authors should first tell the reader what data you have, and you will use in this manuscript. The authors include Data Set section in MS. It is also requested to inform about the source of data."


texts: Referring to the work of other academics in interview with potential supervisor?

texts:
In an interview with a potential PhD supervisor, is it ok to refer to papers published by a different academic, or should I mainly talk about the potential supervisor's papers?

thanks


texts: Writing thank-you email to professor for agreeing to write a LOR?

texts:
I asked my professor to write a letter of recommendation for me. She said she would in general be happy to do that. I am quite self-conscious and worried, I would like to send an email back and say thanks, but I don't want to sound overly grateful. Since English isn't my first language, I would like to ask you how you would write something like this. Or: Would you maybe not write back at all, since the professor's email box must be super busy and sending a simple thank you email might annoy them more than anything else?

I'm so not sure about this, thanks a lot!


texts: Is it advisable to upload your PhD thesis on Biorxiv?

texts:
The university theses repository is not indexed in the main scientific literature search engines. This issue makes finding a thesis difficult, and it's a problem especially because after PhD many are looking for a postdoc position.

Is it a good idea to upload a biology related PhD thesis on Biorxiv.org?

Does Biorxiv.org allow it?
Is is legal on the copyright side?
Are there any drawbacks?


texts:
I am an undergraduate student graduating next month. I wrote a research paper done by myself, but it's been rejected by two journals sofar so I haven't been able to publish it.

I am applying for scholarships and  having a published paper would improve my chances.

If i upload my paper in arxiv, is it considered as published paper? can i write it in my cv as published paper and what is the most suitable way to write it *in my cv?

Thank you!


texts: Structure of a paper: Development of a simulation approach

texts:
So far, I puplished a paper (literature review) using the "classical" structure: Introduction-Method-Results-Discussion-Conclusion.

At the moment I am writing another paper which presents the result of our developments of a simulation approach. The paper should contain the following parts:

Literature study
Description of the mathematical theory behind some methods
How we implemented (2) into the actual modeling language
Use cases

My question: How would you structure (+ name) the sections? My first idea was:

Introduction (including lit-review)?
Method (does the description of the mathematical theory belong to that section?)?
Implementation?
Results?
Conclusion?

Two more specific questions:

In which section would you place the description of the tool (f.i. a certain Matlab package)? In the "Introduction/lit-rev" section? Or in the "Implementation" section?
It is necessary to compare two fundamental modelling approaches (in order to motivate why we use one of them): Where would you place this section? In the section method, or lit-rev?

Thank you very much for your help!


texts: Had the idea vs. did the work: Who should be the lead author?

texts:
Dr. A came to Dr. B asking for research ideas. Dr. B gave him a thesis, explained its value, why it's plausible, and how to test it.  Dr. A liked this, got Student C to do the work, and managed the work.

Now, it's time to publish their results.  How should they determine the lead authorship?


texts: Are there systems to automatically blind a paper?

texts:
I am looking for systems to make a research paper blind (i.e., remove all information about authors, affiliations, maybe even anonymize self-references to previous work) and do this automatically, i.e., without human intervention. Do such systems exist?
I have four main use cases in mind for this:

As a reviewer in non-double-blind venues, you may nevertheless prefer to review the papers of your batch by hiding information about the identity, affiliations, etc., of authors, to avoid biasing yourself. This probably wouldn't be easy in practice (as you often get emails about the papers, or see info about the papers on an editorial platform such as Easychair, which prominently feature the author information) but could be doable nevertheless (e.g., with the help of someone else to retrieve the papers for you). In this use case, the blinding system would take as input a PDF file of the article and hide author information, etc., probably using some PDF extraction tool such as Grobid.
As an editor of an overlay journal (where articles and submissions are hosted on a public repository), if you want your overlay journal to be double-blind, you will need to give reviewers a blinded version of the articles, but of course the original articles hosted on arXiv will have to feature the author information prominently, so you'll need to remove it. In this use case, for papers typeset in LaTeX, the blinding system could work from the LaTeX sources of the paper (distributed by arXiv), which is probably easier (but still tricky for non-anonymous self-references).
As an author, when (re)submitting your work to a double-blind conference, it would be helpful to automatically make the paper blind or at least have a way to flag potential violations of blindness (the most interesting ones being non-anonymous self-citations). Again this could work from the LaTeX sources.
Finally, when operating a double-blind conference, when authors submit their manuscript (as LaTeX sources or as PDF), it could be useful to automatically make it double-blind, or at least highlight possible double-blindness violations. (This is the previous point but on the conference side.)

[I am not sure whether this question is in scope here -- I hesitated with Software Recommendations but this is rather specific to academia so posting it here.]


texts:
My apologies for the title of this question, but I didn't know how to turn it. The fact is this is actually a set of many small questions.

I have completed my postgraduate studies in France where, unless I am mistaken, librarians that work in an academic library do more or less the same work as, say, librarians that work in a public library.

When I started to seek information about faculty jobs in Canada, I was struck by the fact that librarians seem to be pretty much considered as faculty.

Is that a fact? Is it the same in the United States? Is in the same in different types of institutions, i.e. more or less research/teaching-oriented?

I have looked at a few faculty collective agreements, and it seems like they usually include librarians. They seem to have pretty much the same working conditions, e.g. in terms of salary, sabbaticals and workload. The last agreement I read specified that librarians have a maximum of 12 hours of "schedules student contacts", in the same article that specifies that professors teach a maximum of 12 credits per year.

I would like to know what exactly is the job of an academic librarian, besides acting as "regular" reference librarians. I suppose they must keep up with the progress in their field and be able to assess the relevance of journal subscriptions and book purchases, but that probably doesn't account for the missing 23–28 hours a week.

Do librarians actually perform and publish research? If so, would that be mostly in their respective field, or in library and library science? Do they have tenure, and is the process similar to the one applied to professors?

Also, how does one become an academic librarian? Do you need an MLIS like a "regular" librarian? Do you need a PhD, and if so, must it be a PhD in library and information science, or in a field related to the position?


texts: Statement of Purpose, is it conventional to add a small title to each section?

texts:
The statement of purpose is for graduate school application. However, from several online samples, I see that the author added "small title" on top of each section. I personally like doing this because I assume the committee won't have enough time to read through 2 pages (1000 words) SoP. I am asking whether this is a conventional pratice?

This is the sample I was talking about.


texts: If/where should I explain the reason of my low BSc GPA in a PhD application?

texts:
I had serious health problems during my BSc studies and got a very poor GPA of 2.88 to be exact. After that, (I think) I performed much better in MSc, got a 3.75 GPA, and published two peer-review journal articles.
Now, I am looking for Ph.D. positions and worried about my low BSc GPA. In fact, I applied for two positions and got rejected straightaway. I assume that it is because of my low BSc GPA. Should I explain the reason for my low GPA? If yes, should I write it in my SOP, cover letter, personal statement, or in any other separate document?


texts:
Do physics graduate programs recalculate undergraduate GPA's for admissions?
This is quite common among medical schools but I would like to know if this is a common practice by natural science graduate programs. I have searched quite a few resources online and haven't found a conclusive answer. To clarify my question, recalculation means including EVERY course taken, even the first attempt of courses retaken for a higher grade (because of a grade of D- or lower when taken the first time).


texts: Does your institution have a policy regarding policing online student feedback?

texts:
There has been a lot of recent comment regarding the UK release of the "Rate Your Lecturer" website. This website allows users to comment on and rate their lecturers. Comments are submitted anonymously.

I do not want to enter the debate on whether this sort of anonymous online reviewing of lecturers is good, bad or indifferent.

My question is whether your institution has a policy regarding how to deal with demonstrably untrue, insulting or unfairly negative comments about lecturers posted online, and what that policy is.


texts: How could one prepare for a telecon interview for a government lab?

texts:
Suppose that, after applying to a publicly advertised position, a person gets invited to an interview for a regular (not time-limited) scientific job at a national scientific research laboratories in the United Kingdom.  Due to the location of the candidate, the interview is scheduled to take place as a teleconference (i.e. Skype).  The candidate is instructed to give a 10-minute presentation titled ”Background experience of the candidate” for a panel of four scientists.  The candidate has a conventional career-path so far with Master, PhD, and post-doc, but has so far not had any “real job”.

What might be effective strategies for the candidate to prepare for such an interview?  Needless to say, summarising Master + PhD + postdoc/postdocs in 10 minutes is, to say the least, challenging (read: impossible).  How could one focus a presentation and what kind of questions might one expect?


texts: Is there an RSS feed for academic jobs published on Euraxess?

texts:
Euraxess is an European platform collecting academic job offers.

There was previously an RSS feed at http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/rssJV.cfm. However, this URL is dead.

Is there a new RSS feed for academic jobs published on Euraxess?


texts: My supervisor published our work without informing us. Can we retract the paper from the conference in anyway?

texts:
We (myself and my thesis partner) worked on a research problem in 2017 as part of our undergrad thesis course in our university under a supervisor. We successfully defended our thesis in our thesis defence in our university and prepared an IEEE-formatted paper as per the request of our supervisor as he told us that we would be publishing it in a flagship conference in the following year. I personally mailed the final version of the paper to our supervisor.
We followed up with him till July 2018 as the proposal had to be sent to that conference by July 2018. But our supervisor told us that he didn't want to publish it in that conference. He rather told us that we would publish it in a good journal in the immediate future. We tried to follow up with him on several occasions about that but he somehow skipped through the conversations.
At the start of this month, my partner was searching through some research work in IEEE where he saw a paper titled exactly to that of our thesis work. When he dug in, he found out that our supervisor published the paper in that same conference without our names. The conference was in October 2018 and the paper was published in IEEE Xplore in December 2018. We collected the paper and saw that it was the same paper with the same title that I emailed my supervisor (only a few words here and there have been changed, about 90-95% is the same).
He along with his name added his PhD supervisor (who is a dean of a renowned university in our country) and a Korean professor in that paper as authors. One similar case is here in which the victim was yet to confront his supervisor directly and also told later he was acknowledged at the end of the journal. But in our case, we didn't get any acknowledgment. Also when we confronted our supervisor with the matter, he told us that he forgot to include our names which sounded more like preplanned. He also told us to not raise the issue further and offered us to help to publish the paper by extending it in a journal in the future.
We have talked to the department head about this. Although he was hurt by it, he hinted that the department won't be able to help much as there were two renowned and influential professors involved. Because our department gets benefited from them in several ways.
We have worked so hard for this work for nearly one and a half years as well as spent some huge money to buy some equipment for collecting the dataset. We're totally distraught and shocked by this incident. We would like to remove that paper from that conference somehow as we've worked so hard for this.
Is it possible though? If it is then what are the procedures of retracting the paper from that IEEE conference? Or should we just accept our supervisor's offer and move on from it?
For your kind information, I have the email proof of sending the paper to my supervisor as well as our thesis book with our name in it as an acknowledgement that it is our work which was signed by our supervisor, department head, and an external professor during our undergrad defence.


texts: How to get teaching evaluations for a course as a TA / Co-instructor

texts:
Some of the faculty-level academic jobs require teaching evaluations in the submission package, which gives rise to a need to acquire teaching evaluations.

My question is then, how can one obtain teaching evaluations for a course where one is either a co-instructor or a teaching assistant, but not the instructor? The setting is where there is no clear teaching evaluation mechanism for co-instructors / teaching assistants already in place.


texts: A professor offered to write me a letter of recommendation, but he's now retired and unresponsive. Should I still contact him?

texts:
I took a class with a professor who was very impressed with my assignments, to the point where he asked for me to stop by his office and discuss my potential career in writing. During this appointment, he offered to write me any recommendation letters I might need. Overall, I thought this appointment and my overall experience in this class went well.

That was the only class I took with this professor, and it's been roughly a year since we've been in contact. Several months ago, I wrote him asking for a recommendation letter, and briefly referenced our past meeting. I got no response, even after a reminder email I sent him several weeks later.

Once again, I find myself needing a letter of recommendation, and, if this professor is actually willing, he would be a perfect reference. However, considering his lack of response in the past, I'm not sure if I should email him again.

Additionally, my class with him was actually the last class he taught; he's now a professor emeritus, so I'm not sure if it's appropriate to contact him at all. There's a second professor emeritus in my department who regularly writes me letters of recommendation, but I don't know if this is par for the course or if that particular professor is just more amenable than most.

Should I try contacting this professor, even though he's retired and had no response to my emails several months ago? If so, how should I contact him?


texts:
Without going into the details, I got a little irritated and frustrated with my advisor today.

I've been feeling myself slowly losing respect for her as a manager, but have remained professional and friendly. Her micromanagement and unpredictability have had some negative impacts on my project. We had to work closely together today on something under what I would say is a high pressure situation. She really didn't lead very well.

I just snapped a few times and was pretty irritated. I wasn't full on mad, but since I'm normally the opposite of confrontational (I've never even gotten mad at a coworker before), it definitely is something that would stand out.

She's been really nice after this, and complimenting me on small things, but I'm not sure how to go forward. Should I just pretend like nothing happened? There's been some long-term frustration that led up to this, but it still feels wrong to have lost my temper with my advisor.

Is it common/rare for grad students to show anger towards their supervisor, and how negatively do you judge them for it?


texts: How can I change the assignments in the syllabus in a way that is fair to the students?

texts:
In my syllabus there is series of writing assignments that are worth 10% of the final grade.  Over the course of the semester there were supposed to be 4 assignments, however as a result of snow days and other extrinsic issues, the students have only turned in one of these assignments and I am not likely to be able to get any more in by the end of the semester.

Additionally, when I designed the assignment, I did not fully appreciate how difficult it would be for the students and how difficult it was going to be to grade.  At this point it is only going to be reasonable for me to assign grades based on whether the student put some effort into the assignment (i.e., check+, check, check-, 0).

So I am left with the situation where 10% of a student's final grade could be the result of one assignment that was graded only on completion.

As I see it, this poses 2 problems:

The final grade of the students that did the assignment will be artificially inflated, and
the final grade of a student that missed the assignment for whatever reason will be reduced to a degree disproportional to the offence.

Is there a way to deal with this situation fairly?

(I have considered moving the assignment to another assignment group (e.g., counting it as a classwork assignment) but then I am not sure how to redistribute the orphaned points in a fair way.)


texts: How do I tell thesis advisor I want to withdraw from research? (mental health)

texts:
Context: Back in May I had asked a prominent professor whom I really admire for research opportunity. He gave me some study material to do over the summer and said he'd decide in the Fall. So in August, he "accepts me", but he also decided to let me work together with another undergraduate (who asked in August) on this project. This was two weeks ago. Today the other undergrad and I met with the Professor to discuss things. Working in a "group" basically ruined it for me. It's childish of me I know.

For these two weeks, I've been an absolute wreck. I've been so stressed about working with this other student. I've met with her, talked with her, and it is certainly possible for us to get along but I am just so so stressed and anxious. I feel competition exists now and it's simply a lot of pressure. I "dealt" with depression, (social) anxiety, self harm, and an eating disorder for 7-8 years now, and these past two weeks my eating disorder has gone completely out of control, since I use it for coping, I'm sleeping 5 hours max and I feel like I'm going out of my mind.

I've decided I really can't stay like this and want to withdraw from doing research with this Professor. I considered asking for an independent undergraduate level project but he did say he does not usually take undergraduate students and since beggars can't be choosers, I'm really afraid to ask. I have another professor in mind I can ask for research for my thesis (whom I'm more familiar with).

Sorry, I don't have anyone in real life I can talk to about this so I'm writing a lot on here. My point is, how can I tell this Professor I want to withdraw because of this social-anxiety-induced stress that I cannot handle? I don't want him to think I'm slacking/lazy/not interested because I am but I can't stay here (but maybe I shouldn't care about this). Is it "proper"/ok to give him the true reasons (group work) (better worded of course)? I dislike lying.

Thanks


texts: Do any academic institutions publish objective surveys of alumni satisfaction?

texts: Having seen some questions asking about the costs/risks/benefits of doing a PhD I wonder if any academic teaching organisations actually contact their students after graduation and seek structured feedback (qualitative and quantitative) about the perceived or actual longer-term costs and benefits of their degree (bachelor's, master's or doctorate).  And if so, do any of them publish the results?  My own alma mater have never asked for feedback (just contributions!).


texts: Advantage of pure maths courses in transcript for physics grad school

texts: Are there an advantages of doing courses in pure maths (master level) courses, if you want to apply to physics grad school for a phd in areas such as string theory, or high energy physics? Apart from the obvious advantage, that you get better at math, which is used a lot in this areas, I am asking about the direct advantage for grad school applications on the transcript? Does the selection committee like to see more grad level physics courses in maybe slightly irrelevant areas, or pure maths courses which have use in these areas?


texts: what does [citation] mean in google scholar search results?

texts:
What does [citation] mean in Google scholar search results and why is it not clickable? I know there is also an option to include citations but I am not sure what that means? If something is cited is should exist somewhere.

example:

  [CITATION] Use of detergents in the analysis of fibrous feeds. IV.
  Determination of plant cell-wall constituents PJ Van Soest, RH Wine -
  J. Assoc. Off. Anal. Chem, 1967


texts: Why do some conference have an "abstract submission" before the "paper submission"?

texts:
I noticed that some conference have different deadline for paper submission: an "abstract" submission deadline, before the usual "paper" submission deadline.

For example, on the International Semantic Web Conference 2013 webpage you can read:

  Submission dates
  Abstracts: May 1, 2013
  Full Paper Submission: May 10, 2013

Why do they need the abstract before the paper?
To estimate how many papers they'll get?


texts: Importance of grades as a graduate student in math

texts:
I'm in my first year as a grad student in math at a large university in the US.  For the moment I'm just taking classes, all of which have weekly problem sets which take a ton of time to complete in full.  I have carried over the mentality from undergrad where I try to complete all the problems in the problem sets, and at least put in a significant amount of effort on each problem.  However, this is taking up enough time that I haven't had much of an opportunity to do math things outside of the class (stuff like attending seminars, trying to read papers, pursuing interesting subjects brought up briefly in class in more depth, etc).  Because of this, I've been contemplating taking less time on my problem sets, but I have a few questions about potentially receiving lower grades:

First, is it common for math programs in the US to kick out students for getting low (but not failing) grades?  I can't find any official policy from my program and I don't feel comfortable asking anyone.  A friend in a different subject said that his program regularly kicks out students in the first couple years even if they pass or are on track to pass their qualifying exams in time, but I'm not sure if this is done in math.

Also, aside from getting kicked out, what are the negative consequences to receiving a low grade?  (in a class which is not particularly close to the area I think I want to do research in)


texts: How often do Ivy League universities advertise positions at the Associate Professor level?

texts: I've just seen a job opening at an Ivy League university, advertised as being open at either the Assistant Professor (tenure track) or Associate Professor (tenured) level. How common is this? Is it more likely that they have done this to widen the pool of potential excellent candidates, or because they already have someone in mind for the position, but need to advertise to satisfy an administrative requirement?


texts: Should I include details about extracurricular art projects on a grad program application?

texts:
I'm in the process of applying to graduate programs in a field unrelated to music. I write, record, and perform original music in my free time. Normally I would not mention this in a personal statement; however, one of the programs I am applying to has an additional statement where I am to discuss ways in which I would add to the diversity of the school. I do have material I hope to discuss that falls within normal parameters of relevance, but I am wondering if it would also be appropriate (or rather, not obviously inappropriate) to mention my creative projects? I would obviously attempt to mention them in a way that demonstrates personality traits about me (creativity and drive), rather than just an irrelevant aside.

Any help would be appreciated. Please let me know if there's any additional info I can provide.


texts: When money is discussed in a book, what currency should be used for a book translation covering many countries?

texts:
For book translations, what currency does one reference when translating for one language that covers a bunch of countries?

What I am alluding to is this: suppose someone is referring to something as costing four rupees. In the English version of the book, there is an editor's note explaining that it is the equivalent of U.S. .06, in order to give U.S. reader's an idea of how little that amount is. If you are translating the book into a different language that covers a lot of geographical territory, say, Portuguese, what currency would you use for the editor's note for areas and countries that are not pegged to the dollar, and use a different currency in every country where Portuguese is spoken? (i.e. Brazilian Reais, Euros (Portugal), Mozambique Metical, Angolan Kwanza, West African CFA franc (Guinea-Bissau), U.S. Dollar (East Timor), Central African CFA franc (Equatorial Guinea), Cape Verde Excudo, São Tomé and Príncipe Dobra.) The book could be available and read in any of them, so there isn't just one country to consider; however, different versions will not be available for each country (there won't be a "Portugal version," am "Equatorial Guinea" version, etc.)--there will simply be a Portuguese version for anyone who speaks Portuguese.

This doesn't just apply to Portuguese; this will be problematic in many other languages too.

It's a nonfiction book, if that matters.


texts: Representing independent rediscoveries of a result in a survey paper

texts: How to deal with multiple rediscoveries of the same result in a survey paper? The authors are seemingly unaware of each other. The first discovery is more than a decade old, yet people keep reproducing it. Do I only mention the first discovery, or do I also list subsequent ones? I do not want to cross anyone. The survey is part of an effort to build connections within the community.


texts: Faculty funding in biomedical postgraduate-only institutions

texts:
What is the model for faculty funding in biomedical postgraduate-only or research-only institutions?

I understand the distinction between "soft" vs "hard" money and I was told that in medical schools non-clinical tenure-track faculty is usually a soft-money position. I can't find any information regarding the funding model for places like Rockefeller University or Sloan Kettering Center.

It seems that in Rockefeller they pay salary for tenured faculty, but not for tenure track (news article from 2008). What about research institutes like Scripps or Cold Spring Harbor Lab? Does anybody have more concrete information?

Thank you in advance for any info!


texts: What is a reasonable time to resubmit revised papers after they have been peer reviewed?

texts:
I'm pondering on how much time I should plan to finalize a paper that has received a 'revise and resubmit' letter from the journal editor.

I know that I should return it as soon as possible. However, given that I have other work to do I would like to know if there's an unwritten rule on how long should I take to resubmit.


texts: From "Review in progress" to "Ready to review"

texts:
I understand that this question is related to a workflow of a journal and have tried to look at the answer of this specific query but am not able to find a specific answer anywhere else. The query is
I had send a paper to a reputed journal. Its status for the past month was "Review in progress". After more than a month, its status changed to "Ready to review". What does this mean? How could the status for atleast one month be "Review in progress" and then change to "Ready to review".


texts: Advice and tools for hosting an online journal club

texts:
I have some experience with hosting reading groups/journals clubs in an off-line setting. Usually we meet every week in a room and discuss the paper for that week. However, recently some colleagues and I (~7 people) are trying to catch up on a specific topic quickly, and we want to hold a short reading group/journal club. Unfortunately, some of my colleagues are at other universities, and cannot physically attend meetings.

Do you have any advice or suggestions for tools to hold an online reading group?

My first instinct was G+ Hangout (especially with the new beta features they are making available right now). Skype is also an option, but last I checked required a fee for group video chat.

The preferred features are:

Talk to (and preferably see) each other
Have access to some sort of shared whiteboard
Easy to use and set up


texts: Is it OK to ask a school about average GRE scores and other admission information?

texts: I am looking at applying to a couple of schools abroad (for math grad school), and outside of the fact that they are fairly well known, I have little idea about how competitive they are to get into. Internet searches haven't really helped me out, so I am wondering if it is it acceptable to email a school about what the school's expected/average GRE general and subject tests scores are for a given Ph.D. or Master's program are and how the school feels about a student coming from my background.


texts: Listing a professor as a reference who hasn't responded to my request

texts:
This is the age-old reference-letter-no-response problem, but with a small twist. I'm applying to a programme where the applications close very soon. I have been trying to reach a professor over the last two weeks who supervised me for a research project but despite several attempts to contact him on both his old and current institutional addresses (he's moved institutions recently), I've not heard back from him. I asked one of his grad students today if he was out of office and they said he had been quite busy managing a thesis defence for another one of his students (fair enough).

He's been happy to give his consent to act as a reference for internships and the like in the past and the form only requires that I list the names and details of potential referees. Should I list him as a reference with a note that I've been trying to reach him to get his consent and have been unable to and will tell the admissions committee as soon as I am able to if he cannot act as a reference?

The other option would be to not list him as a reference, but I feel as though that would significantly weaken my application as this research project is very much related to the doctoral project I will be applying for.


texts: Does publishing research in physics during bachelor degree help in applying for master’s in mathematics?

texts:
Before I applied for my bachelor degree, I was unsure whether to take physics or mathematics because I liked both of them equally. Then I decided to go for a mathematics degree. Currently I am in the last year of that degree. During my time at university I published several research papers in theoretical physics in top journals in the field and I got several awards from my university. Also, in my mathematics degree, I have so far achieved the highest marks in my mathematics department. I have three months to graduate and I am looking to start a master’s degree.

I am an international student (outside Europe and America), and I am looking to continue my study in Europe, but there are several things that I am unsure about and I would appreciate some help on:

Does publishing research papers in physics help me get a scholarship for a master’s in mathematics in Europe or is it irrelevant?
Does publishing research papers in physics help me get a scholarship for a master’s in physics in Europe even though I have bachelor in Mathematics?


texts: Re-initiating the discussion with a seemingly busy Professor

texts:
A couple of weeks back, I reached out to a Professor stating my interest in a project he had put up on his website. The professor was impressed with my resume and gave a brief description of his project.

He had also asked me a few questions about my skills/familiarity with languages and platforms. He also remarked that he is preparing to give a short test to decide where I stand in the project.

Unfortunately, the Professor has not got back to my reply. I had informed him that I was quite familiar with tools/skills needed for the project. It has been two weeks since he has replied(although I hear it is the exam session which may be keeping him busy).

Should I consider that the offer is null and void as he has stopped replying to mails for the last fortnight?

If I am to mail him now, shall I explain the literature survey undertaken during this period and what skills have been learnt?

Please advise.


texts: How can I find out which authors are influenced how strongly by a certain academic author X?


texts: Meeting dishonest ex-supervisors at large international conference -- Should one speak out?

texts:
I have returned to my country after one negative experience as a postdoc in China.
In short, I was hired based on false salary & funding expectations supported by shady vague contracts written in Chinese. I stayed until the end as to escape a raging crisis at home.

Now I am back home, among long-date colleagues & collaborators. A large international conference in our field of study starts today. The very same PIs who lured me into their trap are coming, now in my country, actively seeking for new candidates. Surely they expect me to treat them politely, coldly at best. These people owe me a lot of money, plus stolen time and project ideas.

I think they expect me to stay nice and quiet for fear of getting bad recommendations and in the hopes of perhaps getting paid/compensated in the future. The culture here is certainly different from what they expect. In just few hours I will meet them at the conference hall, for the opening.

I am revolted. At least in my country, LoRs are not required for getting jobs, and I do not think they're too influential outside of their institutions.

Should I openly expose them? Or would that just label me as some begrudged nuthead?

There is one special roundtable about work ethics included, and I am thinking of approaching the organisation about this. Any suggestions, ideas on this, would be appreciated.

P.S. This is not in the US.

UPDATE:

Finally the event is coming to an end. I have carefully considered the views of commenters and answers here. Thanks to all for so much attention.

I have avoided the scammers as best as I could. They approached me individually, on different casual occasions, to greet and initiate some chat. I was just plain cold, cutting it short. Fortunately they got the message and have been also avoiding eye contact and interaction.
I have outlined the absurd situation to a large number of peers, yet only when asked. “How was it in China”, “I remember you complaining about some problems, how did that fare” etc. I did not mention names, except when directly asked for confirmation.
A couple of friends are part of fhe organizing comitee. They agree in that it’s best to only bring this up to the chairman in case these scammers are openly advertising positions with false information.
I did contact some local reporters I know who asked for an outline. Yet once they had the story they didn’t reply. I don’t think then this will hit the newspapers unless something new and remarkable happens.

The event ends tomorrow. They might approach me one last time. If they do I’ll comment below. Otherwise I’m leaving this at this. I’ve focused on intensively networking and getting collaborations moving, learning new ideas. Much easier without having to interact with this mess. Hopefully I’ve warned enough people to at least avoid someone else fall in this trap. Hopefully they’ll move to a different field or just stop. Thanks to all here.


texts: How is a paper with multiple authors usually written?

texts:
I am attending graduate school this fall and one thing that I still could not wrap around my head is that some of the papers are written by seemingly a group of authors (5 people or more). I am curious how this is usually done.

Are each person assigned a small chunk of work and the paper is put together when everyone is done? This raises so many questions such as what if a person doesn't finish his or her part? How do you piece together the paper so that it is coherent throughout (since people may have different perspectives or understanding).

And is there important differences between a paper written by two person and those written by five or more?


texts: Co-author wants to remove herself in author list after revisions

texts:
I am a graduate student (biological sciences) and had a collaborator and a co-author who wanted her name removed from the list of authors after she is not satisfied with the revisions made.

Just to give a brief background, I am the project leader and lead author of this work, this co-author is a collaborator, who didn't do much work but helped me get access to the facility (which is also not hers). After a few months of working in the facility, I got unexpected results, which is worthy to be published as short communications.

To make the story short, we submitted the paper, then a revision request from reviewers came. It was major but doable, I addressed all the concerns and responded to the reviewers' comments and made some rebuttals. I send to her for her inputs and perspectives; and she decided to remove her name after feeling unsatisfied of the revisions and wanted more information, which is already out of my work. This is her prerogative to decide, but this decision seemed unhealthy for collaborative work. I'm wondering, should I consider her as a co-author in my future work? Or what should be the best response I should make?

I suspect she doesn't trust the work. She suggest she knows better but it's frustrating she doesn’t give any sensible edits.


texts: Asking an expert in your field that you have never met to review your manuscript

texts:
I would like to submit my manuscript to a journal. Before I do, I would like to reach out to a professor at another university to see if he would be willing to review my manuscript since he is an expert in the field.

Is this appropriate or common practice?


texts: Should I list my research interests that are not popular on a statement of purpose?

texts:
I am currently applying to Ph.D programs in the US in Mathematics and am trying to decide what to list for my research interests. I am very interested in field Y, but I also have a background (and slightly less interested) in field X. I have enough knowledge to discuss both, but I definitely know more about field Y. That said, field Y is very small, with most departments I am applying to having only one or two people working in it, while X is definitely more common, popular topic. My question is, should I discuss more the topic which is less popular or more? Does it matter, or is it just my interests in something that is being assessed?

Edit: In this case Y=topological modular forms, and X=gauge theory, in particular floer homology.


texts: Can I create anonymous repositories for double-blind peer review via GitHub organizations?

texts:
When submitting a paper to a conference/journal for double-blind peer review, one usually has to anonymize source code, if there is any. In my situation, I have to do it in a form of GitHub repository. I know that people often do it using anonymous GitHub accounts. However, it seems inconvenient to me, and I am trying to achieve the goal using a GitHub organization, created from my main account. My question is: can you identify me given the following setup?

This is me: https://github.com/Yura52
This is my organization: https://github.com/Organizationnnnn
This is the repository with one my commit: https://github.com/Organizationnnnn/first

NOTE: if you want to use this workflow, don't forget to:

remove yourself from watchers right after you created the repository
set user settings after you clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/Organizationnnnn/first
cd first
git config user.name "Anonymous Author"
git config user.email "anonymous@author.org"
touch README.md
git add README.md
git commit -m "anonymous commit"
# you can also anonymize yourself only for specific commits, but there is always a risk of forgetting this
# git commit -m "anonymous commit" --author="Anonymous Author <anonymous@author.org>"


texts: Is recommendation a must for getting PhD admission in Australia

texts:
I am new to this community. The discussions here are interesting so I thought may be I can solve one of my queries regarding PhD admissions.

I am in India and I have completed my post-graduation last year from IIT (one of the top engineering institute in India) in research. I have submitted 2 journal papers and 3 conference papers (as co-author) in my post-grad course. Now I am looking for PhD admission in Australia. There is some personal reason for choosing Australia and I don't want to go to other country as of now. meanwhile I am working as a software engineer in an IT organisation.

I have emailed my resume and thesis to professors in Australian universities regarding the PhD vacancies under them. I have not received any reply (positive or negative). I have started wondering whether I am doing something wrong! Is there some other way to get this information and applying for it? Or am I suppose to send more information than resume and thesis, something that I am missing out.

PS: I have not added any sort of recommendation letter yet. I personally feel that my achievements should speak for me.

Thanks for any help in advance.


texts:
I am currently a PhD student in a EU country and recently I was advised to pursue a European Doctorate Programme.

I thought that, being "European", it was some kind of regulated, inter-country program with specific rules, but I cannot find any "official" documentation from any European institution. The only things I can find by searching on google are doctorate programs from various universities that claim to be "European".

I am aware that some EU students are encouraged to do 3-6 months of their PhD (or more) abroad, but I don't know if by doing this their PhD qualifies to be a European Doctorate.

So, what is a European Doctorate Program? Is there any regulation for it by a European institution? How does it relate with doctorate programs where students decide to spend some months abroad?


texts: Do anyone related to scientific publishing has experience using EOI's as the identifier for the articles in a journal?

texts:
I'm part of the editorial committee of a small open access ecology journal that is slowly growing Currently, our journal doesn't have the means to pay for the doi service, but we found this service which offers a different identifier, the EOI. We asked for additional information and some of the claims the state are:
"You will be eligible to get EOI for any number of papers for your publication."
"You need to pay one-time membership charges USD $100..."
"No charges per EOI."
"For DOI you need to pay USD $2 per DOI, which cost really high for journals and membership charges ranges from USD $300 to USD $100000."
"Both these objects serve the same purpose, but in EOI we provide more flexibility & tools will be provided periodically for submission, no charges for errors (will be corrected by Citefactor staff)"
They also list a sample of journals that use their service, which are not necessarily highly recognized, but then it would be also our case.
Is there any other alternative around to have a proper unique identifier for our articles?


texts: If undergraduate Honor's Thesis printed/shelved in Alma-metar's library & checked out a number of times -- does it count as "published" on a CV?

texts: As an undergraduate, I joined the Honor's Program, and completed the program by conducting original research and writing an Honor's Thesis. That Honor's Thesis has since been printed and shelved in the library. I never included it as "published" in my CV because I didn't think that it legitimately counted as a published document. However, I have been informed that professors and students and the local public have been checking out my Honor's Thesis over the last several years. In fact, I checked the university's library database and someone does indeed have it checked out for six months. But this work is still not considered officially published? Or is it? How do I list it on my CV?


texts: Is an undergraduate physics degree the same everywhere in terms of coursework?

texts: Is a degree in physics the same everywhere in terms of what is being taught or are there differences from one institution to the other ?


texts: Difficulties with behaviour of other PhD students in group

texts:
I'm in my first year of a PhD at a top UK university. I am part of a cohort of students, most of whom have come straight from an undergraduate degree and never had any "real-world" experience. I am half a decade older than them due to getting some life experience and working in teaching for a few years before realising where my academic interests lie and deciding to give it another go.

I have realised that some of the students on my cohort are, to put it politely, not the sorts of people I would actively choose to work with. They may be very able STEM students with excellent academic credentials, but they have tendencies which are getting on my nerves and making them less pleasant to be around. These include:

Giving correct albeit unhelpful advice - for example, one of my fellow students emphatically smacked a couple of equations she wrote on the board during a group project, and proceded to have a go at me for not working through them myself, rather than politely explaining how she got them
Intellectual arrogance - for example, one student goes around, stands behind other students' computers and offers them assistance with their work regardless of whether they asked for it or not, almost as though trying to create an impression of omnipotence and undermining the merits of others
Resistance towards work of a different format to what students have been accustomed to in the past - for example, writing reports as opposed to doing problem sheets, which may not require a complete understanding of the concepts but are more akin to what an industrial role might expect
Self-opinionated behaviour from some students and attempts to attack my own opinions because they do not line up with their own.
Defeatist and entitled attitude - one student who has done poorly in his assignments takes a negative attitude towards work, constantly complains about it and tries to convince others why the work is a waste of time and why there is little to be gained from it.

I can't help but feel a bit despirited at these traits others are expressing, considering how I am rusty on some things having taken a gap from academia and yet asking some questions seems to lead to unnecessarily hostile responses. It is also despiriting to realise how much of a maturity gap there is between me and the other students, and (unlike in my previous job) I am not in a position of authority to reprimand them for their behaviour or place them on any sort of misconduct procedure.

How can I explain to these other students that their behaviour is having a negative impact on me, and how can I improve my working relationship with them?


texts: Are there PhD programs that do not require letters of recommendation?

texts: I am applying for PhD in Mathematics. I am wondering if there are any schools or programs that do not require letters of recommendation. Do all graduate programs require these?


texts: Would a 5-year prison sentence totally ruin one's academic career?

texts:
For committing a crime considered very severe in the U.S. and in some countries (hence the 5-year minimum sentence), but not as severe (but may still lead to imprisonment) in many other countries? He does not have any record of academic dishonesty or anything like that; in fact, he had a solid record of publications and was still building on it before he got arrested. Can he still publish papers that are taken seriously, and obtain academic positions, in the U.S. or in some other countries, once out of jail?

UPDATE: I only know what he pleaded guilty to according to news. It is not something noble like an "honest crime". I have confused conviction with indictment, so now I think the crime is most likely real and hardly disputable. I want to add that he is a first-time offender, so I don't know if his prison sentence can be converted to probation, and if that matters to whom may hire him in the future.

@xLeitix's comment:

  I cannot think of one crime which results in a five year sentence where I would hire that person.

Maybe the crime of failing to notify the town of L'Aquila of a 2009 earthquake that killed at least 309 people? Fortunately for those scientists, the initial court ruling was overturned about 2 years later.