Questions tagged [thesis-committee]
Questions about a group of faculty members, professors and people working in industry that evaluate the thesis or project report of PhD/MSc candidates.
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I have a really bad publicly available master thesis
I have a really bad master thesis that's publicly available. I ran out of time and submitted it without proofreading it. Now it's publicly available and it has a lot of grammatical mistakes, ...
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Does it matter who your thesis examiner is?
I am a MS (research) student and recently finished writing my thesis. I have put a lot of time into it and tried to make it explanatory. At my institute, the advisor names five external tutors to ...
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Is it Self-Plagiarism to paraphrase my own published work in my thesis without citation?
I recently completed my PhD in Computer Science in Australia and am now a postdoc at a U.S. university, where I am assisting a PhD student with his thesis. In our field, it is common to publish ...
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Missing citations - master thesis [duplicate]
I have submitted my Master thesis and noticed that I missed a citation for a figure, and 2 citations were printed as ?, (latex keyword errors) instead of the original citation. and at the end of ...
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Can a PhD Candidate Correct and Reprint Their Thesis After Submission/Print but Before Defense?
[Even though this question is specifically about Sweden, but might apply to other countries too]
If a doctoral candidate has already submitted and printed their dissertation, but discovers errors in ...
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Thesis Defense Bare Pass, Issues with Supervisor [closed]
For my Masters degree (MSc), I completed a thesis with my supervisor. I edited and cleaned the thesis to the point where my supervisor only had minor comments and polished it to the best of my ability....
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Master thesis report submitted for official record is different to the report graded by my supervisor
I am doing a master's study in a German university. I had some setbacks during my master thesis project's lab work. This delayed the time I had available to write my report later on. The setbacks ...
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Is it possible to work on your personal idea as PhD thesis?
I have come up by synthesis of 3 lines of research to a general idea whose questions and concerns and most importantly conceptual foundations can be addressed mathematically in a rigorous way.
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What should I do about a long delay for nominating referees for my PhD dissertation?
I have submitted my dissertation for a PhD degree some 6 months ago to my department but my advisor has yet to complete the examiner-nomination procedure. For this delay in completing the procedure ...
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Is it common/acceptable practice for a PhD student to be on an undergraduate thesis committee?
I am currently a PhD student and have been advising an undergraduate student on their thesis, which will eventually contribute to part of my own work. Their committee currently consists of my faculty ...
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Confused over these terminologies "Dissertation" vs. "Thesis"
I'm a Master's student and I will defend my study in a month. Tomorrow is the deadline to upload my manuscript. The university announced two deadlines a week apart from each other
One for Thesis (...
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How to tell a famous professor emeritus that I no longer want him in my dissertation committee?
A little background about the situation. I am a third year PhD student in the US and in addition to that I work part time with a famous professor emeritus in my field. He has been overly pushy with ...
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Best practices to manage the workflow with your thesis committee (Ph.D.)?
I am doing my Ph.D. in the Social Sciences and I am reflecting on how to optimize the workflow with my thesis committee (three advisors) in the implementation of feedback on chapters or papers. I ...
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What happens if one of your committee members die after your initial submission? [closed]
There is one of the members of my committee that is extremely old (like 80+) and smokes like a chimney. I was already wary of my supervisor pretty much forcing me to include him in my jury committee. ...
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Can I ask a specific person to leave my defence meeting?
There is a student that I helped a lot which I shouldn't.
Now I don't like her to attend my defence while she has the same supervisor as me.
Can I ask her to leave if my supervisor invited her by any ...
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