Unanswered Questions
83 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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What is the goal of this AI generated research solicitation?
As a research mathematician, I occasionally get unsolicited emails from local high school students asking if there are opportunities to work on a research project with me. I haven't ever decided to ...
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How to gain global trust from researchers
I am investigating properties of some material. However it seems that all of the research is inconclusive and material modified the same way but by different teams have different properties.
Because ...
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Is it possible to participate in Physics research during a gap year?
I recently finished my Bachelor's in Physics, graduating this past May. I have always had grad school as a goal. Currently, I am looking to do a Master's program and then hopefully move on to a PhD ...
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How to approach "potential benefits to society of proposed research" question on a grant application for a pure math project?
I have been writing a grant proposal, where it is based in the UK. I almost did most of the application, but I have no idea for the following parts:
Benefits of Overseas Country: Describe any ...
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What to do if a postdoc I just started has practically no opportunities for self-directed research?
During the interview for a postdoc position, I was given the impression that there will be various opportunities to get involved in research other than the main job description of the postdoc, and ...
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Does this tool exist: Literature search citation filter?
I'm wondering if a tool/website to do a specific task exists:
Suppose I have a set of papers (which we'll say for simplicity are hosted on the arxiv), S. I want to keep track of all the papers that ...
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Applied Mathematics to Neuroscience Transition?
I am currently studying Applied Mathematics in a university in Bangladesh. I have always been deeply interested in psychology and neuroscience. I want to complete my degree in Applied Mathematics and ...
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Studies of the impact on research of measuring research output via publication statistics?
Are there any studies of the impact on research choices (i.e. which research topics do researcher choose, how likely they are to collaborate with others, whether they go to public or private research ...
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What is important when creating a set of research notes
In the process of trying to improve my efficiency I came across this question (which recently appeared in the active section): What are the efficient ways of keeping track of research literature?
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Recommendation for getting into a different field in Computer Science as first year CS master
I am currently co-supervised by 2 profs and my Master's thesis would be on the intersection of both their work: along the lines of compiler, programming languages and machine learning.
However, I'm ...
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FOMO in PhD specialization
I recently graduated from my Master's program in theoretical physics. Throughout the program I did most of my coursework in high energy physics and did my thesis in the same. However, I also did ...
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What resources should a PhD student expect their advisor to have?
I am contemplating changing PhD advisors and wanted opinions as to whether I am being too critical and if there is any basis to my concerns.
I am a little over a year into the PhD program and am with ...
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Am I wasting my research time?
I am dividing the question in to two parts.
I will first tell about my experiences, (in this first part of my question), at different levels of my academics and the reason for selection of a ...
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Should I submit different research statement in different advertised postdoc positions
I am a Phd student in applied mathematics. Recently I submitted PhD thesis and started applying for postdoc positions. There I have to submit research statement. My question is that should I submit ...
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Undergraduate Research as an Irregular Student
I am currently a Japanese college student. I am going to do research in artificial intelligence from this April.
After completing the first year of research, I am planning to go to the United States ...
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