Questions tagged [physics]
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What to do when your student is convinced that he will be the next Einstein?
As an adviser, I have found it to be a detrimental motive for a student to focus solely on surpassing Einstein in achievement, for many reasons. One student in particular has busied himself with the ...
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Can post-docs serve as reviewers for grant proposals?
I am always hearing that being a grant reviewer is a great experience in learning how to write proposals. I am a post-doc with an eye on an academic career so would like to do this. Does it happen? ...
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Is admission standard for math PhD significantly higher than that for physics PhD?
I'm a student at a small LAC, and I'm considering to apply to both math and physics PhD programs. In my school, which is top 15 but do not have large (20 students in each dep.) or well-known ...
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What if the lecturer is not rigorous?
I study mathematics as my major subject and theoretical physics and statistics as my minor subjects. I found that, sometimes in physics or statistics lectures, the lecturer makes mistakes, like ...
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Electronics Engineer Doing a Bachelor Thesis in Physics
I am an electronics engineering undergrad currently choosing a topic for my bachelor thesis.
I have always been interested in physics in general, and in quantum mechanics in particular. To make ...
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Opportunities for physics PhD students to study/research pure math
My interest includes pure math, string theory, quantum field theory and some applied mathematical topics, so I'd like to be so-called a pure mathematician and a string theorist. Considering my ...
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What should I do after advisor got upset when I expressed "belief in evolution" and then said he couldn't add me to his research team?
A bit of background: I am a graduate student working towards my Masters in physics. During this summer I signed up for some classes that are somewhat outside my main focus of study. For instance, ...
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Can a maths undergraduate apply for a physics PhD? [duplicate]
Can a maths undergraduate apply for a physics PhD without going into masters program? Given that during his undergraduate course he published a couple of papers on physics in respectable physics ...
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PhD defense in Germany: How do they decide for the final grade?
I am a PhD student in Germany (physics) and I will have my PhD defense in some months. I am not German.
My thesis is mainly based on two Physical Review Letters and a paper not yet published (...
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How to advertise a paper to increase citations?
Of course, the best way to improve citations is to write good papers which presents sound, interesting, and important results.
However, assuming that one has a nice paper published in an important ...
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I think that I can have the scholarship. Is this confidence or arrogance? [closed]
I will have an interview for my scholarship to study grad school in US next month (taken 30 in total 122). In this month me and other 6 candidates have been gathering together to mock the interview. ...
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Is it possible to do research in theoretical physics without going to college? [duplicate]
If one doesn't visit university/college and doesn't even take any courses in theoretical physics and learns PhD-level physics from other resources without stepping foot in college or university; Would ...
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How to deal with errors in well established papers
I am currently supervising a Bachelors student for his thesis. I gave him a well-established paper to read of which I only knew the results but never checked the calculations in it. It was first ...
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Where is the best places to find faculty job postings in physics?
I'm currently a postdoc interested in finding a tenure track faculty position. What are the best places to find job postings for such positions?
Seeing as this might be a very context/field dependent ...
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How to switch from a physics PhD. to complexity theory?
Somewhere around the 3rd year of my physics PhD. program I came into this amazing subject of complexity theory. May be a motivating factor was that I was digging in my spare-time into this physics/...
