Questions tagged [summer-school]
A summer school is a short course organized around a specific topic that is offered in the summer, and may be attended by students from multiple institutions.
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Summer opportunities before applying for a PhD
I'm a 4th year physics major from India. My degree is a dual one - 5 years and both Bachelor's and Master's. I want to take up theoretical physics in the future and pursue a PhD after I graduate - ...
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How can I get email alerts of conferences, summer schools and workshops in statistical physics? [closed]
To the statistical physics community: I am a PhD student in theoretical statistical physics. I want to be up-to-date with my field. How can I get newsletter/ email alerts/ updates of summer schools, ...
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Can I mention the same experience in 2 sections on my cv?
I am an incoming physics PhD student. A few weeks ago I participated in organizing a summer school at my current university and delivered a small lecture. I would like to include this experience on my ...
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Research during first year of PhD
I am a 1st year Graduate(PhD) student in Mathematics in USA and I don't have advisor yet.
I have no serious work in the coming summer term in my University but I want to work on a research project to ...
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Should I phone a professor if they haven't replied to my email?
I'm a Master's student in Physics. The summer vacations are coming up, and we need to do a few projects under various faculty to know their work and field. I'm interested in experimental high-energy ...
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What are typical selection criteria for attendees at research summer schools?
In my field there are often summer schools for graduate students/postdocs to learn about a particular research topic in a short amount of time. Given that some of these summer schools are in exotic ...
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Should I mail a professor after applying to a programme?
I have applied for a summer research program for 2022. The application involved listing a preference order of professors I would like to work under. Each professor had a one line summary of the work ...
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Should I inform my letter writer about a summer school rejection? Should I ask the same professor to write me a letter for grad school?
I'm an undergraduate math major (just completed my second year), and I had applied for a summer school (online due to the pandemic) in one of my interest areas. I have taken two courses in this area ...
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What is the value of a summer project on cv of someone who wants to pursue graduate studies?
I got accepted in a summer research project in the US with a very famous professor in the field, however, it is so expensive for me.
I am not a US citizen but planning to pursue graduate studies there....
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Doing two summer research internships at the same time?
I have recently got into a weird situation, that I didn't think I would be in. First of all, I had applied for a paid research internship abroad (at a foreign university) some time ago. Due to covid ...
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How would you write to your in-class team, that you are going to drop the class, leaving no hard feelings?
We have a project to do with them but I don't have the time and am not sure if this email is appropriate for them. What do you think? I would greatly appreciate your advice.
Here is what I am thinking ...
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Where to include the Summer School or Winter School participation in the curriculum vitae (CV)?
I would like to include a Winter School I attended last year in my CV. I am not sure which heading of the CV this should be added to. Should I make a new heading called Participation and add this ...
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Putting a scholarship received for upcoming summer school in CV
I applied for a summer school and received a scholarship to attend. In the meantime, I am planning on applying for a Masters, in a field related to summer school, before attending the summer school. ...
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How to write a very good curriculum vitae for a summer school application?
I have just graduated with a bachelor degree in Mathematics and Physics. I joined a master's program in mathematics and I have just finished my master courses with a 3.8/4 CGPA. I don't have ...
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Is getting a grade of 7/10 worth asking a recommendation letter?
I had taken a course in mathematics previously and scored a grade of 7 out of 10. Now I would like to take a summer research internship related to that subject and was wondering whether it was wise ...
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