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Seminar Bingo

Sep 26, 2014

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Pre-PHD BINGO Game

May 31, 2021 4 minute read

Twenty-five things I have done to help me prepare for my PhD program.

• BINGO card credit list

Academic System (6)

• For class, for meetings, for research progress
• Software: Overleaf, etc.
• One for journal papers, one for course papers
• How to take notes, how to connect the notes, etc.
• Software: Zotero, Mendeley, Paperpile, etc.
• Cloud: GitHub, google drive, one drive, etc.
• Separate your school life and personal life (bills, games, subscriptions)
• Gmail: use labels; Outlook: use folders
• Set up your email display name and signature

Research (5)

• Day 7: Literature review: Make a reading list of 30 papers (and read them)
• Day 8: Identify 3 most popular academic organizations in your area (national, international, local), and join them
• Check their submission dates and conference dates
• Find at least one that allows grad students to give talks; those tend to be smaller, more local, so less nerve-wracking and less competitive
• Check their submission requirements
• Check your department website for scholarship/grant information
• Check the application ddls and requirements

Networking (5)

• How many people are in your lab
• How many faculty members - normally just one
• How many grad students, undergraduate RAs, post-docs, etc.
• Identify 2-3 faculty members from your department other than your advisor that you would like to collaborate with (they could be your potential dissertation committee members)
• Check the grad students of your area on your department website
• Look up the incoming students (contact your department for the list if they haven’t sent it out)
• Check 2-3 schools in your province/state, and check their department websites too!
• Check their faculty members, grad students, who they invite to seminars, etc.
• Day 16: Make an academic Twitter, follow 10 people in your field

Outside of academia (2)

• You need a “go-to” thing when your relationship with academia hits a rough patch
• Academia is like your partner, and this constant is like your best friend. Partners come and go, but friendship is forever! Find the one thing that you love and know that can always make you feel better.
• Could be your pet, a hobby (painting, sports, music…)
• Day 18: Check therapy information

Brand yourself (3)

• Identify 5 early-stage assistant professors in your area as role models, especially those who have a similar background as yours (e.g., English as a second language, immigrant, first-gen, etc.)
• Read their CVs, think about how they have got here
• Imagine yourself in 4-5 years (when your earn your PhD) and make an “ideal CV” for the post-PhD you
• Based on the “ideal CV“, update your current CV; be conscious of the gaps
• Include your background, research interests, and life outside academia
• You might need this for your new lab’s website
• I used to use Wordpress, and I have been considering GitHub Pages lately

Make a Plan B, and make it now (3)

• UMichigan’s University Career Center
• e.g., industry, NGO, research institutes
• You don’t even need to make a resume right now, just start copying and pasting things from your CV to LinkedIn as a starting point
• You will have a seemingly okay profile to start building connections with those who work in the industry - you never know when you’ll have the chance to meet them
• You will also feel less overwhelmed when the time comes and you have to make a resume for internships
• Youtube:  How I Planned my PhD / 4 Year GANTT Chart in A4 Bullet Journal and Power Point / Digital Download

Other resources

• Youtube: Dear first year phd student / A Letter To You by Dr Amina Yonis
• Youtube: First year phd student advice - 20 Things to do Early in Your PhD by PhD and Productivity
• Youtube: How to fail a PhD / 5 key things to avoid! by Andy Stapleton
• Youtube: PhD FIRST YEAR TIPS / 16 things to do by Maria B
• Youtube: Advice for New PhD Students / How to Succeed in Graduate School! by Casey Fiesler
• Youtube: Before a phd - 5 secrets for starting strong by Andy Stapleton

INFSCI 3005 - Introduction to Doctoral Studies

(fall 2021, crn 21402).

[ Formal Data | Syllabus | Materials ]

Course Materials

The materials for the future lectures are "best guess" and provided for better planning

August 31, 2021

Alan Bundy, Ben du Boulay, Jim Howe and Gordon Plotkin (1985) The Researcher's Bible

Richard Butterworth (1998) I did a PhD and did NOT go mad

Ronald T. Azuma (2003) Everything I wanted to know about C.S. graduate school at the beginning but didn't learn until later

And please, enjoy PhD Comics !

September 7,  2021

Planning your Doctoral Studies

Morgan Frank

(Start at 11:00am)

David Chapman (1988) How to do Research At the MIT AI Lab

• Part 1 : Crossroads,Volume 1, Issue 2 (December 1994)
• Part 2 : Crossroads,Volume 14 , Issue 4 (June 2008)

Matt Might The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D.

Jamie Hipp 10 Tips for New Doctoral Students

For future reading: Debora J. Bell, Sharon L. Foster, and John D. Cone (2020) Dissertations and Theses From Start to Finish , APA

September 14, 2021

Presentations

Sera Linardi

Patricia Gosling ,  Bart Noordam Mastering Your Ph.D.: Giving a Great Presentation Science, Oct. 20, 2006

Christine Kelly Mastering the Art of Presenting Inside Higher Ed, February 6, 2017

Noreen Watson Public speaking and graduate school , American Psychological Association, March 2014

How to make a good presentation

Jason Shen How to Dramatically Improve your Public Speaking Skills , January 8, 2018

PhD Comics: Seminar Bingo

For future readings: Julius Loewenstein PUBLIC SPEAKING - Speaking like a Professional: How to become a better speaker, present yourself convincingly and increase your self-confidence through successful communication

Allison Gaffey The elevator pitch American Psychological Association, June 2014

How to Write a PhD Elevator Pitch

For future readings: Fred Miller NO SWEAT Elevator Speech!: Expanded Edition

For Future readings: Chris O'Leary Elevator Pitch Essentials

September 21, 2021

The Working of Scientific Enterprise

Video: Race to Catch a Buckyball [ 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 ]

Branislav Kveton

David Goodstein How Science Works

How Science Really Works , University of California, Berkeley

J. Paul Peter & Jerry C. Olson. Is Science Marketing? Journal of Marketing, 47, 111-125, 1983

Norbert L. Kerr HARKing: Hypothesizing After the Results are Known . Personality and Social Psychology Review, Vol. 2, No. 3, 196-217 1998

The A-Z�s of predatory publishing

Paolo Crosetto Is MDPI a predatory publisher?

September 28, 2021

How to Find a Research Question

Video: Creativity and Scientific Discovery Herbert A. Simon

Adriana Kovashka

Raul E. Valdes-Perez Personal Recollections from 15 years of Monthly Meetings [with Herbert Simon]

Pat Langley Heuristics for Scientific Discovery: The Legacy of Herbert Simon

Shigeto Kawahara Finding research topics Keio University

Don Davis Thesis Research: Where do I Start? Columbia University

Uri Alon, How To Choose a Good Scientific Problem , Molecular Cell (2009), doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2009.09.013

Robert Hampel In Search of New Frontiers: How Scholars Generate Ideas . The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 19, 2008

Herbert A. Simon (2001) Creativity in the Arts and the Sciences . The Kenyon Review, New Series, Vol. 23, No. 2, Cultures of Creativity: The Centennial Celebration of the Nobel Prizes (Spring, 2001) , pp. 203-220 (18 pages)

October 5, 2021

Lecture 6 -1

Reference and Search Tools 1

Research Idea "Elevator Speech" Presentation

Jacob Biehl

Thomson Reuters Web of Science Tutorial

University of North Carolina EndNote Tutorial

October 12, 2021

Lecture 6-2

Reference and Search Tools 2

Research Paper Summary Presentation

Erin Walker

(Start 9:45)

Wikipedia Impact Factor , H-Index

Teixeira da Silva, J.A. & Dobranszki, J. : Multiple versions of the h-index: cautionary use for formal academic purposes . Scientometrics, May 2018, Volume 115, Issue 2, pp 1107-1113

Research Paper Summary Due

October 19, 2021

Writing Grant Proposals

Michael Lesiecki How to Write a Winning NSF Proposal

Kate Viera Planning and Writing a Grant Proposal

Lisa Chasan-Taber 10 Tips for Successful Grant Writing , The Chronicle of Higher Education

Alice L Ruhnke Be a Standout: 10 Tips for Writing Grant Proposals that Get Funded

For Future Reading: National Science Foundation A Guide for Proposal Writing

For future reading: Locke L F, Spirduso W W, & Silverman S J. (1999). Proposals that work (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

October 26, 2021

Writing Research Articles

Michael Colaresi

Michael Ernst (2005) How to write a technical paper

Beth A. Fischer and Michael J. Zigmond Twenty steps to writing a research article . University of Pittsburgh

Writing a journal article . Tailor and Francis

How to write a first class paper . Nature, 2018

How to write a journal article: Tips and Tools . Canadian Science Publishing

For future reading: Becker, Howard (1986). Writing for Social Scientists. Chicago, Chicago University Press.

For future reading: Richardson, Laurel (1990). Writing Strategies: Reaching Diverse Audiences. Sage Publications

For future reading: Zerubavel, Eviatar (1999). The clockwork muse: A practical guide to writing theses, dissertations and books. Cambridge, Harvard University Press.

For future reading: Murray, R. (2002) How to write a thesis. Buckingham, Open University Press.

For future reading: Dunleavy, Patrick (2003) Authoring a PhD: How to plan, draft, write and finish a doctoral thesis or dissertation. London, Palgrave.

For future reading: Chris A. Mack (2018) How to wring a good scientific paper . Bellingham, WA, SPIE Press

White Paper Due

November 2, 2021

Kate Bradley (2009) Teaching as a PhD student

Melanie Newport Teaching Tips for Graduate Students

Amy J. Ko (2020) Informatics Teaching Guide

Shelia M. Kennison, Rachel H. Messer and C. Daniel Hornyik (2013) Tips for the First-Time Graduate Student Instructor

For future reading: Wilbert J. McKeachie (1978) "Teaching Tips: A Guidebook for the Beginning College Teacher." Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath & Co.,17th edition

November 9, 2021

Time Management Slides

Video: Time Management Randy Pausch [ Transcript ]

Harry Hochheiser

Peter R Drucker Managing Oneself Harward Business Review

David Allen (2002) Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity .Penguin

Getting Things Done (GTD) Method + The 8 Best GTD Apps of 2020

Getting Things Done (GTD) Method and 20 Best GTD Apps & Tools

The Getting Things Done (GTD) Method + 14 Best GTD Apps in 2020

Reviews for the White Paper Due

November 16, 2021

Peer Review

Rosta Farzan

Wikipedia Peer Review

Joshua A Hirsch et al. (2017) The peer review process: a primer for JNIS readers , Journal of neurointerventional surgery , Vol.9 (e1), p.e3-e6

Alan Jay Smith (1990) The Task of the Referee . IEEE Computer , p. 65-71, April 1990

Juan Miguel Campanario (1996) 3.0.CO;2-0" target="_blank">Have Referees Rejected Some of the Most-Cited Articles of All Times? Journal of the American Society for Information Science , 47(4):302-310, 1996

Fytton Rowland (2002) The peer-review process Learned Publishing, 15 (4), p.247-258

Laxmaiah Manchikanti et al. (2015) Medical journal peer review: process and bias , Pain Physician, 8(1):E1-E14.

First version of the final research proposal due

November 23, 2021

Thanksgiving

Video:  Desires and Diversions . Allan Newell

Allen Newell

Video: Desires and Diversions

November 30, 2021

Career Planning

Video: Some Keys to a Successful Career Kenneth Olden

Kayhan Batmanghelich

Paul Gray, David E. Drew (2008) What They Didn't Teach You in Graduate School: 199 Helpful Hints for Success in Your Academic Career . Stylus: Sterling, VA

Richard Hamming. You And Your Research . Transcription of the Bell Communications Research Colloquium Seminar, 7 March 1986

Nick Rushby On being an editor , British Journal of Educational Technology Vol 46 No 4 2015 681–683

Peer reviews for research proposals due

December 7, 2021

Ethics in Science

Seong Jae Hwang

Alexandra Gedrose 5 Psychological Experiments That Prove Humanity is Doomed

David B. Rescnick (1998) The Ethics in Science: An Introduction. Routledge, London

December 14, 2021

Research Project Presentation

Final version of research proposal due

Research Proposal Presentation

Copyright © 2021 Peter Brusilovsky

• How to Give a Presentation as A PhD Student
• Doing a PhD

At some point in their career, most researchers will be asked to give a presentation at a conference. These podium talks can be a brilliant way to promote yourself as an academic and also to disseminate your work to a wider audience. Standing up and giving a talk to a large audience can feel scary, particularly if you feel under-prepared. However, with enough preparation and practice this could become an enjoyable experience and maybe even one you look forward to!

Here are a few tips from us to help you with preparation for your next (or first) presentation.

Keep It Simple

Typically, any talk you give will be accompanied by a series of slides. The key thing to remember here is ‘less is more’. Keep the message on each slide very clear with minimal text and ideally an image on every slide. Remember that these slides are designed to support what you’re talking about rather than being a script to read from.

Have a Structure

Prepare your slides with a logical structure in mind. If you’re presenting an experimental study, this may be as simple as: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusion. Think about what one thing you want the audience to take away from your talk – what’s the take-home message? A common mantra that’s used by many researchers is to (1) tell the audience what you’re going to tell them, (2) tell them and (3) tell them what you’ve told them. Simple!

Practice, Practice, Practice

There’s really no better substitute for building confidence in giving your talk than by practising it as much as you can. That’s not to say that you should learn it word for word and simply repeat from memory, but it should feel very natural by the time you come to present. A great idea is to write out a script of what you’d like to say and then amend it as you read it out aloud – you’ll find the way you structure your sentences or the words you use may differ slightly as you present out loud versus just writing down in text form.

Practice by yourself as you’re developing your thoughts and the flow of your talk but make sure you also practice in front of others, such as those in your lab, your supervisor and your friends and family.

It’s All in The Delivery

You know what you’re going to say, make sure you also practice how you’re going to say it. Make a conscious effort to speak a little (emphasis on the little!) slower than you normally would. Don’t forget to breathe and be happy – this is a chance to show off the great work that you’ve been doing. Speak clearly and not too quietly and try to connect with your audience – think of this as a discussion you’re having with them about your research. If you can, try to arrive at the presentation hall before others arrive so you have an opportunity to stand at the podium and visualise yourself giving your talk – this way when you go up to present, the environment will be a little more familiar to you. Enjoy it!

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BME 601 - Seminar Biomedical Engineering

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Welcome to the Library Research Guide for BME 601 -Seminar Biomedical Engineering

This guide has been designed to help you complete your BME assignment successfully and contains information on how to:

• Find databases to search to find information for your research
• Cite the sources you use for your project
•  Create an interlibrary loan request for materials not found in NJIT’s research collections
• Ask for help from a librarian in the many ways it is available

If you run into any problems or just want to review your search strategies for your assignment, please don’t hesitate to get in touch! 

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Math 295 - Colloquium Seminar

Prof. tsachik gelander, northwestern university, things we can learn by looking at random manifolds.

In mathematics in general, it is fruitful to allow randomness. Indeed, it is often easier to deal with random rather than deterministic objects. It seems miraculous, however, when we are able to say more about deterministic objects by treating them as random ones.

This idea applies in particular to the theory of discrete subgroups of Lie groups and locally symmetric manifolds.

The theory of invariant random subgroups (IRS), which has been developed quite rapidly during the last decade, has been very fruitful to the study of lattices and their asymptotic invariants. However, restricting to invariant measures limits the scope of problems that one can approach (in particular since the groups involved are highly non-amenable). It was recently realised that the notion of stationary random subgroups (SRS) is still very effective and opens paths to deal with questions which were thought to be unreachable.

In the talk I will describe various old and new results concerning arithmetic groups and general locally symmetric manifolds of finite as well as infinite volume that can be proved using `randomness', e.g.:

1. Kazhdan-Margulis minimal covolume theorem.

2. Most hyperbolic manifolds are non-arithmetic (a joint work with A. Levit).

3. Higher rank manifolds of large volume have a large injectivity radius (joint with Abert, Bergeron, Biringer, Nikolov, Raimbault and Samet).

4. Higher rank manifolds of infinite volume have infinite injectivity radius --- conjectured by Margulis (joint with M. Fraczyk).

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100 Best universities for Mechanical Engineering in Russia

Updated: February 29, 2024

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Below is a list of best universities in Russia ranked based on their research performance in Mechanical Engineering. A graph of 714K citations received by 136K academic papers made by 158 universities in Russia was used to calculate publications' ratings, which then were adjusted for release dates and added to final scores.

We don't distinguish between undergraduate and graduate programs nor do we adjust for current majors offered. You can find information about granted degrees on a university page but always double-check with the university website.

1. Moscow State University

For Mechanical Engineering

2. Tomsk State University

3. St. Petersburg State University

4. Bauman Moscow State Technical University

5. Ufa State Aviation Technical University

6. Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University

7. Tomsk Polytechnic University

8. Ural Federal University

9. South Ural State University

10. National Research University Higher School of Economics

11. Moscow Aviation Institute

12. Novosibirsk State University

13. ITMO University

14. N.R.U. Moscow Power Engineering Institute

15. National Research Nuclear University MEPI

16. Kazan Federal University

17. National University of Science and Technology "MISIS"

18. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

19. Samara National Research University

20. Moscow State Technological University "Stankin"

21. Novosibirsk State Technical University

22. RUDN University

23. Southern Federal University

24. Saratov State University

25. Ufa State Petroleum Technological University

26. Samara State Technical University

27. Siberian Federal University

28. Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N. Tupolev - KAI

29. Perm State Technical University

30. Omsk State Technical University

31. Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University

32. Moscow Polytech

33. Saint-Petersburg Mining University

34. Magnitogorsk State Technical University

35. Saratov State Technical University

36. Moscow State University of Railway Engineering

37. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod

38. Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University

39. Tula State University

40. Belgorod State Technological University

41. Far Eastern Federal University

42. Novgorod State University

43. belgorod state university.

44. Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation

45. Moscow Medical Academy

46. Kazan State Technological University

47. Russian State University of Oil and Gas

48. siberian state aerospace university.

49. Tambov State Technical University

50. Voronezh State University

51. Siberian State Industrial University

52. Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology

53. Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University

54. St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering

55. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia

56. Murmansk State Technical University

57. South-Western State University

58. Ogarev Mordovia State University

59. Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics

60. south-russian state university of economics and service.

61. Perm State University

62. Kuzbass State Technical University

63. Russian National Research Medical University

64. Plekhanov Russian University of Economics

65. Ulyanovsk State Technical University

66. Ulyanovsk State University

67. Penza State University

68. Kuban State University of Technology

69. Polzunov Altai State Technical University

70. Chelyabinsk State University

71. Yaroslavl State University

72. University of Tyumen

73. National Research University of Electronic Technology

74. Leningrad State University

75. Moscow State Pedagogical University

76. Udmurt State University

77. Irkutsk State University

78. North-Eastern Federal University

79. Bashkir State University

80. Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

81. Kuban State University

82. Kuban State Agricultural University

83. St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation

84. Kemerovo State University

85. Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

86. Orenburg State University

87. Baltic State Technical University "Voenmeh"

88. Tomsk State University of Architecture and Building

89. Chuvash State University

90. ivanovo state power university.

91. Irkutsk National Research Technical University

92. Orel State University

93. State University of Management

94. Tomsk State Pedagogical University

95. Volgograd State University

96. Petrozavodsk State University

97. Tver State University

98. Northern Arctic Federal University

99. Omsk State Transport University

100. Kaliningrad State Technical University

The best cities to study Mechanical Engineering in Russia based on the number of universities and their ranks are Moscow , Tomsk , Saint Petersburg , and Ufa .

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Please join us for this week's MMI Thursday Seminar: Using Copper Toxicity to Exploit a Microbial Achilles Heel featuring Dr. Michael D. L. Johnson.

Dr. Johnson is the Associate Dean for Basic Science Research and Graduate Studies at the University of Arizona College of Medicine Tucson. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Immunobiology and the Director of the National Summer Undergradate Research Project (NSURP).

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MSE Special Seminar: Designing Sustainable Soft Matter from the Molecule Up

Abstract:  Soft matter constructed by nature harnesses chemically complex molecular subunits to generate finely tuned chemical, dynamical and mechanical properties over nano- to macro-scales, motivating the use of bottom-up strategies to realize functional synthetic materials. Here, I present how a molecule-up approach to the design of supramolecular and covalent polymers elicits unique structure-property relationships in materials to address urgent challenges in water treatment and plastics waste. First, I discuss the development of aramid amphiphiles, self-assembling small molecules that incorporate a Kevlar-inspired domain to impart strong, cohesive intermolecular interactions between molecules. Aramid amphiphiles spontaneously organize in water to form nanoribbons with suppressed dynamic mobility and mechanical properties rivaling silk. Combining the aramid amphiphile motif with chemistries to tune interfacial behavior enables the synthesis of high (~200 m2/g) surface area nanomaterials capable of treating thousands of liters of lead-contaminated water per gram of material. Next, I explore how the molecular design of lignin-derivable methacrylates enables the chemical recycling of the resulting covalent polymers, ‘closing the loop’ on high (> 100 °C) glass-transition temperature materials obtainable from industrial waste. Influences of monomer chemistry and reaction atmosphere are investigated to enable quantitative thermal depolymerization to monomer with high purity. The reclaimed monomers are then upcycled to narrow-dispersity and block polymers, demonstrating valorization of lignin-derivable molecules over multiple life cycles. Employing a molecule-up approach to soft matter formulation offers a pathway to realize novel properties in synthetic soft materials toward addressing generational challenges in sustainability.

Bio:  Ty Christoff-Tempesta is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Delaware, where he researches performance-advantaged and closed-loop polymeric systems from renewable feedstocks. Previously, he completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his research focused on molecular design to produce robust molecular assemblies and their application to pressing challenges in water treatment. Outside of research, Christoff-Tempesta has been actively involved in DEI initiatives and plastics sustainability efforts, including organizing the inaugural LGBTQ+ research symposium at the Spring 2024 MRS National Meeting and collaborating on single-use plastics policy as a fellow with the Massachusetts state government. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, the Martin Society Fellowship for Sustainability, the Hugh Hampton Young Fellowship and the ACS CAS Future Leaders award.

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