 Wed Oct 13 09:32:57 2021, Amy , To-dos for writing thesis
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Acknowledge federal funding.
Writing:
Check paragraph structure. Make sure that the first sentence of each paragraph summarizes the entire paragraph, and every later sentence |
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Tue Aug 27 16:23:34 2019, Brian Clark, Box Opening Advice
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You will likely adjust your code to go from running the 100% to the 10%. Make sure you actually re-process the 10% with the 100% code and check
to see that every value is duplicated correctly. This was a problem for both Jacob's and Brian's box opening.
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Wed Jul 17 15:07:56 2019, Julie Rolla, Amy's Do's and Don'ts When Paper Writing
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Don't use adverbs. Quantify!
Refer to a figure or table before discussing it -- not after.
The first sentence
of a paragraph should summarize the whole paragraph.
Know the difference between "that" and "which".
Be
careful. Are you using "I", "we", or no identifier? Be consistent. Is it personal or objective?
Be careful with past |
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Fri Jul 5 15:51:14 2019, Amy and Kai, Do's and Don'ts in a paper
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| Things to say, and not say, in a paper. |
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Wed Jun 20 14:28:47 2018, Keith McBride, Running icemc
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This is a list of things that should be expected when trying to make and run icemc.
1. The directory includes a Makefile.arch, but seems to have lost it’s
StandardDefinitions.mk, which was necessary in previous versions. Is it no |
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Wed May 23 09:17:37 2018, Brian Clark, Lessons Learned from a Year in ARA Hardware
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Lessons Learned from a Year in ARA Hardware
Test samples, then build batches.
If building a new board, always build one to completion to verify functionality before building the rest. |
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Wed May 16 12:56:15 2018, Amy Connolly, Marjorie-isms
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Advice about physics from Marjorie:
Always start with the physics!
Triggering is where the physics is
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Mon Apr 9 00:03:09 2018, Brian Clark, Making the Most of APS April Meeting 2018
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Yay, it's April Meeting time! This is the biggest conference for the high-energy physics community in the US.
Resources and Lingo
A high level summary of the meeting can be found here: https://www.aps.org/meetings/april/upload/AP18Program.pdf
You |
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Tue Feb 20 14:40:15 2018, Amy Connolly , nitpicky things for writing
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Don't start a sentence with a number.
For numbers less than or equal to ten, spell out the word.
Put a space between a number and the unit? |
Mon Feb 12 00:17:14 2018, Jorge Torres, TProfile (ROOT) error options 
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| Different ways on which TProfile can estimate and plot errors. |
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Tue Feb 28 15:54:42 2017, Oindree Banerjee, Antarctica -- Packing List and other advice
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I was in Antarctica for 2 months in year 2016 to launch and support the ANITA-4 mission. I was mostly at/near McMurdo (MCM)
Station.
What to pack (thanks to Steph Wissel, Brian Hill for heavily contributing to below list): |
 Fri Feb 2 20:41:35 2018, Brian Clark, Antarctica -- Packing List and other advice
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Here are a bunch of my thoughts on prepping for Antarctica. This mostly pertains to my experience travelling to the South Pole in support of the 2017-2018
ARA commissioning and calibration activities. I was at the South Pole for about a month, and accumulated about of week of time in MCM due to flight
delays. |
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Tue Jan 9 20:53:29 2018, Suren Gourapura, Links/Advice on Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs)
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Hi All,
I applied to a few REUs last semester and am applying to around 7 this semester, so I decided to put some of what I have learned and the link |
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Sat Jan 20 13:22:10 2018, Suren Gourapura, Links/Advice on Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs)
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Hello fellow undergrads,
Another thing to check out is internships with NASA. It's ridiculously easy to apply for an internship at JPL (https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/intern/apply/summer-internship-program/),
but for other sites the application looks more like what one would expect for an internship position (https://intern.nasa.gov/ossi/web/public/main/) |
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Sat Jan 13 17:42:03 2018, Oindree Banerjee, using git
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I am writing instructions specific for adding code to an exisiting repository such as this one: https://github.com/osu-particle-astrophysics/BinnedAnalysis
From your terminal, get the repo:
git clone https://oindree@github.com/osu-particle-astrophysics/BinnedAnalysis.git |
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Thu Jan 4 09:24:52 2018, Amy Connolly , Don't ever do these things
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Don't use the word "guaranteed" to talk about neutrinos from GZK. Although they are strongly expected to be there, nothing is guaranteeed
in science and if they were guaranteed it wouldn't be interesting to discover them. The cutoff in the CR spectrum could be due to the sources
turning off at that energy. Who knows Lorentz Invariance could be violated and make them all brem electrons before they reach us. |
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Thu Jan 4 09:10:10 2018, Amy Connolly , How to give a job talk
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Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know. - Enrico Fermi
Keep your talk at a simple level, much simpler than you would think. You should be embarrassed to say such simple concepts in front of
a bunch of physics PhDs. |
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Wed Dec 6 18:21:38 2017, Oindree Banerjee, updating root on mac
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To get the newest root on a mac: this is what Carl and I went through today
Note that root was installed on my mac by IT earlier
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Fri Dec 1 13:08:51 2017, Amy Connolly , Writing letters of recommendation
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Pay close attention to the wording of your stated level of support in the first sentence, and in the last paragraph. Make sure it is as strong
as you mean it to be.
Is the person you are writing for already working at the level of the position they are applying for? If so, state that and give examples. |
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Thu Nov 30 09:58:14 2017, Brian Clark, Preparing For Antarctica
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Congratulations, you've been selected to deploy to Antartica in support of ARA or ANITA. This mostly covers my experience in preparing to go to the
South Pole for ARA.
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Wed Sep 27 20:29:01 2017, Brian Clark, How to PQ for Antarctica
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In order to go to Antartica, you first have to Physically Qualify (or "PQ"). Here is some advice from my PQ experience that should hopefully
make this process smoother for you.
General Advice |
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Wed Sep 20 10:46:04 2017, Amy Connolly , Connections in industry
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Check out this seminar series:
http://erdosinstitute.org/industry.html |