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 |
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 |
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. |
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 |
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. |
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 |
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. |
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. |
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 |
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/) |
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 |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 |
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 |
Mon May 22 15:38:12 2017, Amy Connolly, Packages/Languages to learn to make yourself marketable
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R
Python
Various machine learning tools such as TensorFlow (this is on OSC) |
Fri May 19 16:02:48 2017, Everyone, Easy Explanations of Difficult Concepts
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Oindree:
Concept used in Brian Dailey and Sam Stafford's analysis:
S_up = Maximum signal that can fluctuate down to expected background with 10% probability |
Wed Apr 26 23:28:55 2017, Brian Clark, How to Travel  
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Below is some advice. The most important point is that you must file a eTravel request online at etravel.osu.edu.
General Advice
Overestimate all of your expenditures. The university gets really upset if your expenditures come back larger than your travel |
Sun Apr 23 00:23:21 2017, Amy Connolly, Writing a proposal
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A few basic principles for writing a proposal, many of which I got from Scott Gaudi in Astronomy:
1. Make sure that the first sentence of every paragraph summarizes the entire paragraph, and that
2. All of the important points are covered in the first sentence of some paragraph. That way a busy "skimmer" gets all of the |
Fri Mar 31 15:38:40 2017, Everyone, Writing/Presenting a poster
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Kaeli's Advice:
Writing the poster:
I generally start off my posters by using a template found at this website: https://brand.osu.edu/presentations/ They are easy to |
Fri Mar 3 15:09:40 2017, Everyone , ROOT advice  
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Oindree
I am terrible at ROOT, so I have started to read the Users Guide on ROOT (attached). It's 700 pages.. so it's like a Harry Potter
book, no big deal. |
Wed Feb 22 22:32:16 2017, Everyone, Favorite restaurants in Columbus
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Each person can list one favorite restaurant per category, or add their name to someone else's entry if you share a favorite. Feel free
to add any comments on your favorite thing to order, etc. Also go ahead and add categories.
Breakfast |
Wed Feb 22 15:50:16 2017, Everyone, Completing a dissertation
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Wed Feb 22 15:49:26 2017, Everyone, Candidacy exams
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Oindree's advice:
My experience is with taking the Physics PhD Candidacy Exam at The Ohio State University in the Connolly Group. Here,
I will be sharing my personal experience and guideline, starting with covering what is candidacy and what a first-year grad student should focus on and |
Wed Feb 22 15:48:39 2017, Everyone, Getting into graduate schools
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Kaeli's Advice:
If grad school is something you want to do, make sure your activities throughout college reflects that! Get involved in research, SPS/ Sigma
Pi Sigma, apply for REUs, and spend the summers learning as much as you can about research in your chosen area. Take on leadership positions in clubs if |
Wed Feb 22 15:47:57 2017, Everyone, Writing papers
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Wed Feb 22 15:47:40 2017, Everyone, Writing proposals
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Oindree's contribution:
I am attaching one of my undergrad research proposals as an example. I got this research award for the year 2012-2013. --Oindree |
Wed Feb 22 15:44:19 2017, Everyone, How to do well in grad classes
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Oindree's contribution:
1. mentally prepare to spend 60 hours a week doing homework, 20 hours for each core class
2. know that everyone else is struggling too, in some way or the other |
Wed Feb 22 15:43:37 2017, Everyone, Job interviews in industry
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John Beacom: http://degreeofsatisfaction.blogspot.com/ A good site from a the view of a data scientist with a Ph.D. in physics about how industry
is different than academia.
Ryan Hype: "While I was looking for an industry position I was able to get some pretty good advice from the OSU Career Counseling and Support |
Wed Feb 22 15:43:20 2017, Everyone, Academic job interviews
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Amy's advice
Remember that they are not always looking for the "best" person on some absolute scale, it's about "fitting into a slot"
(that's what my advisor told me once anyway) |
Wed Feb 22 15:42:30 2017, Everyone, Giving talks on weekly phone calls
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Oindree's contribution:
1. Have slide numbers on the slides! So you can say ".. in slide 9 you can see .." instead of "in the next slide". On phone
calls, it is hard to know what is the "next" slide. |
Tue Feb 21 11:47:34 2017, Brian Clark, A guide to writing good talk slides 
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This is a checklist we should all complete when giving talks.
Note that the source .tex code is in the .tar.gz file. |
Sat Feb 18 14:23:09 2017, J.C. Hanson, Don't Lose Hope :-)
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When applying for jobs, all it takes is time! Have faith in yourself.
~Jordan |