 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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |