 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 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 |
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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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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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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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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 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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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
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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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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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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 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 |
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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 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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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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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? |
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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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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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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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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 |