This is a sequel to the previous entry on advice by experience postdoctoral researchers. One researcher who I know well mentioned that it is important to establish a name for…
Written by Haris Aziz
Postdoc Advice
A postdoc is an ideal time to build one’s research profile and getting quality publications is one of the primary aims. Recently, I have been talking to postdoctoral fellows I…
Mathematics and Art
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. I…
Wireless Presenter
This may sound like a Kensington commercial, but in the last few months, I have realized the importance of a handy, reliable wireless presenter. When one is making a presentation,…
AAIM 2009
International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management (AAIM) is intended to provide a forum for researchers working in design and analysis of algorithms, game theory, and combinatorial optimization…
PhD Comics
When the new AMS blog started, its aim was to cover issues faced by graduate students. One comment that caught my eye was “Isn’t this blog totally redundant with PhD…
ResearchChannel.org
Research talks can be very useful in giving an overview of a paper, highlighting some thing especially interesting about the paper or summarizing the novel technique used. In an earlier…
Researcher’s Bible: psychological hurdles
Professor Alan Bundy is a well known computer scientists who has won numerous awards such as the Herbrand Award for Distinguished Contributions to Automated Reasoning and has also won the…
Turing Award 2008
Alan Turing was one of the greatest computer scientists of the twentieth century. He formalized the idea of a universal abstract computer called the Turing Machine. He is also well…
Four golden rules for scientists
Steven Weinberg is a renowned physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow on the unification of the weak force and…