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Monthly Archives: July 2008
Thank-you Notes
A couple of months ago, I received a brief email from a professor who participated in a conference at Warwick: “Hi, Just a quick thank you email, I really enjoyed the conference and found it really useful. Kind regards.” The … Read More
Tagged: Conference, Thank you notes
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Networking Event on Campus
Job fairs and networking events can be useful to get a better idea about the nature of companies and intended roles. If one is on the email list of the university career services, one is bound to receive regular notifications … Read More
A Much Needed Break
A PhD is a long-term project and it is important to recharge your batteries on a regular basis. Maintaining a good balance is essential. Since my wife had her birthday lately we decided to take a well-deserved break over the … Read More
Tagged: Good balance, Holiday, Plans, Supervisor
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Conference Organization – Part II
Some further lessons from my attempt at conference arrangements: Utilize an easy to use system to coordinate, plan and facilitate submissions of papers. For this purpose, ‘Easy Chair’, an Open-source conference organizing software, has definitely helped our cause.
Tagged: Conferences
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Conference Organization – Part I
I have been busy organizing a conference for the last few months. The purpose of the conference is a get-together of postgraduate students mainly from Britain who are working in combinatorics. Since a step-by-step procedure of organizing a conference has … Read More
Tagged: Conference
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Investment Banking for PhDs – Part II
Piotr Karasinski is the global head of quantitative development at HSBC. He was a successful academic before he shifted to Wall Street. Therefore if anyone is able to give some insight into investment banking it would be him. Piotr Karasinski … Read More
Investment Banking for PhDs – Part I
I recently received an email from a ‘banking science’ organisation that had arranged a workshop where practitioners from the financial services industry in London would give an insight into their job. The workshop was specially geared towards PhDs. Since quite … Read More
