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Monthly Archives: August 2008
Funding For Travel
Concerns about funding for conferences and workshops have been a ongoing theme in my conversations with other graduate students. This is especially the case in the UK where doctoral students do not get as much funding as in the US. … Read More
Tagged: Conferences, funds, Travel
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The Ten Commandments (for teachers), Part II
In an earlier entry, I had mentioned the first five of Polya’s ten commandments for teaching. In a similar fashion to that entry, here are the last five rules with some comments on them: 6. Let them learn to guess: … Read More
Tagged: George Polya, Teaching
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The Ten Commandments (for teachers), Part I
The advanced reader who skips parts that appear too elementary may miss more than the reader who skips parts that appear too complex – G. Polya I was going through some books when I re-discovered a classic work by George … Read More
Tagged: George Polya, Teaching
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Vitae
The following is an excerpt from a press release on the UK GRAD Programme website. It is the launch of a national organization to support doctoral students and researchers. It seems to be the joining of forces of UK GRAD … Read More
Tagged: EPSCR, Research Councils UK (RCUK), UK GRAD, Vitae
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Letters to a Young Mathematician
Explaining the elegance, utility and ubiquity of mathematics to the general public has always been an onerous task for mathematicians. However, if anyone does it well, it is Prof Ian Stewart. His recent book, ‘Letters to a young mathematician’, was … Read More
Tagged: advice, Mathematics
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Interesting Summer School
Recently, I went to Bristol for an algorithms summer school and met a few interesting people. Meeting them made me realise that it is possible as a researcher to get the best out of both professional and academic world at … Read More
Conference Update
I have written about certain conference arrangements earlier (here and here). As it turns out, the conference which I was preparing for went smoothly which is a relief. I thought it would be appropriate to tell you how things went: … Read More
