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Questions about the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree, including requirements such as dissertations and university programs leading to a Ph.D.

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I am one of the postdocs in the group who is unofficially supervising a PhD student who is now employed with us for more than a year. The official supervisor has given me essentially all ...
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I just finished my first year of PhD. It was tough, but I managed to get one publication at a very good conference and my advisors are happy about my work. Research-wise, I would say that, up until a ...
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prospective undergrad student in Law here, about to graduate in July. In my university and my country academic environment overall, it's always an "implied" rule that to get a PhD, you have ...
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I'm currently in my first year of a biophysics PhD in Canada, and I have an external fellowship, so my stipend doesn't come from my PI's own funds. The summer before, I spent time working on a ...
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Certain courses—such as probability theory, stochastic calculus, quantum mechanics, and game theory—are often housed in departments outside of mathematics. These alternatives can be more rigorous, ...
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I am a recent undergraduate and an international applicant for Fall 2027 CS PhD programs. I have been trying to publish my undergrad thesis work for a while now. Recently I submitted my manuscript to ...
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Assume the following situation: you start a PhD in Mathematics, you put in the hours, do the work and, in the end, have a couple published results. You then start writing the thesis based on those ...
Score of 11
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I am currently enrolled in PhD in Math. I have completed 4 years already. Here are some developments. OpenAI and Anthropic has solved various open problems in math, involving one of the open ...
Score of 13
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I am about to finish the first year of my PhD. My goal is to become a professor at a research institution, publish papers, advise students, etc. Even if that doesn't work out, (perhaps due to the ...
Score of 1
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I am seriously considering pursuing a second Ph.D. I have already completed my GRE general test and plan to start applying to universities shortly. I am aware that pursuing a second Ph.D. is ...
Score of 10
9 answers
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Currently, I think it is now no exaggeration to say that LLMs, such as GPT and Claude, are able to produce math/stats papers with quality sufficient to be a PhD dissertation. I am wondering if it is ...
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Score of 1
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I got a reply from a Professor at a UK university whom I approached regarding a PhD position: Dear Rudraneel, Thank you for your email and your interest in research in my group. I'm afraid I do not ...
Score of 1
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I am an international student who recently applied to an Australian Ph.D. program where having a peer-reviewed publication increases an applicant’s chances of receiving a scholarship. Thankfully, one ...
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Suppose a researcher (either a PhD or a PostDoc) identifies a published scientific method that appears unnecessarily complicated and develops an improved alternative. The researcher uses a generative-...
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I recently completed a PhD in theoretical physics. My research was mainly in black-hole information and holography, although quantum-information concepts played an important role in my work, including ...

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