Toward a Global PhD? Forces and Forms in Doctoral Education Worldwide
by Maresi Nerad & Mimi Heggelund
Nature 454, 408 (24 July 2008) | doi:10.1038/454408a; Published online 23 July 2008

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There is discussion of this essay elsewhere on NN, but I thought the essay pertained specifically to grad students. Please pardon the partial repost.

We keep getting MCHC’s in all subjects using blood drawn in 2.7mL Monovette containers?

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Rob

We would like to invite you to apply for travel fellowships available
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The deadline for applications is May 26th. This is also the abstract
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we would like to invite you to participate in the 4th ISCB Student
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that will take place at ISMB 2008 in Toronto (Canada). Both events are
organized by the ISCB Student Council.

Please see the calls for participation below for details and forward
this anyone who might be interested. Thank you very much!

Best regards,

Nils Gehlenborg
Chair, ISCB Student Council

Lucia Peixoto
Chair, 4th ISCB Student Council Symposium

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Chair, Visual Reflections on Science Exhibition

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: 4th ISCB Student Council Symposium

• Website: http://symposium.iscbsc.org

• Date & Location: Friday, 18 July 2008 in Toronto, Canada

• Submission Deadline: 26 May 2008

• Registration Fee: 60 US Dollars (incl. lunch and coffee breaks). ISMB 2008 registration not required.

We are accepting submissions for both posters and oral presentations
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• Date & Location: Open for the duration of ISMB in Toronto, Canada

• Submission Deadline: 11 April 2008

For the ISMB 2008 Visual Reflections on Science Exhibition we invite
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Participate in this exciting new ISMB event to surprise and inspire
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The Workshop faculty is Prof. Sargur Srihari, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA and Visiting Faculty at ISiM. Professor Srihari, author of more than 300 research papers including 6 US patents, is the founding director of CEDAR (Centre of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition) and a well known expert in pattern recognition and Machine Learning.

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Balancing theory and practice, this Workshop, will focus on the following applications:

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Objectives of the workshop:

· Introduce participants to concepts of ML including concepts of clustering, Gaussian mixtures and dimensionality reduction
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· An in depth understanding of ML applications in the four focus areas – Information Retrieval; Language Processing; Document Analysis and Speech Recognition
· Provide hands on training on the key techniques

Course Outline

Module 1. Introduction: What is ML; Discriminative vs Generative ; Regression Example
Module 2: Probability Theory ; Decision Theory ; Information Theory ; Probability Distributions ; Linear Regression Models ; Linear Basis Functions ; Bias-Variance Trade-off ; Bayesian Linear Regression
Module 3. Neural Networks and Kernel Machines: Biological Motivation; Perceptrons ; Multilayer Networks and Backpropagation ; Representational Power; Applications ; Support Vector Machines
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After having heard nothing from them about the requisition if I were eligible or not, I happened to call them over telephony:

Me: Good evening

Funding foundation: Yes

Me: I mailed you requesting information if I am eligible or not for a said applications (as Iam a PhD student)

Funding foundation: Who are you?

/ As soon as I was introducing myself.. he interrupted /

Funding foundation: Hey, you see its only eligible for US Nationals

/In a clear note of requisition, I said that our collaborators were in US. While I was about to talk again, the phone was cut /

/ A second call was made… /
Me: But sir,

Funding foundation: I can’t hear you!

/To my utter dimay, I had to put off the phone /

I wonder what would be the fate of budding scientists. After having put up a strong zeal and just started learning how to write a grant proposal, I was welcomed with above bizzare incident.

Some how, I feel that a budding scientist writing grant proposal should be welcomed in a more pleasing way. Atleast replying to a requisition made should have been done. Some how people these days tend to forget morals and ethics!

Thanks for patient hearing,
Prash

Cheers, Amit