Archive for 'Education' Category
Rules for Important Science
18 November 2008A Special Centenary Lecture 2007, 18 June 2007
James Dewey Watson gave a talk about the rules for Important Science.
Below are some important facts that I can capture from his talk!
Always sit on the front row! You dont understand, say you dont understand.
Ph.D. thesis is not important.
Be broader than your Ph.D. thesis!
Work on Sundays! What else you can you do on sundays 
You should not work in August, but not in june or July
Student has to exercise, physically get tired!
Alcohol is not good
Get into something that 2-3 labs are working on it!
No one is going to give you 10 years not to succeed!
Work with a teammate, with equal intelligence!!!
Never be the brightest person in the room!
Talk to your competitives
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/aboutimperial/events/onlinelectures
http://www.nature.com/nature/dna50/watsoncrick.pdf
Thanks to Ufuk Yazgan for his valuable notification!
Top 4000 Universities
24 February 2008Webometrics ranking of world universities:
http://www.webometrics.info/top4000.asp
Graduate School Applications
19 February 2008Admission results and statistics, graduate school forum…
Advise for Ph.D. students
9 February 2008The document in the attached link gives very useful information and for Ph.D. students and post-docs. Many Thanks to Nejan.
http://www.qimr.edu.au/research/labs/georgiat/Guideforphds.doc
How to Increase Performance Part 1
9 September 2007The first step to increase the performance, is to measure it. The following softwares are doing this job in a user friendly environment. I am using Task Coach, but others also do the same job:
Task Coach: http://www.taskcoach.org/index.html
Time Tracker on Linux OS: http://pim.kde.org/components/karm.php
Online Time Tracker (not that good): http://www.formassembly.com/time-tracker/
Finally, below is a link for the discussion on time tracking programs:
http://groups.google.com/group/The-Efficient-Academic/browse_thread/thread/9f936cd71ade8f28