This class meets 2:00-3:40pm, on Wednesdays, in room 499 DSL.
Discussion: What kinds of writing have you done?
Document: syllabus.pdf, the class syllabus.
Discussion: Scientific communication.
Document: "Why Every Job Seeker Should Have a Personal Website, and What It Should Include" by Jacquelyn Smith, Forbes Magazine.
Lecture: A personal web page: Why you need one, and how to make one.
Document: "Morbo Northbark's Personal Web Page"
Document: "Personal Website Hosting", by Mike McDonald, FSU Department of Scientific Computing.
Document: "Building Your LinkedIn Presence" FSU Career Center.
Assignment: Create a personal web page; when done, ask the departmental webmaster (webmaster@sc.fsu.edu) to add a link from the department's page to your web page.
Due: Your web page. I will look for it from the department's web page.
Exercise: Take a jumble of ideas or "points" and organize them into groups, and organize the groups into a narrative or sequence. Use the data in polar_points.txt
Document: George Whitesides,
Whitesides's Group: Writing a Paper,
Advanced Materials,
Volume 16, Number 15, August 2004, pages 1375-1377,
http://www.ee.ucr.edu/~rlake/Whitesides_writing_res_paper.pdf
Exercise: Look at the points in qr_points.txt and try to organize them into groups. How would the groups be organized to make a narrative?
Document: Brian Hayes,
"Quasirandom Ramblings",
The American Scientist,
Volume 99, Number 4, July-August 2011, pages 282-287,
http://www.americanscientist.org/libraries/documents/2011631353538566-2011-07CompSciHayes.pdf
Let's look at how this document is constructed. What is its purpose?
How is it divided into sections? Why are the sections ordered
in this way?
Exercise: Outline for article on baseball card collecting. Let's look at this outline, see how it helps us to write out a full document. Afterwards, we can compare with the article Baseball Card Collecting by Nick Berry.
Assignment: Write an outline for your paper. The outline should include an introduction or overview that explains what the paper is going to cover. The outline could consist of a logical structure (indented like Python, say, for subtopics), or it could look more like the actual paper, with headings and subheadings, but only sketchy descriptions where the text will go.
Due: Turn in your outline.
Document:
Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative
Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity,
by Alan Sokal;
Social Text, #46/47, Spring/Summer 1996, pages 217-252.
Document:
Publishers withdraw more than 120 gibberish papers,
by Richard van Noorden;
Nature, 24 February 2014.
Documents:
A Development of Web Services, by Brian Bartoldson;
Stable, Constant-Time Information for Replication, by Eitan Lees;
A Case for Link-Level Acknowledgements, by Juan Llanos;
Contrasting Rasterization and Flip-Flop Gates using TaxisPallor,
by Serena Pham;
An Evaluation of Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games, by
Chad Sockwell;
Pur: A Methodology for the Analysis of Online Algorithms, by
Amirhassem Tahmassebi;
Scatter/Gather I/O No Considered Harmful, by Sir Alex Townsend;
These are "fake" papers generated by SciGen
( https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/ ).
Although they have meaningless content, we can still
see the form or structure of a scientific paper.
Document:
valduriez.pdf
Patrick Valduriez,
"Some Hints to Improve Writing of Technical Papers"
Document:
keim.pdf
Greg Keim, Noam Shazeer, Michael Littman,
"PROVERB: The Probabilistic Cruciverbalist"
Document:
mclean.pdf
James McLean,
"Physics Writing Guide: How to Write a Physics Journal Article"
Document:
quaife.pdf
Bryan Quaife, George Biros,
"Adaptive time stepping for vesicle suspensions",
Journal of Computational Physics,
Volume 306, pages 478-499, 2016.
Assignment: Work on your document draft #1.
Due: Document Draft #1
FSU Career Center, "Writing a Curriculum Vitae"
http://www.career.fsu.edu/content/download/328023/2204933/Writing a Curriculum Vitae.pdf
CV for Hans-Werner van Wyk
class04/cv_vanwyk.pdf
Ann Pitts, "What Recruiters Really Want to See on Your CV"
http://theundercoverrecruiter.com/recruiters-cv/
LinkedIn CV for Ben McLaughlin
class04/cv_ben.pdf
"Tips for a good graduate technical CV"
https://targetjobs.co.uk/career-sectors/it-and-technology/285657-tips-for-a-good-graduate-technical-cv
CV for Michael Anical
class04/cv_michael_anical.pdf
Andrew Fennell, "CV template for school-leavers and graduate jobseekers"
http://www.theguardian.com/careers/2016/feb/22/creating-a-killer-cv-a-guide-for-school-leavers-and-graduate-jobseekers
Meyer-Baese, Wismueller, Lange,
"Comparison of Two Exploratory Data Analysis Methods for fMRI:
Unsupervised Clustering Versus Independent Component Analysis",
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine,
Volume 8, Number 3, September 2004, pages 387-398,
meyer_baese.pdf
Assignment: Write a curriculum vitae and make it available on your website.
Due: Your CV
Completion of high school or college, 1940-2009
class05/education_history.png
Brenda Iasevoli,
"A glut of PhD's means long odds of getting jobs"
http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/02/27/388443923/a-glut-of-ph-d-s-means-long-odds-of-getting-jobs
Rebecca Schuman,
"Why your cousin with a PhD is a basket case"
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2014/09/how_do_professors_get_hired_the_academic_job_search_explained.html
JOBS.ACM, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Job and Career Site:
http://jobs.acm.org/
Leo Rebholz,
"Thoughts on the process of applying for PhD level jobs in mathematics",
class05/academic_job_rebholz.pdf
ALL-ACAD, Academic jobs, in Mathematics and Statistics, Physics and Engineering,
Computer Science, Life Science, Medicine and Chemistry, Economics,
Law, Arts, Humanities and Social Science.
http://all-acad.com/
Michael Ernst,
"Getting an academic job",
https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~mernst/advice/academic-job.html
MATHJOBS, a website where you can find job opportunities in
academics, industry, and national laboratories:
https://www.mathjobs.org/
Richard Reis, The Basics of Cover Letter Writing:
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Basics-of-Cover-Letter-/46259/
Steven Henke, Sachin Shanbhag,
"Mesh sensitivity in peridynamic simulations",
Computer Physics Communications,
Volume 185, 2014, pages 181-193,
class05/henke.pdf
Assignment: Find an academic job online that you find attractive. Assume that you have finished your intended degree, and make up a few reasonable accomplishments, so that you qualify for this job. Write a 3-paragraph cover letter to accompany your (imaginary) application. Email to me the job posting and your cover letter.
Due: Your cover letter for an academic job application.
Albert Einsten,
"Dear President Roosevelt...",
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%E2%80%93Szil%C3%A1rd_letter
DOE Laboratory System Map,
http://science.energy.gov/laboratories/
Government Labs and Centers,
class06/lab_list.txt
Department of Scientific Computing Interactions with Labs,
class06/lab_students.txt
FSU links with Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
https://www.research.fsu.edu/research-fsu/partnerships/oak-ridge/
Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Solving Big Problems
https://www.ornl.gov/content/ornl-brochure-solving-big-problems
The Prodigal Academic, "Life at a National Laboratory",
http://theprodigalacademic.blogspot.com/2010/05/life-at-national-lab-as-young-scientist.html
Ray Wang, "National Lab, Love it? Or Not?",
http://biocareers.com/bio-careers-blog/national-lab-love-it-or-not
Mary Beckman, "Working in a Government Lab",
http://chronicle.com/article/Working-in-a-Government-Lab/45212/
"Jobs (and Internships) at the National Labs"
http://energy.gov/jobs-national-labs
Argonne National Laboratory magazine
http://www.anl.gov/downloads/argonne-now-spring-2016
Livermore National Laboratory magazine
https://str.llnl.gov/
Los Alamos National Laboratory magazine
http://www.lanl.gov/discover/publications/1663/index.php
National Renewable Energy Laboratory magazine
http://www.nrel.gov/continuum/analysis/
Oak Ridge National Laboratory magazine
http://web.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/
Sandia National Laboratory magazine
http://www.sandia.gov/news/publications/research_magazine/
Kevin Fogarty, "When Background Checks Make for Tough Interview Questions"
https://cdn.theladders.net/static/images/editorial/weekly/pdfs/tough_interview_questions090729.pdf
"US Government Clearance Form (Nonsensitive)"
https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf85.pdf
Assignment: Find an internship or job at a National Lab that you think you would be interested in. Write a 3-paragraph cover letter to accompany your (imaginary) application. Email me the job or internship posting and your cover letter.
Due: The cover letter for your National Lab job or internship application.
Peter Fiske, "The Commandments of Cover Letter Creation":
http://www.sciencemag.org/careers/1996/12/commandments-cover-letter-creation
Some personal recollections of an industrial job at Bell Helicopter:
http://www.bellhelicopter.com
MONSTER, a general job site (1000 jobs):
http://www.monster.com/jobs/search/?q=computer&where=&where=&&client=classic
CRA, the Computing Research Association website (57 jobs, academic only!):
http://cra.org/
Peter Fiske, "Jobs in Industry versus Jobs in National Labs":
http://www.sciencemag.org/careers/1999/07/jobs-industry-vs-jobs-national-labs
FSU Engineering Day, current list of employers:
http://career.fsu.edu/Students/Events/Engineering-Day
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Jobs:
http://www.jhuapl.edu/employment/
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Internships:
http://www.jhuapl.edu/employment/brochures/SummerInternship.pdf
SIAM Internship and Career Information in Industry, Research
Institutions, and Government Labs:
http://www.siam.org/careers/internships.php
Julio Peironcely, "Leaving Academia: How to Get a Job in Industry After Your PhD:"
http://www.nextscientist.com/job-in-industry-after-your-phd/
K. C. Sockwell, "Should I Stay or Should I Go? Checking Out the Job Market:"
http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~kcs12j/
Bettis Labs job posting:
class07/bettis_job.pdf
D E Shaw job posting:
class07/deshaw_job.pdf
Assignment: Finish your second draft and submit it to me electronically.
Due: Document Draft #2
Susan Ireland, "10 Steps: How to Write a Resume":
http://susanireland.com/resume/how-to-write/
Jung ChemEng, "Resume": class08/resume_chemeng.pdf
Peter Chu, "Resume": class08/resume_chu.pdf
Debarghya Das, "Resume": class08/resume_das.pdf
Maria MarineScientist, "Resume": class08/resume_marinescientist.pdf
John Smith, "Resume": class08/resume_mith.pdf
Dora Farkas, "I just got my PhD: Am I ready for an industrial job?"
http://thepostdocway.com/content/i-just-got-my-phd-am-i-ready-industrial-job
Dora Farkas, "Enhance Your Career Planning Through Networking and LinkedIn"
http://finishyourthesis.com/career-planning/
FSU Career Center, "The First Interview:"
http://career.fsu.edu/content/download/325499/2196396/The%20First%20Job%20Interview.pdf
Zachary Ives, "Interviewing in a Tight Job Market"
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~zives/research/job-article.pdf
Joe Fruscione, "You Have an Interview, Now What?"
http://theprofessorisin.com/2014/05/06/you-have-an-interview-now-what-fruscione-3/
The Interview Guys, "Top 10 Job Interview Questions"
http://theinterviewguys.com/top-10-job-interview-questions/
Some Interview Questions
class08/questions.txt
Assignment: Look at the job descriptions posted for next week's class. Create a resume specifically designed to apply for one such job. You are permitted to assume you have graduated, and to add a few plausible skills and other items to your resume. Send me your resume and mention the job you are after.
Tag-Team Interviews: Students will have mock-interviews for an academic, lab, or industry job. They will be questioned about their resume, suitability for the job, personality, programming skills, and logical thinking. Students should come to class with a resume targeted for one of the following jobs:
Bard College at Simon's Rock:
https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/jobs/8844
Computational Science and Engineering at Lawrence Berkeley Lab:
https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/jobs/8445
Gaming Laboratories International:
https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/jobs/8728
IXL Learning and Math, Engineering Education:
https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/jobs/8767
Mobility Ware:
https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/jobs/8444
National Institute of Standards and Technology:
https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/jobs/8434
Teach Mathematical Biology at St Olaf's College:
https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/jobs/8642
Postdoc in Medical Imaging and Machine Learning:
https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/jobs/8599
Assignment: On a single sheet of paper, draw or type an outline of a poster to accompany your presentation of your document at the final class.
Due: Your poster outline.
Colin Purrington, "Designing conference posters",
http://colinpurrington.com/tips/poster-design
A gallery of 10 posters to judge:
class10/poster_gallery.pdf
The Ten Commandments of Poster Design, as decreed by our class:
class10/poster_commandments.html
Matt Might, "How to get a Great Letter of Recommendation"
http://matt.might.net/articles/how-to-recommendation-letter/
Jud Northbark, "Recommendation For Noah Bottie"
class10/recommendation_sample.pdf
Assignment: Create a poster to accompany your presentation. You should find an appropriate poster format, and the result should be a PDF file.
Due: The PDF of your poster for the Conference on Scientific Communication
Jonathan Shewchuk, "Giving an Academic Talk",
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jrs/speaking.html
Colin Purrington, "Giving Science Talks",
http://colinpurrington.com/tips/science-talks
Michael Ernst, "Giving a technical presentation",
https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~mernst/advice/giving-talk.html
Ian Parberry, "How to present a paper in theoretical computer science:
A speaker's guide for students",
http://larc.unt.edu/ian/pubs/speaker.pdf
A Periodic Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation
class12/cvt_periodic_2016_fsu.pdf
Coursera
https://www.coursera.org
The New York Times, "Harvard and MIT Team Up to Offer Free Online Courses
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/education/harvard-and-mit-team-up-to-offer-free-online-courses.html?_r=0
The New York Times, "Udacity says it can teach skills to millions, and fast"
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/technology/udacity-says-it-can-teach-tech-skills-to-millions.html?_r=0
Udacity, "Checklist for Data Scientist"
class12/data_analyst_checklist.pdf
SIAM: Thinking of a Career in Applied Mathematics?:
http://www.siam.org/careers/thinking.php
Exercise: The "Pick a Packet" Puzzle
class12/packets_puzzle.html
Poster for the conference
class13/scicom.pdf
Due: Final document version.
Contributed presentations:
You can return to the CLASSES web page.
