Questions about navigating logistics, opportunities, and etiquette when visiting an academic institution or colleague.
Questions tagged [visiting]
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How to answer questions *honestly* about some professors from Visit Days students?
We are having Visit Days soon, and we (current grads) are expected to have one-on-one conversations with visiting students with research interests closest to ours. One typical question we get, "How is Prof. X? What is it like working with them?".…
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What's the point of visiting students?
I've started a PhD recently and seen a few students from other universities visit our lab for a few days or maybe few weeks. The other university pays all expenses which many times amount to thousands of dollars. Most of the time, the visiting…
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Arranging a visit to a professor you do not know yet
I am a PhD student in mathematics and I’d like to visit professor X (whom I don’t know personally), as he’s an expert in my field and could really help me with some passages in my research. I have quite a few questions:
How to approach professor X…
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How to contact another PI as a PhD student wishing to discuss their research?
I'm halfway through my PhD and will be visiting another country for a conference. While I am there I would like to talk with some of the local researchers and hopefully visit their labs and discuss their research. I intend to email some of the…
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Asking to visit a university, and be given workspace for a week
We have a few questions on offering to give a talk at a university.
And the general response is that is pretty acceptable.
It is basically asking to be invited as a speaker.
What I am wondering about is:
I am asking to be invited to speak and to be…
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How to know whether a visiting professor will charge the university to present a lecture to academic staff?
In the faculty that I am currently working on we have contacted a Professor who would be giving a workshop in my city. Because of that we have invited him for a meeting for discussing collaboration issues for making research in his area of…
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Visiting Student/Scholar
Can one be titled "Vising Student/Scholar" at a university if one is already graduated from another institute (with BSc/MSc) and is currently not affiliated with any university?
Does one have to pay registration fees, etc.?
In this case, can one…
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