A rare post in French on a conference I gave last year on the status of author taken by students, mainly in the context of
Category: Gradute students
Warning, may contain…a PhD
[This post was originally published over 6 years ago. It is still extremely relevant!] Recently saw a comment by a student about not being advised
The reviewers are always right…even when they are wrong!-
Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer
Free, multi-platform pro-like applications for students
In the following are a few applications to help you along the way. Of course, nothing precludes the good old pen and paper
Université Laval medical physics professors and students in action at AAPM2017
This week, our students and faculty are involved in 17 presentations at the AAPM meeting in Denver, Colorado. This include Best In Physics (Therapy) Marie-Ève
Advice to new graduate students
Invest time in learning tasks/project management – start here. Review all of your tasks/next action weekly Set time aside to review your projects/goals on a
A 75 min presentation on Organizing Creativity
From the author of Organizing Creativity, Daniel Wessel, here come an overview of the book in 75 minutes! As I have said before, this is
O Captain! my Captain!
To Jean Pouliot (1958-2015) Berkeley 1985 (left) and more recently (right) The title of this post is from a wonderful and powerful poem by Walt
Business management meet student mentoring
There is Nothing so Unequal as the Equal Treatment of Unequals – Leadership and the One Minute Manager If someone would have told me 15 years
The thrill of abstract submission deadlines
Goals are dreams with deadlines. – Diana Scharf Hunt The last few days our research group has been literally perturbed by a deadline for abstract submission
The “me too” works…
Over the last few years, I notice (though it might be anecdotal since I haven’t done a thorough review) that the less original content is
180 seconds to explain your thesis work?
We have all heard of the 30 seconds elevator pitch. In fact, if you search for those terms in Google, you will get over a
En route to ESTRO 33
Traveling with colleagues and students to one of the major scientific meeting in our field. Year after year, one word come to mind: exciting!
Warning, may contain a PhD
Recently saw a comment by a student about not being advised before hand that doing a PhD had many difficulties and challenges. However, my first
PhD thesis examination: you are the expert, behave like one!
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. – Niels Bohr Quite interestingly graduate studies
Ruminating... 