Hi Andre, On Friday, 13 November 2015 20:06:58 UTC+5:30, André Lage wrote: > > hi Rohit, > Cc Nikos Parlavantzas > > There is a master position open at the Myriads Team [1] (in France, but > classes are in English). It's a joint-advisorship: IRISA-INRIA labs > (France) and Federal University of Alagoas (Brazil). > Thanks for letting me know about the position. CloudArray sounds very exciting! However the admissions page states that it requires applicants to have completed one year of master studies, which is a requirement I wouldn't satisfy.
Hi Steven, On Friday, 13 November 2015 22:47:53 UTC+5:30, Steven G. Johnson wrote: > > > As a general rule, you should apply to PhD engineering programs with the > expectation that you can choose your general area of research (e.g. > visualization), but your specific projects will be chosen by your advisor > in the beginning. You can generally spend a certain fraction of your time > on personal projects, and as you become a more senior graduate student you > often have more input in steering your research direction, but your advisor > will typically hire you with projects already in mind for you to work on. > > (Also, as a general tip for admissions: by all means, express an interest > in specific areas of research, but in your application statement you should > appear flexible in what specific problems you want to work on. If you > appear too determined to work on a specific problem, no one will want to > admit you except in the unlikely event that your problem exactly coincides > with a project already in their research program/grants.) > Thanks for some great advice! Hi Alex, On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 04:18:33 UTC+5:30, Alex Mellnik wrote: > > Agreed. I would also note that Julia might be used in a wide range of > graduate fields, from linguistics to economics to computational physics to > math, so if you're only interested in working in Julia you needn't limit > yourself to Comp Sci/Eng unless that's the field you wanted to go into > anyways. > Comp Sci/Eng is the field I want to go into. :)
