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    Schools Choices About Grad School in Math

    Thanks for the replies folks, I feel a lot more validated about leaning toward the staying-for-my-master's idea. Especially since I'm sure I can get a good master's supervisor.
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    How to find good people in a field?

    Now you might have me there, I haven't experienced any exclusion or fees, myself. If you really wanted to get into that one you could probably email the organizers. Provided their contact info is posted somewhere.
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    How to find good people in a field?

    I was recently in a situation similar to yours and found a solution quite by accident. If your university or one near you hosts a conference, go to it. Even though I didn't understand anything at the conference I went to it showed me who's doing what, who has their name on everything, and, as a...
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    Schools Choices About Grad School in Math

    I couldn't find anything in the search to quite fit my situation and you guys seem to know your stuff. Take a crack at this one. I'm a senior in a big commuter state school with an extremely decent, PhD granting math department. Decent, not stellar; the thing is that most of our faculty is...
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    What is the significance of Cuniculus in animal binomial nomenclature?

    I decided to be clever and name my computer Cuniculus (so the prompt will be [oryctolagus@cuniculus], hurr). I've always explained that my handle was the genus to which the European rabbit belonged. So what is cuniculus? The species to which the Euopean rabbit belongs? The reason why I ask is...
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    Which path should I choose: Mathematician or Theoretical Computer Scientist?

    Which scientist am I!? I've searched my tail off for someone with my problem to no avail, and, noticing this community seemed to be full of decent people with whom I could get along, decided to give it up and just ask. Please excuse the life story. I attend a fairly lame public college that...
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