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I've just mailed the company to accept the internship. Thank you for the advice!

Yep, I'm kinda sick of my research topic and the only thing that in the last months (if not year) kept me at the university, besides the desire to put my name on a publication to say "I can do it", is that my phd is paid almost as much as a postdoc, plus benefits. If the company offers more, it...

Thanks for the reply! Despite the monetary cost of the internship, I also tend towards the "do both" option, since the cost could probably be balanced by the skills I will acquire (this company develops a worldwide known engineering software). Actually, when I talked with my advisor, his...

Hi, I'm a double-msc in engineering, now a 3rd year phd student in maths. My main specialty is scientific computing in C++. I got an offer for a 4-6 months internship in a very interesting company, and I don't know whether to accept. Between the decrease in my income (I have to take a leave...

3 months have passed and nothing has changed.. still want to leave. also because, according to my advisor, my PhD won't be over before 2012-3..

Thanks, a very good suggestion indeed. I'll wait until I'm done with the publications I'm preparing, then see if I still want to leave my current position. Maybe it's as you said, I'm realizing that our research is becoming old fashioned before being published and feel a little depressed at the...

I have a job as a RA in applied maths, and in about 1 year will have a couple of publications with good/high industrial relevance. I'm currently enrolled as a PhD student as well, but haven't accomplished any of my graduate duties. I'm very annoyed with the academic lifestyle and want to move to...

Hi, I'm an Engineer and a Ph.D. student in Applied Maths, working in the field of Nonlinear Finite Elements for Elasticity. I often think about my future career since, by now, I have a strong experience with coding FE in C++/Matlab/Mathematica, but no clue whatsoever about commercial black-box...

To complete the statement, the more general problem consists in substituting d_i with a 2-by-2 identity matrix. It can be formulated as follows: a_{ij}(u,v) = \frac{1}{2} (u^T A_{ij} v - d_{ij}) \;\;\; i=1 \ldots m, \;\;\; j=1 \dots 4, where d_{i1} = d_{i2} = 1, d_{i3} = d_{i4} = 0. Then...

Here is an interesting problem I came up with during my research. I first present a slightly simplified version. Let us the define component-wise the following bilinear symmetric form, returning a vector: a_i(u,v) = \frac{1}{2} (u^T A_i v - d_i) \;\;\; i=1 \ldots m where u,v \in V = R^n...

I have no idea, for complex functions there is a standard definition of taking the derivative w.r.t. z and its conjugate, but I don't see how to use this to construct the Hodge Laplacian I'm interested in.

I must admit to have never heard about this criterion before, but from the definition on wikipedia it seems that the answer to this question is yes. So do you think it is possible to apply it to my case? Would it work with the hexagon trivial example? From more googling, it seems that the...

This is the stiffness matrix computed by Matlab: (1, 1) -> -10.851 (4, 1) -> 2.1701 (5, 1) -> 1.0851 (7, 1) -> 2.1701 (8, 1) -> -1.0851 (10, 1) -> 1.0851 (13, 1) -> 2.1701 (14, 1) -> 1.0851 (16, 1) -> 2.1701 (17, 1) -> -1.0851 (19, 1) -> 1.0851 (2...

When you say that it is not possible to use a nonlinear analysis, are you thinking about the following? Say that the nonlinear strain is the following 2x2 tensor (one tensor for each triangle): \epsilon (u) = \nabla u ^T \nabla u However, for small displacements, the linearization is the...

Has anyone ever heard about a Complex Laplace Operator? I would like to build one from first principles as in differential geometry ∆=d*d, where d is the exterior derivative, but I don't know where to start. Actually, I was even unsure in which forum to post the question. If one defines d to...