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    Math Double MSc Engineering PhD Student Seeking Advice on Internship

    I've just mailed the company to accept the internship. Thank you for the advice!
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    Math Double MSc Engineering PhD Student Seeking Advice on Internship

    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...
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    Math Double MSc Engineering PhD Student Seeking Advice on Internship

    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...
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    Math Double MSc Engineering PhD Student Seeking Advice on Internship

    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...
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    Leaving Academia for Industry: Is a PhD Necessary?

    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..
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    Leaving Academia for Industry: Is a PhD Necessary?

    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...
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    Leaving Academia for Industry: Is a PhD Necessary?

    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...
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    Does a Distributed Mass Pendulum Stay Straight When Released from a Right Angle?

    Homework Statement A pendulum of length L has a distributed mass density r. Let the gravity be g and the initial angle pi/2, measured with respect to vertical. Will the pendulum remain straight when released from this configuration? Homework Equations None. The Attempt at a Solution...
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    Membrane locking and CST triangle

    I often read on books that linear triangles do not have membrane locking for large deformations of plates/shells. I completely don't understand how this is possible. If one uses the well-known CST, stretching is measured as the increase in length of each edge of the triangle. Then, in the limit...
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    Kinetic energy of a continuum system

    Homework Statement Consider a rubber band living in the plane and having a uniform density, whose endpoints are V1 and V2. The rubber band passes through a runner without mass, inside which it can slide in a frictionless manner. The runner can assume any arbitrary position E in the plane...
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    From PhD to Industry: Exploring a Career in Computational Mechanics

    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...
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    Kernel of a quadratic form

    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...
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    Kernel of a quadratic form

    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...
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    How to Build Complex Laplace Operator from First Principles

    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.
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    Is the Kinematics of 3D Space Truss Affected by Closed Loops in the System?

    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...
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