Perimeter Scholars International — Master’s program in Theoretical Physics
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I was asked to pass this information along to anyone who might be interested:
Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), in partnership with the University of Waterloo, welcomes applications to the Masters level course, Perimeter Scholars International (PSI). Exceptional students with an undergraduate honours degree in Physics, Math, Engineering or Computer Science are encouraged to apply. Students require a minimum of 3 upper level undergraduate or graduate courses in physics. PSI recruits a diverse group of students and especially encourages applications from qualified women candidates. The due date for applications to PSI is February 1st, 2010. Complete details are available at www.perimeterscholars.org.
There’s also a downloadable poster with more information at this link.
– davinci 11855
My depression in Waterloo, part 3: my Master’s degree in computer science
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Published by
davinci on
May 24, 2009 in
autobiography and personal.
Tags: abusive parents, authoritarian parenting, authoritarian parents, bioinformatics, child abuse, depression, information retrieval, Master's degree, Master's thesis, MMath, Programming Language Group, TREC.
Beginning in my second term at the University of Waterloo, I started to work with Dr. Gord Cormack and Dr. Charles Clarke in the Programming Languages Group on some information retrieval problems. (They’re very easygoing and everyone just calls them “Gord and Charlie”, so it feels a little bit strange to refer to them so formally. But I will maintain this level of formality when referring to all of my professors for the sake of consistency.) I also took a course from Dr. Clarke on Automatic Question Answering.
It was quite fortuitous that Dr. Cormack and Dr. Clarke were members of the Programming Languages Group, to which I was thus assigned, along with other graduate students who were researching information retrieval. Programming languages was a topic to which my parents had no objection… » [Expand post]« [Collapse post] [Permalink]