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Information for Graduate Students

General 140831xm. Information for Graduate Students. Presenter: Jonathon D. White Date: 2014-08-31 Version: alpha. Contents. Expectations for Graduation Funding Levels (as permit) Recommended Software Technical Reports Weekly (Power Point) Bi-annual (Documents – open office)

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Information for Graduate Students

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  1. General 140831xm Type:[ ] Filename:[ ] Information for Graduate Students Presenter: Jonathon D. White Date: 2014-08-31 Version: alpha

  2. Contents • Expectations for Graduation • Funding Levels (as permit) • Recommended Software • Technical Reports • Weekly (Power Point) • Bi-annual (Documents – open office) • Ongoing Projects

  3. Graduation Expectations (Masters) 1 • Idea • Skill • Conference • Journal Paper • Thesis • Disciple

  4. Graduation Requirements (PhD) 4 • Master requirements + • With no qualifying exam, 4 points • = 4 international journal papers (1st author)

  5. Direct Funding (as permit) • Basic • PhD • Funded Project: NT$6000/month • Unfunded Project: NT$2000/month • Master • Funded Project: NT$4000/month • Unfunded Project: NT$2000/month • Undergrad • Funded Project: NT$3000/month • Unfunded Project: NT$1000/month • Accounting: NT$4000/month • Technology for personal lab use: NT$4000 every 6 months w/receipt (i.e. monitor, printer) • Published Journal Paper Increment: >=NT$2000/month • International Conference Support (with published paper) • PhD: $42,000 or more (Directly apply MOST, YZU/MOE) + $20,000 from project • Master: (from YZU/MOE) + NT$20,000 from project • Undergrad: NT$20,000 from project • YZU TA: NT$1000/month

  6. Direct Funding (as permit) – Samples • Starting (Local) Master student working on project with TA Support • Basic Salary (MOST project) NT$4,000 • TA support NT$1,000 • TOTAL NT$5,000 • 2nd Year PhD (local) student handling finances, 1 paper published, and a receipt for purchase of computer monitor • Basic Salary NT$6000 • TA Support NT$1,000 • Published Paper Increment: NT$2,000 • Accounting Increment NT$4,000 • Monitor Purchase NT$3,600 • TOTAL $16,600

  7. Direct Funding (as permit) – Samples • 2nd Year PhD student (international), 1 paper published, • YZU Scholarship NT$12,000 • Basic Salary NT$6000 • TA Support NT$1,000 • Published Paper Increment: NT$2,000 • TOTAL $21,000 • Masters (International) student doing own thing • YZU Scholarship NT$8,000 • Basic Salary NT$2000 • TA Support NT$1,000 • TOTAL NT$11,000

  8. Recommended Software • Publishing and Presentations: • OpenOffice for general word processing, spreadsheets • CorelDraw (12) for diagrams and Posters • Origin (6.0, 6.1, 9) for graphs • Power Point for Presentations • Daily work: • Gantt for Scheduling • Image-J for image analysis • Gnuplot for 2D plots • jEdit for editing ANSI-C gnu compiled programs • ANSI-C for simulation • LabVIEW for device control • Specialized • SDK from Andor for EMCCD • EOS utility for Cannon Camera • HMT BWTek for Ocean Optics Spectrometer

  9. Technical Reports • Weekly (Power Point) • Research (weekly) • Papers (bi-weekly) • Bi-annual Reports (DOC format, as for a published paper) • December 1 and May 1

  10. On Going Projects • Microscopy and Spectroscopy • Triplet state of Conjugated Polymers • Graphene reduction and oxidation • Quenching of Single Polymer emission by Graphene • Light Scattering of nano-objects in thin films • Financial Applications of Physics (Chiu students) • LIFI

  11. Problems & Next Steps

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