Dirk

Braunschweig, Germany

http://regularize.wordpress.com

Professor at TU Braunschweig.

Area: Inverse problems, regularization theory, applied functional analysis, mathematical image processing.

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What is so special about $\alpha=-1$ in the integral of $x^\alpha$?

calculus integration asked Sep 14, 2011 at 9:51

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Why do engineers use the Z-transform and mathematicians use generating functions?

sequences-and-series generating-functions integral-transforms z-transform asked Apr 26, 2012 at 9:39

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42 votes

Do teaching evaluations lead to lower standards in class?

teaching evaluation-criteria course-evaluation asked Apr 4, 2013 at 21:21

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33 votes

When (if ever) disclose your identity as a reviewer?

peer-review publishing asked May 29, 2012 at 20:52

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32 votes

How to welcome new PhD students/postdocs to the group during lockdown?

phd covid-19 research-group asked Oct 24, 2020 at 18:55

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31 votes

Determinants of binary matrices

linear-algebra matrices determinants asked Jan 15, 2019 at 20:04

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30 votes

Are there left-handed wizards in Harry Potter?

harry-potter asked Nov 15, 2015 at 22:11

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27 votes

What do I do if somebody asks me to join his accusation of my colleague of academic misconduct?

publications ethics asked Nov 29, 2016 at 18:10

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23 votes

Metrization of weak convergence of signed measures

pr.probability measure-theory wasserstein-distance asked Jan 30, 2013 at 9:24

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22 votes

How to give homework for integration techniques?

homework software integration asked Feb 17, 2015 at 9:26

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What are your favorite instructional counterexamples?

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What to do about "grade grubbers?"

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Have I embarassed my supervisors by solving a problem that a PhD student in my group was working on without success?

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Mathematical games interesting to both you and a 5+-year-old child

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Proofs that require fundamentally new ways of thinking

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Thesis reviewer requests update to literature review to incorporate last four years of research. Do I need to do this?

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Is '$10$' a magical number or I am missing something?

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How does an Erratum on one's own paper affect one's career as a researcher?

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Is improving a simple algorithm without beating the state of the art still publishable?

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What prevents reviewers from providing biased and very negative reviews?

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What can I do about undergraduate students cheating?

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Are authors of papers okay with receiving questions from people in industry?

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Why are optimization problems often called "programs"?

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Is it true that foreign students have very limited academic prospects in Germany?

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Is it rude not to attend courses which have no attendance requirements?

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What is the difference between Abstract, conclusion and summary?

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What do you do when you're stuck?

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Changes forced by the pandemic

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I'm feeling discouraged after getting tenure; should I quit?

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What is considered appropriate women's attire for a PhD interview in Germany?

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How to handle a common misconception when writing a Master's thesis?

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How to overcome difficulties of social interaction at my first academic conference

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How detailed should proofs be in a mathematical PhD thesis?

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How can I avoid being "the negative one" when giving feedback on statistics?

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What level of audience should one aim for in the introduction of a STEM thesis?

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When and why did conferences pick up the habit of giving out conference bags to attendees?

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I found published results of my mentor to be wrong. How to tell her?

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A sudden smiley? :-)

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