As I said before, I’m reading seminal papers for my Ms.C thesis. I still have to choose the topic of the thesis but Prof. Pietracaprina, Prof. Upfal and Prof. Peserico gave me two topics to choose from.
I’ve never said before that I will work on my thesis at Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, starting from October 2008 until June 2009, under the supervision of Prof. Upfal and of one between Prof. Pietracaprina and Prof. Peserico. This is a great chance for me, to have such advisors.
IMHO, every student should make an academic experience in a foreign country, and EU has many projects in this sens (e.g. Erasmus). Too often, these experiences result only in “a nice holyday abroad in cool cities”. Students should understand that they should invest more on the additional value of studying abroad: creating accademic contacts, working on advanced projects, getting in touch with different research realities, and so on.
Anyway, back to the topics. Prof. Pietracaprina suggested working on “Sampling for Association Rules using Closed Frequent Itemset”, while Prof. Peserico suggested: “Birth and development mechanisms of small-world networks”. Prof. Upfal just told me to choose between these topics, or, as he said:”you can even choose not to choose and work on both!”. =)
More on this in the next few days.
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The second sounds better; the option of doing both of them require a choice anyway so is logically wrong
Posted 19 May 2008 at 9:19 pm ¶Aahahah. Giusto Monte =)
Posted 19 May 2008 at 10:23 pm ¶Post a Comment