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That's a minus^2gaugeinvariance wrote: ↑Fri Sep 18, 2020 11:56 amI am an international student (I think the situation will make things even worse ). Do nationality also affect the results?
Because you have multiple interests, I recommend looking for schools that have people in at least a few of your interests, not just one or two. This will help you thin out the list and guarantee that you have options if something falls through.gaugeinvariance wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 3:02 amThank you for your reply. Now that's a problem, I search through and create the list when I look through those schools which are popular and I look for the staffs which are having research area interest in numerical simulation and computation. Of course they should match what I am interested in (High energy, compact object, relativistic, numerical GR...) That problem that I faced is that I do not know whether that particular department is a "good" department in terms of my research interests. Numerical GR is only one of my interest and I am not limited to that (Basically because it is a niche field).
I generally recommend looking at individual professors and ignoring department rankings. If you look at the PhD supervisors of Hubble/Einstein fellows, they tend to come from the same one or two professors at each department. There are plenty of such supervisors at schools with lower astronomy rankings that will lead you to equal or better careers than many Harvard/Caltech professors. Find professors you are interested in and look at their CV, they often list where their past students ended up. That is the metric that counts.geekusprimus wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 4:34 pmBecause you have multiple interests, I recommend looking for schools that have people in at least a few of your interests, not just one or two. This will help you thin out the list and guarantee that you have options if something falls through.gaugeinvariance wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 3:02 amThank you for your reply. Now that's a problem, I search through and create the list when I look through those schools which are popular and I look for the staffs which are having research area interest in numerical simulation and computation. Of course they should match what I am interested in (High energy, compact object, relativistic, numerical GR...) That problem that I faced is that I do not know whether that particular department is a "good" department in terms of my research interests. Numerical GR is only one of my interest and I am not limited to that (Basically because it is a niche field).
To find out if a department is particularly strong, there are a few things you can do. You can consult online rankings (US News, URAP, and THE are the easiest to parse, although QS and CWUR break it down into more fields), which aren't 100% helpful, but they're a good place to start. Ones that are more or less popularity contests (US News) really don't vary considerably from ones that are based on research output (URAP). To figure out if a school is particularly strong in a subject, your best bet is to talk to people in the field, both faculty and students. Sometimes you'll find out that a particular faculty member isn't actually a great person to work with, or perhaps they're nearing retirement and not taking on new students.
That is a good idea, although if you are going that route I suggest you sort by citation count on ADS and look at the most important papers from the last 10 or so years. Since those categories have so many publications, sorting by citations will help you see who is doing the most impactful work.gaugeinvariance wrote: ↑Fri Sep 25, 2020 7:22 amThank you geekusprimus and HubbleBubble's suggestion. In particular, both of you did mention one critical thing that lead me to another idea. geekusprimus mentioned searching through some existing database to search for schools and narrow down the list, and HubbleBubble advise me to look for good supervisior.
I am thinking whether I can do the following:
Well after a detail thought, I think I will narrow down my interest towards computational astrophysics involving general-relativistic fluid simulation of compact objects, for example: Black hole, neutron stars, GRMHD, numerical relativity, etc... In anyway, I am interested in simulating fluid dynamics with GR effects on astrophysical compact object involving high energy effect
I am thinking would it be OK to search in arxiv, the corresponding keywords (GRMHD, numerical relativity, simulation, etc...) to search for who and which schools do provide such research projects to narrow down the list?
Thank you