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【西南交大给博士生“涨工资”最高3000元】 西南交大给博士生“涨工资”最高3000元 2012年03月20日 08:30 四川在线-华西都市报 西南交通大学大幅提高奖助学金,全校800多名全日制博士生受益 ●奖助学金每人每月分别提高到3000元、2200元、1600元 ●此举是为了提高博士生的培养质量,同时吸引更多的优质生源 现状 博士生“压力山大” 外出兼职赚生活费 昨日,记者从西南交通大学研究生院获悉,该校将大幅度提高全日制博士生的奖助学金标准,由之前的每人每月1500元、1200元、1000元分别提高到3000元、2200元、1600元,三个等级奖助学金获奖人数分别占博士生总人数比例的15%、50%和35%,资助覆盖面达到100%。 据了解,标准提高后,西南交大对全日制博士生的资助水平在全国高校中居于前列。近日,该校800多名全日制博士生便可拿到这笔助学金。 西南交大研究生院表示,此举是为了提高博士生的培养质量,同时吸引更多的优质生源到该校攻读博士学位。 电气工程学院博士生崔诚斌今年27岁,这是他攻读博士的第三年。他用“压力山大”来形容自己的博士生涯:“年纪大了,不可能再跟父母要生活费了;全脱产攻读博士,一个月的补助不够维持生活;有女友,即将面临着成家立业的问题……” 崔诚斌告诉记者,班上的同学几乎都是这样的状态,经济压力成了他们最大的问题。崔诚斌说,学校的补助,加上帮助导师做研究的费用,可以勉强够生活。但导师项目不多的时候,他们就需要“自谋生路”,外出兼职。他认为,读博做研究需要沉下心去,兼职肯定会影响到读博的质量,但迫于生活压力,绝大多数博士生都有或多或少的兼职。 措施 提高奖助学金标准 最高每月3000元 “博士生面临着经济和学术的双重压力,确实非常不易。”西南交大校长助理、研究生院院长冯晓云说。同时,在国家财政性教育经费支出将占国内生产总值的4%,学校办学经费有望增加之后,西南交大坚持将钱用在刀刃上。 该校研究生院决定,从今年1月份起,除继续对全日制博士生100%奖励全额学费作为奖学金外,还将他们的助学金标准由之前的每人每月1500元、1200元、1000元,分别提高到3000元、2200元、1600元。其中,三个等级奖助学金获奖人数分别占博士生总人数比例的15%、50%和35%,资助覆盖面达到100%。 在确定最高标准为3000元之前,西南交大研究生院对成都市的生活成本和硕士毕业工资状况做了一个调查,“3000元不会比硕士生毕业工资低太多,也能满足在成都生活的基本开销。” 目的 提高博士生培养质量 吸引优质生源 去年12月,西南交大清退了一大批延期博士。之后,还推进实施了诸如设立博士生创新基金、建立博士学位论文标准和博士学位论文质量监控体系、开展博士学位论文质量抽样评估等一系列举措,而此次提高博士生奖助学金标准也是该校系列举措之一。 “清退延期博士生就是把一些不适合在这块土地上生长的树苗拔掉,提高奖学金比例就是为树苗施肥浇水,提高营养,论文质量监控就是防治病虫害。”冯晓云说,“此项措施最主要的目的就是希望提高博士生的培养质量,同时吸到更多的优质生源前来攻读博士学位。” 陈勇 华西都市报记者 张菲菲
Terence Tao: Does one have to be a genius to do maths? Does one have to be a genius to do mathematics? The answer is an emphatic NO. In order to make good and useful contributions to mathematics, one does need to work hard, learn one’s field well, learn other fields and tools, ask questions, talk to other mathematicians, and think about the “big picture”. And yes, a reasonable amount of intelligence, patience, and maturity is also required. But one does not need some sort of magic “genius gene” that spontaneously generates ex nihilo deep insights, unexpected solutions to problems, or other supernatural abilities. The popular image of the lone (and possibly slightly mad) genius – who ignores the literature and other conventional wisdom and manages by some inexplicable inspiration (enhanced, perhaps, with a liberal dash of suffering) to come up with a breathtakingly original solution to a problem that confounded all the experts – is a charming and romantic image, but also a wildly inaccurate one, at least in the world of modern mathematics. We do have spectacular, deep and remarkable results and insights in this subject, of course, but they are the hard-won and cumulative achievement of years, decades, or even centuries of steady work and progress of many good and great mathematicians; the advance from one stage of understanding to the next can be highly non-trivial, and sometimes rather unexpected, but still builds upon the foundation of earlier work rather than starting totally anew. (This is for instance the case with Wiles‘ work on Fermat’s last theorem, or Perelman‘s work on the Poincaré conjecture.) Actually, I find the reality of mathematical research today – in which progress is obtained naturally and cumulatively as a consequence of hard work, directed by intuition, literature, and a bit of luck – to be far more satisfying than the romantic image that I had as a student of mathematics being advanced primarily by the mystic inspirations of some rare breed of “geniuses”. This “cult of genius” in fact causes a number of problems, since nobody is able to produce these (very rare) inspirations on anything approaching a regular basis, and with reliably consistent correctness. (If someone affects to do so, I advise you to be very sceptical of their claims.) The pressure to try to behave in this impossible manner can cause some to become overly obsessed with “big problems” or “big theories”, others to lose any healthy scepticism in their own work or in their tools, and yet others still to become too discouraged to continue working in mathematics. Also, attributing success to innate talent (which is beyond one’s control) rather than effort, planning, and education (which are within one’s control) can lead to some other problems as well. Of course, even if one dismisses the notion of genius, it is still the case that at any given point in time, some mathematicians are faster, more experienced, more knowledgeable, more efficient, more careful, or more creative than others. This does not imply, though, that only the “best” mathematicians should do mathematics; this is the common error of mistaking absolute advantage for comparative advantage. The number of interesting mathematical research areas and problems to work on is vast – far more than can be covered in detail just by the “best” mathematicians, and sometimes the set of tools or ideas that you have will find something that other good mathematicians have overlooked, especially given that even the greatest mathematicians still have weaknesses in some aspects of mathematical research. As long as you have education, interest, and a reasonable amount of talent, there will be some part of mathematics where you can make a solid and useful contribution. It might not be the most glamorous part of mathematics, but actually this tends to be a healthy thing; in many cases the mundane nuts-and-bolts of a subject turn out to actually be more important than any fancy applications. Also, it is necessary to “cut one’s teeth” on the non-glamorous parts of a field before one really has any chance at all to tackle the famous problems in the area; take a look at the early publications of any of today’s great mathematicians to see what I mean by this.
Terence Tao: Does one have to be a genius to do maths? Does one have to be a genius to do mathematics? The answer is an emphatic NO. In order to make good and useful contributions to mathematics, one does need to work hard, learn one’s field well, learn other fields and tools, ask questions, talk to other mathematicians, and think about the “big picture”. And yes, a reasonable amount of intelligence, patience, and maturity is also required. But one does not need some sort of magic “genius gene” that spontaneously generates ex nihilo deep insights, unexpected solutions to problems, or other supernatural abilities. The popular image of the lone (and possibly slightly mad) genius – who ignores the literature and other conventional wisdom and manages by some inexplicable inspiration (enhanced, perhaps, with a liberal dash of suffering) to come up with a breathtakingly original solution to a problem that confounded all the experts – is a charming and romantic image, but also a wildly inaccurate one, at least in the world of modern mathematics. We do have spectacular, deep and remarkable results and insights in this subject, of course, but they are the hard-won and cumulative achievement of years, decades, or even centuries of steady work and progress of many good and great mathematicians; the advance from one stage of understanding to the next can be highly non-trivial, and sometimes rather unexpected, but still builds upon the foundation of earlier work rather than starting totally anew. (This is for instance the case with Wiles‘ work on Fermat’s last theorem, or Perelman‘s work on the Poincaré conjecture.) Actually, I find the reality of mathematical research today – in which progress is obtained naturally and cumulatively as a consequence of hard work, directed by intuition, literature, and a bit of luck – to be far more satisfying than the romantic image that I had as a student of mathematics being advanced primarily by the mystic inspirations of some rare breed of “geniuses”. This “cult of genius” in fact causes a number of problems, since nobody is able to produce these (very rare) inspirations on anything approaching a regular basis, and with reliably consistent correctness. (If someone affects to do so, I advise you to be very sceptical of their claims.) The pressure to try to behave in this impossible manner can cause some to become overly obsessed with “big problems” or “big theories”, others to lose any healthy scepticism in their own work or in their tools, and yet others still to become too discouraged to continue working in mathematics. Also, attributing success to innate talent (which is beyond one’s control) rather than effort, planning, and education (which are within one’s control) can lead to some other problems as well. Of course, even if one dismisses the notion of genius, it is still the case that at any given point in time, some mathematicians are faster, more experienced, more knowledgeable, more efficient, more careful, or more creative than others. This does not imply, though, that only the “best” mathematicians should do mathematics; this is the common error of mistaking absolute advantage for comparative advantage. The number of interesting mathematical research areas and problems to work on is vast – far more than can be covered in detail just by the “best” mathematicians, and sometimes the set of tools or ideas that you have will find something that other good mathematicians have overlooked, especially given that even the greatest mathematicians still have weaknesses in some aspects of mathematical research. As long as you have education, interest, and a reasonable amount of talent, there will be some part of mathematics where you can make a solid and useful contribution. It might not be the most glamorous part of mathematics, but actually this tends to be a healthy thing; in many cases the mundane nuts-and-bolts of a subject turn out to actually be more important than any fancy applications. Also, it is necessary to “cut one’s teeth” on the non-glamorous parts of a field before one really has any chance at all to tackle the famous problems in the area; take a look at the early publications of any of today’s great mathematicians to see what I mean by this.
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