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[An OT question as somebody not familiar with the academic world] Two of the authors are in a Chinese university. Two of them in different departments in a US
by lovelearning 8y ago
[An OT question as somebody not familiar with the academic world]
Two of the authors are in a Chinese university. Two of them in different departments in a US university. In general, how does this kind of intercontinental collaboration start, and how do they progress? How are roles defined when multiple people are involved in a theoretical paper like this? Are there some tools that help with collaborative paper writing?
- rhema 8y agoLots of ways. Typically people meet through conferences, where high-impact work is published. It's also not uncommon for researchers to cold-email each other based on mutual interest or friend-of-friend connection. Things like Google Scholar can be used to get emails about when your papers get cited, so this can spur some discussion / collaboration as well. Honestly, you could email an author on this paper and they would probably tell you directly.
- auntienomen 8y agoYau is the connection. He's a professor at Harvard, but he's also been a major force in the development of Chinese mathematical academic institutions. He's the director of several of them.
- randcraw 8y agoAnd Gu got his PhD in CS at Harvard in computational geometry. Yau teaches differential geometry there.