Latex figures disappearing? Why not...

Latex is a fine system but sometimes it have its own quirks. For example yesterday I spend at least one hour trying to figure out where are my figures. Figures are parsed, but then, nothing is placed on the page. Even latex logs were not helping. Today, I know what was the problem -- I had one figure which is together with the previous figure longer than one page. This is normal case for figures. However, I am using the two-column style, the first figure is spanning two columns, the second one just one column. And apparently, if you combine all these aspects together you get -- nothing. Big nothing instead of second figure. And more interestingly, big nothing instead of all successive figures. So, beware of the long figures!

Literal PhD in computer science

Doing PhD in computer science is like being a novelist. All I have to do for next few weeks is

• write workshop paper
• write paper reviews
• write travelgrant statement
• write presentations for our meetings
• write miniproject proposal

Best way to start a PhD

The best way to start a PhD is that your to-be advisor tells you "I took a permanent position in Madrid from the October"