Modeling Project

General information

  • The modeling project is optional and to take it you must register.
  • It counts for 25% of the final grade whether you take it or not.
  • In the project you will work on a modeling problem in a group of 4-5 students over a period of 3 weeks.

Tentative time line

  • Registration deadline: 01.10.2014
  • Problems published: 24.10.
  • Preparations: Before 28.10. you should
    • Read the proposals and start thinking about the project.
    • Read carefully the information under 'Modeling project' in left menu.
    • Arrange a meeting in the project group to discuss and possibly divide taskes.
  • Presentation and Questions: 28.10.
  • Help sessions: 28.10. - 11.11.
  • Report Deadline and presentations: 14.11.2014

Tentative Schedule for help sessions:

See also the Questions and Answer page (updated 5/11/2014)

Day Date Time Room People
Tuesday 28.10. 08:15-10:00 R9 Xavier, Espen
Friday 31.10. 14:15-16:00 R9 Torbjørn, Espen
Tuesday 4.11. 08:15-10:00 R9 Torbjørn, Xavier
10:15-11:00 Nullrommet (380B, matteland) Xavier
Friday 7.11. 13:15-14:00 Banachrommet (380B, matteland) Xavier
14:15-16:00 R9 Xavier, Espen
Monday 10.11. 14:15-16:00 Banachrommet (380B, matteland) Torbjørn
Tuesday 11.11. 08:15-10:00 R9
Skype (login: xav.raynaud) / email raynaud [at] math [dot] nntnu [dot] no
Espen, Torbjørn
Xavier

Registration

  • We will have groups of 5 students. You may either register a group of 4 persons, or you may register 1 person without a group.
  • Persons without any group will be added to existing groups to form 5 person groups or new groups will be formed.
  • Register here. Registration is closed.

Problems

Groups

  • The group can exclude anyone not doing their fair share.

Each group delivers

  1. A written note/report 5-10 pages long.
    • Send me (Espen) the report in PDF-format by email.
    • Name the report: ReportG??.pdf where ?? is replaced by group number.

  2. A 6 minutes presentation in front of class (make 4-5 slides)
    • Email the slides (PDF) to me (Espen) at least 1 hour before the presentations starts.
    • Name the file: SlidesG??.pdf where ?? is replaced by group number.
  • Do not use names or candidate numbers! Only group numbers and student numbers of its members.

How to work

  • Manage your time:
    • Expected total time per person: About 3x12=36 hours.
    • Try to plan, focus, and limit the work so that you get some results in the expected time without using many extra hours.
    • Imagine you work in a company and the group is given 3 weeks and 36 hours per member to finish the project (some results, report, presentation). Do your best with these constaints.
  • Focus on one of the projects - at least to begin with. You are not expected to work on all the projects.
  • You can present partial answers and results.
  • Try and fail is ok as long as you do not cover up.
  • You may discuss across the groups, but reports and presentations must be made independently.
  • You may use any literature you find, but you must give references to the source!
  • Do not copy from any source without understanding the material first!

More information (in Norwegian): Guidelines from 2009

Presentations

  • Do not use too much time during your presentation.
  • Language: Norwegian or English
  • Vote for best presentation: Anonymous voting, one group one vote, you can not vote for your own group.
    Counts positively towards the grade.
    • Results: 4 votes: Grp 6, 2 votes: Grp 7 and Grp 10. 12 votes in total.
  • Schedule (Friday 14.11.):
Time Group
14:15-14:21 1
14:22-14:28 2
14:29-14:35 3
14:36-14:42 4
14:43-14:49 5
14:50-14:56 6
14:57-15:03 7
15:04-15:20 Break
15:20-15:26 8
15:27-15:33 9
15:34-15:40 10
15:41-15:47 11
15:48-15:54 12
15:55-16:00 Voting

Grades and Comments

  • The presentations you gave were very nice and for most of you on time. I think you did a very nice job!
  • This year the projects were more open than the previous 4 years:
    • This will be taken into account when we grade the reports/presentations.
2014-12-15, Espen Robstad Jakobsen