TMA4195 Mathematical Modelling - Fall 2020
The course description can be found here.
| 29.06.2020 | Welcome to Mathematical Modelling. It seems as it is enough space in the course's auditorium KJ2 to honor covid-19 restrictions, so this fall's teaching will be given physically twice a week for all participants. Use the links to the left hand side for information about the course. |
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| 10.08.2020 | First lecture is held Wednesday August 19 at 0815-1000 in GL-KH KJL2. Welcome! |
| 10.08.2020 | It is now decided that all lectures will be recorded. |
| 18.08.2020 | For now, the lectures will not be streamed, but made available under "Lecture Plan" (left menu) some time after the lecture. |
| 18.08.2020 | Concerning the corona situation. See here for instructions for attendance at lectures. The part about manual registration of attendance is outdated. Instead, students attending a lecture must register electronically (phone or PC) using a QR-code or URL-link given at the start of the lecture. |
| 18.08.2020 | The full compendium for the course can be downloaded from TMA4195's Blackboard page. Apart from this, we do not use Blackboard in this course. |
| 18.08.2020 | In due time, a digital forum for communication (Piazza?) will be established. |
| 18.08.2020 | Concerning the recording of the lectures: Due to the General Data Protection Regulation - GDPR (personvern), we are obliged to have the consent of the students for filming the lectures as some students might recognizable. We really do need to tape the lectures, so anyone not wanting to appear on film please seat yourself appropriately in the auditorium. The camera will be situated centrally in the back of the auditorium. |
| 19.08.2020 | To be clear: Even though the project is optional, you will get at most 75% score for the final grade if you don't participate. |
| 19.08.2020 | Notes, slides, and tape of the lecture will appear in "Lecture Plan" in the left menu. It might be a little delayed this first week. |
| 19.08.2020 | Everyone is strongly encouraged to meet in due time for the lecture. Coming late degrades the quality of the videos that are taped, and also we need the full time for getting through the course material. However, if you for some reason arrive late, please sneak very quietly in and try to avoid the camera as much as possible. Also, as the sound is taped from the room, I would appreciate as little noise as possible in class. Also, latecomers must register their attendance in the break. |
| 24.08.2020 | Solutions to Exercise set 1 has been corrected and updated. |
| 25.08.2020 | The subsection 'Exercise class' has been added to "Exercises" (left menu). Links to next Zoom meeting will be updated regularly. |
| 08.09.2020 | We now have a student representative for the Reference group. Please contact her (see menu) for any issues you would like to express in this course. Or, of course, take directly contact with me. The first Reference group meeting is scheduled to Wednesday next week. |
| 16.09.2020 | Due to the Corona situation, the grading procedure is modified. Instead of the 75% exam/25% project key for the final grade, the project will count 30% if the project grade is better than the exam grade. If the project grade is worse than the exam grade, the project grade will only count 10% in your final grade. |
| 28.09.2020 | The project is due to start in week 44. The groups will preferably consist of 5 persons. You can sign up either by sending me a mail with 5 names (or less) for a group, or you can sign up individually and I'll put you in a group. For those of you taking the course from abroad, you will have to cooperate with the group through Zoom or some other application. You'll find my e-mail address here. Please inform me if you are taking the course from abroad (or off campus). |
| 09.10.2020 | In week 43 (last week before project starts) I will lecture on topics related to the project. So, the lecturing of the regular curriculum for Mathematical Modelling will finish in week 42. |
| 19.10.2020 | On Wednesday 21.10 the reference group meets with me again. Please tell Sofie (see Reference group on the left) if there is anything you want to bring to the table. |
| 20.10.2020 | So far 47 students have signed up for the project. Deadline for registration is 22.10.2020 |
| 20.10.2020 | I have been instructed by the Institute to cancel tomorrow's lecture due to that one student is testing for covid. Xavier will lecture over Zoom on Monday as informed in the Project page. All participants should have received a mail from me concerning this. |
| 21.10.2020 | With regards to the coming exam, the working plan is to have a standard regular school exam if possible. If so, we are also discussing the possibility of having a continuation exam in January for those who missed regular exam because of quarantine or isolation. For students taking the course from abroad, a digital oral exam must be arranged. At any rate, the exam situation is presently highly uncertain, but hopefully we will have more certainty soon. Stay tuned. |
| 22.10.2020 | The project is now published, see Project page. |
| 23.10.2020 | You can find the groups I have set up for the project on the Project page. Hopefully everyone who signed up is included. Tell me if something has gone wrong. All students who wanted to do the project together have been honored, possibly with one extra student in the group. Best of luck! |
| 24.10.2020 | The project group Excel sheet has been updated. Also the deadline for the project has been corrected to 16.11.2020. |
| 26.10.2020 | As agreed on today, groups 1-8 meet at Wednesday 28.10, and groups 9-16 on Monday 02.11, and so forth. We will also set up a Piazza page for questions and answers. |
| 27.10.2020 | I have set up a Piazza Forum for the project. See Project page. |
| 28.10.2020 | The Institute for Mathematical Sciences has decided that this fall's exam in TMA4195 is to be arranged as a traditional written school exam with standard grading, given today's situation. We plan also to give an extra exam early in January for those of you who are prevented from meeting at the ordinary exam. The exam will be arranged in a safe manner, and NTNU cooperates with the municipality (kommune) and health authorities to ensure this. In case you have any questions or concerns related to the exam in the context of the corona situation do not contact me, but use the e-mail korona [at] math [dot] ntnu [dot] no. |
| 29.10.2020 | A couple of misprints in the project description are reported in the errata section in the Project page. |
| 03.11.2020 | I have provided a link to a relevant paper which might be helpful. See Project page. |
| 04.11.2020 | As you probably have heard, there will be home exams at NTNU. This is very unfortunate, and as you hopefully understand, the exam will not be graded. The only possible results will be "passed" or "not passed". Also I understand this demotivates the effort you put into the project from now. Of course, the project will count in the final evaluation, but consequently only for saving a "not passed" on the home exam. |
| 08.11.2020 | Following NTNU's recommendations, the remaining help sessions will be carried out over Zoom. Link will be posted on the project page. |
| 09.11.2020 | The group presentations are cancelled this year due to the current situation. |
| 10.11.2020 | A final help session for all groups is available over Zoom, this Wednesday from 12:15-14:00. See project page for link. |
| 11.11.2020 | You can send me your project reports (pdf) by mail to me before 17.11.2020. Please write the names and student numbers in the report of all participants in your group. When I receive your report, I'll return a mail of confirmation. |
| 12.11.2020 | Just to be clear. You may use your candidate number in the reports instead of student number. |
| 19.11.2020 | The home exam will be as traditional as possible, where the exam answers are scanned and uploaded by you. Additional time will be given for scanning and uploading. Stay put for more details. |
| 23.11.2020 | Help sessions on Zoom will be available this Wednesday 13:00-14:00, and next week (week 49) Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 13:00-14:00. Link will be available under 'Exercises'. |
| 25.11.2020 | Please read this to prepare for uploading your exam answers. We plan to present the exam as a single exercise so that you only need to upload one single document. The exam text will be attached to the exercise as a document. |
| 26.11.2020 | See here for the header (or first) page for the upcoming exam. Be sure to read it thoroughly. Here is a screen shoot of how the exam will look like in Inspera. Down in the left corner you find buttons for the First Page (same as the one you have here) and the actual exercises for the exam. |
| 03.12.2020 | The administration wanted me to change the look of the Inspera page that meets you when starting the exam. Now you get the full exam and link for downloading by pressing exercise 1 at the bottom of the page. See updated link in the above message. |
| 07.12.2020 | Todays exam. Solution proposal |