TMA4265 Stochastic Processes, Autumn 2014

Reference group

First meeting: Wednesday 03.09

Lecture and also speed of the lecture is good. The lecturer may want to try to address the students more.
Exercises are weel structured and good.
Questions raised in emails are fast and well answered.
If exercise problems should be solved with the computer the corresponding R-code should be made available. Maybe also the exercises classes could be used to show more how to use R (if time permits).

Second meeting: Monday 13.10

General: About 40 students visit regularly the lecture and about 10 the excercise classes.
Lectures and exercises are very good and well structured. Both, lecturer and teaching assistant are very well prepared.

Lecture: The handwriting on the blackboard in the lecture is readable. The lecturer may want to use a microphone.
The lecture may profit from more examples illustrating the theoretical concepts. In particular the MCMC section was a bit hard.
Interaction with students during the lecture: Good to give small problems to be discussed with the neighbour and then ask for solution ideas, game-based tools like Kahoot! might be good to try out in order to get feedback from more students.
Maybe give on Monday lectures a short repetition of what was the topic the week before.
Show more R-code and relate more to exam questions.

Exercises: The exercises are very well. It is good to see new examples and get explanations also beyond the things explained in the lecture.

Project: The project was pretty easy, whereby the programming/simulation part was challenging for some students. It was very good to have one week lecture-free in order to focus on the project. Teams of two worked in general very well.

Final meeting: Monday 10.11

Lecture: goes well, good speed, microphone works well, examples are ok
Exercises: well structured, good to see exam questions computed on the blackboard
Exam: question if there will be a summary of the course (overview) before the exam. Yes, in the last lecture!