MATH 485/585-001 - Spring 2008 - Assignments

• Due Tuesday, January 22th: Read the list of proposed modeling projects. Then fill out the form for Student Profile. This information is collected in order to make teams that are as diverse as possible. Teams will be finalized and will be posted on the Web Wednesday, January 23th. This is your first class assigmnet. You either earn full credit by returning the form on Jan. 22th or receive no credit if you do not.


• Due Tuesday, January 29th:
  Read one of the paper given in problems #1, #2, #4 on page 7. Write a one page long report (12pts, double space).
  Page 15, #1, #3, #4, #5.


• Due Tuesday, February 5th: No written homework assigment due this week.
  
  Modelling Projects: Somewhere next week is the time for the end of the initial selecting process. You are supposed to take the reference list of the initial paper(s) listed as a starting point to branch out to read other papers on the same subject. Then you should pick one paper among the ones you have looked (not necessarily the initial one(s) given).
  You better take notes on the contents of each paper you read and on why you decided to work with the particular one you chose. You will need these notes in preparing you final report.
  The first part of your final report will be a detialed description of this selection process: You should report how many paper you read collectively, the rough contents of each of the papers, and your reason to pick the particular paper to work. Roughly every group should read a total number anywhere between 5-10 papers.
  The next phase of the project is for you to try to fully understand the contents of the paper of your selection (in about two weeks) and to reproduce the results of the paper (in another two weeks or so).


• Due Tuesday, February 12th:
  Pages 33-39, #4, #10(1)(4)(6), #12, #16, #19, #20, #22, #23.
  In class: Quiz #1


• Due Thursday, February 21th:
  pages 51-52, #2, #3, #4; also #12, #23 from pages 33-39 if you did not do them last time.


• Due Tuesday, March 4th: Homework 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 at the end the notes on 1D dynamics.
  In Class Quiz #2


• Due Tuesday, March 25th: page 69-70, #2, #3, #5, #7, #8(1)(2).
  In Class Quiz #3
  


• Presentation on Thursday, March 27nd. Team III (Joseph McMahon)


• Because class cancelation this Tuesday, all presentatins are pushed back for one class. The new schedule is as below


• Presentation on Thursday, April 3th. Team V (Robert Jenkins)


• Presentation on Tuesday, April 8th. Team IV (Tom Lagatta)


• Presentation on Thursday, April 10th. Team VI (Carlos Chiquete)


• Presentation on Tuesaday, April 15th. Team II (Chuan Huang)


• Midterm project report: Due one week after the day of presentation

Midterm report should contain the following sections: (I) A list of the papers the entire group read collectively and their contents, and the reasons for your group to choice the particular one. (II) The over all contents of the paper chosen, and its main conclusions. (III) Detailed description of the model and its anslysis. (IV) Reproduction of diagrams and simulation results of the paper. (V) Appendices, such as programs, diagrams, etc, you think worth of submit. (VI) You also need to provided a list of references. (I)-(IV) should be in total 8-10 pages (12pts., double space)


• Due on Tuesday, April 29th: page 84: 1, 3, 4; page 94-95: 2, 3, 4
  In class Quiz #4


• Poster CD due on Wednesday May 7th


• Final project report due on Thursday May 15th.


• Poster session: Monday May 12th, from 4:00-5:30pm. Location: Hallway of math east


• Due on Thursday, May 15th: page 107: 2, 3, 5.