2022/2023 Research Skills and Projects (MATH61000)

Lecturer: Marcus Tressl

This course is compulsory for all students on the MSc programme Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Logic and runs over two semesters.




Timetable

Week Activity
Week 0
Sep 19-23		 Friday: Lectures 11.00-13.00 in room G.113 of the Alan Turing Building.

After the lecture, please familiarize yourself with mathematical typesetting: In order to typeset mathematics we will use LaTeX. If you do not have LaTeX installed on your computer, please install it. To do so install the following two programs:
  • MikTeX, available for Windows, Mac and Linux for free at https://miktex.org/.
  • TeXStudio, available for Windows, Mac and Linux for free at https://texstudio.org/.
  • Typeset a first LaTeX page on a topic of your choice.
More detailed information may be found in the slides from the lectures.
Week 1
Sep 26 - 30
  • Monday: Lectures 15.00-17.00 in Roscoe 4.8, which is located on the fourth floor of the Roscoe Building (Google Maps).
  • Monday-Thursday: Find a topic for the mini-project using the slides from the lectures.
  • Monday-Thursday: Individual meetings with the lecturer to discuss your selection of the mini-project. Please sign up on our Doodle Poll and send an email with at least one suggestion for a mini-project to Marcus Tressl before your meeting.
  • Friday: Start working on the mini-project.
Week 2
Oct 3-7		 Write the
mini-project
(about 60 hours)
  • Monday: Lectures 15.00-17.00 Roscoe 4.8, which is located on the fourth floor of the Roscoe Building (Google Maps).
  • Tuesday: Have a first look at main projects and a prospective supervisor using ProjectsMATH61000.pdf
Week 3
Oct 10-14		 Individual meetings with the lecturer on progress in writing the mini-project and on main project selection.
Week 4
Oct 17-21
Week 5
Oct 24-28
Week 6
Oct 31-Nov 4
Reading week		 Choose main projects and send an email to Marcus Tressl of at least two main projects in order of your preference. Dry run of the presentation of the mini-project with PhD students (no lecturer will be present)
Week 7
Nov 7-11		 Mini-project submission deadline: Friday, 3pm. Please send the mini-project file(s) via email to Marcus Tressl.
Week 8
Nov 14-18		 Individual presentations of the mini-project
Week 9 Start of the main project. At this point the main project supervisor will take over.

The marks of the mini-project will be released with the first semester marks and students will receive feedback, including feedback on the week 8 presentation.

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