2025/2026 Research Skills and Projects (MATH61000)

Lecturers: Omar León Sánchez and Marcus Tressl

This course is compulsory for all students on the MSc programme Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Logic and runs over two semesters. There is a Canvas page, but this is only used for submission of the projects.




Timetable

Week Activity
Week 0
Sep 22-26		 Friday 13.00-15.00: Lectures in room Roscoe_1.003, located on the first floor of the Roscoe 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 29 - Oct 3
  • All week: Individual meetings with the lecturer to discuss your selection of the mini-project. Please sign up on our Poll (available after the lectures of week 0) and send an email with at least one suggestion for a mini-project to Omar León Sánchez before your meeting.
  • Monday 11.00-13.00: Lectures in room Nancy Rothwell_3A.057 M&T, located on the third floor of the Nancy Rothwell Building. It can be accessed by the stairs and lifts in Core 3.
Week 2
Oct 6-9		 Write the
mini-project
(about 60 hours)
  • Monday 11.00-13.00: Lectures in room Nancy Rothwell_3A.057 M&T, located on the third floor of the Nancy Rothwell Building. It can be accessed by the stairs and lifts in Core 3.
  • Tuesday: Start working on the mini-project.
  • Thursday: Have a first look at main projects and prospective supervisors using ProjectsMATH61000.pdf.
Week 3
Oct 13-17		 Individual meetings with the lecturer on progress in writing the mini-project and on main project selection.
Please select one slot on our Poll (available after the last lecture in week 2).
Week 4
Oct 20-25
Week 5
Oct 27-31
Week 6
Nov 3-7
Reading week		 Choose main project supervisors and send an email to Omar León Sánchez naming at least two supervisors, along with project titles for a main project in order of your preference. Deadline: Friday, 3pm. Dry run of the presentation of the mini-project with PhD students (no lecturer will be present)
Week 7
Nov 10-14		 Mini-project submission deadline: Friday, 3pm. Please upload the pdf file of the mini-project to Canvas. (This will become available at the beginning of week 7.)
Week 8
Nov 17-21		 Individual presentations of the mini-project. The day and hour of the presentation will be communicated to you via email before the Friday of week 7.
Week 9 Start of the main project. At this point the main project supervisor will take over. Submission deadline is the first day of the exam period of semester 2. Further information may be found in the Slides from the lectures

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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