2024/2025 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 16-20		 Friday 13.00-15.00: Lectures (2 hours) in Nancy Rothwell_3A.071 M&T (Third floor of the Nancy Rothwell Building. It can be accessed by the stairs and lifts in Core 4.)

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 23-27
  • Monday and Tuesday: Find a topic for the mini-project using the slides from the lectures.
  • Wednesday 14.00-16.00: Lectures (2 hours) in Stopford_TH 5 (located on the second floor of the Stopford Building.)
  • All week: Individual meetings with the lecturer to discuss your selection of the mini-project. Please sign up on our Poll (available after Sep. 20) and send an email with at least one suggestion for a mini-project to Marcus Tressl before your meeting.
Week 2
Sept 30 - Oct 4		 Write the
mini-project
(about 60 hours)
  • Tuesday: Start working on the mini-project.
  • Wednesday 16.30-18.30: Lectures (2 hours) in the Alan Turing Building, Frank Adams room 1 (located on the first floor next to the kitchen.)
  • Thursday: Have a first look at main projects and prospective supervisors using ProjectsMATH61000.pdf.
Week 3
Oct 7-11		 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 Oct. 2).
Week 4
Oct 14-18
Week 5
Oct 21-25
Week 6
Oct 28 - Nov 1
Reading week		 Choose main project supervisors and send an email to Marcus Tressl 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 4-8		 Mini-project submission deadline: Friday, 3pm. Please upload the pdf file of the mini-project to the "Mini-Project Submission" box under "Assessment & Feedback" on BlackBoard.
Week 8
Nov 11-15		 Individual presentations of the mini-project. The day and hour of the presentation will be communicated to you via email before November 8.
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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