The output of the course will be a short paper of the sort that could be sent to a conference. The paper should consist of a short description of the problem under study and the relevant CDS tools, followed by a preliminary set of results and a description of next steps to be pursued.
| Project |
Faculty sponsor
|
Team |
| Robust Inverse Design with Photonic Bandgap Structures | Hideo Mabuchi and Oskar Painter | Kartik Srinivasan, Demetri Spanos, Kevin McHale, Mike Armen, John Au |
| Synthetic Biology: Genetically-Encoded Finite State Machines | Richard Murray, Michael Elowitz, Christina Smolke | Domitilla Del Vecchio, Mary Dunlop, Jeff Endelman, Jimmy Fung, Shaunak Sen, Wanwan Yang |
| Real-Time Information Theory | Leonard Schulman | Dennice Gayme, Zhipu Jin, Ling Shi, Kevin Tang, Steve Waydo |
| Autonomous Desert Racing | Richard Murray, Joel Burdick, Pietro Perona | Lars Cremean, Sean Humbert, Dmitriy Kogan |
| Planetary Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) | JPL (John Carson) | John Carson, Michael Epstein, Doug MacMartin |
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Week
|
Date | Topic |
|
1
|
31 Mar | Introduction and course overview (104 Watson) |
|
2
|
7 April | First team meeting (104 Watson) |
|
3
|
14 April* | No class |
|
4
|
21 April* | No class |
|
5
|
38 April* | No class |
|
midterm
|
5 May | Project presentations; 10 min each (104 Watson) |
|
7
|
12 May* | No class |
|
8
|
19 May | No class |
|
9
|
26 May* | No class |
|
Final
|
4 June | Final projects reports due |
CDS 273 is a 6 unit course, offered either graded or pass/fail. Each team is expected to complete the following:
Project presentation: each team will make a short (10 min) presentation in week 6 of the class (midterms), describing the focus of their project. Comments on these presentations will be provided to the team for incorporation in the final report.
Final report: each team will prepare a paper describing their work during the term. This should build on the midterm report by including some preliminary results and/or case studies.
In order to complete the work for the term, each team should plan on meeting at least once per week. The first team meeting will be on Wednesday, 7April, at 3:30 pm in 104 Watson (at which time a regular meeting time can be established by the team).