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.
Students with limited background in CDS methods may be interested in taking CDS 104, which is offered concurrently with CDS 273. This course is taught on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2-3 pm in 102 Steele.
| Project |
Faculty sponsor
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Team |
| Aresenic oxidation | Tina Salmassi and Jared Leadbetter | Wanwan Yang, Roman Barco, Istina Mannino, Andy Lamperski |
| Model reduction for in vitro transcriptional circuits | Erik Winfree | Steve Waydo, Tim Jones, Ian Shapiro, Nathan Hodas, Zhipu Jin, Mary Dunlop, Jongmin Kim |
| Coarse-fine modeling of earthquakes | Nadia Lapusta | Katie Whitehead, Jimmy Fung, Xiao Lu, Yi Liu, Jonathan Harel, Doug MacMynowski |
| Spatial patterns in mussel beds | Carlos Robles and Bob Desharnais | Luis Soto, Ling Cao, Ling Shi, Alan Martinez, Jian Liu |
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Week
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Date | Topic |
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1
|
30 Mar | Introduction and course overview (104 Watson) |
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2
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6 April | First team meeting (104 Watson) |
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3
|
13 April* | No class |
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4
|
20 April* | No class |
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5
|
28 April* | No class |
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midterm
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4 May | Project presentations; 10 min each (104 Watson) |
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7
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11 May* | No class |
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8
|
18 May | No class |
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9
|
25 May* | No class |
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Final
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3 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, 6 April, at 3:30 pm in 104 Watson (at which time a regular meeting time can be established by the team).