15.094  Robust Modeling, Optimization, and Computation

Subject evaluation reminder

Hi all,

Thanks for the presentations today, it was great have a chance to hear about what you have been working on! Please send the writeups to me if you haven't already.

Another reminder to please fill out the class evaluation if you haven't already, our current response rate is only around 50%. We need your feedback to keep improving the class in the future, and it doesn't take long to fill out, so please try to find the time to do before it closes on Monday at 9am.

Thanks,
Jack

Announced on 17 May 2017  12:34  p.m. by Jack William Dunn

Office hours and presentations

Hi everyone,

Unfortunately I cannot make it to the normal office hours tomorrow, so I will hold them today from 1-2pm.

A reminder to please send your slides for the presentations to me today or tomorrow, and that we will be starting the presentations at 8am on Wed.

We would also appreciate it if you could please fill out the course evaluation if you haven't already

Thanks,
Jack

Announced on 15 May 2017  8:18  a.m. by Jack William Dunn

Course evaluation available

Hi everyone,

I'm sure you are getting plenty of emails about this, but the course evaluation is now available here:

http://web.mit.edu/subjectevaluation/

Dimitris and I would really appreciate your feedback about the class, so please try to find the time to fill out the evaluation. The deadline is Monday, May 22 at 9 am.

Thanks also to those who have already completed it!

Jack

Announced on 09 May 2017  10:23  a.m. by Jack William Dunn

Slides for this week posted

Hi everyone,

Slides for this weeks class have been posted.

Jack

Announced on 07 May 2017  8:13  p.m. by Jack William Dunn

Office hours tomorrow and project deliverables

Hi all,

Unfortunately I can't do office hours tomorrow from 1-2pm again, but instead I will be there 11am-12pm and 3-4pm to make up for missing them yesterday.

The projects are due in class on May 17. We are expecting two deliverables, the presentation in class and a printed writeup.

The writeup should be max 10 pages (plus appendices if required, although all key information should be in the main writeup). We want the writeups to be clear and succinct, and address the following key questions:

1. What is the problem?
2. Why do we care about the problem?
3. What is the data? (if relevant)
4. What is the model?
5. What are the results?

Your writeup should have a section for each of these points that clearly addresses the question.

The presentations will be in class on May 17. In order to get through everyone, we will start early at 8am and run through to 12pm. Each team will have roughly 10-12 minutes to present, so you should aim for roughly 10 slides that address the same five questions as the writeup. We do not expect or want these presentations to be heavy on details, rather we want an higher-level overview of the entire project and your approach that would get others interested in reading your writeup.

Please let me know if there are any questions or concerns about the projects, or come to my office hours to discuss.

Jack

Announced on 03 May 2017  1:22  p.m. by Jack William Dunn