Honors Program Schedule

Sept 28: First meeting

Oct 12: E-mail (to TA and Professor) commitment from advisor, short description
1-2 paragraphs about project, 2qtr or 3qtr?

Oct 22-26: Project proposal presentations (to be scheduled through Google
Calendar, TA will send out details). Each presentation will be of 15 minutes:
5 min presentation of project idea (3-4 slides)
2 min presentation about project checkpoints
8 min feedback from the Professor and TA

Guidelines about project plan:
For 2 qtr projects:
By end of first quarter, MUST have something to measure for projects
involving software/hardware (most projects);
For pure theory projects (very few), MUST have proved/disproved at least
one conjecture you made
For 3 qtr projects:
same as above, but replace the end of first quarter by the beginning of 2nd quarter (i.e. Jan)

Nov 13-16:  Arrange special meeting with advisor to discuss progress:
Ask the question -- am I on track?  Do I need to scale down the project
goals?

Nov 16: Send an email (to TA and Professor) with progress summary & revisions to goals if any

Dec 7: Checkpoint1 slides due (3-4 slides), should send to advisor,
and upload (see TA for details)

Jan 14-18: Checkpoint1 talks - 5 min presentation
SERIOUS review of goals, revision of goals

Feb 19-22: 2qtr students: Meet with advisor to seriously review progress,
last-minute changes to plan (including extend to 3qtr).  Send email with
progress summary & revisions to goals if any.

Mar 10-14: Thesis due for 2qtr students

Mar 14:  Checkpoint2 slides (3-4) due for 3qtr students

Apr 7-11: Checkpont2 talks (5 mins)

May 5-9:  (Same as Feb19-22)

June 2-6: Final talks (10 mins); thesis due