An independent semester-long final project is a major part of the course. The topic must be related to current physics research appearing in some recently published journal article. The project must develop a sufficiently advanced C/C++ computer program to solve the problem and use multiple numerical methods related to the course. An in-class oral presentation and a written report plus C/C++ source code that functions on the ISAAC HPSC computing cluster, program output, and citation of the related journal article are required. (Use of Python for Machine Learning projects can be considered for possible approval on a case-by-case basis.) The project should be considerably more advanced than homework problems, independently developed by the student during this semester, and not developed directly as part of a student's research group work. The project topic and approach must be approved by February 23. Project in-class oral presentations will be made throughout the month of April with only a limited number of slots per day. Presentations are scheduled on a first-come basis and must be scheduled by March 30. Reserving early can avoid being scheduled sooner than desired. More details are provided during the course.
Final project grading rubric:
Full approval for project proposal received by February 23 deadline, based on previous individual meetings with professor to discuss acceptability of proposed project topic, methods, and related journal article.: 10% (mandatory deduction for late approvals)
Related to specific, cited, recently published journal article (i.e., Physical Review, Journal of Computational Physics, ...): 10%
Uses multiple numerical methods related to course, written in C/C++, and functions with satisfactory results on ISAAC: 20%
Sufficiently advanced relevant computational techniques (considerably more advanced than individual homework problem): 30%
In-class oral presentation with reference to cited journal article. Schedule date early and before March 30 deadline. Latest slots often disappear first.: 20%
Written report with reference to journal article(s): 10%