Final Poster Symposium
03 May 2018Students worked on a Final Project in teams of two or three students and presented results as posters on 5/3/2018 in a conference-like setting, which we called the Final Symposium. Each student held a Q&A dicussion with the instructor in front of the poster.1
Six teams looked at problems ranging from quantum mechanics to black holes. Each team started with a proposal, defined goals, and used computational techniques learned during the semester to achieve their goals:
| # | title | team | repository |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Analysis of Baseball Pitch Motion | @APeerenb @ChrisHollowell | final-2018-phy494_final_baseball |
| 2 | Black Hole Simulator | @tacox5 @tunaLandslide | final-2018-doubularity |
| 3 | Fourier Transforms with Wave Functions | @scumbalina @dhking1 @jonahshoe | final-2018-fourier-transforms |
| 4 | Housing Structural Heat Analysis | @markogonzales @ZhichaoMa @Eroatus | final-2018-494_heat_wizards |
| 5 | Complex dynamics in a stratified lid-driven cavity flow | @pweisman @NargesMasoumi @kewu2018 | final-2018-final_project_ke_paige_narges |
| 6 | Formation of Wind | @kaceyreidy @bourgogne97 | final-2018-windformation |
The proposals, code, and the posters are available in the public GitHub repositories. Further details, including abstracts and licensing information, is available in the Symposium Program (PDF).
The winner of the Poster Prize 2 was team #3 with the project final-2018-fourier-transforms (see their poster (PDF)).
Notes
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Each discussion was timed for 6 minutes and graded. Students were awarded a grade for their final that consisted of a grade for the whole project (collectively graded for the whole team) and the Q&A grade, which provides an individual component. ↩
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The Poster Prize was awarded based on a vote by all participants. Winners received the recognition by their peers, and they also got fancy USB sticks to store a bootable Linux system on (but winning the prize had no influence on the grade). ↩