Final Virtual Symposium
05 May 2020Students worked on a Final Project in teams of two or three students and presented results as recorded video presentations in a conference-like virtual setting, which we called the Final Symposium. Each student held a Q&A dicussion with the instructor after the presentation 1.
Ten teams looked at problems ranging from quantum mechanics to network theory applied to publishing and black holes gobbling up the solar system (or not). Each team started with a proposal, defined goals, and used computational techniques learned during the semester to achieve their goals:
| # | title | team |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spectrographic Projection as a Tool to Understand Rotations in Higher Dimensions | Geometree |
| 2 | Solving the Advection Equation | Apples |
| 3 | Through the wormhole: using ray-tracing to visualize the wormhole of Interstellar | Project The Hans Zimmer Fan Club |
| 4 | Tight-binding Model for Graphene Monolayer | Kyber Crystal Engineers |
| 5 | Black Hole Terror: Replacing the Sun with a Black Hole of Equal Radius | Pickle Rick |
| 6 | Dynamics of the Solar System | Planet Pals |
| 7 | Quantum Mechanics that you can See | Dirac & Roll |
| 8 | Analysis of Journal Publication Behaviors via Bianconi-Barabasi Fitness Model of Dynamical Network | Robin Na |
| 9 | Periodic solutions of the 3-body problem | The Raviolis |
| 10 | Collapsing Psi! | PsiPy |
Notes
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Each discussion was timed for 5 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. ↩