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Hi all,
I have just submitted the final grades for the course. I expect it will take 24 hours for the grades to be approved and published on CalCentral.
Methodology. The grades were calculated according to the specification in the course syllabus. Following is a detailed description, that should allow each student to calculate his or her own grade to verify that the grade published on CalCentral is accurate:
- Each Problem Set received a grade between 0-100, as reflected on Gradescope.*
- Two averages are calculated:
- The average of the grades for all six Problem Sets.
- The average for the four best Problem Sets.
- The final project received a grade between 0-100, which will be available via gradescope.
- The final numeric grade is the maximum between the following two grading options:
- Option 1: The average of the grades for all six Problem Sets.
- Option 2:
- The final numeric grade was converted to a letter grade according to the following table:
- Additionally, three A+ grades were awarded:
- To a student with a 99+ average on all six problem sets.
- To two students who had a 96+ average on the four best problem sets and also submitted outstanding final projects.
- This resulted in the following histogram, which is similar to the curve I mentioned I was aiming for at the beginning of the course.
I want to take this opportunity to thank our reader @Amrit Daswaney , who has worked very hard and has done an outstanding job throughout this semester. I would not have been able to teach this class without his extremely dedicated and skillful help behind the scenes.
Finally, I did my best to make sure that the grading process is fair and that it reflect the actual quality of work done in the class. If anyone has any questions or comments about the grading process, please feel free to email me. Any issues concerning final grades are my responsibility.
Best,
Jonathan
* Note that for Problem Set 2, the maximum possible score was 65, so one must multiply the score on Gradescope by 100/65 to obtain the grade for this Problem Set.
Hi all,
The second (and final!) round of final project presentations will be today at 5:10pm PDT! Everyone is very welcome to come and watch, and ask questions!
Link: https://meet.google.com/rbf-hdiq-ysp (the usual link)
Or dial: (US) +1 252-516-1098 PIN: 921 048 142#
If you are presenting today, please join at 5pm and make sure you are familiar with presenting on Google Meet.
Best,
Jonathan
Hi all,
I'd like to invite everyone to provide anonymous feedback on this course, at the following link: https://course-evaluations.berkeley.edu.
Seeing as I'm still at the beginning of my academic career (or so I hope 😉), any feedback you give now could potentially have influence on my teaching for years to come..
Best,
Jonathan
Hi all,
Problem Set 6 is now available here. It is due on May 7 at 11pm PT. The problem set is shorter than usual because you have less time to complete it.
As always, submission is via Gradescope, and you can find all the problem sets on the resources page.
Best,
Jonathan
Hi all,
Final project presentations start in 30 Minutes! Everyone is very welcome to come and watch, and ask questions!
Link: https://meet.google.com/rbf-hdiq-ysp (the usual link)
Or dial: (US) +1 252-516-1098 PIN: 921 048 142#
If you are presenting today, please come on time (5pm PST) and make sure you are familiar with presenting on Google Meet.
Best,
Jonathan
Hi all,
The final project presentations will take place this week on Tuesday (tomorrow!) and Thursday.
Each team will have 15 minutes to present their project, followed by 3 minutes for questions.
The updated order of presentations is listed below. If someone needs to make any changes to this schedule, please lmk ASAP. Teams with more than one person are expected to divide their presentation time equally between the ream members.
April 27
- Kewen Wu
- Alberto Checcone, Richard Hu, Nithin Raghavan
- Mihaela Curmei
- Arnaud Fickinger
April 29
- Sebastian Prillo
- Agnibho Roy, Tyler Zhu
- Emaan Hariri
Some guidance on preparing a good talk. The purpose of the talk is to communicate the main ideas of your project: what you set out to do, why that is interesting, what tools or approaches you used, what results you obtained, and what future direction would be worthwhile. Your top priority should be for the audience to feel that they understand what you are talking about. Feel free to summarize technical details in broad language to avoid making things more complicated or technical than is necessary for communicating the main ideas (there is no need to prove to me that you did anything very hard or complicated -- I just want to understand).
Grading. The oral presentation is a requirement for getting a grade on the final project. However, the oral presentation itself is not a component of the grade. The final project grade is intended to reflect your mathematical work, not your presentation skills. However, the oral presentation is your opportunity to help me understand what you did and why it is exciting. If things are very clear during the oral presentation, I will understand your written submission better.
Tech. The presentations will take place on Google Meet, at the usual link for lectures. Please familiarize yourself with presenting on Google Meet beforehand. Presentations will be recorded and uploaded to the course website as usual. Students who have a strong preference that their presentation not be uploaded to the website should contact me via a private message on Piazza.
Looking forward to it!
Jonathan
Hi all,
Two students have pointed out to me that in Question 1(a) the bound that you were asked to prove is not tight.
I believe the stronger bound of
Thanks to Kiran Ganeshan and Sam Gunn for bringing this to my attention.
Best,
Jonathan
Hi all,
A recording of lecture 25 is available here.
As always, you can find all the videos on the YouTube playlist, or on the course resources page.
Best,
Jonathan
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