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Miscellaneous Assignment

Choose your own adventure! Each of these assignments is worth up to 10 points. The total (capped at 100) is counted as a homework grade. The first three assignments can be completed at any time BEFORE the last week of classes, but the other miscellaneous assignments have a specific due date.

Some assignments will have specific requirements. However, for most events, use the following guidelines:

Throughout this semester, you will have the opportunity to attend various seminars or events, and write a brief reflection on them for extra credit. These reflections should be written as a formal two-page paper. You may consider the following questions when writing your reflection, but there are no specific formatting requirements:

  • What did you learn?
  • Were there any algorithms involved? (Even if not explicitly discussed).
  • What is a piece of advice that you took away?
  • Did an audience member ask a question that you particularly liked or disliked?
  • Is there a question that you wish you could have asked but didn't?
  • If related to the event, what were you thinking about as you were leaving?
  • Did this event inspire you to look something up after the event? If so, what was it?
  • Did you meet someone new at this event who you could see as a mentor / mentee / collaborator in the future?
  • What is your take-away message from this event?

The assignments:

  1. Suggest a misc assignment! To earn misc credit, the suggestion must be submitted in writing (an email or upload a PDF to gradescope) by Halloween, 31 October 2021.
  2. Attend one of the CS seminars. They are held Mondays 16:10-17:00. Please join cs-announce the notification of who is speaking each week (and the WebEx link). Due: before the last week of class.
  3. Learn about a faculty member at MSU. Choose a faculty member at MSU (can be from any department), and write a two-page summary about their research area. Be sure to cite at least one of their papers or books. Due: before the last week of class.
  4. The course website might have typos. If you see one, fix it and issue a pull request (PR). More about PRs Due: before the last week of class.
  5. Attend and reflect on the math seminar by Dr. Karen Uhlenbeck. Monday, 30 August 2021. Wilson Hall 1-143. Title is “Transverse Measures and Best Lipschitz and Least Gradient Maps”. Abstract: This work is motivated by a preprint of Bill Thurston’s from 1994, which is still a preprint but still in circulation. In it he outlines an approach to Teichmuller Space based on maps between hyperbolic surfaces which minimize the maximum norm of directional derivatives of a map, or the Lipschitz constant. As a warm-up to studying this theory from the analysis point of view, George Daskalopoulos and I studied the problem of finding functions from a hyperbolic surface M into a circle S^1 which minimize the maximum of the derivative among all Lipschitz maps in a homotopy class. These are extensively discussed in the analysis literature as infinity harmonic maps. The relevance of least gradient functions and transverse measures came as a surprise. In this talk, I will try to explain some of the concepts, which were in fact very new to us, and outline the main results. One of the main theorems is that the maximum stretch set (set on which the function takes on the maximum of the derivative) is a geodesic lamination. (Standard two-page write-up. See above).
  6. Attend and reflect on the Kopriva Lecture by Dr. Dominique Zosso. Thursday, 16 September 2021 at 15:00 in the Procrastinator Theater (note: there might be a webex link as well). More details. Write-up is due Thursday, 23 September 2021.
  7. Participate in at least one event on Sept. 23-24 being held in honor of American Indian Heritage day). Write a 1-2 page reflection on how the land-grant mission of MSU will impact your (current and/or) future role in society.
  8. Participate in ShellHacks the weekend of Sept 24-26. Write a short report to summarize what you did in the hackathon. Write-up is due 3 October 2021.
  9. Attend the CBE in-person Poster Session on Thursday, 7 October 2021. Write-up is due 14 October.
  10. Attend at least one talk at the Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry, to be held Oct 15-16. Please note registration is required. Write-up due 23 October.
  11. Attend Lucy William's Comprehensive Exam on Wednesday, 6 October 2021. Write-up is due 13 October 2021.
  12. Meet a postdoc on Wednesday, 13 October. Location TBA. Write a 1-page reflection on the experience (due: 20 October 2021).
  13. Attend IEEE VIS practice Q&A on 14 October at 10:00. Zoom link will be provided via email. Come up with three questions for the speaker. List of questions due: 21 October 2021.
  14. Take an implicit bias test from (https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/). Write a 1-2 page reflection on why awareness of implicit bias is important. Due: 5 November 2021.
  15. Peng Zou's PhD Proposal. See the MSU Today announcement for details. Due: 5 November 2021.
  16. Hand-in HW 5G on time, Monday, 8 November 2021, by 23:59.
  17. Cooper Strahan Master's Thesis Defense Friday, November 12, 2021 from 10:00am to 12:00pm
    Write-up due: 19 November 2021
  18. Saidur Rahman's PhD Comprehensive Exam Monday, November 15, 2021 from 2:00pm to 3:00pm
    Write-up due: 22 November 2021.
  19. Women in STEM History with AWC Tuesday, November 16, 2021 from 5:00pm to 6:00pm Write-up due: 25 November 2021.
  20. Talk on The Analysis of Binary File Security Using a Hierarchical Quality Model
    Friday, December 3, 2021 from 2:00pm to 3:00pm Write-up due: 10 December 2021.
  21. Attend the job talk by Dr. Ann Marie Reinhold on Improving Research Design with Data Science. In the reflection, discuss the connections between data science and computer science. Questions to consider are: what is data science? how is computer science related to data science? What did you learn about data science from Dr. Reinhold's talk? Date/time: Wednesday, December 1, 4:10 p.m - 5:00 p.m. in Barnard Hall 108. Write-up due: 8 December 2021.