The main aim of the course is for students to get an idea of the kind of research done in the CPM community by closely examining a few research papers. The (rough) idea is to select a couple of seed papers that have been published in CPM (preferably prior to 2004), study those papers and the work that has been done on those topics since (including that published outside of CPM), and arrive at a solid understanding of the topic/problems and some ideas for future research.

In the first 3-4 weeks of the course your task is to dig around in the CPM proceedings and find a (small) set of articles you are interested in. It might be advisable to choose a few different topics, because I might tell you that one of them is not suitable (for some yet to be defined reason).

At the half-way point (12.10.2015) we might have a meeting where we each briefly present the topic/problem definitions we have picked (TBD).

To get a mark you can submit a typed report (approximately 10 pages, a kind of mini survey), or give an presentation (of approximately 40 minutes in length) at the end of semester.

Throughout the term I will also advertise relevant research talks on the course web page. These research talks will usually be given by visitors to our group, and will fall in the broad area of CPM. You should attend at least three of these guest talks.