Last year's maths is easy, this year's maths is hard and next year's maths is impossible.
It is my advice to try and find 7 hours per week for MATH6040, and spend that time on it, working your way down through the learning in this announcement.
Keep in mind at all times:
“Any and all work, submitted at any time, will receive feedback.”
“Do not hesitate to contact me with questions at any time. My usual modus operandi is to answer all queries in the morning but sometimes I may respond sooner.”
Although I have extended the Assignment 2 deadline by a week to Friday 24 April, it is my strong advice to finish and submit Assignment 2 ASAP, and then try and find 7 hours more hours on top of that for MATH7021, and spend that time on it before Sunday 16 April.
Keep in mind at all times:
“Any and all work, submitted at any time, will receive feedback.”
“Do not hesitate to contact me with questions at any time. My usual modus operandi is to answer all queries in the morning but sometimes I may respond sooner.”
As outlined in the assignment section:
As per p.167-175 in the manual.
You may email any questions about the assignment and you will receive a response the next day, and I will be responding to emails seven days a week.
When it comes to submission, think about the following:
- Review photo. If you cannot see, we cannot mark it.
- Be careful of shadows
- Take A4 pages out of pad.
- Have A4 page flat on a surface.
- Take picture directly over page.
- Lighting
- Use sharp black or blue pen. No pencil. No red pen?
- Picture of one a page at a time.
- Clearly label page with page numbers and labels
If possible, submit the images as a single pdf file. To do this, select all the images in a folder, right-click and press print. It will say something like How do you want to print your pictures? Press (Microsoft?) Print to PDF. If possible choose an orientation that has all the images in portrait.
Here is video (30 minutes) of me doing (parts (a) to (c) of) the Laplace Transform exam question on p. 228 of the manual.
If you haven’t yet, go back and do the Week 8 learning tasks, and watch
“You may email any questions about the assignment and you will receive a response the next day, and I will be responding to emails seven days a week.“
If possible, submit the images as a single pdf file. To do this, select all the images in a folder, right-click and press print. It will say something like How do you want to print your pictures? Press (Microsoft?) Print to PDF. If possible choose an orientation that has all the images in portrait.
I will start correcting Assignment 2 Saturday 25 April.
In your Canvas announcements you will see that I have laid out a provisional plan for the remaining assessment.
There is a lot of information and tasks in this announcement but that is to account for the fact that people have got more or less work done on MATH6040 up to now. Work your way down through this announcement. It is my advice to try and find 7 hours per week for MATH6040, and spend that time on it. You may want to put extra time into the Matrices Test.
Now that all the material is covered, I am focusing on supporting your learning.
The first assessment will take place 19:30 Tuesday 14 April 2020 and is based on Chapter 2: Matrices. More information below. The other assessments are provisionally set for 28 April (Chapter 3), 12 May (Chapter 4), and 19 May (Chapter 1). The following plan is designed around these.
Keep in mind at all times:
“Any and all work, submitted at any time, will receive feedback.”
“Do not hesitate to contact me with questions at any time. My usual modus operandi is to answer all queries in the morning but sometimes I may respond sooner.”
In your Canvas announcements you will see that I have laid out a provisional plan for the remaining assessment.
We have now covered all the material, and my focus at this time is to support your learning through the remaining assessment.
The first assessment will take place 11:00 Tuesday 14 April 2020 and is based on Lab 6. The other assessment are provisionally set for 28 April (based on Lab 7), and 12 May (based on Lab 8). The following plan is designed around these.
Keep in mind at all times:
“Any and all work, submitted at any time, will receive feedback.”
“Do not hesitate to contact me with questions at any time. My usual modus operandi is to answer all queries in the morning but sometimes I may respond sooner.”
This test is worth 20% and will become available at 11:00 Tuesday 14 April, at which point you may download the student-number-individualised question paper.
More information under the VBA Test 2 (based on Lab 6) Practical Information announcement on Canvas.
If you have any further questions, I am answering emails seven days a week. Email before midnight Monday 13 April to be guaranteed a response early Tuesday 14 April. I cannot guarantee that I answer emails sent on Tuesday (although of course I will try).
If prepared for (or have completed) VBA Test 2 (based on Lab 6), if you have not yet done so, you are advised to catch-up on the learning described in Week 9.
If you have already conducted this learning, and submitted a Lab 7 either back before 30 March, or after, I will invite you, if necessary, to take on board the feedback I gave to that submission, and resubmit a corrected version for further feedback. If you feel like doing even more theory work on top of this, you will be asked to consider looking at the theory exercises described in Week 9.
Students can submit work — VBA or Theory, catch-up or revision — based on Week 9 to the Lab 7 VBA/Theory Catch-up/Revision I assignment on Canvas.
The remaining plans are provisional.
Similar to Easter Week 2.
If you have not yet done so, you will undertake the learning described in Week 10.
If you feel like doing even more theory work on top of this, you will be asked to consider looking at the theory exercises described in Week 10.
If you have already conducted this learning, and submitted a Lab 8 either back before 6 April, or after, I will invite you, if necessary, to take on board the feedback I gave to that submission, and resubmit a corrected version for further feedback.
Students will be able submit work — VBA or Theory, catch-up or revision — based on Week 10 to a Lab 8 VBA/Theory Catch-up/Revision assignment on Canvas.
I may have two due dates. Perhaps Sunday 3 May and Saturday 9 May.
In your Canvas announcements you will see that I have laid out a provisional plan for the remaining assessment.
There is a lot of information and tasks in this announcement but that is to account for the fact that people have got more or less work done on MATH7021 up to now. Work your way down through this announcement. It is my advice to try and find 7 hours per week for MATH7021, and spend that time on it. You may want to put extra time into Assignment 2.
Now that all the material is covered, I am focusing on supporting your learning.
The now 25% second assignment is due Friday 17 April 2020. The other assessment are provisionally set for 11 May (provisionally changed from 8 May, 40% Test on Chapters 2 & 4, and Section 4.6), and 21 May (20% test on Chapter 1). The following plan is designed around these.
Keep in mind at all times:
“Any and all work, submitted at any time, will receive feedback.”
“Do not hesitate to contact me with questions at any time. My usual modus operandi is to answer all queries in the morning but sometimes I may respond sooner.”
In your Canvas announcements you will see that I have laid out a provisional plan for the remaining assessment.
There is a lot of information and tasks in this announcement but that is to account for the fact that people have got more or less work done on MATH7021 up to now. It is my advice to try and find 7 hours per week for MATH7021, and spend that time on it. You may want to put extra time into Assignment 2. Work your way down through this announcements. If you do not get all the tasks done, that is no problem, the plan is designed so that you can catch up in time (e.g. there will be no new material in Weeks 11, 12, or 13).
I am trying to cover all the material by the end of Easter, and then we can focus on supporting your learning for the remaining assessment. Depending on your circumstances, it might make more sense for you to to get learning front-loaded, or do the remaining learning (all based on Chapter 4), a little closer to the Chapter 4 assessment. Personally, I think keeping up with the learning as it comes is the way to go, but this might not be possible for you.
If you have been engaging with the learning tasks, great, however if you are only starting remote learning now, the plan below is designed for such students
The now 25% second assignment is due Friday 17 April 2020. The other assessment are provisionally set for 11 May (provisionally changed from 8 May, 40% Test on Chapters 2 & 4, and Section 4.6), and 21 May (20% test on Chapter 1). The following plan is designed around these.
Keep in mind at all times:
“Any and all work, submitted at any time, will receive feedback.”
“Do not hesitate to contact me with questions at any time. My usual modus operandi is to answer all queries in the morning but sometimes I may respond sooner.”
In your Canvas announcements you will see that I have laid out a provisional plan for the remaining assessment.
There is a lot of information and tasks in this announcement but that is to account for the fact that people have got more or less work done on MATH6040 up to now. It is my advice to try and find 7 hours per week for MATH6040, and spend that time on it. Work your way down through this announcement. If you do not get all the tasks done, that is no problem, the plan is designed so that you can catch up in time (e.g. there will be no new material in Weeks 11, 12, or 13).
I am trying to cover all the material by the end of Easter, and then we can focus on supporting your learning for the remaining assessment. Depending on your circumstances, it might make more sense for you to to get learning front-loaded, or do the remaining learning (all based on Chapter 4), a little closer to the Chapter 4 assessment. Personally, I think keeping up with the learning as it comes is the way to go, but this might not be possible for you.
If you have been engaging with the learning tasks, great, however if this is not the case for you, it is not too late to get on top of all the material and the plan below is designed for such students
The first assessment will take place 19:30 Tuesday 14 April 2020 and is based on Chapter 2: Matrices. More information below. The other assessments are provisionally set for 28 April (Chapter 3), 12 May (Chapter 4), and 19 May (Chapter 1). The following plan is designed around these.
Keep in mind at all times:
“Any and all work, submitted at any time, will receive feedback.”
“Do not hesitate to contact me with questions at any time. My usual modus operandi is to answer all queries in the morning but sometimes I may respond sooner.”
In your Canvas announcements you will see that I have laid out a provisional plan for the remaining assessment.
We have now covered all the material, and my focus at this time is to support your learning through the remaining assessment.
If you have completed the learning tasks, and submitted Labs 6, 7, and 8, you should be in a good position to complete the remaining assessment.
However if this is not the case for you, it is not too late to get on top of all the material.
The first assessment will take place 11:00 Tuesday 14 April 2020 and is based on Lab 6. The other assessment are provisionally set for 28 April (based on Lab 7), and 12 May (based on Lab 8). The following plan is designed around these.
Especially if you have put in the hours over the last three weeks (inclusive), the demand on your time in terms of MATH7016 is now greatly diminished, but this plan also allows those who have not yet had a chance to engage in remote learning to begin.
Keep in mind at all times:
“Any and all work, submitted at any time, will receive feedback.”
“Do not hesitate to contact me with questions at any time. My usual modus operandi is to answer all queries in the morning but sometimes I may respond sooner.”
If you have watched the Week 10 lectures, you should be able to do the final MCQ, MCQ VIII.
Submit your answers here before 09.00 Wednesday 8 April.
If you have not yet done so, undertake the learning described under Week 8 here. You may submit your Lab 6 to the UNGRADED Lab 6 Revision assignment on Canvas.
This ‘assignment’ has a due date of Easter Saturday. I have chosen this date so that you receive your feedback two days before the assessment.
If you have already conducted this learning, and submitted a Lab 6 either back before 23 March, or after, I would invite you, if necessary, to take on board the feedback I gave to that submission, and resubmit a corrected version for further feedback.
If you feel like doing even more theory work on top of this, consider looking at the following exercises:
These can be submitted to UNGRADED Lab 6 Theory Exercises by Easter Saturday and will receive feedback Easter Sunday. If possible, submit the images as a single pdf file. To do this, select all the images in a folder, right-click and press print. It will say something like How do you want to print your pictures? Press (Microsoft?) Print to PDF. If possible choose an orientation that has all the images in portrait.
This test is worth 20% and will become available at 11:00 Tuesday 14 April, at which point you may download the student-number-individualised question paper.
You will be asked to write a program. The assessment runs from 11:00 to 12:30. The assessment is designed to be completed in 45 minutes, and there is a very generous 15 minutes allocated to submitting your work to Canvas. There is an additional 30 minutes grace period due to the remote nature of this assessment. Therefore you have until 12:30 to submit your work on Canvas. You can use the 90 minutes however you want but no submissions will be accepted after 12:30.
The remaining plans are provisional.
If you have not yet done so, you will undertake the learning described in Week 9. You will be able to submit your Lab 7 to an UNGRADED Lab 7 Revision assignment on Canvas.
I may have two due dates. Perhaps Sunday 19 April and Saturday 25 April.
If you have already conducted this learning, and submitted a Lab 7 either back before 30 March, or after, I will invite you, if necessary, to take on board the feedback I gave to that submission, and resubmit a corrected version for further feedback.
If you feel like doing even more theory work on top of this, you will be asked to consider looking at the theory exercises described in Week 9.
If you have not yet done so, you will undertake the learning described in Week 10. You will be able to submit your Lab 8 to an UNGRADED Lab 8 Revision assignment on Canvas.
I may have two due dates. Perhaps Sunday 3 May and Saturday 9 May.
If you have already conducted this learning, and submitted a Lab 8 either back before 6 April, or after, I will invite you, if necessary, to take on board the feedback I gave to that submission, and resubmit a corrected version for further feedback.
If you feel like doing even more theory work on top of this, you will be asked to consider looking at the theory exercises described in Week 10.
Necessary and sufficient conditions for a Markov chain to be ergodic are that the chain is irreducible and aperiodic. This result is manifest in the case of random walks on finite groups by a statement about the support of the driving probability: a random walk on a finite group is ergodic if and only if the support is not concentrated on a proper subgroup, nor on a coset of a proper normal subgroup. The study of random walks on finite groups extends naturally to the study of random walks on finite quantum groups, where a state on the algebra of functions plays the role of the driving probability. Necessary and sufficient conditions for ergodicity of a random walk on a finite quantum group are given on the support projection of the driving state.
Link to journal here.
Please find a provisional plan for Weeks 10-13. I do not yet have any certainty around assessment. At this time it is my intention to deliver week-on-week up to 19 April, and then have review after this. Of course all plans are provisional in the current environment.
I want you to know from the perspective of MATH7016 that I am in daily communication with my Head of Department about a plan for your assessment. This has to be done properly, and indeed my HoD is helping me improve my plan.
Once the plan for the MATH7016 assessment is settled from my end, this will have to be integrated with all your other assessment.
This is why I have not been able to be definitive about remaining assessment. Trust however that as soon as concrete plans are in place these will be communicated to ye. There is no point in me speculating about assessment when all the ducks are not yet in a row.
My advice for the moment, for MATH7016 at least, is to focus at this time on learning rather than assessment.
This means my recommendation is, as far as MATH7016 is concerned, is to spend 7 hours a week on your learning.
Trust that whatever plan is devised for your MATH7016 assessment, it will put your needs first.
If you have completed the tasks outlined in the Week 9 summary, you can now begin on the below.
Any and all work, submitted at any time, will receive feedback.
There are about 82 minutes of lectures. You should schedule 2 hours and 10 minutes to watch them and take the notes in your manual. You need this extra time above 82 minutes because you will want to pause me.
Do not hesitate to contact me with questions at any time. My usual modus operandi is to answer all queries in the morning but sometimes I may respond sooner.
AFTER watching the lectures above, you should be able to do Lab 8 on p. 112.
Between now and Monday 6 April, you will be able to submit your work to Canvas, from which I will give you individual feedback. After 09:00 Tuesday 7 April I will download all student work and reply with feedback.
After watching the lectures above, you should be able to do the final MCQ, MCQ VIII.
Submit your answers here before 09.00 Wednesday 8 April.
You can still do MCQ7 if you have not yet done so. Submit your answers here before 10:00 Wednesday 1 April.
You should be spending about 7 hours per week on MATH7016. If you have any time left over you should look at Theory exercises in the notes.
If you still have not spent 7 hours I recommend looking back at:
You can (carefully) take photos of your work (with questions labelled neatly) and submit to the Week 10 Theory Exercises those images on Canvas before midnight Sunday 5 April. After 09:00 Monday 6 April I will download all student work and reply with feedback.
If possible, submit the images as a single pdf file. To do this, select all the images in a folder, right-click and press print. It will say something like How do you want to print your pictures? Press (Microsoft?) Print to PDF. If possible choose an orientation that has all the images in portrait.
If you still haven’t spent 7 hours on MATH7016 maybe look at some other theory exercises in the manual. Any and all work will receive feedback.
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