Instructor: David A. Meyer
Office hours: AP&M 7256, by appointment
This course can be an independent reading/study course on some topic that is not offered in a lecture course. If you have something that you'd like to learn about that seems to fit with my interests as indicated by the rest of this website, contact me to see if we can work out a study plan. For example, in Spring 02 a sophomore ECE student worked with me to learn some of the mathematics and physics of quantum computing with an eye toward possibilities for quantum computer architectures.
This course can also be an independent undergraduate research project. If you already have a project in mind, contact me to to see if it's something with which I might be able to help. If you would like to try a research project, but don't have any specific ideas, I may be able to suggest one in mathematics, or in mathematics as applied to some problem in physical or social science, or engineering, depending on your background and interests. For example, in Spring 02 I had two sophomore ECE students working in my group: one on diffusion methods for image processing, and the other on algorithms for distributed sensor fusion.
I expect students to be prepared to devote 10-15 hours/week on this course, and to meet with me regularly. This may include attending a weekly group meeting, depending on your project. To arrange Independent Study for Winter 04, please contact me sometime on or before 5 January 04.