Dear APM115 friends,

Your third project is a group project, but rather than us assigning
it, you will be coming up with your own idea.

You will be asked to present your idea and planned modeling approach
in a 2 minutes talk during class on Tuesday April 10, and the final 10
minute presentations for this project will be a week later, Tuesday
April 17.  We will provide feedback on your first brief presentation,
and be available to help with the project itself.  Office hours for
this purpose will be announced.

While the subject of the project is up to you, we encourage you to
consider all of the modeling tools we have experienced during the
course so far,

1) Delay differential equations
2) PDEs: e.g. wave eqn (see traffic) or a 1d or 2d diffusion equation
3) Markov processes
4) Stochastic terms in your model equations
5) Probabilistic approach, possibly including an equation for the
         Probability Distribution Function
6) Optimization principles
7) Cellular automata
8) ODEs

We very strongly encourage you to look carefully at the feedback
slides that were updated after the second presentations, when planning
and working on your project, and when preparing the presentation:
http://www.DEAS.Harvard.edu/climate/eli/Courses/2007spring_a/Projects/Feedback_on_projects.ppt

You will need to email your Matlab code (if any) used for the project
and the presentation itself in pdf format to the TFs.  Similarly, if
you did some analytic work whose details are not included in the
presentation, you need to email a clearly written document containing
these details.  Other than that case, no additional written summary is
required.

We hope you'll enjoy this and are happy to help you along the way.  We
will split the class on that day, and you only need to come to the
half during which you will be presenting, but are expected to sit
through all presentations during that half (and participate with
questions to the presenters!).

looking forward to this,

best, Drew, Eli, Kurt, Michael.