Activities

This page will list down the details of the academic activities that we plan in this course. The schedule for all meetings are available at the meetings page.

• Problem Sheets: There will be roughly 2 problem sheets given as "hand outs" for each theme. The participants are expected to try to solve them offline and get back to the respective TAs if they need specific helps. Those who wish get feedback on their answers are also welcome to submit it to the TAs. In any case, these will not be evaluated towards the final grade. The following gives the timeline for these handouts.
  
  • Problem Set 01 : Theme 1, Set 1 : Aug 07
  • Problem Set 02 : Theme 1, Set 2 : Aug 21
  • Problem Set 03 : Theme 2, Set 1 : Sep 04
  • Problem Set 04 : Theme 2, Set 2 : Sep 24
  • Problem Set 05 : Theme 3, Set 1 : Sep 04
  • Problem Set 06 : Theme 3, Set 2 : Sep 26
  • Problem Set 07 : Theme 3, Set 3 : Oct 08
  • Problem Set 08 : Theme 3, Set 4 : Oct 24
  • Problem Set 09 : Theme 4, Set 1 : Oct 31
  • Problem Set 10 : Theme 4, Set 2 : Nov 7
  
  
• Short Exams : Roughly, For every theme of lectures we will have one short exam session. This will be almost like an in-hall exam where a set of demonstrative problems/tasks closely related to the lectures will be given and the responses will be evaluated. This is a part of continuous assessment in the course. Note that the weightage of these towards the final score is nontrivial but relatively low. You can afford to make mistakes (and hence learn) without worsening your final score by much !.
  
  
  • Short Exam 1 - Aug 26, Monday, 11am - 12pm.
  • Short Exam 2 - Sep 30, Monday, 11am - 12pm.
  • Short Exam 3 - Oct 28, Monday, 11am - 12pm.
  • Short Exam 4 - Nov 11, Monday, 11am - 12pm.
  All the short exams happen on mondays - the lecture hour will be compensated on the same day from 2pm - 3pm as a lecture.


• Discussion Sessions and Office hours : Due to the scheduling constraints we will be spending regular lecture hours precisely as planned. To facilitate discussion sessions for the course, we will make sure that the TAs are available for discussion at pre-declared spots so that the students can approach for discussions.
  About 30 students will be assigned to a group of two TAs, and there will be three such groups. For each group, the two TAs will take turns of 90 minutes each to cover the duration of 2pm to 5pm on Mondays. The TAs will be available at the location specified below. The students can drop in at any time during these three hours to meet the respective TA.
  
  

  Group	Location	Students	TAs
  Group A	CS32	All (CS/EE) PhD & MS	Dinesh K. & Shiv Poojan Singh
  Group B	MTL	M.Tech (CS13M001 - 031)	Ramnath J. & Ashwini Sahoo
  Group C	CS27	M.Tech(CS13M032 - 060)	Vishal Pandya & Saurabh Verma

  *MTL = M.Tech Lab.


• Quizzes & End-semester Exams : There will be two quizes which will be in-hall standard exams. The end-semester exam will be a standard 3 hour long exam. More details about this are available at the meetings page.

Academic Integrity Notice

Any kind of academic dishonesty will be dealt with seriously and may even cause an U grade in the course.