Mathematics

Seminar IV(MAT304)

Content
Course Code Course Name Semester Theory Practice Lab Credit ECTS
MAT304 Seminar IV 6 2 6 0 2 4
Prerequisites
Admission Requirements
Language of Instruction French
Course Type Compulsory
Course Level Bachelor Degree
Course Instructor(s) Florian Picard florian.picard@ens-cachan.fr (Email)
Assistant
Objective Find some interesting subject, opened to possibly further inquiries. Get a minimal autonomy to do researches, ask and answer simple questions, and present results in front of other people.
Content Students must study a subject on their own, write a small mémoire at the end of semester and present it in a departmental conference with other students.
Course Learning Outcomes
Teaching and Learning Methods Personnal research on the web, in the library.
References
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Weekly Contents
Theory Topics
Week Weekly Contents
1 Presentation of some 15 possible subjects
2 Search for a subject
3 Validation of the subject
4 Personnal research, towards writing a mémoire
5 Personnal research, towards writing a mémoire
6 Personnal research, towards writing a mémoire
7 Personnal research, towards writing a mémoire
8 Personnal research, towards writing a mémoire
9 Personnal research, towards writing a mémoire
10 Personnal research, towards writing a mémoire
11 The Memoire is given to the professor
12 Preparation of the oral presentation
13 Preparation of the oral presentation
14 Conference : oral presentation
Practice Topics
Week Weekly Contents
Assessment System
Contribution to Overall Grade
  Number Contribution
Contribution of in-term studies to overall grade 3 50
Contribution of final exam to overall grade 1 50
Toplam 4 100
In-Term Studies
  Number Contribution
Assignments 1 33
Presentation 1 34
Midterm Examinations (including preparation) 1 33
Project 0 0
Laboratory 0 0
Other Applications 0 0
Quiz 0 0
Term Paper/ Project 0 0
Portfolio Study 0 0
Reports 0 0
Learning Diary 0 0
Thesis/ Project 0 0
Seminar 0 0
Other 0 0
Toplam 3 100
Relation of Proficiency
No Program Learning Outcomes Contribution
1 2 3 4 5
1 understands principles of deductive reasoning; has experience to verify well-foundedness and exactness of mathematical statements in systematic ways;
2 can properly state and use concepts and results of major mathematical interest;
3 masters current computational techniques and algorithms; has a good ability in their use; can identify relevant tools, among those one has learned, suitable to solve a problem and is able to judge whether or not one is in possession of these tools;
4 is able to express one’s mathematical ideas in an organised way both in written and oral forms;
5 understands relations connecting substantial concepts and results; can switch from one viewpoint to another on mathematical objects (pictures, formulae, precise statements, heuristic trials, list of examples,...);
6 has followed individually a guided learning strategy; has pursued steps toward the resolution of unfamiliar problems;
7 has a theoretical and practical knowledge in computer science well adapted for learning a programming language;
8 has investigated the relevance of modeling and using mathematical tools in natural sciences and in the professional life; is conscious about historical development of mathematical notions;
9 has followed introduction to some mathematical or non-mathematical disciplines after one’s proper choice; had experience to learn selected subjects according to one’s proper arrangement;
10 masters French language as well as other foreign languages, to a level sufficient to study or work abroad.
ECTS
Activities Number Period Total Workload
Class Hours 14 2 28
Working Hours out of Class 14 3 42
Presentation 1 2 2
Final Examinations (including preparation) 1 3 3
Total Workload 75
Total Workload / 25 3.00
Credits ECTS 3
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