Your presentations are graded out of 10:

  5 points for presentation
  5 points for math and modeling content

Your group is graded as a whole; everyone must present part of your project.

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If your group has given a proposal talk, your grade will be the greater of:
  
  (1) The grade for the presentation of the progress report.
  (2) A weighted average of the grades for the progress report and the
      proposal.

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To get better marks you must:

-- Primarily present your own slides; they must be succinct and well organized.
-- Properly reference any data/charts/material that is not your own.
-- Understand the slides well and be prepared to answer questions.
-- Your presentation--including questions from the audience--may be limited
     to roughly 5 minutes (per person presenting).
-- Motivate your particular project beyond the classical model that you are
     using.
-- Define all notation and terminology beyond Math 340 and Math 441.

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Grading Rubric:

Presentation:
  5 points (Excellent): 
Slides are concise, precise, give motivation, and--where needed--examples.
Data is presented in a fashion that is easy to understand.  Goals to the
project are clear.  Most of the slides are generated by the research group.
Slides or content based on outside sources is properly acknowledged.  Presenter
able to answer questions.  Slides logically organized.  All slide content is
directly related to the project.  All group members present some slides.
  1 point (Poor): 
Slides have too much content. Motivation and goals are not clear.  Presenter 
simply reads what is written on the slide.  Data is presented in a fashion
that is not easy to reconcile with the goals of the project.  Slides use
terminology or require background beyond Math 340 and Math 441.  Presentation
disorganized, jumps around between project goals, models, data, and results.
Slides have content that is irrelevant to the project.  Some group members
do not present any material.

Math and Modeling Content:
  5 points (Excellent):
Project goals clear with good motivation.  Models are precise and correspond
to project goals.  Source of data is acknowledged and corresponds to the
goals of the project.  Notation and terminology used correctly.  Project
aims to understand principles not apparent from the problem setup.  
Explanations are logical easy to follow.
  1 point (Poor):
Project goals unclear and motivation is weak or unclear.  Terminology and
notation are incorrect.  Model equations are incorrect.  Models don't 
correspond to goals of the project.  Conclusions based on data and 
computations are unjustified.  Some terminology is undefined.