Class conference: Tues Dec 13, 5:30-8:30pm. Final report due: Thurs Dec 15 at 5:30pm. Overall grading rubric:
Milestone 1 10%
Milestone 2 15%
Reviews 4%
Poster or spotlight 26%
Final report 45%
Total 100%
(Extra credit for spotlight 5%)

Poster or spotlight:

Your poster or spotlight should present all aspects of your project. That is, it should motivate your problem, describe your solution, and display your results. Posters: you will have about 4 minutes to give your pitch to the Professor/TAs. Spotlights: you will have 8 minutes to give your talk.

Please be sure that you clearly present the connection of your project to optimization and the concepts you learned from class. You should state what work is your own and reference prior work that you build on. Be sure that all your figures are clear, using large lines, and labelled in a big font.

Final report:

Your write up should be in the style of a research article that you would submit to a conference or a journal. Be sure that you clearly present the connection of your project to optimization and the concepts you learned from class. You should state what work is your own and reference prior work that you build on. Also be sure that all your figures are clear and (if intended) are of high-enough resolution to see fine details. The report should be limited to 8 pages, excluding references (no appendix allowed), and should be in NIPS 2016 style.

Email one copy per project to your TA mentor, with the Professors cc'd.