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Spectral clustering - Data mining lectures
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This activity focuses on spectral clustering a central masterpiece in graph analysis. During the next lecture the student will learn what spectral clustering means and how it works, but as a preliminary step the students must read a summary and answer some questions as well as being involved in a in-class discussion after presentation of the content to the class.
Intended Learning Outcomes:
- Describe spectral clustering, its limitations and its strengths
- Compare spectral clustering with previously presented methods for finding communities.
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Advanced bioinformatics topics
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Course “Advanced topics in genomics” with 6 students enrolled for 10 ECTS. Each week two topics are presented in a 3-hours session. The form of final examination is a project that uses the tools discussed in the course on a specific topic of biological interest.
Problems:
*the topics are quite difficult
*standard class presentation is not successful
*Students’ focus decreases over 3 hours
*there is not enough time to discuss deeper technical aspects of the topics.Intended Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the basic of advanced methods
- Translate theory in potential applications
- Criticize results from state-of-the-art studies
- Connect the use of methods in an analysis framework
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Simulation of multi-party cryptographic protocols using online forums
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Context
I propose this project for small class teaching in my ongoing MSc. elective course "Fundamentals of Computer Security", in which we just started the Cryptography module. Although the course is being offered as an elective at the MSc. level, the intention is to prototype an elective at the BSc. level. For it to be useful in a professional setting, this means the course should be as hands-on and practical as possible. The purpose of this activity is to exercise some simple cryptographic protocols involving multiple parties by using the course's online forum embedded in Blackboard as the underlying communication channel.
Learning activity
- Using a distributed randomness beacon, teacher split class in small groups and distribute selected cryptographic protocols among them.
- Students study the chosen protocol in detail and achieve consensus about which role they play in the execution of this protocol.
- Students implement the portions of the cryptographic protocol that their role is responsible for. These can include generation of global parameters, dealing of shared secrets, generation of key pairs and computation involving those.
- Students jointly execute the cryptographic protocol with your colleagues until the protocol is finished. If you need to transmit a message, as per the protocol specification, add a message to the online thread.
Intended Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze a cryptographic protocol from the scientific literature involving multiple parties, with respect to its security against passive adversaries.
- Build a working implementation of portions of a certain cryptographic protocol.
- Simulate a cryptographic protocol step-by-step using a working implementation.
- Report detailed findings and conclusions obtained in the experiments, even when negative.
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A course project in plasticity course: experiments vs simulations
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Context
The course “Plasticity: theory and modeling” has been offered this semester for the second time as an elective master degree course which is designed for 3rd semester mechanical engineering master students at the Engineering Department (around 10 students). The course focuses on the subject of materials behaviour in nonlinear plastic regime. The purpose is to strengthen the students’ understanding of the physical origins of materials nonlinearity and various mathematical models to describe plasticity behaviour.
Learning activity
This learning design is a transformation of previous excersise to enable students making a direct connection between course materials and real-world engineering problems. I asked a local company this year to provide me a challenging problem related to the subject of the course which they currently working on. Then I modified the problem to make it feasible for the students. In this project, students are divided in group of two and I provide each group a specimen but without telling them which material is it made from.
Intended Learning Outcomes:
- Perform laboratory experiments and material characterization tests
- Apply appropriate theoretical models to describe different nonlinear material behaviour
- Be able to apply correct numerical boundary conditions corresponding to experimental setup and to perform Finite Element computer simulations
- Prepare a scientific report and presentation based on their results
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Mathematics, Physics and Materials Science
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