[metrics-team] M.Sc projects at Edinburgh

[Karsten Loesing]

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On 08/02/16 20:20, William Waites wrote:
> Hi Karsten,

Hi William,

> Sorry for the delay. I'm told (and I can believe it) that the
> general problem of allocating students to projects in an optimal
> way is NP-hard and each year it seems like Informatics tries a
> different approach to solve the problem. This year it turned out
> that the constraints placed by students selecting a list of
> projects and supervisors selecting a list of students proved to not
> be satisfiable for about 20% of students. So there's some
> scrambling going on, with a new deadline for getting it sorted out
> of the 19th...
> 
> That said, the three Tor-related projects did not seem to attract
> much interest -- there were only a couple of inquiries from
> students. We will see if that changes in this second round of
> allocations, but I'd like to make sure that the students we get on
> these projects are motivated and suitable.
> 
> Failing that (or in addition to that) it is reasonable to reuse
> the same proposals for the 4th year undergrad and/or MInf projects,
> but these would start later -- next September or so.
> 
> Let's see who comes out of the woodwork in the next week or so...

Thanks for the update!  Happy to wait another week, and agreed that we
should make sure that students really want to work on these projects.
 Please keep us posted here.  Thanks!

All the best,
Karsten

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