Final Year Project

IsThisIt???

I am, at last, in the final year of my maths degree and we have to decide on a final year project to be done in just over 1 semester worth about 9% of the year.

Having researched some ideas myself and not coming up with much I thought it might be a good idea to ask the people of this forum for their thoughts. So if you were taking on a project of this type what would you choose to do it on? It can be done on any area of maths we choose (although we must get a supervisor to agree to it)

My strongest areas of study in recent years are probably topology and statistics but I am open to ideas from any field.

Thanks for your help

TheBody

IsThisIt??? wrote: »

I am, at last, in the final year of my maths degree and we have to decide on a final year project to be done in just over 1 semester worth about 9% of the year.

Having researched some ideas myself and not coming up with much I thought it might be a good idea to ask the people of this forum for their thoughts. So if you were taking on a project of this type what would you choose to do it on? It can be done on any area of maths we choose (although we must get a supervisor to agree to it)

My strongest areas of study in recent years are probably topology and statistics but I am open to ideas from any field.

Thanks for your help

Interesting question. Maybe someting on Mobius transformations? I posted a video about this in another thread. Here it is again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX3VmDgiFnY

Here is the wikipedia page about them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_transformation

Really beautiful mathematics. Lots to be learned about them.

Colonel Sanders

In terms of statistics is there an area outside maths you are interested in that you could apply it too?

I remember hearing of lads doing stats projects based on analysis of some sports data.

TheBody

For a stats project, maybe you could do some sort of a comparative study of students who have done the old leaving cert to students who sat the new project maths course. You would have access to both type of student in the university.

ZorbaTehZ

If the option to take a project in some topic is dependent on finding a willing supervisor, then surely the logical thing to do is to go to faculty members in the relevant areas and ask them if they have project ideas? If someone on the internet suggests a project on galois cohomology, that's all good and well but you still need to find an academic who is (1.) willing to supervise a project, (2.) knows something about galois cohomology.

IsThisIt???

Colonel Sanders wrote: »

In terms of statistics is there an area outside maths you are interested in that you could apply it too?

I remember hearing of lads doing stats projects based on analysis of some sports data.

There is someone doing something similar his year. I have thought about this option and was thinking of something to do with the banking crisis as a lot of the data will be readily available.

I also came across a project that used Markov Chains to assess the chances of moving from one credit rating to another. I though this was interesting and am looking into other applications of Markov Process.

ZorbaTehZ wrote: »

If the option to take a project in some topic is dependent on finding a willing supervisor, then surely the logical thing to do is to go to faculty members in the relevant areas and ask them if they have project ideas? If someone on the internet suggests a project on galois cohomology, that's all good and well but you still need to find an academic who is (1.) willing to supervise a project, (2.) knows something about galois cohomology.

I have appointments set to speak to faculty members but it makes sense to try and find something that interests me to bring to them. Maybe they won't want to do it but it's a pretty big faculty and relatively small class so I should be able to find someone.

dh0011

The CSO website has masses of data you can get for a project. Their staff are generally very helpful if you ever have to deal with them.