Weeks 13-15:

Lectures:

Control Theory (13-14)
Advanced Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
Pattern Analysis and Statistical Learning (15)

The year's second teaching block began with the start of week 13, and with that comes a whole host of new units. Well, three actually, and one of them has already finished, but that is one of the properties of the course, particularly the final year. It is very common for people to have one teaching block which is full to the rafters, and another which resembles a schoolroom 5 minutes after the end of term - pretty empty. It happens that for me, this term is the sparse one, which should give me plenty of time to work on my dissertation.

Weeks 11-12:

Lectures:

Mathematical Modelling
Thesis Presentations
Sustainable Systems

So, now I'm half way through the year, 12 academic weeks closer to the end of University. Crikey.

A lot can happen in two weeks: MMPM finished in week 11; the 2nd, and final, reports have been handed in for that and CGBA; the final exam has been sat for LAS; I took part in a 1 week FAT unit, Sustainable Systems, and with that I have completed over half my units and nearly half of my credits for the year.

The report for CGBA wouldn't work without the multitude of supporting files and also it was so badly taught that it is a poor piece of work of which I could see no discernible point.

Sustainable Systems was an interesting experience, both for the content and the idea of teaching a whole unit in the space of one week: 0900-1800 every day for five days and that's the whole unit done, apart from a ten-page report due in May. More to follow on that