Activities

This page will list down the course activities in addition to the lectures.

Problem Sets (5 x 7% = 35%):

• There will be six problem sets, of which best five scores will be counted towards grading. The problem set questions will be posted with the following timeline (roughly one in two weeks, and each problem set will require about 4-5 hours of work over the span of 10 days given to submit it).
• Timeline: For each problem set, there are two deadlines associated with it. One for the students and one for the instructor/TAs. The problem sets will be posted in an incremental way. That is, roughly for every two lectures, one problem will be posted. And the ones posted upto 5 days before the submission deadline are included in that problem set. (end end-dates will be marked by uploading the pdf on that date on to moodle).
• Evaluation deadline : The date by which the evaluated submission will be returned to the students.

Typically,the submission deadlines are Mondays, solution discussions happen on tuesdays and evaluation deadlines are Fridays.

#PS		Submission	Eval
PS01	:	Aug 17	Aug 22
PS02	:	Sep 07	Sep 12
PS03	:	Sep 28	Oct 03
PS04	:	Oct 19	Oct 24
PS05	:	Nov 09	Nov 11
PS06	:	Nov 13	TBA

All deadlines are at 10pm IST on Sundays. For delayed submissions - here is the process - every student can use at most 5 days as "delay days". At most one delay day can be used for ea given problem set submission. The discussions sessions on the problem sets will be done on the respective Fridays at 3:30pm. The students who might miss these due to scheduling conflict can approach the TAs/instructor by appointment for discussions. The submissions that are made after Monday 10pm deadline, are not guaranteed to be evaluated by the evaluation deadline specified for the problem set. Problem set submissions after the discussion slot, will not be considered for evaluation. However, feedback will still be given for such submissions.

All regular evaluation procedures for this course (except the end-semester exam and the last optional problem set) will be complete by Nov 11, 2025, 5pm. The data until then will be emailed to the student prior to the end-semester examination. The endsem evaluation will be available to the students on Friday, November 21, 2025.

The remaining activities of the course are : Exams (65%):

• Quiz 1 (15%) : Mon, Aug 25, 8am-8:50am
• Quiz 2 (20%) : Mon, Oct 06, 8am-8:50am
• End-sem Exam (30%): Thu, Nov 13, 9am - 12pm