Individual Project Outline Submission

The goals of the project should be discussed jointly at the start between the student and the supervisor and written up as a short document containing all of the following:

1. A brief project overview (around 2-300 words)
2. A list of bullet point “deliverables” / “goals”
3. A detailed description of what part of the project will constitute the documented “reproducible result” for the peer-to-peer exercise
4. An outline workplan
5. An estimate of required HPC usage (what resource, roughly what CPUh/GPUh cost)
6. A listing of any relevant Responsible Research and Innovation and Trusted Research and Innovation considerations associated with the project, and confirmation that these have been appropriately discussed with partners.

Plans for the project may of course evolve and change completely as it proceeds, but it is important to have a submitted outline as a record of initial plans.

This document should be uploaded below by the end of week 7 of the summer term (Friday 12^th June 2026).

These will be briefly reviewed by the CDT Management Board and the PX915 module leader, and supervisors and/or students will be contacted if any concerns arise. The project goals should be structured such that:

• The work can produce demonstrable, discussable results during the 12-15 week timeframe before the progression vivas in September. Note most students will want to take some time off in this period and that supervisors and students may be away at conferences or other travel. This should be incorporated into the setting of realistic goals for the project.
• The project should demonstrate evidence of some or all the main goals of the CDT training programme. These are: spanning of disciplinary barriers and time and/or length-scales, incorporation of uncertainty in modelling, robust software engineering, and Scientific Machine Learning.
• A clearly-defined and documented “protocol” for evaluating or reproducing one specific result (literally a few numbers) from the work can be created. Ideally this should be associated with an estimate of the uncertainty or error associated with this result.