The course and homework policy for classes taught by Prof. Bewley are provided below.  Please read this policy thoroughly to avoid any uncertainty as to my expectations.

Unless specifically instructed otherwise, students are not only allowed but strongly encouraged to discuss both the material of the class and homework assignments at length with their classmates; however, anything turned in, including all numerical codes, must be written completely individually.  Do not provide your codes to other students, and, please, do not put other students in an awkward position by asking for them. 

I can not reschedule special make-up exams because students want to go home early for Thanksgiving Break, Winter Break, Spring Break, etc.  The course schedule is set by the university, and I am obliged to follow it.  Please schedule your travels accordingly.

Do not send the instructor or the course TA your homework writeup by email (unless previously arranged for in special circumstances, such as research-related conferences).  Instead, turn in a printout of a succinct and organized report containing:

1. 1)between a few paragraphs and a few of pages describing what you did to solve the problem (as necessary, you do not need to repeat anything that is already written in the text for the class or in the written problem description provided),
   

2. 2)the core numerical solver you wrote to solve the problem, written and commented clearly and succinctly such that it is self-evident how it works,
   

3. 3)output from a test code sufficient to illustrate that your solver works (you can copy text from the matlab window when your test code runs and paste this into your text editor in order to arrange this output in a readible fashion).  Plots may either be incorporated into the text of the report (using, e.g., print -deps in Matlab to obtain a file that can be incorporated into document) or simply printed out one per page and included in the report.
   

4. 4)any appendicies you think are valuable (for example, the test code itself, etc.)
   

The guiding principle for preparing your homework writeup is that your writeup, written in your own words, together with the course materials written in mine (which you will hopefully keep), will describe to you completely how to solve the problems assigned five or ten years from now, when you might encounter a problem which is somehow related and refer back to your old homeworks.

Midterm exams are, most often, in class (usually in the sixth week of the quarter), and final exams are in the timeslot specified by the registrar.  No calculators, phones, PDAs, or books are allowed in exams.  1 page of notes in your own handwriting (8.5” x 11”, with writing on both sides ok) is allowed for the midterm, 2 pages of handwritten notes is allowed for the final.  When arriving in the room for an exam, if at all possible, please leave one empty chair between you and your neighbor on either side.  When the exam is finished, I pick them all up sequentially in such a manner that I know who sat by whom; be advised that when we grade, the course TA(s) and I are always on the lookout for unexpected correlations.