Format: Written PDF Document (typesetting with LaTeX preferred)

Length: At most one page per team member

The project proposal should answer the following questions:

• What do you want to do? What research question are you answering?
• How does your question and your approach relate to this class?
• What is some relevant related work? You should have read at least one related research paper in-depth, which should be referenced in your proposal.
• What is your project plan? You should include at least 4 steps per team member and should indicate rough deadlines for each of those steps. Steps should be specific to your project, not generic (e.g. “literature review” or “preparing slides” are not steps). If you are working in a team, steps should be assigned to each team member.
• What are the risks? What might turn out to be more difficult than you anticipated? And how might you mitigate these risks?

A typical project proposal contains an Overview/Introduction, Related Work/Background, and Project Plan sections.

Team projects should clearly state the name of all project members involved.