<p>Anyone doing it?</p>
<p>I still need to finish my paper; it's only half-finished.</p>
<p>i'm doing it...i wrote my paper over summer but i'm revising it this week...as well as combining content from my partner's paper</p>
<p>My paper is almost done, a final edit and off it goes tomorrow. 1234567890: and I thought I was procrastinating.</p>
<p>I'm done -- the hard part now is trying to condense my paper from 25 pages to 20. </p>
<p>I have to mail this thing out in 3 days because I don't want to get it caught in customs over the weekend.</p>
<p>A few days ago I was feeling pretty good about the page limit, my paper weighed in around 18 pages. Single spaced. 10 pt font. When I finally got around to reading the rules, I was pretty worried. 18 pages turned into 30 double spaced 12 point pages. Needless to say, some serious editing took place over the weekend.</p>
<p>Same here! My paper is only 18 pages when 1.5-spaced, 12 point (I typed mine with LaTeX because it's a math paper). After increasing it to doublespaced, the page count soared to 25 pages. </p>
<p>I'm pretty much done now (I edited all of tonight since 7 or so...around 4 hours). I condensed it to 20 pages, though not *exactly doublespaced. On LaTeX it says it's more like 1.7 spacing but then I printed a sample text out in Word and mine matches closely with Word's double space...so I don't know how Siemens will define 'double-space.' Meh, my paper finally fits, so I'm happy </p>
<p>(and I really really really do not want to cut anything out anymore).</p>
<p>Are all of you doing math papers, too? So am I. :)
I worked all night yesterday on my project and have my conclusion to finish, as well as some formatting and final revisions to do. My paper is relatively short: 5 pages long now on Latex. Oasis, do you know if the default Latex settings are 1.5 spaced or double spaced? My text looks really scruched up....</p>
<p>For those of you doing mathematics:
What exactly do you guys research; and how is the research done? I'd greatly appreciate any PMs as well. I am very interested. Thanks. :)</p>
<p>Ha! A girl from my school won 2nd place in this competition like 2 years ago!</p>
<p>Double-spaced paper on arXiv.org look really weird :</p>
<p>meh mine's like 8 pages single spaced, size 10 font...i'll probably add a couple more pages...but i don't think i need more than that...</p>
<p>What's Siemens?</p>
<p>siemens is a science competition where you present research/write a research paper</p>
<p><a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/siemens%5B/url%5D">www.collegeboard.com/siemens</a></p>
<p>I think Latex default is single spaced. Throw this into the preamble to double space: \usepackage{setspace} \doublespace. </p>
<p>That's cool that so many people on this thread are doing mathematics. My project is in commutative algebra, but I'm keeping most of the specifics under wraps right now. ;)</p>
<p>You guys do it early. Back in the day (for the '05 competition), I wrote the whole paper in 21 hours before I Fedexed it the day before it was due.</p>
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What exactly do you guys research; and how is the research done?
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<li><p>I'm trying to establish lower bounds for these invariants called Betti numbers. </p></li>
<li><p>Research for me goes in phases. Phase one mostly involves pacing around the house thinking. Occasionally I'll check for an example in Macaulay 2(the only math program anyone needs), or scribble down an idea. Phase two is writing my ideas out explicitly, first on paper, then in Latex. After these two drafts, I usually find out my initial ideas werent so great. Back to pacing.</p></li>
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<p>heh we should have a siemens chat room or something....</p>
<p>btw</p>
<p>electrical engineering ftw</p>
<p>I don't really have the luxury of overnight fedex <em>points to location</em>. Being paranoid, I think I'm just going to print off everything tonight and send it off tomorrow.</p>
<p>My report's on Geometry and revolves around the planar rotation of 2 dimensional objects. </p>
<p>On latex:
Yes, \doublespacing seems to be what it says, double-spacing, but when I do that I start to run over the page limit (23 pgs). Thus, I used \setstretch{} and it's not 'quite' double-spaced with latex standards but I don't know, it matches with the double-spacing I have with my Word (which is a Chinese version anyhow, so everything's funny). BTW, the 12 point font in Latex isn't 'really' 12 point anyway...(just compare it to Word)...so I don't think stylistically they are going to care that much. I'm just thinking that if they have the research paper in their hands they're not going to say 'AHAHA' and throw out your research report as long as it's not blatantly violating conventions (like having 35 pages or something). One thing that made me have a long paper was actually the extensive use of graphics. I have a little more than 20 in my report.</p>
<p>Wow, why is everyone doing projects in mathematics. Although math rocks (it really does baby!), research in physics is far more intriguing and interesting :)</p>
<p>PS. I'm only trying to participate at ISEF so don't count me as Siemenser right yet :)</p>
<p>I wonder if they actually disqualify projects that breaks some of the minor conventions...(like I would certainly think that if you have something ridiculous like 30 pages you will get disqualified), but what if someone 1.5 spaced their paper, for example, or used an 10 point font without noticing?</p>