Goals: Come closer to figuring out a thesis topic Do something interesting and of merit Deliverables (DRP): Currently sounds something like "A FPT Method of Graph Classification Based on Reduction Rules" A program that can take a set of reduction rules and a list of representatives and an instance graph, and return true if the instance graph reduces to one of the representatives. A paper detailing how the program works and what methods needed to be used to get it to work. Schedule: June: Read 2 papers (GRAGRA (ap2p) and JACM (pp3t)) -> Did some (but perhaps not enough) reading. Was interrupted by both illness and a family emergency. July: Read a little more, and reacquaint myself with the already written code. Begin implementing the linear-time method described in the JACM paper. -> Read some more -> Began Coding August: (one week vacation early in August) Continue implementation, begin writeup of method of automatic translation from reduction rules to search parameters. -> Continued coding, got stalled partway through. Wrote many other programs unrelated to this one - a collaborative jukebox, a fractal generator, some PHP, and a CGI-based boggle game. -> Had brainstorm on 8/28 -> Did not begin writeup. September: (possibly another week of vacation in September) Finish implementation, continue corresponding writeup. -> Finished implementation on 9/5 -> Began writeup on 9/8