INTRODUCTION TO DATABASES

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134) or (COMS W3137) or (COMS W3136) and fluency in Java); or the instructor's permission.
The fundamentals of database design and application development using databases: entity-relationship modeling, logical design of relational databases, relational data definition and manipulation languages, SQL, XML, query processing, physical database tuning, transaction processing, security. Programming projects are required.

• Department: Computer Science
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• None None-None
• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexandros Biliris
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 3 points

OPERATIONS CONSULTING

Prerequisites: (IEOR E3658) and (IEOR E4307) or (STAT GU4001) and Deterministic Models at the level of IEOR E3608 or IEOR E4004, or instructor permission.

This course is for MS-MS&E students only.
This course aims to develop and harness the modeling, analytical and managerial skills of engineering students and apply them to improve the operations of both service and manufacturing firms. The course is structured as a hands-on laboratory in which students "learn by doing" on real-world consulting projects (October to May). The student teams focus on identifying, modeling and testing (and sometimes implementing) operational improvements and innovations with high potential to enhance the profitability and/or achieve sustainable competitive advantage for their sponsor companies. The course is targeted toward students planning careers in technical consulting (including operations consulting) and management consulting, or pursuing positions as business analysts in operations, logistics, supply chain and revenue management functions, positions in general management and future entrepreneurs.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• R 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Soulaymane Kachani
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 0 points

AT II STRUCTURES IN ARCHITECTURE

ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGY II

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 9 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Zak Kostura
  Info
• 3 points

TRANSPORT IN FLUID MIXTURES

Prerequisites: CHEN E3110X and CHEN E3120Y or the equivalent
Develops and applies non-equilibrium thermodynamics for modeling of transport phenomena in fluids and their mixtures. Continuum balances of mass, energy and momentum for pure fluids; non-equilibrium thermodynamic development of Newton's law of viscosity and Fourier's law; applications (conduction dominated energy transport, forced and free convection energy transport in fluids); balance laws for fluid mixtures; non-equilibrium thermodynamic development of Fick's law; applications (diffusion-reaction problems, analogy between energy and mass transport processes, transport in electrolyte solutions, sedimentation).

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher J Durning
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

TRANSPORT IN FLUID MIXTURES

Prerequisites: CHEN E3110X and CHEN E3120Y or the equivalent
Develops and applies non-equilibrium thermodynamics for modeling of transport phenomena in fluids and their mixtures. Continuum balances of mass, energy and momentum for pure fluids; non-equilibrium thermodynamic development of Newton's law of viscosity and Fourier's law; applications (conduction dominated energy transport, forced and free convection energy transport in fluids); balance laws for fluid mixtures; non-equilibrium thermodynamic development of Fick's law; applications (diffusion-reaction problems, analogy between energy and mass transport processes, transport in electrolyte solutions, sedimentation).

• Department: Video Network
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher J Durning
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

AT V URBAN SYSTEMS INTEGRATION

ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGY V

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 2 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Craig M Schwitter
  Info
• 3 points

PROGRAMMING LANG & TRANSLATORS

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136 or COMS W3137) and (COMS W3261) and (CSEE W3827) or equivalent, or the instructor's permission.
Modern programming languages and compiler design. Imperative, object-oriented, declarative, functional, and scripting languages. Language syntax, control structures, data types, procedures and parameters, binding, scope, run-time organization, and exception handling. Implementation of language translation tools including compilers and interpreters. Lexical, syntactic and semantic analysis; code generation; introduction to code optimization. Teams implement a language and its compiler.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ronghui Gu
  h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

PROGRAMMING LANG & TRANSLATORS

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136 or COMS W3137) and (COMS W3261) and (CSEE W3827) or equivalent, or the instructor's permission.
Modern programming languages and compiler design. Imperative, object-oriented, declarative, functional, and scripting languages. Language syntax, control structures, data types, procedures and parameters, binding, scope, run-time organization, and exception handling. Implementation of language translation tools including compilers and interpreters. Lexical, syntactic and semantic analysis; code generation; introduction to code optimization. Teams implement a language and its compiler.

• Department: Video Network
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ronghui Gu
  h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

OPERATING SYSTEMS I

Prerequisites: (CSEE W3827) and knowledge of C and programming tools as covered in COMS W3136, W3157, or W3101, or the instructor's permission.
Design and implementation of operating systems. Topics include process management, process synchronization and interprocess communication, memory management, virtual memory, interrupt handling, processor scheduling, device management, I/O, and file systems. Case study of the UNIX operating system. A programming project is required.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jae W Lee
  CULPA: 42 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTER NETWORKS

Prerequisites: Corequisites: IEOR E3658 or equivalent.
Corequisites: IEOR E3658
Introduction to computer networks and the technical foundations of the Internet, including applications, protocols, local area networks, algorithms for routing and congestion control, security, elementary performance evaluation. Several written and programming assignments required.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Javad Ghaderi
  h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

CULT HIST OF JAPNSE CARTGRPHY

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: David L Moerman
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 3 points

CHAN/ZEN BUDDHISM

Prerequisites: Some background in East Asian Buddhism, or instructor permission required.
Zen has become a household term, but the reality behind this term is not well known. Originating in China around the 6th century C.E., the Chan/Zen tradition became one of the major Buddhist schools and rapidly spread to Korea, Japan, Vietnam (and, to a certain extent, Tibet). This course examines some aspects of this tradition, emphasizing its historical development, its mythological elements, and its multifaceted practice, which has for too long been reduced in the Western mind to meditation.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Bernard Faure
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

LANG DOCUMENTATION/FIELD MTHDS

Prerequisites: LING UN3101
In light of the predicted loss of up to 90% of the world languages by the end of this century, it has become urgent that linguists take a more active role in documenting and conserving endangered languages. In this course, we will learn the essential skills and technology of language documentation through work with speakers of an endangered language.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Meredith Landman
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

FAIRY TALES AND THE PRACTICES OF ADAPTAT

This course will focus on the structure, meaning, and function of fairy tales as they keep being told, curated, edited, written and re-written, illustrated, performed and being turned into film, crossing back and forth from popular culture to high art and back; in other words, we will study the fairy tale in relation to practices of adaptation. In terms of the corpus of fairy tales, we will focus primarily on the collection by the Brothers Grimm, the Romantics’ take on popular culture (Wordsworth, Tieck, Arnim, Brentano), questions of translation and Rackham’s superb 19
th
century illustrations (which are available in Columbia’s rare book library) but we will also look at two French adaptations of
Beauty and the Beast
(both Mme de Beaumont’s narrative, and Jean Cocteau’s film), Angela Carter’s and Margaret Atwood’s feminist fairy tales, as we will also contrast Disney’s
Snow White
with the recent black and white Spanish film
Bianca Nieve
, and trace the transformation of the late medieval Melusine legend into Goethe’s “The New Melusine,” Hans Christian Andersen’s “Little Mermaid,” Disney’s
Little Mermaid
and Myasake’s
Ponyo
. We will study, how the fairy tale has been used by Romanticism, folklore studies, narratology and structuralism, psychoanalysis, feminism, the Frankfurt School and queer studies, how it has been deemed too dark for children or perfect for their instruction, politically oppressive or subversive, part of a consumerist mass culture or a reservoir of utopian potential. Thus we will focus on a range of specific discursive contexts that both drew on fairy tales as they also let themselves be shaped by them.
This course has no prerequisites and is open to undergraduate and graduate students.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Dorothea von Muecke
  Info
• 3 points

RENAISSANCE IN EUROPE II

Renaissance in Europe II

Major texts of the Renaissance both south and north of the Alps, including those of Petrarch, Valla, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Erasmus, Thomas More, and Montaigne, with special emphasis on diverse style of early modern writing and the habits of reading they encouraged.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Kathy H Eden
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

MOD BUILDING TECH

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Theodorus H Prudon
  Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO CONSERVATION GENETICS

INTROD TO CONSERVATION GENETIC

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

DISEASE ECOLOGY

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Introduction to the ecology and epidemiology of infectious diseases of humans and wildlife.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Diuk-Wasser
  h-index: 36 Info
• 3 points

PRIN OF CONSTRUCTN TECHNIQUES

Prerequisites: (CIEN E4129) or equivalent.
Current methods of construction, cost-effective designs, maintenance, safe work environment. Design functions, constructability, site and environmental issues.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Ibrahim Odeh
  Info
• 3 points

PRIN OF CONSTRUCTN TECHNIQUES

Prerequisites: (CIEN E4129) or equivalent.
Current methods of construction, cost-effective designs, maintenance, safe work environment. Design functions, constructability, site and environmental issues.

• Department: Video Network
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Ibrahim Odeh
  Info
• 3 points

PRIN OF CONSTRUCTN TECHNIQUES

PRINCIPLES OF CONSTRUCTIO

Prerequisites: (CIEN E4129) or equivalent.
Current methods of construction, cost-effective designs, maintenance, safe work environment. Design functions, constructability, site and environmental issues.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Ibrahim Odeh
  Info
• 3 points

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY LAW

Prerequisites: Graduate standing or the instructor's permission.
Practical focus upon legal concepts applicable to the construction industry. Provides sufficient understanding to manage legal aspects, instead of being managed by them. Topics include contractual relationships, contract performance, contract flexibility and change orders, liability and negligence, dispute avoidance/resolution, surety bonds, insurance and site safety.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• M 6:50 p.m.-9:35 p.m.
• 3 points

STRATEGIC MGT - ENG & CONSTR

STRATEGIC MGT-ENG&CONSTR;

Core concepts of strategic planning, management and analysis within the construction industry. Industry analysis, strategic planning models and industry trends. Strategies for information technology, emerging markets and globalization. Case studies to demonstrate key concepts in real-world environments.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Feniosky Pena-Mora
  Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info
• 3 points

ENTREPRENEURSHP - ENG & CONSTR

ENTREPRENEURSH-ENG&CONSTR;

Capstone practicum where teams develop strategies and business plans for a new enterprise in the engineering and construction industry. Identification of attractive market segments and locations; development of an entry strategy; acquisition of financing, bonding and insurance; organizational design; plans for recruiting and retaining personnel; personnel compensation/incentives. Invited industry speakers. Priority given to graduate students in Construction Engineering and Management.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Feniosky Pena-Mora
  Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info
• 3 points

MANAGE CIV INSTRASTUCTURE SYST

Prerequisites: (IEOR E4003) and (CIEN E4133) or IEOR E4003, CIEN E4133, or equivalent.
Examination of the fundamentals of infrastructure planning and management, with a focus on the application of rational methods that support infrastructure decision-making. Institutional environment and issues. Decision-making under certainty and uncertainty. Capital budgeting and financing. Group decision processes. Elements of decision and finance theory. Priority given to graduate students in Construction Engineering and Management.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Julius Chang
  Info
• 3 points

REAL ESTATE FIN/CONST MANAG

REAL ESTATE FIN/CONST MANAGEME

Prerequisites: (IEOR E2261) and (CIEN E3129) or instructor's permission.
Introduction to financial mechanics of public and private real-estate development and management. Working from perspectives of developers, investors and taxpayers, financing of several types of real estate and infrastructure projects are covered. Basics of real-estate accounting and finance, followed by in-depth studies of private, public, and public/private-partnership projects and their financial structures. Focused on U.S.-based financing, with some international practices introduced and explored. Financial risks and rewards, and pertinent capital markets and their financing roles. Impacts and incentives of various government programs, such as LEED certification and solar power tax credits. Case studies provide opportunity to compare U.S. practices to several international methods.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Kevin J Riordan
  Info
• 3 points

NETWORKING LABORATORY

Prerequisites: (CSEE W4119) or equivalent.
In this course, students will learn how to put "principles into practice," in a hands-on-networking lab course. The course will cover the technologies and protocols of the Internet using equipment currently available to large internet service providers such as CISCO routers and end systems. A set of laboratory experiments will provide hands-on experience with engineering wide-area networks and will familiarize students with the Internet Protocol (IP), Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), the Domain Name System (DNS), routing protocols (RIP, OSPF, BGP), network management protocols (SNMP, and application-level protocols (FTP, TELNET, SMTP).

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Gil Zussman
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 39 Info
• 3 points

HELLENISTIC PHILOSOPHY

• Department: Philosophy
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Katja Vogt
  CULPA: 36 Info
• 3 points

PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP IN GLOBAL INF

Delivery of infrastructure assets through Public-Private Partnerships (PPP). Value for Money analysis. Project organization. Infrastructure sector characterization. Risk analysis, allocation and mitigation. Monte Carlo methods and Real Options. Project finance and financing instruments. Case studies from transportation, water supply and energy sectors.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Julius Chang
  Info
• 3 points

NMR SPECTROSCOPY

Prerequisites: elementary organic chemistry.
Introduction to theory and practice of NMR spectroscopy. Instrumental aspects, basic NMR theory, NOE, and a survey of 2D methods are covered.

• Department: Chemistry
• F 11 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
• Instructor: John D Decatur
  Info
• 1 points

TOPICS IN ISRAELI CINEMA

Israel has a unique and constantly-evolving national cinema, the product of its diverse immigrant population and dramatic national history. Beginning with artistic influences from abroad and culminating with native self-examinations, this course will provide a survey of Israeli film history, recurring foci of Israeli cinema, and introductions to influential filmmakers from early director and impresario Menahem Golan to Orthodox writer/director Rama Burshtein.

• Department: Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies
• M 12:10 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Stuart Weinstock
  Info
• 3 points

HUMAN SKELETAL BIOLOGY II

Recommended for archaeology and physical anthropology students, pre-meds, and biology majors interested in the human skeletal system. Intensive study of human skeletal materials using anatomical and anthropological landmarks to assess sex, age, and ethnicity of bones. Other primate skeletal materials and fossil casts used for comparative study.

• Department: Anthropology
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Ralph L Holloway
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS I

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher M Boyce
  h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

C.P. CAVAFY&THE; POETICS OF DESIRE

C.P. CAVAFY&THE; POETICS&THE; PO

This course takes C. P. Cavafy’s oeuvre as a departure point in order to discuss desire and the ways it is tied with a variety of topics. We will employ a number of methodological tools to examine key topics in Cavafy’s work such as eros, power, history, and gender. How can we define desire and how is desire staged, thematized, or transmitted through poetry? How does a gay poet write about desired bodies at the beginning of the previous century? What is Cavafy’s contribution to the formation of gay identities in the twentieth century? How do we understand the poet’s desire for an
archive
? How important is the city for activating desire? How do we trace a poet’s afterlife and how does the desire poetry transmits to readers transform through time? How does literature of the past address present concerns? These are some of the questions that we will examine during this course.

• Department: Classics
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Nikolas Kakkoufa
  Info
• 4 points

AIR POLLUTION PREVENTION/CONTR

Adverse effects of air pollution, sources and transport media, monitoring and modeling of air quality, collection and treatment techniques, pollution prevention through waste minimalization and clean technologies, laws, regulations, standards, and guidelines.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Vasilis Fthenakis
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 55 Info
• 3 points

AIR POLLUTION PREVENTION/CONTR

Adverse effects of air pollution, sources and transport media, monitoring and modeling of air quality, collection and treatment techniques, pollution prevention through waste minimalization and clean technologies, laws, regulations, standards, and guidelines.

• Department: Video Network
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Vasilis Fthenakis
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 55 Info
• 3 points

THEORETICAL ECOLOGY

Prerequisites: Calculus, Introductory Biology.
This course will provide an introduction to theoretical ecology. Topics will include population, community, ecosystem, disease, and evolutionary ecology. Lectures will cover classic and current concepts and mathematical approaches. The numerical analysis laboratory will cover computational tools for numerical and graphical analysis of the models we cover in lecture, using MATLAB. By the end of the course, students will be well versed in the basics of theretical ecology and will be able to read theoretical ecology literature, analyze and simulate mathematical models, and construct and analyyze their own simple models.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Duncan Menge
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

INTRO-PROBABILITY & STATISTICS

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Antonius B Dieker
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

MEDIEVAL LATIN LITERATURE

MEDIEVAL LATIN POETRY

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
This course covers various topics in Medieval Latin Literature.

• Department: Classics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Carmela V Franklin
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

RETHINKING FREEDOM IN AFRICA

Through the study of a set of key theoretical and fictional texts that range from the late 1960s to the present we will attempt to understand the “pitfalls of national consciousness” within historically existing African emancipatory projects. The texts that we will read will help us comprehend the nature of race, racism, ethnicity, and class struggle within the struggle for African freedom. Overall, the course will unfold in four sequences. In the first sequence we will examine the new debates that have emerged from within the Afro-pessimist literature. Here we will be concerned with the assertion within this body of writing about the impossibility of a collective African emancipatory project in this world. Secondly, because the Afro-pessimist literature is primarily concerned with rethinking freedom in Africa through Frantz Fanon, the course will then turn to the most recent secondary literature on Fanon from Africa (broadly conceived). Our objective here is twofold: to stage a debate regarding stakes between this secondary literature and the Afro-pessimist literature and to pose the question more generally of what it has meant to think of freedom from within Africa. The third sequence of the course will then turn to a rereading of classic texts associated with African emancipatory projects including the writings of Fanon, Amìlcar Cabral, and Steve Biko as a way to ground our thinking within these debates. Lastly, we will turn to the novels of Ben Okri so as to potentially identify and rethink the limits of contemporary debates about the prospects for freedom in Africa today.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elleni Zeleke
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

CHEM CHARACTERIZATION

Prerequisites: Columbia University’s laboratory safety certification is required. One year each of (i) general chemistry lecture/lab; (ii) organic or inorganic chemistry lecture/lab; and (iii) research experience in a chemistry lab are recommended.

This course will teach synthetic chemists to use mass spectrometry, analytical chromatography, and single-crystal X-ray diffraction as tools for research in synthetic chemistry. The teaching approach will be practical with an emphasis on hands-on experience. Students will gain: (1) A user-level understanding of the theory of these analytical methods. (2) Hands-on proficiency with a variety of instruments available at Columbia. (3) An introduction to advanced instrument capabilities and an awareness of their applications. (4) Proficiency in processing and interpreting data.

• Department: Chemistry
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• 3 points

PAN AFRICANISM

“Pan Africanist” ideologies were very diverse from Garveyism, Negritude to the various African America, Caribbean and African discourses of “neo-pharaohnism” and “Ethiopianism.”  This seminar explores how Black leaders, intellectuals, and artists chose to imagine Black (Africans and people of African descent) as a global community from the late 19th century to the present. It examines their attempts to chart a course of race, modernity, and emancipation in unstable and changing geographies of empire, nation, and state.  Particular attention will be given to manifestations identified as their common history and destiny and how such a distinctive historical experience has created a unique body of reflections on and cultural productions about modernity, religion, class, gender, and sexuality, in a context of domination and oppression.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mamadou Diouf
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

PROBABILITY THEORY

Prerequisites: MATH GU4061 or MATH UN3007
A rigorous introduction to the concepts and methods of mathematical probability starting with basic notions and making use of combinatorial and analytic techniques. Generating functions. Convergence in probability and in distribution. Discrete probability spaces, recurrence and transience of random walks. Infinite models, proof of the law of large numbers and the central limit theorem. Markov chains.

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Julien Dubedat
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTER GRAPHICS

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134) or (COMS W3136) or (COMS W3137) COMS W4156 is recommended. Strong programming background and some mathematical familiarity including linear algebra is required.
Introduction to computer graphics. Topics include 3D viewing and projections, geometric modeling using spline curves, graphics systems such as OpenGL, lighting and shading, and global illumination. Significant implementation is required: the final project involves writing an interactive 3D video game in OpenGL.

• Department: Computer Science
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Changxi Zheng
  h-index: 30 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTER GRAPHICS

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134) or (COMS W3136) or (COMS W3137) COMS W4156 is recommended. Strong programming background and some mathematical familiarity including linear algebra is required.
Introduction to computer graphics. Topics include 3D viewing and projections, geometric modeling using spline curves, graphics systems such as OpenGL, lighting and shading, and global illumination. Significant implementation is required: the final project involves writing an interactive 3D video game in OpenGL.

• Department: Video Network
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Changxi Zheng
  h-index: 30 Info
• 3 points

SOLID & HAZARDOUS WASTE MGMT

Generation, composition, collection, transport, storage and disposal of solid and hazardous waste. Impact on the environment and public health. Government regulations. Recycling and resource recovery.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ponisseril Somasundaran
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 82 Info
• 3 points

ETHICS IN BIOPHARM PAT/REG LAW

Prerequisites: BIOTECHNOLOGY LAW (BIOT W4160)

Course Objective
This course – the first of its kind at Columbia – introduces students to a vital subfield of ethics focusing on patent and regulatory law in the biotech and pharmaceutical sectors. The course combines lectures, structured debate and research to best present this fascinating and nuanced subject. Successful completion of Biotechnology Law (W4160) is a course prerequisite, since properly exploring this branch of bioethics requires an indepth understanding of biotech and pharmaceutical patent and regulatory law.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Alan J Morrison
  Info
• 3 points

USER INTERFACE DESIGN

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136 or COMS W3137)
Introduction to the theory and practice of computer user interface design, emphasizing the software design of graphical user interfaces. Topics include basic interaction devices and techniques, human factors, interaction styles, dialogue design, and software infrastructure. Design and programming projects are required.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Lydia Chilton
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 18 Info
• 3 points

3D UI AND AUGMENTED REALITY

Prerequisites: (COMS W4160) or (COMS W4170) or the instructor's permission.
Design, development, and evaluation of 3D user interfaces. Interaction techniques and metaphors, from desktop to immersive. Selection and manipulation. Travel and navigation. Symbolic, menu, gestural, and multimodal interaction. Dialogue design. 3D software support. 3D interaction devices and displays. Virtual and augmented reality. Tangible user interfaces. Review of relevant 3D math.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Steven K Feiner
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Dan Steingart
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 36 Info
• 3 points

SECURITY II

• Department: Computer Science
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Debra L Cook
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

SECURITY II

• Department: Video Network
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Debra L Cook
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

HUMAN RIGHTS AND GLOBAL ECONOMIC JUSTICE

HUM RTS & GLOB ECON JUST

The world economy is a patchwork of competing and complementary interests among and between governments, corporations, and civil society.  These stakeholders at times cooperate and also conflict over issues of global poverty, inequality, and sustainability. What role do human rights play in coordinating the different interests that drive global economic governance?  This seminar will introduce students to different structures of global governance for development, trade, labor, finance, the environment, migration, and intellectual property and investigate their relationship with human rights.  Students will learn about public, private, and mixed forms of governance, analyze the ethical and strategic perspectives of the various stakeholders and relate them to existing human rights norms.  The course will examine the work of multilateral organizations such as the United Nations and the International Financial Institutions, as well as international corporate and non-governmental initiatives.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Rainer Braun
  Info
• 3 points

DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: LING UN3101
How discourse works; how language is used: oral vs. written modes of language; the structure of discourse; speech acts and speech genres; the expression of power; authenticity; and solidarity in discourse, dialogicity, pragmatics, and mimesis.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: John C Wright
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS

Prerequisites:
SDEV W3390
or
EESC W4050
or the instructor's permission.
This class provides basic theory in landscape analysis and training in methods for analyzing landscapes, focusing on interpretation of satellite images. The class covers approaches and definitions in landscape analysis, data sources, land cover classification, change detection, accuracy assessment, projections of future land cover change, and techniques to interpret results of these analyses. Students will obtain hands-on experience working with data from a landscape related to his/her research or a landscape chosen by the instructors.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• R 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ruth Defries
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 114 Info
• 3 points

STEM CELL BIOL & APPLICATIONS

Corequisites: three semesters of Biology or the instructor’s permission.
The course examines current knowledge and potential medical applications of pluripotent stem cells (embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells), direct conversions between cell types and adult, tissue-specific stem cells (concentrating mainly on hematopoietic and gut stem cells as leading paradigms). A basic lecture format will be supplemented by presentations and discussions of research papers. Recent reviews and research papers together with extensive instructor notes will be used in place of a textbook.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel D Kalderon
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

MARINE CONSERVATION ECOLOGY

Prerequisites: EEEB GR6110, EEEB GR6112, or EEEB GR6990, basic statistics, or the instructor's permission. This course provides an overview of marine ecology, introducing processes and systems from which the marine environment is formed and the issues and challenges which surround its future conservation. Coursework will be evaluated using debates, oral presentations and more traditional metrics. Topics to be covered include fisheries, invasive species, habitat alteration, climate change. While we will focus on general threats, there may be further consideration of certain cases of particular interest to class participants.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Alicia Nicole Mihnovets
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• 3 points

INTRO TO HUMAN CENTERED DESIGN

INTRO TO CENTERED-HUMAN DESIGN

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• F 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
• 1.5 points

SEM-BIOTECH DEVPT & REGULATION

Prerequisites:
BIOT W4200
(OK without prerequisite).
This course will provide a practical definition of the current role of the Regulatory Professional in pharmaceutical development, approval and post-approval actions. This will be illustrated by exploration, and interactive discussion of regulatory history, its evolution, current standards, and associated processes. The course will seek to clarify the role of Regulatory in development and lifecycle opportunities, demonstrating the value Regulatory adds by participation on research, development and commercial teams. The course will utilize weekly case studies and guest lecturers to provide color to current topical events related to the areas.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ron Guido
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

BASIC CONCEPTS-POST-FREUD THGT

This course examines psychoanalytic movements that are viewed either as post-Freudian in theory or as emerging after Freud's time. The course begins by considering the ways Freud's cultural and historical surround, as well as the wartime diaspora of the European psychoanalytic community, shaped Freudian and post-Freudian thought. It then focuses on significant schools and theories of psychoanalysis that were developed from the mid 20th century to the present. Through readings of key texts and selected case studies, it explores theorists' challenges to classical thought and technique, and their reconfigurations, modernizations, and total rejections of central Freudian ideas. The course concludes by looking at contemporary theorists' moves to integrate notions of culture, concepts of trauma, and findings from neuroscience and attachment research into the psychoanalytic frame.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Karen Seeley
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 4 points

MATERIALS THERMODYN/PHASE DIAG

MATERIALS THERMODYN/PHASE DIAF

Prerequisites: (MSAE E3011) or equivalent or instructor's permission.
Review of laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamic variables and relations, free energies and equilibrium in thermodynamic system. Statistical thermodynamics. Unary, binary, and ternary phase diagrams, compounds and intermediate phases, solid solutions and Hume-Rothery rules, relationship between phase diagrams and metastability, defects in crystals. Thermodynamics of surfaces and interfaces, effect of particle size on phase equilibria, adsorption isotherms, grain boundaries, surface energy, electrochemistry.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Katayun Barmak
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 49 Info
• 3 points

MATERIALS THERMODYN/PHASE DIAG

MATERIALS THERMODYNAMICS

Prerequisites: (MSAE E3011) or equivalent or instructor's permission.
Review of laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamic variables and relations, free energies and equilibrium in thermodynamic system. Statistical thermodynamics. Unary, binary, and ternary phase diagrams, compounds and intermediate phases, solid solutions and Hume-Rothery rules, relationship between phase diagrams and metastability, defects in crystals. Thermodynamics of surfaces and interfaces, effect of particle size on phase equilibria, adsorption isotherms, grain boundaries, surface energy, electrochemistry.

• Department: Video Network
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Katayun Barmak
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 49 Info
• 3 points

THE DEAD IN ANCIENT CHINA

What did the dead become? Ancestors, spirits, or ghosts? Are these postmortem categories and roles ontologically distinct and mutually exclusive? How did the dead become ancestors, spirits, or ghosts? Where did the dead go and what kind of "lives after" did they have? With these questions in mind, this course explores the realm of the dead in ancient China (ca. 5000 B.C.E.-600 C.E.) instantiated by the living in rituals, objects, and writings. Focusing on contemporaneous materials obtained through archaeology, facilitated with transmitted history and literature when available, students will read about and learn to analyze a variety of conceptions of the dead and corresponding afterlife options recorded in diverse kinds of sources including material culture, architecture, artifacts, pictorial representations, and texts from ancient China.

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jue Guo
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED MECHANICS

Prerequisites: (ENME E3105) or equivalent.
Differentiation of vector functions. Review of kinematics. Generalized coordinates and constraint equations. Generalized forces. Lagrange's equations. Impulsive forces. Collisions. Hamiltonian. Hamilton's principle.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew W Smyth
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

SECOND YR JAPANESE II:KYOTO

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Kaori Nakata
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• 8 points

KINETICS OF TRANSFORMATIONS

Prerequisites: (MSAE E4201)
Review of thermodynamics, irreversible thermodynamics, diffusion in crystals and noncrystalline materials, phase transformations via nucleation and growth, overall transformation analysis and time-temperature-transformation (TTT) diagrams, precipitation, grain growth, solidification, spinodal and order-disorder transformations, martensitic transformation.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: James Im
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• 3 points

KINETICS OF TRANSFORMATIONS

Prerequisites: (MSAE E4201)
Review of thermodynamics, irreversible thermodynamics, diffusion in crystals and noncrystalline materials, phase transformations via nucleation and growth, overall transformation analysis and time-temperature-transformation (TTT) diagrams, precipitation, grain growth, solidification, spinodal and order-disorder transformations, martensitic transformation.

• Department: Video Network
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: James Im
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• 3 points

FR LIT OF THE 16TH CENTURY I

16TH CENT FRENCH LITERATURE I

Survey of prose: notably, Rabelais and Montaigne, and poetry, the Grands Rhétoriqueurs, Marot, Scève, the Pléiade, Desportes, the religious poets

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jennifer A Meyer
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• 3 points

THEORY CRYSTALL MAT: ELECTRONS

THEORY OF CRYSTALLINE MATERIAL

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Chris A Marianetti
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• 3 points

PROBABILITY THEORY

Probability

Prerequisites: At least one semester, and preferably two, of calculus. An introductory course (STAT UN1201, preferably) is strongly recommended.
A calculus-based introduction to probability theory. A quick review of multivariate calculus is provided. Topics covered include random variables, conditional probability, expectation, independence, Bayes’ rule, important distributions, joint distributions, moment generating functions, central limit theorem, laws of large numbers and Markov’s inequality.

• Department: Statistics
• S 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Jingchen Liu
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

STATISTICAL INFERENCE

Statistical Inference

Prerequisites: STAT GU4203. At least one semester of calculus is required; two or three semesters are strongly recommended.
Calculus-based introduction to the theory of statistics. Useful distributions, law of large numbers and central limit theorem, point estimation, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals maximum likelihood, likelihood ratio tests, nonparametric procedures, theory of least squares and analysis of variance.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Gabriel Young
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

THIRD YR JAPANESE II:KYOTO

THIRD YEAR JAPANESE

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Orie Maeguchi
  Info
• Instructor: Chihiro Yamaoka
  Info
• Instructor: Miyuki Nishimata
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• 8 points

SEM IN HUMAN FACTORS DESIGN

Prerequisites: (IEOR E4207) or IEOR E4207: Human Factors: Performance or the instructor's permission.

This course is an elective undergraduate students majoring in IE.
This course is an advance seminar in the field of human factors. A significant part of the course will explore methodologies and tools that facilitate the integration of psychological and human factor research in the design of new products and processes. The first part of the seminar will discuss methodological issues associated with human factor research and product evaluation. The second part of the seminary will address specific "user centered" methodologies (ISO, ANSI) that support the design process. The third part of the course will explore alternative product evaluation techniques. Students will be required to critique scientific research articles in class, and to perform a usability evaluation of a redesigned product. This is a seminar and therefore class participation is important. The opportunity to pursue individual interests in human factors (e.g. consumer, financial and medical product design, human computer interaction, stress, error analysis, usability evaluation, augmented cognition) is strongly encouraged.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Leon S Gold
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

HERPETOLOGY

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• R 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew I Palmer
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 14 Info
• 4 points

GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS

Prerequisites:
APMA E3101
,
APMA E3201
or equivalents and
APPH E4200
or equivalent or the instructor's permission.
Fundamental concepts in the dynamics of rotating stratified flows. Geostrophic and hydrostatic balances, potential vorticity, f and beta plane approximations, gravity and Rossby waves, geostrophic adjustment and quasigeostrophy, baroclinic and barotropic instabilities.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam H Sobel
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED MICROECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and MATH UN2010 Students must register for required discussion section.
Corequisites: MATH UN2500,MATH GU4061
The course provides a rigorous introduction to microeconomics. Topics will vary with the instructor but will include consumer theory, producer theory, general equilibrium and welfare, social choice theory, game theory and information economics. This course is strongly recommended for students considering graduate work in economics.  Discussion section required.

• Department: Economics
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan M Elmes
  CULPA: 44 Info
• 4 points

ADV MICROECONOMICS - DISC

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and MATH UN2010 Students must register for lecture course ECON GU4211
Corequisites: MATH UN2500
MATH GU4061
Required discussion section for ECON GU4211 Advanced Microeconomics. The course provides a rigorous introduction to microeconomics. Topics will vary with the instructor but will include consumer theory, producer theory, general equilibrium and welfare, social choice theory, game theory and information economics. This course is strongly recommended for students considering graduate work in economics. Discussion section required.

• Department: Economics
• Instructor: Susan M Elmes
  CULPA: 44 Info
• 0 points

MECH BEHAVIOR OF MATERIALS

Prerequisites: (MSAE E3103)
Recommended preparation: a course in mechanics of materials. Review of states of stress and strain and their relations in elastic, plastic, and viscous materials. Dislocation and elastic-plastic concepts introduced to explain work hardening, various materials-strengthening mechanisms, ductility, and toughness. Macroscopic and microstructural aspects of brittle and ductile fracture mechanics, creep and fatigue phenomena. Case studies used throughout, including flow and fracture of structural alloys, polymers, hybrid materials, composite materials, ceramics, and electronic materials devices. Materials reliability and fracture prevention emphasized.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: William Bailey
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

MECH BEHAVIOR OF MATERIALS

MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF ST

Prerequisites: (MSAE E3103)
Recommended preparation: a course in mechanics of materials. Review of states of stress and strain and their relations in elastic, plastic, and viscous materials. Dislocation and elastic-plastic concepts introduced to explain work hardening, various materials-strengthening mechanisms, ductility, and toughness. Macroscopic and microstructural aspects of brittle and ductile fracture mechanics, creep and fatigue phenomena. Case studies used throughout, including flow and fracture of structural alloys, polymers, hybrid materials, composite materials, ceramics, and electronic materials devices. Materials reliability and fracture prevention emphasized.

• Department: Video Network
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: William Bailey
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

FOURTH YR JAPANESE II:KYOTO

FOURTH YEAR JAPANESE

• Department: Global Programs
• Instructor: Itsuko Nakamura
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• 8 points

GLACIOLOGY

Prerequisites: At least a year of calculus and physics; any 1000-level or 2000-level EESC course. Recommended: EESC2100 (Climate System), EESC2200 (Solid Earth), EESC3201 (Solid Earth Dynamics). Experience using MATLAB.

This course examines processes controlling how glaciers and ice sheets grow, retreat, modify their landscape and interact with the rest of the Earth system. We focus on what controls surface mass balance, the transformation from snow to ice, ice deformation, basal sliding, the temperature and age of ice, the flow of water through ice sheets and glaciers, and the two-way interactions between ice and the oceans, atmosphere and solid earth. Weekly lectures are accompanied by practical computer sessions that equip students with key numerical and data analysis skills used in research of glacial processes.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• R 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Kingslake
  h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

CHINA & THE ISLAMIC WORLD

This seminar explores historical interactions between China and the Islamic world across the greater Indian Ocean region, sometimes called the "maritime Silk Road." It gives special attention to the millions of Muslims in China itself, who have played an important role bridging these diverse spaces and cultures. Complicating conventional definitions of China, Islam, and the nation-state, this course illuminates many under-studied aspects of Asian and global history, Chinese state and society, and international relations.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: John T Chen
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• 4 points

PERSONALITY/SOC-19C RUSS THGHT

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
A seminar reviewing some of the major works of Russian thought, literature, and memoir literature that trace the emergence of intelligentsia ideologies in 19th- and 20th-century Russia. Focuses on discussion of specific texts and traces the adoption and influence of certain western doctrines in Russia, such as idealism, positivism, utopian socialism, Marxism, and various 20th-century currents of thought.
Field(s): MEU

• Department: History
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard S Wortman
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 4 points

MEMORY & EXEC FUNCT:LIFESPAN

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission, plus PSYC UN1001 or PSYC UN1010, or the equivalent. Optimal preparation will include some background in experimental design and statistics.
Memory and executive processing are critical cognitive functions required for successfully navigating everyday life. In lifespan studies, both exhibit relatively long developmental trajectories followed by stasis and then relative decline in old age. Yet, neither memory nor executive function is a unitary construct. Rather, each is comprised of separable components that may show different developmental trajectories and declines or maintenance at older ages. Moreover, memory is malleable and is a reconstruction of past experience, not an exact reproduction. We will discuss a range of topics related to the development, maintenance and potential decline in memory and executive function from infancy through old age.

• Department: Psychology
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: David Friedman
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• 4 points

ARABIC LITERARY PRODUCTION

This course applies current theories to the study of Arabic literary production. It focuses on forms of the 'sacred' and social critique that have developed over time and gathered momentum in the modern period. Although a number of Arab intellectual interventions are used to substantiate literary production, the primary concern of the discussion is narrative. A base for modern narrative was laid in the tenth century
Maqamat
 of Badi al-Zaman al-Hamadhani that led in turn to the growth of this phenomenal achievement that set the stage for narratives of contestation, crisis, and critique.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Muhsin Al-Musawi
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

ADV DESIGN OF STEEL STRUCTURES

Prerequisites: (CIEN E3125) or equivalent.
Review of loads and structural design approaches. Material considerations in structural steel design. Behavior and design of rolled steel, welded, cold-formed light-gauge, and composite concrete/steel members. Design of multi-story buildings and space structures.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• 3 points

ADV DESIGN OF STEEL STRUCTURES

Prerequisites: (CIEN E3125) or equivalent.
Review of loads and structural design approaches. Material considerations in structural steel design. Behavior and design of rolled steel, welded, cold-formed light-gauge, and composite concrete/steel members. Design of multi-story buildings and space structures.

• Department: Video Network
• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• 3 points

REACTOR KINETICS/REACTOR DESGN

Prerequisites: CHEE E3010.
Reaction kinetics, applications to the design of batch and continuous reactors. Multiple reactions, non-isothermal reactors. Analysis and modeling of reactor behavior.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• 3 points

ECONOMICS OF NEW YORK CITY

ECONOMICS OF NYC

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and STAT Un1201
This course takes New York as our laboratory. Economics is about individual choice subject to constraints and the ways that choices sum up to something often much more than the parts. The fundamental feature of any city is the combination of those forces that bring people together and those that push them apart. Thus both physical and social space will be central to our discussions. The underlying theoretical and empirical analysis will touch on spatial aspects of urban economics, regional, and even international economics. We will aim to see these features in New York City taken as a whole, as well as in specific neighborhoods of the city. We will match these theoretical and empirical analyses with readings that reflect close observation of specific subjects. The close observation is meant to inspire you to probe deeply into a topic in order that the tools and approaches of economics may illuminate these issues in a fresh way.

• Department: Economics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Donald R Davis
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 31 Info
• 3 points

ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS I

Prerequisites:
COMS W3134
,
COMS W3136
, or
COMS W3137
, and
COMS W3203
.
Introduction to the design and analysis of efficient algorithms. Topics include models of computation, efficient sorting and searching, algorithms for algebraic problems, graph algorithms, dynamic programming, probabilistic methods, approximation algorithms, and NP-completeness.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Clifford Stein
  CULPA: 31 Wikipedia h-index: 53 Info
• 3 points

ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS I

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136COMS W3137) and (COMS W3203)
Introduction to the design and analysis of efficient algorithms. Topics include models of computation, efficient sorting and searching, algorithms for algebraic problems, graph algorithms, dynamic programming, probabilistic methods, approximation algorithms, and NP-completeness.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Eleni Drinea
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: Christos H Papadimitriou
  CULPA: 11 h-index: 129 Info
• 3 points