RESEARCH PROJECT
Prerequisites: Written permission from instructor and approval from adviser.
Written permission from instructor and approval from adviser. This course may be repeated for credit. A special investigation of a problem in nuclear engineering, medical physics, applied mathematics, applied physics, and/or plasma physics consisting of independent work on the part of the student and embodied in a formal report.
- Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
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Oleg Gang
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Eitan Grinspun
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Irving P Herman
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James Im
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Kyle Mandli
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Chris A Marianetti
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Michael E Mauel
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Gerald A Navratil
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Ismail C Noyan
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Richard M Jr. Osgood
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Aron Pinczuk
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Lorenzo M Polvani
CULPA: 6
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Amiya K Sen
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Adam H Sobel
CULPA: 6
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Marc W Spiegelman
CULPA: 15
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Michael K Tippett
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Latha Venkataraman
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Francesco Volpe
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Michael I Weinstein
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Renata M Wentzcovitch
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chris wiggins
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Shalom J Wind
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Cheng S Wuu
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Yuan Yang
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Instructor:
Nanfang Yu
h-index: 48 Info - 1-6 points
CENTRAL ASIAN POLITICS & SECURITY
Outside observers often portray Central Asia as a region that is in the midst of a host of crises. From spill-overs to Afghanistan to conflict over scarce water resources and violent revolutions, Central Asia is seen as a particularly dangerous place. This course offers an overview of the threats facing the region and how different actors have responded to them. Students will consider whether the dominant narrative on security in Central Asia helps of hinders our understanding of the region, and the extent to which political actors have shaped the discourse on the region to pursue their objectives.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
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Instructor:
Edward J Lemon
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SECURITY/INTL POL-PERSIAN GULF
The course will be divided into two sections. The first will focus on the international dimensions of security, and will situate the Gulf in the Middle East and the world. It will review the consequences of the three major wars fought there over the past three decades before addressing both hard and soft security issues (the latter including climate issues and food security), border disputes, the nuclear issue, and the role both Iran and the U.S. play in the Gulf. Part II will focus on domestic sources of instability, including national identity and the ruling bargain, the rise of the post-rentier state, sectarian conflict, the problem of migrant workers (who currently make up a majority of the population in the GCC states), and the repercussions of the Arab Spring, which has led to an ominous retreat from earlier signs of liberalization.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Lawrence G Potter
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
EXTERNSHIP: CRIMINAL APPEALS
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- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Carl S Kaplan
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- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Robert Sack
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GEOPOLITICS OF OIL & NATURAL GAS
GEOPOLITICS OF OIL & NAT GAS
The course will examine in detail the geopolitics that support U.S. energy security and the geopolitics that may challenge it. The class will focus on U.S. energy relations with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq, as well as with Venezuela, Brazil Russia and Nigeria. We will explore the possibility of a Canada-U.S.-Mexico united energy market and the likely geopolitical effects of a united Northern American energy system. China, and India as major growing consumer markets will also be a point of discussion. We will also look at the various factors that have made the shale oil and gas revolution so successful, the forces that continue to drive the revolution forward despite falling prices The class will discuss the geopolitical effects the U.S. shale revolution has had on the world.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 11 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Natasha Udensiva
Info - 3 points
THEATRE MGMT/ADMINISTRATION I
- Department: Theatre Arts
- F 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- T 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Steven E Chaikelson
CULPA: 5
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Instructor:
Timothy A Hess
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IGNEOUS PROCESSES
Prerequisites: Graduate student status and coursework equivalent to admissions requirements to the Earth and Environmental Sciences PhD program ( one year each of chemistry, physics, calculus) and at least two courses in geology/geophysics/geochemistry disciplines; or permission of the instructor
This course explores igneous and metamorphic processes during creation and evolution of the Earth's crust and mantle lithosphere. We will start with decompression melting and melt transport in the mantle beneath the mid-ocean ridges, focusing on petrological, geochemical, geophysical and geological constraints on these processes. Then, we will take a similar approach to understanding igneous accretion of oceanic crust, and subsequent cooling and alteration via hydrothermal convection.This topic leads naturally into crustal formation during continental rifting. Then we will consider evidence for formation of continental crust via magmatism in volcanic arcs, review constraints on arc magmatic processes, and consider proposed processes for modification of arc crust to produce continental crust. Finally, if there is time, we will review data and ideas on formation of the cratonic upper mantle ("mantle lithosphere"). The course is designed to serve as an accessible breadth course for Earth Science graduate students in any discipline.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Peter Kelemen
CULPA: 8
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SUSTAINABLE RETROFITS
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Michael Adlerstein
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STOCHASTIC MODELING I
Prerequisites: equivalent.
Advanced treatment of stochastic modeling in the context of queueing, reliability, manufacturing, insurance risk, financial engineering and other engineering applications. Review of elements of probability theory; exponential distribution; renewal theory; Wald's equation; Poisson processes. Introduction to both discrete and continuous-time Markov chains; introduction to Brownian motion.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Karl Sigman
CULPA: 15
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STOCHASTIC MODELING I
STOCHASTIC MODELING I REC
Prerequisites: equivalent.
Advanced treatment of stochastic modeling in the context of queueing, reliability, manufacturing, insurance risk, financial engineering and other engineering applications. Review of elements of probability theory; exponential distribution; renewal theory; Wald's equation; Poisson processes. Introduction to both discrete and continuous-time Markov chains; introduction to Brownian motion.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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TOPICS IN COMMUNICATION
TPC:MMWAVE&APPLICATIONS; FOR 5G
Prerequisites: (ELEN E6712) or (ELEN E4702) or (ELEN E4703) or equivalent, or instructor's permission.
Advanced topics in communications, such as turbo codes, LDPC codes, multiuser communications, network coding, cross-layer optimization, cognitive radio. Content may vary from year to year to reflect the latest development in the field.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jacob Sharony
h-index: 25 Info - 3 points
ERROR CORRECTING CODES
Prerequisites: (IEOR E3658)
Main concepts of error control codes. Linear block codes. Elements of algebra: Galois fields. BCH and Reed Solomon codes. Convolutional Codes. Modern, capacity-achieving codes: Low Density Parity Check codes, TURBO codes, and Polar codes. EXIT Charts analysis.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alexei Ashikhmin
Info - 3 points
MID EAST CONFLICTS & GLOBL SEC
This course analyzes the impact of domestic and regional conflicts in the Middle East on global security. Case studies include: Palestine/Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Key concepts include: security sector reform, regime change, conflict management, arms races, nuclear proliferation, counterterrorism and energy security.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Naomi Weinberger
CULPA: 11 Info - 3 points
BAYESIAN MOD MACHINE LEARNING
Prerequisites: Basic calculus, linear algebra, probability, and programming. Basic statistics and machine learning strongly recommended.
Bayesian approaches to machine learning. Topics include mixed-membership models, latent factor models, Bayesian nonparametric methods, probit classification, hidden Markov models, Gaussian mixture models, model learning with mean-field variational inference, scalable inference for Big Data. Applications include image processing, topic modeling, collaborative filtering and recommendation systems.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
John W Paisley
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
BUDGETING AND REPORTING
- Department: Theatre Arts
- F 10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Michael Naumann
Info - 3 points
PRESS-PUBLCTY-AUDIENCE DVLPMNT
- Department: Theatre Arts
- T 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Chris Boneau
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
ISSUES IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT
This is a survey course; students will be exposed to a range of resource persons, ideas and concepts. The objectives of the course are to: improve the understanding of the role and importance of rural development in today's world; develop awareness and conceptual, analytical and operational skills relevant to the social, environmental and economic dimensions of rural development, improve the ability to engage with and influence debates on rural development, and increase the ability to access the rural development literature and community. The course is organized around technical, economic and governance issues.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Pratima Kale
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HIST PRESV THEORY & PRACTICE
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jorge Otero-Pailos
Wikipedia h-index: 12 Info - 3 points
INT'L HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
This course introduces students to international human rights law (IHRL). In what sense are internationally-defined human rights "rights" and in what sense can the instruments which define them be considered "law"? How do we know that a claim is actually a "human right"? What are the relations among international, regional and national institutions in establishing and enforcing (or not) IHRL? Does IHRL represent an encroachment on national sovereignty? Is the future of IHRL regional? What enforcement mechanisms can we use, and who can decide upon their use? Finally, what redress is there for human rights violations, and how effective is it?
Attendance is required in the first class.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- R 9 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yasmine Ergas
CULPA: 2 h-index: 10 Info - 3 points
AGE OF THE ARCHITECT
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Troy C Therrien
Wikipedia h-index: 0 Info - 3 points
TRANS-RURAL AMERICA
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andres Jaque
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