Performance Art

What happens to a body stilled in space, when it takes a shape and holds it? How does its relationship to public space change? How is its transformation attenuated when the body is in formation with other bodies, a breathing still life of people and props? This performance art course will use the question of a body’s stillness as a platform to create interdisciplinary projects that exist between dance, sculpture, collaborative movement, and performance art. Through core readings and case study presentations, we will discuss unique possibilities of representation and challenges this form enables, and the prominent role it has been taking within the visual arts in recent years. Students will engage with a variety of aesthetic strategies and formal techniques such as movement workshops, sensory exercises, video, wearable sculptures, collaboration, scores, and group meditation. Studio work will focus on concrete intersections between the body and the object, and case studies chosen to encourage students to think of movement as a form of resistance, and to consider the political implication of collaborative work that unfolds over time. Performativity in the context of this class is widely defined, and no prior experience is required.

• Department: Visual Arts
• F 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Liz Laser
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

DISCRETE CONTROL SYSTEMS

Digital Control Systems

The course studies control strategies and their implementation in the discrete domain. Introduction with examples; review of continuous control and Laplace Transforms; review of continuous state-space representation and Solutions; review of  difference equations, discretization in time and frequency, the WKS (aka Shannon) sampling theorem, windowing, filters, Transforms: Fourier series, Fourier transform, z-transform and their inverses; Ideal sampler, Sample-and-hold devices, zero, one, polygonal, and slewer hold; Transfer functions, block diagrams, and signal flow graphs for discrete systems; Discrete State-Space transformation, controllabililty, observability, and stability in the state-space domain. Discrete time and z domain analysis, steady state analysis, discrete-time root-locus, and pole-zero placement; Discrete Nyquist stability criterion, Bode plot, Gain and Phase Margin analysis, Nichols chart, bandwidth and sensitivity analysis; Design criteria, self-tuning regulator, Kalman filter, and simulation, followed by advanced stability analysis such as Lyapunov stability; Overview of the discrete Euler-Lagrange equations, discrete maximum and minimum principle, optimal linear discrete regulator design, optimality and dynamic programming.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Homayoon Beigi
  Info
• 3 points

JEWS-LATER ROMAN EMP,300-600CE

This course will explore the background and examine some of the manifestations of the first Jewish cultural explosion after 70 CE. Among the topics discussed: the Late Roman state and the Jews, the rise of the synagogue, the redaction of the Palestinian Talmud and midrashim, the piyyut and the Hekhalot.

• Department: History
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Seth R Schwartz
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

DYNAMIC PRICING/REVENUE MGMT

Focus on capacity allocation, dynamic pricing and revenue management. Perishable and/or limited product and pricing implications. Applications to various industries including service, airlines, hotel, resource rentals, etc.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Vineet Goyal
  h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

The History of Mizrahi Jews

The term “Mizrahi Jews” defines the Jews who lived under Islamic rule throughout the Middle East and North Africa since the Ottoman era. Most of the Jewish settlement in that area began before the Muslim conquest, and since then created a unique heritage that absorbed local Muslim customs and languages alongside the Jewish cultural and religious traditions of those areas.

Jewish presence in these countries of Islam ended almost completely in the mid-20th century after most Jews emigrated to Israel and a minority migrated to other countries. In 1948, the year Israel was founded, about a million Jews lived in the countries of Islam, while in 2024, about 30,000 remained, mostly in Turkey and Iran.

Each of the communities in the region had its unique world of history, culture, and heritage, alongside common similarities shared by most of these communities. However, the research literature on them - referred to as Arab-Jews, Mizrahim, or Sephardi - is still lacking compared to the research on European Jews.

In this course, we will learn about the history, sociology, culture, and intellectual horizons of those Jews who lived in Arab countries and later immigrated to Israel.

The reading will pay special attention to the ways they were absorbed in Israel, to their difficulties and processes of integration - all against the backdrop of the current Israeli-Arab conflict and memories of past coexistence.

By that, we will also examine broader questions concerning decolonization processes, nationalism, identities, secularization, and religion.  

The main part of the second stage of this course will outline the contours of Mizrahi culture in their homelands and later in Israel as it has developed in recent decades in various fields: music, literature, television, cinema, food, theater, art, and more.

In addition to the articles, the students will watch and review films, music shows, speeches, and other primary sources

At the course's end, the students will better understand the unique history, politics, and culture of Mizrahi Jews.

• Department: Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Avraham Shilon
  Info
• 4 points

POLITICS IN INDIA

This course will combine study of long-term historical sociology with more short term understanding of policies and their possible effects. Though its main purpose will be to provide students with an understanding of politics after independence, it will argue, methodologically, that this understanding should be based on a study of historical sociology – plotting long-terms shifts in the structure of social power. The course will start with analyses of the structures of power and ideas about political legitimacy in pre-modern India, and the transformations brought by colonialism into that order. After a brief study of the nature of political order under the colonial state, the courses will focus primarily on the history of the democratic state after independence.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sudipta Kaviraj
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Human-Wildlife Conflict

This course explores the history, nature and underlying causes of human/wildlife conflict from the human perspective. We will emphasize areas of human and wildlife conflict that endanger the existence of wildlife species in significant portions of their range, and consider emerging strategies that may reduce human-wildlife conflict.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Scott Silver
  Info
• 3 points

ROBOTICS STUDIO

Hands-on studio class exposing students to practical aspects of the design, fabrication, and programming of physical robotic systems. Students experience entire robot creation process, covering conceptual design, detailed design, simulation and modeling, digital manufacturing, electronics and sensor design, and software programming.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• W 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Hod Lipson
  Wikipedia h-index: 79 Info
• 3 points

Comics in the World: Graphic Albums & Cu

Comics Journalism

This course will trace the rise of “comics journalism,” a term first coined and popularized by the Maltese-American artist Joe Sacco in the 1990s. Surpassing the political or editorial cartoon in both space and scope, graphic reporting is often aligned with subjective or opinion journalism, or “op-art.” It is rooted in long-form reporting, oral interviews, and embedded research—all communicated via the full arsenal of tools available in the comics medium. Like investigative journalism more broadly, graphic reporting covers the breadth of topics that affect modern life: from on-going wars and conflicts, to mass migration and the immigrant experience, to environmental disasters, trial reporting, the prison industrial-complex, and so on. Often approached as a predominately American phenomenon, practiced by first and foremost by Sacco himself, it is an increasingly dominant subgenre of French-language comics, as can be seen in the runaway success of 
Le photographe 
(2003-2006)
—
artist Emmanuel Guibert’s stunning, multi-album collaboration with the late photojournalist Didier Lefèvre, about the latter’s 1986 humanitarian mission through Pakistan and Soviet-occupied Afghanistan during the Afghan War (1979-1989)—and in a proliferation of French-language terms and formal prizes. While glancing at a prehistory of proto-forms (like illustrated news in the UK and the US or “printed literature” in Europe), this class will reconstitute a narrower French-language lineage of graphic reporting, through early children’s supplements, wartime comics propaganda, and postwar and present-day illustrated magazines.
 
This course also juxtaposes the work of active artist-reporters, with non-journalist illustrators whose work is adjacent to reporting. Class held in English, with primary and secondary materials in English and/or French (with English translation). 
French majors and minors must submit papers in French, as must graduate students in the Department of French.
 This class will also involve a few class trips (TBD, likely to the Museum of the Society of Illustrators and the Rare Books and Manuscript Library), as well as at least one in-person event at the Maison Française.

• Department: French
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Aubrey A Gabel
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING

Fundamentals of sustainable design and manufacturing, metrics of sustainability, analytical tools, principles of life cycle assessment, manufacturing tools, processes and systems energy assessment and minimization in manufacturing, sustainable manufacturing automation, sustainable manufacturing systems, remanufacturing, recycling and reuse.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Sinisa Vukelic
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

Frontiers of Justice

Frontiers of Justice is designed to encourage students and equip them with the skills to become active and effective  “Change Agents” within their academic institutions and larger communities.. Oriented by the question,
What does justice look like?
, this course aims to raise political and social awareness and engagement with the challenges facing New York City and strengthen ties between Columbia University, disadvantaged communities, and city government agencies and community organizations. Through sharing ideas about how to make structural and systemic change in ways that integrate science, law, politics, history,  narrative and community engagement, the course is intended to support students in working to break down racial and ethnic barriers and toward a more fair and just society.

• Department: Psychology
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Dixon
  Info
• 4 points

PSYCH OF CULTURE & DIVERSITY

Prerequisites: the instructors permission; some basic knowledge of social psychology is desirable. A comprehensive examination of how culture and diversity shape psychological processes. The class will explore psychological and political underpinnings of culture and diversity, emphasizing social psychological approaches. Topics include culture and self, cuture and social cognition, group and identity formation, science of diversity, stereotyping, prejudice, and gender. Applications to real-world phenomena discussed.

• Department: Psychology
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Valerie J Purdie-Greenaway
  Wikipedia h-index: 29 Info
• 4 points

TECHNOLOGY,RELIGION,FUTURE

This seminar will examine the history of the impact of technology and media on religion and vice versa before bringing into focus the main event: religion today and in the future. Well read the classics as well as review current writing, video and other media, bringing thinkers such as Eliade, McLuhan, Mumford and Weber into dialogue with the current writing of Kurzweil, Lanier and Taylor, and look at, among other things: ethics in a Virtual World; the relationship between Burning Man, a potential new religion, and technology; the relevance of God and The Rapture in Kurzweils Singularity; and what will become of karma when carbon-based persons merge with silicon-based entities and other advanced technologies.

• Department: Religion
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: David R Kittay
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

ARCHITECTURE CONCEPTS FROM 1968 TO THE P

ARCH:CONTEMP-1968 TO THE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 3 points

ADVANCED HINDI II

Advanced Hindi I and II are third year courses in the Hindi-Urdu program that aim to continue building upon the existing four language skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing) along with grammar and vocabulary in a communicative approach. The objective of these courses is to strengthen students’ language skills and to go beyond them to understand and describe situations and the speech community, understand and discuss Hindi literature and films, news items, T.V. shows and current events. Students will also be given opportunities to work on their areas of interest such as popular culture, professional and research goals in the target language. Students will be expected to expand their vocabulary, enhance grammatical accuracy and develop cultural appropriateness through an enthusiastic participation in classroom activities and immersing themselves in the speech community outside. This course will be taught in the target language. All kinds of conversations such as daily life, on social/public interests’ topics as well as on academic interests, will occur in the target language. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Rakesh Ranjan
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 5 points

TOPICS IN SOFT MATERIALS

Self-contained treatments of selected topics in soft materials (e.g. polymers, colloids, amphiphiles, liquid crystals, glasses, powders). Topics and instructor may change from year to year. Intended for junior/senior level undergraduates and graduate students in engineering and the physical sciences.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Christopher J Durning
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

Climate Finance

In lieu of the failure of legislatures to pass comprehensive carbon taxes, there is growing pressure on the financial system to address the risks of global warming.  One set of pressures is to account for the heightened physical risks due to extreme weather events and potential climate tipping points.  Another set of pressures are to find approaches to incentivize corporations to meet the goals set out in the Paris Treaty of 2015.  These approaches include (1) mandates or restrictions to only hold companies with decarbonization plans, (2) development of negative emissions technologies such as direct-air capture and (3) promotion of natural capital markets that can be used to offset carbon emissions.  Moreover, financial markets also provide crucial information on expectations and plans of economic agents regarding climate change.  This course will cover both models and empirical methodologies that are necessary to assess the role of the financial system in addressing global warming.

• Department: Economics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• 3 points

AIR-SEA INTERACTION

Prerequisites: solid background in mathematics, physics, and chemistry. Some background in fluid mechanics (as in EESC W4925/APPH E4200) or the instructors permission. An overview of oceanic and atmospheric boundary layers including fluxes of momentum, heat, mass, (eg. moisture salt) and gases between the ocean and atmosphere; vertical distribution of energy sources and sinks at the interface including the importance of surface currents; forced upper ocean dynamics, the role of surface waves on the air-sea exchange processes and ocean mixed layer processes.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher J Zappa
  h-index: 31 Info
• 3 points

ASSET ALLOCATION

Models for pricing and hedging equity, fixed-income, credit-derivative securities, standard tools for hedging and risk management, models and theoretical foundations for pricing equity options (standard European, American equity options, Asian options), standard Black-Scholes model (with multiasset extension), asset allocation, portfolio optimization, investments over longtime horizons, and pricing of fixed-income derivatives (Ho-Lee, Black-Derman-Toy, Heath-Jarrow-Morton interest rate model).

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Christopher A Perez
  Info
• 3 points

RECORDED SOUND

Prerequisites: The instructors permission. As music moves into the 21st century, we find ourselves surrounded by an ever-evolving landscape of technological capability. The world of music, and the music industry itself, is changing rapidly, and with that change comes the opening – and closing – of doorways of possibility. What does this shift mean for today’s practicing artist or composer? With big label recording studios signing and nurturing fewer and fewer artists, it seems certain that, today, musicians who want to record and distribute their music need to be able to do much of the recording and production work on their own. But where does one go to learn how to do this – to learn not only the “how to” part of music production, but the historical underpinnings and the development of the music production industry as well? How does one develop a comprehensive framework within which they can place their own artistic efforts? How does one learn to understand what they hear, re-create what they like and develop their own style? This class, “Recorded Sound,” aims to be the answer. It’s goal is to teach artists how to listen critically to music from across history and genres in order to identify the production techniques that they hear, and reproduce those elements using modern technology so they can be incorporated into the artist’s own musical works.

• Department: Music
• T 10:10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Anna Meadors
  Info
• 3 points

ADV SEM CURRENT PERS THRY

• Department: Psychology
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Svetlana Komissarouk
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 3 Info
• 3 points

INDO-TIBETAN BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY

Examination of topics in the religious philosophy of Tibet.

• Department: Religion
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas F Yarnall
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

INDO-TIBETAN BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY

Examination of topics in the religious philosophy of Tibet.

• Department: Religion
• Instructor: Thomas F Yarnall
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

Jews in the Ancient City: Politics and M

This course will examine the experience of Jews in the cities of the eastern Roman Empire, offering a challenge to modern hypotheses of Jewish corporate stability in that setting and contributing to modern discussions of the relations between the Roman state, Greek cities, and Jewish and Christian subjects.

• Department: History
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Seth R Schwartz
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

READINGS IN URDU LIT

Two semesters of prior coursework in Urdu for Heritage Speakers (Urdu for Heritage Speakers I and II) or one semester of Advanced Urdu or the instructor’s permission. This course is a literary course, with in-depth exposure to some of the finest works of classical and modern Urdu poetry i.e. genres of
ghazal
 and 
nazm
. This course is open for both undergraduates and graduates. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Aftab Ahmad
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

CINEMA&COLONIALISM IN SOUTH ASIA

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Debashree Mukherjee
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 5 Info
• 4 points

POLYMER PHYSICS

Senior undergraduate/first-year graduate course on the physics of polymer systems. Topics include scaling behavior of chains under different conditions, mixing thermodynamics, networks and geation, polymer dynamics, including retation and entanglements. Special topics: nanocomposites.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sanat Kumar
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 79 Info
• 3 points

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION FOR ENG

Convex Optimization for EE

Theory of convex optimization; numerical algorithms; applications in circuits, communications, control, signal processing and power systems.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Marco Moretti
  Info
• 3 points

BUSINESS ANALYTICS

This course focuses on how to identify, evaluate, and capture business analytic opportunities that create value. The course covers basic analytic methods alongside case studies on organizations that successfully deployed these techniques. The first part of the course is on using data to develop insights and predictive capabilities with machine learning techniques. The second part focuses on the use of A/B testing, causal inference, ethics, and optimization to support decision-making.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Adam N Elmachtoub
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Engineering of biochemical and microbiological reaction systems. Kinetics, reactor analysis, and design of batch and continuous fermentation and enzyme processes. Recovery and separations in biochemical engineering systems.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Allie Obermeyer
  h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

Biodiversity and the Climate Crisis

BIODIVERSITY & THE CLIMAT

The ‘twin crises’ of biodiversity and climate change are inextricably linked. Biodiversity, much like climate, is a fundamental characteristic of our Earth system and includes not only individual plant, animal, and microbial species, but also their ecological interactions at local, regional, and global scales. Climate change is exacerbating biodiversity loss, which further reduces ecosystem resilience and efficiency, jeopardizing the delivery of services essential to human well-being such as water purification, flood control, soil fertility, pollination and seed dispersal, temperature moderation, direct material and non-material benefits, carbon sequestration, control of non-indigenous species, and regulation of zoonotic diseases. In this course we will use a combination of lectures, student-led discussions, and research papers to explore these interconnections, focusing on food security, habitat types, tipping points, equity, and how biodiversity can both support and be affected by climate mitigation and adaption strategies.

• Department: Earth Institute
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenna M Lawrence
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: A LEGAL FRAMEWORK

EJ: A LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR

The primary goals of environmental justice advocacy are to ensure the equitable treatment and meaningful participation of historically impacted communities in environmental and climate related matters. The movement is deeply rooted in civil rights, human rights, and environmental law. In this course, we will explore the legal framework that advances environmental justice on the local, state, and federal levels. Our course will also explore the interdependent relationship between environmental justice and sustainability.  Students will take a hands-on approach to environmental justice and will develop key advocacy skills that practitioners use for the communities that they serve. This course will engage students in a critical analysis of existing environmental justice issues to develop a holistic approach for more effective advocacy.

• Department: Earth Institute
• F noon-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Christine Appah-Gyamfi
  Info
• 3 points

THE DIRECTION OF TIME

A survey of the various attempts to reconcile the macroscopic directionality of time with the time-reversibility of the fundamental laws of physics. The second law of thermodynamics and the concept of entropy, statistical mechanics, cosmological problems, the problems of memory, the possibility of multiple time direction.

• Department: Philosophy
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: David Albert
  CULPA: 32 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• 3 points

RE-SCALING HOUSING: ENERGY, ECONOMY, POL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Bell
  Wikipedia h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

Climate and Sustainable Water Systems

CLIM & SUSTAINABLE WATER

Sustainable water supply, essential for life, is complex and challenging, particularly in the context of climate change. Changing climate affects the availability and quality of water globally. In turn, human use of water produces greenhouse gasses (GHGs) that further exacerbate climate change. Spanning global and individual scale, this course will examine changing interactions of climate and water, implications for human water supply, and steps toward greater sustainability.

Part 1
of the course establishes baseline understanding of natural and human water systems in the context of climate change. What it takes to transform water from its source to “fit-for-purpose” water for domestic, commercial, industrial, and agricultural uses will be examined. The implications of climate change for water systems and the impacts of water development on climate change will also be assessed. The growing challenges of water security, water quality, and water affordability/accessibility will be considered, along with institutional models for water delivery.

Part 2
will delve into pathways toward more sustainable water supplies, with emphasis on safe and affordable drinking water. Means of adaptation and resilience will be explored, from evolving human uses to optimizing water storage and delivery. Throughout Part 2, case studies will bring concepts to reality, engaging students in further exploring strategies and actions to address crucial issues for water sustainability. Practicing leaders from the water field will bring real-world perspectives as guest speakers, sharing direct experience with a specific problem, and engaging with the class in a broader discussion of the issues, led by the instructor.

• Department: Earth Institute
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Cindy Paulson
  Info
• 3 points

The science of me, you and us: understan

Emotions, self and social

Prerequisite:
 Course equivalents of at least two of the following  courses:  UN1001, UN2430,  UN2630, UN3410, UN3480, UN3485; and/or instructor's permission.

Why do we feel the way we do, how do we understand ourselves and others, and how does this relate to our social relationships?  In this course, we tackle questions like these using an integrative approach that blends social psychology, affective science and neuroscience to uncover how our emotions and social interactions work. To do this, we will draw on multiple types of data to examine human behavior at multiple levels, connecting our social and emotional lives (what we experience and how we act) to cognitive processes (how our minds process information) and underlying neural mechanisms (what's happening in the brain).  Across the semester, the course is split into three parts, each one building on insights from the prior section.  Part 1 starts with the premise that emotions are at the root of everything we do, exploring where they come from and how we can understand and manage them.  Part 2 turns the focus outwards, examining how we make sense of other people and form connections with them.  With these two foundational building blocks in place, Part 3 uses what we have learned to understand what happens when things go awry and we end up with momentary - or long-lasting - bouts of anxiety, depression, or loneliness – and what we can do to overcome them and lead a happy and fulfilling life.  The overarching goal is to build a nuanced understanding of how and why we think and feel the way we do – about ourselves, other people and our connections to them – that can inform both scientific and personal explorations of what it means to be human.

• Department: Psychology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Kevin Ochsner
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 86 Info
• 3 points

RECOMBINANT URBANISM

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: David G Shane
  Info
• 3 points

WRITERS ON HISTORY: THOMAS MANN

WRITERS ON HISTORY:THOMAS

This seminar is devoted to examining the work of writers who address the nature and course of history in their imaginative and non-fiction work. This semester we will be exploring the work of Thomas Mann in the context of the First and Second World Wars. This will include his relation to the German “conservative revolution,” the Weimar political experience, and the United States, where he spent several years in exile. We will pay particular attention to his conceptions of modern history as expressed in his novels.

• Department: History
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Mark Lilla
  CULPA: 57 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

WRITERS ON HISTORY: THOMAS MANN

WRITERS ON HISTORY:THOMAS

This seminar is devoted to examining the work of writers who address the nature and course of history in their imaginative and non-fiction work. This semester we will be exploring the work of Thomas Mann in the context of the First and Second World Wars. This will include his relation to the German “conservative revolution,” the Weimar political experience, and the United States, where he spent several years in exile. We will pay particular attention to his conceptions of modern history as expressed in his novels.

• Department: Auditing
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Mark Lilla
  CULPA: 57 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

Urban Waters: ecologies, inequalities, a

How does climate change transform how we read, write and tell urban histories? How can the so-called Anthropocene change how we do urban ethnography? How does it affect how we imagine viable, desirable urban futures? Finally, how do we reassess agency, social change, and collective life in the face of challenges brought about by the entanglement of human and non-human actions in phenomena like melting icebergs, air pollution, viruses and pandemics, floods and landslides, or rising sea levels? Addressing these questions requires expanding the temporal and spatial scopes and scales usually deployed in modern urban histories. With this end in mind, we will engage with readings that explore how ports, landfills, pollution, rivers, lakes, pipes and wells, wastewater, beaches and disasters constitute sites of city making in different cities and time periods, and therefore of instituting, reproducing or perpetuating inequalities. We will focus mostly but not exclusively on case studies of Latin American cities, drawing scholarly work in history, anthropology, social and environmental history, urban political ecology, geography, science and technology studies, architecture, urbanism and urban planning.

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Mariana Cavalcanti
  Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED PROF PRACTICE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Herrmann
  Info
• 3 points

RACE:TANGLED HIST-BIOL CONCEPT

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jill S Shapiro
  CULPA: 46 Info
• 4 points

INTRO TO FINANCIAL ENGINEERING

Prerequisite(s): IEOR E4106 or E3106. Required for undergraduate students majoring in OR:FE. Introduction to investment and financial instruments via portfolio theory and derivative securities, using basic operations research/engineering methodology. Portfolio theory, arbitrage; Markowitz model, market equilibrium, and the capital asset pricing model. General models for asset price fluctuations in discrete and continuous time. Elementary introduction to Brownian motion and geometric Brownian motion. Option theory; Black-Scholes equation and call option formula. Computational methods such as Monte Carlo simulation.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: David D Yao
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Prior knowledge of Python is recommended. Provides a broad understanding of the basic techniques for building intelligent computer systems. Topics include state-space problem representations, problem reduction and and-or graphs, game playing and heuristic search, predicate calculus, and resolution theorem proving, AI systems and languages for knowledge representation, machine learning and concept formation and other topics such as natural language processing may be included as time permits.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Tony B Dear
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS

Digital communications for both point-to-point and switched applications is further developed. Optimum receiver structures and transmitter signal shaping for both binary and M-ary signal transmission. An introduction to block codes and convolutional codes, with application to space communications.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexei Ashikhmin
  Info
• 3 points

MONTE CARLO SIMULATION METHODS

Monte Carlo Simulation

This graduate course is only for M.S. Program in Financial Engineering students. Multivariate random number generation, bootstrapping, Monte Carlo simulation, efficiency improvement techniques. Simulation output analysis, Markov-chain Monte Carlo. Applications to financial engineering. Introduction to financial engineering simulation software and exposure to modeling with real financial data. Note: Students who have taken IEOR E4404 Simulation may not register for this course for credit.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Ali Hirsa
  h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

Photo III: Photobook

This course will explore the photobook as a central medium of contemporary lens-based practice. Students are exposed to a variety of approaches and viewpoints through historical lectures, class trips, and presentations by guest photographers, curators, critics, editors, graphic designers, etc. Each student will propose, develop, and produce editioned books during this course. This course requires reading, independent research, and work outside of class time.

• Department: Visual Arts
• MW 9:30 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Ben Salesse
  Info
• 3 points

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Computational approaches to the analysis, understanding, and generation of natural language text at scale. Emphasis on machine learning techniques for NLP, including deep learning and large language models. Applications may include information extraction, sentiment analysis, question answering, summarization, machine translation, and conversational AI. Discussion of datasets, benchmarking and evaluation, interpretability, and ethical considerations.
Due to significant overlap in content, only one of COMS 4705 or Barnard COMS 3705BC may be taken for credit.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Daniel Bauer
  CULPA: 17 h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

FE CONTINUOUS TIME MODELS

FE: CONTINUOUS TIME MODEL

This graduate course is only for MS program in FE students. Modeling, analysis, and computation of derivative securities. Applications of stochastic calculus and stochastic differential equations. Numerical techniques: finite-difference, binomial method, and Monte Carlo.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Xunyu Zhou
  h-index: 54 Info
• 3 points

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND TIME SERIES

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS & TIME SE

This graduate course is only for M.S. Program in Financial Engineering students. Empirical analysis of asset prices: heavy tails, test of the predictability of stock returns. Financial time series: ARMA, stochastic volatility, and GARCH models. Regression models: linear regression and test of CAPM, non-linear regression and fitting of term structures.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Agostino Capponi
  h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

FINANCE AND THE REAL ECONOMY

Prerequisites: (Econ UN3211) and (ECON UN3213) and (STAT UN1201) This course uses economic theory and empirical evidence to study the links between financial markets and the real economy. We will consider questions such as: What is the welfare role of finance? How do financial markets affect consumers and firms? How do shocks to the financial system transmit to the real economy? How do financial markets impact inequality?

• Department: Economics
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Matthieu Gomez
  h-index: 4 Info
• 3 points

OCCULT IN THE MUSLIM PAST

This seminar is designed to explore the rich but sorely understudied occult scientific lore in the pre-modern Islamic world. For over a millennium, from the seventh through even the twenty-first century, and spanning a broad geographical spectrum from the Nile to Oxus, different forms and praxis of occult scientific knowledge marked intellectual and political endeavors, everyday lives and customs, and faith-based matters of individuals constituting the so-called Islamicate world. However, despite the impressive array of textual, material, and visual sources coming down to us from the Muslim past, the topic has been severely marginalized under the post-Enlightenment definitions of scientific knowledge, which also shaped how the history of sciences in the Islamicate world was written in the last century. One of this seminar’s main objectives is to rehabilitate such biased perspectives through a grand tour of occult knowledge and practice appealed in the pre-modern Muslim world.

Over the semester, by relying on a set of secondary studies and translated primary sources, we will revisit the question of the marginalization of Islamicate occult sciences, explore the actors’ definitions and discussions about the epistemic value of these sciences, trace their social and political implications in everyday life and imperial politics, and examine the key textual, technical, and material aspects of the occult tradition. In several of our sessions, we will have hands-on practice to better familiarize ourselves with the instructed techniques and methods in different branches of occult sciences. We will also regularly visit the Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library to view texts and materials available in our collection.

• Department: History
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Tunc Sen
  Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED PERSIAN II

While helping students advance their levels of oral and written expression, this course focuses on literature of the modern and medieval periods, with particular emphasis on the development of the modern novella and traditional and new forms of poetry. In addition to literature, students are introduced to a wide variety of genres from political and cultural essays and blogs to newspaper translations of the early 20th century. They will be further exposed to ta?rof in reference to a wide variety of socio-cultural contexts and be expected to use ta?rof in class conversations. Students will be exposed to popular artists and their works and satirical websites for insight into contemporary Iranian culture and politics. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Saeed Honarmand
  Info
• 3 points

PRINC OF QUANT POL RESEARCH 2

Prerequisites: POLS W4710 or the equivalent. 

This course will
intensively
examine some of the data analysis methods which deal with problems occurring in the use of multiple regression analysis.  It will stress computer applications and cover, as needed, data coding and data processing. Emphasis will also be placed on research design and
writing research reports
. 

The course assumes that students are familiar with basic statistics, inference, and multiple regression analysis and have analyzed data using computer software (e.g., any standard statistical programs on micro-computers or larger machines -- Stata, “R”, SPSS, SAS, etc.). Students will be instructed on the use of the microcomputers and the R and Stata statistical software program(s) available as freeware (R) or in the CUIT computer labs (Stata; several campus locations) or through SIPA. The lectures and required discussion section will emphasize the use of “R.” Students may use whatever computer programs they prefer for all data analysis for the course. There may be an
additional fee
for classroom instructional materials.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin K Goodrich
  Info
• 4 points

PRINC OF QUANT POL RESEARCH 2-DISC

PRINC OF QUANT POL RES 2-

This is the required discussion section for
POLS GU4712.

• Department: Political Science
• T 12:10 p.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Aaron J Christensen
  Info
• 0 points

RE-THINKING BIM

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph A Brennan
  Info
• 3 points

GAP I:DESIGN + TYPOGRAPHY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Yoonjai Choi
  Info
• 3 points

Imag(in)ing the Ottoman Empire: A visual

“Imag(in)ing the Ottoman Empire: A visual history, 18th-20th centuries” is an undergraduate/graduate seminar focusing on visual representations of the Ottoman Empire during the last two centuries of its existence, from the early eighteenth to the early twentieth century. The objective is to study the development of visual representations both
by
and
about
the Empire, from Ottoman miniatures to early European paintings, and from the surge of Western illustrated magazines to the local uses of photography. The seminar’s chronological thread will be complemented by a thematic structure designed to explore different aspects and influences concerning the production and diffusion of images: curiosity, documentation, exoticism, propaganda, orientalism, modernity, self-fashioning, eroticism, policing, to name just a few.

• Department: History
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Edhem Eldem
  Info
• 4 points

Topics in Moral Psychology

FREUD

Intensive study of a particular topic in Moral Psychology.

• Department: Philosophy @Barnard
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Francey Russell
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

INTRO-IMPLIED VOLATILITY SMILE

BEYOND BLACK-SCHOLES: IMPLIED

During the past 15 years the behavior of market options prices have shown systematic deviations from the classic Black-Scholes model. Examines the empirical behavior of implied volatilities, in particular the volatility smile that now characterizes most markets, the mathematics and intuition behind new models that can account for the smile, and their consequences for hedging and valuation.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• R 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Amal Moussa
  h-index: 7 Info
• 3 points

MACHINE LEARNING FOR DATA SCI

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: John W Paisley
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN QUANT FINANCE

Comp. Portfolio Construct

Selected topics of interest in the area of quantitative finance. Offerings vary each year; some topics include energy derivatives, experimental finance, foreign exchange and related derivative instruments, inflation derivatives, hedge fund management, modeling equity derivatives in Java, mortgage-backed securities, numerical solutions of partial differential equations, quantitative portfolio management, risk management, trade and technology in financial markets.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Sridhar Gollamudi
  Info
• 1.5 points

Annie Ernaux: Writing as a Knife

This course offers a deep dive into French contemporary novelist Annie Ernaux’s auto-socio-biographical fiction. It does so through close readings of some of her major works, organized thematically and across Ernaux’s oeuvre. Close readings of texts will be paired with research notes and recent film adaptations, sociological and theoretical work that has inspired Ernaux, her growing critical reception (amplified by her recent Nobel prize), as well as other writers whom she has inspired. Themes covered include: writing impersonally in the first person; what is auto-socio-biography; exploring women’s desire and sexuality; Ernaux’s feminism and political militancy; ethnographies of contemporary France and the baby-boomer generation; history, time, and memory. Throughout, we will consider what kind of genre Ernaux’s writing is, and what writing as a knife can do. Class taught in French (if you are unsure about whether you have the required level please consult with instructor).

• Department: French
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Thomas Dodman
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

QUANT METH 2 STAT THEO&CAUS INF

This course is the second course in the graduate-level sequence on quantitative political methodology offered in the Department of Political Science. Students will learn (1) a framework and methodologies for making causal inferences from experimental and observational data, and (2) statistical theories essential for causal inference. Topics include randomized experiments, estimation under ignorability, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity, difference-indifferences, and causal inference with panel data. We also cover statistical theories, such as theories of ordinary least squares and maximum likelihood estimation, by connecting them to causal inference methods. This course builds on the materials covered in POLS 4700 and 4720 or theirequivalent (i.e., probability, statistics, linear regression, and logistic regression).

• Department: Political Science
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Naoki Egami
  h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

QUANTITATIVE METHODS 2 DISCUSSION

QUANT METH 2-DISC

This is the required discussion section for 
POLS GU4722.

• Department: Political Science
• F 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Yinghui Zhou
  Info
• 0 points

QUANT METH 4 TOPICS IN METHODS

This course is the fourth course in the graduate-level sequence on quantitative political methodology offered in the Department of Political Science. Students will learn a variety of advanced topics in quantitative methods for descriptive and causal inference, such as simulated-data experimentation, statistical graphics, experimental design, Bayesian inference, multilevel modeling, ideal-point and measurement-error models, and time/spatial/network models.  This course builds on the materials covered in POLS 4700, 4720, 4722, and 4724, or their equivalent courses (i.e., probability, statistics, linear regression, logistic regression, causal inference with observational and experimental data, and knowledge of the statistical computing environment R).

• Department: Political Science
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Gelman
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 112 Info
• 4 points

QUANTITATIVE METHODS 4 DISCUSSION

QUANTITATIVE METH 4 DISCU

This is the required discussion section for 
POLS GU4726.

• Department: Political Science
• W 6:10 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Manu S Burson
  Info
• 0 points

Sources and Methods in Islamic History

Source + Method Islamic H

This course trains students in approaching sources in Arabic and Persian from the premodern period. Depending on interest and experience, the course will expand to include Turkic and Hindvi/Urdu as well too. Students will gain a solid understanding of the wide range of historical writings in these languages, the conceptual and methodological problems involved in working with each, and how this source base changed over the centuries all the while reading exemplary historical studies that creatively and proficiently engaged with these materials. Students will gain proficiency in archival research while also reading a wide swathe of primary texts in the target languages (or in translation if students lack the proper language training). Upper intermediate Arabic and/or Persian preferred.

• Department: History
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Ali Karjoo-Ravary
  Info
• 4 points

GAME THEORY & POLIT THEORY

Prerequisites: POLS GU4700 or equivalent level of calculus. Introduction to noncooperative game theory and its application to strategic situations in politics. Topics include solution concepts, asymmetric information, and incomplete information. Students should have taken POLS GU4700 or have equivalent background in calculus. Permission of instructor required.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: John Huber
  CULPA: 15 h-index: 31 Info
• 4 points

GAME THEORY & POL THEORY-DISC

This is the required discussion section for POLS GU4730.

• Department: Political Science
• F 2:10 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Sirine S Kadi
  Info
• 0 points

Computer Vision II: Learning

Advanced course in computer vision. Topics include convolutional networks and back-propagation, object and action recognition, self-supervised and few-shot learning, image synthesis and generative models, object tracking, vision and language, vision and audio, 3D representations, interpretability, and bias, ethics, and media deception.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Carl Vondrick
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

COMPUT METHODS IN FINANCE

MS IEOR students only. Application of various computational methods/techniques in quantitative/computational finance. Transform techniques: fast Fourier transform for data de-noising and pricing, finite difference methods for partial differential equations (PDE), partial integro-differential equations (PIDE), Monte-Carlo simulation techniques in finance, and calibration techniques, filtering and parameter estimation techniques. Computational platform will be C++/Java/Python/Matlab/R.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• R 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Alireza Javaheri
  Info
• 3 points

ALGORITHMIC TRADING

Prerequisite(s): IEOR E4700. Large and amorphous collection of subjects ranging from the study of market microstructure, to the analysis of optimal trading strategies, to the development of computerized, high-frequency trading strategies. Analysis of these subjects, the scientific and practical issues they involve, and the extensive body of academic literature they have spawned. Attempt to understand and uncover the economic and financial mechanisms that drive and ultimately relate them.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Christopher A Perez
  Info
• 3 points

AI Applications in Finance

Data, models, visuals; various facets of AI, applications in finance; areas: fund, manager, security selection, asset allocation, risk management within asset management; fraud detection and prevention; climate finance and risk; data-driven real estate finance; cutting-edge techniques: machine learning, deep learning in computational, quantitative finance; concepts: explainability, interpretability, adversarial machine learning, resilience of AI systems; industry utilization

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• S 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Ali Hirsa
  h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

Art and Theory in a Global Context

Art & Theory in Global Co

What is “globalization”? How does it change the way we think about or show art today? What role does film and media play in it? How has critical theory itself assumed new forms in this configuration moving outside post-war Europe and America? How have these processes helped change with the very idea of ‘contemporary art’? What then might a transnational critical theory in art and in thinking look like today or in the 21st century? In this course we will examine this cluster of questions from a number of different angles, starting with new questions about borders, displacements, translations and minorities, and the ways they have cut across and figured in different regions, in Europe or America, as elsewhere. In the course of our investigations, we will look in particular at two areas in which these questions are being raised today -- in Asia and in Africa and its diasporas. The course is thus inter-disciplinary in nature and is open to students in different fields and areas where these issues are now being discussed.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: John Rajchman
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Religion in Empire

This seminar explores religious difference in imperial states. It does so by comparing multiple theories of imperial rule through case studies from the Russian and Chinese Qing empires. The empirical focus of this course is accordingly on the interface between communities of religious practice and state institutions, rather than these communities on their own terms. After introducing several approaches to studying empire, and examining each empire’s state religion and institutions of religious governance, much of the remainder of the course will be devoted to the Muslim and Buddhist minorities who inhabited both empires. Through these and other examples this course seeks to understand religion’s place in the social fabric of empire, as well as its role in their collapse.

• Department: Anthropology
• W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: James Meador
  Info
• 4 points

"Exploring ""The Tale of Genji"": Themes

Exploring The Tale of Gen

This seminar offers an in-depth exploration of Murasaki Shikibu’s “The Tale of Genji” (Genji monogatari, c. 1008), one of the most significant works in the Japanese literary canon. Through a close reading and discussion of the primary text, which we will read in its entirety in English translation, the students will gain an appreciation and understanding of its central themes, socio-cultural background, narrative structuring, and various aesthetic considerations. A number of secondary materials and introduction to several works of reception will further help to contextualize its enduring influence to this day.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Ekaterina Komova
  Info
• 4 points

GLOBALIZATION & ITS RISKS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 The world is being transformed by dramatic increases in flows of people, goods and services across nations. Globalization has the potential for enormous gains but is also associated to serious risks. The gains are related to international commerce where the industrial countries dominate, while the risks involve the global environment, poverty and the satisfaction of basic needs that affect in great measure the developing nations. Both are linked to a historical division of the world into the North and the South-the industrial and the developing nations. Key to future evolution are (1) the creation of new markets that trade privately produced public goods, such as knowledge and greenhouse gas emissions, as in the Kyoto Protocol; (2) the updating of the Breton Woods Institutions, including the creation of a Knowledge Bank and an International Bank for Environmental Settlements.

• Department: Economics
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Graciela Chichilnisky
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTATIONAL GENOMICS

Computational techniques for analyzing genomic data including DNA, RNA, protein and gene expression data. Basic concepts in molecular biology relevant to these analyses. Emphasis on techniques from artificial intelligence and machine learning. String-matching algorithms, dynamic programming, hidden Markov models, expectation-maximization, neural networks, clustering algorithms, support vector machines. Students with life sciences backgrounds who satisfy the prerequisites are encouraged to enroll.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Itsik Pe'er
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

POLITICS IN THE LAB

The purpose of this course is to give students the chance to write an original research paper applying the methodology of lab experiments to political science questions. Experiments have become a standard tool in testing and refining theories, but designing and interpreting economic experiments requires care and practice.

• Department: Political Science
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Alessandra Casella
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia h-index: 30 Info
• 4 points

Reading Images in Edo-period Books

Edo-period Illustr. Books

A colloquium devoted to reading illustrated books from Edo-period Japan. Texts to be covered will include Saga-bon illustrated tales, illustrated guidebooks and gazetteers (
meisho zue
), painting manuals, and poetry, such as
Ehon Tōshi-sen
, illustrated by Katsushika Hokusai. Reading and translating passages written in premodern Japanese scripts variously called hentaigana, kuzushiji, and sōsho will be the central activity of the course, but we will also consider such themes as the development of woodblock printing, the book as a format, and how the content both reflects and shapes knowledge of the subjects and themes with which they are concerned. If possible we will examine firsthand printed books in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Freer Gallery, and New York Public Library but will also take advantage of ample hi-res interactive resources available through each of these institutions.

Familiarity with Classical Japanese will be useful.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew P McKelway
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 4 points

MACHINE LEARNING

Topics from generative and discriminative machine learning including least squares methods, support vector machines, kernel methods, neural networks, Gaussian distributions, linear classification, linear regression, maximum likelihood, exponential family distributions, Bayesian networks, Bayesian inference, mixture models, the EM algorithm, graphical models and hidden Markov models. Algorithms implemented in MATLAB.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Nakul Verma
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED OLD ENGLISH

The course description will remain the same.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Patricia Dailey
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 points

Financial Engineering Practitioners Semi

FE Seminar Series

Degree requirement for all MSFE first-year students. Topics in Financial Engineering. Past seminar topics include Evolving Financial Intermediation, Measuring and Using Trading Algorithms Effectively, Path-Dependent Volatility, Artificial Intelligence and Data Science in modern financial decision making, Risk-Based Performance Attribution, and Financial Machine Learning. Meets select Monday evenings.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• 0 points