ACCUSATION

This course examines the politics and practices of collective accusation in comparative perspective. It treats these phenomena in their relation to processes of political and economic transition, to discourses of crisis, and to the practices of rule by which the idea of exception is made the grounds for extreme claims on and for the social body-usually, but not exclusively, enacted through forms of expulsion. We will consider the various theoretical perspectives through which forms of collective accusation have been addressed, focusing on psychoanalytic, structural functional, and poststructuralist readings. In doing so, we will also investigate the difference and possible continuities between the forms and logics of accusation that operate in totalitarian as well as liberal regimes. Course readings will include both literary and critical texts.

• Department: Anthropology
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Rosalind Morris
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Zora

Zora Neale Hurston—Barnard College ‘28 and a once-graduate student in Columbia’s department of Anthropology—was a pioneering chronicler of Black folklore, a student of Black expression, and a creative imaginer of Black worlds via her novels, short stories, plays and poetry. From her travels throughout the U.S. South, to Haiti, Jamaica, and beyond, Hurston took as her mission a diasporic articulation of Black life in the Americas. In this seminar, we ask what a deep reading of Hurston’s oeuvre can teach us about the history of Anthropology, about the blurry borders between fiction and ethnography, and about the legacies that her work leaves—in communities of scholarly practice and beyond.

• Department: Anthropology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Vanessa L Agard-Jones
  CULPA: 3 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
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• 1 points

WATER RESOURCES AND CLIMATE

This course will cover the science needed to understand hydrology, the link between hydrology and climate, and why climate change will affect the hydrologic cycle. It will then look at what changes have occurred in the past, and what changes are projected for the future and how these changes may affect other sectors, such as agriculture. The final module of the course will look at adaptation measures to adapt to climate change. The course will be formatted to be a mixture of lectures and seminars, with the lecture portion used to introduce scientific concepts and the seminar portion to discuss and evaluate the readings assigned. At the end of this course, students will the hydrologic cycle and its connection to climate, how changes in climate have affected/will affect how much water is available on land, how water impacts ecosystem services, and how to diagnose the cause of a climate-related water problem and develop solutions to address it.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 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

APPLIED FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS

Introduction to modern tools in functional analysis that are used in the analysis of deterministic and stochastic partial differential equations and in the analysis of numerical methods: metric and normed spaces. Banach space of continuous functions, measurable spaces, the contraction mapping theorem, Banach and Hilbert spaces bounded linear operators on Hilbert spaces and their spectral decomposition, and time permitting distributions and Fourier transforms.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Michael I Weinstein
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 47 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS I

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

Covers the following topics: fundamentals of probability theory and statistical inference used in engineering and applied science; Probabilistic models, random variables, useful distributions, expectations, law of large numbers, central limit theorem; Statistical inference: pint and confidence interval estimation, hypothesis tests, linear regression. For IEOR graduate students.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Christopher J Dolan
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

INTRO-PROBABILITY & STATISTICS

EXEMPTION:INTRO PROB/STAT

Covers the following topics: fundamentals of probability theory and statistical inference used in engineering and applied science; Probabilistic models, random variables, useful distributions, expectations, law of large numbers, central limit theorem; Statistical inference: pint and confidence interval estimation, hypothesis tests, linear regression. For IEOR graduate students.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Laura Radev
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• 0 points

ECONOMICS FOR PLANNERS

Formal background in economics is not required. A review of the basic concepts and methods of urban economics, with a major emphasis on location and land-use economics. Examination of both equilibrium-based models and the new critical models derived from analyses of the production process and spatial organization.

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Jeffrey Lin
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• 3 points

MEDIEVAL LATIN LITERATURE

MEDIEVAL LATIN POETRY

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. This course covers various topics in Medieval Latin Literature.

• Department: Classics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Carmela V Franklin
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

MEDIEVAL LATIN LITERATURE

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. This course covers various topics in Medieval Latin Literature.

• Department: Auditing
• Instructor: Carmela V Franklin
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 0 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 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ioannis Karatzas
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 58 Info
• 3 points

HIST OF RUSSIAN/SOVIET FILM

This course surveys developments in Russian film history and style from the prerevolutionary beginnings of cinema through the Soviet and post-Soviet experience. We will be studying both the aesthetic qualities of the films and their historical and cultural contexts. Students will be exposed to a wide range of visual media, including experimental films of the 1920s, films on Russia’s experience of World War II, Soviet classics, late Soviet and contemporary Russian films. The films are paired with the writings of the practitioners as well as the works of such theorists as André Bazin, Jacques Rancière, and Laura Mulvey. All readings are in English and the films will be screened with English subtitles. No knowledge of Russian is required or expected.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Daria Ezerova
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• 3 points

ADVANCED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Prerequisites: (COMS W3157) or equivalent. Software lifecycle using frameworks, libraries and services. Major emphasis on software testing. Centers on a team project.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Junfeng Yang
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 33 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
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• None None-None
• 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
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Athanasios Bourtsalas
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• 3 points

ETHICS IN BIOPHARM PAT/REG LAW

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.  Properly exploring this branch of bioethics requires an in-depth understanding of biotech and pharmaceutical patent and regulatory law.  Students can gain this understanding by first completing Biotechnology Law (BIOT GU4160), formerly the prerequisite for this course.  Now, they can also gain it by reading the appropriate chapters of 
Biotechnology Law: A Primer for Scientists
 (the textbook for BIOT GU4160 published earlier this year) prior to each class.  A number of students in the biotechnology fields (such as those in biotechnology, biomedical engineering, and bioethics programs) have shown a keen interest over the years in taking this course, yet were unable to do so because they hadn’t taken BIOT GU4160.  Given the recent publication of 
Biotechnology Law
 and the desirability of making BIOT GU4161 accessible to more students having the appropriate science background, BIOT GU4160 has been removed as a prerequisite.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Alan J Morrison
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• 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 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Celeste S Layne
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

3D UI AND AUGMENTED REALITY

Prerequisites: (COMS W4160) or (COMS W4170) or the instructors 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.
• Instructor: Steven K Feiner
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Hyphenated Minds: Heritage Speakers and

This graduate-undergraduate humanities laboratory is designed to evoke interest in the mental lexicon of heritage speakers, a conspicuous gap in heritage language studies. While most examples that the lecturer will provide will be from the heritage speakers of Slavic languages, the course will be open to graduate students in all foreign languages. The class-contact part will first explore the key concepts in mental lexicon and bilingualism. Then, in the real-life lab part, the students would visit the areas in the City with a high concentration of heritage speakers (such as Brighton Beach for those concentrating on Russian or Astoria for those with interest in BCS). They would then conduct research and report on it in the class. Their research would be critiqued in class discussions and the students would be pointed to the directions of further research.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

Think Bigger

Innovative solutions to complex problems that are both novel and useful. Focuses on The Think Bigger Innovation Method, uses decision-making theory, cognitive science, and industry practice to facilitate creativity and innovation. Designed to foster new ideas during the beginning of the semester that will then function as the seeds for entrepreneurially minded. Culminates in a final project with presentation of formal and polished pitch of an innovative idea in front of a distinguished panel of successful minds from across the city.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 8:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
• Instructor: Sheena Iyengar
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• 3 points

SECURITY II

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Suman Jana
  h-index: 33 Info
• 3 points

PHILOSOPHY IN CLASSICAL ROME

• Department: Classics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Katharina Volk
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT

ECON OF SUSTAINABILITY MG

This course builds on core economics courses and addresses issues of environmental, resource and sustainable economics. It focuses on the interaction between markets and the environment; policy issues related to optimal extraction and pricing; property rights in industrial and developing countries and how they affect international trade in goods such as timber, wood pulp, and oil. An important goal of the class is to have students work in groups to apply economic concepts to current public policy issues having to do with urban environmental and earth systems. The use of the worlds water bodies and the atmosphere as economic inputs to production are also examined. The economics of renewable resources is described and sustainable economic development models are discussed and analyzed. Some time will also be devoted to international trade and regulation, and industrial organization issues. Students not only learn economic concepts, but they will also learn how to explain them to decision-makers. The instructor will tailor this course to the skill level of the students in order to most effectively suit the needs of the class.

• Department: Auditing
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander Heil
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• 0 points

INTRO TO LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: SDEV W3390 or EESC W4050 or the instructors 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
• TR 8:40 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Ruth Defries
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 114 Info
• 3 points

MARINE CONSERVATION ECOLOGY

Prerequisites: EEEB GR6110, EEEB GR6112, or EEEB GR6990, basic statistics, or the instructors 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 will be special emphasis placed on coral reef ecosystems.

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

MSIEOR Quantitative Bootcamp

Zero-credit course. Primer on quantitative and mathematical concepts. Required for all incoming MSOR and MSIE students.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Laura Radev
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• 0 points

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

Techniques of solution of partial differential equations. Separation of the variables. Orthogonality and characteristic functions, nonhomogeneous boundary value problems. Solutions in orthogonal curvilinear coordinate systems. Applications of Fourier integrals, Fourier and Laplace transforms. Problems from the fields of vibrations, heat conduction, electricity, fluid dynamics, and wave propagation are considered.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph Kraisler
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• 3 points

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

Partial Differential Equation

Techniques of solution of partial differential equations. Separation of the variables. Orthogonality and characteristic functions, nonhomogeneous boundary value problems. Solutions in orthogonal curvilinear coordinate systems. Applications of Fourier integrals, Fourier and Laplace transforms. Problems from the fields of vibrations, heat conduction, electricity, fluid dynamics, and wave propagation are considered.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Joseph Kraisler
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• 3 points

HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN AND INNOVATION

HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN & I

Open to SEAS graduate and advanced undergraduate students, Business School, and GSAPP. Students from other schools may apply. Fast-paced introduction to human-centered design. Students learn the vocabulary of design methods, understanding of design process. Small group projects to create prototypes. Design of simple product, more complex systems of products and services, and design of business.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Harry West
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 1 Info
• 3 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 Freuds time. The course begins by considering the ways Freuds 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

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.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Katayun Barmak
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 49 Info
• 3 points

KINETICS OF TRANSFORMATIONS

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 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: James Im
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• 3 points

THEORY CRYSTALL MAT: ELECTRONS

THEORY OF CRYSTALLINE MATERIAL

Phenomenological theoretical understanding of electrons in crystalline materials. Both translational and point symmetry employed to block diagonalize the Schrödinger equation and compute observables related to electrons. Topics include nearly free electrons, tight-binding, electron-electron interactions, transport, magnetism, optical properties, topological insulators, spin-orbit coupling, and superconductivity. Illustrated using both minimal model Hamiltonians in addition to accurate Hamiltonians for real materials.

• 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

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
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Brown
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

PROBABILITY THEORY

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
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Brown
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

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 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Carsten Chong
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Johannes Wiesel
  h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

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: Johannes Wiesel
  h-index: 6 Info
• 3 points

LOVE TRANSLATED: HINDU BHAKTI

Hindu poetry of radical religious participation-bhakti-in translation, both Sanskrit (the Bhagavad Gita) and vernacular. How does such poetry/song translate across linguistic divisions within India and into English? Knowledge of Indian languages is welcome but not required. Multiple translations of a single text or poet bring to light the choices translators have made.

• Department: Religion @Barnard
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: John S Hawley
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 4 points

LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS

Prerequisites: STAT GU4204 or the equivalent, and a course in linear algebra. Theory and practice of regression analysis. Simple and multiple regression, testing, estimation, prediction, and confidence procedures, modeling, regression diagnostics and plots, polynomial regression, colinearity and confounding, model selection, geometry of least squares. Extensive use of the computer to analyse data.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 7:10 p.m.-8:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Haiyuan Wang
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• 3 points

STAT COMP & INTRO DATA SCIENCE

Prerequisites: STAT GU4204 and GU4205 or the equivalent. Introduction to programming in the R statistical package: functions, objects, data structures, flow control, input and output, debugging, logical design, and abstraction. Writing code for numerical and graphical statistical analyses. Writing maintainable code and testing, stochastic simulations, paralleizing data analyses, and working with large data sets. Examples from data science will be used for demonstration.

• Department: Statistics
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Wayne Lee
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 3 points

ELEMENTARY STOCHASTIC PROCESS

Elementary Stochastic Processe

Prerequisites: STAT GU4203 and two, preferably three, semesters of calculus. Review of elements of probability theory. Poisson processes. Renewal theory. Walds equation. Introduction to discrete and continuous time Markov chains. Applications to queueing theory, inventory models, branching processes.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Anne Van Delft
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

DRIVING FORCES OF BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

DRIVING FORCES BIOL SYS

Introduction to the statistical mechanics and thermodynamics of biological systems, with a focus on connecting microscopic molecular properties to macroscopic states. Both classical and statistical thermodynamics will be applied to biological systems; phase equilibria, chemical reactions, and colligative properties. Topics in modern biology, macromolecular behavior in solutions and interfaces, protein-ligand binding, and the hydrophobic effect.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Samuel Sia
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 39 Info
• 4 points

HERPETOLOGY

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.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 instructors 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
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Lorenzo M Polvani
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 69 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 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan M Elmes
  CULPA: 44 Info
• 4 points

THIRD YEAR ARABIC II

Students in the regular third-year Arabic track improve reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills through close reading, compositions, class discussions, and presentations in Arabic on topics such as cultures of the Arab world, classical and modern Arabic literature, and contemporary Arabic media. Review of grammatical and syntactic rules as needed. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MTWR 11:40 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Reem Faraj
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 5 points

ADV MICROECONOMICS - DISC

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and MATH UN2010 Students must register for lecture course ECON GU4211 Corequisites: MATH UN2500MATH 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
• 0 points

FOURTH YEAR MODERN ARABIC I

Through reading articles and essays by Arab thinkers and intellectuals, students will be able to increase their fluency and accuracy in Arabic while working on reading text and being exposed to the main themes in Arab thought The course works with all four skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing). Arabic is the language of instruction. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Taoufik Ben-Amor
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED MACROECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 and MATH UN2010 Required discussion section ECON GU4214 An introduction to the dynamic models used in the study of modern macroeconomics. Applications of the models will include theoretical issues such as optimal lifetime consumption decisions and policy issues such as inflation targeting. This course is strongly recommended for students considering graduate work in economics.

• Department: Economics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Irasema Alonso
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

Islam and the Secular: Rethinking Concep

The class offers a critical discussion of the conceptual apparatus of the anthropology of Islam and secularism and of the ways in which it shapes recent interventions in history and theory but also in Islamic studies with a particular focus on North-Western Africa and the Middle East. The questions that will be examined during the class read as follows: 1. What is Islam: a religion or a cultural formation, a discursive tradition or a way of life? How is one to construct a definition of Islam beyond orientalist legacies? Can one define Islam anthropologically outside the tradition itself? 2. How did French and British Empires transform or destroyed Islamic institutions while governing Muslims in the Middle East and North-West Africa? Are these colonial technologies Christian or secular and is there a significant difference between Christian slavery and secular colonialism? To what extent is secularism reducible to an imperial ideology or to Christianity itself? 3. How did Muslims respond to the challenge of modernity and to European imperial hegemony? How can one think philosophically within the Islamic tradition after the hegemony of Europe and colonialism?

• Department: Religion
• MR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Mohamed Ait Amer Meziane
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• 4 points

ADV MACROECONOMICS - DISC

• Department: Economics
• 0 points

THEORY OF PLATES AND SHELLS

Prerequisites: (ENME E3113) ENME E3113. Static flexural response of thin, elastic, rectangular, and circular plates. Exact (series) and approximate (Ritz) solutions. Circular cylindrical shells. Axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric membrane theory. Shells of arbitrary shape.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Gautam Dasgupta
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

FOURTH YEAR CLASSICAL ARABIC I

Through reading excerpts from thirteen essential works, starting with Jabarti's history of the French Campaign in Egypt to a chapter from al-Qur'an, students will be able to increase their fluency and accuracy in Arabic while working on reading text and being exposed to the main themes in Classical Arabic literature, acquire a sense of literary style over a period of fourteen centuries as well as literary analytical terminology and concepts. The texts are selections from essential works that the students will read in detail, write critical pieces, engage in discussion and have assignments which will expand their vocabulary, manipulation of advanced grammar concepts, and employing stylistic devices in their writing. This course will enable students to start doing research in classical Arabic sources and complements MESAAS's graduate seminar Readings in Classical Arabic. The course works with all four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing). Arabic is the language of instruction. 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: Taoufik Ben-Amor
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 4 points

SPIRIT/GHOSTS FR KANT-MARX(ENG)

The seminar explores the central role of the magic lantern and of spiritualist notions in the philosophical theories of Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Marx. Lectures, discussions, and readings will be in English.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Stefan Andriopoulos
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

MECH BEHAVIOR 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.
• None None-None
• Instructor: William Bailey
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 3 points

SPOKEN ARABIC I

Prerequisites: (MDES UN2201) and (MDES UN2202) $10 Arabic Materials Fee; $15 Language Resource Fee. This is an introductory course to Levantine Arabic for students who have completed two years of Standard Arabic studies, at the Intermediate level. The course is designed to further develop fluency in oral communication, through building students’ familiarity with a less formal register of Arabic, namely the Levantine dialect. The course will convert and recycle some of the previous Standard Arabic knowledge to the dialect, by comparing their prior knowledge to its dialectal counterpart; while at the same time developing students’ new communicative skills in a diverse range of contexts that are essential in any conversational interaction. The course will build students abilities to interact effectively in various areas where Levantine Arabic is spoken. In addition to varied thematic topics, the course exposes students to cultural aspects specific to the region. Additionally, the course will work on both constructing students’ knowledge of dialectal diction as well as other grammatical features of the dialects. Even though the course is designed for communication in the four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking), the emphasis will be mostly on speaking and listening. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: May Ahmar
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 4 points

COLONIALISM & RELIGION IN SOUTH ASIA

• Department: Religion
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jay Ramesh
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• 4 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
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Kingslake
  h-index: 17 Info
• 3 points

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: STAT GU4205 or the equivalent. Least squares smoothing and prediction, linear systems, Fourier analysis, and spectral estimation. Impulse response and transfer function. Fourier series, the fast Fourier transform, autocorrelation function, and spectral density. Univariate Box-Jenkins modeling and forecasting. Emphasis on applications. Examples from the physical sciences, social sciences, and business. Computing is an integral part of the course.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Rongning Wu
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

Interfacial Engineering for Sustainable

Materials and systems in sustainable energy and material science sectors depend on properly engineering surfaces and interfaces within. Interfacial junctions can be bottlenecks for transport processes, chemical reactions, and stress transfer.  Principles of surface science form the basis for addressing issues and problems in interfacial engineering. Fundamentals of interfacial engineering are illustrated via a wide variety of practical technological examples related to sustainable energy (material acquisition and processing, waste management, device manufacture) and material science (composites, coatings, ceramics, membranes, biomaterials, microelectronics). Interfacial engineering is inherently cross-disciplinary and underlying concepts are applicable.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Raymond Farinato
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY

Two required weekend field trips: February 27 to Fire Island, and March 12-14 to the Hudson Valley. An overview of sedimentology and stratigraphy for majors and concentrators in Earth and environmental sciences, and for graduate students from other disciplines. Lectures/class discussions, labs, and field exercises are integrated, with emphasis on processes, the characteristics of sediments and sedimentary rocks, interpretation of the geological record, and practical applications. Lab required.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicholas Christie-Blick
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 45 Info
• 4 points

MEMORY & EXEC FUNCT:LIFESPAN

Prerequisites: the instructors 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
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

MULTIVARIATE STAT INFERENCE

Prerequisites: STAT GU4205 or the equivalent. Multivariate normal distribution, multivariate regression and classification; canonical correlation; graphical models and Bayesian networks; principal components and other models for factor analysis; SVD; discriminant analysis; cluster analysis.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Cynthia Rush
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

Consciousness and Cognitive Science

Consciousness & Cognitive

Our human experience is rich: the thrill of falling in love, the spark of a new idea, the zing of table salt, the sharpness of pain. For thousands of years, philosophers, artists, and religious scholars have tried to explain our subjective experience. More recently, neuroscientists and artificial intelligence experts have contributed to this discussion, weighing in on whether we are “more than meat” (as Descartes famously put it), and whether computers can ever be sentient. In this class, we will begin with the big questions and an interdisciplinary overview of consciousness, then delve into psychology’s role. Using literature from perception, memory, emotion, metacognition, attention, and symbolic development, among other areas of psychology, we will see what empirical evidence can tell us about who we are, what we are able to know, and why we even have an experience of the world at all.

• Department: Psychology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Nora Isacoff
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

BAYESIAN STATISTICS

This course introduces the Bayesian paradigm for statistical inference.  Topics covered include prior and posterior distributions: conjugate priors, informative and non-informative priors; one- and two-sample problems; models for normal data, models for binary data, Bayesian linear models; Bayesian computation: MCMC algorithms, the Gibbs sampler; hierarchical models; hypothesis testing, Bayes factors, model selection; use of statistical software. Prerequisites: A course in the theory of statistical inference, such as STAT GU4204 a course in statistical modeling and data analysis, such as STAT GU4205.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ronald Neath
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 3 points

CONSCIOUSNESS & ATTENTION

• Department: Psychology
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Alfredo Spagna
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 15 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.
• None None-None
• 3 points

Separation Science and Technology in Sus

Separation Sc Tech in SER

A detailed study of the engineering and physicochemical principles underlying separations in the development and management of earth resources in a safe and sustainable manner. This course on separation science and technology will cover a wide-range of solid-solid, solid-liquid and liquid-liquid separations used in the processing of mineral resources for the extraction of most elements in the Periodic Table. Fundamental principles are taught alongside aspects of practical implementation at the industrial scale. An emphasis is placed on concepts in interfacial chemistry and concepts associated with the “mines of the future” framework, which encompasses topics such as mine-to-mill integration, modular processing, digital optimization, sensors and chemometrics, benign process chemicals and other forward-looking subjects.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 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.
• Instructor: Lauren E Marbella
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• 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
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Donald R Davis
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 31 Info
• 3 points

COLD WAR ARAB CULTURE

This course studies the effects and strategies of the cold war on Arab writing, education, arts and translation, and the counter movement in Arab culture to have its own identities. As the cold war functioned and still functions on a global scale, thematic and methodological comparisons are drawn with Latin America, India and Africa.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Muhsin Al-Musawi
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 4 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 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.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 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Eleni Drinea
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: Christos H Papadimitriou
  CULPA: 11 h-index: 129 Info
• Instructor: Eleni Drinea
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

SURVIVAL ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: STAT GU4205 or the equivalent. Survival distributions, types of censored data, estimation for various survival models, nonparametric estimation of survival distributions, the proportional hazard and accelerated lifetime models for regression analysis with failure-time data. Extensive use of the computer.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 7:40 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Irene Hueter
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO MOLECULAR MODELING

• Department: Chemistry
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Richard A Friesner
  CULPA: 28 Wikipedia Info
• 4.5 points

TRADE AND TRAFFIC WITH EARLY MODERN ENGL

This lecture course explores England’s sense of itself in relation to the rest of the world in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It will examine the hopes and fears provoked by the trade and traffic between the English and other peoples, both inside and outside the country’s borders, and raise questions of economics, race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, immigration, and slavery. The central materials are familiar and unfamiliar English plays, by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Philip Massinger, John Fletcher, and others, which we will study alongside economic treatises, acts and proclamations, and travel narratives.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Alan Stewart
  CULPA: 14 h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

GENERALIZED LINEAR MODELS

Prerequisites: STAT GU4205 or the equivalent. Statistical methods for rates and proportions, ordered and nominal categorical responses, contingency tables, odds-ratios, exact inference, logistic regression, Poisson regression, generalized linear models.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 7:40 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Sobel
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia h-index: 35 Info
• 3 points

DESIGN OF LARGE SCALE BUILDINGS

Prerequisites: (CIEN E3121) and (CIEN E3127) Modern challenges in the design of large-scale building structures will be studied. Tall buildings, large convention centers and major sports stadiums present major opportunities for creative solutions and leadership on the part of engineers. This course is designed to expose the students to this environment by having them undertake the complete design of a large structure from initial design concepts on through all the major design decisions. The students work as members of a design team to overcome the challenges inherent in major projects. Topics include overview of major projects, project criteria and interface with architecture, design of foundations and structural systems, design challenges in the post 9/11 environment and roles, responsibilities and legal issues.

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

SURFACE REACTIONS & KINETICS

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jingguang Chen
  Wikipedia h-index: 89 Info
• 3 points

SURFACE REACTIONS & KINETICS

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Jingguang Chen
  Wikipedia h-index: 89 Info
• 3 points