SENIOR THESIS: RESEARCH

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to senior Theatre majors. Combined and special majors may be considered under exceptional circumstances. Permission of the instructor required.
In-depth research project culminating in a substantial written thesis on any aspect of drama, performance, or theatre research.

• Department: Theatre @Barnard
• Instructor: William B Worthen
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• Instructor: Hana Worthen
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• Instructor: Shayoni Mitra
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• 4 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Prerequisites: the departmental consultant or director of undergraduate studies' permission, and the instructor's permission.
Independent research and the writing of an essay under supervision of a member of the Art History Department. Only one independent study may be counted toward the major.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• Instructor: Alexander Alberro
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• Instructor: Zainab Bahrani
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• Instructor: Frederique Baumgartner
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• Instructor: Barry G Bergdoll
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• Instructor: Michael Cole
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• Instructor: Jonathan K Crary
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• Instructor: Francesco de Angelis
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• Instructor: Vidya Dehejia
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• Instructor: Dawn H Delbanco
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• Instructor: Rosalyn Deutsche
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• Instructor: Noam M Elcott
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• Instructor: David A Freedberg
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• Instructor: Meredith Gamer
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• Instructor: Robert Harrist
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• Instructor: Elizabeth Hutchinson
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• Instructor: Kellie Jones
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• Instructor: Branden W Joseph
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• Instructor: Holger A Klein
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• Instructor: Rosalind Krauss
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• Instructor: Janet L Kraynak
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• Instructor: Matthew P McKelway
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• Instructor: Patricio Keith Moxey
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• Instructor: Stephen Murray
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• Instructor: Ioannis Mylonopoulos
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• Instructor: Eleonara Pistis
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• Instructor: John Rajchman
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• Instructor: Jonathan Reynolds
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• Instructor: Simon Schama
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• Instructor: Avinoam Shalem
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• Instructor: Zoe S Strother
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• Instructor: Michael J Waters
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• 3-6 points

INDEPENDENT PROJECT

INDEPNDNT VIS ARTS RSRCH PROJ

Independent research, primarily for the senior essay, under a chosen faculty adviser and with the chair’s permission.

• Department: Art History @Barnard
• M 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: John Miller
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• 4 points

SENIOR THESIS SEM IN ANTHROPOL

THE SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR IN A

Prerequisites: The instructor's permission. Students must have declared a major in Anthropology prior to registration. Students must have a 3.6 GPA in the major and a preliminary project concept in order to be considered. Interested students must communicate/meet with thesis instructor in the previous spring about the possibility of taking the course during the upcoming academic year. Additionally, expect to discuss with the instructor at the end of the fall term whether your project has progressed far enough to be completed in the spring term. If it has not, you will exit the seminar after one semester, with a grade based on the work completed during the fall term.
This two-term course is a combination of a seminar and a workshop that will help you conduct research, write, and present an original honors thesis in anthropology. The first term of this course introduces a variety of approaches used to produce anthropological knowledge and writing; encourages students to think critically about the approaches they take to researching and writing by studying model texts with an eye to the ethics, constraints, and potentials of anthropological research and writing; and gives students practice in the seminar and workshop formats that are key to collegial exchange and refinement of ideas., During the first term, students complete a few short exercises that will culminate in a fully developed, 15-page project proposal, as well as a preliminary draft of one chapter of the senior thesis. The proposal will serve as the guide for completing the thesis during the spring semester. The spring sequence of the anthropology thesis seminar is a writing intensive continuation of the fall semester, in which students will have designed the research questions, prepared a full thesis proposal that will serve as a guide for the completion of the thesis or comparable senior capstone project, and written a draft of one chapter. Readings in the first semester will be geared toward exploring a variety of models of excellent anthropological or ethnographic work.  Only those students who expect to have completed the fall semester portion of the course are allowed to register for the spring; final enrollment is contingent upon successful completion of first semester requirements. Weekly meetings will be devoted to the collaborative refinement of drafts, as well as working through issues of writing (evidence, voice, authority etc). All enrolled students are required to present their project at a symposium in the late spring, and the final

• Department: Anthropology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lila Abu-Lughod
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info
• 4 points

INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: Open to majors who have fulfilled basic major requirements or written permission of the staff member who will supervise the project.
Specialized reading and research projects planned in consultation with members of the Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures teaching staff.

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• Instructor: Rachel McDermott
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• Instructor: Jue Guo
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• Instructor: Hossein Kamaly
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• Instructor: Nicholas A Bartlett
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• 4 points

UNDERGRADUATE PROJECT II

Prerequisites: Senior standing.
Students must enroll for both 3998x and 3999y during their senior year. Selection of an actual problem in Earth and environmental engineering, and design of an engineering solution including technical, economic, environmental, ethical, health and safety, social issues. Use of software for design, visualization, economic analysis, and report preparation. Students may work in teams. Presentation of results in a formal report and public presentation.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• Instructor: Robert Farrauto
  h-index: 52 Info
• 2 points

THE SENIOR ESSAY

Prerequisites: the department's permission.
This course is open only to those who have applied and been accepted into the department's senior essay program. For information about the program, including deadline for application, please visit http://english.columbia.edu/undergraduate/senior-essay-program.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• Instructor: Michael Golston
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 4 points

SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT STUDY

Prerequisites: approval prior to registration; see the director of undergraduate studies for details.
A creative/scholarly project conducted under faculty supervision.

• Department: Music
• Instructor: Susan Boynton
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 1 points

SENIOR HONORS SEMINAR

Prerequisites: admission to the departmental honors program.
A two-term seminar for students writing the senior honors thesis.

• Department: Political Science
• F 9 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
• Instructor: Macartan Humphreys
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• 4 points

INDIVIDUAL STUDY II

INDIVIDL STUDY IN SOCIOLOGY II

Prerequisites: open only to qualified majors in the department; the director of undergraduate studies' permission is required.
An opportunity for research under the direction of an individual faculty member. Students intending to write a year-long senior thesis should plan to register for 
C3996
 in the spring semester of their senior year and are strongly advised to consult the undergraduate studies as they plan their programs.

• Department: Sociology
• Instructor: Peter Bearman
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• Instructor: Courtney Bender
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• Instructor: Yinon Cohen
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 33 Info
• Instructor: Jonathan Cole
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• Instructor: Thomas DiPrete
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• Instructor: Gil Eyal
  CULPA: 15 h-index: 26 Info
• Instructor: Todd Gitlin
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• Instructor: Shamus Khan
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• Instructor: Bruce Kogut
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• Instructor: Jennifer C Lena
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• Instructor: Bruce G Link
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• Instructor: Yao Lu
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• Instructor: Denise Milstein
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 5 Info
• Instructor: Mignon R Moore
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Alondra Nelson
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• Instructor: Aaron Pallas
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• Instructor: Jo Phelan
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 70 Info
• Instructor: Adam Reich
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• Instructor: Saskia J Sassen
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• Instructor: Emmanuelle Saada
  CULPA: 13 Info
• Instructor: Michael Schudson
  Wikipedia h-index: 65 Info
• Instructor: Teresa Sharpe
  CULPA: 14 Info
• Instructor: Carla L Shedd
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• Instructor: Seymour Spilerman
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 31 Info
• 1-6 points

INDIVIDUAL STUDY II

Prerequisites: open only to qualified majors in the department; the director of undergraduate studies' permission is required.
An opportunity for research under the direction of an individual faculty member. Students intending to write a year-long senior thesis should plan to register for 
C3996
 in the spring semester of their senior year and are strongly advised to consult the undergraduate studies as they plan their programs.

• Department: Sociology @Barnard
• Instructor: David Stark
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info
• Instructor: Julien Teitler
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• Instructor: Van C. Tran
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• 1-6 points

INDIVIDUAL STUDY II

INDIVIDL STUDY IN SOCIOLOGY II

Prerequisites: open only to qualified majors in the department; the director of undergraduate studies' permission is required.
An opportunity for research under the direction of an individual faculty member. Students intending to write a year-long senior thesis should plan to register for 
C3996
 in the spring semester of their senior year and are strongly advised to consult the undergraduate studies as they plan their programs.

• Department: Sociology
• Instructor: Diane Vaughan
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Dan J Wang
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Amy S Wells
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• Instructor: Joshua Whitford
  h-index: 14 Info
• Instructor: Andreas Wimmer
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• 1-6 points

ONLINE MATH LAB

ONLINE MATH TUTORIAL

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• Instructor: Melanie Barrett
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• 0 points

SPECIAL TOPICS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

BIOREACTOR DESIGN

Additional current topics in biomedica engineering taught by regular or visiting faculty. The same subject matter is not usually considered in different years.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
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• 3 points

ONLINE MATH LAB

ONLINE MATH TUTORIAL

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• Instructor: Melanie Barrett
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• 0 points

GENEALOGIES OF FEMINISM

VISION AND DIFFERENCE

Please contact the Department for course description for this seminar.

• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Marianne Hirsch
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

PRINCIPLES OF APPLIED MATH

Prerequisites: Introductory Linear Algebra required. Ordinary Differential Equations recommended.
Review of finite-dimensional vector spaces and elementary matrix theory. Linear transformations, change of basis, eigenspaces. Matrix representation of linear operators and diagonalization. Applications to difference equations, Markov processes, ordinary differential equations, and stability of nonlinear dynamical systems. Inner product spaces, projection operators, orthogonal bases, Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization. Least squares method, pseudo-inverses, singular value decomposition. Adjoint operators, Hermitian and unitary operators, Fredholm Alternative Theorem. Fourier series and eigenfunction expansions. Introduction to the theory of distributions and the Fourier Integral Transform. Green's functions. Application to Partial Differential Equations.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Marc W Spiegelman
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

METHODS IN AMERICAN STUDIES

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Matthew Sandler
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• 3 points

INDUST ECOLOGY-EARTH RESOURCES

Industrial ecology examines how to reconfigure industrial activities so as to minimize the adverse environmental and material resource effects on the planet. Engineering applications of methodology of industrial ecology in the analysis of current processes and products and the selection or design of environmentally superior alternatives. Home assignments of illustrative quantitative problems.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Christoph J Meinrenken
  h-index: 15 Info
• 3 points

SOCIETY & NATURE THE AMAZON

SOCIETY AND NATURE IN THE AMAZ

The Amazon Basin is one of the largest equatorial forests on earth.  Far from being an untouched bioma the Amazon has a rich and instigating sociobiodiversity that can be apprehended in its uniqueness since pre-colombian times.  History, culture, politics correlated with hydrology, climate and ecology are elements for the understanding of contemporary dynamics in the Amazon.  The course aims towards an interdisciplinary approach of the Amazon as a unique ecosystem in Latin America which reflects a myrad of questions crucial for the understanding not only of South America but of nature and society in modern times.

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

CELLULAR TISSUE & ARCHITECTURE

• Department: Pathology
• M 10 a.m.-noon
• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO PROB & STAT

INTRO TO PROBABILITY & STATSTC

Prerequisites: Calculus through multiple integration and infinite sums.
A calculus-based tour of the fundamentals of probability theory and statistical inference. Probability models, random variables, useful distributions, conditioning, expectations, law of large numbers, central limit theorem, point and confidence interval estimation, hypothesis tests, linear regression.  This course replaces SIEO 4150.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: David A Rios
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• Instructor: Mark Brown
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• 3 points

CONTROVERSIAL TPCS-HUM EVOL I

Prerequisites: an introductory biological/physical anthropology course and the instructor's permission.
Controversial issues that exist in current biological/physical anthropology, and controversies surrounding the descriptions and theories about particular fossil hominid discoveries, such as the earliest australopithecines, the diversity of Homo erectus, the extinction of the Neandertals, and the evolution of culture, language, and human cognition.

• Department: Anthropology
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ralph L Holloway
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

CORE ARCHITECTURE STUDIO II

CORE STUDIO SEMESTER II

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• MWF 2 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Mimi Hoang
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• 9 points

METHODS II:COMPUTATIONL METHOD

Prerequisites: Medical Informatics G4001, Computer Science W3139
.  Survey of the methods underlying the field of medical informatics.  Explores techniques in mathematics, logic, decision science, computer science, engineering, cognitive science, management science and epidemiology, and demonstrates the application to health care and biomedicine.

• Department: Biomedical Informatics
• F 9:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
• Instructor: Noemie Elhadad
  Wikipedia h-index: 46 Info
• 3 points

QUANT PHYSIOLOGY II:ORGAN SYST

Corequisites: BMEN E3020,BMEN E3820
Students are introduced to a quantitative, engineering approach to cellular biology and mammalian physiology. Beginning with biological issues related to the cell, the course progresses to considerations of the major physiological systems of the human body (nervous, circulatory, respiratory, renal).

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Barclay Morrison
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 42 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED UKRAINIAN II

Prerequisites:
UKRN W2102
or the equivalent.
The course is for students who wish to develop their mastery of Ukrainian. Further study of grammar includes patterns of word formation, participles, gerunds, declension of numerals, and a more in-depth study of difficult subjects, such as verbal aspect and verbs of motion. The material is drawn from classical and contemporary Ukrainian literature, press, electronic media, and film. Taught almost exclusively in Ukrainian.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Yuri Shevchuk
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

METHODS I:SYMBOLIC METHODS

• Department: Biomedical Informatics
• F 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Chunhua Weng
  h-index: 37 Info
• 4 points

CENT EUR DRAMA IN THE 20TH C

Focus will be on the often deceptive modernity of modern Central and East European theater and its reflection of the forces that shaped modern European society. It will be argued that the abstract, experimental drama of the twentieth-century avant-garde tradition seems less vital at the century's end than the mixed forms of Central and East European dramatists.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ivan Sanders
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED MECHANICS

Lagrange's formulation of mechanics, calculus of variations and the Action Principle, Hamilton's formulation of mechanics, rigid body motion, Euler angles, continuum mechanics, introduction to chaotic dynamics.

• Department: Physics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian Cole
  CULPA: 23 Info
• 3 points

BYZANTINE/POST-BYZANTINE ELEM ROMANIAN C

BYZANTINE/POST-BYZAN ROMANIAN

Prerequisites: Reading knowledge of Romanian and French
...The Byzantine as "post-Romantic", as "eclectic", "Oriental", in its version of localized, picturesque, intra-European Orientalism appears less explored and probably less considered of importance when trying to understand the intricacies of a culture and, by expanding it, of culture in general.  Our explorations of Byzantine/Byzantinism will help us develop a subtler understanding of the mechanisms of the cultural equation West/Orient and of the cultural hierarchies....

• Department: Slavic Languages
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Mona Momescu
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• 3 points

ADVANCED STUDIO SEMESTER IV

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: David E Benjamin
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• 9 points

OPTIMIZATION MODELS AND METHODS

INTRO TO OR-DETERMINSTC MODELS

Prerequisites: Refer to course syllabus.

This graduate course is only for MS&E, IE and OR students.  This is also required for students in the Undergraduate Advanced Track.
This class is an introduction to the fundamental methods used in deterministic operations research. Topics covered will include linear programming, network flows, dynamic programming, and nonlinear programming. While we shall discuss the underlying theory with some occasional proofs, the emphasis will be on modeling. Applications of these ideas in various settings will be discussed. Students will learn modeling skills, and develop the ability to build, analyze, and reason logically with models. They will also learn to design and analyze algorithms, and to distinguish good algorithms from not-so good ones. They will also appreciate the capabilities and limitations of deterministic models in operations research.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Shipra Agrawal
  h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

OPTIMIZATION MODELS AND METHODS

INTRO-OPER RSRCH-DETERMNTC MDL

This graduate course is only for MS&E, IE and OR students.  This is also required for students in the Undergraduate Advanced Track.
 For students who have not studied linear programming. Some of the main methods used in IEOR applications involving deterministic models: linear programming, the simplex method, nonlinear, integer and dynamic programming.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• T 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
• 0 points

NEUROBIO II: DEVPT & SYSTEMS

Prerequisites:
BIOL W4004
, one year of biology, or the instructor's permission.
This course is a graduate seminar in Developmental and Systems Neuroscience for students matriculated in a PhD program in Neuroscience. Undergraduate students should instead enroll in W3005y.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• R 6 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
• 4 points