Supervised directed readings and literature review in areas relevant to a student's research program.
Supervised directed readings and literature review in areas relevant to a student's research program.
Supervised directed readings and literature review in areas relevant to a student's research program.
This course focuses on an advanced topic in the philosophy of language.
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Noegene Puzzles - The subject will be the MIS5e interglacial (Eemian), with specific emphasis on North Atlantic records of ocean circulation, climatology, sea level, super-storms, and tsunamis. The seminar will take flight with a controversial paper published last summer by Dr. James Hansen (attached below) which proposes that changes occurring now in Antarctica could rapidly lead to changes in sea ice, thermohaline circulation, and ultimately, rapid sea level rise and superstorms in the North Atlantic. The paper is a combo of both modeling results and an investigation of the MIS5e geologic record. We envision spending a few classes on the paper (it is very long) as well as the community discussion surrounding it, and then delve into the specific controversies surrounding the interpretation of the MIS5e records (super-storms? tsunamis? normal climatology? etc.), focusing on key papers cited by the Hansen et al. We will also read papers which challenge those interpretations of the geologic record.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Knowledge of Tibetan and Sanskrit preferred.
Selected readings in Sanskrit and Tibetan texts, original and translations.
We will examine themes in the history of epistemology from the classical Greece to the early modern period. Primary texts will include selections from Aristotle, Stoics, Skeptics, Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Scotus, Ockham, Theresa of Avila, Descartes, and Locke. Topics will include the formulation and pursuit of an epistemic ideal (
episteme, scientia
), skepticism vs. dogmatism, divine illumination, evident perception, intuition, and empirical knowledge.
All matriculated graduate students are required to attend the seminar as long as they are in residence. No degree credit is granted. The seminar is the principal medium of communication among those with biomedical engineering interests within the University. Guest speakers from other institutions, Columbia faculty, and students within the Department who are advanced in their studies frequently offer sessions.
An advanced seminar for doctoral students in public health and the social sciences. The course objective is to provide students with instruction and hands-on experience in applying methods of quantitative analysis to research problems in social sciences with an emphasis on public health, health care and health behaviors.Topics covered include formulation of research questions and hypotheses, issues in complex sample design, measurement of variables, specification and estimation of single equations and systems of simultaneous equations to model casual relationships. Combines didactic lectures and active participation of students in computer labs and class presentations. Requirements center on analysis of a single data base provided by instructors. Students devise a research study and work in small groups to investigate the problem with the class data base.
A candidate for the Eng.Sc.D. degree must register for 12 points of doctoral research instruction. Registration for APAM E9800 may not be used to satisfy the minimum residence requirement for the degree.
A candidate for the Eng.Sc.D. degree in biomedical engineering must register for 12 points of doctoral research instruction. Registration may not be used to satisfy the minimum residence requirement for the degree.