CIVIL ENGINEERING RESEARCH

Advanced study in a specialized field under the supervision of a member of the department staff. Before registering, the student must submit an outline of the proposed work for approval of the supervisor and the department chair.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• Instructor: Ibrahim Odeh
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• Instructor: Markus Schlaepfer
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• Instructor: Andrew W Smyth
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Waiching Sun
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Haim Waisman
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 29 Info
• Instructor: Huiming Yin
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 25 Info
• Instructor: Zhengbo Zou
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• Instructor: Fredric Bell
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• 1-6 points

TV WRITING THESIS WORKSHOP

• Department: Film
• R 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Blair Singer
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• 0 points

RESEARCH

Before registering, the student must submit an outline of the proposed work for approval by the supervisor and the chair of the Department. Advanced study in a specialized field under the supervision of a member of the department staff. May be repeated for credit.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Anish Agarwal
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• Instructor: Shipra Agrawal
  h-index: 24 Info
• Instructor: Eric Balkanski
  h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Daniel Bienstock
  h-index: 38 Info
• Instructor: Agostino Capponi
  h-index: 19 Info
• Instructor: Rachel Cummings
  h-index: 16 Info
• Instructor: Antonius B Dieker
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 19 Info
• Instructor: Adam N Elmachtoub
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Yuri Faenza
  h-index: 11 Info
• Instructor: Vineet Goyal
  h-index: 21 Info
• Instructor: Ali Hirsa
  h-index: 8 Info
• Instructor: Anran Hu
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• Instructor: Garud Iyengar
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Hardeep Johar
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• Instructor: Cedric Josz
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Soulaymane Kachani
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Yaren Kaya
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• Instructor: Christian Kroer
  h-index: 16 Info
• Instructor: Daniel Lacker
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Henry Lam
  h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Fabrizio Lecci
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• Instructor: Tianyi Lin
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• Instructor: Uday Menon
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• Instructor: Bento Natura
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• Instructor: Jay Sethuraman
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Karl Sigman
  CULPA: 15 Info
• Instructor: Eric Stratman
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• Instructor: Clifford Stein
  CULPA: 31 Wikipedia h-index: 53 Info
• Instructor: Wenpin Tang
  h-index: 6 Info
• Instructor: Kaizheng Wang
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info
• Instructor: Lily Xu
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• Instructor: David D Yao
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Yi Zhang
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Xunyu Zhou
  h-index: 54 Info
• Instructor: Christine Chan
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• Instructor: Winsor Yang
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• 1-6 points

RESEARCH IN ARCHAEOLOGY

RESEARCH-PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOL

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Individual research and tutorial in archaeology for advanced graduate students.

• Department: Anthropology
• Instructor: Brian Boyd
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Zoe Crossland
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Severin Fowles
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Hannah Chazin
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• Instructor: Camilla Sturm
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Terence N D'Altroy
  CULPA: 37 Info
• 3-9 points

RSRCH-MEDIEVAL & RENSSNCE LIT

Guided reading and research on a topic or in a field chosen by the student in consultation with a member of the faculty. Required for Ph.D candidates, ideally during the semester when they prepare the dissertation proposal (prospectus) under the supervision of a potential sponsor.

• Department: Italian
• Instructor: Teodolinda Barolini
  CULPA: 7 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SIGMUND FREUD-THINKNG/THEORIZING

FREUD THOU BEGIN EGO PSYCHOLGY

• Department: Psychoanalytic Center
• Instructor: W. C Tomlinson
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• 0 points

RESEARCH-MODERN & CONTEMP LIT

• Department: Italian
• Instructor: Elizabeth Leake
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• 3 points

CHILD & ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT

CHILD DEV-INTERDISCIPLNRY PERS

• Department: Psychoanalytic Center
• 0 points

RESEARCH IN SPECIAL FIELDS

Prerequisites: the instructors permission. Individual research in all divisions of anthropology and in allied fields for advanced graduate students

• Department: Anthropology
• Instructor: Hannah Chazin
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• Instructor: Lila Abu-Lughod
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info
• Instructor: Vanessa L Agard-Jones
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Naor H Ben-Yehoyada
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Maria Jose de Abreu
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• Instructor: Madisson Whitman
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• Instructor: Severin Fowles
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth M Green
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Marilyn Ivy
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: David Scott
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 72 Info
• Instructor: Catherine Fennell
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• Instructor: Gina A Jae
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Nicholas Glastonbury
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• Instructor: Ellen Marakowitz
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: James Meador
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• Instructor: Rosalind Morris
  CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: John Pemberton
  CULPA: 15 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Povinelli
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Clarence Gifford
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• Instructor: Kaya N Williams
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• Instructor: Paige West
  CULPA: 41 h-index: 23 Info
• Instructor: Lashaya Howie
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• Instructor: Camilla Sturm
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Brian Boyd
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Zoe Crossland
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info
• Instructor: Amer N Ibrahim
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• Instructor: Claudio Lomnitz
  CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Nadia Abu El-Haj
  CULPA: 13 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Audra Simpson
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• 3-9 points

CRITICAL THINKING I

• Department: Psychoanalytic Center
• 0 points

MUSEUM ANTHROPOL INTERNSHIP I

An internship arranged through the Museum Anthropology program of 10 hrs/week (for 3 credits) or 20 hrs/week (for 6). Involves meaningful work, requires keeping a journal and writing a paper at the completion of the semester. Not to be taken without permission of the program directors, usually after completing the Museum Anthropology core courses.

• Department: Anthropology
• Instructor: Brian Boyd
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3-9 points

Theory of Statistical Inference II

THEORY OF STAT INFERENCE

This course provides a general introduction to mathematical statistics and statistical decision theory for doctoral students in biostatistics. It covers elementary decision theory, Bayes rules, Neyman-Pearson theory, uniformly most power tests, similar tests, uniformly most powerful unbiased tests, confidence sets; basic asymptotic criteria, estimation methods and their asymptotic properties, M-estimators, U-statistics, statistical functionals; likelihood ratio tests, Wald tests, Rao's score tests, and their asymptotic properties, Pitman efficiency. This course will prepare students to their theory qualifying exam.

• Department: Biostatistics
• W 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Bin Cheng
  h-index: 32 Info
• 3 points

WORKSHOP IN SCRIPT REVISION

• Department: Film
• M 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• M 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• F 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Ed Decter
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• Instructor: Keith Bunin
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• Instructor: David B Schwab
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• 0 points

THEORY OF TECHNIQUE I

• Department: Psychoanalytic Center
• 0 points

MUSEUM ANTHROPOL INTERNSHIP II

An internship arranged through the Museum Anthropology program of 10 hrs/week (for 3 credits) or 20 hrs/week (for 6). Involves meaningful work, requires keeping a journal and writing a paper at the completion of the semester. Not to be taken without permission of the program directors, usually after completing the Museum Anthropology core courses.

• Department: Anthropology
• Instructor: Brian Boyd
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3-9 points

First Features Lab

This seven-week course is designed to assist Screen/TV Writing and Directing concentrates approaching graduation to take a cool critical eye on their material and
revise it with an eye to concerns that are both creative and pragmatic. Is the screenplay in the strongest possible shape in terms of core story aims,
fundamental structure, a compelling path in? How do you attract financiers to a script? How about actors? Is there a scene, or scenes, that an actor with some visibility who can boost funding chances would just die to play? If not, why not? How about questions of producibility – screenplay length, number of locations,
complexity of scenes to be shot, probable budget? How can writer-directors and creative producers (without whom no movie could be made) forge stronger collaborative relationships, ones respectful of the unique offerings all parties bring to the table?
These are just some of the points of focus in First Features Lab, a course modeled somewhat on the famed Sundance Institute Labs, which so many Columbia Film
Program faculty have attended and been shaped by, including the instructor and creator of this class. First Features Lab allows for an intensive focus on one project per week. Everyone in class will read that screenplay, deliver 2 pages of written notes on the script, and come to each session ready to discuss the material in depth. Ideally screenplay material has already gone through at least one Script Revision class and also been workshopped in a student’s thesis workshop, to gain individual advisors’ input. Creative Producers attached to the project under discussion are a key part of these sessions and can benefit from hearing both the instructor’s notes and those from classmates.
The goal is to create a rigorous space for examining the first feature screenplay with an eye toward production, collaboration, and leaving Columbia with the strongest
piece of material possible upon graduation. For the final class, each creative team must present a 1-2 page document outlining next steps for a revision of the screenplay, with clear, actionable ideas about how to push the material closer to being competitive in the marketplace. A class plan follows. 

All students must commit to attending every session of this class and show up for everyone in the lab with passion and dedication to thematerial under discussion. Another goal is to form a strong collective that can continue to provide support and feedback beyond the duration of the

• Department: Film
• R 1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Katherine Dieckmann
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SEM-ADV LEGAL RES TECHNIQUES

• Department: Law
• Instructor: Mariana Newman
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• 2 points

(PhD) Foundations of Stochasti

This course covers basic concepts and methods in applied probability and stochastic modeling. The intended audience is master's and doctoral students in programs such as EE, CS, IEOR, Statistics, Mathematics, and those in the DRO division in the Business School. In terms of prerequisites, basic familiarity with probability theory and stochastic processes will be assumed (an ideal preliminary course is IEOR 6711: Stochastic Modeling I, but a more basic substitute will do as well). The topics and material covered in this course complement those covered in IEOR 6712: Stochastic Modeling II, hence the two courses can be taken simultaneously. The exposition will be (mostly) rigorous, yet intentionally skirting some measure-theoretic details; for those interested in such details they can be found in measure theoretic textbooks and other courses (e.g., Probability Theory I/II given in the statistics/math department).

• Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
• W 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Assaf Zeevi
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• 5 points

TV REVISION

FILM AF 9120 TV Revision

 

The goal of TV Revision is to bring in a completed pilot and then completely revise it in one semester. Students will initially present their full scripts for feedback in class discussion, then map a plan for rewriting with their instructor. Deadlines throughout the semester will focus on delivery of revised pages.

The work can range from an intensive page 1 rewrite to focus on selected areas in a script. Reading of all scripts in the workshop and participation in class discussion is required.

There is an application process to select students for the class.

• Department: Film
• M 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Benjamin Robbins
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• 0 points

PSYCHOANALYTIC PROCESS I

• Department: Psychoanalytic Center
• 0 points

PSYCHOANALYTIC CASE WRITING I

• Department: Psychoanalytic Center
• 0 points

(DRO) Topics Seminar

The purpose of the course is to broadly cover topics in Operations Management and Operations Research, as well as areas of interest to the Decision, Risk, and Operations division at CBS.  It will consist of 3-hour sessions, each on a different topic, with the intent to introduce you to the topic, pique your interest, expose you to the methodologies and research areas people are working on, and help you think about what types of courses to take in the future in order to prepare yourself for this course.  We will ask students to submit a one-page summary of each session or a particular paper discussed in the session.  PhD students are invited to take the course and/or select certain sessions to attend. Spring 2022 Faculty instructors (each teaching one session) will be Mark Broadie,  Paul Glasserman, Fanyin Zheng, Jing Dong, Will Ma, Hongyao Ma.

• Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
• T 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
• 1.5 points

S SENTENCING

• Department: Law
• 2 points