PALEOBIOLOGY & EARTH SYST HIST

Prerequisites: high-school biology, introductory college-level geology.
Course is a survey of the biological and biogeochemical evolution of the Earth System. Students focus not only on a narrative of the panoply of biodiversity though time, but also on the development and the testing of evolutionary and geochemical hypotheses within a historical science. Case studies of mass extinctions and biological innovation as well as current topics and debates will be examined in detail. There are 4 full-day field trips.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul E Olsen
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• 3 points

OPTICAL SYSTEMS

OPTICAL SYSTEMS & NETWORKS

Prerequisites: (ELEN E3401) equivalent.
Introduction to optical systems based on physical design and engineering principles. Fundamental geometrical and wave optics with specific emphasis on developing analytical and numerical tools used in optical engineering design. Focus on applications that employ optical systems and networks, including examples in holographic imaging, tomography, Fourier imaging, confocal microscopy, optical signal processing, fiber optic communication systems, optical interconnects and networks.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• R 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Christine P Hendon
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• 3 points

HEALTH PHYSICS

Prerequisites: (APPH E4600) or
Corequisites: APPH E4600
Fundamental principles and objectives of health physics (radiation protection), the quantities of radiation dosimetry (the absorbed dose, equivalent dose, and effective dose) used to evaluate human radiation risks, elementary shielding calculations and protection measures for clinical environments, characterization and proper use of health physics instrumentation, and regulatory and administrative requirements of health physics programs in general and as applied to clinical activities.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• R 6:30 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Caracappa
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• 3 points

SUPERVISED RESEARCH

Students conduct research related to biotechnology under the sponsorship of a mentor
within
the University. The student and the mentor determine the nature and extent of this independent study. In some laboratories, the student may be assigned to work with a postdoctoral fellow, graduate student or a senior member of the laboratory, who is in turn supervised by the mentor. The mentor is responsible for mentoring and evaluating the student's progress and performance. Credits received from this course may be used to fulfill the laboratory requirement for the degree.  Instructor permission required.  Web site:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/g4500-g4503/index.html

• Department: Biological Sciences
• Instructor: Lili Yamasaki
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3-6 points

PROCESS & PRODUCT DESIGN I

PRINCIPLES OF PROCESS DESIGN

Prerequisites: (CHEN E2100) and (CHEN E4140) CHEN E2100, CHEN E4140.
The practical application of chemical engineering principles for the design and economic evaluation of chemical processes and plants.  Use of ASPEN Plus for complex material and energy balances of real processes.  Students are expected to build on previous coursework to identify creative solutions to two design projects of increasing complexity.  Each design project culminates in an oral presentation, and in the case of the second project, a written report.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• M 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• W 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert G Bozic
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• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213
The theory of international trade, comparative advantage and the factor endowments explanation of trade, analysis of the theory and practice of commercial policy, economic integration. International mobility of capital and labor; the North-South debate.

• Department: Economics
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Reka Juhasz
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• 3 points

SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS

SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS:SELECTED

Socio-economic rights have emerged from the margins into the mainstream of human rights. We will explore conceptual issues through the lens of specific rights which will help us ground these principles and ideas in concrete cases. We will discuss developments on socio-economic rights and examine their relevance in the United States as well as selected other countries, particularly those with progressive legislation, policies and jurisprudence.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Inga T Winkler
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• 3 points

APPLICATIONS PROGRAMMNG FOR FE

Prerequisites: Computer programming or instructor's approval.

This course is required for undergraduate students majoring in OR:FE.
In this course we will take a hands-on approach to developing computer applications for Financial Engineering. Special focus will be placed on high-performance numerical applications that interact with a graphical interface. In the course of developing such applications we will learn how to create DLLs, how to integrate VBA with C/C++ programs, and how to write multithreaded programs. Examples of problems settings that we will consider include: simulation of stock price evolution, tracking, evaluation and optimization of a stock portfolio; optimal trade execution. In the course of developing these applications we will review topics of interest to OR/FE in a holistic fashion.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Bienstock
  h-index: 38 Info
• 3 points

BIOCHEM I-STRUCTURE/METABOLISM

• Department: Biological Sciences
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Brent R Stockwell
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• 4 points

SUPERVISED RESEARCH

Students conduct research related to biotechnology under the sponsorship of a mentor
outside
the University within the New York City Metropolitan Area unless otherwise approved by the Program. The student and the mentor determine the nature and extent of this independent study. In some laboratories, the student may be assigned to work with a postdoctoral fellow, graduate student or a senior member of the laboratory, who is in turn supervised by the mentor. The mentor is responsible for mentoring and evaluating the student's progress and performance. Credits received from this course may be used to fulfill the laboratory requirement for the degree. Instructor permission required. Web site:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/biology/courses/g4500-g4503/index.html

• Department: Biological Sciences
• Instructor: Lili Yamasaki
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 2-6 points

TOOLS FOR ANALYTICS

The goal of this course is to provide students with the computing tools that are necessary for data and business analytics. Students will be introduced to the basics of the Python programming language with special emphasis on the data analysis and visualization libraries available in the language (pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, bokeh). They will learn the basics skills for gathering and processing data for analytical exercises using APIs, SQL, and by deconstructing JSON data objects, and will also gain basic familiarity with data manipulation using the Unix shell.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul Bulkley-Logston
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• 3 points

ITALIAN CULTURAL STUDIES I

An interdisciplinary investigation into Italian culture and society in the years between Unification in 1860 and the outbreak of World War I. Drawing on novels, historical analyses, and other sources including film and political cartoons, the course examines some of the key problems and trends in the cultural and political history of the period. Lectures, discussion and required readings will be in English. Students with a knowledge of Italian are encouraged to read the primary literature in Italian.

• Department: Italian @Barnard
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Faculty
  h-index: 37 Info
• 3 points

Post-War American Literature: 1945-1985

AMERICAN LIT: 1945-1985

This survey looks at the daring & challenging literary forms that, in concert with contemporaneous new political forms (the non-violent demonstrations in the South in the early 60s) and new modes of painting (the "action painting" of Jackson Pollock and Abstract Expressionism in the mid-50s) put the vulnerabilities of the human body front and center. Toppling classical hierarchies that had long enthroned the mind as sovereign, American writers open up subjectivity to a loss of control, as they suffer, survive and enjoy the risks of contingency, of cross-racial affiliations, of urgent improvisation amidst both the racism and the anonymity of urban life, as they pursue the censored, existential moments of doubt and exhilaration inhabiting the surface triumphalism of the post-war era. Flannery O'Connor, Carson, McCullers, Toni Morrison, Frank O'Hara, Tennessee Williams,  Philip Roth, Jack Kerouac, Thomas Pynchon, Don Delillo, will be some of the authors read .

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Ross Posnock
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• 3 points

DESIGN DIGITAL OPERATING MODELS

Focus on the fast evolving sectors of ecommerce, advertising technology, and marketing technology, as venture capitalists chase returns in the ever increasing automation of the marketing, sales, and advertising functions. Understand industry dynamics, algorithms, patents, and business models at the core of the most successful players in the business.  Explore and define the different types of data in the industry and how they are used.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Anthony Effik
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• 3 points

READINGS IN CLASSICAL CHINESE

Prerequisites:
CHNS W3302
or the equivalent.
Admission after placement exam. Focusing on Tang and Song prose and poetry, introduces a broad variety of genres through close readings of chosen texts as well as the specific methods, skills, and tools to approach them. Strong emphasis on the grammatical and stylistic analysis of representative works. CC GS EN CE

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Wei Shang
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 96 Info
• 3 points

STUDIO I- HISTORIC PRESERV

STUDIO I- HIST PRESERV

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 6 points

TISSUE ENGINEERING

Prerequisites: (BIOL UN2005) and (BIOL UN2006) and (BMEN E4001) and (BMEN E4002)
An introduction to the strategies and fundamental bioengineering design criteria behind the development of cell-based tissue substitutes. Topics include biocompatibility, biological grafts, gene therapy-transfer, and bioreactors.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Clark T Hung
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 65 Info
• 3 points

Rules and Reasons: Israeli Law vs. Jewis

LEGAL THEORY AND JWSH LAW

• Department: Institute for Israel & Jewish Studies
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 4 points

FIFTH YEAR KOREAN

FIFTH YEAR KOREAN I

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• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Joowon Suh
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• 4 points

FIFTH YEAR CHINESE I

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• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Lening Liu
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 4 points

APPLIED SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Applied Systems Engineering

Prerequisites: B.S. in Engineering or Applied Sciences; Professional experience recommended; Calculus, Probability and Statistics, Linear Algebra.
Introduction to fundamental methods used in Systems Engineering. Rigorous process that translates customer needs into a structured set of specific requirements; synthesizes a system architecture that satisfies those requirements; and allocates them in a physical system, meeting cost, schedule, and performance objectives throughout the product life-cycle. Sophisticated modeling of requirements optimization and dependencies, risk management, probabilistic scenario scheduling, verification matrices, and systems-of-systems constructs are synthesized to define the meta-work flow at the top of every major engineering project.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Ebad Jahangir
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• 3 points

DATA ANALYTICS

Corequisites: IEOR E4501
Co-requisite: IEOR E4501 Tools for Analytics. Survey tools available in Python for getting, cleaning, and analyzing data. Obtain data from files (csv, html, json, xml) and databases (Mysql, PostgreSQL, NoSQL), cover the rudiments of data cleaning, and examine data analysis, machine learning and data visualization packages (numpy, Pandas, ScikitĀ­learn, bokeh) available in Python. Brief overview of natural language processing, network analysis, and big data tools available in Python.  Contains a group project component that will require students to gather, store, and analyze a data set of their choosing.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 8:40 a.m.-11:10 a.m.
• Instructor: Hardeep Johar
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• Instructor: Uday Menon
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• 3 points

MACHINE LEARNING FE & OPR

MACHINE LEARNING OR & FE

Prerequisites: optimization, applied probability, statistics or simulation.
Introduction to Machine Learning, practical implementation ML algorithms and applications to financial engineering and operations. Probabilistic Tools of Machine Learning, Learning theory, Classification, Resampling Methods and Regularization, Support Vector Machines (SVMs), Unsupervised Learning, Dimensionality Reduction and Clustering algorithms, EM Algorithm, and Neural Networks and Deep Learning

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Manuel Balsera
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• 3 points

DRUG AND GENE DELIVERY

Prerequisites: BME I (BMEN E3010)
Prerequisites: BME I. The course covers the application of polymers and other materials in drug and gene delivery, with focus on recent advances in the field. It covers basics of polymer science, pharmacokinetics, and biomaterials, cell-substrate interactions, drug delivery system fabrication from nanoparticles to microparticles and electrospun fibrous membranes. Applications include cancer therapy, immunotherapy, gene therapy, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine. Course readings include textbook chapters and journal papers. Homework assignments take the format of an assay responding to an open-ended question. A term paper and a 30-minute PowerPoint presentation are required at the end of the semester.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• M 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Kam W Leong
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• 3 points

TECHNIQUES OF THE ULTRAREAL

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• 3 points

FUNDAMENTALS OF DIGITAL DESIGN

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

DATA MINING

DATA MINING FOR ENGINEERS

The course will cover major statistical learning methods for data mining under both supervised and unsupervised settings. Topics covered include linear regression and classi
fication, model selection and regularization, tree-based methods, support vector machines, and unsupervised learning. Students will learn about the principles underlying each method, how to determine which methods are most suited to applied settings, concepts behind model fi
tting and parameter tuning, and how to apply methods in practice and assess their performance. We will emphasize roles of statistical modeling and optimization in data mining.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Krzysztof M Choromanski
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• 3 points

GILLES DELEUZE:THINKING IN ART

The philosophy of Gilles Deleuze has emerged as one of the richest, most singular adventures in post-war European thought; Foucault considered it the most important in France, and more generally, in the 20th century. In all of Deleuze's work there is a search for a new 'image of thought.' But how did art figure in this search, and how did the search in turn appeal to artists, writers, filmmakers, architects, as well as curators or critics? In this seminar, we explore the complex theme of 'thinkin in art' in Deleuze, and its implications for art in the 21st century or for the global contemporary art of today.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: John Rajchman
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• 4 points

CATALYSIS OF EMISSIONS CONTROL

Prerequisites: One year of general college chemistry.
Fundamentals of heterogeneous catalysis including modern catalytic preparation techniques. Analysis and design of catalytic emissions control systems. Introduction to current industrial catalytic solutions for controlling gaseous emissions. Introduction to future catalytically enabled control technologies.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Farrauto
  h-index: 52 Info
• 3 points

PLANT ECOPHYSIOLOGY

Prerequisites: General biology or the instructor's permission.
Given in alternate years. Plant organismal responses to external environmental conditions and the physiological mechanisms of plants that enable these responses. An evolutionary approach is taken to analyze the potential fitness of plants and plant survival based on adaptation to external environmental factors.  One weekend field trip will be required.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Kevin L Griffin
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 59 Info
• 3 points

ENTREPRENEURIAL BUS CREA-ENGIN

Prerequisites: (IEOR E2261)

This course is required for undergraduate students majoring in OR:EMS.
Introduce basic concepts and methodologies that are used by the nonengineering part of the world in creating, funding, investing in, relating to, and operating entrepreneurial ventures. The first half of the course focuses on the underpinning principles and skills required in recognizing, analyzing, evaluating, and nurturing a business idea.The second half focuses on basic legal knowledge necessary in creating a business entity, defending your business assets, and in promoting effective interaction with other individuals and organizations.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: David A Gulley
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
• T noon-2:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul Segal
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• 3 points

COLLECTING ARCH TERRITORIES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Wasiuta
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

Du Bois, Gramsci, Ambedkar: Three Men on

DUBOIS, GRAMSCI, AMBEDKAR

Selected texts of W.E.B. Du Bois, Antonio Gramsci, and B.R. Ambedkar will be read to compare and contrast their points of view on the emancipation of the subaltern.  The issue of gendering will be investigated.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Gayatri C Spivak
  CULPA: 8 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE TO 1877

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.

Field(s): US

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Elizabeth Blackmar
  CULPA: 22 Info
• 4 points

TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BOOTCAMP

This course is designed as an introductory exposure to entrepreneurial concepts and practical skills for engineering students who wish to explore entrepreneurship conceptually or as a future endeavor in their careers. The class will be a mix of lecture, guest speakers from the entrepreneurship community, and work-shopping concepts we cover. Grades will be based on class participation and engagement as well as final pitch in which students describe their key takeaways & insights gleaned from the process.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: David B Lerner
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• 3 points

TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH

DATA ANALYTICS & PYTHON FOR OR

For Spring 2019 term:  Visualization and Story Telling with Data , This course will cover principles of data visualization and how to build a story with data. It is too easy to get distracted by complex statistics or massive datasets. This class will teach you to take complex data or statistics and allow you to communicate the results effectively. The final step of any analysis is presenting the result concisely and effectively.  Points: 1.5 , For Fall 2018 term: Data Analytics and Python for OR (BS Only) , Prerequisites: Mathematical and scientific programming. Data visualization. Introduction to analysis of social networks using computational techniques in network analysis and natural language processing. BS IEOR Program students only.  Points: 3

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Hardeep Johar
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• 3 points

TOPICS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH

DERIVATIVES MARKETING&STRUCTUR;

The availability of data, technical information, and open source software has greatly impacted the job market for quants. While machines have started to replace some trading positions such as market making in very liquid instruments, there is still a growing need for structuring where derivative instruments are used to help companies and institutions to manage their risks.
Structuring skills are also in demand at Corporate Treasuries where the emphasis is on using derivatives to manage various financial exposures such as interest rates, Foreign Exchange (FX), or commodities etc. Treasuries of companies usually do not engage in developing pricing modules but apply FE techniques to their hedging, funding, and investment activities to ensure that they receive the best price from the market. Moreover, the accounting treatment of derivatives is also of utmost importance for public companies as it impacts their income statement and ROE and ROA. 
Similarly, all major banks and investment houses have teams of Derivatives Marketers and structures who help companies and customers in developing and selecting the optimum risk management tools.
This course should give students an edge in their job search and also expand the universe of their opportunities to cover Corporate Treasuries.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• R 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Khosrow Dehnad
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 1.5 points

TOPICS IN OPERATION RESEARCH

CORP FINC ACCNT & INVEST BANK

Prerequisites: Must be registered in one of the MS IEOR Programs
Fall 2018 term: This course, “Introduction to Corporate Finance, Accounting and Investment Banking”, previously called “Quantitative Corporate Finance”, is designed for students considering working in Investment Banking or in the Finance department of a Corporation, and who have limited knowledge of Corporate Finance or Accounting.  This course will review the primary financial theories and alternative theories underlying Corporate Finance, such as CAPM, Miller Modigliani, Fama French factors, Smart Beta, etc. By completing this course, you will gain the core skills to interpret financial statements, build cash flow models, value projects, value companies, and make Corporate Finance decisions.  Among the topics covered: the cost of capital, dividend policy, debt policy, the impact of taxes, Shareholder / Debtholder agency costs, dual-class shares, and how option pricing theory can be used to analyze management behavior. We will study the application of theory in real-world situations by analyzing the financial activities of companies such as General Electric, Google, Snapchat, Spotify and Tesla.  In addition, you will learn about a variety of investment banking activities, including equity underwriting, syndicated lending, venture capital, private equity investing and private equity secondaries.  Points: 3. , Spring 2019 term: Intellectual Property for Entrepreneurs.  Points: 0.  Course Description: Zero-credit course. Intellectual property (patents, copyrights, trademarks) are an increasingly critical part of almost any business, at almost any stage of growth. This course will provide the aspiring business executive, tech entrepreneur, or engineer an overview of commercial opportunities and risks associated with intellectual property, with a particular focus on technology patents. While legal principles will be addressed, the primary focus of the class will be on leveraging intellectual property to create financial returns.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Rodney Sunada-Wong
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• 3 points

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN CHEMICAL ENGI

MODERN METHODS-PROCESS ENGNRNG

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Venkat Venkatasubramanian
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• 3 points

RACE, DRUGS, AND INEQUALITY

RACE, TECH & HEALTH/US HI

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Through a series of secondary- and primary-source readings and research writing assignments, students in this seminar course will explore one of the most politically controversial aspects in the history of public health in the United States as it has affected peoples of color: intoxicating substances. Course readings are primarily historical, but sociologists, anthropologists, and political scientists are also represented on the syllabus. The course's temporal focus - the twentieth century - allows us to explore the historical political and social configurations of opium, alcohol, heroin, cocaine, medical maintenance (methadone), the War on Drugs, the carceral state and hyperpolicing, harm reduction and needle/syringe exchange. This semester's principal focus will be on the origins and evolution of the set of theories, philosophies, and practices which constitute harm reduction. The International Harm Reduction Association/Harm Reduction International offers a basic, though not entirely comprehensive, definition of harm reduction in its statement, "What is Harm Reduction?" (http://www.ihra.net/what-is-harm-reduction): "Harm reduction refers to policies, programmes and practices that aim to reduce the harms associated with the use of psychoactive drugs in people unable or unwilling to stop. The defining features are the focus on the prevention of harm, rather than on the prevention of drug use itself, and the focus on people who continue to use drugs."[1] Harm reduction in many U.S. communities of color, however, has come to connote a much wider range of activity and challenges to the status quo. In this course we will explore the development of harm reduction in the United States and trace its evolution in the political and economic context race, urban neoliberalism, and no-tolerance drug war. The course will feature site visits to harm reduction organizations in New York City, guest lectures, and research/oral history analysis. This course has been approved for inclusion in both the African-American Studies and History undergraduate curricula (majors and concentrators). HIST W4588 will be open to both undergraduate and masters students. To apply, please complete the Google form at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1xaPFhQOzkl1NHnIjQIen9h41iel2hXAdhV59D5wH8AQ/viewform?usp=send_form. Questions may be directed to skroberts@columbia.edu.

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Samuel K Jr Roberts
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• 4 points

CELL SIGNALING

Prerequisites: A strong background in molecular and cellular biology. Generally students with four or more courses are accepted.
Cell Signaling is a graduate course for Ph.D. students open to advanced undergraduate and masters students.  The basic molecular mechanism of signal transduction pathways will be discussed related to cell growth and stress systems. There will be an emphasis on specific categories of signaling components. Students will read the literature and give presentations. Topics include the pathways by which cells respond to extracellular signals such as growth factors and the mechanisms by which extracellular signals are translated into alterations in the cell cycle, morphology, differentiation state, and motility of the responding cells. For stress pathways we will discuss how cells respond to survive the stress or induce their own death. In many cases these pathways will be related to human diseases.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Ron M Prywes
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

EARTH RESOURCES & SUSTAIN DEV

Prerequisites: none; high school chemistry recommended.
Survey of the origin and extent of mineral resources, fossil fuels, and industrial materials, that are non renewable, finite resources, and the environmental consequences of their extraction and use, using the textbook Earth Resources and the Environment, by James Craig, David Vaughan and Brian Skinner. This course will provide an overview, but will include focus on topics of current societal relevance, including estimated reserves and extraction costs for fossil fuels, geological storage of CO2, sources and disposal methods for nuclear energy fuels, sources and future for luxury goods such as gold and diamonds, and special, rare materials used in consumer electronics (e.g., “Coltan”, mostly from Congo) and in newly emerging technologies such as superconducting magnets and rechargeable batteries (e.g., heavy rare earth elements, mostly from China). Guest lectures from economists, commodity traders and resource geologists will provide “real world” input.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Kelemen
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 84 Info
• 3 points

MYSTIFICATIONS OF SOCIAL REALITY

The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were marked by the discovery of a new object of systematic inquiry in addition to Nature and the Individual:  Society.  First Economics, then Anthropology, Sociology, and Political Science developed strikingly new understandings of the actions, beliefs, and institutional arrangements of men and women
in society
, which were seen as obeying regular laws not derivable from, or reducible to, either the laws of nature or the laws of individual behavior.  But these new disciplines, which came to be called the Social Sciences, were different from their predecessors in one fundamental and centrally important way:  They revealed the study of society, and indeed society itself, to be mystified, ideologically encoded, shaped and distorted by the interests and beliefs of men and women
even though those living in society or studying it often were oblivious of this fact
.


            In this course we shall read in depth a series of texts by authors who explored the ideological mystifications of social reality in their disciplines.  The goal of the course is not merely to inform students of these authors and their ideas but to strengthen the ability of students to understand their own involvement in, indeed complicity in, ideological mystification.

• Department: Sociology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 4 points

INTRODUCTION TO ROBOTICS

INTRODUCITON TO ROBOTICS

Overview of robot applications and capabilities. Linear algebra, kinematics, statics, and dynamics of robot manipulators. Survey of sensor technology: force, proximity, vision, compliant manipulators. Motion planning and artificial intelligence; manipulator programming requirements and languages.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Matei T Ciocarlie
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• 3 points

PRODUCT DESIGN FOR MFG

Prerequisites: Manufacturing process, computer graphics, engineering design, mechanical design.
General review of product development process; market analysis and product system design; principles of design for manufacturing; strategy for material selection and manufacturing process choice; component design for machining; casting; molding; sheet metal working and inspection; general assembly processes; product design for manual assembly; design for robotic and automatic assembly; case studies of product design and improvement.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Graham Walker
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• 3 points

Tokyo Olympics Japanese - N1 Level Profi

TOKYO OLYMPICS JPNS N1

Prerequisites: Completion of Third Year Japanese or above
This course is intended to prepare students for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) N1 level, which will be administered by the Japan Foundation on December 1, 2019. With nearly 890,000 people taking the JLPT in 2017 compared to 750,000 in 2016, this test has shown to be a reliable means by which to evaluate the Japanese proficiency of non-native speakers. Passing this test, therefore, provides students with more opportunities to work in Japan, to study at Japanese universities, or to receive scholarships to further their Japanese studies. The JLPT can also help earn students a position working for the Tokyo Olympics, which will take place in the summer of 2020.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Miharu Nittono
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 2.5 points

ADV MANUFACTURING PROCESSES

Prerequisites: Introductory course on manufacturing processes, and heat transfer, knowledge of engineering materials, or the Instructor's permission.
Principles of nontraditional manufacturing, nontraditional transport and media.  Emphasis on laser assisted materials processing, laser material interactions with applications to laser material removal, forming, and surface modification.  Introduction to electrochemical machining, electrical discharge machining and abrasive water jet machining.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Y. Lawrence Yao
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 95 Info
• 3 points

Image Theories in Chinese Religions

IMAGE THEORY CHINESE RELI

What does “image” mean in Chinese intellectual traditions? How did proponents of different religious persuasions construe the relationship between images and their referents differently and how did such construal change over time? Why did the practice of fashioning images often give rise to controversies in Chinese history? What makes images the object of adoration as well as destruction? Throughout the course, we will tackle these questions from diverse perspectives. The first half of the course examines a variety of accounts from Chinese indigenous classics and treatises. The second half looks at how discourses of the image further diversified after the arrival of Buddhism in China.

• Department: Religion
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Kwi J Lee
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• 4 points

AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE I

(Lecture). This lecture course is intended as the first half of the basic survey in African-American literature. By conducting close readings of selected song lyrics, slave narratives, fiction, poetry, and autobiography, we will focus on major writers in the context of cultural history. In so doing, we will explore the development of the African- American literary tradition. Writers include, but are not limited to, Wheatley, Equiano, Douglass, Jacobs, Harper, Dunbar, Chestnutt, Washington, Du Bois, and Larsen. Course requirements: class attendance, an in-class midterm exam, a five-page paper, and a final exam.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert G O'Meally
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 3 points

BUILDING CHINA

BUILDING CHINA MODERN

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

PRICING MODELS FOR FIN ENGIN

Prerequisites: (IEOR E4700)

This course is required for undergraduate students majoring in OR:FE.
 Characteristics of commodities or credit derivatives. Case study and pricing of structures and products. Topics covered include swaps, credit derivatives, single tranche CDO, hedging, convertible arbitrage, FX, leverage leases, debt markets, and commodities.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• T 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael Miller
  CULPA: 18 h-index: 14 Info
• 3 points

TENSILE/COMPRESSION SURFACES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert E Marino
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Communism or Democracy? A French Debate

COMMUNISM OR DEMOCRACY?

In the last three decades of the 20th century, i.e. roughly in the wake of the 68 insurrections and the final collapse of the Soviet regime and the end of the Cold War, a lively debate took place in France as in other countries, but with specific character, which involved a number of prominent philosophers, writers and political theorists, usually (but not always) classified on the left: Castoriadis, Lefort, Lyotard, Blanchot, Derrida, Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe, Abensour, Rancière, Poulantzas, Foucault, Gauchet, and others. It took place in certain academic seminars and in prestigious or less well-known journals (such as "Esprit" or “Révoltes Logiques”). It left profound traces on contemporary political philosophy and philosophy in general. Its originality came from the fact that, while continuing the critique of "totalitarianism" from the previous decades, particularly under the influence of the democratic insurrections in the Socialist countries (notably the "Solidarnosc" movement in Poland) and the reception of Solzhenitsyn’s work, it was also trying to renew on a radical basis the idea of communism as libertarian and egalitarian invention. As a consequence, it proposed diverse insights into the vexed question of the articulation of communism and democracy, which could be compared with the current debates about "assembly" movements and post-capitalist democracy.
The class will read a number of texts from this debate, organizing them in the form of dialogues among the protagonists and trying to identify their points of heresy, in three successive clusters: “
Politics of Human Rights”
, “
Radical democracy and Gramsci’s legacy
” “
Communism without Community”
. Some transnational comparisons will be suggested.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Etienne Balibar
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Science Fiction

What is the relation between literature and science? Is fiction a form of knowledge, and if so how is it different from the knowledge arrived at in the natural sciences? What is the role of the “thought experiment” in scientific and literary writing? Are novels or stories thought experiments? The course will explore such questions through a focus on science-fiction as a genre, broadly construed. In addition to reflection on what is meant by "genre," we will consider how science and the scientist are represented in works of fiction, the idea of time travel, artificial intelligence, and imagining different kinds of dystopia. Students write essays making claims and using evidence from works on the syllabus, with emphasis on writing clear prose in support of an original argument. Writers and filmmakers may include Mary Shelley, H.G. Wells, Phillip K. Dick, Edgar Allan Poe, William Gibson, Isaac Asimov, Stanely Kubrick, Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Delany, Stanislaw Lem, Susan Sontag, William S. Burroughs, Margaret Atwood, H.P.Lovecraft, Kurt Vonnegut, Saul Bellow, Octavia Butler, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alan Turing, Rivka Galchen, Jonathan Lethem, Steven Speilberg and televison shows like Black Mirror and the Twilight Zone.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul C Grimstad
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

Literature and the Health Humanities

Literature & Health Human

Literature and medicine have always been in dialogue: Apollo was the god of physicians and poetry, while some of the greatest writers, such as John Keats and Anton Chekhov, were trained as doctors. In our time, literature and medicine have become ever more entwined in the burgeoning field of “health humanities” that bridges the practices of writer and caregiver.
In this lecture course, we will consider how creative literature enriches our understanding of health and illness by exploring contemporary narratives about health and medicine in a global context. We will read literary writing by physicians in genres such as the short story, the case history, the satirical novel, and the medical memoir. As we move through shifting paradigms in healthcare, we will attend to how prose fiction can excavate and illustrate conflicts in the medical encounter—power struggles between doctors and patients, science and superstition, and cultural contexts—along with the challenges of war and trauma. We will consider, too, how medical fictions create generative space for motifs of alterity—physical disability, aging, cognitive differences, and gender fluidity—in contemporary global literature in English. As we read, we will attend to how the study of literature creates a series of critical methods that can be applied to problems across the health humanities. Writers include Atul Gawande, Oliver Sacks, Paul Kalanithi, Emma Donoghue, Michael Ondaatje, Indra Sinha, Ian McEwan, and Maggie Nelson, among others.
Both literature and pre-med students are invited to enroll.
This lecture will particularly suit students who are interested in literature post-1800, prose fiction, social justice, and the health humanities

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Arden A Hegele
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ADVOCACY

This course is designed to introduce contemporary children’s rights issues and help students develop practical advocacy skills to protect and promote the rights of children. Students will explore case studies of advocacy campaigns addressing issues including juvenile justice, child labor, child marriage, the use of child soldiers, corporal punishment, migration and child refugees, female genital mutilation, and LBGT issues affecting children. Over the course of the semester, students will become familiar with international children’s rights standards, as well as a variety of advocacy strategies and avenues, including use of the media, litigation, and advocacy with UN, legislative bodies, and the private sector. Written assignments will focus on practical advocacy tools, including advocacy letters, op-eds, submissions to UN mechanisms or treaty bodies, and the development of an overarching advocacy strategy, including the identification of goals and objectives, and appropriate advocacy targets and tactics.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

BUSINESS ANALYTICS

Prerequisites: (STAT GU4001) or (IEOR E4150)
In this course, you will learn how to identify, evaluate, and capture business analytic opportunities that create value. Toward this end, you will learn basic analytical methods and analyze case studies on organizations that successfully deployed these techniques. In the first part of the course, we focus on how to use data to develop insights and predictive capabilities using machine learning and data mining techniques. In the second part, we focus on the use of optimization and simulation to support prescriptive decision-making in the presence of a large number of alternatives and business constraints. Finally, throughout the course, we explore the challenges that can arise in implementing analytical approaches within an organization.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Yi Zhang
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

A HISTORY OF MODERN PAKISTAN

This course is designed for undergraduate students to be a survey course of modern Pakistani history from 1947 to the present. The course will examine the six "eras" that help define Pakistan's history, and will highlight political, economic and institutional developments.  The completion of this course should prepare students for further and more advanced work on South Asia.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: S. Akbar Zaidi
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Prerequisites: (CHEN E4320) or CHEN E4320 or instructor's permission.
Engineering of biochemical and microbiological reaction systems. Kinetics, reactor analysis, and design of batch and continuous fermentation and enzyme processes. Recovery and separations in biochemical engineering systems.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Allie Obermeyer
  h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

Hollywood's Countercultural Cinema: Movi

MOVIES OF THE 1970S

You will be asked to watch
a lot
of movies for this course. Some of the films will be assigned primarily to provide background and will receive only glancing attention in class; others (as indicated) will be the focus of our discussion.  Your postings on Courseworks will draw from both categories of assigned films.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Maura L Spiegel
  CULPA: 40 Info
• 4 points

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING DATA ANALYSIS

CHEM E DATA ANALYSIS

Prerequisites: (CHEN E4230) and (CHEN E3120) and (CHEN E3210) or

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Kyle Bishop
  h-index: 42 Info
• 3 points

MARX, NIETZSCHE, FREUD IN ENGLISH

MARX, NIETZSCHE, FREUD [IN ENG

Along with Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche and Freud have radically altered what and how we know; about humans, language, history, religion, things and life. Because their thought has shaped our sense of ourselves so fundamentally, Michel Foucault has referred to these three authors as discourse-founders. As such they will be treated in this class. Special attention will be paid to the affinities and competition among their approaches. Secondary sources will be subject to short presentations (in English) of those students capable of reading German.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Oliver Simons
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Davidson Norris
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO FINANCIAL ENGINEERING

Prerequisites: (IEOR E3106) or (IEOR E4106)

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

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Emanuel Derman
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 30 Info
• 3 points

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136 or COMS W3137) and any course on probability. Prior knowledge of Python is recommended.
Provides a broad understanding of the basic techniques for building intelligent computer systems. Topics include state-space problem representations, problem reduction and and-or graphs, game playing and heuristic search, predicate calculus, and resolution theorem proving, AI systems and languages for knowledge representation, machine learning and concept formation and other topics such as natural language processing may be included as time permits.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Tony B Dear
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

STOCHASTIC MODELS FOR FIN ENG

Prerequisites: (STAT GU4001)

This graduate course is only for MS Program in FE students, offered during the summer session.
Review of elements of probability theory, Poisson processes, exponential distribution, renewal theory, Wald's equation. Introduction to discrete-time Markov chains and applications to queueing theory, inventory models, branching processes.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Lacker
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS

Prerequisites: (ELEN E3701) or equivalent.
Digital communications for both point-to-point and switched applications is further developed. Optimum receiver structures and transmitter signal shaping for both binary and M-ary signal transmission. An introduction to block codes and convolutional codes, with application to space communications.

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

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136 or COMS W3137) or the instructor's permission.
Computational approaches to natural language generation and understanding. Recommended preparation: some previous or concurrent exposure to AI or Machine Learning. Topics include information extraction, summarization, machine translation, dialogue systems, and emotional speech. Particular attention is given to robust techniques that can handle understanding and generation for the large amounts of text on the Web or in other large corpora. Programming exercises in several of these areas.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• F 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Kathleen McKeown
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 71 Info
• Instructor: Yassine Benajiba
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

FOUNDATIONS FR FINANCIAL ENGIN

Prerequisites: (IEOR E4701) and (IEOR E4702) and linear algebra.

This graduate course is only for MS Program in FE students, offered during the summer session.
Discrete-time models of equity, bond, credit, and foreign-exchange markets. Introduction to derivative markets. Pricing and hedging of derivative securities. Complete and incomplete markets. Introduction to portfolio optimization, and the capital asset pricing model.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Dylan Possamai
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

TERM STRUCTURE MODELING

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Dylan Possamai
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

GLOBAL CAPITAL MARKETS

Prerequisites: Refer to course syllabus.

Fall: Global Capital Markets, taught by Professor S. Dastidar.
This course is an introduction to capital markets and investments. It provides an overview of financial markets and teaches you tools for asset valuation that will be very useful in your future career. The extract below is from last year. While I was keen to have similar content, the class complained last year that the topics 2 and 3 were too esoteric for them. Based on what the class feels, I am probably going to replace it with general content on equities (i.e. replace 2 and 3 with 4). This course then becomes very similar to Capital Markets and Investments offered by the Business School. We will cover: 1. The pricing of fixed income securities (treasury markets, interest rate swaps, futures etc) 2. Discussions on topics in credit, foreign exchange, sovereign and securitized markets (we may drop this) 3. Private markets - private equity and hedge funds, etc. (we may drop this) 4. We shall spend some time on equity markets and their derivatives, time permitting. We will aim to take a hands-on approach in this course. The course is somewhat quantitative in nature; you should be prepared to work with data and spreadsheets. Programming is not required. Nevertheless, this is a basic foundations course, and does not assume much prior knowledge in finance. Consequently, the course emphasizes a few cardinal principles while getting into some institutional detail. The word "Global" in the title implies that the concepts we discuss are relevant to all geographies; we will rarely get into specifics of any particular region.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Siddhartha Ghosh Dastidar
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

RE-THINKING BIM

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Jared Friedman
  Info
• 3 points

GAP I:DESIGN + TYPOGRAPHY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 9 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Yoonjai Choi
  Info
• 3 points

Francophone Romance Love, Sex, Intimacy

The forms of domination and violence that have characterized the phenomenon of empire have always been interwoven with desire and various forms of intimacy. Personal relationships have been vectors of colonial power as well as sites of resistance. In this course we consider various ways in which love, desire and intimacy have emerged as questions in the French colonial context. The course covers a broad historical and geographic span stretching from the age of plantation slavery to the era of decolonization and from the Caribbean and Louisiana to Vietnam and Africa. We consider both the transmission of categories and practices across colonial contexts and historical transitions and regional specificities. The course methodology is interdisciplinary, drawing on insights from history, sociology and law. The primary lens is, however, be that of literature, a medium in which the personal dimensions of empire have often found expression. We consider how recurrent themes and figures of colonial desire and intimacy have taken shape across different genres and registers of writing.

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Madeleine Dobie
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN QUANT FINANCE

DEEP LEARNING

Prerequisites: (IEOR E4700) and additional prerequisites will be announced depending on offering.
Selected topics of interest in the area of quantitative finance. Offerings vary each year; some topics include energy derivatives, experimental finance, foreign exchange and related derivative instruments, inflation derivatives, hedge fund management, modeling equity derivatives in Java, mortgage-backed securities, numerical solutions of partial differential equations, quantitative portfolio management, risk management, trade and technology in financial markets.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Ali Hirsa
  h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN QUANT FINANCE

STOCH CONTROL & FINANCIAL APP

Prerequisites: IEOR E4707 Refer to course syllabus.
This course covers stochastic control theory and applications in finance. It includes the following topics: Formulation of stochastic control; maximum principle and backward stochastic differential equations; dynamic programming and Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation; linear-quadratic control and Riccati equations; optimal stopping and variational inequalities; continuous-time expected utility maximization; continuous-time mean-variance portfolio selection and properties of efficient strategies; algorithmic and high frequency trading.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Xunyu Zhou
  h-index: 54 Info
• 1.5 points

18th Century Comparative Novel

18th C Comparative Novel

This course encompasses a series of readings in the eighteenth-century European novel.  Style, narratology, the “rise” of realism and the history of novel criticism will all figure in our discussions; the seminar offers a theoretical rather than a thoroughly historical survey, and should serve as groundwork for considering questions about style and the novel in other periods and national traditions.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenny M Davidson
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 4 points

GAP III: DESIGN SEMINAR

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 9 a.m.-noon
• 3 points

TOPICS IN QUANTATIVE FINANCE

APPLIED FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEM

This course introduces risk management principles, with an emphasis on their practical implementation and application. It presents standard market, liquidity and credit risk measurement techniques, as well as their drawbacks and limitations. The course will convey much of the quantitative and technical material by working through calculation examples using market data and simple models. The example also introduce many sources of financial and statistical data, enabling students to better grasp the realities behind abstract financial concepts.
Students will understand risk management techniques from the viewpoint of practitioners, such as banks and other intermediaries. Many of these techniques have been adopted into financial regulatory standards. Especially since the crisis, regulatory standards have exerted great influence over firms’ risk management practices. The course will help understand this interaction, and the role of risk management in regulatory compliance.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Allan M Malz
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN QUANTATIVE FINANCE

PROG FOR FINANCIAL ENGINEERING

Prerequisites: Refer to course syllabus.
This course covers features of the C++ programming language which are essential in financial engineering and its applications. We start by covering basic C++ programming features and then move to some more advance features. We utilize these features for financial engineering and quantitative finance applications.

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

TOPICS IN QUANTATIVE FINANCE

MODEL BASED TRADING

Prerequisites: (IEOR E4701) and (IEOR E4706)

This graduate course is only for MS Program in FE students, offered during the summer session.
This core curriculum course introduces students pursuing a graduate degree in financial engineering to the main areas and concepts of modern finance. The course's objective is to provide an introduction to financial institutions, financial markets, and risk management as well as the broadest possible perspective on how financial theory and real-life practice interact, preparing students for successful careers in the financial industry and paving the way for in-depth studies that follow.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenneth Gleason
  Info
• 3 points

DISCOVERING EXISTENCE

A study of the theme of human existence confronted with the infinite universe of modern science (Descartes, Pascal), with the proliferation of existence (Sartre), with the absurd (Camus), with the other (Levinas).

• Department: French and Romance Philology
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Souleymane B Diagne
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTER VISION

Prerequisites: Fundamentals of calculus, linear algebra, and C programming. Students without any of these prerequisites are advised to contact the instructor prior to taking the course.
Introductory course in computer vision. Topics include image formation and optics, image sensing, binary images, image processing and filtering, edge extraction and boundary detection, region growing and segmentation, pattern classification methods, brightness and reflectance, shape from shading and photometric stereo, texture, binocular stereo, optical flow and motion, 2D and 3D object representation, object recognition, vision systems and applications.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Carl Vondrick
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

CREDIT RISK/CREDIT DERIVATIVES

CREDIT RISKS & DERIATIVES

Prerequisites: (IEOR E4701) and (IEOR E4707)
Introduction to quantitative modeling of credit risk, with a focus on the pricing of credit derivatives. Focus on the pricing of single-name credit derivatives (credit default swaps) and collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). Details topics include default and credit risk, multiname default barrier models and multiname reduced form models.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Agostino Capponi
  h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

COMPUT METHODS IN FINANCE

Prerequisites: (IEOR E4700)
Applications to various computational methods/techniques in quantitative/computational finance. Transform techniques: fast Fourier transform for data de-noising and pricing, finite difference methods for partial differential equations (PDE), partial integro-differential equations (PIDE), Monte Carlo simulation techniques in finance, calibration and calibration techniques, filtering and parameter estimation techniques. Computational platform: C++/Java/Python/Matlab/R.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Ali Hirsa
  h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTATNL ASPECTS OF ROBOTICS

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136COMS W3137)
Introduction to robotics from a computer science perspective. Topics include coordinate frames and kinematics, computer architectures for robotics, integration and use of sensors, world modeling systems, design and use of robotic programming languages, and applications of artificial intelligence for planning, assembly, and manipulation.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter K Allen
  CULPA: 23 Info
• 3 points

STRUCTURED&HYBRID; PRODUCTS

Prerequisites: (IEOR E4700)
Conceptual and practical understanding of structured and hybrid products from the standpoint of relevant risk factors, design goals and characteristics, pricing, hedging and risk management. Detailed analysis of the underlying cash-flows, embedded derivative instruments and various structural features of these transactions, both from the investor and issuer perspectives, and analysis of the impact of the prevailing market conditions and parameters on their pricing and risk characteristics. Numerical methods for valuing and managing risk of structured/hybrid products and their embedded derivatives and their application to equity, interest rates, commodities and currencies, inflation and credit-related products. Conceptual and mathematical principles underlying these techniques, and practical issues that arise in their implementations in the Microsoft Excel/VBA and other programming environments. Special contractual provisions often encountered in structured and hybrid transactions, and attempt to incorporate yield curves, volatility smile, and other features of the underlying processes into pricing and implementation framework for these products.

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

World Poems

This is a course on 20th- and 21st-century world poetry—poetry in dialogue with literature from other cultures, or poetry that reflects on experiences of coming into contact with other cultures. Our main focus will be long poems and poem cycles written in the wake of imperial incursions and diasporic resettlements. Some of these poems have engrossing plots and rounded characters, such as a novel in verse about yuppies in San Francisco. Others complicate narrative development in favor of more cyclical or disjunctive effects, such as a postcolonial epic inspired by the 
Odyssey
, or a poem cycle that fractures and transforms legal language on the Zong, an 18th-century slave ship whose captain tried to maximize his company’s profits by throwing 150 Africans overboard to their deaths. We will examine the rich array of lyric, narrative, and dramatic forms that poets have developed over the last century to evoke the many kinds of crossings—cultural and textual, personal and communal, voluntary and forced—peculiar to our globalizing age.
We will read long poems by Aimé Césaire, Kamau Brathwaite, Derek Walcott, Michael Ondaatje, M. NourbeSe Philip, and Vikram Seth, with additional short poems, essays, and excerpts by St.-John Perse, T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Édouard Glissant, Louise Glück, Patrick Chamoiseau, Khal Torabully, and Immanuel Mifsud.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• 3 points

GLOBALIZATION & ITS RISKS

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

• Department: Economics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Graciela Chichilnisky
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info
• 3 points

HETEROGEN COMP-SIG PROCESSING

Prerequisites: (ELEN E3801) and (COMS W3134) or similar courses recommended.
Methods for deploying signal and data processing algorithms on contemporary general purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs) and heterogeneous computing infrastructures. Using programming languages such as OpenCL and CUDA for computational speedup in audio, image and video processing and computational data analysis. Significant design project.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• R 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Zoran Kostic
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

IoT - INTELLIG & CONNECTED SYS

Prerequisites: Knowledge of programming or instructor's permission. Suggested preparation: ELEN E4703, CSEE W4119, CSEE W4840, or related courses.
Cyber-physical systems and Internet-of-Things. Various sensors and actuators, communication with devices through serial protocols and buses, embedded hardware, wired and wireless networks, embedded platforms such as Arduino and smartphones, web services on end devices and in the cloud, visualization and analytics on sensor data, end-to-end IoT applications. Group projects to create working CPS/IoT system.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiaofan Jiang
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• 3 points

The Literary History of Atrocity

The Literary Hist of Atro

Sometime around the publication of Garcia Marquez’s classic novel
One Hundred Years of Solitude
in 1967, novelists who wanted to make a claim to ethical and historical seriousness began to include a scene of extreme violence that, like the banana worker massacre in Garcia Marquez, seemed to offer a definitive guide to the moral landscape of the modern world. This course will explore both the modern literature that was inspired by Garcia Marquez’s example and the literature that led up to this extraordinary moment—for example, the literature dealing with the Holocaust, with the dropping of the atomic bomb, with the Japanese invasion of China in the 1930s, and with the Allied bombing of the German cities. It will also ask how extraordinary this moment in fact was, looked at from the perspective of literature as a whole, by inspecting earlier examples of atrocities committed in classical antiquity, in the Crusades, against Native Americans and (in Tolstoy) against the indigenous inhabitants of the Caucasus. Before the concept of the non-combatant had been defined, could there be a concept of the atrocity? Could a culture accuse itself of misconduct toward the members of some other culture? In posing these and related questions, the course offers itself as a major but untold chapter both in world literature and in the moral history of humankind.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Bruce Robbins
  CULPA: 35 Wikipedia h-index: 39 Info
• 3 points