FICTION SEMINAR

HORROR FICTION

• Department: Writing
• M 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Paul B Lafarge
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

BUILDING A BETTER NOVEL

• Department: Writing
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Victor D Lavalle
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

THE HYSTERICAL MALE

• Department: Writing
• M 3:50 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Erroll G McDonald
  Info
• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

AN EARNEST LOOK AT IRONY

• Department: Writing
• M 3:50 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Ben Metcalf
  Info
• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

STRUCTURE AND ITS DISCONTENTS

• Department: Writing
• M 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lincoln M Michel
  Info
• 3 points

FICTION SEMINAR

BUILDING A SCENE

• Department: Writing
• W 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lara Vapnyar
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

The Hybrid Voice: Comparative Diasporas

COMP DIASPORAS & TRANSLAT

A seminar on the theory and practice of translation from the perspective of comparative diaspora studies, drawing on the key scholarship on diaspora that has emerged over the past two decades focusing on the central issue of language in relation to migration, uprooting, and imagined community. Rather than foregrounding a single case study, the syllabus is organized around the proposition that any consideration of diaspora requires a consideration of comparative and overlapping diasporas, and as a consequence a confrontation with multilingualism, creolization and the problem of translation. The final weeks of the course will be devoted to a practicum, in which we will conduct an intensive workshop around the translation projects of the student participants.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

THE RHETORICAL TRADITION

(Seminar). Major works of rhetorical theory from Greek and Roman antiquity to early modern Europe with a focus on the continuities and changes and with special attention to the forensic elements of both their inventional and stylistic strategies.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Kathy H Eden
  CULPA: 19 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Novels of War an of Peace

NOVELS OF WAR AN OF PEACE

Novels of war and of peace.


We will read a range of fictional works, mostly novels, about war and about peace, written by Russian, U.S., English, French, and German authors between 1837 and 1969.  Anchoring the course will be Leo Tolstoy’s early and late war (and anti-war) stories and his epic novel.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Liza Knapp
  CULPA: 28 Info
• 4 points

ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROCESSES

Prerequisites: (CIEE E4252) and (CIEE E4163) or the equivalent, or the instructor's permission.
Fundamentals and applications of key physicochemical processes relevant to water quality engineering (such as water treatment, waste water treatment/reuse/recycling, desalination) and the natural environment (e.g., lakes, rivers, groundwater).

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Yin Yip Ngai
  h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

Advances in Ecology, Evolution, and Envi

AGENT-BASED MODELS--CNH

Prerequisites: Students are expected to have some facility with general concepts in ecology and biostatistics. No prior experience with complex systems, agent-based modeling or NetLogo is expected.
This course will introduce the Coupled Natural and Human system framework to study socio-ecological systems and introduce active learning of Agent-based models (ABM) as one of the most common methods to study CNH systems.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• 3 points

ANALYSIS & PROBABILITY I

Prerequisites:
the instructor's written permission. 
This is a course for Ph.D. students, and for majors in Mathematics. 
Measure theory; elements of probability; elements of Fourier analysis; Brownian motion.

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ivan Corwin
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 34 Info
• 4.5 points

TOPICS IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Topics in Software engineering arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes, it may be repeated for credit with advisor approval. Consult the department for section assignment.

• Department: Computer Science
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Donald F Ferguson
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

LAW, HISTORY & ANTHROPOLOGY

LAW HISTORY & ANTHROPOLOGY

To be announced

• Department: Anthropology
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Brinkley Messick
  CULPA: 19 Info
• 3 points

COMPLEX ANALYSIS/RIEMANN SURF

Topics include holomorphic functions; analytic continuation; Riemann surfaces; theta functions and modular forms.

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Duong H Phong
  Wikipedia Info
• 4.5 points

INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEMS

Corequisites: COMS W4180
The state of threats against computers, and networked systems. An overview of computer security solutions and why they fail. Provides a detailed treatment for Network and Host-based Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention systems. Considerable depth is provided on anomaly detection systems to detect new attacks. Covers issues and problems in email (spam, and viruses) and insider attacks (masquerading and impersonation).

• Department: Computer Science
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Salvatore J Stolfo
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Staging Early Modern London

STAGING EARLY MODERN LOND

This course examines the performances through which early modern London (c. 1558-1642) “staged” itself: at the public and private theaters, in settings such as the court and the Inns of Court, in civic and royal rituals, and in popular entertainments.   In so doing, we will examine how London’s sense of itself came to be shaped by its various performances – its relationship with the crown, with the country, with strangers and foreigners – and how key sites (the Royal Exchange, the Guildhall, the Thames, Covent Garden, Hyde Park) came to hold meaning for London audiences.
We will be reading texts by dramatists including Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont, Thomas Middleton, James Shirley, and Richard Brome, as well as less studied texts.   We will also be reading a set of critical works relating to early modern London and its various “stages”.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 8:10 a.m.-10 a.m.
• Instructor: Alan Stewart
  CULPA: 14 h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION

• Department: Sociology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Yinon Cohen
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 33 Info
• 3 points

ADV GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENT

Prerequisites: BIOL GU 4001 or BIOL GR 6001 Permission of the instructor.
This course will be suitable for students who want to engage in deep reading of papers in genetics and development. At the beginning of the course, classic and contemporary papers that complement the literature and topics covered in the graduate core course required of Biological Sciences graduate students will be discussed; later in the course, students will choose papers that suit their interests and the mission of the course, i.e. that include sophisticated genetic analysis using classic or contemporary methods. Student-selected papers may be in the area of developmental biology or any biological problem for which genetic approaches are used, including topics in microbiology.

• Department: Biological Sciences
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Iva S Greenwald
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• 3 points

THEORETICAL STATISTICS I

Prerequisites: students in a masters program must seek the director of the M.A. program in statistics' permission; students in an undergraduate program must seek the director of undergraduate studies in statistics' permission.
A general introduction to mathematical statistics and statistical decision theory. Elementary decision theory, Bayes inference, Neyman-Pearson theory, hypothesis testing, most powerful unbiased tests, confidence sets. Estimation: methods, theory, and asymptotic properties. Likelihood ratio tests, multivariate distribution. Elements of general linear hypothesis, invariance, nonparametric methods, sequential analysis.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Arian Maleki
  h-index: 31 Info
• 4 points

DIRECTING III

• Department: Film
• M 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• T 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• F 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• T 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Tom Kalin
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

ARCHIVE FEVER

• Department: Writing
• T 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Leslie S Jamison
  Wikipedia Info
• 1 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

THIRD FORM NARRATIVES

• Department: Writing
• W 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Margo L Jefferson
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 1 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

REPORTING NON-NEWS

• Department: Writing
• T 3:50 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Gideon Lewis-Kraus
  Info
• 1 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

STUDIES IN THE ESSAY

• Department: Writing
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Phillip Lopate
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 1 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

CRITICISM AS A WAY OF LIFE

• Department: Writing
• W 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Lee Siegel
  Wikipedia Info
• 1 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

LANGUAGE OF EROS

• Department: Writing
• W 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Wendy Walters
  Info
• 1 points

NONFICTION SEMINAR

DISOBEDIENT TEXTS

• Department: Writing
• M 1:10 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Kate Zambreno
  Info
• 1 points

MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS I

Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies' permission.
Corequisites:
ECON G6410
.
Consumer and producer behavior; general competitive  equilibrium, welfare and efficiency, behavior under uncertainty, intertemporal allocation and capital theory, imperfect competition, elements of game theory, problems of information, economies with price rigidities.

• Department: Economics
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• 4 points

AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY

• Department: History
• TR 2:50 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Kellan R Funk
  Info
• 3 points

MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS I

Prerequisites: the director of graduate studies' permission.
Concept of full employment. Models of underemployment and theory applicability, determinants of consumption and of investment, multiplier and accelerator analysis, an introduction to monetary macroeconomics, the supply side and inflation. Integration of macroeconomics with microeconomic and monetary analysis.

• Department: Economics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• 4 points

PRIN/APP SENSORS STRC HLTH MON

PRIN/APP SENSORS STRC HLT MNTR

Prerequisites: (ENME E4215) ENME E4215
Concepts, principles, and applications of various sensors for sensing structural parameters and nondestructive evaluation techniques for sub-surface inspection, data acquisition, and signal processing techniques. Lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on laboratory experiments.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Q Feng
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 46 Info
• 3 points

MARSEA I: CRIT APPROACHES

Prerequisites: Enrollment in the MARSEA program
This seminar represents the first half of a year-long course designed for students in the MARSEA program.  It offers an introduction to the social scientific study of East Asia, with special attention to China, Japan, the two Koreas, and Taiwan.  With the aid of guest presentations by faculty and scholars affiliated with the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, we will explore critically some of the major conceptual and methodological concerns that inform social scientific scholarship in the region.  A linked aim for the course is to support students as they choose and develop topics and research designs for their M.A. theses.  To that end, the course includes sessions introducing key resources and tools for research, as well as collaborative workshops designed to help students frame and draft thesis proposals.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• Instructor: Lisbeth K Brandt
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 4 points

FAMILY ECONOMICS

Prerequisites:
ECON G6211
,
ECON G6212
,
ECON G6411
,
ECON G6412
.
The course will focus on the economic theory of matching both from a theoretical and empirical point of views. It is intended to give the attendees an overview of the fundamental theory of the optimal assignment problem, as well as its application to various fields such as labor, family and transportation economics. A particular emphasis is put on the empirical aspects and identification issues, and the main matching algorithms will also be discussed. The last part of the course tries to make a link with matching games with nontransferable (or partially transferable) utility and attempts to provide a unified treatment.

• Department: Economics
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Pierre-Andre Chiappori
  Wikipedia h-index: 64 Info
• 3 points

ISLAMIC LAW THROUGH TEXTS

Prerequisites: Proficiency in Arabic required.
This graduate seminar is conducted entirely in Arabic sources. We will read various passages from the Qur’an in order to highlight the Qur’an’s moral imperatives about “living in” nature as well as about the generation of wealth and its distribution within the social order. We will then move on to examine the genre of
fiqh
(substantive law) with regard to the same themes, examining the moral structures of society in terms of the ethic of “spending.” Themes such as “making money,” building capital, charity, welfare, etc. will be examined in depth as constituting a system of checks-and-balances, through close readings of the concepts of
kasb, zakat, sadaqa, waqf,
etc.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Wael Hallaq
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

PHYSICAL HYDROLOGY

Prerequisites: Engineering hydrology or the equivalent
Spatial/temporal dynamics of the hydrologic cycle and its interactions with landforms and vegetation. Hydroclimatology at regional to planetary scales, focusing on mechanisms of organization and variation of water fluxes as a function of season, location, reservoir (ocean, atmosphere, land), and time scale. Land-atmosphere interaction and the role of vegetation and soil moisture. Topography as an organizing principle for land water fluxes. Geomorphology and the evolution of river networks. Sedimentation, erosion and hill slope hydrology. Dynamics of water movement over land, in rivers and in the subsurface, with an emphasis on modeling interfaces. Integrated models and the scale problem. Emphasis on data-based spatial/temporal modeling and exploration of outstanding theoretical challenges.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Pierre Gentine
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 43 Info
• 3 points

DIRECTING ACTORS III

• Department: Film
• T 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• M 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• W 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: June Stein
  Info
• 3 points

PERSONHOOD

This seminar seeks to engage with materials that question personhood. Drawing on both fictional and non-fictional accounts, we will be involved with textual and visual documents as well institutional contexts in order to revisit such notion under contemporary capitalism. We will cover topics like rites of passage and life cycle, the role of the nation state and local communities in defining a person, the relation between self and non-self, between the living and the dead. We will likewise address vicarious forms of personhood through the prosthetic, the avatar or the anonymous. But we will also look into forms of dissipation of personhood and unreliable agency where subjects become more like a medium through which to think rhythms and ongoing infrastructures of the living. As a whole, the course will bring to light how the question of personhood cross-culturally relates to language, performativity, religion, law, gender, race, class, care, life and death.

• Department: Anthropology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Maria Jos de Abreu
  Info
• 3 points

DECOLONIZING METHODOLOGIES

The goals of this graduate seminar are multiple. First, we will critically examine the ways in which research has been conducted and how research methodology has been taught in anthropology. Second, we will, drawing on the work of indigenous scholars and critics of the colonial nature of anthropological practice and discourse, attempt to theorize new forms of social inquiry that do not replicate the historic injustices of anthropological research, representation, and the material consequences of the two. Third, we will critically examine the assumed relationship between European social theory and the lived experiences of people living in indigenous worlds and the global south. Finally, each student will produce a draft of a dissertation research proposal. Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.  Enrollment limit is 15.

• Department: Anthropology
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Paige West
  CULPA: 41 h-index: 23 Info
• 3 points

INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION I

Prerequisites:
ECON G6211
and
ECON G6212
or the instructor's permission.
This course provides an introduction to a number of exciting research questions in industrial organization and organizational economics. While most of the content is theoretical, great emphasis is placed on the testable implications of the models we study: related empirical work is surveyed. The course aims to bring students to the research frontier by identifying open research questions and highlighting particularly active research areas.

• Department: Economics
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Andrea Prat
  Wikipedia h-index: 39 Info
• 3 points

INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION II

Prerequisites:
ECON G6211
and
ECON G6212
.
This course provides an overview of topics in industrial organization (IO) economics. Its goals are to survey the main outlines of modern IO, to develop key theoretical ideas, to demonstrate important techniques, to link theory to empirical work, and to relate theoretical and empirical results to policy issues. Empirical two-period models. Empirical single-agent and multiple-agent dynamic models.

• Department: Economics
• 3 points

COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA

Commutative rings; modules; localization; primary decoposition; integral extensions; Noetherian and Artinian rings; Nullstellensatz; Dedekind domains; dimension theory; regular local rings.

• Department: Mathematics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Aise Johan de Jong
  CULPA: 5 Wikipedia Info
• 4.5 points

POLITICAL CONCEPTS IN WAKE OF GEONTONTOP

POLTICL CNCPTS:GEONTOPOWE

It’s hot and it’s getting hotter. As the machinery of capital extraction, industrialism, and consumption refuses to relinquish its grip, meteorological temperatures continue to rise and chemical hot zones spread. Tipping points threaten regime shifts in which the qualitative nature of the earth’s biosphere will alter. But until then, and even after then, hot zones occur in the aggregate only in abstraction. In reality they form like weather clouds over specific places—toxic smog over Beijing, lead poisoning in drinking water in Flint, Michigan, uranium exposure in Navajo and Hopi lands. Marx thought the social dialectic was leading to the purification of the fundamental opposition of human classes. No little evidence can be mustered to support the claim that we are nearing this moment—the world seems to be splitting into ever more extreme halves—the one percent and the ever-increasing precariate. But what many believe we are witnessing a new form of antagonism and which demands new modes of solidarity. The new swelter seems to them less fundamentally a war of class—although also a class war, although definitely not a clash of civilization—and more a clash of existents. And in this new war of the world everyone must decide with whom (or what) we are making ties of solidarity. With whom or what will we stake our claim?

• Department: Anthropology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizabeth Povinelli
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Black Radicalism & the Archive

BLACK RADICALISM & THE ARCHIVE

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Brent H Edwards
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ENVIRONMENTAL HLTH SCIENCES

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES

This is a Public Health Course.  Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• R 5:30 p.m.-8:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Greg A Freyer
  Info
• 3 points

THE BUSINESS OF FILM

• Department: Film
• R 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Ira Deutchman
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

PROBABILITY THEORY I

Prerequisites: A thorough knowledge of elementary real analysis and some previous knowledge of probability.
Overview of measure and integration theory. Probability spaces and measures, random variables and distribution functions. Independence, Borel-Cantelli lemma, zero-one laws. Expectation, uniform integrability, sums of independent random variables, stopping times, Wald's equations, elementary renewal theorems. Laws of large numbers. Characteristic functions. Central limit problem; Lindeberg-Feller theorem, infinitely divisible and stable distributions. Cramer's theorem, introduction to large deviations. Law of the iterated logarithm, Brownian motion, heat equation.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Marcel F Nutz
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 4 points

ART,AESTHETICS&THE; POLITICAL

Cross-disciplinary in inspiration, this seminar engages work in anthropology, art criticism, literary studies, aesthetics, and philosophy to think about the political possibilities of art and the aesthetic dimensions of the political.  Focusing most sharply (but not exclusively) on what is variously called socially engaged art, relational art, or participatory art, the seminar will consider recent art practices, performances, texts, and objects across a diverse range of genres and national-cultural locations.  Art thinkers studied will include Kant, Benjamin, Adorno, Lyotard, Ranciere, Kitagawa, GarcĂ­a-Canclini, Groys, Bishop, Bourriard, and beyond.

• Department: Anthropology
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Marilyn Ivy
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ADV STUDIO III- JT HP/ARCH

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
• 9 points

ADV STUDIO III- HP TECH

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 2 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Carlos Bayod Lucini
  Info
• 6 points

PUB ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT

PUB ECON AND DEVELOPMENT

Prerequisites: (ECON GR6211) and (ECON GR6212) and (ECON GR6215) and (ECON GR6216) and (ECON GR6411) and (ECON GR6412) and
This course covers a range of challenges faced by governments in low- and middle-income countries. The course will cover both applied theory papers and empirical papers applying the latest empirical methods.

• Department: Economics
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Michael C Best
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY I

Topics include homology and homotopy theory; covering spaces; homology with local coefficients; cohomology; Chech cohomology.

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• 4.5 points

FEATURE FILM DEVELOPMENT

• Department: Film
• R 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• 3 points

POETRY SEMINAR

PROSODY

• Department: Writing
• T 12:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Timothy B Donnelly
  Info
• 3 points

POETRY SEMINAR

READING AND REVOLUTION

• Department: Writing
• F 10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Farnoosh Fathi
  Info
• 3 points

POETRY SEMINAR

MODERN AND CONT POETRY I

• Department: Writing
• T 3:50 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Alan Gilbert
  Info
• 3 points

MILLIMETER-WAVE IC DESIGN

Millimeter-Wave IC Design

Prerequisites: (ELEN E3401) and (ELEN E4314) and (ELEN E6312) or equivalent.
Principles behind the implementation of millimeter-wave (30GHz-300GHz) wireless circuits and systems in silicon-based technologies. Silicon-based active and passive devices for millimeter-wave operation, millimeter-wave low-noise amplifiers, power amplifiers, oscillators and VCOs, oscillator phase noise theory, mixers and frequency dividers for PLLs. A design project is an integral part of the course.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• 3 points

COMPUTATIONAL POROMECHANICS

Prerequisites: (ENME E3332) or ENME E3332 or instructor's permission
A fluid infiltrating porous solid is a multiphase material whose mechanical behavior is significantly influenced by the pore fluid. Diffusion, advection, capillarity, heating, cooling, and freezing of pore fluid, buildup of pore pressure, and mass exhanges among solid and fluid constituents all influence the stability and integrity of the solid skeleton, causing shrinkage, swelling, fracture, or liquefaction. These coupling phenomena are important for numerous disciplines, including geophysics, biomechanics, and material sciences. Fundamental principles of poromechanics essential for engineering practice and advanced study on porous media. Topics include balance principles, Biot’s poroelasticity, mixture theory, constitutive modeling of path independent and dependent multiphase materials, numerical methods for parabolic and hyperbolic systems, inf-sup conditions, and common stabilization procedures for mixed finite element models, explicit and implicit time integrators, and operator splitting techniques for poromechanics problems.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Waiching Sun
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 30 Info
• 3 points

Socialism/Communism: Dilemma of the Past

SOCIAL/COMMUNISM:DILEMMA?

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Etienne Balibar
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

Principles of RF and Microwave Measureme

RF/Microwave Measurement

Principles behind, and techniques related to, RF and microwave simulation and measurements. S parameters; simulations and measurements for small-signal and large signal / nonlinear circuits in the time and frequency domains; noise.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Harish Krishnaswamy
  Info
• 3 points

WRIT/SCRIPT ANALYSIS-PRODUCERS

• Department: Film
• W 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Jack Lechner
  Info
• 3 points

RADIATION THERAPY PHYS PRACT

Prerequisites: Grade of B+ or better in APPH E6335 and instructor's permission.
Students spend two to four days per week studying the clinical aspects of radiation therapy physics. Projects on the application of medical physics in cancer therapy within a hospital environment are assigned; each entails one or two weeks of work and requires a laboratory report.  Two areas are emphasized: 1. computer-assisted treatment planning (design of typical treatment plans for various treatment sites including prostate, breast, head and neck, lung, brain, esophagus, and cervix) and 2. clinical dosimetry and calibrations (radiation measurements for both photon and electron beams, as well as daily, monthly, and part of annual QA).

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Cheng S Wuu
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE PHYSICS

Prerequisites: (ELEN E4301) or ELEN E4301 or equivalent.
Physics and properties of semiconductors. Transport and recombination of excess carriers. Schottky, P-N, MOS, and heterojunction diodes. Field effect and bipolar junction transistors. Dielectric and optical properties. Optical devices including semiconductor lamps, lasers, and detectors.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: James Teherani
  h-index: None Info
• 3 points

ADV TPCS IN RADIATION THERAPY

Prerequisites: (APPH E6335)
Advanced technology applications in radiation therapy physics, including intensity modulated, image guided, stereotactic, and hypofractionated radiation therapy.  Emphasis on advanced technological, engineering, clinical, and quality assurance issues associated with high technology radiation therapy and the special role of the medical physicist in the safe clinical application of these tools.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• W 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• 3 points

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOL PRACTICUM

Prerequisites: Grade of B+ or better in APPH E6330 and instructor's permission.
Practical applications of diagnostic radiology for various measurements and equipment assessments. Instruction and supervised practice in radiation safety procedures, image quality assessments, regulatory compliance, radiation dose evaluations and calibration of equipment. Students participate in clinical QC of the following imaging equipment: radiologic units (mobile and fixed), fluoroscopy units (mobile and fixed), angiography units, mammography units, CT scanners, MRI units and ultrasound units. The objective is familiarization in routine operation of test instrumentation and QC measurements utilized in diagnostic medical physics. Students are required to submit QC forms with data on three different types of radiology imaging equipment.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Sachin R Jambawalikar
  Info
• 3 points

PRE-PROD OF A MOTION PICTURE

• Department: Film
• R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Maureen A Ryan
  Info
• 3 points

LATIN METER

• Department: Classics
• F 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Darcy Krasne
  h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points

LIE GROUPS & REPRESENTATIONS

Topics include basic notions of groups with algebraic and geometric examples; symmetry; Lie algebras and groups; representations of finite and compact Lie groups; finite groups and counting principles; maximal tori of a compact Lie group.

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrei Okounkov
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 55 Info
• 4.5 points

MUSEUM ANTHROP:HIST & THEORY

This course will consider museums as reflectors of social priorities which store important objects and display them in ways that present significant cultural messages. Students visit several New York museums to learn how a museum functions.

• Department: Anthropology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Brian Boyd
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

The Limits of Liberalism

THE LIMITS OF LIBERALISM

This graduate seminar will explore different angles of criticism of the various ideas and doctrines that have accumulated over the last three centuries under the omnibus label ‘liberalism’. Its approach will be part intellectual history and part analytical.  One question that will inform our inquiry is whether these criticisms should be seen as dissenting positions within the political Enlightenment, wrestling with a dominant ‘liberal’ tradition within it, or whether their logic leads to a more radical refusal of the entire framework of Enlightenment modernity. Though most of the readings are works of theory, a serious attempt will be made to situate theoretical themes in the political and cultural contexts of particular parts of the world, both in the past and the present.

• Department: Anthropology
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

NONLINEAR COMPUTATIONAL MECH

Prerequisites: (ENME E4332) or equivalent, elementary computer programming, linear algebra.
The formulations and solution strategies for finite element analysis of nonlinear problems are developed. Topics include the sources of nonlinear behavior (geometric, constitutive, boundary condition), derivation of the governing discrete equations for nonlinear systems such as large displacement, nonlinear elasticity, rate independent and dependent plasticity and other nonlinear constitutive laws, solution strategies for nonlinear problems (e.g., incrementation, iteration), and computational procedures for large systems of nonlinear algebraic equations.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Jacob Fish
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 54 Info
• 3 points

NUCLEAR MEDICINE PRACTICUM

Prerequisites: Grade of B+ or better in APPH E6319 and instructor's permission.
Practical applications of nuclear medicine theory and application for processing and analysis of clinical images and radiation safety and quality assurance programs. Topics may include tomography, instrumentation, and functional imaging. Reports.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Klaus A Hamacher
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• 3 points

HEALTH PHYSICS PRACTICUM

Prerequisites: Grade of B+ or better in APPH E4500 and permission of the instructor, or
Corequisites: APPH E4500
Radiation protection practices and procedures for clinical and biomedical research environments. Includes design, radiation safety surveys of diagnostic and therapeutic machine source facilities, the design and radiation protection protocols for facilities using unsealed sources of radioactivity – nuclear medicine suites and sealed sources – brachytherapy suites. Also includes radiation protection procedures for biomedical research facilities and the administration of programs for compliance to professional health physics standards and federal and state regulatory requirements for the possession and use of radioactive materials and machine sources of ionizing and non ionizing radiations in clinical situations.  Individual topics are decided by the student and the collaborating Clinical Radiation Safety Officer.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Peter Caracappa
  h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

PRIN-GENETICS & ENVIRONMENT I

This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses

• Department: Environmental Health Sciences
• W 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Greg A Freyer
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• 3 points

COMMUNICATING EARTH & ENVIR SCI

COMMUNICATING EARTH/ENVIR SCI

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• MW 9:30 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Sonya Dyhrman
  Wikipedia h-index: 47 Info
• 3 points

PRINCIPLES OF EPIDEMIOLOGY I

• Department: Epidemiology
• R 5:30 p.m.-7:20 p.m.
• T 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
• Instructor: Silvia Martins
  h-index: 58 Info
• 3 points

LIT/RES-LAT AMER/CARIB STUD I

• Department: Latin-American & Carib RS
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Gustavo S Azenha
  h-index: 6 Info
• 4 points

TRANSLATION WORKSHOP

• Department: Writing
• F 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
• W 4:30 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Katrine O Jensen
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• Instructor: Matvei E Yankelevich
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• 3 points

MODERN GEOMETRY

Manifold theory; differential forms, tensors and curvature; homology and cohomology; Lie groups and Lie algebras; fiber bundles; homotopy theory and defects in quantum field theory; geometry and string theory.

• Department: Mathematics
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Chiu-Chu Liu
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 4.5 points

MODERN STATE/COLONIAL SUBJECT

On the development of legal thought on the colonial subject. Focus on the American Indian in the New World, post-1857 India, indirect rule in post-Mahdciyya Sudan and South Africa, and Israel/Palestine

• Department: Anthropology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Mahmood Mamdani
  CULPA: 21 Wikipedia h-index: 57 Info
• 3 points

Principles and Practices of In Vivo Magn

In Vivo MR Spectroscopy

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Christoph Juchem
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 23 Info
• 3 points

MATH METHODS FOR ECONOMISTS

Prerequisites: multi-variable differential calculus, linear algebra and basic real analysis.
Introduction to the mathematical techniques needed for the study of economics and econometric methods. Topics include the vector spaces, Hilbert spaces, Banach spaces, linear transformations; optimization theory, and linear differential and difference equations.

• Department: Economics
• T 6:10 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Jushan Bai
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 52 Info
• 4 points

TRANSLATION SEMINAR

HORROR AND DARK FAIRY TALES

• Department: Writing
• M 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Kimberly W Traube
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• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMETRICS I

Corequisites:
ECON G6410
and the director of graduate studies' permission.
Introduction to probability theory and statistical inference.

• Department: Economics
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• 4 points

MACRO-ECONOMETRICS

Prerequisites:
ECON G6411
and
ECON G6412
.
The goal of the course is to equip students with basic econometric tools to analyze problems in macroeconomics and finance. This is not a theory course. The emphasis will be on implementation.

• Department: Economics
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Serena Ng
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia h-index: 52 Info
• 4 points

MICRO-ECONOMETRICS

MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS TOPICS

• Department: Economics
• R 9:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Simon Lee
  h-index: 28 Info
• 3 points

POST SUPERVISING FOR PRODUCERS

• Department: Film
• T 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew J Hauser
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• 1.5 points

POST SUPERVISING FOR PRODUCERS

• Department: Film
• T 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew J Hauser
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• 1.5 points

INTRO-THEORY OF ELASTICITY I

Corequisites: APMA E4200.
Analysis of stress and strain. Formulation of the problem of elastic equilibrium. Torsion and flexure of prismatic bars. Problems in stress concentration, rotating disks, shrink fits, and curved beams; pressure vessels, contact and impact of elastic bodies, thermal stresses, propagation of elastic waves.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• 3 points

VIBRATIONS IN MACHINES I

Prerequisites: MECE E3401
Review of vibration analysis of systems and mechanisms with one degree of freedom. Natural frequencies. Forced vibrations. Effects of dry and vicious friction. Energy methods of Rayleigh and Ritz. Suppression and elimination of vibration. Vibration isolation. Measuring instruments. Critical speeds in machinery. Synchronous whirl. Half-frequency whirl. Influence of bearing characteristics on critical speeds. Effect of gyroscopic moments. Systems with multiple degrees of freedom. Dynamic vibration absorbers. Self-tuning absorbers of pendulum and roller types. Lagrangian equations of motion as applied in vibrating systems. General equations for transverse critical speeds of shafts. Surging of helical springs.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Suryarghya Chakrabarti
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• 3 points

PROGRAM (THEORIES)

DESIGN THEORIES

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Enrique Walker
  h-index: 5 Info
• 3 points