Medieval and Renaissance Philology for MA students.
Human-caused global change
is increasing the need for forecasts and projections of ecological dynamics under a wide range of plausible future conditions. Systems modeling provides a powerful approach for understanding ecological change at individual-organism to global scales and has a rich history in ecology. However, training in systems modeling is not widely available. This course provides basic theory of terrestrial systems modeling and will prepare students to begin to integrate systems modeling into their own research. The course addresses the foundations and history of systems modeling, surveys the state of the science, and introduces students to frontiers in systems modeling. Paper readings will cover a wide range of ecological topics, including forest ecology, biogeochemical cycling, climate change, animal movement, and human land use and land cover change. The course will consist of one seminar per week that will be made up of a few lectures, discussion of assigned readings, and student presentations.
This course provides an introduction to computer-based models for decision-making. The emphasis is on models that are widely used in diverse industries and functional areas, including finance, accounting, operations, and marketing. Applications will include advertising planning, revenue management, asset-liability management, environmental policy modeling, portfolio optimization, and corporate risk management, among others. The aim of the course is to help students become intelligent consumers of these methods. To this end, the course will cover the basic elements of modeling -- how to formulate a model and how to use and interpret the information a model produces. The course will attempt to instill a critical viewpoint towards decision models, recognizing that they are powerful but limited tools. The applicability and usage of computer-based models have increased dramatically in recent years, due to the extraordinary improvements in computer, information and communication technologies, including not just hardware but also model-solution techniques and user interfaces. Thirty years ago working with a model meant using an expensive mainframe computer, learning a complex programming language, and struggling to compile data by hand; the entire process was clearly marked "experts only." The rise of personal computers, friendly interfaces (such as spreadsheets), and large databases has made modeling far more accessible to managers. Information has come to be recognized as a critical resource, and models play a key role in deploying this resource, in organizing and structuring information so that it can be used productively.
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Prerequisites: PHYS W4021-W4022, or their equivalents. Applications to atoms and molecules, including Thomas-Fermi and Hartree-Fock atoms; interaction of radiation with matter; collision theory; second quantization.
This course offers a comprehensive understanding of the trends and challenges associated with the provision of cross-border commercial, investment and wealth management/private banking services. We will study the evolution of the global financial system over the past 30 years and explore how banks tend to make their decisions regarding the scope and the geographical reach of their operations in response to geopolitical and economic circumstances, systemic crises, regulatory developments, technological challenges, evolving competitive dynamics at home and abroad and, last but not least, the COVID-19 crisis.
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