Human Brain Imaging for Cognitive Neuros
Human Brain Imaging: Cog
This course provides an introduction to the most widely used methods for measuring and analyzing human brain activity and their application in cognitive neuroscience, complemented by weekly hands-on interactive labs to deepen understanding, experience measurements, and explore analyses.
- Department: Psychology
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nikolaus Kriegeskorte
h-index: 56 Info - 4 points
MAKING ETHNOG:METHOD & WRITING
This course begins with two central and related epistemological problems in conducting ethnographic research: first, the notion that objects of scientific research are ‘made’ through adopting a particular relational stance and asking certain kinds of questions. From framing a research problem and choosing a ‘research context’ story to tell, to the kinds of methods one selects to probe such a problem, the ‘how’ and ‘what’ – or means and content – are inextricably intertwined. A second epistemological problem concerns the artifice of reality, and the nebulous distinction between truth and fiction, no less than the question of where or with whom one locates such truth.
With these issues framing the course, we will work through some key themes and debates in anthropology from the perspective of methodology, ranging from subject/object liminality to incommensurability and radical alterity to the politics of representation. Students will design an ethnographic project of their choosing and conduct research throughout the term, applying different methodological approaches popular in anthropology and the social sciences more generally, such as participant observation, semi-structured interview, diary-keeping and note-taking.
- Department: Anthropology
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Nicholas Glastonbury
Info - 3 points
READING, WRITING, ETHNOGRAPHY
READING WRITING ETHNOGRAPHY
Anthropology GR6079x READING WRITING ETHNOGRAPHY. Reading, Writing, Ethnography” asks students to imagine learning to read and then to write anew. It explores a series of exemplary texts in order to explore the histories, genre conventions and experimental forms for writing ethnography. The course is especially concerned with the ways in which empirical observation is made the ground of theoretical abstraction and generalizing claims. Additionally, it examines the relationship between different theoretical and aesthetic movements as these have influenced the writings of anthropologists and those whose work can be considered to have an anthropological ambition—even when they have not been formally trained in anthropology.
- Department: Anthropology
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Rosalind Morris
CULPA: 20 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
THING THEORY
Anthropology GR6085x THING THEORY. The ‘material turn’ is a shorthand for the vast and messy literature on things/objects/materials/ stuff/matter that crosses between and interweaves anthropology, archaeology, art history, science & technology studies (STS), political science, philosophy, and literary studies. Material cultural studies, of varying sorts, ask how things make us. This course explores the turn towards things across the humanities and social sciences over the past few decades. Engaging with the material of worlds, scholars have generated new questions, new modes of analysis, and new accounts of subjectivity, agency, and being. We will read a variety of texts from anthropology, STS, and other disciplines, in order to trace some of the ways in which material objects have become important to scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
- Department: Anthropology
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Hannah Chazin
Info - 3 points
INTRO TO INTL PLANNING
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ebru A Gencer
Info - 3 points
Waste and Leftovers
Generations of anthropologists have seized upon waste as an object to think through issues as wide-ranging as labor divisions, religious devotion, and processes of social classification and value production. In recent years the discipline has renewed attention to this object by way of puzzling through how apparently intensifying global processes of industrialization, consumption, and extraction shape contemporary politics and ecological sensibilities. This seminar charts some of these moves within and beyond our discipline by inviting students to consider how and to what ends societies work through wasted things but also other kinds of durable leftovers (i.e. “ruins,” “byproducts,” “rubble,” “remainders” etc). Of particular concern for us will be the production and (re)appropriation of things that defy strict classification as “waste,” that is, as things imagined to be readily and permanently ejected from a social group or order. Students will read seminal texts on waste, excess, abjection, and reappropriation alongside ethnographic and historical monographs that take up these themes.
- Department: Anthropology
- F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Catherine Fennell
Info - 3 points
DESIGNS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH
Required of all incoming sociology doctoral students. Prepares students who have already completed an undergraduate major or its equivalent in some social science to evaluate and undertake both systematic descriptions and sound explanations of social structures and processes.
- Department: Sociology
- W 9 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Peter Bearman
CULPA: 19
Wikipedia
h-index: 54
Info
- 4 points
ADVANCED MECHANICS OF FLUIDS
Eulerian and Lagrangian descriptions of motion. Stress and strain rate tensors, vorticity, integral and differential equations of mass, momentum, and energy conservation. Potential flow.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
- W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gerard A Ateshian
Info - 3 points
INTRODUCTION TO SLAVIC LITERARY THEORY
INTRO TO SLAVIC LITERARY
This course introduces graduate students to the major 20th-century literary theories that emerged in Russia and Eastern Europe. The course's main purpose is to familiarize students with these approaches and teach them how to use theoretical models as tools for analyzing literary texts.
By the end of the course, students will be required to write a paper investigating the theoretical aspects of one or more literary texts discussed in class. This paper will test not only students' mastery of literary analysis through the prism of multiple theoretical models, but also their ability to challenge a literary text through theory and vice versa.
Writing the paper will include a workshop-style class in which students design their thesis and outline. The course will also introduce students to the Bahmeteff Archive and Columbia's library holdings.
This course counts as Proseminar for Slavic graduate students but is also open to students in other disciplines, which is why all readings are in English.
- Department: Slavic Languages
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Mark Lipovetsky
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
THEORY & METHOD-STUDY OF RELIG
“Theories and Methods” courses in any field are commonly unwieldy beasts. They cannot but be a compromise-formation between contemporary questions and texts, ideas, and definitions (alongside a whole lot of problems) that we have inherited as “canonical” in a field. In the best case, such a course is a passageway into deeper engagement with a field, its histories, its complexities, and its possibilities from which we might wrest and build viable futures. Disciplinary fields are structures where power and knowledge are produced and reproduced. The study of religion is no exception. The questions of “how is ‘religion’ constructed as a category here?” and “what work does the designation of something or someone as ‘religious’ do?” will, therefore, accompany us throughout our work over the course of this semester. We will also examine how different methodological commitments shape what objects of study and which questions come to the fore for the study of religion. This course will explore how the study of religion is not reducible to the study of traditions and communities that are readily recognized as “religious.” However, the vexed histories of the construction of “religion” as a category of knowledge production does also not negate that there are large, varied, and flourishing communities of practice beyond the university for whom whether or not “religion” exists is not at all a question. Holding these layers of complexity in play, this course seeks to introduce students exemplarily to key texts and concepts that have shaped the study of religion as we encounter it today as an academic discipline.
- Department: Religion
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yannik Thiem
h-index: 1 Info - 3 points
URBAN SENSING AND DATA
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Anthony P Vanky
Info - 3 points
METHOD & THEORY IN ARCHAEOLOGY
METHOD & THEROY IN ARCHAEOLOGY
This course is a seminar on research design in anthropological archaeology. It examines the links among theory, method, and data analysis in project design and interpretation.
- Department: Anthropology
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Terence N D'Altroy
CULPA: 37 Info - 3 points
MPHIL THESIS WRITING SEMINAR II
MPHIL THS WRTNG SMNR II
This seminar is PART 2 for second and third year students who are writing their MPhil thesis. It will assume the form of a yearlong seminar during which students design, research, and write up their MPhil projects. These projects can be based on any kind of sociological method, quantitative or qualitative. The thesis will assume the form of an article that can be submitted to a social science journal. The seminar will help you to find an interesting question, a way to answer it, and a mode of communicating this to fellow sociologists in a way that they might find worth paying attention to. The summer break between the two semesters will allow students who don’t come to the first semester with ready-to-analyze data to gather such data (through ethnographic work, archival research, scraping the internet, combining existing survey data, etc.).
- Department: Sociology
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Barbara J Kiviat
Info - 4 points
THE BODY IN HLTH & DISEASE II
- Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
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Instructor:
John T Grbic
h-index: 36 Info - 0 points
ORAL HISTOLOGY GROWTH & DVLPMT
- Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
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Instructor:
Letty Moss-Salentijn
h-index: 20 Info - 0 points
Russian Formalism
Twenty-first century literary studies has seen a steadily growing interest in formalist literary theory. This trend has manifested in new movements, such as New Formalism, Historical Poetics, and Quantitative Formalism. This interest in formalism has been accompanied by a widely expressed desire for a better understanding of literary form, and to find ways to connect its study with cultural and political history. The archive of Russian Formalism, a protean movement which was active in the 1910s and 1920s, is a rich source for those interested in rethinking the concept of form today. Beginning in the 1960s and ‘70s, Russian Formalism was interpreted as the precursor to French Structuralism and Post-Structuralism. In this class we seek to recontextualize Russian Formalism—not in terms of the ideas of the Cold War period—but rather in light of the cultural and political milieu of revolutionary and Civil War era Russia. By connecting theories of form with the cultural and political contexts from which they emerged, our goal is to develop an understanding of form as a concept defined not only in aesthetic or linguistic terms, but also as a construct with sociopolitical import.
- Department: Slavic Languages
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jessica E Merrill
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
PRACTICUM: RES PLANNING
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kate Dunham
Info - 1.5 points
IDEA OF A BL RADICAL TRADITION
This course will seek to raise and think through the following questions: What does it mean to talk today about a black radical tradition? What has it meant in the past to speak in these (or cognate) terms? And if we take the debate in part at least to inhabit a normative discursive space, an argumentative space in which to make claims on the moral-political present, what ought it to mean to talk about a black radical tradition?
- Department: Anthropology
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
David Scott
CULPA: 6
h-index: 72
Info
- 3 points
Dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian Conf
The seminar will explore the Israeli-Palestinian (and Israeli-Arab) conflict from the beginning of the 20th century until today. The first part of the seminar will focus on the historical background informing the conflict and leading to the Palestinian refugee problem and the establishment of a Jewish, but not Palestinian, state in 1948. The second part of the seminar focuses on Palestinian-Arab citizens in Israel, Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, the settlement project, and possible political solutions, as well as the USA's role and its impact on the conflict, the occupation, and the current Gaza war.
- Department: Sociology
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Yinon Cohen
CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 33 Info - 4 points
History of Archaeology Theory
This seminar examines the history of archaeological thought from its antiquarian beginnings in the 19th century, through archaeology’s professionalization and redefinition as an anthropological science during the mid-20th century, to the emergence of archaeology as a critically self-reflexive discipline during the late-20th century, defined by complicated intellectual ties across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Our driving questions are epistemological. How have archaeologists understood the project of interpretation? How have they articulated their relationship to data? What has come to count as evidence and what has not? How have archaeologists organized material remains in the present to make claims about the past? What questions have been posed about past cultures, and how were these “cultures” constructed as objects of study in the first place? Is archaeology best understood as a generalizing science, a historically oriented humanity, or both—and how and why has the discipline’s answer to this question evolved over time? How do the situated positions of archaeologists within contemporary society impact the claims they make about the past?
- Department: Anthropology
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Zoe Crossland
CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info - 4 points
PRACTICUM IN TEACHING OF PSYCH
Practical and theoretical issues relating to the teaching of psychology and the psychology of teaching.
- Department: Psychology
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Katherine T Fox-Glassman
CULPA: 6
h-index: 4
Info
- 1-3 points
Longitudinal Data Analysis & Causal Infe
Longitudinal Data Anal &
Panel data or longitudinal data consist of multiple measures over time on a sample of individuals. These types of data occur extensively in both observational and experimental studies in social, behavioral, and health sciences. This course will provide an introduction to the principles and methods for the analysis of panel data. Whereas some supporting statistical theory will be given, emphasis will be on data analysis and interpretation of models for longitudinal data. Problems will be motivated by applications primarily in social sciences.
ARCH & DEV DIALOGUES
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Raquel Ramati
Info - 1.5 points
US REIT ANALYSIS & INVESTMENT
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
David A Kruth
Info - 3 points
UNDERWRITING
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher W Munsell
Info - 3 points
NEW YORK RISING: HOW RE SHAPES A CITY
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kate J Ascher
Info - 3 points
HOTEL DEVPT/INVESTMNT ANALYSIS
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- F 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Instructor:
Adam S Feil
Info - 1.5 points
Practicum in Music Composition
This course provides an opportunity for students in the Music Department’s Composition DMA program to engage in off-campus practicum or internships in music composition for academic credit that will count towards the requirements for the degree.
- Department: Music
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Instructor:
Zosha Di Castri
Info - 1 points
ADV STUDIO III- JT HP/ARCH
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 1:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jorge Otero-Pailos
Wikipedia h-index: 12 Info - 6 points
MILLIMETER-WAVE IC DESIGN
Millimeter-Wave IC Design
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
- R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Harish Krishnaswamy
Info - 3 points
SITE PLANNING & SUPPORT SYSTEMS
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Graham L Trelstad
Info - 3 points
RADIATION THERAPY PHYS PRACT
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
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Instructor:
Cheng S Wuu
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
PROSEMINAR IN MUSIC THEORY
Overview of current work in Music Theory, an analysis, perception, and philosophy. Major areas of research and methodological challenges.
- Department: Music
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Joseph P Dubiel
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
ADV TPCS IN RADIATION THERAPY
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
- R 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Cheng S Wuu
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
DIAGNOSTIC RADIOL PRACTICUM
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.
Power Management Integrated Circuits
Power Mgmt Integrated Cir
Modern power management integrated circuits (PMIC) design introduced comperhensively. Advanced topics in power management introduced, including linear regulators, digital linear regulators, switch-mode power converters, control schemes for DC-DC converters, compensation methods of DC-DC converters, power losses in DC-DC converters, switched capacitor converters, power converter modeling and simulation, design examples.
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 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Brian Boyd
CULPA: 6
Info
- 3 points
NUCLEAR MEDICINE PRACTICUM
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
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Instructor:
Klaus A Hamacher
Info - 3 points
ORAL PATHOLOGY
- Department: Dental and Oral Surgery
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Philipone
h-index: 11 Info - 0 points
INVESTMENT DECISION AND CAPITAL FORMATIO
INVESTMENT DECISION & CAP
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- R 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mark Weidner
Info - 1.5 points
HEALTH PHYSICS PRACTICUM
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
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Instructor:
Peter Caracappa
h-index: 12 Info - 3 points
Settlers and Natives
This course is designed to introduce the student to key debates in the study of societies marked by the centrality of settler-native relations: We shall focus on four key debates: (a) how to conceptualize extreme violence, as criminal or political; (b) the relationship of perpetrators to beneficiaries; (c) the significance of human rights institutions, from the Nuremberg Court to the International Criminal Court to the question of decolonization: and (d) the making of a political community of survivors after catastrophe. The class will be organized around several case studies: (a) Ireland; (b) the Americas; (c) Haiti; (d) Australia; (e) the Nuremberg Court; (f) South Africa; and (g) Israel / Palestine.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mahmood Mamdani
CULPA: 21
Wikipedia
h-index: 57
Info
- 4 points
PROSEMINAR-ETHNOMUSICOLOGY I
Introduction to Ethnomusicology: the history of the discipline and the evolution of theories and methods. G6412, Proseminar in Ethnomusicology II: Contemporary Ethnography is offered Fall 2012.
- Department: Music
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Alessandra M Ciucci
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
LIGHTWAVE DEVICES
Electro-optics: principles; electro-optics of liquid crystals and photo-refractive materials. Nonlinear optics: second-order nonlinear optics; third-order nonlinear optics; pulse propagation and solitons. Acousto-optics: interaction of light and sound; acousto-optic devices. Photonic switching and computing: photonic switches; all-optical switches; bistable optical devices. Introduction to fiber-optic communications: components of the fiber-optic link; modulation, multiplexing and coupling; system performance; receiver sensitivity; coherent optical communications.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Xiang Meng
h-index: 8 Info - 3 points
INTRO-THEORY OF ELASTICITY I
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
- M 9:10 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
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Instructor:
Adrian Buganza Tepole
Info - 3 points
APPLIED QUANTUM OPTICS
An introduction to fundamental concepts of quantum optics and quantum electrodynamics with an emphasis on applications in nanophotonic devices. The quantization of the electromagnetic field; coherent and squeezed states of light; interaction between light and electrons in the language of quantum electrodynamics (QED); optical resonators and cavity QED; low-threshold lasers; and entangled states of light.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Xiang Meng
h-index: 8 Info - 3 points
INTRO TO TRANSPORTATION PLAN
Prerequisites: A4404: or the instructor's permission Discussion of major issues in transportation at several levels, from national to local, and covering the economic, political, and social implications of decision-making in transportation. Current topics and case studies are investigated.\n \n
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- R 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Rachel Weinberger
Info - 3 points
OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS
Introduction to optical interconnects and interconnection networks for digital systems. Fundamental optical interconnects technologies, optical interconnection network design, characterization, and performance evaluation. Enabling photonic technologies including free-space structures, hybrid and monolithic integration platforms for photonic on-chip, chip-to-chip, backplane, and node-to-node interconnects, as well as photonic networks on-chip.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Keren Bergman
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 69 Info - 3 points
SUPERVISED TEACHING ASSISTANCE
Prerequisites: permission of the faculty member who will direct the teaching. Participation in ongoing teaching.
- Department: Psychology
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Instructor:
Katherine T Fox-Glassman
CULPA: 6
h-index: 4
Info
- 3 points
CHEMICAL ENGIN RES METHODOLOGY
- Department: Chemical Engineering
- T 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Allie Obermeyer
h-index: 16 Info - 1 points
Topics in Smart Electric Energy
Battery Systems
Selected advanced topics in smart electric energy. Content varies from year to year.
Topics in Smart Electric Energy
Selected advanced topics in smart electric energy. Content varies from year to year.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mohamed Kamaludeen
Info - 3 points
Topics in Smart Electric Energy
Selected advanced topics in smart electric energy. Content varies from year to year.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
- 3 points
SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH
Prerequisites: permission of the departmental adviser to Graduate Studies.
- Department: Psychology
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Instructor:
Jon B Freeman
Wikipedia Info - 1-4 points
LEASE ANALYSIS & FIN METRICS
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 4:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sara B Queen
Info - 1.5 points
Theories of Secularity
This course will try to study the development of various aspects of theorization of the secular and the transformations of religion under modernity. It will be mainly based on close textual reading of important theoretical arguments representing important stages in the development of these arguments from the time of the Enlightenment to present day academic debates.
The first section will focus on the emergence of theories of a secular state in European philosophy starting with texts from Spinoza, Hobbes, and Hume. We shall also range over some ancillary texts that illustrate the nature of secularist arguments against religious beliefs and practices. The second section will concentrate on the development of the sociological tradition with focus on the works of Fustel de Coulanges, Max Weber and Ernst Troletsch. A short third section will focus on the establishment of religious studies as an academic discipline by looking at the works of a pioneer of this discipline: Wilfred Cantwell Smith. The fourth section will take up for reading and critical examination four different academic discussions in recent years: stemming from the work of Indian debates on secularism, from academic debates about the anthropology of religion, and especially studies of Islam started by the work of Talal Asad and responses it attracted. Finally, we shall take up critical works which revisit arguments from Weber by Charles Taylor and Hans Joas. The final weeks of the course will be devoted to conclusions drawn from these intersecting readings across historical time and space.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sudipta Kaviraj
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
Nonlinear and Adaptive Control
Nonlinear dynamics: Euler-Lagrange equations, Hamilton’s principle, variational calculus; nonlinear systems: fundamentals, examples, stability Notions, linear systems and linearization, frequency domain analysis, discrete time systems, absolute stability, input-to-state stabililty, control design: control Lyapunov functions, sliding mode control, control barrier functions; adaptive control: self-tuning regular, model reference adaptive control, feedback linearization, extremum seeking control, model predictive control, observer design: extended, unscented, and mixture model Kalman filters, moving horizon estimation, high-gain observers; repetitive processes: iterative learning control, learning-adaptive control, repetitive control; optimal control: continuous setting, discrete time setting, constrained optimal control, linear matrix inequality (LMI) constraints, dynamic programming and backward recursion.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
- M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Homayoon Beigi
Info - 3 points
SOUND: ADVANCED TOPICS I
This class explores advanced topics relating to the production of music by computer. Although programming experience is not a prerequisite, various programming techniques are enlisted to investigate interface design, algorithmic composition, computer analysis and processing of digital audio, and the use of computer music in contexts such as VR/AR applications. Check with the instructor for the particular focus of the class in an upcoming semester. Some familiarity with computer music hardware/software is expected. Permission of instructor is required to enroll.
- Department: Music
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
- 3 points
PLANNING FOR JUSTICE IN A LOW CARBON FUT
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Javier Lopez
Info - 3 points
INTRO TO URBAN DATA AND INFORMATICS
INTRO URB DATA + INFORMAT
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- F 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Instructor:
Timothy J Yoshimura Small
Info - 3 points
LAW, POLITICS, AND PLANNING PRACTICE
LAW, POLITICS, PLANNING
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Howard H Slatkin
Info - 3 points
METROPOLITAN PLANNING
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
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Instructor:
Thomas K Wright
Info - 1.5 points
AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT IN NYC
AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEV NY
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- R 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
- 3 points
SUBJECT_OBJECT
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Suchi Reddy
Wikipedia Info - 3 points
TOPICS DATA-DRIVEN ANAL & COMP
Adv VLSI DA & Methodology
Selected advanced topics in data-driven analysis and computation. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6690 to 6699.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Matthew M Ziegler
Info - 3 points
TOPICS DATA-DRIVEN ANAL & COMP
GenAI & Modern Deep Learn
Selected advanced topics in data-driven analysis and computation. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6690 to 6699.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Micah Goldblum
Info - 3 points
BLDG ADAPT & REUSE
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- F 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andy Golubitsky
Info - 1.5 points
HIST PRESV THEORY & PRACTICE
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 3 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jorge Otero-Pailos
Wikipedia h-index: 12 Info - 3 points
COMPUTER COMMUNICATNS NETWORKS
COMPUTER COMMUNCATION NETWORKS
Analytical approach to the design of (data) communication networks. Necessary tools for performance analysis and design of network protocols and algorithms. Practical engineering applications in layered Internet protocols in Data link layer, Network layer, and Transport layer. Review of relevant aspects of stochastic processes, control, and optimization.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Javad Ghaderi
h-index: 17 Info - 3 points
PRESERVATION PLANNING
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- W 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Erica C Avrami
Info - 3 points
INTERNET ECON, ENG & SOCIETY
Mathematical models, analyses of economics and networking interdependencies in the internet. Topics include microeconomics of pricing and regulations in communications industry, game theory in revenue allocations, ISP settlements, network externalities, two-sided markets. Economic principles in networking and network design, decentralized vs. centralized resource allocation, “price of anarchy,” congestion control. Case studies of topical internet issues. Societal and industry implications of internet evolution.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Debasis Mitra
Wikipedia h-index: 61 Info - 3 points
ARCH METALS
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Richard Peiper
Info - 1.5 points
TOPICS IN NETWORKING
TPC:NET VIRTUAL & CLOUD COMPUT
Further study of areas such as communication protocols and architectures, flow and congestion control in data networks, performance evaluation in integrated networks. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6770 to 6779.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- F 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Thomas Woo
Info - 3 points
TOPICS IN NETWORKING
Massive Content Mining&Di
Further study of areas such as communication protocols and architectures, flow and congestion control in data networks, performance evaluation in integrated networks. Content varies from year to year, and different topics rotate through the course numbers 6770 to 6779.
- Department: Electrical Engineering
- W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Anwar I Walid
CULPA: 1 Info - 3 points
STONE, BRICK + TERRA COTTA
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- M 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
- 1.5 points
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
This course introduces the fundamental concepts and problems of international human rights law. What are the origins of modern human rights law? What is the substance of this law, who is obligated by it, and how is it enforced? The course will cover the major international human rights treaties and mechanisms and consider some of todays most significant human rights issues and controversies. While the topics are necessarily law-related, the course will assume no prior exposure to legal studies.
- Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jacqueline Dugard
Info - 3 points
URBAN DESIGN STUDIO II
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- F 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
- 9 points
DIFFERENCE AND DESIGN
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Justin G Moore
Info - 3 points
RE ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 4 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Haig G Nazarian
Info - 1.5 points
RE VALUATION + INVESTMENT ANALYSIS
RE VAL+INVESTMENT ANALYSI
- Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- T 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
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Instructor:
Jake Pesci
Info - 1.5 points