DOCTORAL RESEARCH
Open only to certified candidates for the Ph.D. and Eng.Sc.D. degrees. Doctoral candidates in chemical engineering are required to make an original investigation of a problem in chemical engineering or applied chemistry, the results of which are presented in their dissertations. No more than 15 points of credit toward the degree may be granted when the dissertation is accepted by the department.
- Department: Chemical Engineering
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Juliana Silva Alves Carneiro
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Christopher J Durning
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Daniel Esposito
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Oleg Gang
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Jingyue Ju
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Sanat Kumar
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Lauren E Marbella
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Vivian F McNeill
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Allie Obermeyer
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Ben O'Shaughnessy
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Mijo Simunovic
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Dan Steingart
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Alexander Urban
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Venkat Venkatasubramanian
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Alan West
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Asher Williams
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Neil D Dolinski
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DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR
- Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- T 1:30 p.m.-3 p.m.
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Instructor:
Zhengbo Zou
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GRADUATE SEMINAR
All doctoral students are required to complete successfully four semesters of the mechanical engineering seminar MECE E9500.
- Department: Mechanical Engineering
- F 11 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Michael Burke
h-index: 22 Info - 0 points
PHILOS OF PHYSICS:QUANTUM MECH
- Department: Philosophy
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
David Albert
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AI for Academic Research
This course will teach PhD students to use agentic AI to improve their research process. The goal is to go from project development, to data collection to measurement, analysis, verification, writing, and communication. Students are
expected to work on their own research projects and produce reproducible, verifiable, novel, and hopefully important research with the assistance of AI.
- Department: Business
- R 2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
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Applications of Implementation Science i
IMPLEMENTATION SCI-LOW-IN
Despite increasing resources invested into health programs in low- and middle-income settings, and despite significant knowledge and evidence around effective interventions, successful implementation and scaling of these programs often remains elusive. Too often, known solutions to common health problems are not applied, or are introduced incompletely, leading to a persistent gap between what is known and what is done in practice, referred to as the “know-do gap” by the World Health Organization. Implementation research, implementation science, or delivery science – all relatively equivalent terms – has potential to address this gap. As an emerging field derived from multiple disciplinary traditions, the terminology and approaches for implementation science are still evolving. The goal of the course is to provide students with shared language and basic practical approach that will allow them to apply implementation science to a real-world context based on their personal experience or interest. Through a combination of guided learning modules, synchronous sessions, asynchronous review modules, case-based group exercises, and individual work, participants will focus on how to develop and assess implementation strategies to promote the delivery of evidence-based health interventions. We will first review the basics of conducting implementation in developing world settings and how to design and integrate practical implementation research that can answer the questions: "what is happening?" (compared with what is expected), "why is this happening?" and “how can the situation be improved?” The course builds upon core methodological skills in research and program design, public health theory and organizing models, as well as insights gained through students’ field practice. The course reviews quantitative and qualitative study designs as they apply to specific implementation research questions, offering guidance on how students may design similar studies when confronted with implementation questions in their own work and experience. Over the 7 modules, each participant will develop specific elements of an implementation science proposal and compile them into a concept note and in-class presentation.
- Department: Population and Family Health
- T 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
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Instructor:
Stephen P Kachur
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PRACTICAL REASON
This course will explore the nature and significance of our capacity for practical reason, focusing on a variety of questions: What we should want from a philosophical account of practical reason (should it be descriptive or normative, for example)? Are reasons causes? What does practical reason require? What is the relation between rationality and morality? How can practical reasoning fail? We will pursue these and related questions through a variety of historical and contemporary texts. This course will explore the nature and significance of our capacity for practical reason, focusing on a variety of questions: What we should want from a philosophical account of practical reason (should it be descriptive or normative, for example)? Are reasons causes? What does practical reason require? What is the relation between rationality and morality? How can practical reasoning fail? We will pursue these and related questions through a variety of historical and contemporary texts.
- Department: Philosophy
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Akeel Bilgrami
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Systems Thinking for Maternal Health
SYSTMS THINK FOR MATERNAL
It is widely acknowledged that reducing maternal mortality is one of the major challenges to health systems globally. The increased diversity in the magnitude and causes of maternal mortality and morbidity between and within populations, as well as the highly inequitable distribution of poor maternal health between and within populations globally and locally, result in “wicked” problems and present a major challenge as we seek to address these varying needs. The complex web of factors that interact to drive high levels of maternal mortality makes a systems approach particularly useful for gaining insight into and addressing these issues. Increasingly, health planners and researchers are using systems thinking to make sense of health system functioning to reveal the dynamic relationships and synergies that drive maternal health and affect the delivery of priority health services. This course aims to provide you with the competencies to work in this complex post- SDG implementation environment. It is designed to focus on reducing maternal mortality and employs a systems approach to explore maternal health issues and analyze programs focused on maternal mortality reduction. Through this course you will gain substantive knowledge of issues related to maternal health and health systems strengthening and will develop skills in analyzing complex health systems and developing an integrated health system plan to address maternal mortality
- Department: Population and Family Health
- M 4 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Helen de Pinho
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BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR
All matriculated graduate students are required to attend the seminar as long as they are in residence. No degree credit is granted. The seminar is the principal medium of communication among those with biomedical engineering interests within the University. Guest speakers from other institutions, Columbia faculty, and students within the Department who are advanced in their studies frequently offer sessions.
- Department: Biomedical Engineering
- R 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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DOCTORAL RESEARCH INSTRUCTION
- Department: Chemical Engineering
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Instructor:
Allie Obermeyer
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DOCTORAL RESEARCH INSTRUCTION
A candidate for the Eng.Sc.D. degree in mineral engineering must register for 12 points of doctoral research instruction. Registration in EAEE E9800 may not be used to satisfy the minimum residence requirement for the degree.
- Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
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Instructor:
Upmanu Lall
CULPA: 13
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Instructor:
Kartik Chandran
CULPA: 4
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(PHD) Independent Study
- Department: Business
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Faculty
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SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH
Prerequisites: graduate standing. Students register in this course while preparing their M.Phil. examinations and prospectus--usually in the fall and spring of their third year.
- Department: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
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Instructor:
Bruno Bosteels
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Instructor:
Seth R Kimmel
CULPA: 7
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Alberto Medina
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Graciela Montaldo
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Alessandra Russo
CULPA: 5
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Instructor:
Simone Pinet
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KOREAN HISTORICAL TEXTS
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jungwon Kim
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SEMINAR IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
FRONTIERS CS RESEARCH
- Department: Computer Science
- T 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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DISSERTATION SEMINAR
Provides students the opportunity to present draft dissertation proposals and draft dissertation chapters.
- Department: Political Science
- W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Virginia Page Fortna
CULPA: 5
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THESIS PREPARATION SEMINAR
The purposes of the Seminar are (a) to aid graduates in developing and refining material for their dissertation; (b) to give graduates experience in presenting material to a philosophical audience in an informed and supportive environment; (c) to give graduates experience in critically discussing presented material, and thereby to see how their own presentations and work can be developed to withstand critical examination. The Seminar is restricted to Columbia graduate students in their third or later years, and all such students are strongly encouraged to attend. No faculty (other than the organizer) will be present. Those attending the seminar will be expected to make one or more presentations of work in progress. The material for a presentation may range from a near-final draft of a chapter, to an early critical overview of an area with an outline plan for an approach to some chosen problem. We will attempt as far as possible to organize the presentations in such a way that they are grouped by subject-matter, and provide a rational path through the territory we cover.
- Department: Philosophy
- F 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Christopher Peacocke
CULPA: 4
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Research Seminar in Psychology
Monday seminars are open to the public and take place in Schermerhorn Hall on alternate Mondays in room 200B Schermerhorn from 12:10-1:30pm. The seminar series semester schedule can be found
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- Department: Psychology
- M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Natalie Brito
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WEDNESDAY SEMINAR
WEEKLY SEMINAR
All anthropology graduate students are required to attend. Reports of ongoing research are presented by staff members, students, and special guests.
- Department: Anthropology
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Audra Simpson
CULPA: 5
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DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM
Members of the staff, graduate students, and outside speakers present current research.
- Department: Psychology
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Natalie Brito
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