FUNDAMENTALS OF DOSIMETRY

Prerequisites: APPH E4010 or eqivalent
Corequisites: APPH E4010.
Basic radiation physics: radioactive decay, radiation producing devices, characteristics of the different types of radiation (photons, charged and uncharged particles) and mechanisms of their interactions with materials. Essentials of the determination, by measurement and calculation, of absorbed doses from ionizing radiation sources used in medical physics (clinical) situations and for health physics purposes.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Jerome Meli
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• 3 points

EARTH RESOURCES & SUSTAIN DEV

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

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Kelemen
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 84 Info
• 3 points

FIRST YEAR MOD COLLOQ TIBET I

This is an introductory course and no previous knowledge is required. It focuses on developing basic abilities to speak as well as to read and write in modern Tibetan, Lhasa dialect. Students are also introduced to modern Tibetan studies through selected readings and guest lectures.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWR 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Sonam Tsering
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• 5 points

JEWS-LATER ROMAN EMP,300-600CE

This course will explore the background and examine some of the manifestations of the first Jewish cultural explosion after 70 CE. Among the topics discussed: the Late Roman state and the Jews, the rise of the synagogue, the redaction of the Palestinian Talmud and midrashim, the piyyut and the Hekhalot. Field(s): JWS, ANC

• Department: History
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Seth R Schwartz
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

SEM IN CONTEMP ART PRACTICE

SEM IN CONTEMP ART PRACTIVE

New York City is the most abundant visual arts resource in the world. Visits to museums, galleries, and studios on a weekly basis. Students encounter a broad cross-section of art and are encouraged to develop ideas about what is seen. The seminar is led by a practicing artist and utilizes this perspective. Columbia College and General Studies Visual Arts Majors must take this class during their junior year. If the class is full, please visit http://arts.columbia.edu/undergraduate-visual-arts-program.

• Department: Visual Arts
• R 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Elizaveta Meksin
  Info
• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO ROBOTICS

INTRODUCITON TO ROBOTICS

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• T 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Matei T Ciocarlie
  Info
• 3 points

CRITICAL ISSUES I

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• T 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Kenneth White
  Info
• Instructor: Miya Masaoka
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

SECOND YR MOD COLLOQ TIBET I

For those whose knowledge is equivalent to a student who’s completed the First Year course. The course focuses on the further development of their skills in using the language to engage with practical topics and situations, such as seeing a doctor, reading news, writing letters, and listening to music.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sonam Tsering
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• 3 points

PRODUCT DESIGN FOR MFG

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

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

CRIT ISSUES IN ART III

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
• T 3:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Lane Relyea
  Info
• Instructor: Miya Masaoka
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ELEMENTRY STOCHASTIC PROCESSES

Prerequisites:
STAT W3105
,
W4105
, or the equivalent.
Review of elements of probability theory. Poisson processes. Renewal theory. Wald's equation. Introduction to discrete and continuous time Markov chains. Applications to queueing theory, inventory models, branching processes.

• Department: Statistics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Brown
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

JEWS IN ANCIENT MEDITERREAN

What can the history and ethnography of the Mediterranean world teach us about ancient Jews and early Christians and how can the experiences of the ancient Jews and early Christians be used to criticize and refine modern ideas about Mediterranean culture. We will examine selected ancient Jewish, Christian and Roman texts from a critical "mediterraneanist" perspective.

• Department: History
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Seth R Schwartz
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ADV MANUFACTURING PROCESSES

Prerequisites: An introductory course on Manufacturing Processes, and Heat Transfer, knowledge of Engineering materials, or the Instructor's permission.
Principles of nontraditional manufacturing, nontraditional transport and media.  Emphasis on laser assisted materials processing, laser material interactions with applications to laser material removal, forming, and surface modification.  Introduction to electrochemical machining, electrical discharge machining and abrasive water jet machining.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Y. Lawrence Yao
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 95 Info
• 3 points

THIRD YEAR MOD COLLOQ TIBET I

For those whose knowledge is equivalent to a student who’s completed the Second Year course. The course develops students’ reading comprehension skills through reading selected modern Tibetan literature. Tibetan is used as the medium of instruction and interaction to develop oral fluency and proficiency.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Sonam Tsering
  Info
• 3 points

ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGARPHY II

ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY II

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Erieta Attali
  Info
• 1.5 points

PSYCH OF CULTURE & DIVERSITY

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission; some basic knowledge of social psychology is desirable.
A comprehensive examination of how culture and diversity shape psychological processes. The class will explore psychological and political underpinnings of culture and diversity, emphasizing social psychological approaches. Topics include culture and self, cuture and social cognition, group and identity formation, science of diversity, stereotyping, prejudice, and gender. Applications to real-world phenomena discussed.

• Department: Psychology
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Valerie J Purdie-Vaughns
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE I

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

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Farah Griffin
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

PENSIONS & ERISA

PENSIONS AND ERISA

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 3 points

BUILDING CHINA MODERN

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

INTRO-POLYMERS/SOFT MATERIALS

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Christopher J Durning
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

PRICING MODELS FOR FIN ENGIN

Prerequisites: IEOR E4700: Introduction to Financial Engineering, or basic accounting, finance, investment theory, and statistics.
This course is required for undergraduate students majoring in OR:FE. This is a course on pricing models that are common to the field of finance, with emphasis on derivatives. The course covers spot, forward, options, exotic options on equities, fixed income, and currency markets. We will also do some introductory work on mortgage-backed securities.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: David Derosa
  CULPA: 4 h-index: 9 Info
• 3 points

SPORT FACILITY & EVENT MGMT

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• W 6:10 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: William Squires
  Info
• 3 points

VISITING ARTIST LECTURE I

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 8 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Shelly Silver
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Douglas Repetto
  Info
• 0 points

INVESTMENT & ALM FOR ACTUARIES

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 3 points

HARLEM RENAISSANCE

(Lecture). This course will focus on the arts of the Harlem Renaissance as experiments in cultural modernity and as forms of incipient political empowerment. What was the Harlem Renaissance? Where and when did it take place? Who were its major players? What difference did it make to everyday Harlemites? What were its outposts beyond Harlem itself? Was there a rural HR? An international HR? As we wonder about these problems of definition, we will upset the usual literary/historical framework with considerations of music and painting of the period. How to fit Bessie Smith into a frame with W.E.B. Du Bois? Ellington with Zora Neale Hurston? Aaron Douglas with Langston Hughes? Where is Harlem today? Does it survive as more than a memory, a trace? Is it doomed to be "black no more?" How does Harlem function in "our" "national"/(international?) imagination? Has the Harlem Renaissance's moment come and gone? What continuities might we detect? What institutions from the early twentieth century have endured?

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Robert G O'Meally
  CULPA: 18 Info
• 3 points

VISITING ARTIST LECTURE III

• Department: Visual Arts
• T 8 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Shelly Silver
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Douglas Repetto
  Info
• 0 points

FOUCAULT'S CRITICISM OF MARX

In this class we will return to this issue of the different "critiques" of Marxism proposed by Foucault and the different effects that they produce on our understanding of Marx and the relevance of his theory for our present, focusing on the central sequence between 1971 and 1976, when Foucault (in implicit rivalry with Althusser), proposes an "alternative Marxism" addressing issues of State power, reproduction, and social war. This will be preceded by a review of Foucault's early "epistemological" critique of Marxism, and followed by an overview of his late description of neo-liberal governmentality as a rectification of the understanding of homo oeconomicus (or the capitalist form of subjectivity).

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

ADVANCED HINDI I

Advanced Hindi I and II are third year courses in the Hindi-Urdu program that aim to continue building upon the existing four language skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing) along with grammar and vocabulary in a communicative approach.  The objective of these courses is to strengthen students’ language skills and to go beyond them to understand and describe situations and the speech community, understand and discuss Hindi literature and films, news items, T.V. shows and current events. Students will also be given opportunities to work on their areas of interest such as popular culture, professional and research goals in the target language. Students will be expected to expand their vocabulary, enhance grammatical accuracy and develop cultural appropriateness through an enthusiastic participation in classroom activities and immersing themselves in the speech community outside. This course will be taught in the target language.  All kinds of conversations such as daily life, on social/public interests’ topics as well as on academic interests, will occur in the target language. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Dalpat Rajpurohit
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 5 points

ECONOMICS OF THE ENVIRONMENT

Prerequisites:
ECON W3211
and
W3213
.
Microeconomics is used to study who has an incentive to protect the environment. Government's possible and actual role in protecting the environment is explored. How do technological change, economic development, and free trade affect the environment? Emphasis on hypothesis testing and quantitative analysis of real-world policy issues.

• Department: Economics
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Sara Avila
  Info
• 3 points

STUDIO PRACTICE/CRITICISM I

• Department: Visual Arts
• W 5:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Shelly Silver
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 6 points

STUDIO PRACTICE/CRITICISM III

STUDIO PRACTICE/CRTIICISM III

• Department: Visual Arts
• W 5:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Shelly Silver
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 6 points

READINGS IN URDU LIT I

Prerequisites: two years of prior coursework in Hindi-Urdu (
MDES W1612
&
MDES W1613
), one year of Urdu for Heritage Speakers (
MDES W1614 & MDES W1615
), or the instructor's permission.
This course is a a literary course, with in-depth exposure to some of the finest works of classical and modern Urdu prose and poetry. In the fall semester, our focus will be on some of the most famous Urdu short stories while, in the spring semester, we will focus on various genres of Urdu poetry. The content may change each semester. This course is open to both undergraduates and graduates. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Aftab Ahmad
  CULPA: 12 Info
• 4 points

19TH CENT INDIAN MUSLIMS

19TH CENTURY INDIAN MUSLIMS

This is an advanced undergraduate/graduate history seminar course over thirteen weeks, designed to introduce upper level students to the study of Muslims in colonial India in the nineteenth century. Although dealing with this period, the main focus of this course will be on social, religious and political developments, inspired by, and affecting, India’s Muslims in the second half of the century.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: S. Akbar Zaidi
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

ANATOMY FOR PHYSICISTS & ENGR

ANATOMY FOR PHYSICIST & ENGR

Prerequisites: Engineering or physics background
A systemic approach to the study of the human body from a medical imaging point of view: skeletal, respiratory, cardiovascular, digestive, and urinary systems, breast and women's issues, head and neck, and central nervous system. Lectures are reinforced by examples from clinical two- and three-dimensional and functional imaging (CT, MRI, PET, SPECT, U/S, etc.).

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• 3 points

CRIME IN LATIN AMERICA

This seminar will focus on studies that take a historical look at crime in the Latin American context and will bring the discussion to the present. Transnational connections and comparisons will be encouraged, particularly as we explore the history and contemporary phenomenon of drug trafficking, incorporating the United States as a factor and a scene for Latin American crime. Readings, discussions and reports will try to identify commonalities across Latin American and dig deeper on some specific places and moments. In order to do this, we will devote part of the semester to the analysis of primary sources, and will require a research component in the final paper. Group(s): D Field(s): LA

• Department: History
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Pablo Piccato
  CULPA: 22 h-index: 20 Info
• 4 points

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING

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

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Edward F Leonard
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

INTERTEXTUALITY (ENG)

In this course, we will explore theories of intertextuality developed by Mikhail Bakhtin, Julia Kristeva, Gerard Genette, and Harold Bloom, among others, and discuss why the debates of intertextuality have provoked such a resonance in contemporary literary studies. In addition to the theoretical underpinnings of intertextuality we will examine concepts such as influence, imitation, allusion, and quotation. A series of literary texts will provide test cases for the various theories. We will discuss exemplary applications of each theory (and their limitations) in close readings of Büchner Prize acceptance speeches delivered by Paul Celan, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Elfriede Jelinek; poems by Bachmann and Celan; and three seminal novels of the 20th century: Bachmann’s Malina, Thomas Bernhard’s Extinction, and W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz. Special attention will be paid to the underlying discourse on memory and trauma in their poetics of intertextuality. The goals of the course are (1) to provide a solid grounding in the historical development of theories of intertextuality, (2) to provide students with methodological frameworks for critically analyzing literary texts, and (3) to discuss the role intertextuality plays in 20th century cultures of memory. Please note: readings and discussions in English.

• Department: Germanic Languages
• M 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Oliver Simons
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Erieta Attali
  Info
• 1.5 points

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• F 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Davidson Norris
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

SOCIAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Prerequisites: for graduate students, course equivalents of at least two of the following courses:
PSYC W1001, W1010, W2630, W3410, W3480,
and
W3485
; and/or the instructor's permission.
An introduction to the emerging interdisciplinary field of social cognitive neuroscience, which examines topics traditionally of interest to social psychologists (including control and automaticity, emotion regulation, person perception, social cooperation) using methods traditionally employed by cognitive neuroscientists (functional neuroimaging, neuropsychological assessment).

• Department: Psychology
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Kevin Ochsner
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 86 Info
• 3 points

PRINCIPLES OF GENOMIC TECHNOL

Prerequisites: Undergraduate-level biology, organic chemistry and instructor's permission.
Chemical and physical aspects of genome structure and organization, genetic information flow from DNA to RNA to Protein. Nucleic acid hybridization and sequence complexity of DNA and RNA. Genome mapping and sequencing methods. The engineering of DNA polymerase for DNA sequencing and polymerase chain reaction. Fluorescent DNA sequencing and high-throughput DNA sequencer development. Construction of gene chip and micro array for gene expression analysis. Technology and biochemical approach for functional genomics analysis. Gene discovery and genetics database search method. The application of genetic database for new therapeutics discovery.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• W 6:50 p.m.-9:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Jingyue Ju
  h-index: 77 Info
• 3 points

FINANCIAL CRISES

Prerequisites:
ECON W3211
,
W3213
and
STAT W1211
.
This course uses economic theory and empirical evidence to study the causes of financial crises and the effectiveness of policy responses to these crises. Particular attention will be given to some of the major economic and financial crises in the past century and to the crisis that began in August 2007.

• Department: Economics
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jose A Scheinkman
  Wikipedia h-index: 63 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO FINANCIAL ENGINEERING

Prerequisites: IEOR E3106 or IEOR E4106: Introduction to Operations Research: Stochastic Models.
This course is required for undergraduate students majoring in OR:FE. The emphasis of the course is on stochastic modeling and optimization as tools for financial decision making. The objective is to help students develop basic skills in modeling, problem solving and quantitative analysis of risk-return tradeoffs. Topics covered include: dynamic cash-flow analysis, bond pricing, Markowitz model, CAPM, Brownian motion, Ito's calculus, martingale measures, Black-Scholes-Merton model, options and futures, numerical methods, delta hedging, VaR.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• F 4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Emanuel Derman
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 30 Info
• 3 points

PROBABILITY & STATISTICS

Prerequisites: Calculus
This course covers the following topics: Fundamentals of probability theory and statistical inference used in data science; Probabilistic models, random variables, useful distributions, expectations, law of large numbers, central limit theorem; Statistical inference; point and confidence interval estimation, hypothesis tests, linear regression.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Banu Baydil
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

ETHICS/VALUES FOR SUSTAIN MGMT

ETHICS & VALUES FOR SUSTAINABI

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Adela J Gondek
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

AMERICAN SPECTACLE I

• Department: Theatre Arts
• F 10 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Lynn Nottage
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

PASSNG,RACIAL SEX&ETHNC; AMBGTY

Passing, remarked W.E.B. Du Bois in 1929, “is a petty, silly matter of no real importance which another generation will comprehend with great difficulty.”  Yet passing and related phenomena such as intermarriage continue to raise profound challenges to the U.S.’s racial hierarchy.  How does one differentiate the members of one race from another?  What happens when an individual’s background combines several supposed races?  What do such uncertainties suggest as to the stability of race as a concept?  How might racial passing intersect with other forms of reinvention (women passing as men, queers passing as straight, Jews passing as gentiles)?  Is passing, as Langston Hughes once put it, an ethical response to the injustices of white supremacy: “Most Negroes feel that bigoted white persons deserve to be cheated and fooled since the way they behave towards us makes no moral sense at all”?  Or are passers turning their backs on African-American notions of community and solidarity?  Such dilemmas rendered passing a potent topic not only for turn-of-the-century policy makers but artists and intellectuals as well.  The era’s literature and theater referenced the phenomenon, and celebrated cases of racial passing riveted the public’s attention.  This class will address the complex historical, artistic, and cultural issues that passing has raised in American life.

• Department: Ethnicity and Race, Center for
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Karl Jacoby
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 8 Info
• 4 points

STOCHASTIC MODELS FOR FIN ENG

Prerequisites: Probability and Statistics at the level of SIEO 4150, or instructor permission.
This graduate course is only for MS Program in FE students. Introduction to stochastic processes/modeling with an emphasis on those topics relevent to Financial Engineering applications. Topics covered include discrete-time Markov chains; Gambler's ruin problem, Binomial Lattice Model for stock and derivative pricing; exponential distribution and the Poisson process; other Point processes; Renewal processes, Renewal reward theorem; continuous-time Markov chains; introduction to martingales and applications of the optional stopping theorem; introduction to Brownian motion, geometric Brownian motion,; black-Scholes option pricing formula.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jose Blanchet
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

WATER GOVERNANCE

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael J Puma
  h-index: 23 Info
• 3 points

DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS

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

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

STAT INFERENCE & MODELING

Prerequisites: working knowledge of calculus and linear algebra (vectors and matrices), and
STAT W4105
or equivalent.
In this course, we will systematically cover fundamentals of statistical inference and testing, and give an introduction to statistical modeling. The first half of the course will be focused on inference and teesting, covering topics such as maximum likelihood estimates, hypothesis testing, likelihood ratio test, Bayesian inference, etc. The second half of the course will provide introduction to statistical modeling via introductory lectures on linear regression models, generalized linear regression models, nonparametric regression. and statistical computing. Throughpout the course, real-data examples will be used in lecture discussion and homework problems. This course lays the foundation, preparing the MA in Data Science studnets, for other courses in machine learning, data mining and visualization.

• Department: Statistics
• TR 7:40 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Giovanni Motta
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

SUNNIS,SHIAS, & OTHERS

SUNNIS, SHIAS, & OTHERS

This seminar explores historical formations of religiously-defined identities in Islam. The most commonly known religiously-defined identities in Islamic history are those of Sunnis and Shias (for the sake of convenience, the word Shia is used consistently throughout this course instead of Shi'i or Shiite, etc.). Besides Sunni and Shia, many other religiously-defined identity labels have been and continue to be used in the history of Muslim societies. Sufis, for instance, may identify themselves as either Sunni or Shia: sometimes they are shunned by both Sunnis and Shias. Tens of different Sufi group affiliations, also known as Sufi Brotherhoods are known. Still, there have existed so many other such identity labels that mostly now are forgotten, deemed irrelevant or sometimes subsumed other labels: Salafis, Ismailis, Qadiyanis or Ahmedis, Azalis, Panjpris, Nusayris, Alewis, and ghulat are but few examples of such religiously-defined identities. The notion of "sect" is often used, but the applicability of this term which has strong roots in Christian history to Islamic identities needs clarification. This seminar also examines the modes in which religiously-defined identities may become obsolete or otherwise be rendered insignificant. The historical process of making and unmaking "orthodoxy" is linked with the ways in which various religiously-defined identities may come under a unifying rubric. The notion of Schools of law (maz'habs) and Schools of theology (Mu'tazili, Ash'ari, Maturidi, etc.) is linked with local dynasties, patrician families, community & neighborhood dynamics, etc. The effect of ritual practice, rites of passage, geographical localization, etc is discussed, drawing on primary sources and contemporary studies mostly in history and anthropology. Examples are drawn from the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, Europe, the Americas and elsewhere. The course is divided into three chronologically defined parts: classical (7th-16th centuries), post-classical (17th-19th centuries) and modern (20th century).

• Department: Asian and Middle East @Barnard
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Hossein Kamaly
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 4 points

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

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

• Department: Computer Science
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Dragomir R. Radev
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

FOUNDATIONS FR FINANCIAL ENGIN

Prerequisites: IEOR E4701: Stochastic Models for Financial Engineering, and linear algebra.
This graduate course is only for MS Program in FE students. This course covers topics such as discrete-time models of equity, bond, credit, and foreign-exchange markets; introduction to derivative markets; arbitrage and fundamental theorem of asset pricing; pricing and hedging of derivative securities; complete and incomplete markets. Introduction to portfolio optimization, mean variance analysis, the capital asset pricing model, and the arbitrage pricing theory.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Martin Haugh
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

FOUNDATIONS FR FINANCIAL ENGIN

FOUNDATIONS OF FIN ENGINEERING

Prerequisites: IEOR E4701: Stochastic Models for Financial Engineering, and linear algebra.
This graduate course is only for MS Program in FE students. This course covers topics such as discrete-time models of equity, bond, credit, and foreign-exchange markets; introduction to derivative markets; arbitrage and fundamental theorem of asset pricing; pricing and hedging of derivative securities; complete and incomplete markets. Introduction to portfolio optimization, mean variance analysis, the capital asset pricing model, and the arbitrage pricing theory.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• 0 points

DIG DETAIL:SIMULATN & ANALYSIS

EVOLUTIONARY DESIGN

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

RAD INSTRUMENT/MEASUREMENT LAB

Prerequisites: APPH E4010 or
Corequisites: APPH E4010
Laboratory fee: $50 each term. E4710: theory and use of alpha, beta, gamma, and x-ray detectors and associated electronics for counting, energy spectroscopy, and dosimetry; radiation safety; counting statistics and error propagation; mechanisms of radiation emission and interaction. E4711, prerequisite APPH E4710: additional detector types; applications and systems including coincidence, low-level, and liquid scintillation counting; neutron activation; TLD dosimetry; diagnostic x-ray and fluoro Q/C; planar gamma camera imaging; image analysis.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• M 5 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: John C Arbo
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• 3 points

TERM STRUCTURE MODELING

Prerequisites: IEOR E4703: Monte Carlo Simulation Methods, IEOR E4706: Foundations of Financial Engineering, IEOR E4707: Financial Engineering: Continuous Time Models and computer programming.
Interest rate models and numerical techniques for pricing and hedging interest rate contracts and fixed income securities. Introduction to interest models in discrete and continuous time including lattice models, single- and multi- factor models, Heath-Jarrow-Morton and market models. Martingale and PDE methods for pricing and hedging interest-rate derivatives. Monte-Carlo methods for term structure models. Additional applications from mortgage modeling and fixed income asset allocation and risk management.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Xuedong He
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED PERSIAN I

While helping students advance their levels of oral and written expression, this course focuses on literature of the modern and medieval periods, with particular emphasis on the development of the modern novella and traditional and new forms of poetry. In addition to literature, students are introduced to a wide variety of genres from political and cultural essays and blogs to newspaper translations of the early 20th century. They will be further exposed to ta´rof in reference to a wide variety of socio-cultural contexts and be expected to use ta´rof in class conversations. Students will be exposed to popular artists and their works and satirical websites for insight into contemporary Iranian culture and politics. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Saeed Honarmand
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• 3 points

RAD INSTRUMENT/MEASUREMENT LAB

Prerequisites: APPH E4010 or
Corequisites: APPH E4010
Laboratory fee: $50 each term. E4710: theory and use of alpha, beta, gamma, and x-ray detectors and associated electronics for counting, energy spectroscopy, and dosimetry; radiation safety; counting statistics and error propagation; mechanisms of radiation emission and interaction. E4711, prerequisite APPH E4710: additional detector types; applications and systems including coincidence, low-level, and liquid scintillation counting; neutron activation; TLD dosimetry; diagnostic x-ray and fluoro Q/C; planar gamma camera imaging; image analysis.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: John C Arbo
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• 3 points

GLOBAL CAPITAL MARKETS

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

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Siddhartha Ghosh Dastidar
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

LOCAL HISTORY IN TIBET

Tibetan culture covers an area roughly the size of Western Europe, yet most regions have not been the subject of sustained historical study. This course is designed for students interested in studying approaches to local history that attempt to ask large questions of relatively small places. Historiographic works from Tibetan studies (where they exist) will be examined in comparison with approaches drawn mainly from European and Chinese studies, as well as theories drawn from North/South American and Southeast Asian contexts. Given the centrality of Buddhist monasteries to Tibetan history (as “urban” centers, banks, governments, educational institutions, etc.) much of the course will deal with these.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Gray W Tuttle
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 5 points

BEHAVIORAL FINANCE

Prerequisites: Refer to course syllabus.
Fall: Behaviorial Finance, taught by Professor X. He. Behavioral finance is the application of behavioral psychology to financial decision making. This course focuses on the portfolio choice aspect of behavioral finance, and briefly touches others. Compared with the classical theory of portfolio choice, behavioral portfolio choice features human being's psychological biases. It builds both on behavioral preference structures different from mean variance theory and expected utility theory and on systematic biases against rational beliefs such as Bayesian rule.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Xuedong He
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 1.5 points

RISK MGMT,FIN SYSTM,FIN CRISIS

Prerequisites: Refer to course syllabus.
Fall: Risk Management, Financial System & Financial Crisis, taught by Professor A. Malz. Risk-taking and risk management are at the heart of the financial system, and of the current financial crisis. This course provide an introduction to risk management both from an individual financial firm's and from a public policy viewpoint. We present an overview of the contemporary financial system, focusing on innovations of the past few decades that have changed how financial risk is generated and distributed among market participants, such as the growth of non-bank financial intermediaries, the increased prevalence of leverage and liquidity risk, and the development of structured credit products. The course will also provide an introduction to the basic quantitative tools used in market, credit and liquidity risk management. The two strands of the course are brought together to help understand how the financial crisis arose and is playing out, examining the mechanics of runs and the behavior of asset prices during crises. We also attempt to make sense of the emergency programs deployed by central bankers and other policy makers to address crises historically and today.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Allan M Malz
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 1.5 points

RE-THINKING BIM

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• 1.5 points

MEDIA AND RELIGION

Typewriters, trains, electricity, telephones, telegraph, stock tickers, plate glass, shop windows, radio, television, computers, Internet, World Wide Web, cell phones, tablets, search engines, big data, social networks, GPS, virtual reality, Google glass.  The technologies turn back on their creators to transform them into their own image.  This course will consider the relationship between mechanical, electronic, and digital technologies and different forms of twentieth-century capitalism.  The regimes of industrial, consumer, and financial shape the conditions of cultural production and reproduction in different ways.  The exploration of different theoretical perspectives will provide alternative interpretations of the interplay of media, technology, and religion that make it possible to chart the trajectory from modernity to postmodernity and beyond.

• Department: Religion
• M 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Mark C Taylor
  CULPA: 17 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

GAP I:DESIGN + TYPOGRAPHY

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

TOPICS IN QUANT FINANCE

PRO DEVELOPMENT FOR MSFE

Prerequisites: This course is for MS Program in FE students only.
Students will engage, learn and share their experiences in order to make meaning of professional development. The instructional team hopes that the students will obtain the following: -Gain familiarity and insight to the US job market and US career culture; recognize the skills necessary to compete effectively. -Increase student professional intelligence, develop own professional self and identify developmental needs. -Obtain information on employment trends, resources and networking opportunities. -Refine resume writing, interviewing, and job search skills. -Establish a collaborative relationship with the instructional team and provide constructive feedback where appropriate to enhance the student's professional development.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenny S Mak
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• 0 points

TOPICS IN QUANT FINANCE

PROF DEVELOPMENT FOR MSFE REC

Prerequisites: This course is for MS Program in FE students only.
Students will engage, learn and share their experiences in order to make meaning of professional development. The instructional team hopes that the students will obtain the following: -Gain familiarity and insight to the US job market and US career culture; recognize the skills necessary to compete effectively. -Increase student professional intelligence, develop own professional self and identify developmental needs. -Obtain information on employment trends, resources and networking opportunities. -Refine resume writing, interviewing, and job search skills. -Establish a collaborative relationship with the instructional team and provide constructive feedback where appropriate to enhance the student's professional development.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• F 3:10 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Jenny S Mak
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• 0 points

RELIGION AND PRAGMATISM

• Department: Religion
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Wayne L Proudfoot
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 4 points

MODERN DRAMA

MODERN PRIMITIVES

(Lecture). Exploring the borderlines between sex and perversion, human and machine, savage and civilized, modern drama engaged the traumas of modernity in what often seemed a post-tragic age. We will move from the turn-of-the-century sex drama to the drama of decolonization c. 1968, focusing particularly on emergent ideas of sexuality, primitivism, the machine, and the politics of the avant-garde, looking along the way at the period's aesthetic 'isms (Symbolism, Dada, Futurism, Expressionism, Constructivism) in the context of theatrical practice, exploring the role of drama in an age of mass media and the significance of theatrical modernism for the "modern" generally. Texts include films, visual images, theatrical documents, theoretical texts, and plays.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Julie S Peters
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

TOPICS IN QUANTATIVE FINANCE

PROG FOR FINANCIAL ENGINEERING

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

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

COMPUTER VISION

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

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Shree K Nayar
  CULPA: 12 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

COMPUT MTHDS/DERIVATV PRICING

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• T 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Ali Hirsa
  h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTATNL ASPECTS OF ROBOTICS

Prerequisites:
COMS W3134
,
W3136
, or
W3137
.
Introduction to robotics from a computer science perspective. Topics include coordinate frames and kinematics, computer architectures for robotics, integration and use of sensors, world modeling systems, design and use of robotic programming languages, and applications of artificial intelligence for planning, assembly, and manipulation.

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

EARTH INST PRA ENV/POL/SUS MGT

EARTH INSTITUTE PRACTICUM

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Arthur L Lerner-Lam
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 1-3 points

INTRO TO STRUCTURE/HYBRID PROD

Prerequisites: Refer to course syllabus.
Introduction to Structured and Hybrid Products, taught by Professor I. Kani. In this course we will seek to gain a conceptual and practical understanding of structured and hybrid products from the standpoint of relevant risk factors, design goals and characteristics, pricing, hedging and risk management. We will perform detailed analysis of the underlying cash-flows, embedded derivative instruments and various structural features of these transactions, both from the investor and issuer perspectives, and we will analyze the impact of the prevailing market conditions and parameters on their pricing and risk characteristics. We will cover numerical methods for valuing and managing risk of structured/hybrid products and their imbedded derivatives and we will examine their application to equity, interest rates, commodities and currencies, inflation and credit related products. We will discuss the conceptual and mathematical principals underlying these techniques, and examine practical issues that arise in their implementations in the Microsoft Excel/VBA and other programming environments. We will review special contractual provisions often encountered in structured and hybrid transactions, and attempt to incorporate yield curves, volatility smile, and other features of the underlying processes into our pricing and implementation framework for these products.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 7:15 p.m.-9:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Iraj Kani
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS ADMIN I

INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETCS ADMIN

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: M. Dianne Murphy
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• 3 points

DIGIT. VIS. TECH FOR HP

DIGIT VIS. TECH FOR HP

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Brigitte E Cook
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• 1.5 points

PARAMETRIC REALIZATIONS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark A Bearak
  Info
• 1.5 points

SP & COMM ON MOBILE MULTI PROC

Prerequisites: ELEN E4702 or ELEN E4810 or instructor's permission.
Methods for deploying signal processing and communications algorithms on contemporary mobile processors with heterogeneous computing infrastructures consisting of a mix of general purpose, graphics and digital signal processors. Using programming languages such as OpenCL and CUDA for computational speedup in audio, image and video processing and computational data analysis. Significant design project. Syllabus: https://sites.google.com/site/mobiledcc/documents/sigproccommonmmulticore

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

HEALTH & HEALING IN AFRICA

HLTH & HEALING-AFRICAN HISTORY

This course charts the history of health and healing from, as far as is possible, a perspective interior to Africa. It explores changing practices and understandings of disease, etiology, healing and well-being from pre-colonial times through into the post-colonial. A major theme running throughout the course is the relationship between medicine, the body, power and social groups. This is balanced by an examination of the creative ways in which Africans have struggled to compose healthy communities, albeit with varied success, whether in the fifteenth century or the twenty-first. Field(s): AFR

• Department: History
• W 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Rhiannon Stephens
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

MACHINE LEARNING

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Tony Jebara
  CULPA: 12 h-index: 52 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED MACHINE LEARNING

Prerequisites:
COMS W4771
or the instructor's permission; knowledge of linear algebra & introductory probability or statistics is required.
An exploration of advanced machine learning tools for perception and behavior learning. How can machines perceive, learn from, and classify human activity computationally? Topics include Appearance-Based Models, Principal and Independent Components Analysis, Dimensionality Reduction, Kernel Methods, Manifold Learning, Latent Models, Regression, Classification, Bayesian Methods, Maximum Entropy Methods, Real-Time Tracking, Extended Kalman Filters, Time Series Prediction, Hidden Markov Models, Factorial HMMS, Input-Output HMMs, Markov Random Fields, Variational Methods, Dynamic Bayesian Networks, and Gaussian/Dirichlet Processes. Links to cognitive science.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Hsu
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 44 Info
• 3 points

MAN, MACHINE & LAND

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Sean A Gallagher
  Info
• 3 points

META TOOL I

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Taeyoung Lee
  Info
• 1.5 points

ARCH + HUMAN RIGHTS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Felicity Scott
  Info
• 3 points

QUANT METHODS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Prerequisites: Elementary calculus, physics and biology, or instructor's permission.
Quantitative statistical analysis and mathematical modeling in cell biology for an audience with diverse backgrounds.  The course presents quantitative methods needed to analyze complex cell biological experimental data and to interpret the analysis in terms of the underlying cellular mechanisms.  Optical and electrical experimental methods to study cells and basic image analysis techniques are described.  Methods of statistical analysis of experimental data and techniques to test and compare mathematical models against measured statistical properties will be introduced.  Concepts and techniques of mathematical modeling will be illustrated by applications to mechanosensing in cells, the mechanics of cytokinesis during cell division and synaptic transmission in the nervous system.   Image analysis, statistical analysis, and model assessment will be illustrated for these systems.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• T 6:10 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Ben O'Shaughnessy
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

SURFACE, SCREEN & STRUCTURE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph W Vidich
  Info
• 3 points

MODULAR ARCHITECTURE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: David Wallance
  Info
• 3 points

GENDER,SEXUALITY,POWER,AFRICA

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required.
This course deals with the scholarship on gender and sexuality in African history. The central themes of the course will be changes and continuities in gender performance and the politics of gender and sexual difference within African societies, the social, political, and economic processes that have influenced gender and sexual identities, and the connections between gender, sexuality, inequality, and activism at local, national, continental, and global scales.

• Department: History @Barnard
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Abosede A George
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

CRAFT IN THE DIGITAL AGE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Nathaniel R Carter
  Info
• 1.5 points

FILMMAKING AS SITE ANALYSIS

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Cassim C Shepard
  Info
• 1.5 points