Prerequisites: ELEN E4411.
Open to doctoral candidates, and to qualified M.S. candidates with the instructor's permission. Recent experimental and theoretical developments in various areas of photonics research. Examples of topics that may be treated include squeezed-light generation, quantum optics, photon detection, nonlinear optical effects, and ultrafast optics.
The focus of the course is close reading and re-analysis of emerging research in the political economy of development, broadly construed. The focus is on well-identified research whether based on experimental or observational data. It is intended for advanced graduate students (third-fourth year) who already have strong analytic skills. Auditors are welcome as long as they put in the work. Second time takers/auditors are also welcome. The overall structure is that in most weeks an external speaker comes to discuss new or in-progress research. The speaker does not present the work, however; instead they share their papers, data and code with the class in advance and a "replication team" has a week to put together a detailed discussion of the work. In other weeks we do something similar with work in progress of students in the class. Note this course has an unusal format, meeting roughly once every two weeks over the course of the year. The course meets late in the afternoon and is generally followed by a dinner for a group of participants.
Students in the Biological Science PhD program only.
Doctoral candidates are required to make an original investigation of a problem in biomedical engineering, the results of which are presented in the dissertation.
Prerequisites: The qualifying examinations for the doctorate. 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.
Pass/fail only. All doctoral students are required to successfully complete four semesters of the mechanical engineering seminar MECE E9500.
Prerequisites: one graduate semester completed.
Supervised research opportunities include: experimental design, development of tests for specific hypotheses, acquisition of new techniques, analysis of data, and interpretation and discussion of results.
Open only to microbiology students. Students doing dissertation research register for this course, as well as students who are rotating through laboratories of staff members.
Prerequisites: one graduate semester completed.
Supervised research opportunities include: experimental design, development of tests for specific hypotheses, acquisition of new techniques, analysis of data, and interpretation and discussion of results.