Prerequisite: instructor’s permission. Participation in medical informatics educational activities under the direction of a faculty adviser.
Open only to Ph.D. candidates in the pharmacological sciences training program. Students are assigned to selected research laboratories to learn current fundamental laboratory techniques.
Subject to approval by faculty member
Research in an area of Mechanical Engineering culminating in a verbal presentation and a written thesis document approved by the thesis advisor. A student enrolling in this course must obtain permission from a thesis advisor. Students are recommended to enroll in M.S. thesis for two terms, one of which can be the summer. Students may count a maximum of 6 points of Master's Thesis towards an MS degree and cannot count additional research points. On completion of all Master's Thesis credits, the thesis advisor will assign a single grade. Additional MS Thesis guidelines: • Students must use a department recommended format for thesis writing. A copy of the thesis will be uploaded on an electronic archive accessible through the Mechanical Engineering department website.
Subject to approval by faculty member
Research in an area of Mechanical Engineering culminating in a verbal presentation and a written thesis document approved by the thesis advisor. A student enrolling in this course must obtain permission from a thesis advisor. Students are recommended to enroll in M.S. thesis for two terms, one of which can be the summer. Students may count a maximum of 6 points of Master's Thesis towards an MS degree and cannot count additional research points. On completion of all Master's Thesis credits, the thesis advisor will assign a single grade. Additional MS Thesis guidelines: • Students must use a department recommended format for thesis writing. A copy of the thesis will be uploaded on an electronic archive accessible through the Mechanical Engineering department website.
Advanced statistical mechanics.
Advanced topics at the discretion of the instructor, including string theory, supersymmetry and other aspects of beyond-standard-model physics.
The use of torture to extract confessions and obtain information has formed an integral part of legal and political practice throughout history, from the inquiry that Oedipus conducted in Oedipus Rex to the CIA interrogations at Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. At times, these practices have been strictly regulated according to legal manuals detailing the precise forms of torture that could be applied to a suspect; at others they have been strictly prohibited by human rights conventions and used nonetheless. During several historical periods, these practices comprised a specific juridical form of the "inquest"; at other times, similar kinds of practices (e.g. the threat of death) have been permitted under adversarial legal methods. This seminar will explore torture and confession from an eminently theoretical perspective. What we are proposing here is not to explain a certain history, and even less to explain torture or confession. We want to think critically on the ever-changing apparatuses, systems, tactics, devices, justifications, and strategies that make possible the presence of torture and the adequacy of confession in the name of certain transcendent goals (i.e. the integrity of the ecclesia christiana, universal western peace, the state, one nation under god, blood, lineage, security, etc.). As we will explore in this seminar, torture and confession-tortured confessions-are in a permanent regime of exhibition that at the same time aestheticizes the ultimate purpose of this kind of violence and anesthetizes the audience-in what has often amounted to, over the ages, a particularly perverse form of catharsis. The seminar will explore how efforts, over the centuries, to tame these perverse practices-through manuals, prohibitions, instructions, directions, exhibitions, legal opinions, justification, and denunciation-have shaped us, as subjects, and society more broadly.
Sec. 1: Ethnomusicology; Sec. 2: Historical Musicology; Sec. 3: Music Theory; Sec. 4: Music Cognition; Sec. 5: Music Philosophy.
Sec. 1: Ethnomusicology; Sec. 2: Historical Musicology; Sec. 3: Music Theory; Sec. 4: Music Cognition; Sec. 5: Music Philosophy.