Medieval Illumination in the Low Countri

The course 'Medieval Illumination in the Low Countries: Origins, Sources, Materials' aims to reflect on the place of illumination and the illuminated manuscript in the artistic profile and cultural, literary, political and religious life in the Low Countries and beyond. The development of illumination is closely linked to the cultural and economic situation of the Low Countries during more than eight centuries, but it is also deeply influenced by the intersection of contacts in European artistic, religious and intellectual contexts. The links between artistic networks in other media, the mobility of artists, models and materials are crucial to understanding the production of illuminated manuscripts and to framing them as fully representative of the dynamics of the cultural habitat of the Low Countries. The course will be illustrated with numerous examples and case studies of manuscripts in collections in Belgium and the Netherlands, as well as in collections in US and around the world. A special
file rouge
in the course will be devoted to recent research approaches in material culture and digital access of illuminated manuscripts. The course will be accompanied by PPP and a reading list to guide students ( scans and online resources will be provided). Courses will be held on campus, with several visits to the Manuscript and
Rare Book Collection of the Butler Library
and to the
Manuscript Collections of the Morgan Library
.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lieve Watteeuw
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• 4 points

MACHINE LEARNING FOR DATA SCI

• Department: Computer Science
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• 3 points

TOPICS IN QUANT FINANCE

AI Applications in Finance

Selected topics of interest in the area of quantitative finance. Offerings vary each year; some topics include energy derivatives, experimental finance, foreign exchange and related derivative instruments, inflation derivatives, hedge fund management, modeling equity derivatives in Java, mortgage-backed securities, numerical solutions of partial differential equations, quantitative portfolio management, risk management, trade and technology in financial markets.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Ali Hirsa
  h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

QUANT METH 2 STAT THEO&CAUS INF

This course is the second course in the graduate-level sequence on quantitative political methodology offered in the Department of Political Science. Students will learn (1) a framework and methodologies for making causal inferences from experimental and observational data, and (2) statistical theories essential for causal inference. Topics include randomized experiments, estimation under ignorability, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity, difference-indifferences, and causal inference with panel data. We also cover statistical theories, such as theories of ordinary least squares and maximum likelihood estimation, by connecting them to causal inference methods. This course builds on the materials covered in POLS 4700 and 4720 or theirequivalent (i.e., probability, statistics, linear regression, and logistic regression).

• Department: Political Science
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Donald P Green
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 87 Info
• 4 points

Politics of Archaeology

“Who owns antiquities?” “Who owns culture?” These questions that appear frequently today in both popular and scholarly discourse are deeply embedded in political issues and have a long history, going back to the nineteenth century. The seminar will investigate the origins of the battles over antiquities and their links empire building, colonialism, Orientalism, modernity, power, identity construction, racial hierarchies, and money. The chronological frame is from the 1850s to1914 and the geographical focus in the Ottoman Middle East, which was the major theater of contestations. We will look closely into two areas: archaeological excavations and museums. If objects were unearthed (“discovered”) in the first, they were displayed in the second; the Middle East was crowded with the first, while the major museums were in the West, with the exception of the Museum of Antiquities in Istanbul. We will also consider the vast and complex human landscape around the antiquities. In addition to archaeologists, this community included emperors, sultans, diplomats, spies, artists, inspectors, bureaucrats, technocrats, and workers, hence a cohort of individuals from many nationalities, economic strata, ethnic groups, and religions.

• Department: History
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Zeynep Celik
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• 4 points

QUANTITATIVE METHODS 2 DISCUSSION

QUANT METH 2-DISC

This is the required discussion section for 
POLS GU4722.

• Department: Political Science
• F 10:10 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Patrick P Liu
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• 0 points

QUANT METH 4 TOPICS IN METHODS

This course is the fourth course in the graduate-level sequence on quantitative political methodology offered in the Department of Political Science. Students will learn a variety of advanced topics in quantitative methods for descriptive and causal inference, such as simulated-data experimentation, statistical graphics, experimental design, Bayesian inference, multilevel modeling, ideal-point and measurement-error models, and time/spatial/network models.  This course builds on the materials covered in POLS 4700, 4720, 4722, and 4724, or their equivalent courses (i.e., probability, statistics, linear regression, logistic regression, causal inference with observational and experimental data, and knowledge of the statistical computing environment R).

• Department: Political Science
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Andrew Gelman
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 112 Info
• 4 points

QUANTITATIVE METHODS 4 DISCUSSION

QUANTITATIVE METH 4 DISCU

This is the required discussion section for 
POLS GU4726.

• Department: Political Science
• T 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Julian E Gerez
  h-index: 2 Info
• 0 points

Literature in the Age of AI

In this course we will consider the long history of literature composed with, for, and by machines. Our reading list will start with Ramon Llull, the thirteenth-century combinatorial mystic, and continue with readings from Gottfried Leibniz, Francis Bacon, Jonathan Swift, and Samuel Butler. We will read "Plot Robots" instrumental to the writing of Hollywood scripts and pulp fiction of the 1920s, the avant-garde poetry of Dada and OULIPO, computer-generated love letters written by Alan Turing, and novels created by the first generation of artificial intelligence researchers in the 1950s and 60s. The course will conclude at the present moment, with an exploration of machine learning techniques of the sort used by Siri, Alexa, and other contemporary chat bots.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Dennis Tenen
  CULPA: 8 h-index: 3 Info
• 3 points

Sources and Methods in Islamic History

Source + Method Islamic H

This course trains students in approaching sources in Arabic and Persian from the premodern period. Depending on interest and experience, the course will expand to include Turkic and Hindvi/Urdu as well too. Students will gain a solid understanding of the wide range of historical writings in these languages, the conceptual and methodological problems involved in working with each, and how this source base changed over the centuries all the while reading exemplary historical studies that creatively and proficiently engaged with these materials. Students will gain proficiency in archival research while also reading a wide swathe of primary texts in the target languages (or in translation if students lack the proper language training). Upper intermediate Arabic and/or Persian preferred.

• Department: History
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Ali Karjoo-Ravary
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• 4 points

Quantum Optimization and Machine Learnin

QUANTUM OPT & ML

An introduction to the recent development in quantum optimization and quantum machine learning using gate-based Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers. IBM’s quantum programming framework Qiskit is utilized. Qbits, quantum gates and quantum measurements, quantum algorithms (Grover’s search, Simon’s algorithm, quantum Fourier transform, quantum phase estimation) quantum optimization (quantum annealing, QAOA, variational quantum eigensolver), quantum machine learning (quantum support vector machine, quantum neural networks).

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Xiaodong Wang
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

GAME THEORY & POLIT THEORY

Prerequisites: POLS GU4700 or equivalent level of calculus. Introduction to noncooperative game theory and its application to strategic situations in politics. Topics include solution concepts, asymmetric information, and incomplete information. Students should have taken POLS GU4700 or have equivalent background in calculus. Permission of instructor required.

• Department: Political Science
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: John Huber
  CULPA: 15 h-index: 31 Info
• 4 points

GAME THEORY & POL THEORY-DISC

This is the required discussion section for POLS GU4730.

• Department: Political Science
• F 11:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Haejo Kang
  Info
• 0 points

Computer Vision II: Learning

Advanced course in computer vision. Topics include convolutional networks and back-propagation, object and action recognition, self-supervised and few-shot learning, image synthesis and generative models, object tracking, vision and language, vision and audio, 3D representations, interpretability, and bias, ethics, and media deception.

• Department: Computer Science
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Carl Vondrick
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

COMPUT METHODS IN FINANCE

MS IEOR students only. Application of various computational methods/techniques in quantitative/computational finance. Transform techniques: fast Fourier transform for data de-noising and pricing, finite difference methods for partial differential equations (PDE), partial integro-differential equations (PIDE), Monte-Carlo simulation techniques in finance, and calibration techniques, filtering and parameter estimation techniques. Computational platform will be C++/Java/Python/Matlab/R.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• R 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Alireza Javaheri
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• 3 points

COMPUTATIONAL ASPECTS OF ROBOTICS

COMPUTATNL ASPECTS OF ROB

Introduction to fundamental problems and algorithms in robotics. Topics include configuration spaces, motion and sensor models, search and sampling-based planning, state estimation, localization and mapping, perception, and learning.

• Department: Computer Science
• F 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Tony B Dear
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTATIONAL ASPECTS OF ROBOTICS

Introduction to fundamental problems and algorithms in robotics. Topics include configuration spaces, motion and sensor models, search and sampling-based planning, state estimation, localization and mapping, perception, and learning.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Tony B Dear
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

ALGORITHMIC TRADING

Prerequisite(s): IEOR E4700. Large and amorphous collection of subjects ranging from the study of market microstructure, to the analysis of optimal trading strategies, to the development of computerized, high-frequency trading strategies. Analysis of these subjects, the scientific and practical issues they involve, and the extensive body of academic literature they have spawned. Attempt to understand and uncover the economic and financial mechanisms that drive and ultimately relate them.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• W 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Sebastien Donadio
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• 3 points

The Narratology of Modernity

We have a consciousness of ourselves as placed specially in history, in an epoch which is essentially different from all that has come before: the modern. In respect of having such a discourse about ourselves, minimally, it may be true. Since at least the seventeenth century, intellectuals have been elaborating histories of modernity’s origin and theories of its distinction. This course does not attempt to adjudicate what is the true or best theory of the modern, but rather inquires into the discursive and historical conditions for telling narratives about modernity’s advent and constructing theories of its nature, and their aporiai. Topics will vary but may include the advent of “history” as a genre and non-Western “historical” genres; providential time, the saeculum, and prophecy; the dialectic of break and period; the delimiting of non-modernities, such as the primitive/traditional, the feudal, and the postmodern; the search for narrative agents, such as the nation, the state, and the class; schemes of the ontological disunity of modernity; modernism, the avant-garde, and the aesthetic forms of historicity; capitalism, socialism, and revolution; philosophy’s claim to historical diagnosis and the therapeutic refusal thereof; the desire for and attempts to construct anti-historical forms of narration and their limits.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Adam Leeds
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• 3 points

Art and Theory in a Global Context

Art & Theory in Global Co

What is “globalization”? How does it change the way we think about or show art today? What role does film and media play in it? How has critical theory itself assumed new forms in this configuration moving outside post-war Europe and America? How have these processes helped change with the very idea of ‘contemporary art’? What then might a transnational critical theory in art and in thinking look like today or in the 21st century? In this course we will examine this cluster of questions from a number of different angles, starting with new questions about borders, displacements, translations and minorities, and the ways they have cut across and figured in different regions, in Europe or America, as elsewhere. In the course of our investigations, we will look in particular at two areas in which these questions are being raised today -- in Asia and in Africa and its diasporas. The course is thus inter-disciplinary in nature and is open to students in different fields and areas where these issues are now being discussed.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: John Rajchman
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• 4 points

Re/Building the American Dream

The term “American Dream” conjures images of white, middle-class or affluent families inhabiting single-family houses in the suburbs. But the population of the United States is – and always has been – characterized by considerable racial, ethnic, and gender diversity. Those varied populations have imagined, created, and altered domestic environments in ways that don’t fit the stereotypical vision of the “American Dream.” At the same time, the concepts of race, ethnicity, and gender themselves have shaped (for better and for worse) the buildings, landscapes, neighborhoods and cities in which US populations reside. From suburban ranch houses to Southwestern mission landscapes to urban public housing projects, domestic environments have been fundamentally shaped by racial, ethnic, and gendered ideologies that define who can live in what building, in which neighborhood, and in what domestic configurations. This course will explore how the concepts of race, gender, and ethnicity bear upon domestic spaces as well as how power relations embedded in designed environments have disparate impacts on people whether as individuals or in groups.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• F 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Martha McNamara
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• 4 points

GLOBALIZATION & ITS RISKS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 The world is being transformed by dramatic increases in flows of people, goods and services across nations. Globalization has the potential for enormous gains but is also associated to serious risks. The gains are related to international commerce where the industrial countries dominate, while the risks involve the global environment, poverty and the satisfaction of basic needs that affect in great measure the developing nations. Both are linked to a historical division of the world into the North and the South-the industrial and the developing nations. Key to future evolution are (1) the creation of new markets that trade privately produced public goods, such as knowledge and greenhouse gas emissions, as in the Kyoto Protocol; (2) the updating of the Breton Woods Institutions, including the creation of a Knowledge Bank and an International Bank for Environmental Settlements.

• Department: Economics
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Graciela Chichilnisky
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTATIONAL GENOMICS

Computational techniques for analyzing genomic data including DNA, RNA, protein and gene expression data. Basic concepts in molecular biology relevant to these analyses. Emphasis on techniques from artificial intelligence and machine learning. String-matching algorithms, dynamic programming, hidden Markov models, expectation-maximization, neural networks, clustering algorithms, support vector machines. Students with life sciences backgrounds who satisfy the prerequisites are encouraged to enroll.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Itsik Pe'er
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• 3 points

Art and Archaeology of Immigrants in Chi

ArtOf Immigrants in China

This seminar examines the art and archaeology of immigrants and immigrant communities in pre-modern China. Since the beginning of China’s dynastic history around the first millennium BCE, people from surrounding regions and even further afield have consistently moved into the Chinese heartland. These groups include not only nomads from the Mongolian steppes and the Tibetan Plateau, but also merchants, missionaries, and Muslims arriving via the so-called “Silk Roads”—a network of land and sea routes connecting China to the rest of the Eurasian continent (India, Persia, Central Asia, etc.). In certain periods, descendants of the Chinese diaspora and refugees in frontier regions also played significant roles in Chinese history. This seminar focuses on the archaeological remains and artistic expressions of these immigrants, as well as their interactions with native Chinese art and culture. Topics covered range from painting, sculpture, and calligraphy to crafts and architecture.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Jin Xu
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• 4 points

Reading Images in Edo-period Books

Edo-period Illustr. Books

A colloquium devoted to reading illustrated books from Edo-period Japan. Texts to be covered will include Saga-bon illustrated tales, illustrated guidebooks and gazetteers (
meisho zue
), painting manuals, and poetry, such as
Ehon Tōshi-sen
, illustrated by Katsushika Hokusai. Reading and translating passages written in premodern Japanese scripts variously called hentaigana, kuzushiji, and sōsho will be the central activity of the course, but we will also consider such themes as the development of woodblock printing, the book as a format, and how the content both reflects and shapes knowledge of the subjects and themes with which they are concerned. If possible we will examine firsthand printed books in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Freer Gallery, and New York Public Library but will also take advantage of ample hi-res interactive resources available through each of these institutions.

Familiarity with Classical Japanese will be useful.

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 4 points

The Literary History of Atrocity

The Literary Hist of Atro

Sometime around the publication of Garcia Marquez’s classic novel One Hundred Years of Solitude in 1967, novelists who wanted to make a claim to ethical and historical seriousness began to include a scene of extreme violence that, like the banana worker massacre in Garcia Marquez, seemed to offer a definitive guide to the moral landscape of the modern world. This course will explore both the modern literature that was inspired by Garcia Marquez’s example and the literature that led up to this extraordinary moment—for example, the literature dealing with the Holocaust, with the dropping of the atomic bomb, with the Japanese invasion of China in the 1930s, and with the Allied bombing of the German cities. It will also ask how extraordinary this moment in fact was, looked at from the perspective of literature as a whole, by inspecting earlier examples of atrocities committed in classical antiquity, in the Crusades, against Native Americans and (in Tolstoy) against the indigenous inhabitants of the Caucasus. Before the concept of the non-combatant had been defined, could there be a concept of the atrocity? Could a culture accuse itself of misconduct toward the members of some other culture? In posing these and related questions, the course offers itself as a major but untold chapter both in world literature and in the moral history of humankind.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Bruce Robbins
  CULPA: 35 Wikipedia h-index: 39 Info
• 3 points

MACHINE LEARNING

Topics from generative and discriminative machine learning including least squares methods, support vector machines, kernel methods, neural networks, Gaussian distributions, linear classification, linear regression, maximum likelihood, exponential family distributions, Bayesian networks, Bayesian inference, mixture models, the EM algorithm, graphical models and hidden Markov models. Algorithms implemented in MATLAB.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Nakul Verma
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 16 Info
• 3 points

Machine Learning Theory

Theoretical study of algorithms for machine learning and high-dimensional data analysis. Topics include high-dimensional probability, theory of generalization and statistical learning, online learning and optimization, spectral analysis

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Hsu
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 44 Info
• 3 points

AFRICAN FRANCE, FRENCH AFRICA

This seminar
explores a tradition of historical writing (historiography) that constructs “Africa and France,” or “France and Africa,” or “FrançAfrique” as an historical object and as an object of knowledge. That body of writing accounts in various and sometimes contadictory ways for the peculiar, intense, and historically conflictual relationship that exists between France and the sub-Saharan nation-states that are its former African colonies.

• Department: History
• R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Gregory Mann
  CULPA: 15 h-index: 13 Info
• 4 points

Financial Engineering Practitioners Semi

FE Seminar Series

Degree requirement for all MSFE first-year students. Topics in Financial Engineering. Past seminar topics include Evolving Financial Intermediation, Measuring and Using Trading Algorithms Effectively, Path-Dependent Volatility, Artificial Intelligence and Data Science in modern financial decision making, Risk-Based Performance Attribution, and Financial Machine Learning. Meets select Monday evenings.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• M 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• 0 points

Resource-Constrained Decision Making

There is a fundamental puzzle about human intelligence: How are we incredibly smart and stupid at the same time? Humans deal successfully with the world in a way that no machine can (for now), yet we routinely behave in ways that seem grossly inconsistent with normative canons of rational inference and rational choice. This course will seek to resolve the paradox by exploring the idea that while we make many mistakes, these mistakes are not haphazard; instead, they reflect a brain that is highly efficient at inference and decision making within the information, time, and energy constraints imposed by the finite resources available to it. In other words, our brains may be “resource-rational” even if they fail to conform to ideal canons of rationality. We will explore this idea by considering the structure of errors, biases and illusions in the context of perceptual judgments, more abstract cognitive judgments (perceptions of numerical magnitudes or probabilities), and economic decisions; we will see that there are many analogies between the kinds of characteristic errors that people make in all of these contexts. A potential explanatory framework, which can be applied across contexts, considers what optimal decisions should be like in the case of a decision unit that has only imprecise information about its situation. Hence statistical modeling and statistical inference are key elements in the computational models of human decision making that we wish to discuss.

• Department: Cognitive Science
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael D Woodford
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• 4 points

DATA SCIENCE CAPSTONE&ETHICS

• Department: Engineering
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 3 points

LANGUAGE & SOCIETY

How language structure and usage varies according to societal factors such as social history and socioeconomic factors, illustrated with study modules on language contact, language standardization and literacy, quantitative sociolinguistic theory, language allegiance, language, and power.

• Department: Slavic Languages
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: John H McWhorter
  CULPA: 26 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

Israel and the Palestinians

The seminar will examine the main political, economic, and social processes that have been shaping contemporary Israel. The underlying assumption in this seminar is that much of these processes have been shaped by the 100-year Israeli-Arab/Palestinian conflict. The first part of the course will accordingly focus on the historical background informing the conflict and leading to the Palestinian refugee problem and establishment of a Jewish, but not Palestinian, state in 1948.  The second part of the seminar focuses on Israel’s occupation of the West Bank (and Gaza) and the settlement project, as well as on USA's role and its impact on the conflict, the occupation, and Israel. These topics did not get much academic attention until recently, but as researchers began to realize that the Occupation and the West Bank settlements are among the most permanent institutions in Israel, they have come under the scrutiny of academic research. 

The third part the seminar will concentrate on the development of the conflict after the establishment of Israel and its effects on sociological processes and institutions in contemporary Israel.  Analyzing patterns of continuity and change in the past seven decades, we will discuss immigration and emigration patterns, as well as issue relating to ethnicity, gender, religion and politics, and the Israeli military.

• Department: Sociology
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Yinon Cohen
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 33 Info
• 4 points

Contradictions of Care: From Intimacy to

CONTRADICTIONS OF CARE

Care is central to the interpersonal claim that is made by the other. It is a response that recognizes and satisfies a need. Care can be motivated by pain and sorrow, but also by desire and the desire for recognition. But while care is a fundamental aspect of healing, it can also be a demand that extracts obligations and liabilities. Care is an ambiguous concept that always already contains or is determined by its oppositions; we will begin by analyzing the concept of care itself, drawing on resources from the history and philosophy of medicine as well as literary sources. Ideals of care that many of us have for our loved ones are difficult to render at scale, and are often in tension with the for-profit motivations behind the development of medications, the administration of healthcare services, and the distribution of goods. We will consider the sorts of compromises that are made every day through readings in literature, history, political science and philosophy and also through first-person experience in the form of a practicum that that will run parallel to the course.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• F 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Arden A Hegele
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT

Introduction to human spaceflight from a systems engineering perspective. Historical and current space programs and spacecraft. Motivation, cost, and rationale for human space exploration. Overview of space environment needed to sustain human life and health, including physiological and psychological concerns in space habitat. Astronaut selection and training processes, spacewalking, robotics, mission operations, and future program directions. Systems integration for successful operation of a spacecraft. Highlights from current events and space research, Space Shuttle, Hubble Space Telescope, and International Space Station (ISS). Includes a design project to assist International Space Station astronauts.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael J Massimino
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• 3 points

Encounters with Nature: The History and

This course offers an understanding of the interdisciplinary field of environmental, health and population history and will discuss historical and policy debates with a cross cutting, comparative relevance: such as the making and subjugation of colonized peoples and natural and disease landscapes under British colonial rule; modernizing states and their interest in development and knowledge and technology building, the movement and migration of populations, and changing place of public health and healing in south Asia. The key aim of the course will be to introduce students to reading and analyzing a range of historical scholarship, and interdisciplinary research on environment, health, medicine and populations in South Asia and to introduce them to an exploration of primary sources for research; and also to probe the challenges posed by archives and sources in these fields. Some of the overarching questions that shape this course are as follows: How have environmental pasts and medical histories been interpreted, debated and what is their contemporary resonance? What have been the encounters (political, intellectual, legal, social and cultural) between the environment, its changing landscapes and state? How have citizens, indigenous communities, and vernacular healers mediated and shaped these encounters and inserted their claims for sustainability, subsistence or survival? How have these changing landscapes shaped norms about bodies, care and beliefs? The course focuses on South Asia but also urges students to think and make linkages beyond regional geographies in examining interconnected ideas and practices in histories of the environment, medicine and health. Topics will therefore include (and students are invited to add to these perspectives and suggest additional discussion themes): colonial and globalized circuits of medical knowledge, with comparative case studies from Africa and East Asia; and the travel and translation of environmental ideas and of medical practices through growing global networks.

• Department: History
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Kavita Sivaramakrishnan
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• 4 points

COMPUTATIONAL URBANISM

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Alejandro Zapata
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• 3 points

RANDOM SIGNALS & NOISE

Characterization of stochastic processes as models of signals and noise; stationarity, ergodicity, correlation functions, and power spectra. Gaussian processes as models of noise in linear and nonlinear systems; linear and nonlinear transformations of random processes; orthogonal series representations. Applications to circuits and devices, to communication, control, filtering, and prediction.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Irving Kalet
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN NOVEL

The European novel in the era of its cultural dominance.  Key concerns: the modern metropolis (London, Paris, St. Petersburg); the figures of bourgeois narrative (
parvenus
, adulterers, adolescents, consumers) and bourgeois consciousness (nostalgia, 
ressentiment
, sentimentalism, ennui); the impact of journalism, science, economics. Authors to be drawn from: Goethe, Stendhal, Balzac, Dickens, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Turgenev, Zola.

• Department: English and Comparative Literature
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Nicholas Dames
  CULPA: 35 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

Focuses on advanced topics in computer architecture, illustrated by case studies from classic and modern processors. Fundamentals of quantitative analysis. Pipelining. Memory hierarchy design. Instruction-level and thread-level parallelism. Data-level parallelism and graphics processing units. Multiprocessors. Cache coherence. Interconnection networks. Multi-core processors and systems-on-chip. Platform architectures for embedded, mobile, and cloud computing.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Tanvir Ahmed Khan
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• 3 points

SUSTAINABILITY AND PRESERVATN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Erica C Avrami
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• 3 points

Technology and Justice

Technological inventions have consistently spawned corresponding utopian visions of total social improvement, followed closely by dystopian fears and moral panics. The current advances in digital technologies are no different. Producing the full range of reactions all at once – from celebrations of “networked protests” to wild accusations of “fake news” to dire warnings against the proliferation of “AI plagiarism” – responses to today’s media environments proclaim the end of politics as we know it ... for better or worse. Through close reading and discussion of key texts of political and media theory, this course will show that such media developments and corresponding discourses of political crises are never completely “new” but can be historically and intellectually situated in much longer struggles over the ideals that should structure our communities. The digital age certainly did not “invent” white supremacy, isolated individualism, segregated information landscapes, or deliberate and manipulative misreporting, for example. Together we will question both triumphant digital utopianism and fatalist assumptions of ubiquitous manipulation, and instead engage in more complex readings of the ways technology, oppression, and struggles for justice are related.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Irina Kalinka
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• 3 points

DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING

Introduction to the mathematical tools and algorithmic implementation for representation and processing of digital pictures, videos, and visual sensory data. Image representation, filtering, transform, quality enhancement, restoration, feature extraction, object segmentation, motion analysis, classification, and coding for data compression. A series of programming assignments reinforces material from the lectures.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• W 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Christine P Hendon
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• 3 points

BUILDING CONDITIONS ASSESSMENT

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Kyle C Normandin
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• 1.5 points

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

Embedded system design and implementation combining hardware and software. I/O, interfacing, and peripherals. Weekly laboratory sessions and term project on design of a microprocessor-based embedded system including at least one custom peripheral. Knowledge of C programming and digital logic required.

• Department: Computer Science
• MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephen A Edwards
  CULPA: 21 h-index: 35 Info
• 3 points

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 Within economics, the standard model of behavior is that of a perfectly rational, self interested utility maximizer with unlimited cognitive resources. In many cases, this provides a good approximation to the types of behavior that economists are interested in. However, over the past 30 years, experimental and behavioral economists have documented ways in which the standard model is not just wrong, but is wrong in ways that are important for economic outcomes. Understanding these behaviors, and their implications, is one of the most exciting areas of current economic inquiry. The aim of this course is to provide a grounding in the main areas of study within behavioral economics, including temptation and self control, fairness and reciprocity, reference dependence, bounded rationality and choice under risk and uncertainty. For each area we will study three things: 1. The evidence that indicates that the standard economic model is missing some important behavior 2. The models that have been developed to capture these behaviors 3. Applications of these models to (for example) finance, labor and development economics As well as the standard lectures, homework assignments, exams and so on, you will be asked to participate in economic experiments, the data from which will be used to illustrate some of the principals in the course. There will also be a certain small degree of classroom ‘flipping’, with a portion of many lectures given over to group problem solving. Finally, an integral part of the course will be a research proposal that you must complete by the end of the course, outlining a novel piece of research that you would be interested in doing.

• Department: Economics
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Mark Dean
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 26 Info
• 3 points

The City & the Archive

How to write the city? What is an archive for writing the city? What liminal and marginal perspectives are available for thinking about writing the city? What is the place of the city in the global south in our historical imagination? Our attempt in this seminar is to look at the global south city from the historical and analytical perspectives of those dispossessed and marginal. Instead of ‘grand’ summations about “the Islamic City” or “Global City,” we will work meticulously to observe annotations on power that constructs cities, archives and their afterlives. The emphasis is on the city in South Asia as a particular referent though we will learn to see Cairo, New York, and Istanbul.

• Department: History
• T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Manan Ahmed
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia h-index: 6 Info
• 4 points

GENERATIVE DESIGN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Danil Nagy
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• 3 points

THE OUTSIDE IN PROJECT

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

FOOTPRINT: CARBON & DESIGN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: David E Benjamin
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• 3 points

MODERNISM + THE VERNACULAR

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Mary C McLeod
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• 3 points

History of Asian Communism

From the hereditary rule of a single family in Pyongyang to the eighteen different Communist Parties contesting democratic elections in Nepal; from the brave women warriors of the Filipino and Malayan Communist Parties to the fiercely independent Global South leaders who charted unique courses for their Communist Parties and countries; this course invites students to take a deep dive into the many adaptations and evolutions of communist thought and practice in Asia. Students will familiarize themselves with the works of key Asian communist figures in the historical and political contexts in which they lived and struggled. By showcasing the incredible diversity of communist theories, systems, experiences, and personalities, while providing analytical tools and documentary resources, History of Asian Communism will help students grow as critical readers and knowledge producers through facilitating lively and informed debate and praxis of communist thought and history.

• Department: History
• W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Hoang Vu
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• 4 points

RUSSIA AND THE WEST

Exploration of Russias ambiguous relationship with the Western world. Cultural, philosophical, and historical explanations will be examined alongside theories of domestic political economy and international relations, to gain an understanding of current events. Select cases from the Tsarist, Soviet, and recent periods will be compared and contrasted, to see if patterns emerge.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Kimberly Marten
  CULPA: 71 Wikipedia h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS FOR SCIENCE AND EN

Many materials properties and chemical processes are governed by atomic-scale phenomena such as phase transformations, atomic/ionic transport, and chemical reactions. Thanks to progress in computer technology and methodological development, now there exist atomistic simulation approaches for the realistic modeling and quantitative prediction of such properties. Atomistic simulations are therefore becoming increasingly important as a complement for experimental characterization, to provide parameters for meso- and macroscale models, and for the in-silico discovery of entirely new materials. This course aims at providing a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge atomistic modeling techniques that are frequently used both in academic and industrial research and engineering. Participants will develop the ability to interpret results from atomistic simulations and to judge whether a problem can be reliably addressed with simulations. The students will also obtain basic working knowledge in standard simulation software.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander Urban
  h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS FOR SCIENCE AND EN

Many materials properties and chemical processes are governed by atomic-scale phenomena such as phase transformations, atomic/ionic transport, and chemical reactions. Thanks to progress in computer technology and methodological development, now there exist atomistic simulation approaches for the realistic modeling and quantitative prediction of such properties. Atomistic simulations are therefore becoming increasingly important as a complement for experimental characterization, to provide parameters for meso- and macroscale models, and for the in-silico discovery of entirely new materials. This course aims at providing a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge atomistic modeling techniques that are frequently used both in academic and industrial research and engineering. Participants will develop the ability to interpret results from atomistic simulations and to judge whether a problem can be reliably addressed with simulations. The students will also obtain basic working knowledge in standard simulation software.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Alexander Urban
  h-index: 24 Info
• 3 points

HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE UNITED STATES

The United States has a long complex relationship with the international human rights system. Although its founding was grounded in fundamental norms of inalienable rights, equality and freedom, U.S. history is characterized by divisive and sometimes violent disagreements about who counts as human, what is fundamental to the human condition, and which/how rights should be protected. How has this history contributed to our contemporary struggles? Through engaging with issues related to racial justice, criminal justice, reproductive justice, disability justice, gender justice, and indigenous people’s rights, students are asked to consider how certain rights are sites of contestation within the U.S. political system and within U.S. society.

This course offers a multidisciplinary survey of urgent contemporary human rights issues in the United States and seeks to advance students’ skills to examine human rights research and analysis through intersectional approaches. Part of the inquiry of this course is ensuring that students understand existing tensions among several key concepts (1) human rights as a body of international human rights law and institutions; (2) human rights movements using human rights discourse to further their aspirations; (3) constitutional rights in the U.S. as interpreted by U.S. courts that may or may not allude to/be contained in international law; and (4) political rhetoric that use the language of “rights” for political ends.

Coursework will ground current human rights debates in their social, legal, and political contexts. It will outline the different actors in the human rights landscape, focusing on mobilization strategies of human rights movements and the policy reforms that they seek to advance human rights agendas. Students will engage with legal cases and legislation in the United States. By the end of this course, you should expect to be able to:


Understand critical human rights issues in the United States, and apply international and domestic human rights principles and practice to these contemporary human rights debates;

Understand the role of social movements in shaping narratives around human rights;

Analyze (through case studies) the real-life application and effects of human rights policies, as well as how they contribute to the promotion, progressive enforcement, and internalization of international human rights.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Joy L Chia
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• 3 points

HISTORY OF MODERN CHINA II

HIST OF MODERN CHINA II

China's search for a new order in the long twentieth century with a focus on political, social and cultural change.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Sau-Yi Fong
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• 3 points

CHEMISTRY OF CONTINENTL WATERS

Prerequisites: Recommended preparation: a solid background in basic chemistry. Introduction to geochemical cycles involving the atmosphere, land, and biosphere; chemistry of precipitation, weathering reactions, rivers, lakes, estuaries, and groundwaters; students are introduced to the use of major and minor ions as tracers of chemical reactions and biological processes that regulate the chemical composition of continental waters.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Anderson
  h-index: 77 Info
• 3 points

Philanthropy & Just Societies

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Philanthropy & Just Societies
will enable Columbia undergraduate students to learn about the history of philanthropy, to understand best practices and ethical underpinnings, to debate its potential in making more just societies, and to consider what it means to give and receive aid at different scales. Students will have the opportunity to participate directly in philanthropic work.

• Department: Psychology
• T 10:10 a.m.-noon
• 3 points

CONFLICT URBANISM

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Laura J Kurgan
  h-index: 7 Info
• 3 points

Laboratory in Justice Data Science

Lab in Justice Data Scien

The course will provide the rigorous data science training and core content knowledge students need to use data science to effect meaningful policy change in the direction of a more just society. The course will leverage the academic expertise of psychologists, lawyers  and data scientists, the perspectives and experiences of community members and students affiliated with the Center for Justice, and policymakers from government agencies and community organizations. The focus will be on collaborating with community and government organizations to propose research-and-data-informed solutions that center problem-solving on those most impacted by the problem.

• Department: Psychology
• MW 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• 4 points

Research Training

Research training course. Recommended in preparation for laboratory related research.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• Instructor: Gerard A Ateshian
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• Instructor: Tal Danino
  Wikipedia h-index: 18 Info
• Instructor: X. Edward Guo
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 70 Info
• Instructor: Henry Hess
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 45 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Hillman
  Wikipedia h-index: 48 Info
• Instructor: Clark T Hung
  CULPA: 5 h-index: 65 Info
• Instructor: Joshua Jacobs
  Wikipedia h-index: 31 Info
• Instructor: Christoph Juchem
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 23 Info
• Instructor: Lance Kam
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 38 Info
• Instructor: Elisa Konofagou
  Wikipedia h-index: 71 Info
• Instructor: Andrew Laine
  Wikipedia h-index: 43 Info
• Instructor: Kam W Leong
  h-index: 126 Info
• Instructor: Helen Lu
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 54 Info
• Instructor: Barclay Morrison
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 42 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth Olson
  h-index: 28 Info
• Instructor: Paul Sajda
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 47 Info
• Instructor: Kenneth Shepard
  CULPA: 2 Wikipedia h-index: 64 Info
• Instructor: Shunichi Homma
  h-index: 88 Info
• Instructor: Samuel Sia
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 39 Info
• Instructor: Milan N Stojanovic
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• Instructor: Stavros Thomopoulos
  h-index: 63 Info
• Instructor: John T Vaughan
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• Instructor: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
  Wikipedia h-index: 132 Info
• Instructor: Qi Wang
  h-index: 24 Info
• Instructor: Nandan L Nerurkar
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• Instructor: Stephen H Tsang
  Wikipedia h-index: 58 Info
• Instructor: Elham Azizi
  h-index: 10 Info
• Instructor: Jose McFaline-Figueroa
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• Instructor: Treena L Arinzeh
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Sanja Vickovic
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• Instructor: Santiago Correa
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• Instructor: Kaveri A Thakoor
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• Instructor: Yvon Woappi
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• 0 points