Capital Markets & Investments
- Department: Finance
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Instructor:
Jessica Soursourian
Info - 3 points
BEHAV DECIS MAKING & ECONOMICS
Behavioral Economics & Decisio
- Department: Marketing
- 3 points
POWER, POLIS AND PEOPLE IN THE ROMAN EMP
PWR, POLIS, PEOPLE IN ROM
Prerequisites: Ancient Greek: reading knowledge absolutely necessary. Reading knowledge of French,,German and Italian helpful.
The theme of this seminar is the Greek city-state (polis) in the Roman empire, at the end of a long history which starts in the Early Iron Age— and, perhaps, ends in the transformations of the late third century CE. One main historical problem here is political and institutional, namely the fate of autonomy and democracy, a dyad that developed throughout the late Classical and Hellenistic periods. The final stabilization of Roman power in the Aegean sphere meant that the forms of local autonomy, or at least agency, had to be negotiated within a world empire and its integrative pressures: this process affected polis institutions as well as polis identity, knowledge and memory— did the latter work as a means of assertion and perhaps even resistance (E. L. Bowie), or as a medium for integration within the Roman order ? A crucial role in maintaning polis agency and shaping polis forms was played by local elites; the place of the latter within their communities is the second main theme. In detail, this means investigating the processes of oligarchical capture of institutions and public spaces, the weight of liturgical demands from the community, the possibilities of democratic pushback or continuities, the significance of "euergetism", the possibility of elite flight into a global Roman aristocracy. The investigation of these historical themes will also allow us to look at the cultural production of the Greek world in this context, literary (including the "Second Sophistic" and other late Greek texts) and the artistic and material culture. Some of these sources allow us to explore themes of cultural history, such as gender, social relations, the body, the family, the history of emotions. The investigation of the polis in this period (if you wish, a "long Antonine period" of imperial stability and neogtiation) thus leads to interdisciplinary interrogations that prolong various important themes in classical ancient history. This seminar is hence a historical seminar focussing on a set of probems and questions, a "reading" seminar looking at some later Greek texts (classicizing, puristic, and negotiating problems of Greek identity and place in the Roman empire), and a seminar on material culture.
DIRECTED READINGS
Directed reading
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
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Instructor:
Gray W Tuttle
CULPA: 3
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Instructor:
Robert P Hymes
CULPA: 8 Info -
Instructor:
David B Lurie
CULPA: 17
Info
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Instructor:
Ulug Kuzuoglu
CULPA: 4
Info
- 3 points
READINGS IN BIOMED INFORMATICS
Prerequisite
: approval of adviser. Readings on topics in medical informatics under the direction of a faculty adviser.
- Department: Biomedical Informatics
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Instructor:
Suzanne Bakken
Wikipedia h-index: 70 Info -
Instructor:
Chunhua Weng
h-index: 37 Info -
Instructor:
Karthik Natarajan
h-index: 17 Info -
Instructor:
Rita Kukafka
h-index: 28 Info - 1-12 points
EXTERNSHP:FEDERAL GOV'T IN DC
EXT:FED GOVT DC-ETHICS FE
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
William Yeomans
Info - 1 points
EXTERNSHP:FEDERAL GOV'T IN DC
EXT: FEDERAL GOVT DC-FLDW
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Rachel S Pauley
Info - 8 points
GRAD STUDENT & FACULTY COLLOQ
FEMINIST PEDAGOGY
This is a course is oriented to graduate students who are thinking about issues in teaching in the near and distant future and want to explore forms of pedagogy. The course will ask what it means to teach “as a feminist” and will explore how to create a classroom receptive to feminist and queer methodologies and theories regardless of course theme/content. Topics include: participatory pedagogy, the role of political engagement, the gender dynamics of the classroom, modes of critical thought and disagreement. Discussions will be oriented around student interest. The course will meet 4-5 times per SEMESTER (dates TBD) and the final assignment is to develop and workshop a syllabus for a new gender/sexuality course in your field. Because this course is required for graduate students choosing to fulfill Option 2 for the Graduate Certificate in Feminist Studies at IRWGS, priority will be given to graduate students completing the certificate.
- Department: Women's and Gender Studies
- T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marianne Hirsch
CULPA: 4
Wikipedia
Info
- 1 points
EXTERNSHP:PRO BONO PRAC/DESIGN
EXT:PRO BONO PRC/DSGN-FLD
- Department: Law
- R 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
- None None-None
- 2 points
EXTERNSHIP FEDERAL PROSECUTION
EXTERNSHIP: US ATTORNEY'S
- Department: Law
- F noon-2 p.m.
- None None-None
- 2 points
SEM-DOMESTIC VIOLENCE/THE LAW
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the
Law School Curriculum Guide
at:
http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
- Department: Law
- M 6:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dorchin Leidholdt
Info - 2 points
Financial Planning & Analysis
- Department: Accounting (ACCT)
- MW 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
- MW 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
- MW 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tim Baldenius
Info - 1.5 points
PSEUDEPIGRAPHA LATINA:THE CASE OF SENECA
This seminar seeks to explore the socio-cultural background to the Seneca-Paul letters, and to contextualize them in the framework of late-antique reflection on Seneca’s alleged Christianity, and modes of similarity between Christian thought and Stoicism.
- Department: Classics
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Gareth Williams
CULPA: 7
Info
- 3 points
Earnings Quality & Fundamental
- Department: Accounting (ACCT)
- MW 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
- MW 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Doron Nissim
h-index: 24 Info - 3 points
DISSERTATION COLLOQUIUM
The dissertation colloquium is a non-credit course open to MESAAS doctoral students who have completed the M.Phil. degree. It provides a forum in which the entire community of dissertation writers meets, bridging the department's different fields and regions of research. It complements workshops outside the department focused on one area or theme. Through an encounter with the diversity of research underway in MESAAS, participants learn to engage with work anchored in different regions and disciplines and discover or develop what is common in the department's post-disciplinary methods of inquiry. Since the community is relatively small, it is expected that all post-M.Phil. students in residence will join the colloquium. Post M.Phil. students from other departments may request permission to join the colloquium, but places for non-MESAAS students will be limited. The colloquium convenes every semester, meeting once every two weeks. Each meeting is devoted to the discussion of one or two pre-circulated pieces of work (a draft prospectus or dissertation chapter). Every participant contributes at least one piece of work each year.
- Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mamadou Diouf
CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info - 0 points
Financial Statement Analysis a
- Department: Accounting (ACCT)
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Instructor:
Thomas Bourveau
h-index: 7 Info - 3 points
Financial Statement Analysis a
- Department: Accounting (ACCT)
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Instructor:
Thomas Bourveau
h-index: 7 Info - 3 points
Fundamental Analysis for Inves
- Department: Accounting (ACCT)
- R 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
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Instructor:
Shivaram Rajgopal
Wikipedia h-index: 50 Info - 3 points
M.PHIL TEACHING EXPERIENCE
M.PHIL. TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Prerequisite:
instructor’s permission. Participation in medical informatics educational activities under the direction of a faculty adviser.
- Department: Biomedical Informatics
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Instructor:
Adler J Perotte
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Instructor:
Richard A Friedman
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Instructor:
Olena Mamykina
Info -
Instructor:
Rimma Pivovarov
Info - 2 points
M.PHIL TEACHING EXPERIENCE
M.PHIL. TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Prerequisite:
instructor’s permission. Participation in medical informatics educational activities under the direction of a faculty adviser.
- Department: Biomedical Informatics
- 2 points
FIELD GEOLOGY
SEVIER FORELAND AND OROGEN
- Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
- F 10:30 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Nicholas Christie-Blick
CULPA: 8 h-index: 45 Info - 2 points
ART AND NEUROSCIENCE IN AGE OF ICONOCLAS
ART NEUROSCIEN ICONOCLASM
This course will assess the potential of the cognitive neurosciences to illuminate critical problems in the humanities and the history of art and images. Until very recently, such an integrative approach was viewed with deep skepticism. Even now, the epistemological divide remains an obstacle, on the grounds that the reductionism of sciences militates against the contextual sensitivity regarded as central to the humanities. The course will focus on emotional and embodied responses to images and consider the implications for the concept of art in our digital environments.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
David A Freedberg
Wikipedia Info - 4 points
DATA&PREDICTIVE; CODING FOR LAWYERS
- Department: Law
- R 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Joshua R Mitts
Info - 1 points
S PUB EDUC POLICY SEM & PRACT
S PUB EDUC POL SEM & PRAC
- Department: Law
- MWF 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth M Chu
Info - 5 points
S PUB EDUC POLICY SEM & PRACT
S PUB EDUC POL FLDWRK
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Elizabeth M Chu
Info - 6 points
S PUB EDUC POLICY SEM & PRACT
S PUB EDUC POL SKILLS TRN
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Elizabeth M Chu
Info - 2 points
DEBATING CAPITALISM
The course offers a window on the history of capitalism by way of an introduction to key readings in modern social, economic and political thought. The course will range from early 18
th
century to 21
st
century.
- Department: History
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
- 4 points
Corporate Transactions and Fin
- Department: Accounting (ACCT)
- M 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
- M 12:30 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
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Instructor:
Anne Heinrichs
Info - 3 points
S VISION, ACTION & SOC CHANGE
S VISION,ACTION-SOC CHNGE
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the
Law School Curriculum Guide
at:
http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
- Department: Law
- T 6:15 p.m.-9:05 p.m.
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Instructor:
Richard W Gray
Info - 1 points
S VISION, ACTION & SOC CHANGE
S VIS,ACT-SOC CHNG FLDWK
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the
Law School Curriculum Guide
at:
http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
- Department: Law
- 1-2 points
GRAD SEM IN MOD JAPANESE LIT
MODERN JAPANESE LITERATURE
Prerequisites:
JPNS W4017-W4018
and the instructor’s permission.
Selected works in modern Japanese fiction and criticism.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- R 2:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tomi Suzuki
CULPA: 5 Info - 4 points
Accounting for Value
- Department: Accounting (ACCT)
- M 10:45 a.m.-2 p.m.
- W 10:45 a.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Stephen H Penman
Info - 3 points
GREEK SANCTUARIES
Greek sanctuaries were filled with buildings of various forms and purposes and with countless objects that today could be called ‘art.’ They were by no means tidy and clean minimalist spaces, but rather noisy places with architecture and dedications occupying every tiny part of the available space. Famous is, for example, the reference to a chariot hanging from the ceiling of the temple of Apollo in Delphi. Very early, a so-called war of monuments developed in ancient Greece, and its battlefields were mainly the sanctuaries, especially the pan-Hellenic ones. In this war of monuments, time and space were apparently not very significant. For example, the Spartans reacted to the erection of the famous Nike of Paionios in Olympia that celebrated a victory of the Messenians and Naupactians over them in 425 BCE by having two Nike statues dedicated to the sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi. Intriguing are the connections of the Hellenistic stoa of the Attalids at Delphi that places itself in direct succession of buildings and dedications that celebrated Greek victories over foreign invaders: the captured shields of the Persians and the Gauls decorating the temple of Apollo and the great hall of the Aetolians. Aim of the seminar is to understand the forms and functions of architecture and dedicatory objects in Greek sanctuaries while analyzing these sacred places as the spatial centers in which Greek aesthetics, Greek identity, and ultimately Greek culture were shaped.
- Department: Art History and Archaeology
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ioannis Mylonopoulos
CULPA: 13
Info
- 4 points
PRE-MODERN CHINESE FICTION
PRE-MODERN CHINESE DRAMA/FICTI
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Wei Shang
CULPA: 4
Wikipedia
h-index: 96
Info
- 4 points
S FIN TECH INNOVATION & TRANS OF FIN SER
- Department: Law
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Instructor:
Todd H Baker
Info - 2 points
GRAD SEM-PREMODERN LITERATURE
PREMODERN JAPANESE LITERATURE
Prerequisites:
JPNS W4007-W4008
or the equivalent, and the instructor’s permission.
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- T 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Haruo Shirane
CULPA: 3 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
GENERAL RELATIVITY
- Department: Physics
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andrei Beloborodov
Info - 3 points
CLASSICAL CHINESE POETRY
This graduate seminar reads canonical medieval poems against their relevant counterparts in leishu (compendiums arranged by classification systems that served as writing handbooks). We examine these compendiums as thresholds—lying outside the poems as their ostensible background material, these thesholds not only frame questions of genre and genealogy but also mediate the borders of poems. Some questions posed by this course: What conceptual paradigms are operative in the deployment of particular classifications? What are the implications for interpretive practice to regard a genre not as an archetype of abstracted qualities but, as these compendiums suggest, as something embodied by exemplars? Insofar as categories are organized by intertextual references, what is the relationship between lei and the work of allusion? What are the criteria and ramifications for determining the operative scope of allusions—are ‘contiguous’ but elided passages also in play? What is the family resemblance between leishu and commentaries like that of Li Shan for the Wenxuan anthology that do not so much give glosses as draw intertextual relationships? In what ways do lei furnish genealogies for things? What are the limits of ‘close reading’ on one hand and sprawling ‘intertextuality’ on the other?
- Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Harrison Huang
Info - 4 points
S HUMAN RIGHTS AT HOME
S DOMESTIC HUMAN RIGHTS A
This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the
Law School Curriculum Guide
at:
http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search
- Department: Law
- W 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Risa Kaufman
Info - 2 points
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY III
Advanced topics at the discretion of the instructor, including string theory, supersymmetry and other aspects of beyond-standard-model physics.
- Department: Physics
- TR 5:40 p.m.-6:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Frederik Denef
CULPA: 1 h-index: 36 Info - 3 points
CURRENT ISSUES IN COPYRIGHT
- Department: Law
- T 4:20 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
June Besek
Info - 2 points
UKRAINE IN THE RUSSIAN AND HABSBURG EMPI
UKRAINE-RUSS & HABSBURG
In 1764, Russia abolished the traditional Cossack autonomy of the Hetmanate on the Left Bank of river Dnipro. In the partitions of Poland-Lithuania 1772-1795, Russia and Austria took the territories where Ukrainians/Ruthenians lived. In 1783, Russia annexed the Crimean Khanate. Thus began the imperial period of Ukrainian history which lasted to the collapse of both empires in World War I. In this seminar, we will read in depth about and discuss the two empires and their regional policies, noble landowners, peasants, workers, the Ukrainian national movement, revolutionary movements, Jews, Crimea, women, and religious life.
- Department: History
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Johannes Remy
h-index: None Info - 4 points
SPEC TPCS: PARTICLE PHYSICS
SPEC TPCS: PARTICLE PHYSICS II
- Department: Physics
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Erick J Weinberg
CULPA: 4 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
TUTORIAL GENERAL PUBLIC HEALTH
- Department: General Public Health
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Instructor:
Marina Catallozzi
Info - 0.5-3 points
M.A. ESSAY DIRECTION
- Department: French and Romance Philology
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Instructor:
Souleymane B Diagne
CULPA: 4
Info
- 6 points
IMPACT INVESTING: INTENTION, FIDUCIARY D
Prerequisites: INAF U6045 or INAF U6022 or INAF U6301 or SIPA U6401 or SIPA U6500
Impact Investing is a movement to use financial capital to make difference in social resource allocation. An asset owner—a philanthropist, a public pension fund, a sovereign wealth fund—may wish to pursue an objective other than financial returns. How much sacrifice in financial returns the owner would accept is an important question. Asset managers may receive a mandate to maximize financial returns, given the risk, with a condition on investment space. Fiduciary duty may become complicated if the mandate is not well described for implementation. Whether intention can be realized, that is, to make a real impact in resource allocation calls for a good measurement. This course offers student with a conceptual framework based on finance and economics; practitioners’ voice and their implementation; and empirical analysis, albeit limited, of various impact investment results. The impact investing includes different but related movements by various international organization: SRI, UN PRI; UN SDGs; ESG investment, to name a few. Since impact investing is rather new and not rooted in the academic literature, dialogues with guest lecturers will be an important part of the course. Students are expected to submit a short summary of these dialogues.
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Takatoshi Ito
Wikipedia h-index: 70 Info - 1.5 points
EMERGINT MARKET INVESTMNT CLIM
EMERGING MARKET INVESTMNT CLIM
Prerequisites: SIPA U6301 or SIPA U6401 or PEPM U6104
Want to learn about the issues and policies that are particularly relevant for the growth of the private sector in emerging markets? Want to discuss these with guest speakers from international organizations? Want to produce a report identifying emerging market vulnerability to economic troubles? Have you taken a course on macroeconomics? Then this course is for you. As a former World Bank country economist I will share with you my work experiences and, while reviewing some basic macroeconomic principles and discussing case studies, I will help you produce a macro-financial report on a particular emerging market economy similar to those produced by financial institutions and international organizations do (e.g., International Monetary Funds surveillance country reports or Article IV reports).
- Department: International and Public Affairs
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sara N Calvo
Info - 3 points
APPLIED REGRESSION I
Prerequisite: Public Health P6103 or P6104. The study of linear statistical models. Regression and correlation with one independent variable. Partial and multiple correlation. Multiple and polynomial regression. Single factor analysis of variance. Simple logistic regression
- Department: Biostatistics
- R 1 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
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Instructor:
Martina Pavlicova
h-index: 30 Info - 3 points
TOPICS IN BIOLOGY
Prerequisites: The instructor's permission.
This research seminar introduces topics at the forefront of biological research in a format and language accessible to quantitative scientists and engineers lacking biological training. Conceptual and technical frameworks from both biological and physical science disciplines are utilized. The objective is to reveal to graduate students where potential lies to apply techniques from their own disciplines to address pertinent biological questions in their research. Classes entail reading, criticism and group discussion of research papers and textbook materials providing overviews to various biological areas including: evolution, immune system, development and cell specialization, the cytoskeleton and cell motility, DNA transcription in gene circuits, protein networks, recombinant DNA technology, aging, and gene therapy.
- Department: Chemical Engineering
- R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ben O'Shaughnessy
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
ADVANCED TOPICS IN IEOR
READING GROUP ON MACHINE LEARN
Prerequisites: Faculty adviser's permission.
Selected topics of current research interest. May be taken more than once for credit.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- W 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Xunyu Zhou
h-index: 54 Info - 3 points
ADVANCED TOPICS IN IEOR
NETWORK ANALYTICS
Prerequisites: Faculty adviser's permission.
Selected topics of current research interest. May be taken more than once for credit.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Van Anh Truong
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
ADVANCED TOPICS IN IEOR
STATISTICAL METHODS FOR STIMUL
Prerequisites: Faculty adviser's permission.
Selected topics of current research interest. May be taken more than once for credit.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Henry Lam
h-index: 17 Info - 3 points
ADVANCED TOPICS IN IEOR
NETWORKS
Prerequisites: Faculty adviser's permission.
Selected topics of current research interest. May be taken more than once for credit.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Agostino Capponi
h-index: 19 Info - 3 points
ADVANCED TOPICS IN IEOR
REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
Prerequisites: Faculty adviser's permission.
Selected topics of current research interest. May be taken more than once for credit.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Shipra Agrawal
h-index: 24 Info - 3 points
ADVANCED TOPICS IN IEOR
BIG DATA & MACHINE LEARNING
Prerequisites: Faculty adviser's permission.
Selected topics of current research interest. May be taken more than once for credit.
- Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- M 7:10 p.m.-9:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Krzysztof M Choromanski
Info - 3 points
Business Analytics II
- Department: Decision, Risk and Operations
- T 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
- T 4 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
- T 10:10 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Charles R Guetta
Info - 1.5 points
COLL IN POLITICAL THOUGHT
CONSTITUTIONALISM & RELIGION
For spring 2019, the colloquium will focus on the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, especially his principal work,
Leviathan
. Using the new Norton Critical Edition of
Leviathan
(to be published summer 2019; copies to be supplied by the instructor), we will read the work carefully in its entirely. We will also read a limited selection of other writings by Hobbes and a limited selection of commentaries by critics and interpreters.
- Department: Political Science
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
David C Johnston
CULPA: 25 Info - 4 points
VISUAL ART LAB, SPRING
- Department: Visual Arts
- F 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sarah M Sze
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info - 3 points
POR CAREER DEVELOPMENT COLLOQUIUM
- Department: Biostatistics
- T 3 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
- 0.5 points