Intermediate, Advanced

Programming Courses

  • Introduction to Symbolic Programming - Functions, Expressions and Procedures, Words and Sentences, BooleansRecursion, Higher Order Functions, Lambda, Input/Output, Lists, Trees, Fractals, Box and Pointer Diagrams

  • Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programming - Functional Programming, User Interfaces, Programming Methodology, Building Abstractions with Data, Representing State, Social Responsibility, Evaluators, Logic Programming
  • Data Structures and Advanced Programming - Object Oriented Programming, Testing, Data Structures, Algorithms, Asymptotic Analysis, Sorting, Garbage Collection

Lectures

relationships between our collective social and cultural structures and the individual: visual communication, art & ideas, photo history, html & webdesign, Art and Photo History, photography master workshops, Media Theory, Suggested reading list

Protein Folding Problem

mechanisms by which amino acid sequence of polypeptide chains determine three-dimensional conformation, sequence determinants of secondary structure, folding of newly synthesized polypeptide chains, folding intermediates aggregation & competing off-pathway reactions, unfolding and refolding of proteins in vitro, role of helper proteins, protein recovery problems, diseases associated with protein folding defects: readings, projects, study materials, related resources

Expert Systems in Mechanical Engineering

expert systems, artificial intelligence, decision analysis in mechanical engineering, logical inference, predicate calculus, multivariate logic, probability theory, diagnostic reasoning, risk assessment, qualitative reasoning, & analytical design, Applications in automated manufacturing, design, real time monitoring & supervisory control, failure diagnostics, automated influence diagrams/Bayes' networks to codify expert knowledge, perform probabilistic inference, evaluate optimal control or design decisions

Politics Courses

  • International Political Economy - explores consequences of international trade for domestic political alignments, role of domestic institutions in promoting rise and fall of nations, and other linkages between domestic and international political economy

  • Theories of International Relations - surveys approaches to theory building in international relations, elementary game theory, causes of war, conditions for international cooperation, role of international institutions

Politics (courses)

Comparative Politics of Developed Democracies - comparative political science of developed democracies, systematic relationships between certain social, political and economic variables in such countries, does not detail political history of developed democracies: study guide

  • Comparative Democratic Institutions - major institutions of democracy—the electoral system, the party and party system, governmental system, consequences of variations across developed democracies
  • Proseminar in Comparative Politics - survey of major topics in comparative politics intended for Ph.D. students, major theoretical and conceptual building blocks
  • Political Economy of Developed Democracies - effects of democratic politics on economic policymaking, policies and outcomes (& conversely), political configurations, economic policies & outcomes, economic structures, political outcomes & policies
  • About Love

    Michael Hardt, the author of Multitude and Empire talks about love, how can love function as a political concept, why love, the proper and improper ways love has functioned politically, love as activism, and evil and its relationship to love


    OpenCourseWare for the Study of China's Economy

    open educational resource for educators, students, and self-learners

    Ecological Anthropology

    adaptation, cognition & culture, energy flow, time allocation & efficiency, population ecology & carrying capacity, life history & reproductive strategies, foraging systems, agriculture, pastoralism, group size & settlement patterns, land tenure, reciprocity & risk, competition & warfare, social stratification, niche theory & cultural diversity, ecology of disease & nutrition, conservation, "development" & ecological crises/toward sustainability: bibliography

    Theoretical Physics (by Gerard 't Hooft)

    articles (how to become a good / bad theoretical physicist), courses (group theory, introduction to general relativity, special functions & polynomials, string theory, quantum mechanics & determinism at Planck scale)

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