We spend our lives in unruly, all too human bodies. While doing so, we must contend with the public narratives about our bodies - how they are seen and perceived - and the private narratives about our bodies - how we see and perceive ourselves, how we actually live in our bodies.We also live in unruly bodies and contend with unruly appetites. We are as weak and fallible in our bodies as we are strong. In many ways our bodies are completely unknowable, but oh, how we try to master our unruly\u2026\n
This seminar provides a comprehensive introduction to \u201ccryo-history\u201d, a field that centers cold places (polar, alpine, and industrially refrigerated environments) and their human and nonhuman inhabitants in historical inquiry. It is conducted with a specific aim to foreground Indigenous and Eurasian knowledges that shaped global empires, colonialism, capitalism, socialism, urbanization, war, as well as modern Earth science, technology, and medicine.
\nScience courses are typically structured to teach core concepts about the physical world and the living systems in it. The concepts taught result from decades of scientific research. Research is a process of inquiry that seeks knowledge about important problems that are not understood. Experiencing the intellectual excitement and challenges of performing research can support your long-term career goals regardless of what those are, but how does someone go about creating new knowledge through\u2026\n
Graduate students register for this course when they permanently join a lab. Students should register under the supervising PI.
\nWe will focus on three areas: (1) Stochastic Choice Theory: random utility models used in discrete choice econometrics and IO, as well as models of random perception and cognition used in psychology and behavioral economics. (2) Statistical Decision Theory: the Wald\u2019s model, admissibility, minimax regret and Bayesian regret, the potential outcome model, with connections to the ambiguity literature and model misspecification literature. (3) Non-Bayesian Updating: We will discuss axioms for\u2026\n
This course will expose students to large language models; programming languages; and generative AI in various areas, including text, images, music, video, and software. We will contextualize these technologies within the broader areas of computation, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Students will gain initial hands-on experience building software with generative AI to build basic projects appropriate for introductory computer science such as games or chatbots and a simple\u2026\n
This course will examine how these three religions imagine themselves in relation to the other two. We\u2019ll read strategies of disputation as well as dialogue, theological argumentation as well as implicit adoption of each other\u2019s symbols, customs and fantasies, and consider the role of envy, both holy and vengeful.
\nResearchers (including graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty) present and discuss current research across cognitive science and social psychology. Topics span memory, language, vision, concepts, emotion, the self, morality, social cognition, group dynamics, intergroup relations, and related areas.
\nThis third-year advanced-level Russian language course continues development of speaking, writing, and reading proficiency and prepares students for reading, analyzing, and discussing authentic Russian texts in a variety of disciplines and genres, with an emphasis on close reading and cultural context. Topics covered in the course are related to academics, daily life, and leisure activities as well as current events and matters of public and community interest. Vocabulary work emphasizes word\u2026\n
Continuation of CHNSE 140a. This course is designed to bring students with ACTFL Advanced-Mid level Chinese language proficiency to Advanced-High proficiency. It aims to further develop students\u2019 ability to use Chinese to analyze complex social issues and express nuanced ideas. The course uses a wide range of literary genres\u2014including prose, short stories, drama, poetry, and multimedia texts\u2014as points of entry into the study of social change in China. Through these diverse perspectives,\u2026\n
Graduate students register for this course when they permanently join a lab. Students should register under the supervising PI.
\nTheoretical Astrophysics is a division of astronomy that endeavors to reveal the physical processes underlying planets, stars, and galaxies. In astronomy, many of our questions are far too large-scale to be reproduced in a lab \u2013 we can\u2019t merge two galaxies and see what happens directly. Instead, we rely on a combination of analytic and computational methods to reconstruct what our observations show. In this course, students will learn to combine cutting edge computational methods with\u2026\n
Experimental or theoretical research project on an approved topic in quantum science and engineering, supervised by a QSE faculty member; and/or supervised reading on special topics not covered by the regular course curriculum. The project or reading plan must be arranged between the student and a QSE faculty supervisor prior to enrollment. The means by which final grading of the course is determined must be agreed upon by student and supervising faculty member before or commensurate with\u2026\n
This course trains Systems Biology PhD students in the skills of scientific writing, critical analysis of papers, and research proposal development. Anchored around the Department\u2019s weekly seminar series, the class provides structured opportunities to analyze recent high-impact papers from leading systems biology labs and to practice writing and defending independent research proposals. Students will learn to identify the core narrative of a scientific story, evaluate methodological rigor and\u2026\n
This course examines the role that science and technology\u2014as understood by both governments and individual citizens\u2014played in the formation of modern Latin American countries. While focusing on the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century, the course will also lay the groundwork to understanding different knowledge systems and what happened to these with the arrival of Europeans to the Americas. Examples will span, for example, the measurement of indigenous women\u2019s pelvises as evidence\u2026\n