The objectives of this course is to educate participants in some of the most commonly used data analytics techniques, including methods for reducing data to informative statistics, data visualization, and cluster analysis. Students in this course will learn and use the Python programming language, creating scripts from the ground up and applying them to real and fascinating data sets. Does not count as a CS Elective (BA or BS).

Recent years have seen a dramatic rise in the use of algorithms for solving problems involving strategic decision makers. Deployed algorithms now assist in a variety of economic interactions: assigning medical residents to schools, allocating students to courses, allocating security resources in airports, allocating computational resources and dividing rent.

Recent years have seen a dramatic rise in the use of algorithms for solving problems involving strategic decision makers. Deployed algorithms now assist in a variety of economic interactions: assigning medical residents to schools, allocating students to courses, allocating security resources in airports, allocating computational resources and dividing rent.

This course focuses on the analysis and practice of communication design and serves as an introduction to integrated design production. Students will work with various software applications including Adobe Creative Cloud and experiment with hands-on fabrication in the iterative design process. Students should expect to engage in studio tutorials and apply both theoretical principles and original research to the creation of final projects.

This course focuses on the analysis and practice of communication design and serves as an introduction to integrated design production. Students will work with various software applications including Adobe Creative Cloud and experiment with hands-on fabrication in the iterative design process. Students should expect to engage in studio tutorials and apply both theoretical principles and original research to the creation of final projects.

This course is the upper-division requirement for BMB majors and focuses on further development of communication skills you will need regardless of your career path after graduation. To be an effective scientific communicator, you need to continue to hone your skills in three dimensions: message (content), presenter (speaker/writer), and audience (reader/listener). Thus, each section of this course will provide support for your continued improvement as a writer/speaker (presenter) and as a reader/listener (audience) using a specific topic (content) in biochemistry and molecular biology.

The study of the resources required to solve problems in various models of computation. Sequential computation: Turing machines, non-determinism, alternation, algebraic automata theory. Parallel computation: Boolean circuits, branching programs, uniformity, lower bounds for circuit models. Descriptive complexity. Possible optional topics depending on student interest: approximation of NP-complete problems, interactive proofs, nonuniform finite automata, dynamic complexity.

The purpose of the course is to provide a common experience for Commonwealth Honors College students in their junior year. While recognizing that by the junior year students will be working in a wide variety of disciplinary areas, an interdisciplinary course like this will help honors students at the preliminary stage of thinking about a culminating senior thesis, project or capstone to experience a variety of topics and approaches that can lead to the development of their own senior culminating experience. Why a theme of innovative ideas across disciplines?

The purpose of the course is to provide a common experience for Commonwealth Honors College students in their junior year. While recognizing that by the junior year students will be working in a wide variety of disciplinary areas, an interdisciplinary course like this will help honors students at the preliminary stage of thinking about a culminating senior thesis, project or capstone to experience a variety of topics and approaches that can lead to the development of their own senior culminating experience. Why a theme of innovative ideas across disciplines?

The purpose of the course is to provide a common experience for Commonwealth Honors College students in their junior year. While recognizing that by the junior year students will be working in a wide variety of disciplinary areas, an interdisciplinary course like this will help honors students at the preliminary stage of thinking about a culminating senior thesis, project or capstone to experience a variety of topics and approaches that can lead to the development of their own senior culminating experience. Why a theme of innovative ideas across disciplines?