Media and Mobility

Most media - a book as well as a smartphone - are mobile. And mobility increasingly involves media: think GPS and real time bus schedules. Not surprisingly, the previously separate fields of media studies and mobility studies are becoming frequent collaborators. This course will explore this exciting new interdisciplinary area. Our focus will be on such media/mobility examples as wearable media, geomedia (GPS), travel, autonomous and shared vehicles. Students will design and carry out a semester-long project that applies theoretical knowledge to some practical or policy-oriented matter.

50 yrs of P, R. Radicalism

In 1968 a Chicago-based gang announced they were now a civil and human rights organization. Called The Young Lords, they became a vital radical force for social change within the US, with chapters and offices operating out of Chicago, New York City, Boston, Bridgeport, Philadelphia, and elsewhere. They were inspired by the activism spearheaded by the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, the international anti-colonial movements of the 1950s and 60s, the Black Power and Civil Rights movements, and the teachings of Malcom X, Dr.

Intro to Analysis

Completeness of the real numbers; topology of n-space including the Bolzano-Weierstrass and Heine-Borel theorems; sequences, properties of continuous functions on sets; infinite series, uniform convergence. The course may also study the Gamma function, Stirling’s formula, or Fourier series. Four class hours per week. 

Requisite: MATH 211 and either MATH 271 or 272, or consent of the instructor. Students with a grade of B+ or lower in linear algebra are encouraged to take another 200-level course with proofs before taking MATH 355. 

Linear Algebra

The study of vector spaces over the real and complex numbers, introducing the concepts of subspace, linear independence, basis, and dimension; systems of linear equations and their solution by Gaussian elimination; matrix operations; linear transformations and their representations by matrices; eigenvalues and eigenvectors; and inner product spaces. MATH 271 will feature both proofs and applications, with special attention paid to the theoretical development of the subject. Four class meetings per week.

S-CelluarAutomata&ArtificlLife

Students will present a paper from readings on cellular automat and artificial life. There will be at least two guest speakers. Topics include, but not limited to: cellular automata as computational engine, artificial chemistries, self-assembly, reconfigurable robotics, collective behaviors of swarm, biological computation other than neural networks, systems and synthetic biology, etc. This course does not count toward any requirements for the CS major or minor.
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