This seminar explores current findings on hormonal and neuroendocrine processes that influence human behavior. We will cover a diverse range of human behaviors such as aggression, competitive sports, sexual preferences, love and attachment, stress, memory and cognition. The course evaluation will be based on literature discussion, participation and exercises in class, a topic presentation and a final paper.

This 3 credit performance class is aimed at preparing sports journalists for broadcast. Students will cover sports stories over the weekend, then perform game previews, postgame wrap-ups, halftime reporting, reporter debriefs, on-set analysis based on their reporting. These assignments will be compiled into the Amherst Wire Weekly Sports Wrap-up shows that will be recorded in the broadcast studio. Students will take turns anchoring the show and doing their reporting on camera.

Optimization is ubiquitous in engineering and computer science. A recent application is the defeat of the world Go champion by the artificial intelligence algorithms executed in the Google?s AlphaGo system. Other application examples include deep learning network training, large data set clustering, and many engineering design problems.

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