This course takes as its object of focus one of the most contested forms of medieval art: the portrait. Artists of the Middle Ages seldom strived for what we think of today as an accurate physical likeness of a subject, and instead often subordinated verism and physiognomic specificity to type and ideal. How did such representations of individuals function within overlapping and intersecting cultures of religious ritual and secular social transaction? What were their purposes and functions? And do they cause us to refine our very definition of "the portrait"?

Inspired by the Maker movement, this course provides a hands-on introduction to physical computing: sensing and responding to the physical world using computers. Specific topics include: basic electronics and circuit design, microcontroller programming using Arduinos, sensing and responding to the physical world, rapid prototyping (3D printing and laser cutting etc.), soft circuits and wearable electronics. The course will encourage and empower students to invent, design, and build practical hardware projects that interact with the physical world.

This course takes as its object of focus one of the most contested forms of medieval art: the portrait. Artists of the Middle Ages seldom strived for what we think of today as an accurate physical likeness of a subject, and instead often subordinated verism and physiognomic specificity to type and ideal. How did such representations of individuals function within overlapping and intersecting cultures of religious ritual and secular social transaction? What were their purposes and functions? And do they cause us to refine our very definition of "the portrait"?

Inspired by the Maker movement, this course provides a hands-on introduction to physical computing: sensing and responding to the physical world using computers. Specific topics include: basic electronics and circuit design, microcontroller programming using Arduinos, sensing and responding to the physical world, rapid prototyping (3D printing and laser cutting etc.), soft circuits and wearable electronics. The course will encourage and empower students to invent, design, and build practical hardware projects that interact with the physical world.

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Introduction to causes, diagnosis, effects, and treatment of human neurological and neuropsychological disorders. Emphasis on inferences that can be made about human brain functions from the effects of neurological disorders. Prerequisite: PSYCH 330 or equivalent.

Phase transitions and mean field theory, critical exponents and universality. Ginzburg-Landau theory: fluctuations, Ginzburg criterion, upper/lower critical dimensions, Goldstone modes. Renormalization group: Foundations, Perturbative RG, epsilon expansion, Large N expansion. XY model: Topological defects, Coulomb gas and Kosterlitz?Thouless transition. Nonlinear sigma models. Random Systems. Introduction to conformal invariance. Prerequisite: PHYSICS 602

The breakdown of classical physics, the quantum mechanics of one-dimensional systems, and an introduction to three-dimensional problems. Emphasis on the physical interpretation of quantum mechanics. A first course in graduate level quantum mechanics. Prerequisite: PHYSICS 424 or equivalent.

Course taught in Italian. Review of first year grammar and further development of the four skills: speaking, reading, writing, and understanding.

The topic of looted art appears in the news on a weekly basis, with art historians, museums, archaeologists, economists and legal scholars all weighing in on the problem.