Many factors determine whether or not you get a job, succeed or fail in a project, and lose or make money on an investment. Your problem solving ability is one of them, but understanding the principles behind the situation you face (in practice or in theory) is one of the most fundamental. To survive in the world, people need to apply countless mathematical principles, consciously or unconsciously. In this course you will review some of the mathematical principles that you already use, and will learn some other new ones.

From the basic structures of biological compounds, to the movement of compounds within a cell, to the combined activities of tissues that contribute to the function of an organ, to the structures of complete organisms, the phenomena of life are both intellectually and aesthetically stimulating. This course will explore the complexities of life and use them as inspiration for creating art. We will learn the science in the classroom and laboratory and then move to the studio where students will utilize their comprehension of biological phenomena to create design and art projects.

All facets of musical performance, the production of sound, its transmission and alteration by the performance space, and its perception by members of the audience, are candidates for study in acoustics. In this course we will develop the physics of vibrating systems and wave propagation and study the measurement of sound. Topics will include: vibrating systems, wave motion, wave analysis, resonance, room acoustics, and the application of these principles to various classes of instruments. There will be weekly problem sets and a class presentation by each student on a topic of interest.

Topics to be discussed include: Platonism about time, the topology of time, if any, the McTaggart Argument, Presentism vs. Eternalism, the nature of the present, the reality of the past, time travel, space-time worms and the four-dimensional view of time

"By the end of the decade, we will have transformed all of our new cars into smarphones on wheels," claimed the VW CEO recently. This was probably not foreseen by the Duryea brothers of Springfield when they began building the first American cars in 1896. But media in cars do have a long and complex history: it's not too much to say that the increasing presence and sophistication of media since the 1920s, and especially after the war, fundamentally shaped the very experience of automobility.

This course is an upper-level research seminar designed for students who wish to learn electrophysiological techniques and how to analyze electrophysiology data. Course requirements will consist of reading primary research articles, executing an event related potential (ERP) research project on visual processing, and analyzing the data that is collected. The class will cover all elements of setting up an ERP research project and we will focus on both the theory and practical aspects of developing and running research study.

This seminar course will look at the way Muslims across the globe are negotiating the relationship between Islam and modern science. We will, in particular, focus on the way evolutionary biology is received in various parts of the Muslim world and what can that tell us about the interaction between culture, politics, religion, and science. Students will be expected to do research as part of the class and present their findings at the end of the semester.

Schools operate on the idea that learners are "regular" or "special needs." This course examines these ideas, exploring topics related to a variety of learning differences including ADD and autism, as well as factors that influence a child's readiness to learn.

Evolutionary computation techniques harness the mechanisms of biological evolution, including mutation, recombination, and selection, to build software systems that solve difficult problems or shed light on the nature of evolutionary processes. In this course students will explore several evolutionary computation techniques and apply them to problems of their choosing. The technique of "genetic programming," in which populations of executable programs evolve through natural selection, will be emphasized. Prerequisite detail: One college-level programming course, in any language.

Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) are computational devices loosely based on the brain. Basic nodes perform a very simple computation, and complex behavior emerges only after connecting a high number of these neurons to each other. Recent results in using massive amounts of data and CPU power have shown promising results in complicated human-like tasks, such as automatically describing scenes depicted in computer images, or extracting information from online text documents.