Courses

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Course Sort descending Title Term Credits Course Coordinator Notes
A101 Adaptive Systems 3 2 Kenji Doya
A103 Stochastic Processes with Applications 3 2 Simone Pigolotti Students must install the Jupyter notebook
A104 Vector and Tensor Calculus 1 2 Eliot Fried Alternate years course, odd years alternates with A112
A105 Nonlinear Waves: Theory and Simulation 2 2 Emile Touber
A106 Computational Mechanics 3 2 Marco Edoardo Rosti
A107 Lie Algebras 1 2 Liron Speyer Alternate years course: AY2024
A108 Partial Differential Equations 3 2 Qing Liu
A110 Measure Theory and Integration 1 2 Xiaodan Zhou Alternate years course: AY2025
A111 Nonlinear Time Series Analysis and Manifold Learning 3 2 Gerald Pao Alternate years course: AY2023
A112 Introduction to the Calculus of Variations 2 2 Eliot Fried Alternate years course, even years alternates with A104
A113 Brain Computation 3 2 Kenji Doya
A115 Partial Differential Equations II 2 2 Ugur Abdulla
A203 Advanced Optics 2 2 Síle Nic Chormaic Alternate years course: AY2024 Enrollment cap of 8 students
A205 Quantum Field Theory 3 2 Shinobu Hikami
A208 Bioorganic Chemistry 2 2 Fujie Tanaka
A209 Ultrafast Spectroscopy 3 2 Keshav M. Dani Enrollment cap of 8 students
A211 Advances in Atomic Physics 2 2 Síle Nic Chormaic Alternate years course, AY2025 Enrollment cap of 8 students
A212 Microfluidics 3 2 Amy Shen Course not offered AY2023-AY2025
A213 Inorganic Electrochemistry 1 2 Julia Khusnutdinova
A214 Nucleic Acid Chemistry and Engineering 2 2 Yohei Yokobayashi
A218 Condensed Matter Physics 2 2 Yejun Feng
A219 General Relativity 1 2 Yasha Neiman Alternate years course, AY2025
A220 New Enzymes by Directed Evolution 1 2 Paola Laurino Enrollment cap of 8
A221 Relativistic Mechanics and Classical Field Theory 1 2 Yasha Neiman Alternate years course, AY2024
A223 Quantum Materials Science 3 2 Yoshinori Okada
A224 The Earth System 3 2 Satoshi Mitarai Course not offered AY2024-AY2026
A225 Statistical Mechanics, Critical Phenomena and Renormalization Group 1 2 Reiko Toriumi
A226 Synthetic Chemistry for Carbon Nanomaterials 3 2 Akimitsu Narita
A227 Quantum Engineering – Simulation and Design 3 2 Jason Twamley
A228 Quantum Many-body Physics 1 2 Philipp Höhn
A229 Statistical Fluctuations and Elements of Physical Kinetics 2 2 Denis Konstantinov
A230 Quantum Optics for Qubits 3 2 Hiroki Takahashi
A231 Quantum Information and Communication Theory 2 2 David Elkouss
A233 Stability Analysis of Nonlinear Systems 2 2 Mahesh Bandi Alternate years course, AY2024
A303 Developmental Biology 2 2 Ichiro Masai
A304 Evolutionary Developmental Biology 3 2 Noriyuki Satoh
A306 Neuroethology 1 2 Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama
A307 Molecular Oncology and Cell Signaling 2 2 Tadashi Yamamoto Course retires AY2023
A308 Epigenetics 3 2 Hidetoshi Saze
A310 Computational Neuroscience 2 2 Erik De Schutter
A312 Sensory Systems 3 2 Izumi Fukunaga
A313 Cognitive Neurorobotics 1 2 Jun Tani
A314 Neurobiology of Learning and Memory I 3 2 Jeff Wickens
A315 Quantifying Naturalistic Animal Behavior 3 2 Sam Reiter
A316 Neuronal Molecular Signaling 3 2 Marco Terenzio
A318 Neurobiology of Learning and Memory II 3 2 Kazumasa Tanaka From AY2024, this course moves to term 2
A319 Microbial Evolution and Cell Biology 1 2 Filip Husnik
A320 The Cell Cycle and Human Diseases 2 2 Franz Meitinger
A321 Macroevolution 2 2 Lauren Sallan
A409 Electron Microscopy 3 2 Matthias Wolf
B08 Physics for Life Sciences 2 2 Bernd Kuhn
B10 Analytical Mechanics 1 2 Mahesh Bandi
B11 Classical Electrodynamics 2 2 Tsumoru Shintake
B12 Statistical Physics 2 2 Nic Shannon
B13 Theoretical and Applied Fluid Mechanics 2 2 Pinaki Chakraborty
B14 Theoretical and Applied Solid Mechanics 3 2 Gustavo Gioia
B20 Introductory Evolutionary Developmental Biology 2 2 Hiroshi Watanabe
B21 Biophysics of Cellular Membranes 3 2 Akihiro Kusumi
B23 Molecular Evolution 3 2 Tom Bourguignon
B24 Neuromotor Systems 2 2 Marylka Yoe Uusisaari
B27 Molecular Biology of the Cell 1 2 Keiko Kono
B29 Linear Algebra 1 2 Liron Speyer Alternate years course, AY2025
B30 Surface Sciences 2 2 Yabing Qi
B31 Statistical Tests 2 1 Tomoki Fukai
B33 Organic Photonics and Electronics 1 2 Ryota Kabe
B34 Coral Reef Ecology and Biology 3 2 Timothy Ravasi
B35 Genetics and Modern Genetic Technologies 1 2 Tomomi Kiyomitsu
B36 Introduction to Real Analysis 1 2 Xiaodan Zhou Alternate years course, AY2024
B37 Introduction to embodied cognitive science 2 2 Tom Froese Enrollment cap of 9
B38 Human Subjects Research: A Primer 1 2 Gail Tripp
B40 Introduction to Polymer Science 1 2 Christine Luscombe
B41 Fundamentals of Ecology 1 2 David Armitage
B42 The Diversity of Fish 1 2 Vincent Laudet
B44 Stellar Physics 1 2 Shigehiro Nagataki
B46 Introduction to Machine Learning 1 2 Makoto Yamada
B48 Introduction to Complexity Science 2 2 Ulf Dieckmann
B49 Dynamical Systems 2 2 Mahesh Bandi Alternate years course, AY2023
B50 Introduction to Scientific Computing 1 2 Kenji Doya NEW for AY2024
B51 An introduction to Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Optics and Quantum Science 1 2 Bill Munro NEW for AY2024
B52 Introductory Neuroscience 1 2 Yukiko Goda NEW for AY2024