Course duration: ~18 weeks

Lectures: Three lectures per week, each for 1:00 hour

Total classes: 40 lectures

 

Honor code

You will be expected to maintain the highest levels of academic and scientific integrity. Especially given the interdisciplinary nature of the course, close exchange of ideas among yourselves is encouraged. However, any material submitted for grading (assignments, test, summaries of research papers and grant proposal) must be your own work. Further, copying any material (including those from the web) without proper citation is considered as plagiarism, and is strictly prohibited from being part of any of the submitted material. Any material (including ideas) taken from anywhere must have appropriate citations. Finally, in the assignments and the proposal, what we are looking for are individuality and innovativeness — your opinions, your ideas and your analyses, not repetitions of somebody else’s! For instance, do not reproduce any material verbatim from any source (including large language models out there), even if the source is cited. Concordantly, in the process of completing the assignments and the final proposal, remember that you are taking this course only because you want to learn from the lectures and assignments; follow that in letter and spirit! Let learning be the goal, not completion of the assignments by hook or crook (AKA copying from the web or a friend)! Any deviations from any of these principles will result in an F grade. Do NOT expect any lenience if you violate the honor code in any manner whatsoever.

Details about the structure and the schedule of lectures is available in this PDF file.