Our multidisciplinary, quantitative lens can help deepen our understanding of perhaps the most complex of complex systems, namely, human behavior. The emergence, persistence, and demise of social institutions and their co-evolution with distinctive human behaviors – such as altruistic cooperation, out-group hostility and adaptive learning – are typically overlooked in standard economic and other behavioral science models. In line with the well-established scientific tradition of the Institute, this research is characterized by (a) its trans-disciplinary nature, (b) its use of nonlinear dynamical systems to study the explicit out-of-equilibrium dynamics of the relevant processes, (c) and sustained interaction between mathematical modeling and well-defined empirical case studies and problems of potentially great contemporary practical relevance.
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Welcome to Frontiers of Science on iTunes U, a public repository of undergraduate science instructional video materials. These lectures, additional media, activities, problem sets, seminar guides, and other exemplary teaching materials are fully available in the community-based Frontiers of Science Web site at this URL: http://frontiersofsci.org.
All materials have been adapted from Columbia University’s innovative core course, Frontiers of Science (http://www.sciencecore.columbia.edu/).
This course is comprised of a six-quarter sequence of classes that will explore the essential theoretical foundations of modern physics. The topics covered in this course sequence will include classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, the general and special theories of relativity, electromagnetism, cosmology, and black holes. While these courses will build upon one another, each course also stands on its own, and both individually and collectively they will let students attain the “theoretical minimum” for thinking intelligently about modern physics.
Quantum theory governs the universe at its most basic level. In the first half of the 20th century physics was turned on its head by the radical discoveries of Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, and Erwin Schroedinger. An entire new logical and mathematical foundation—quantum mechanics—eventually replaced classical physics. We will explore the quantum world, including the particle theory of light, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and the Schroedinger Equation.
The MIT Biology Department core courses, 7.012, 7.013, and 7.014, all cover the same core material, which includes the fundamental principles of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and cell biology. Biological function at the molecular level is particularly emphasized and covers the structure and regulation of genes, as well as, the structure and synthesis of proteins, how these molecules are integrated into cells, and how these cells are integrated into multicellular systems and organisms. In addition, each version of the subject has its own distinctive material.
7.012 focuses on the exploration of current research in cell biology, immunology, neurobiology, genomics, and molecular medicine.
Over the last two decades, the number of our American incarcerated has reached an unprecedented peak of more than 2 million. The nation’s swelling inmate population has turned prisons into a $50 billion a year industry. Go behind the bars for an in-depth report from inside the American corrections system.
In Corrections, Inc. explore who prospers in the new prison economy, and how their interests shape who gets locked and for how long. Enter the dark isolation of the Supermax prisons in Locked Down. In Hard Time, follow inmates in North Carolina as they face life after prison.
Yale professors and distinguished guests speak on the varying topics in the study of ecology.
This course provides an overview of major works of social thought from the beginning of the modern era through the 1920s. Attention is paid to social and intellectual contexts, conceptual frameworks and methods, and contributions to contemporary social analysis. Writers include Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Marx, Weber, and Durkheim
Intro to Cultural & Social Anthropology (ASB 102) explores principles of cultural and social anthropology, with
illustrative materials from a variety of cultures. Come examine the nature of culture through social, political, and economic systems and study religious, aesthetic, and linguistic traits.
This collection features Yale faculty and distinguished guests speaking about topics within the study of biology: Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry.
This collection features Yale faculty and distinguished speakers talking about food policy, agriculture and sustainability. Featured podcasts also come from the Yale Sustainable Food Project.
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