This course offers a balanced, stimulating survey of marine ecology, introducing the key processes and systems from which the marine environment is formed, and the issues and challenges which surround its future conservation.

In general, we will meet 2 hours (Mon 13:20 – 15:10) every week, but occasionally we may watch documentary on the 3rd hours.

For the week 8 and 10, instead of meeting in the classroom, we will spend half day in Mangrove ecocenter and full day in NMMST to discuss the course materials and to explore the environment. Students are expected to develop a broad understanding on various issues of marine ecology, be able to generate an in-depth review on a selected topic and give a presentation. College of Science Chih-Lin Wei 15 Monday 6,7,8 IPCS5010 3 Half International Master/Doctoral Degree Program in Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Earth System Science http://www.ipcs.ntu.edu.tw/about-en.php

I open several related courses. Please visit our lab website for more detailed info on how to choose my lectures based on your preference.

http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~tksmiki/for_Students_%28zhong_wen%29.html

This is a basic course intended for senior undergraduate and graduate students with knowledge of basic biology. Students who are interested in any fields in ecosystem sciences (e.g. ecology, microbial biology, oceanography, and conservation biology) are all welcome. The background for advanced mathematics is not presumed. We will learn basic mathematical methods for analyzing ecological systems with one-species, two-species, and more species. Statistics and computer programming are beyond our focus. The course is designed for hand-on work. We just need ?gpaper-and-pencil?h for learning how to think quantitatively about populations and communities. If necessary, we will also use well-developed software but we do not need skills in computer programming. There will be dedicated time every week for students to do ?gpaper-and-pencil?h exercise. The topics may include:

1. Introduction to theoretical ecology

2. Exponential and logistic population growth

3. Competitive interaction

4. Resource-consumer dynamics

5. Community dynamics and material fluxes

6. Population dynamics in space

7. Community dynamics in space

8. Matrix models for populations and communities

9. Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

10. Introduction to numerical calculations

11. Practice for developing a new model The objectives is to provide students with mathematical skills for dynamical modeling of populations and communities, which are necessary for mechanistic and quantitative understanding of complexity in ecological systems. College of Science Main Campus Takeshi Miki 25 Thursday 2,3,4 Ocean5054 3 Half Graduate Institute of Oceanography, Marine Biology & Fisheries Division,
Introductory Course of Marine Science http://www.oc.ntu.edu.tw/?lang=en

I open several related courses. Please visit our lab website for more detailed info on how to choose my lectures based on your preference.

http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~tksmiki/for_Students_%28zhong_wen%29.html

This is a course intended for students with basic knowledge of life science and/or ecology. Most examples are based on ecological processes, but students in any fields of life science are also welcome. The skills to build and analyze a dynamical model will be obtained in the first stage. The computer software to easily analyze mathematical models without programing will be provided. In the second stage, students will select a subject based on his/her own interest and will learn how to develop a model based on the subject and how to analyze the model. The objectives are to provide students know-how and tacit knowledge to develop a new dynamical model based on research interest. Opportunities to learn basic modeling blocks and how to analyze dynamical models are also provided. College of Science Main Campus Takeshi Miki 15 Wednesday 2,3,4 Ocean5084 3 Half Graduate Institute of Oceanography, Marine Biology & Fisheries Division http://www.oc.ntu.edu.tw/?lang=en

This course offers a balanced, stimulating survey of marine ecology, introducing the key processes and systems from which the marine environment is formed, and the issues and challenges which surround its future conservation.

In general, we will meet 2 hours (Mon 13:20 – 15:10) every week, but occasionally we may watch documentary on the 3rd hours.

For the week 8 and 10, instead of meeting in the classroom, we will spend half day in Mangrove ecocenter and full day in NMMST to discuss the course materials and to explore the environment.

Students are expected to develop a broad understanding on various issues of marine ecology, be able to generate an in-depth review on a selected topic and give a presentation. College of Science Main Campus Chih-Lin Wei 15 Monday 6,7,8 Ocean5002 3 Half Graduate Institute of Oceanography, Marine Biology & Fisheries Division,
Introductory Course of Marine Science http://www.oc.ntu.edu.tw/?lang=en

Learning the subject of elementary particle physics Get familiar with the standard model of particle physics, Feynman diagrams, Feynman rules, calculations of elementary particle processes. College of Science Main Campus Cheng-Wei Chiang 30 Tuesday 3,4,5 Phys8033 3 Half Graduate Institute of Physics http://www.phys.ntu.edu.tw/webeng/APHome.aspx

Syllabus

1. Establishing Background: solid state physics and advanced materials (I)

2. Establishing Background: solid state physics and advanced materials (II)

3. Introduction (TLS/TPS)

4. X-ray Photoemission Spectroscopy (XPS) (soft x-ray)

5. Angular resolved photoemission (APES) (soft x-ray)

6. X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) (soft x-ray)

7. X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) (soft x-ray)

8. X-ray microscopy: PEEM/SR-STM/SPEM/STXM (soft x-ray) (I)

9. X-ray microscopy: PEEM/SR-STM/SPEM/STXM (soft x-ray) (II)

10. X-ray diffraction/scattering (hard x-ray)

11. Synchrotron for Biophysics (hard/soft x-ray)

12. Introduction to Neutron production and selected techniques

13. Neutron diffraction/scattering

14. Special Topic: XMCD-PEEM/SPEM

15. NSRRC Lab Tour

16. Presentations / Final Exam

Syllabus

1. Establishing Background: solid state physics and advanced materials (I)

2. Establishing Background: solid state physics and advanced materials (II)

3. Introduction (TLS/TPS)

4. X-ray Photoemission Spectroscopy (XPS) (soft x-ray)

5. Angular resolved photoemission (APES) (soft x-ray)

6. X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) (soft x-ray)

7. X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) (soft x-ray)

8. X-ray microscopy: PEEM/SR-STM/SPEM/STXM (soft x-ray) (I)

9. X-ray microscopy: PEEM/SR-STM/SPEM/STXM (soft x-ray) (II)

10. X-ray diffraction/scattering (hard x-ray)

11. Synchrotron for Biophysics (hard/soft x-ray)

12. Introduction to Neutron production and selected techniques

13. Neutron diffraction/scattering

14. Special Topic: XMCD-PEEM/SPEM

15. NSRRC Lab Tour

16. Presentations / Final Exam

College of Science Main Campus Minn Tsong Lin 30 Thursday 7,8 Phys8121 2 Half Graduate Institute of Physics,
Graduate Institute of Applied Physics http://www.phys.ntu.edu.tw/webeng/APHome.aspx

Purpose of the course:

The course is intended to give the students a basic training in quantum mechanics. In the first semester we learned the necessary mathematical tools, developed the subject from the postulates of quantum mechanics, and addressed the indispensable preliminaries. In this coming second semester of the course, the emphasis of the course will be on the second half of the following textbook.

Textbook:`Principles of Quantum Mechanics`, Second Edition, by R. Shankar, (Plenum)
Subjects to be covered:
a) Symmetry and their consequences
b) Rotational invariance and angular momentum
c) The hydrogen atom
d) Spin
e) Addition of angular momenta
f) Variational and WKB methods
g) Perturbation theories
h) Scattering theory

References: `Quantum Physics`, Second Edition, by Stephen Gasiorowicz, (Wiley)
College of Science Main Campus Ching Teh Li 20 Tuesday 3,4,5 Phys8067 3 Full Graduate Institute of Physics,
Tigp-Molecular Science and Technology http://www.phys.ntu.edu.tw/webeng/APHome.aspx

This course covers the principles and methods of equilibrium statistical mechanics for applications to chemical physics problems. The lectures will be divided into three parts: a short review of thermodynamics principles, the concepts of ensemble theory and the applications to gas, liquid, solution and solid systems. The final part will introduce the phase transition and the theory of Brownian motion.

Planned topics: laws of thermodynamics, thermal equilibrium and temperature, ensemble theory, entropy, non-interacting systems (gas and solid), chemical equilibrium, imperfect gases, classical liquids, ionic and non-ionic solutions, Ising models. Langevin equation and Brownian motion. This course aims to introduce basic concepts of equilibrium statistical mechanics for physical chemistry in the graduate level. College of Science Main Campus *Majors-only (including minor and double major students). Yuan-Chung Cheng 20 Tuesday 6,7,8 Chem7031 3 Half Division of Chemistry http://www.ch.ntu.edu.tw/english/en_index.htm

The topics covered in this course are of great importance and modernity regarding both biological vision as well as image processing and artificial vision. The integrated approach uses parallels between biological and computational systems, which is seldom covered in graduate courses in Brazil. Familiarization with intermediate and advanced concepts in the areas of natural and artificial vision. With respect to natural vision, we cover the anatomic organization of the visual system is presented, its physiology (special attention given to receptive fields), as well as aspects of neuroscience and psychology of vision. Regarding artificial vision, we present correlated aspects such as visual information processing in linear and non-linear systems, curvature and thinning methods, as well as pattern recognition using supervised and non-supervised approaches. S_o Carlos Institute of Physics (IFSC) São Carlos campus Part I: natural vision systems. 1. primitive natural vision systems (insects, arthropods, molluscs, etc). 2. advanced natural vision systems (including respective mathematic-computational modelling) 2.1. neuronal processing, principles of formation and propagation of stimulii in neutrons, respective modeling. 2.2. basic processing, retinal processing, lateral geniculate nucleous, receptive fields, superior colliculus, motor control. 2.3. visual cortex processing (neurophysiology, types of cells, modular organization in bands an pinwheels, visual cortex modelling through Hough transform). 2.4. processing in higher level cerebral structures (memory, inference, language, attention), modelling multiple stage integration. Part II: artificial vision systems (including basic principles, algorithms and implementation in sequential and parallel hardware) 1. integration between natural and artificial vision 1.1. principles of cybernetics 1.2. D. Marr�fs proposal 1.3. geometric quantized elements 2. neuronal networks for pattern recognition 2.1. perceptrons 2.2. networks based on the Hough transform 3. signal processing techinques (basic level vision) 3.1. autocorrelation and convolution 3.2. filters 3.3. the two dimensional Fourier transform 3.4. wavelet transforms 4. mathematic-computationa techniques for intermediatee vision 4.1. mathematical morphology: Minkowski�fs algebra 4.2. the Hough transform 4.3. segmentation techniques 4.4. data structures for representation of visual information 4.5. estimation of tangent fields and multi scale curvature 4.6. multiscale skeletons 5. computational models for high level vision 5.1. object oriented systems 5.2. databases and knowledge 5.3. artificial intelligence models 5.4. automatic knowledge acquisition. Luciano da Fontoura Costa, Odemir Martinez Bruno 25 SFI5818 15 Two written and a substitutive written examinations. Several practical projects and seminars. https://www2.ifsc.usp.br/english/

It is very importante nowadays that theoretical and also experimental physicists have a reasonable knowledge about the field theories that describe the fundamental interactions of Nature. Those theories find applications in practically all areas of Physics. To give the students a solid education about the structure of abelian and non-abelian gauge theories that describe the fundamental interations of Nature, like Electrodynamics and the Weak and Strong nuclear interactions. S_o Carlos Institute of Physics (IFSC) São Carlos campus 1. Introduction to gauge theories 2. Non-abelian gauge theories 3. The self-dual sector – instantons 4. Spontaneous symmetry breaking 5. Goldstone’s theorem 6. Higgs Mechanism: little group and mass formulas 7. Classical solutions: Magnetic monopoles, dyons and vortices 8. Bogomolny equation and BPS monopoles 9. Solitons and electromagnetic duality 10. Supersymmetric gauge theories Luiz Agostinho Ferreira, Betti Hartman 20 SFI5876 10 Written tests and exercise lists. https://www2.ifsc.usp.br/english/

This course is a topical review of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The objective is to survey the major topics in the field, in as much depth as time allows. This course will give a broad understanding of the history and current state of the field of heavy-ion collisoins. It will be useful for anyone doing research in the field, or anyone with such an interest. Institute of Physics (IF) São Paulo main campus 1. Introduction to heavy-ion collisions i. motivation ii. description of experiments and facilities 2. Bulk physics i. Measurements _ single particle observables, 2-particle correlations (ridge, integrated and differential vn, rn, PCA analysis), multiparticle correlations (cumulants, mixed harmonic correlations) ii. Theory _ relativistic hydrodynamics, freeze-out, hadronic physics, full simulations of heavy-ion collisions, early and recent results. 3. Physics of the initial state i. Saturation physics, low-x, Color Glass Condensate ii. Thermalization / isotropization 1. Weak coupling approaches 2. Strong coupling approaches Matthew William Luzum 25 PGF5324 12 Each student choose a topic of interest, among those discussed in the course, and present a seminar. http://portal.if.usp.br/ifusp/en/welcome-ifusp

A deep knowledge of Quantum Mechanics is paramount for every physicist. Advanced topics not covered in PGF5001, develop familiarity with the ideas and methods of Quantum Mechanics and study applications to physical systems. Institute of Physics (IF) São Paulo main campus Quantum Mechanics I (PGF5001). WKB approximation, Variational methods, Time-dependent perturbation theory, Identical particles, Scattering theory, S-matrix, Eikonal approximation, Interaction radiation/matter, Canonical formalism, Path integrals, Symmetries and conservation laws, Particles in e/m fields, Entanglement, Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics, Basics of quantum computation. Oscar Jose Pinto Eboli, Matthew Wiiliam Luzum, Enrico Bertuzzo 50 PGF5002 12 Homeworks and exams http://portal.if.usp.br/ifusp/en/welcome-ifusp