R program offers a powerful tool for analyzing and visualizing data, and in recent years it became very popular among (not only) ecologists. It offers great freedom in handling, analysing and visualizing any type of data, however, it also comes up with steep learning curve of S language and frustration from frequent error messages. This practical course should teach students the basic of R program operation and data visualization.

All materials are available on http://bit.ly/r-ecol The main goal is to teach students basic skills of using R program, and prepare them for more advanced courses where R will be used for data analysis and visualization. College of Life Science Main Campus David Zeleny 35 Tuesday 2,3,4 EEB5082 3 Half Department of Lifescience, Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology http://ecology.lifescience.ntu.edu.tw/english/index.htm

Course website: www.bit.ly/VegEcol

The course is introducing main concepts in vegetation ecology. We will focus on different aspects of plant ecology at the community level, including topics like vegetation-environment relationship, vegetation dynamics, plant invasions, diversity patterns, plant traits, vegetation in the historical perspective, vegetation classification, biomes of the World, vegetation of Taiwan etc. We will discuss also more specific topics including vegetation and climate change or conservation, management and restoration.

The course is focused on senior undergraduate and graduate students, who want to gain theoretical knowledge about vegetation ecology, i.e. plant ecology at the community level. Additionally to theoretical lectures, I will also encourage students to deepen their view and interest by additional suggested readings, as well as moderating discussions on potentially interesting or controversial topics related to vegetation ecology.

Class schedule (preliminary):

1. Introduction to vegetation ecology

2. Vegetation and environment 1

3. Vegetation and environment 2

4. Diversity patterns and ecosystem functions

5. Species interactions in plant communities (competition, allelopathy, parasitism, facilitation, mutualisms)

6. Mechanisms of species coexistence in vegetation (assembly rules, niche- vs neutral, storage effect, priority effect)

7. Group discussion (based on reading required papers)

8. Plant traits at community level

9. Vegetation dynamics (succession, disturbance)

10. Midterm quiz

11. Plant invasions and invasibility of plant communities

12. Vegetation classification and vegetation maps

13. Vegetation of the World

14. Vegetation of Taiwan in the context of East Asia

15. Vegetation in the past (Holocene and historical perspective)

16. Vegetation and global change (effect of climate change, myths and facts)

17. Group discussion (based on reading required papers)

18. Applications in vegetation ecology: management, conservation and restoration

Part of the final evaluation will be a written essay on selected topic (in English). Final evaluation will be based on final test, midterm quiz, written essay and activity in the class, mostly joining group discussions.

College of Life Science Main Campus *Prerequisite: General Biology & Ecology (preferred) David Zeleny 20 Wednesday 7,8 EEB5085 2 Half Department of Lifescience, Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology http://ecology.lifescience.ntu.edu.tw/english/index.htm

This course intends to introduce the basic neuroscience. The course is designed for students without Neuroscience background, or even without Biology background. The scope of the course covers the basic structure and sensory and motor function of the nervous system, as well as the high function of the brain and related diseases. Students are expected to gain a broad perspective of how neural information is processed in the brain, and how brain activity determines individual behaviors in response to environmental stress. College of Life Science Academia Sinica Chen Chi Cheng 20 Wednesday 6,7,8 TIPGIN8003 3 Half Taiwan International Graduate Program In Interdisciplinary Neuroscience http://ecology.lifescience.ntu.edu.tw/english/index.htm

The purpose of this intensive 36-hours course is to make it possible for the students to learn about the most important legal coordinates of economic cooperation within the EU and with the EU. Hence, the course is to provide the students with such an information, which is most useful for EU law-practitioners.

Each class will have the following scenario:

1. Teachers introductory part: 15-30 minutes

2. The class-room discussion (the analysis of the assigned material): 45-60 minutes

3. The summary (the group presentation).

The course assumes that the students already have the basic knowledge about the sources of EU law.

The coursework will follow the following subjects:

1.Reminder session: Explaining the course idea and resume on the sources of EU law

2.Reminder session: How EU law is created, interpreted and applied?

3.Economic freedoms: The freedom of movement of goods

4.Economic freedoms: The freedom of movement of services

5.Economic freedoms: The freedom of movement of persons

6.Economic freedoms: The freedom of movement of capital and payments

7.Economic freedoms: The right of establishment

8.EU competition law

9.Economic policies: An Example of Common Agricultural Policy/Food legislation

10.Economic policies: An Example of Common Trade Policy

11.Common Trade Policy: Combined Nomenclature

12.Application of international treaties in the EU

13.Regulatory framework of EU-Taiwan economic cooperation

14.EU legal system vs. non-EU legal systems: conflict of laws, rules of adjudication, recognition of foreign judgments in economic areas

15.Remedies available to private litigants against defective EU acts or national acts based on EU legislation

To make it possible for future Chinese lawyers to counsel on EU law to any companies having business relationship with the European Union College of Law Main Campus *Restrict to graduate students
*Restrict to students of College of Law.
*Classes in 10, A, B on Oct. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23.
Artur Nowak-Far 25 LAW7614 1 Half Graduate Institute of Law http://www.law.ntu.edu.tw/main.php?site_id=1

This course introduces students to the economic analysis of law as a set of tools for analysing laws and understanding the effect legal rules have on the way people behave. This course also explores the extent to which the principles of economics can be used to explain the workings of the legal system and political institutions. Particular attention is paid to apply economic analysis to contemporaneous law and policy controversies in East Asia.

The course neither presumes nor requires a background in economics.

Teaching/Learning Methodology/Methods：The course is organised as an interactive seminar. Student participation is expected and counted significantly towards the final grade. At the end of the course, students should be able to:

_explain basic economic concepts such as demand-supply, Coarse theorem, public choice, moral hazard, adverse selection etc.

_construct and evaluate basic economic models of the incentive effects of different rules and institutions

_apply economic principles in analysis of legal rules and public policy

_identify and evaluate the various economic justifications for and against in the context of novel legal and policy problems College of Law Main Campus *Restrict to graduate students.

*Restrict to students of College of Law

*Classes in 8, 9 on Dec. 11, 13, 15, 18, 20, 25 & 8, 9, 10 on Dec. 22
Jian Lin Chen 25 LAW7621 1 Half Graduate Institute of Law http://www.law.ntu.edu.tw/main.php?site_id=1

Part I The Setting

Chapter 1. What is Treaty Interpretation Anyway?

Chapter 2. Treaty Interpretation as Opposed to Statutory, Constitutional and Contractual Interpretations

Chapter 3. The VCLT as the First Round of Codification _ Its Customary Rules Nature

Chapter 4. The Desirability and Some Principles for a New Round of Codification

Part II Existing Issues to be Subject to Codified Rules

Chapter 5. Boundary of Treaty Interpretation and Possible Codification

Chapter 6. Difference between Treaty Interpretation and Treaty Application and Possible Codification

Chapter 7. Different between Treaty Interpretation and Finding/Assessment of Facts and Possible Codification

Chapter 8. International and Domestic Adjudicating Bodies for Treaty Interpretation and Possible Codification

Chapter 9. Interpreting Treaties of Private Law Nature and Possible Codification

Chapter 10. Methods of Searching for the Ordinary Meanings and Possible Codification

Chapter 11. Ways of Taking into Consideration the Object-and-Purpose and Possible Codification

Chapter 12. Means of Taking into Consideration the Context and Possible Codification

Chapter 13. Special Meaning, Supplementary Means and Different Languages and Their Possible Further Codification

Chapter 14. Other Interpretation Principles and Possible Codification

Chapter 15. Time Factor and Technology Development and Possible Codification

Chapter 16. Interpreting Treaty Terms by Establishing Some Formula and Possible Codification

Chapter 17. Sequence, Hierarchy, Good Faith and Holistic Interpretation and Their Possible Codification

Part III New Issues and Perspectives

Chapter 18. Introducing Fundamental Human Values into Treaty Interpretation and Possible Codification

Chapter 19. Coordination between Different Treaty Systems and Possible Codification

Chapter 20. Features and Perspectives of the New Codified Rules of Treaty Interpretation

College of Law Main Campus *Restrict to graduate students.
*Restrict to students of College of Law. Changfa Lo 35 Tuesday X,A LAW7145 2 Half Graduate Institute of Law
http://www.law.ntu.edu.tw/main.php?site_id=1

Part I The Setting

Chapter 1. What is Treaty Interpretation Anyway?

Chapter 2. Treaty Interpretation as Opposed to Statutory, Constitutional and Contractual Interpretations

Chapter 3. The VCLT as the First Round of Codification _ Its Customary Rules Nature

Chapter 4. The Desirability and Some Principles for a New Round of Codification

Part II Existing Issues to be Subject to Codified Rules

Chapter 5. Boundary of Treaty Interpretation and Possible Codification

Chapter 6. Difference between Treaty Interpretation and Treaty Application and Possible Codification

Chapter 7. Different between Treaty Interpretation and Finding/Assessment of Facts and Possible Codification

Chapter 8. International and Domestic Adjudicating Bodies for Treaty Interpretation and Possible Codification

Chapter 9. Interpreting Treaties of Private Law Nature and Possible Codification

Chapter 10. Methods of Searching for the Ordinary Meanings and Possible Codification

Chapter 11. Ways of Taking into Consideration the Object-and-Purpose and Possible Codification

Chapter 12. Means of Taking into Consideration the Context and Possible Codification

Chapter 13. Special Meaning, Supplementary Means and Different Languages and Their Possible Further Codification

Chapter 14. Other Interpretation Principles and Possible Codification

Chapter 15. Time Factor and Technology Development and Possible Codification

Chapter 16. Interpreting Treaty Terms by Establishing Some Formula and Possible Codification

Chapter 17. Sequence, Hierarchy, Good Faith and Holistic Interpretation and Their Possible Codification

Part III New Issues and Perspectives

Chapter 18. Introducing Fundamental Human Values into Treaty Interpretation and Possible Codification

Chapter 19. Coordination between Different Treaty Systems and Possible Codification

Chapter 20. Features and Perspectives of the New Codified Rules of Treaty Interpretation

College of Law Main Campus *Prerequisite: Selected Topics on International Trade Law (Ⅲ)
*Restrict to graduate students.
*Restrict to students of College of Law.
Changfa Lo 35 Tuesday X,A LAW7146 2 Half Graduate Institute of Law http://www.law.ntu.edu.tw/main.php?site_id=1

Part I The Setting

Chapter 1. What is Treaty Interpretation Anyway?

Chapter 2. Treaty Interpretation as Opposed to Statutory, Constitutional and Contractual Interpretations

Chapter 3. The VCLT as the First Round of Codification _ Its Customary Rules Nature

Chapter 4. The Desirability and Some Principles for a New Round of Codification

Part II Existing Issues to be Subject to Codified Rules

Chapter 5. Boundary of Treaty Interpretation and Possible Codification

Chapter 6. Difference between Treaty Interpretation and Treaty Application and Possible Codification

Chapter 7. Different between Treaty Interpretation and Finding/Assessment of Facts and Possible Codification

Chapter 8. International and Domestic Adjudicating Bodies for Treaty Interpretation and Possible Codification

Chapter 9. Interpreting Treaties of Private Law Nature and Possible Codification

Chapter 10. Methods of Searching for the Ordinary Meanings and Possible Codification

Chapter 11. Ways of Taking into Consideration the Object-and-Purpose and Possible Codification

Chapter 12. Means of Taking into Consideration the Context and Possible Codification

Chapter 13. Special Meaning, Supplementary Means and Different Languages and Their Possible Further Codification

Chapter 14. Other Interpretation Principles and Possible Codification

Chapter 15. Time Factor and Technology Development and Possible Codification

Chapter 16. Interpreting Treaty Terms by Establishing Some Formula and Possible Codification

Chapter 17. Sequence, Hierarchy, Good Faith and Holistic Interpretation and Their Possible Codification

Part III New Issues and Perspectives

Chapter 18. Introducing Fundamental Human Values into Treaty Interpretation and Possible Codification

Chapter 19. Coordination between Different Treaty Systems and Possible Codification

Chapter 20. Features and Perspectives of the New Codified Rules of Treaty Interpretation

College of Law Main Campus *Prerequisite: Selected Topics on International Trade Law(III)
*Restrict to graduate students.
*Restrict to students of College of Law.
Changfa Lo 35 Tuesday X,A LAW7148 2 Half Graduate Institute of Law http://www.law.ntu.edu.tw/main.php?site_id=1

This course provides an introduction to the global law relating to international commercial contracts. A major focus will be on contracts of sales, as codified by the Vienna Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG). However, some issues of the general law of contract will also be covered in detail (eg formation, interpretation, third party rights, the duty of good faith and fair dealing). The treatment of some of these topics will be based on an examination of the 2010 UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (PICC). The approach is comparative. Examples will be drawn from the decisions of national courts as well as arbitral awards. A student who has successfully completed this subject should:

_ be aware of the nature of transnational commercial law;

_ be aware of the specific legal problems that arise from international commercial transactions;

_ be familiar with the Vienna Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG);

_ be familiar with the 2010 UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (PICC).

College of Law Main Campus *Restrict to graduate students.
*Restrict to students of College of Law. Stefan Vogenauer 25 LAW7622 1 Half Graduate Institute of Law http://www.law.ntu.edu.tw/main.php?site_id=1

This course focuses on establishing epidemiologic concept and the ability of research design, and performing data analyses for observational studies. This course includes three parts: The first part is study design, which gives an introduction of causal inference and the principle of study design. The second part is analytical method, which gives an introduction on data analyses and the applications of statistical method. The third part is critical appraisal, which establishes students ability in reviewing specified literatures. The content of this course mainly follows the book Rothman KJ. Epidemiology: An Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press (2002) with the addition of chapters from other reference books. The examples from Taiwan unique research topics are given and illustrated in the course. For the latter part of this course, students will receive three papers for critical review and then present the results.

For lab data analysis, some example datasets will be distributed to students. Each week, students perform statistical analyses using these datasets and then send TA homework a week later. TA will demonstrate the SAS code and provide the answers for specific topics.

Students may use SAS, Stata, SPSS, and R programs for preparation the homework and lab data analyses.
This course establishes the following competencies via (1) the introduction of epidemiologic concept and research design using Taiwan unique research topics, (2) practice of data analysis, and (3) training on critical review:

1. Correctly use the principle of causal inference on literature reading and doing doctoral research.

2. Understand how random variation and bias affect research findings.

3. Understand the principle of cohort study and case-control study.

4. Learn Taiwan unique research topics.

5. Use statistical program to analyze example data set for observational studies.

College of Public Health Downtown Campus – College of Public Health Lin Hsien-Ho 20 Wednesday 6,7,8 EPM8002 3 Half Graduate Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine http://epm.ntu.edu.tw/?locale=en

Introduction
1. Introduction to SOC VLSI interconnect design and analysis
2. SOC design challenges and potential solutions
3. Power and signal integrity analysis and optimization

Interconnect modeling and simulation
4. Formulation of circuit equation
5. Solution of linear equations
6. Interconnect delay models
7. Laplace transformation and analysis
8. Transient simulation
9. Model order reduction
10. Interconnect modeling I: capacitance extraction
11. Interconnect modeling II: inductance extraction
12. Iterative solution of linear equations & application

Nonlinear circuit simulation
13. Solution of non-linear equations
14. Transient analysis of nonlinear dynamic circuits
15. Consistency, stability, convergence, local truncation error

Circuit optimization
16. Mathematical programming I: linear programming
17. Mathematical programming II: nonlinear programming
18. Mathematical programming III: geometric programming
19. Combinatorial optimization I: greedy algorithm
20. Combinatorial optimization II: dynamic programming College of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Main Campus Chung-Ping Chen 25 Wednesday 7,8,9 EE5043 3 Half Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering, Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinfornatics http://www.ee.ntu.edu.tw/en/

(1) Antenna Arrays

(2) Reflector Antennas

(3) Equivalent Theory and Aperture Antennas

(4) Antenna Synthesis problems.

(5) Smart Antennas

(6) Frequency Independent Antennas

The object of this course is to introduce the graduate students (or senior undergraduate students) more advantced subjects in the antenna related areas. It is particularly useful for the students to pursue the advanced studies and researches in the antenna area. Not only the basic theory will be introduced, the practical applications will also summarized. This students should have basic background in electromagnetics and antenna concepts. After taking this course, in conjunction with the basic antenna course, the students should have the sufficient background to explore the potentials of antenna technologies in the practical applications. College of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Main Campus Hsi-Tseng Chou 60 Monday 2,3,4 EE5094 3 Half Graduate Institute of Electrical Engineering, Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering http://www.ee.ntu.edu.tw/en/