Photochemistry is the branch of chemistry which treats the interactions between matter and photons of visible or ultraviolet light and the subsequent physical and chemical processes which occcur from the electronically ecited state formed by photon absorption. We will study the principles and applications of photochemistry and chemistry of excited organic molecules such as alkene, alkyne, benzene and its derivatives, oxygen compounds, nitrogen compounds, sulfur compounds, and dioxygen. The goal of this class is to understand the physical and chemical processes of photochemical reactions of organic molecules. College of Science Main Campus Teruo Shinmyozu 60 Monday 2 Thursday 6,7 Chem5107 (223EU0230) 3 (College of Science) Department of Chemistry,
(College of Science) Division of Chemistry, Graduate Institude of Chemistry,
(College of Science) Division of Chemical Biology, Graduate Institude of Chemistry,
Non-degree Program: Program of Photonics Technologies
*Majors-only (including minor and double major students).
*Registration eligibility: juniors and above. http://www.ch.ntu.edu.tw/english/en_index.htm

This course focuses on the cultural significance and interpretation of modernity and urban space. Ever since the industrial revolution, new modes of production have led to significant changes in Western urban culture, including migration from rural to urban areas, and new formations in labor culture, consumer culture and citizen-subjects. It is through this historical process that urban space is constantly changing and being reconstituted, a process that is embedded in East-West power structures of imperialist colonial systems by rendering people from various localities with different imaginations of modernity in a global context. The modern phenomenon of urbanization has had an uneven impact on a multifarious citizenry, made up of actors with a range of identities, and therefore has contributed to the diversification of the urban experience and representations of modern life from the 19th century onward. The research topics and assigned readings, including the concept of the flâneur and urban modernity, relations between human and non-human agents, gentrification, public/private space, intimacy, and geopolitics, are interconnected, illuminating the historical trajectory of academic debates. These discussions will help us understand that the formation of modern urban life is a political process in constant flux, and to investigate how capitalism, colonial systems and the global economy shape modern urban societies, cultures and spaces as well as how the lived experiences of urban inhabitants are constantly being reshaped and represented. By studying and discussing the related scholarship, this course will critically examine ways to represent and interpret modernity and urban landscapes. The main objective is to help students gain a systematic understanding of the interrelationships between urban life and its cultural meanings, informing their critical perspectives while dissecting urban issues. This is a seminar-based discussion class. Students are required to complete all the assigned readings before class and discuss their thoughts with the instructor and peers in class. Through class participation and discussions, students are expected to come up with more critical reflections on urban issues, and acquire the critical skills of reading and analyzing texts, thereby cultivating individual research interests that build up on current scholarship. College of Science Main Campus The class will be conducted in English, but the final paper can be written in either English or Chinese. Huang Tsung Yi 15 Tuesday 7,8,9 Geog5105 (228EU3220) 3 Non-degree Program: Women and Gender Studies Certificate Program,
(College of Science) Graduate Institute of Geography,
(College of Science) Department of Geography http://www.geog.ntu.edu.tw/index.php?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 ecology, statistics, differential equations, and computer programming techniques and had some experience on modeling. We will discuss the application of mathematical modeling and computer programming techniques to investigate ecological questions. We will also discuss statistical analyses for identifying ecological patterns. Students will select a subject base on his/her own interest and present the progress of the chosen topic. The class is mainly in the form of discussion. The objectives are to provide students opportunities to discuss the application of mathematical modeling and computer programming techniques to investigate ecological questions. College of Science Main Campus Students are required to do oral presentation on a topic of ecological modeling and participate discussion. Takeshi Miki 25 Tuesday 8,9 Ocean7153 (241EM3640) 2 (College of Science) Graduate Institute of Oceanography, Marine Biology & Fisheries Division http://www.oc.ntu.edu.tw/?lang=en

Life history traits, e.g., growth rates, maturation schedules, and offspring size and number, are influenced by environmental and anthropogenic factors and in turn determine individual fitness and influence population growth rates. Because life history traits are heritable, variation in these traits tends to involve both evolutionary (genetic) and ecological (plastic) processes. Exploring life history variation provides an opportunity not only to understand the eco-evolutionary interactions that shape the observed patterns, but also to forecast population dynamics in changing environments. In this course, we design lectures to guide students to understand the concepts and theories of adaptive life history variation. In addition, we design a course project that involves field sampling and laboratory experiments with mosquitofish Gambusia affinis, allowing students to gain hands-on experience on life history research. The objectives of this course are to 1) understand the theoretical background of life history variation, and 2) explore empirical variation in growth rates, maturation schedules, and offspring size and number based on the model species, mosquitofish. 1. Understand the eco-evolutionary mechanisms underlying life history variation 2. Explore variation in growth rates, maturation schedules, and offspring size and number for the model species, mosquitofish College of Science Main Campus Hui-Yu Wang 10 Tuesday 3,4 Ocean7177 (241EM3850) 2 (College of Life Science) Institute of Life Science,
(College of Science) Graduate Institute of Oceanography, Marine Biology & Fisheries Division http://www.oc.ntu.edu.tw/?lang=en

One of the central paradigms in modern macroeconomics research is known as the real business cycle (RBC) theory. The goal of the RBC agenda is to construct macroeconomic models of the economy in which individual agents are fully rational and react to their environment by making the best possible decisions subject to perceived constraints. This idea is an application of the Arrow-Debreu general equilibrium theory to the analysis of business cycle fluctuations. Since the mid 1980’s, the RBC paradigm has become a widely used benchmark against which to measure the success of a theory of aggregate fluctuations. The methodology of intertemporal general equilibrium theory provides an important discipline to the construction of business cycle models. However, most of early studies that implement this methodology have been unnecessarily restrictive. In particular, the restriction to environments in which equilibria are necessarily efficient precludes the discussion of the role of government economic policies. In the proposed 18-hour research lectures, I will start with some basic analytical tools (3 hours), followed by discussing how prototypical RBC models are formulated and solved (3 hours). Subsequently, I will discuss my own research program that permits a non-trivial role for increasing returns-to-scale in the social production technology. In this case, competitive equilibria are sub-optimal because of market imperfections such as productive externalities and monopolistic competition. The research program is organized into two clusters: multiple equilibria in one- or two-sector RBC models (6 hours); and macroeconomic stabilization policies (6 hours). To have a complete understanding about the RBC model College of Social Sciences Main Campus Ming Jen Lin 17 Intensive courses: 2/20,2/21,2/27,2/28,3/6,3/7Monday 2,3,4 Tuesday 2,3,4 ECON7156 (323EM3210) 1 (College of Social Sciences) Graduate Institute of Economics
*Registration eligibility: graduate students. http://www.econ.ntu.edu.tw/db/new2011/index.asp?l=english

Topics on Weak Interaction and CP Violation in Particle Physics – current phenomenology and experimental results. Advance the knowledge in particle physics College of Science Main Campus Besides self-reading materials in textbook, further reading and research reference papers are expected. Homeworks, Mid-term and Final Exams. Yee Hsiung 20 Wednesday 9,10,A Phys8128 (222ED3420) 3 (College of Science) Graduate Institute of Physics http://www.phys.ntu.edu.tw/webeng/APHome.aspx

Effective communication is a fundamentally important skill for scientists and engineers. The goal of this class is to familiarize students with the scientific communication process and teach skills necessary to successfully present their results. An overview over several practices of scientific communication will be given, such as oral and poster presentations and preparation of written manuscripts. The process of writing a publication will be a focus of this course and many different aspects from structuring results and reviewing literature to avoiding common English mistakes and choosing a journal will be covered. Finally, hands-on experience with several important software packages to structure and display data and references will be provided. On completion of this course, students should be able to: Present a topic in form of a talk or a poster Identify and avoid common English mistakes Structure their results in a clear and concise manner Write a scientific paper Review a manuscript College of Science Main Campus Mario Hofmann 25 Thursday 7,8,9 Phys7052 (222EM5020) 3 (College of Science) Graduate Institute of Physics http://www.phys.ntu.edu.tw/webeng/APHome.aspx

Quarks and gluons are the building blocks of matter, hidden in the atomic nuclei and in cosmic ray hadrons. Do quarks and gluons exist? What is the physics describing these elusive particles and how do they relate to the theory of everything? This module is intended to theory and experiment students who want to learn more about the theory of the strong interaction. The module will cover the physics of quarks and gluons from an experimental and theoretical point of view. Starting from the preQCD era and the introduction of quarks, the quark-parton model and colour in the 1960’s we will move to the formal QCD theory and the deep inelastic scattering experiments that established it. Parton density functions (quark and gluon) from the theory to their actual detailed measurement will be discussed. Their role in the Higgs boson and search for Physics beyond the standard model will also be covered. Particular emphasis will be given in the running of the strong coupling (renormalization) and its role in the chiral symmetry breaking and colour confinement. Discussions on the modern machinery for calculating cross sections to be tested in experiments will be covered. College of Science Main Campus Introductory knowledge of Particle Physics is preferred but not required. Basic knowledge of Quantum Mechanics is required. Stathes Paganis 30 Thursday 7,8,9 Phys7048 (222EM6040) 3 (College of Science) Graduate Institute of Physics http://www.phys.ntu.edu.tw/webeng/APHome.aspx

1. Atomic structure and atom-atom interactions 2. Atom-field interactions 3. Recent developments in atomic physics 4. Molecular structure 5. Molecular spectroscopy 6. Non Born-Oppenheimer phenomena 7. Experimental aspects in molecular physics College of Science Main Campus Quantum physics, modern physics or quantum chemistry Kopin Liu 50 Tuesday 2,3,4 Phys5051 (222EU2230) 3 (College of Science) Department of Physics,
(College of Science) Graduate Institute of Physics http://www.phys.ntu.edu.tw/webeng/APHome.aspx

This course is designed to introduce students to instrumental methods in Astroparticle physics. The course consists of lectures and practices in instrumentations. We begin with an introduction of particle interaction in matter and several important particle detectors. Students will be familiar with basic principles of cosmic ray detection by making a simple cosmic ray detector and performing cosmic ray experiments. Through this course students will acquire basic skills of circuit design, data handling, and data analysis. *To be familiar with cosmic rays and their interactions *To understand cosmic ray detectors *To understand the principle of two channel Geiger-Muller counter *To understand data processing electronics *To acquire practical experience performing cosmic ray experiments assembly *To understand Muon propagation and life time College of Science Main Campus General Physics / Modern Physics / Electronics and Electronics Lab (preferred) Jiwoo Nam 15 Wednesday 7,8,9 Phys5055 (222EU5040) 3 (College of Science) Institute of Arstrophysics,
(College of Science) Graduate Institute of Physics http://www.phys.ntu.edu.tw/webeng/APHome.aspx

We first summarize what we have learned in the last semester to find the Taylor expansion of a given function. This has tremendous applications in all kinds of engineering. The single variable calculus ends here. Then we move on to calculus in severable variables. The approach is similar to what we have done in the last semester: limit, derivative, optimization problem by using derivatives (Lagrange multipliers), integrals, then to ”Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.” The formulas of FTC in two and three variables in the format of Green-Stokes and Divergence Theorems is technical to explain and learn. However, it all says that the integral of a function in the interior is exactly the total change on the boundary, when interpreted in a suitable sense. 1. Taylor expansion 2. Calculus in two and three variables: limit and derivative 3. Optimization problem: Lagrange multipliers 4. Integrals in two and three variables 5. Green-Stokes and divergence theorems. College of Science Main Campus Single variable calculus: limit, derivative, integral. Idea of linear approximation. Lai, Ching-Jui 100 Wednesday 8,9,10 Friday 1,2 MATH1202 (201E101A2) 4 *Majors-only (including minor and double major students).

(College of Science) Department of Chemistry,
(College of Science) Department of Atmospheric Sciences,
(College of Science) Department of Geography,
(College of Engineering) Department of Mechanical Engineering,
(College of Engineering) Department of Chemical Engineering http://www.math.ntu.edu.tw/main.php?lang=en&Trad2Simp=n

This course provides the following basic toolds of theoretical physics: * eigenfunction methods for differential equations * special functions * partial differential equations * calculus of variations * group theory * representation theory College of Science Main Campus Kazuo Hosomichi 50 Friday 2,3,4 Phys3002 (202E30340) 3 *Registration eligibility: undergraduates.

(College of Science) Department of Physics http://www.phys.ntu.edu.tw/webeng/APHome.aspx