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Enhancing economic sustainability : theories, concept and tools

Sustainable Development seems to be onmipresent It is embedded in the dominant economic system. But what are the characteristics of this dominant economic system ? The theoretical part of the course aims at studying these characteristics and how they are the results of several unquestioned myths, producing a dominant paradigm. Development, and of course sustainable development should then rest on other principles than the dominant ones. The course introduces what might be these alternative principles, based on a richer vision of humanity than the one of the homo oeconomicus. Applying these principles, it is then possible to analyse alternative initiatives, organisational innovations, in Western Countries as well as in the Global South. The practical part of the seminar will then spot innovative strategies and their possibilities of being reproduced, not only in terms of “good practises”. Alpine Geography and Urban Planning Institute (IUGA) Grenoble – Vigny Musset IGI28KHA 6 2nd year of master Lecture Course content can evolve at any time before the start of the course. It is strongly recommended to discuss with the course contact about the detailed program.

Please consider the following deadlines for inbound mobility to Grenoble:
– April 1st, 2020 for Full Year (September to June) and Fall Semester (September to January) intake ;
– September 1st, 2020 for Spring Semester intake (February – June). Nadia LACHKAR
iuga-international@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

Facing environnemental issues : theories, concepts and tools

Resource scarcity and other new environmental challenges have become more pressing in the last decades. A rising ecological consciousness now permeates political debates, economic policies and development projects, assessing the environmental footprint of human action at every scale. Social sciences have made a major input in the environmental debate by heavily contributing to the theoretical and practical shift from “the natural” to “the environmental”, by stressing the inherent political and social dimension of environmental issues, and by developing useful concepts (e.g. accessibility, vulnerability, resilience…). Facing Environmental Issues will be taught as a set of courses: a political ecology short and theoretical seminar will provide a theoretical approach, while more practical courses will present concrete development projects and tools, such as Community-Based Resource Management and Energy Transition. Alpine Geography and Urban Planning Institute (IUGA) Grenoble – Vigny Musset IGI27ZX6 6 2nd year of master Lecture Course content can evolve at any time before the start of the course. It is strongly recommended to discuss with the course contact about the detailed program.

Politics of development

Development is based on power relations. The course aims at understanding the political background of development, in a broad geopolitical analysis of the past decades. This involves an important focus on the emerging powers and on South-South dynamics. The course is based on a multi-scalar approach of the stake-holders who are involved in development politics and policies. Alpine Geography and Urban Planning Institute (IUGA) Grenoble – Vigny Musset IGI27064 3 2nd year of master Lecture Course content can evolve at any time before the start of the course. It is strongly recommended to discuss with the course contact about the detailed program.

When diversity becomes a problem : processes of ‘othering’ and building bridges

Professionals in the field of development will undoubtedly be confronted with cultural differences that can be difficult to manage on a professional and an emotional level. However only too often differences are understood from the sole angle of culture and ethnicity, underestimating the impact of power assymmetry. This course will therefore start with a critique of Huntington’s concepts of a clash of civilisations as an analytical framework to understand tensions and conflicts on a national and international level. After some field experiences in Grenoble, the class will critically analyse the idea of the incompatibility of cultures and will explore alternative frames of references drawing on the literature on race, class, gender and intersectionality. Alpine Geography and Urban Planning Institute (IUGA) Grenoble – Vigny Musset IGI2OUP6 3 2nd year of master Lecture Course content can evolve at any time before the start of the course. It is strongly recommended to discuss with the course contact about the detailed program.

Regional and international studies

Housing policies in Europe Tourism and regional dynamics Cross-border booperation & EU programs Alpine Geography and Urban Planning Institute (IUGA) Grenoble – Vigny Musset ECX9U012 6 2nd year of master Lecture Course content can evolve at any time before the start of the course. It is strongly recommended to discuss with the course contact about the detailed program.

Urban planning technics

Urban project workshop : Building with local materials and people Introduction to cooperation and urban planning Representation and mapping tools Alpine Geography and Urban Planning Institute (IUGA) Grenoble – Vigny Musset ECMV9U10 6 2nd year of master Lecture Course content can evolve at any time before the start of the course. It is strongly recommended to discuss with the course contact about the detailed program.

Asymetric Synthesis / Retrosynthesic strategies

The aim of this course is to: – present crucial tools to control the asymmetry in the formation of stereogenic centers. The following topic will be presented: the principle of asymmetric transformation, asymmetric reduction and oxydation, enantioselective nucleophilic additions, cycloadditions and aldolisations. In addition, the students will have to make an oral presentation on a particular bibliographic topic. – learn how to disconnect complex molecules through retrosynthetic analysis, synthesis of linear and cyclic target molecules, polycyclic compounds, use of rearrangements in synthesis, and examples of representative total syntheses. In addition, the students will have to make an oral presentation on a specific bibliographic topic. Chemistry and Biology Department (UFR Chimie et Biologie) Grenoble – Domaine universitaire IG3PTS2K / IG3PWTLO 6 2nd year of master Lecture Course content can evolve at any time before the start of the course. It is strongly recommended to discuss with the course contact about the detailed program.

Please consider the following deadlines for inbound mobility to Grenoble:
– April 1st, 2020 for Full Year (September to June) and Fall Semester (September to January) intake ;
– September 1st, 2020 for Spring Semester intake (February – June). Agnès VERE
chimie-biologie-ri@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

Analytical and spectroscopic methods / Méthodes d’analyse et spectroscopies

The goal of this course is to give chemists a solid theoretical (through lectures) and practical (through tutorials) background and know how in chemical analysis. Building on previous introductory classes of the first three years, the course will more specifically study the diverse approaches for the purification and separation by chromatography on the one hand, and, on the other hand, on the methods used to characterize chemical samples by mass spectrometry and atomic absorption, optical spectroscopies (infrared, Raman, UV-visible, fluorescence, X-ray diffraction) and magnetic spectroscopies (NMR and EPR). The spectroscopic approaches will be developed for structural studies of isolated molecules in solution or in the solid state. Techniques used to characterize intermolecular interaction and molecular reactivity of organic, inorganic or polymer materials will also be investigated. —————————————————————- Le but de cet enseignement est de donner à tout chimiste des compétences théoriques (cours) et pratiques (travaux dirigés) dans l’analyse chimique au sens large. En s’appuyant sur les bases de licence, seront étudiés plus particulièrement les diverses méthodes de purification et de séparation par chromatographie, d’une part, et d’autre part les méthodes de caractérisation par les spectrométries de masse et d’absorption atomique, les spectroscopies optiques (infra-rouge, Raman, UV-visible, fluorescence, diffraction des rayons X) et magnétiques (RMN et RPE). Les approches spectroscopiques seront développées pour l’étude structurale de molécules isolées en solution ou à l’état solide. S’y ajouteront les techniques permettant de caractériser et quantifier les interactions intermoléculaires et la réactivité de molécules organiques, inorganiques ou de polymères. Ce cours sera dispensé en français et en anglais. Chemistry and Biology Department (UFR Chimie et Biologie) Grenoble – Domaine universitaire IGNGW7VX 6 1st year of master Lecture Course content can evolve at any time before the start of the course. It is strongly recommended to discuss with the course contact about the detailed program.

Please consider the following deadlines for inbound mobility to Grenoble:
– April 1st, 2020 for Full Year (September to June) and Fall Semester (September to January) intake ;
– September 1st, 2020 for Spring Semester intake (February – June). Agnès VERE
chimie-biologie-ri@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

Bionorganic chemistry

This teaching module focuses on the main principles used in bioinorganic chemistry: i) to understand and mimic the metal binding sites naturally found in biological systems, and ii) to anticipate potential interactions of toxic metals or metal-based drugs in living organisms. A first part will be dedicated to the behavior of metal complexes in biologically-relevant conditions. We will present the main analytical and spectroscopic tools useful to decipher the nature of the metal complexes both in abiotic compounds and proteins. In a second part, important metal active sites (on the catalytic, therapeutic and biological points of view) will be described in details. The last part deals with the concept of bioinspired chemistry. We will see how bioinorganic chemists design complexes that are able to mimic natural systems. Chemistry and Biology Department (UFR Chimie et Biologie) Grenoble – Domaine universitaire IG3NNLC4 6 2nd year of master Lecture Course content can evolve at any time before the start of the course. It is strongly recommended to discuss with the course contact about the detailed program.

Please consider the following deadlines for inbound mobility to Grenoble:
– April 1st, 2020 for Full Year (September to June) and Fall Semester (September to January) intake ;
– September 1st, 2020 for Spring Semester intake (February – June). Agnès VERE
chimie-biologie-ri@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

Numerical methods in solid and fluid mechanics 1

This first part of the course is dedicated on the theory and implementation of the finite element method for solving boundary value problems in solid mechanics: Overview of the finite element method in solid mechanics, the Finite Element Method for Static Linear Elasticity, The finite element method for time dependent and dynamic problems. Physics, Engineering, Earth and Environmental Sciences and Mechanics Department (UFR PhITEM) Grenoble – Domaine universitaire IGRY9H26 3 1st year of master Lecture Course content can evolve at any time before the start of the course. It is strongly recommended to discuss with the course contact about the detailed program.

Please consider the following deadlines for inbound mobility to Grenoble:
– April 1st, 2020 for Full Year (September to June) and Fall Semester (September to January) intake ;
– September 1st, 2020 for Spring Semester intake (February – June). Dounia MOUKADEM / Thi Phuong POURTIER
phitem-international@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

Passive seismic site characterization

In recent years, the number of scientific papers and engineering applications dealing with ambient vibration analysis methods has increased considerably. Clearly, the interest in these methods originates from both the economical attractive cost benefit ratio and the straightforward data acquisition. Being a non-destructive passive technique, these methods also complement geotechnical and/or active geophysical methods for characterizing ground structure at geotechnical and earthquake engineering scales. This course will achieve the necessary understanding of the problems related to the acquisition, processing and interpretation of these techniques for quantitative assessment of shear-wave velocity structure and derived engineering parameters (e.g. Vs30 required in building codes, site amplification). The course will alternate lectures, exercises and field experiment. Physics, Engineering, Earth and Environmental Sciences and Mechanics Department (UFR PhITEM) Grenoble – Domaine universitaire IFZ73KRH 3 1st year of master Lecture Course content can evolve at any time before the start of the course. It is strongly recommended to discuss with the course contact about the detailed program.

Please consider the following deadlines for inbound mobility to Grenoble:
– April 1st, 2020 for Full Year (September to June) and Fall Semester (September to January) intake ;
– September 1st, 2020 for Spring Semester intake (February – June). Dounia MOUKADEM / Thi Phuong POURTIER
phitem-international@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

Advanced learning models

Statistical learning is about the construction and study of systems that can automatically learn from data. With the emergence of massive datasets commonly encountered today, the need for powerful machine learning is of acute importance. Examples of successful applications include effective web search, anti-spam software, computer vision, robotics, practical speech recognition, and a deeper understanding of the human genome. This course gives an introduction to this exciting field, with a strong focus on kernels methods and neural network models as a versatile tools to represent data This course deals with: Topic 1: Neural networks : Basic multi-layer networks / Convolutional networks for image data / Recurrent networks for sequence data / Generative neural network models Topic 2: Kernel methods : Theory of RKHS and kernels / Supervised learning with kernsl / Unsupervised learning with kernels / Kernels for structured data / Kernels for generative models It is composed of 18 hours lectures. Evaluation : There will be a written homework with theoretical exercises. In addition the students participate in a data challenge in which they implement a machine learning method of choice to solve a prediction problem on a given dataset. Both elements contribute equally to the final grade. See course website. Computer Science, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics (UFR IM²AG) Grenoble – Domaine universitaire IGNGW6A0 3 2nd year of master Lecture Course content can evolve at any time before the start of the course. It is strongly recommended to discuss with the course contact about the detailed program.