Though the majority of the class is devoted to seminar-style discussions, four formal lectures are given. Listed below are the titles and short descriptions of these lectures.
Formal Lectures
Lecture notes.| LECTURE TITLES | DESCRIPTIONS |
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| Special Topic I: Dimensional Analysis | An introduction to dimensional analysis and the Buckingham Pi theorem. Examples range from Gulliver and the Lilliputians to the atomic explosions of 1945. |
| Special Topic II: Resampling | An introduction to doing data analysis and statistics using resampling and Monte Carlo methods. |
| Special Topic III: Spukhafte Fernwirkungen | An introduction to spooky actions at a distance and the bizarre statistics of the quantum world. |
| Special Topic IV: Hodgkin-Huxley | Historical background to the work of Hodgkin and Huxley. |