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Machine Learning — CS4256.01

Instructor: Justin Vasselli
Credits: 4
In the course of our daily lives we interact with many systems that have been trained to perform their jobs not based on meticulously designed domain-specific algorithms, but instead based on large amounts of data.  This is the foundation of Machine Learning. Today, everything from auto-complete to spam-filtering is done using machine learning techniques.  This course

Medicinal Chemistry — CHE4130.01

Instructor: Janet Foley
Credits: 2
The action of drugs and their mechanisms are of immense importance to people interested in health care. In this class we will examine basic mechanisms of drugs, side effects, clinical trials, and evaluation of efficacy. Students will direct the study by choosing drugs to investigate and by presenting information identifying what they need to know to understand how the drug

Metric Spaces and Geometry — MAT4162.01

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Days & Time: TU,FR 8:30am-10:20am
Credits: 4

Everything is geometry! This class is about two things: first, about how mathematicians have extended the concept of "geometry" beyond triangles and circles, into higher-dimensional spaces, curved spaces, spaces of functions, discrete spaces, and more. Second, about how this extension of "geometry" can allow us to apply our powerful geometric intuition to a wide range of

Modern Logic (Summer Course) — CS2142.01

Instructor: Darcy Otto
Days & Time: MO,TH 7:00pm-8:50pm
Credits: 2

Formal logic is the study of the structure of reasoning itself—how arguments are built, when they succeed, and why they fail. In an age of information overload, knowing how to dissect an argument, detect reasoning errors, and construct rigorous proofs is a superpower. This course introduces the foundations of formal logic, with an emphasis on precision, clarity, and critical

Modern Observational Techniques — PHY4107.01

Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Credits: 4
How are we able to learn about the universe around us? All information astronomers gather about the universe comes to us in the form of light. Sensing this light can be as simple as looking up at a nearby star or as complex as pointing a computerized telescope with a state-of-the-art digital detector at a distant galaxy. This class will focus on observing with a focus on using

Monitoring the Paran Creek Watershed — ES2113.01

Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
Much discussion of environmental protection is based on the unit of a local watershed. Fully considering a watershed requires relating landscapes, land cover, and human land use to the waterways that we rely upon to live. This field-based class will work with community groups and environmental professionals to begin a long-term watershed monitoring system for Paran Creek. This

Multivariable Calculus — MAT4301.02

Instructor: carlybriggs@bennington.edu
Credits: 4
This course covers the standard topics in multivariable calculus, including derivatives as linear transformations, Lagrange multipliers, and vector derivatives div, grad, and curl. If time allows, we will look at applications in electromagnetism, and in particular towards developing Maxwell’s equations, in both their classical vector form and their modern expression in

Multivariable Calculus — MAT4301.01

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 4
Multivariable calculus is one of the core parts of an undergraduate mathematics curriculum. Introductory calculus mostly concentrates on situations where there is one input and one output variable; multivariable extends differentiation, integration, and differential equations to cases where there are multiple input and output variables. In this way, multivariable calculus

Multivariable Calculus — MAT4301.01

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

Multivariable calculus is one of the core parts of an undergraduate mathematics curriculum. Introductory calculus mostly concentrates on situations where there is one input and one output variable; multivariable extends differentiation, integration, and differential equations to cases where there are multiple input and output variables. In this way, multivariable calculus

Multivariable Calculus and Differential Geometry — MAT4147.01

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 4
This class will cover multivariable calculus at an advanced level: vector spaces, div, grad and curl, differential forms, and Stokes’ theorems. The coverage will be at the level of Loomis and Sternberg’s Advanced Calculus. The course will also provide an introduction to the rudiments of differential geometry: connections, curvature, and the Gauss-Bonnet theorem. Applications

Multivariable Calculus and Electromagnetism — MAT4132.01

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 4
This course covers the standard topics in multivariable calculus, including derivatives as linear transformations, Lagrange multipliers, and vector derivatives div, grad, and curl. It is organized towards applications in electromagnetism, and in particular towards developing Maxwell's equations, in both their classical vector form and their modern expression in differential

Mutants: Genetic variation and human development — BIO2210.01

Instructor: Amie McClellan
Credits: 4
Why do humans have precisely 5 fingers and toes? How does a bone know to stop growing when it reaches the appropriate length? What controls our gender? While the human genome successfully encodes the information required to produce a “normal” human being, genetic variation dictates the subtle and not so subtle differences that make us each a unique individual. “Mutant” humans

Mutants: Genetic Variation and Human Development — BIO2210.01

Instructor: Amie McClellan
Credits: 4
Why do humans have precisely 5 fingers and toes? How does a bone know to stop growing when it reaches the appropriate length? What controls our gender? While the human genome successfully encodes the information required to produce a “normal” human being, genetic variation dictates the subtle and not so subtle differences that make us each a unique individual. “Mutant” humans

Mutants: Genetic Variation and Human Development — BIO2210.01

Instructor: Amie McClellan
Credits: 4
Why do humans have precisely 5 fingers and toes? How does a bone know to stop growing when it reaches the appropriate length? What controls our biological sex? While the human genome successfully encodes the information required to produce a “normal” human being, genetic variation dictates the subtle and not so subtle differences that make us each a unique individual. “Mutant”

Network Science — MAT4222.01

Instructor: Katie Montovan
Credits: 4
A network is a set of nodes (which might be computers, people, websites, proteins, neurons...), some of which are connected by edges (which might be communications lines, friendships, links, transcription regulations, synapses...). This simple concept has amazingly diverse applications and involves surprisingly deep ideas. We will use a combination of proof-based approaches for

Neurons, Networks, and Behavior — BIO4202.01

Instructor: Betsy Sherman
Credits: 4
How does light energy falling on the back of our eye get interpreted as a particular image of our friend or a painting or a leaf? How does a cockroach escape imminent predation by a toad? How does a slug remember that a recent poke wasn’t dangerous? How do we remember? A rigorous consideration of general principles of neural integration at the cellular, sensory, central, and

Neuroscience — BIO4437.01

Instructor: Blake Jones
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

This rigorous course provides a comprehensive introduction of the nervous system, including its structure, function, and development. Students will explore the principles of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that allow neurons and other specialized nervous cells to detect, encode, and transmit information; including signaling, synaptic transmission, and neuroplasticity.

Neuroscience — BIO4437.01

Instructor: Blake Jones
Credits: 4
This rigorous course will introduce students to the most complex physiological system. Students will learn how the central and peripheral nervous systems integrate external and internal signals to produce physiological, behavioral, and emotional responses in humans and other animals. We will discover the molecular and cellular mechanisms that allow neurons and other specialized

Neuroscience — BIO4437.01

Instructor: Blake Jones
Credits: 4
This rigorous course provides a comprehensive introduction of the nervous system, including its structure, function, and development. Students will explore the principles of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that allow neurons and other specialized nervous cells to detect, encode, and transmit information; including signaling, synaptic transmission, and neuroplasticity.

Newton's Principia: On the System of the World — MAT4161.01

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Days & Time: TU,FR 8:30am-10:20am
Credits: 4

I would (and will) argue that Newton's Principia is the most important book yet written. It is certainly the most important book that a vanishingly small number of people have actually read.

Written about 150 CE, Ptolemy's Almagest collected and systematized the knowledge of astronomers of the time to give a system which roughly predicted the

Nonlinear Dynamical Systems — MAT4127.01

Instructor: Katie Montovan
Credits: 4
Differential equations are a powerful and pervasive mathematical tool in the sciences and are fundamental in pure mathematics as well. Almost every system whose components interact continuously over time can be modeled by a differential equation, and differential equation models and analyses of these systems are common in the literature in many fields including physics, ecology

Nonlinear Dynamical Systems — MAT4127.01

Instructor: Katie Montovan
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 4

Differential equations are a powerful and pervasive mathematical tool in the sciences and are fundamental in pure mathematics as well. Almost every system whose components interact continuously over time can be modeled by a differential equation, and differential equation models and analyses of these systems are common in the literature in many fields including physics,

Nonlinear Dynamical Systems — MAT4127.01

Instructor: Katie Montovan
Credits: 4
Differential equations are a powerful and pervasive mathematical tool in the sciences and are fundamental in pure mathematics as well. Almost every system whose components interact continuously over time can be modeled by a differential equation, and differential equation models and analyses of these systems are common in the literature in many fields including physics, ecology

Number Theory and Cryptology — MAT4137.01

Instructor: Carly Briggs
Credits: 4
Communicating sensitive or secretive information has been a human endeavor for centuries and so is the quest to decode such information. In this course, we will study cryptology which encompasses both cryptography, the process of encoding information and cryptanalysis, the process of independently decoding information, without the help of the people or system that encoded it.

Observational Astronomy — PHY2109.01

Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Credits: 4
All information that astronomers are able to gather about the universe comes in the form of light. In this class, we will study how astronomers extract information about the universe from the light that reaches Earth, with a particular focus on the size, structure, and evolution of stars. Students will be expected to become familiar with the nighttime sky, the