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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

Of Sound and Nature — MET4102.01

Instructor: Blake Jones
Credits: 4
Sound is critical to the survival, social structure, and well-being of many organisms, human and non-human alike. In this interdisciplinary course we will examine how animals, plants, humans, and other forms of life impact one another through the calls, songs, and other vibrations they make. Using various case studies about music, sound, and society in Papua New Guinea,

Of Sound and Nature — MET4102.01

Instructor: Blake Jones
Credits: 4
Sound is critical to the survival, social structure, and well-being of many organisms, human and non-human alike. In this interdisciplinary course we will examine how animals, plants, humans, and other forms of life impact one another through the calls, songs, and other vibrations they make. Using various case studies about music, sound, and society in Papua New Guinea,

Open Source Software in Practice — CS4387.01

Instructor: Michael Corey
Credits: 4
The majority of complex computer systems are built on open source software. From webpages and blogs through to trillion dollar companies, open source software (OSS) is at the heart of these endeavors. Open source is simultaneously a license, rallying cry, political philosophy, and a practice of creation and curation. Popular examples of open source software include: the LAMP

Operating Systems — CS4124.01

Instructor: Meltem Ballan
Credits: 4
This course provides insight into the underlying relationship between the software and hardware. Core topics include processes, threads, resources, scheduling, concurrency, memory management, file systems, I/O, security, and distributed systems. The operating system provides an established, convenient, and efficient interface between user programs and the bare hardware of the

Orders of Magnitude — MAT2251.01

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 1
We all have an intuitive sense of how large a number like 10 or 100 is. But is it possible to get some direct grasp on the world's population, the national debt, the distance to the nearest galaxies, or the time that has passed since the formation of the earth? Mathematicians and scientists do have good ways of understanding and estimating very large numbers, which we'll

Ordinary Differential Equations — MAT4331.01

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 4
Differential equations are the most powerful and most pervasive mathematical tool in the sciences. Any time a law is expressed in the form "what happens in the next moment", we have a differential equation; and determining the long-term behavior is the domain of differential equations. Planets, stars, fluids, electric circuits, predator and prey populations, epidemics: almost

Ornithology — BIO2208.01

Instructor: Blake Jones
Credits: 4
Discover birds like you’ve never seen or heard them before. This class takes an integrative approach to ornithology, as we will explore avian species from the perspective of  human culture, evolution, natural history, development, ecology, conservation, physiology, genetics, behavior, functional morphology, and even quantum mechanics. This course will explore topics

Ornithology (with Lab) — BIO2208.01

Instructor: Blake Jones
Credits: 4
Discover birds like you’ve never seen or heard them before. This class takes an integrative approach to ornithology, as we will explore avian species from the perspective of evolution, natural history, development, ecology, conservation, physiology, genetics, behavior, functional morphology, and even quantum mechanics. This course will explore topics essential to understanding

Ornithology (with Lab) — BIO2208.01

Instructor: Blake Jones
Days & Time: M/Th 3:40PM-5:30PM, F 8:00AM-10:20AM (Lab)
Credits: 5

Discover birds like you’ve never seen or heard them before. This class takes an integrative approach to ornithology, as we will explore avian species from the perspective of evolution, natural history, development, ecology, conservation, physiology, genetics, behavior, functional morphology, and even quantum mechanics.

Our Chemical World — CHE2119.01

Instructor: Fortune Ononiwu
Credits: 4
Chemistry is all around us, shaping the world we live in and influencing our daily lives in fascinating ways. Have you ever wondered about the chemical compounds found in plants or fungi? Have you wondered what's in your drinking water or household cleaners? In this course, we will explore the fundamental principles of chemistry while delving into these questions and more.

Out of the Woods: Advanced Reading in Conservation and Ecology — BIO4191.01

Instructor: Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

The idea of old growth forests evokes romantic notions of "wild" and "natural" landscapes, especially in Vermont where our settler-colonial history includes rapid and widespread deforestation for logging and agriculture. How do ecologists identify "old growth" and what lessons about ecological structure, function, and processes can we learn from these

Partial Differential Equations and Fourier Series — MAT4134.01

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 4
Many of the laws of physics and engineering may be expressed in terms of partial differential equations. These include the laws of heat conduction, wave motion, electromagnetism, fluid mechanics, quantum mechanics, and statics. This course will cover these key linear partial differential equations and the methods of solution through Fourier series. Fourier series are also of

Perception and Augmentation in Computer Vision — CS4385.01) (cancelled 5/10/2024

Instructor: Meltem Ballan
Credits: 4
In the first two weeks, we'll learn about how our eyes and brain work together to make sense of what we see. We'll also explore ways to make computer programs better at understanding images by changing them in different ways. We'll try out some of these changes ourselves using a computer program called Python with a special tool called OpenCV. Moving on, we'll dive into how we

Physics I: Forces and Motion (with lab) — PHY2235.01

Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Credits: 4
Physics is the study of what Newton called “the System of the World.” To know the System of the World is to know what forces are out there and how those forces operate on things. These forces explain the dynamics of the world around us: from the path of a falling apple to the motion of a car down the highway to the flight of a rocket from the Earth. Careful analysis of the

Physics I: Forces and Motion (with lab) — PHY2235.01

Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Credits: 4
Physics is the study of what Newton called “the System of the World.” To know the System of the World is to know what forces are out there and how those forces operate on things. These forces explain the dynamics of the world around us: from the path of a falling apple to the motion of a car down the highway to the flight of a rocket from the Earth. Careful analysis of the

Physics I: Forces and Motion (with lab) — PHY2235.01

Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
Physics is the study of what Newton called “the System of the World.” To know the System of the World is to know what forces are out there and how those forces operate on things. These forces explain the dynamics of the world around us: from the path of a falling apple to the motion of a car down the highway to the flight of a rocket from the Earth. Careful analysis of the

Physics I: Forces and Motion (with Lab) — PHY2235.01

Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Credits: 4
Physics is the study of what Newton called “the System of the World.” To know the System of the World is to know what forces are out there and how those forces operate on things. These forces explain the dynamics of the world around us: from the path of a falling apple to the motion of a car down the highway to the flight of a rocket from the Earth. Careful analysis of the

Physics I: Forces and Motion (with Lab) — PHY2235.01

Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Days & Time: Tu/F 10:30AM-12:20PM, W 8:30AM-12:10PM (Lab)
Credits: 5

Physics is the study of what Newton called “the System of the World.” To know the System of the World is to know what forces are out there and how those forces operate on things. These forces explain the dynamics of the world around us: from the path of a falling apple to the motion of a car down the highway to the flight of a rocket from the Earth. Careful analysis of the

Physics I: Forces and Motion (with Lab) — PHY2235.01

Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Credits: 4
Physics is the study of what Newton called “the System of the World.” To know the System of the World is to know what forces are out there and how those forces operate on things. These forces explain the dynamics of the world around us: from the path of a falling apple to the motion of a car down the highway to the flight of a rocket from the Earth. Careful analysis of the

Physics I: Forces and Motion (with Lab) — PHY2235.01

Instructor: Hugh Crowl
Credits: 5

Physics is the study of what Newton called “the System of the World.” To know the System of the World is to know what forces are out there and how those forces operate on things. These forces explain the dynamics of the world around us: from the path of a falling apple to the motion of a car down the highway to the flight of a rocket from the Earth. Careful analysis of the

Physics I: Forces and Motion (with Lab) — PHY2235.01

Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
Physics is the study of what Newton called “the System of the World.” To know the System of the World is to know what forces are out there and how those forces operate on things. These forces explain the dynamics of the world around us: from the path of a falling apple to the motion of a car down the highway to the flight of a rocket from the Earth. Careful analysis of the