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This introductory course covers mathematical topics closely related to computer science. Topics include: logic, sets, functions, relations, countability, combinatorics, proof techniques, mathematical induction, recursion, recurrence relations, graph theory, and number theory. The course emphasizes the context and applications of these concepts within computer science. Prerequisites: No prior programming experience is assumed. 

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. International Security (a.k.a Strategic Studies) is an established field within the International Relations discipline, focusing on the role and functions of military forces in international politics. More specifically, the course covers both theory and practice of war and warfare, with emphasis on the contemporary era. It is subdivided into two sections (of different lengths). The first part ("Strategic Theory", shorter) examines some of the principal "theories of war" (e.g. Sun Tzu & Clausewitz ). The first part provides the participants with the relevant analytics tools to attend the second part ("the Tools of Warfare"), which is devoted to the application of those theories to modern warfare as well as an examination of the principal military doctrines, the weapons of mass destructions and irregular warfare (insurgencies, guerrilla and terrorism).

By the end of the course, students are able to: 1) Appreciate variation in conceptions of international security theories. 2) Understand the origins and evolution of mainstream theories on military strategy. 3) Understand the significance of alternative conceptions of national security for states' policies. 4) Develop an understanding of the capabilities and limitations of modern warfare in strategic international events. 5) Develop analytical skills to be applied to international security issues.

Students consider a range of Shakespeare's plays (comedies, tragedies, tragi-comedies, and romances) from different stages of his career, analyzing the playwright's stagecraft, his use of language and his reworking of traditional forms for the commercial stage. While students explore some recent adaptations for stage and screen, the course also focuses on the plays as produced in their original historical and cultural contexts. The course familiarizes students with Renaissance drama's negotiation of contested social and political issues at the turn of the 17th century. Students investigate the social processes of the theatre – notably the playhouses used by Shakespeare's company (the Theatre, the Globe and Blackfriars) – and focus on the interplay of Shakespearean texts and their performance in the production of meaning.

This course explores the basic equations that govern mass and momentum transfer of incompressible fluids as well as of important modes of heat transfer, for instance by phase-change (including boiling and condensation). By building on the fundamental aspects of the subject, problems are considered for a number of settings relevant to engineering applications.

This course is an overview of marine environments, organisms, and ecosystems. Students explore the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of the ocean, emphasizing major marine ecosystems (coastal, pelagic, polar/subpolar). The course also examines how human activities affect marine ecosystems and discusses possible conservation strategies. 

This course provides a basic introduction to mathematical theory and methods in biology, with enough scope to enable the student to handle biologically phrased problems. Topics covered include population models with discrete or continuous time, pharmacokinetics and -dynamics, qualitative analysis of systems of differential equations, modelling of the spread of infectious diseases, bifurcations, limit cycles, and excitable media with applications to, e.g., predator-prey models, spatial methods with application to diffusion, and nerve conduction.

This course provides knowledge and experience in project form under strict deadlines. The students design and manufacture a complete car concept in the form of a formula car, where the entire process from initiation, feasibility study, planning, implementation and closure is treated. This course deals with the implementation and closure of inherited problems from Formula Student 1 - Initiation, Pre-Study and Design. In the course, students shoulder all the roles of a project group and through the course gain skills in applying knowledge from previous courses such as mechanics, electrical engineering, programming, solid mechanics, construction technology, manufacturing methods, and vehicle technology.  Admission requirements include completion of a minimum of 100 credits within relevant programs and MVKP05 Formula Student 1 - Initiation, Pre-study and Design.

This lecture series provides an introductory, selective, and exemplary overview of English literary history from the Middle Ages to the present. Selected English literature texts from Chaucer to Kureishi (and others) are presented in their contexts and interpreted in their specific aesthetics and as representatives of the respective epoch.

Urban economics is concerned with the spatial form of cities and the division of national economic activity into cities, both at a point in time and over time.  Three fundamental questions are: Why are economic activities within a country so unequally distributed across space? Why do cities (and agglomerations of firms and workers) emerge and in what locations? How and why are economic activities within cities unequally distributed in general and between the city center and the suburbs?

This course examines network and web security broadly from the network to the application layer. The emphasis of the course is on the underlying principles and techniques, with examples of how they are applied in practice. Students study the themes and challenges of network and web security, and the current state of the art. They develop a critical approach to the analysis of network security and web application security, and learn to bring this approach to bear on future decisions regarding security.