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This course provides an overview of the challenges and opportunities for research psychologists with the growing development of social robotics. This is achieved by examining the state of the art in this domain, investigating social robotics use in clinical disorders, and exploring different areas where social robotics research holds potential to inform our understanding of human cognition and behavior.

This course examines artificial intelligence and its real-world applications. It aims to give students a historical overview of the development of AI and its underlying concepts, to understand its current and potential impact on individuals, organizations, and society, and to analyze and discuss the future of AI and its potential applications. Additionally, the course will equip students with the knowledge to use AI for productivity and creativity and to engage with AI responsibly, considering ethical considerations and responsibilities.

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. Students learn about the theories at the core of the most relevant contemporary art practices of the late XX and early XXI centuries, maturing their skills to analyze and contextualize the main artistic currents since the 1950s. Students learn to critically evaluate the works of art and carry out independent research. In particular, they acquire the tools to interpret the peculiarities of today’s art in relation with media and politics.

The course explores fundamental moments in the history of contemporary art from the 1950s to the present, focusing on the main methodological, thematic, and theoretical issues that have emerged in the visual arts. It opens with a discussion on various genres of painting of the post-war period, from Abstract Expressionism to Art Brut, in reference to the theories of “modernist painting” elaborated by Clement Greenberg. The second lecture discusss tactics such as détournement, assemblage and replica, variously developed within artistic movements that emerged in the 1960s in response to consumerist culture, from Situationism to Pop Art. Then, other artistic movements and practices of the 1960s are explored, this time based on the idea of art as a “process”, i.e. Minimalism and conceptual art in the third lecture, and some hybrid practices developed in response to or relationship with technology, i.e. video, cybernetics and intermedia, in the fourth lecture. The fifth and sixth lecture are dedicated to performative practices developed in reaction to some institutions, now those of art and now those of society, from Fluxus to feminist art. The next two lectures, seven and eight, focus on crucial issues of postmodernist art such as the appropriationist approach of the Pictures Generation and pastiche. While the ninth lecture focuses on anti-academic art practices, born in so-called underground or subcultural environments, from the tenth lecture onwards examine currents that have emerged since the 1990s in relation to the impact of globalization, the liberalist logic of media and economy, and the profusion of digital technologies and the Internet. These include: Post Human, Abject Art, YBAs, Relational Aesthetics, installation art, socially engaged art, post-Internet art and various contemporary forms of painting, photography and video installation.

This is a research project carried out under the guidance of a supervisor at the Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain (SIDB) at the University of Edinburgh.

This is an independent research course with research arranged between the student and faculty member. The specific research topics vary each term and are described on a special project form for each student. A substantial paper is required. The number of units varies with the student’s project, contact hours, and method of assessment, as defined on the student’s special study project form.

This course covers regulatory theories, competition policies, together with their economic rationales. It includes approaches, methods, instruments and impact assessment of regulation and competition policies as well as regulatory institutions, governance and performance. The course includes case studies from the developed and developing countries.

The course teaches the economics of transition and resilience. The focus is on understanding the relevant phenomena and discussing the importance of resilience at the individual, firm (micro), and economy wide (macro) level as well as understand why rationally bounded agents and competitive markets cause resilience to be less than efficient. The course results in students designing feasible policies and institutional reforms that can promote resilience at one of the levels identified above. In this course, work on a challenge, provided by the European Commission's DG ECFIN, unit Economics of Transition and Resilience. This current and real-world policy challenge is our guide throughout the course. Students prepare a policy brief for the Commission and present it in Brussels. The course combines an existing group project with an individual learning journey, where you get a chance to apply what you have learned creatively and present the results professionally.

This course covers the essential programming structures for managing data and controlling computation, as well as abstractions that facilitate decomposing large systems into modules. The course also covers pragmatics of programming languages, including abstract syntax, interpretation and domain-specific language implementation. Students do not learn how to use any one language, but instead learn the basic elements needed to understand the next 700 programming languages, or even design their own.

This course investigates Asian and European history from a global perspective through the analysis of both primary and secondary historical materials. The course compares how how Iberians and English/Dutch established their presence in East Asia, especially in Japan.

The course covers the following topics:

• Introduction: The Age of Discovery and Global History
• Portuguese expansion in Asia - The Estado da India I and India II.
• Iberian traders and slavery in East Asia
• Spain and the Manila Galleons
• The Jesuit enterprise - Christian missions in East Asia
• East India Companies and factories - Dutch and English in Japan
• European Diplomacy vs. East Asian diplomacy
  
   

This course covers the concept of regression analysis. Students learn to perform statistical inferences in linear regressions and carry out regression analysis using data examples. The course examines the setting and suitability of regression models and model diagnosis. Simple linear regression, multilinear regression, variable selection, and nonlinear regression are included, and statistical package programs such as SAS are used. 

Topics include Simple Linear Regression, Simple Linear Regression, Multiple Linear Regression, Multiple LInear Regression, Regression Diagnostics, Regression Diagnostics, Qualitative Variables as Predictors, Transformation of Variables, Weighted Least Squares, The Problem of Correlated Errors, Analysis of Collinear Data, Variable Selection Procedures. 

This course studies the conduct of monetary policy by central banks and its effects on the economy. After defining money and its functions, it compares monetary policy tools and institutions at different central banks. It then examines theory and empirical evidence related to the mechanisms through which policy actions are transmitted to the real economy. Then, it discusses the optimal design of monetary policy, developing a model of inflation targeting. Finally, it analyzes unconventional monetary policy developed during the recent financial crisis and the Covid recession. The course blends theory, empirics and institutional analyses. Prerequisites: familiarity with the basic concepts developed in introductory macroeconomics and microeconomics courses and with the fundamentals of differential calculus.