Korea, South

Due to the constantly increasing computational power and the rise of density functional theory (DFT) and artificial intelligence (AI), computational approaches to chemistry are booming. We are now able to simulate almost every chemical process at multiple times and size scales and discuss macroscopic thermodynamic and kinetic trends from a quantum chemical perspective. This course enters this exciting field by first introducing computational chemistry, then learning about DFT and how to use it to calculate reaction energies, MO diagrams, kinetic barriers, etc., run molecular dynamics simulations, and basic machine learning. 

Recommended Prerequisite: The lecture requires basic physical chemistry and mathematics lecture background. Quantum chemistry background will make things easier to understand, but it is not a prerequisite. The course teaches programming and revisits quantum chemistry. 

This course explores the relationship between technology and human labor, with a special interest in its socio-political implications. Technological change is one of the fundamental drives that has shaped the modern economy. From factories, railroads, telegraphs, electricity, and petrochemical Industrial Revolution to the contemporary bio-digital revolution, technological changes have had profound impact on how human labor is organized, mobilized, utilized, and exploited. Technological changes have affected humans-tools relationship; created new breeds of workers (e.g. “proletariat class,” “white-collars,” “knowledge-workers,” “clinical laborers or bio-surrogates,” “platform workers,” and many kinds of invisible workers (such as undocumented immigrants) and changed work-place environments. 

Though technological changes are often recognized as (and indeed they are) “progress,” they also interact with and exacerbate the existing social inequalities and injustices and undermine the hard-won labor rights. The course focuses on market labor but will also include relevant discussions on non-market labor (such as households). The course also discusses broader structural changes such as economic globalization and its work implications. 

This course focuses on the basic concepts and theorems of Ring Theory and Field Theory, which are about generalized and abstracted properties of the set of integers and the set of rational numbers with respect to the four elementary arithmetic operations. Recommended Prerequisite: MATH321.

The course covers the following topics:

• Homomorphisms and Factor Rings
• Prime and Maximal Ideals
• Introduction to Extension Fields, Vector Spaces
• Algebraic Extensions
• Geometric Constructions
• Finite Fields
• Unique Factorization Domains
• Euclidean Domains
• Isomorphism Theorems, Series of Groups
• Sylow Theorems and it applications
• Automorphism of Fields
• The Isomorphism Extension Theorem
• Splitting Fields, Separable Extensions
• Galois Theory
• Cyclotomic Extensions
• Insolvability of the Quintic 

The world has evolved into a “new normal” after COVID-19. In this rapidly changing environment, how do multinationals deal with the changes and how are they being sustainable? 

This course provides a tool to evaluate the core values of international business activities based on the various dimensions of factors, thereby fostering individual perspectives to analyze the implications of corporate internationalization activities in this changing environment. Further, the course explores the significance of sustainable management and discusses how firms should pursue sustainability in line with environmental changes. 

The first half of the course discusses theory and concepts related to international business, providing analytical background to enhance the understanding of the global business environment. The topics cover the external environment, including national differences, the global financial market, and governmental policy. This approach enables one to understand why multinational firms operate “differently” in the globally integrated world economy. 

The second half of the course studies the strategies of multinationals. Building upon the conceptual knowledge of the external environment, the course specifically focuses on how global firms plan and implement their firm-level and function-level international business strategy. 

This course aims to equip future managers with the tools of economics that can help them think strategically and make better decisions. The entire course is divided into two parts. 

Part 1: The Basics

The first part of the course covers building blocks of managerial economics: supply & demand, theory of the firm, costs and cost curves, profit maximization, firm’s pricing and market structure (perfect competition, monopoly, and oligopoly). It also introduces tools to analyze the welfare associated with market outcomes. 

Part 2: Economics of Strategy 

The second part of the course discusses a firm’s strategic interactions with rivals in the face of various market structures and market imperfections. It starts with basic game theory to give an insight to the strategic interactions between rival companies in oligopolistic settings. The conditions under which cooperation can take place are also discussed. Then, it moves on to topics related to information economics where information asymmetry plays a key role. Topics include the insurance market where adverse selection is a big problem, and managerial compensation where moral hazard is a major issue. The course concludes with a discussion of firm’s external environment in the current macro-economy.