Peking University, Beijing

The main content of this course consists of several kinds of polynomials of graphs, groups and graphs, and strongly regular graphs. It will enable the students know the algebric method to study combinatorial structures.

This course is an introduction to statistical methods of empirical social research, and how they are used to assemble, describe, and draw inferences from data. This course emphasizes on the most widely used statistical methods by social scientists, and how they can be applied on data from sample survey and archives.

This course will cover the concepts, nature, fundamental pricing principles, major models, applications, and underlying risks of financial derivatives. The derivatives discussed include forwards, futures, options, interest rate derivatives, commodity derivatives, credit derivatives, and other non-standard derivative instruments. In addition to introducing essential theoretical foundations, the course emphasizes the integration of theory with practice. Through real-world case studies, students will gain a deeper understanding of the role and limitations of derivatives in the economy. Furthermore, students will be required to use computational tools (such as VBA-Excel or other programming languages) to implement derivative pricing models and risk management strategies.

This course investigates material properties from the perspective of condensed matter physics. We will cover the mechanical, thermal, electrical, magnetic and optical properties of materials, learn to apply qualitative and quantitative analysis and understand these properties based on the interaction between atoms and molecules, crystalline structure, electronic and magnetic structures and morphology. Through the course of study, we will know the most dominant factors affecting material properties and know how to estimate material properties in a certain range.

This course focuses on the key principles of jet propulsion technology, the basic structure of aircraft engines, and key design methods. It will help students understand the key criteria for selecting engines for current aircraft, and familiarize them with the basic structure, primary functions, and fundamental technical parameters of each aircraft engine component. Students will also learn how to apply this foundational knowledge to complex engineering problems. This course will empower students to select power systems for various aircraft and design the key technical parameters of powerplants for new flight systems.

Business Simulation Game aims to help students develop management decision-making skills without running real-world risks. Students build teams to run businesses in the computer-simulated competitive market. They make various top management decisions for sequential periods, and the performance is evaluated based on multiple indices. The team that achieves the best overall performance will win the game! Also, top performers will get chance to participate the National Competition.

Film Music focuses on the seven core points to discuss, concept, characteristics, history, function, direction, aesthetics and critic on it of. The course aims to presenting the frontier knowledge, leading the method, supporting the possibilities about how to questioning and analysis as a film goer and an observer. Comprehensive dimensional scope involved and synchronization both theory and practice will be undertaken. The systematic analysis on film music, the categorization of film music, shown an important feature of the course.

This class is about writing and academic inquiry, with a special emphasis on literature. Good arguments stem from good questions, and academic essays allow writers to write their way toward answers, toward figuring out what they think. In this writing course, students focus on the creation of complex, analytic, well-supported arguments addressing questions that matter in academic contexts. 

As goods and services are produced and distributed, they move through a set of interrelated operations or processes. The design of these operations for strategic advantage, investments in improving their efficacy, and controlling these operations to meet performance objectives is the domain of Operations Management. Taking the process view of the organization we will examine, using case studies, readings and models, a variety of industrial applications. In the first part of this course, by studying how the manager can improve the efficacy of processes, we will develop a unifying theme to the subject. In the second part of this course, the focus will be on inventory theory and its application to supply chain management. In contrast to the first part of this course that developed a broad brush approach to the process view of operations, we will take a more analytical and detailed approach in model development in the second part of this course.

The basic purpose of this course is to deeply understand mathematical thought and values behind classical knowledge in mathematics.