University of Edinburgh

The course deliver the most important issues on mergers, acquisitions, and corporate restructuring such as corporate divestitures. In particular, the course develops students' ability to critically understand and evaluate issues such as: regulatory and strategic considerations, takeover tactics, and takeover defenses; target firm and foreign target firm valuation; issues developed through information economics that contribute on the negotiation and re-negotiation stage of corporate reforms; empirical tests on the performance of merging and divesting firms at both the announcement- and the post-merger or integration period; and cross-border (cross-industry) acquisitions and their main differences with domestic (focused) ones.

In this course, students discuss the "extreme internationalism" of Conceptual art shows since the late 1960s, and the "global contemporary" framing of survey exhibitions - notably art biennials - since the late 1980s. Students consider the roles played by concepts such as national representation, multiculturalism, and anti-imperial nationalism. They analyze how numerous factors - for example: artist networks, curatorial agency, installation serendipity, national backing, educational experience, and cultural identity - may affect visibility, especially when exhibiting "at large" rather than "at home" (however many places may be counted as "home"). Visibility afar, or critical engagement in a distant locality, is prioritized above successful commercial access to new art markets, when thinking about exhibiting abroad.

This course in spoken and written French is designed for students who have some knowledge of French and who wish to extend it. All students take all elements of assessment including the degree examination. Students improve competence in the four main skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing French. 

In this course, students study key aspects of the wider context in which their practice as Informatics professionals will occur.  Students develop individual capabilities that complement the technical capacities developed elsewhere in Informatics programs.  These include communication, reflection, reasoning, and analysis skills that consider the broader ethical and social implications of their work. The course is structured around professional and ethical behavior, and the wider context in which technologies are developed and deployed. 

This course examines a wide range of Elizabethan and Jacobean tragic drama, including plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Carey, Middleton, and Webster. It explores a variety of tragic modes in the period - including revenge drama, "heroic" tragedy, closet theatre, tragi-comedy, and domestic tragedy as well as the range of theatrical contexts and staging practices that developed across the 16th and 17th century. The course considers how dramatists responded to these key concerns and it also examines different critical and conceptual understandings of tragedy.

This course introduces classic and state-of-the-art methodology in computer graphics. We will focus on methods and best practices in geometry and physical simulation, which are the basic building blocks for downstream applications such as animation, industrial design, game engineering, structural analysis, AR/VR, and medical imaging. Our curriculum will cover basic representations of shapes, geometric optimization, analysis, and principles of robust digital simulation of physical scenes. The techniques employed will involve classical numerical analysis up to deep geometric learning.

The course will include programming tasks to implement a few key algorithms in geometry processing, geometric learning, and physical simulation, to the extent that they can independently run and be analysed on modest open-source data.

This course (CGGS) and Computer Graphics: Rendering (CGR) are both courses that require no previous knowledge of computer graphics. These two courses may be taken independently or together. CGGS focusses on the representation, processing, and dynamics of 3D objects in the virtual world while CGR focusses on the rendering of virtual worlds as photo-realistic images.

The course covers many of the following topics: Random events, sigma-algebras, monotone classes. Measurable spaces, random variables - measurable functions. Measures, probability measures, signed measures. Borel sets in R^d, Lebesgue measure. Caratheodory extension theorem. Sequences of events and random variables, Borel-Cantelli lemma. Distributions of random variables. Independence of random variables. Integral of measurable functions - mathematical expectation,.
Moments of random variables, L_p spaces. Convergence concepts of measurable functions. Limit theorems for integrals. Weak and strong laws of large numbers. Completeness of L_p spaces. Conditional expectation and conditional distribution of random variables. Fubini's theorem.

A continuation of Japanese Language Pre-Intermediate. Teaching enables students to speak, read, and write Modern Japanese at a lower to mid-intermediate level of the language, equivalent to Japanese Language Proficiency Test level between N4 and N3, or Common European Framework of Reference for Languages level A2/B1.

Data science concerns the analysis of Big Data and is fast becoming an essential part of an economist's toolkit. Taking standard linear regression analysis as a starting point, this course introduces principles and methods from Machine Learning that enable economic analysis of Big Data. Machine Learning is focused on extracting information from complex data and automatically building good predictions. All analysis is conducted in R, an open-source statistical language for data analysis that is widely used in industry, government, and academia. Note: All students enrolled on this course are required to bring a laptop with them to tutorial sessions, in order to take part fully in teaching. If you do not own a laptop, the School encourages you to explore the University's laptop loan scheme.