List of Courses
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| Course | Title | Term | Credits | Course Coordinator | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A101 | Adaptive Systems | 3 | 2 | Professor Kenji Doya | |
| A203 | Advanced Optics | 2 | 2 | Professor Síle Nic Chormaic | Alternate years course: AY2024 |
| A211 | Advances in Atomic Physics | 2 | 2 | Professor Síle Nic Chormaic | Alternate years course, AY2025 |
| B10 | Analytical Mechanics | 1 | 2 | Professor Mahesh Bandi | |
| A208 | Bioorganic Chemistry | 2 | 2 | Professor Fujie Tanaka | |
| B21 | Biophysics of Cellular Membranes | 3 | 2 | Professor Akihiro Kusumi | |
| B11 | Classical Electrodynamics | 2 | 2 | Professor Tsumoru Shintake | |
| A313 | Cognitive Neurorobotics | 1 | 2 | Professor Jun Tani | |
| A106 | Computational Mechanics | 3 | 2 | Assistant Professor Marco Edoardo Rosti | |
| A310 | Computational Neuroscience | 2 | 2 | Professor Erik De Schutter | |
| A218 | Condensed Matter Physics | 2 | 2 | Associate Professor Yejun Feng | |
| B34 | Coral Reef Ecology and Biology | 3 | 2 | Professor Timothy Ravasi | |
| A303 | Developmental Biology | 2 | 2 | Professor Ichiro Masai | |
| B49 | Dynamical Systems | 2 | 2 | Professor Mahesh Bandi | Alternate years course, AY2023 |
| A409 | Electron Microscopy | 3 | 2 | Professor Matthias Wolf | |
| A308 | Epigenetics | 3 | 2 | Professor Hidetoshi Saze | |
| A304 | Evolutionary Developmental Biology | 3 | 2 | Professor Noriyuki Satoh | |
| B41 | Fundamentals of Ecology | 1 | 2 | Assistant Professor David Armitage | |
| A219 | General Relativity | 1 | 2 | Associate Professor Yasha Neiman | Alternate years course, AY2025 |
| B35 | Genetics and Modern Genetic Technologies | 1 | 2 | Assistant Professor Tomomi Kiyomitsu | |
| B38 | Human Subjects Research: A Primer | 1 | 2 | Professor Gail Tripp | |
| A213 | Inorganic Electrochemistry | 1 | 2 | Associate Professor Julia Khusnutdinova | |
| B48 | Introduction to Complexity Science | 2 | 2 | Professor Ulf Dieckmann | |
| B37 | Introduction to embodied cognitive science | 2 | 2 | Assistant Professor Tom Froese | Enrollment cap of 9 |
| B46 | Introduction to Machine Learning | 1 | 2 | Associate Professor Makoto Yamada | |
| B40 | Introduction to Polymer Science | 1 | 2 | Professor Christine Luscombe | |
| B36 | Introduction to Real Analysis | 1 | 2 | Assistant Professor Xiaodan Zhou | Alternate years course, AY2024 |
| B20 | Introductory Evolutionary Developmental Biology | 2 | 2 | Associate Professor Hiroshi Watanabe | |
| B52 | Introductory Neuroscience | 1 | 2 | Professor Yukiko Goda | |
| A107 | Lie Algebras | 1 | 2 | Assistant Professor Liron Speyer | Alternate years course: AY2024 |
| B29 | Linear Algebra | 1 | 2 | Assistant Professor Liron Speyer | Alternate years course, AY2025 |
| A321 | Macroevolution | 2 | 2 | Assistant Professor Lauren Sallan | |
| A110 | Measure Theory and Integration | 1 | 2 | Assistant Professor Xiaodan Zhou | Alternate years course: AY2025 |
| A319 | Microbial Evolution and Cell Biology | 1 | 2 | Assistant Professor Filip Husnik | |
| A212 | Microfluidics | 3 | 2 | Professor Amy Shen | Course not offered AY2023-AY2025 |
| B27 | Molecular Biology of the Cell | 1 | 2 | Assistant Professor Keiko Kono | |
| B23 | Molecular Evolution | 3 | 2 | Associate Professor Tom Bourguignon | |
| A307 | Molecular Oncology and Cell Signaling | 2 | 2 | Professor Tadashi Yamamoto | Course retires AY2023 |
| A314 | Neurobiology of Learning and Memory I | 3 | 2 | Professor Jeff Wickens | |
| A318 | Neurobiology of Learning and Memory II | 3 | 2 | Assistant Professor Kazumasa Tanaka | From AY2024, this course moves to term 2 |
| A306 | Neuroethology | 1 | 2 | Professor Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama | |
| B24 | Neuromotor Systems | 2 | 2 | Associate Professor Marylka Yoe Uusisaari | |
| A316 | Neuronal Molecular Signaling | 3 | 2 | Assistant Professor Marco Terenzio | |
| A220 | New Enzymes by Directed Evolution | 1 | 2 | Associate Professor Paola Laurino | Enrollment cap of 8 |
| A111 | Nonlinear Time Series Analysis and Manifold Learning | 3 | 2 | Assistant Professor Gerald Pao | Alternate years course: AY2023 |
| A105 | Nonlinear Waves: Theory and Simulation | 2 | 2 | Associate Professor Emile Touber | |
| A214 | Nucleic Acid Chemistry and Engineering | 2 | 2 | Professor Yohei Yokobayashi | |
| B33 | Organic Photonics and Electronics | 1 | 2 | Assistant Professor Ryota Kabe | |
| A108 | Partial Differential Equations | 3 | 2 | Associate Professor Qing Liu | |
| A115 | Partial Differential Equations II | 2 | 2 | Professor Ugur Abdulla | |
| B08 | Physics for Life Sciences | 2 | 2 | Professor Bernd Kuhn | |
| A315 | Quantifying Naturalistic Animal Behavior | 3 | 2 | Assistant Professor Sam Reiter | |
| A227 | Quantum Engineering – Simulation and Design | 3 | 2 | Professor Jason Twamley | |
| A205 | Quantum Field Theory | 3 | 2 | Professor Shinobu Hikami | |
| A231 | Quantum Information and Communication Theory | 2 | 2 | Associate Professor David Elkouss | |
| A228 | Quantum Many-body Physics | 1 | 2 | Assistant Professor Philipp Höhn | |
| A223 | Quantum Materials Science | 3 | 2 | Associate Professor Yoshinori Okada | |
| A230 | Quantum Optics for Qubits | 3 | 2 | Assistant Professor Hiroki Takahashi | |
| A221 | Relativistic Mechanics and Classical Field Theory | 1 | 2 | Associate Professor Yasha Neiman | Alternate years course, AY2024 |
| A312 | Sensory Systems | 3 | 2 | Associate Professor Izumi Fukunaga | |
| A233 | Stability Analysis of Nonlinear Systems | 2 | 2 | Professor Mahesh Bandi | Alternate years course, AY2024 |
| A229 | Statistical Fluctuations and Elements of Physical Kinetics | 2 | 2 | Professor Denis Konstantinov | |
| A225 | Statistical Mechanics, Critical Phenomena and Renormalization Group | 1 | 2 | Assistant Professor Reiko Toriumi | |
| B12 | Statistical Physics | 2 | 2 | Professor Nic Shannon | |
| B31 | Statistical Tests | 2 | 1 | Professor Tomoki Fukai | |
| B44 | Stellar Physics | 1 | 2 | External Professor Shigehiro Nagataki | |
| A103 | Stochastic Processes with Applications | 3 | 2 | Professor Simone Pigolotti | Students must install the Jupyter notebook |
| B30 | Surface Sciences | 2 | 2 | Professor Yabing Qi | |
| A226 | Synthetic Chemistry for Carbon Nanomaterials | 3 | 2 | Assistant Professor Akimitsu Narita | |
| A320 | The Cell Cycle and Human Diseases | 2 | 2 | Assistant Professor Franz Meitinger | |
| B42 | The Diversity of Fish | 1 | 2 | Professor Vincent Laudet | |
| A224 | The Earth System | 3 | 2 | Professor Satoshi Mitarai | |
| B13 | Theoretical and Applied Fluid Mechanics | 2 | 2 | Professor Pinaki Chakraborty | |
| B14 | Theoretical and Applied Solid Mechanics | 3 | 2 | Professor Gustavo Gioia | |
| A209 | Ultrafast Spectroscopy | 3 | 2 | Professor Keshav M. Dani | Enrollment cap of 8 students |
| A104 | Vector and Tensor Calculus | 1 | 2 | Professor Eliot Fried |
** Optional courses PD3, PD4, and PD5 may be taken only as part of the pre-enrollment Gap Program. Credits for these optional courses are not counted towards your final balance of required credits.