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Mobility and urban planning (automatic translation)

  • Teacher(s)
    Vincent Kaufmann, Bernard Declève and Aniss Mezoued
  • Course

  • Category
    Sociology
  • Study level
    Master
  • Language
    English
  • Description
    The course provides an introductory overview of the interactions between mobility and urban dynamics. It proposes methodological and operational tools for understanding and regulating mobility. (automatic translation)
  • Urban sprawl
  • Urban planning
  • Economic growth
  • Public policy
  • Mode of transport

Interest Rate Models

  • Teacher(s)
    Damir Filipovic
  • Course

  • Category
    Economics
  • Study level
    Master
  • Language
    English
  • Description
    This course gives you an easy introduction to interest rates and related contracts. These include the LIBOR, bonds, forward rate agreements, swaps, interest rate futures, caps, floors, and swaptions.
  • Interest rate swap
  • Swap (finance)
  • Currency swap
  • Bond (finance)
  • Fixed income

Modeling and design of experiments

  • Teacher(s)
    Jean-Marie Fuerbringer
  • Course
    PHYS-442
  • Category
    Physics
  • Study level
    Master
  • Language
    English
  • Description
    In the academic or industrial world, to optimize a system, it is necessary to establish strategies for the experimental approach. The DOE allows you to choose the best set of measurement points to minimize the variance of the results. The concepts learned are applicable in all areas.
  • Fractional factorial design
  • Factorial experiment
  • Variance
  • Covariance matrix
  • Orthogonality

New Space Economy

  • Teacher(s)
    Gaetan Petit, Nina Walker, Raphael Roettgen, Emmanuelle David and Grégoire Bourban
  • Course

  • Category
    Economics
  • Study level
    Hors Programme
  • Language
    English
  • Description
    The New Space Economy is a fast-growing market, driven by the commercialization of the historical institutional space sector. This course contains more than 30 videos-lectures from space experts from various fields.
  • Inhibitory postsynaptic potential
  • Inhibitory postsynaptic potential
  • Ground station
  • Fixed-satellite service
  • Satellite television

Optimization: principles and algorithms - Network and discrete optimization

  • Teacher(s)
    Michel Bierlaire
  • Course

  • Category
    Mathematics, Computer engineering
  • Study level
    Bachelor
  • Language
    English
  • Description
    Introduction to network optimization and discrete optimization
  • Unimodular matrix
  • Integer programming
  • Shortest path problem
  • Dijkstra's algorithm
  • Longest path problem

Optimization: principles and algorithms - Linear optimization

  • Teacher(s)
    Michel Bierlaire
  • Course

  • Category
    Mathematics, Computer engineering
  • Study level
    Bachelor
  • Language
    English
  • Description
    Introduction to linear optimization, duality and the simplex algorithm.
  • Matrix (mathematics)
  • Matrix multiplication
  • Invertible matrix
  • Simplex algorithm
  • Diagonal matrix

Optimization: principles and algorithms - Unconstrained nonlinear optimization

  • Teacher(s)
    Michel Bierlaire
  • Course

  • Category
    Mathematics, Computer engineering
  • Study level
    Bachelor
  • Language
    English
  • Description
    Introduction to unconstrained nonlinear optimization, Newton’s algorithms and descent methods.
  • Derivative
  • Maximum and minimum
  • Numerical differentiation
  • Generalizations of the derivative
  • Iterative method

Cavity Quantum Optomechanics

  • Teacher(s)
    Tobias Kippenberg
  • Course

  • Category
    Physics
  • Study level
    Master
  • Language
    English
  • Description
    Fundamentals of optomechanics. Basic principles, recent developments and applications.
  • Fourier transform
  • Spectral density
  • Cross-correlation
  • Discrete Fourier transform
  • Discrete-time Fourier transform

Plasma Physics: Applications

  • Teacher(s)
    Ambrogio Fasoli
  • Course

  • Category
    Physics
  • Study level
    Hors Programme
  • Language
    English
  • Description
    Learn about plasma applications from nuclear fusion powering the sun, to making integrated circuits, to generating electricity.
  • Fusion energy gain factor
  • Aneutronic fusion
  • Nuclear fusion
  • Magnetic confinement fusion
  • Inertial confinement fusion

Plasma Physics: Introduction

  • Teacher(s)
    Ambrogio Fasoli
  • Course

  • Category
    Physics
  • Study level
    Hors Programme
  • Language
    English
  • Description
    Learn the basics of plasma, one of the fundamental states of matter, and the different types of models used to describe it, including fluid and kinetic.
  • Magnetic moment
  • Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution
  • Charge density
  • Four-dimensional space
  • Magnetic dipole