The School of Physics at the University of Sydney has a research group called SUPER, the Sydney University Physics Education Research group. In December 2000, an enthusiastic postdoctoral fellow, Dr Chris Stewart, joined SUPER. We considered possible research projects and decided to explore the differences between students trained under the old HSC syllabus with those trained under the new HSC ...

These are informal notes of all the lectures released throughout the 2014-2015 Number Theory Learning Seminar at Stanford. For more details on the aim of the course, please refer to the syllabus, available at http://math.stanford.edu/∼conrad/Perfseminar/refs/Syllabus1415.pdf. Throughout the text, the references are cited as in the syllabus. Part I Adic Spaces 1 Lecture 1: Motivation for adic sp...

This is the Summer 2005 version of the Instructor’s Solution Manual for Introduction to Graph Theory, by Douglas B. West. A few solutions have been added or clarified since last year’s version. Also present is a (slightly edited) annotated syllabus for the onesemester course taught from this book at the University of Illinois. This version of the Solution Manual contains solutions for 99.4% of ...

“Transactional memory” means that, instead of using explicit locks to protect from data races (like the Java synchronized construct), a programmer could declare a block of code atomic and rely on the underlying software and hardware system to ensure that code within the block executes as if atomic. The transactional memory system might use any of several concurrency control protocols, with some...

This course covers the basic concepts in system theory: stock and flow, positive and negative feedback. It also discusses logistic growth with carrying capacity, oscillation in linear systems, limit cycle and chaos in nonlinear systems. After learning the simulation software, systems in six different areas will be discussed: physical systems, engineering systems, chemical/biological systems, ec...

Welcome to the pediatric surgery service. Pediatric surgery is primarily concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of surgical diseases of children, and differs from general surgery in that it is an age defined surgical specialty instead of an anatomically defined specialty. Pediatric surgeons are usually trained in the management of general surgical disease of children but also in the treatme...

Preface In artificial-intelligence research, the probabilistic-network, or (Bayesian) belief-network framework for automated reasoning with uncertainty is rapidly gaining in popularity. The framework provides a powerful formalism for representing a joint probability distribution on a set of statistical variables. In addition, it offers algorithms for efficient probabilistic inference. At presen...