2016-11-09

Slavoj Žižek. The great challenge of The Left. 2016


source: European Graduate School Video Lectures    2016年11月7日
Slavoj Žižek. Public open lecture for the students of the Division of Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought at the European Graduate School EGS, Saas-Fee/Switzerland and Valetta/Malta. 2016.

Slavoj Žižek (b. 1949) is a Slovenian-born philosopher and psychoanalyst. He is a professor of philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS, a senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, and founder and president of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, Ljubljana. Aside from these appointments, Žižek tirelessly gives lectures around the globe and is often described as “the Elvis of cultural theory”. Although, more seriously, as British critical theorist Terry Eagleton confers, Žižek is the “most formidably brilliant” theorist to have emerged from Europe in decades. Many, in fact, now consider Žižek to be “the most dangerous philosopher in the West.”
He grew up in in Ljubljana, Slovenia, which at the time was part of the former Yugoslavia. The regime’s more permissive, albeit “pernicious,” policies allowed for Žižek’s exposure to Western theory and culture, in particular film, English detective novels, German Idealism, French structuralism, and Jacques Lacan. Studying at the University of Ljubljana, he completed his master's degree in philosophy in 1975 with a thesis on French structuralism and his Doctoral degree in philosophy in 1981 with a dissertation on German Idealism. He then went to Paris, along with Mladen Dolar, to study Lacan under Jacques Alain-Miller (Lacan’s son-in-law and disciple). During this time in Paris, from 1981–85, Žižek completed another dissertation on the work of Hegel, Marx, and Kripke through a Lacanian lens. After his return to Slovenia, he became more politically active writing for , a weekly newspaper, co-founding the Slovenian Liberal Demorcratic Party, and running for one of four seats that comprised the collective Slovenian presidency (Žižek came in fifth).
Žižek rose to prominence in 1989 following his first book published in English, . Since then he has written countless books, in fact, perhaps the only thing more numerous than the talks he tirelessly gives across the globe are the books on which those interviews stand. For the last twenty-five years Žižek has been writing predominantly in English, and to a far lesser extent in his native Slovenian, for obvious reasons. His books of the last decades include: (1991), (1993), (1997), (1999), (2006), (2001), (1996), (1992), (1991), (2015), (2003), (2002), (2010), (1994), (2002), (2009), (2009), (2007), (2012), (2007), (2001), (2008), (2000), and (2012). Along with these and many other books, he has also co-authored a number of books with Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Eric Santner, John Millbank, Ernesto Laclau, Boris Gunjević, and Agon Hamza, among others. Further, he is the editor of a number of consequential series, including Wo Es War by Verso, SIC by Duke University Press, and Short Circuits by MIT Press.

Why are sharks so awesome? - Tierney Thys


source: TED-Ed    2016年11月7日
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Sharks have been celebrated as powerful gods by some native cultures. And today, sharks are recognized as apex predators of the world’s ocean. What is it that makes these fish worthy of our ancient legends and so successful in the seas? Tierney Thys takes us into the ocean to find out.
Lesson by Tierney Thys, animation by TED-Ed.

Probability and Random Variables (2012) by Elif Uysal-Bıyıkoğlu at METU

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source: METUOpenCourseWare    2013年1月30日
EE230 - Probability and Random Variables
Axiomatic definition of probability spaces. Combinatorial methods. Conditional probability; product spaces. Random variables; distribution and density functions; multivariate distribution; conditional distributions and densities; independent random variables. Functions of random variables; expected value, moments and characteristic functions.
OpenCourseWare [ http://ocw.metu.edu.tr ]
For Lecture Notes: http://ocw.metu.edu.tr/course/view.ph...

Week 2 - Lecture 1 Probability Spaces; Axioms and properties or probability 46:27
Week 2 - Lecture 2 Discrete and Continuous Probability Laws, Conditional Probability 46:58
Week 2 - Lecture 3 Discrete and Continuous Probability Laws, Conditional Probability 40:36
Week 3 - Lecture 1 Total Probability Theorem, Bayes's Rule 46:04
Week 3 - Lecture 2 Independence, Conditional Independence 48:51
Week 3 - Lecture 3 Independence, Conditional Independence 41:35
Week 3 - Lecture 3 Independence, Conditional Independence 41:35
Week 4 - Lecture 1 Independent Trials, Counting 53:01
Week 4 - Lecture 2 Discrete Random Variables 52:40
Week 4 - Lecture 3 Discrete Random Variables 29:30
Week 5 - Lecture 1 Expectation and Variance 44:48
Week 5 - Lecture 2 Properties of Expectation and Variance, Joint PMFs 39:31
Week 5 - Lecture 3 Properties of Expectation and Variance, Joint PMFs 35:37
Week 6 - Lecture 1 Conditional PMFs 47:59
Week 6 - Lecture 2 Conditioning one Random Variable on another; conditional expectation 50:10
Week 6 - Lecture 3 Conditioning one Random Variable on another; conditional expectation 42:47
Week 7 - Lecture 1 Iterated Expectation; Independence of a random variable from an event 43:18
Week 7 - Lecture 2 Independence of Random Variables 39:24
Week 7 - Lecture 3 Independence of Random Variables 32:50
Week 8 - Lecture 1 Continuous Random Variables 42:08
Week 8 - Lecture 2 Expectation and the Cumulative Distribution Function 32:14
Week 8 - Lecture 3 Expectation and the Cumulative Distribution Function 56:38
Week 9 - Lecture 1 The Gaussian CDF 49:32
Week 9 - Lecture 2 Conditional PDFs, Joint PDFs 54:39
Week 9 - Lecture 3 Conditional PDFs, Joint PDFs 34:12
Week 10 - Lecture 1 Conditioning one random variable on another 53:03
Week 10 - Lecture 2 Independence, Continuous Bayes's Rule; Derived Distributions 38:58
Week 10 - Lecture 3 Independence, Continuous Bayes's Rule; Derived Distributions 52:25
Week 11 - Lecture 1 Derived Distributions 43:29
Week 11 - Lecture 2 Functions of Two Random Variables; Correlation and Covariance 43:48
Week 11 - Lecture 3 Functions of Two Random Variables; Correlation and Covariance 46:35
Week 12 - Lecture 1 Applications of Covariance 47:46
Week 12 - Lecture 2 Transforms (Moment Generating Functions) 49:02
Week 12 - Lecture 3 Transforms (Moment Generating Functions) 25:51
Week 13 - Lecture 1 Markov and Chebychev Inequalities, Convergence In Probability 33:38
Week 13 - Lecture 2 The Weak Law of Large Numbers 58:15
Week 13 - Lecture 3 [Part 1] The Central Limit Theorem 18:43
Week 13 - Lecture 3 [Part 2] The Central Limit Theorem 13:59
Week 14 - Lecture 1 The Bernoulli Process 48:42
Week 14 - Lecture 2 The Poisson Process 44:38
Week 14 - Lecture 3 The Poisson Process 39:20

Electronic Structure Theory (2009) by Jack Simons (U of Utah)

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source: ESTLecture2009    2011年4月2日
These lectures are intended to provide graduate students in chemistry and related fields, experimental chemists, and theoretical chemists specializing in other sub-disciplines with an introduction to the underpinnings of electronic structure theory. I have tried to present the material with a focus on physical and conceptual content while keeping the mathematical level appropriate to the broad audience just described. For those who want access to additional information at or a bit beyond the level of these lectures, I can recommend the following texts:
T. Helgaker, J. Olsen, and P. Jorgensen, Molecular Electronic Structure Theory, Wiley (2000). I think this is the best book to use as a source for further details about the methods introduced in these lectures.
J. Simons, and J. Nichols, Quantum Mechanics in Chemistry, Oxford University Press (1997);
J. Simons, An Introduction to Theoretical Chemistry, Cambridge University Press (2003).
These two books are good at explaining the concepts underlying the equations, offer good physical pictures of what the theories contain, and make connections to experiments.
J. Simons, Energetic Principles of Chemical Reactions, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc. (1983). This is a good source for making connections between electronic structure theory and reaction dynamics.
Other good sources are the web site http://simons.hec.utah.edu/TheoryPage , as well as that of the theoretical chemistry Summer School http://simons.hec.utah.edu/school where lectures on electronic structure theory, dynamics, and statistical mechanics appear.
About Jack:
Jack Simons is Henry Erying Scientist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Utah. He grew up in Girard, Ohio, earned his B. S. degree in chemistry at Case institute of Technology in 1967 and his Ph. D. in theoretical chemistry at the University of Wisconsin in 1970. After a postdoctoral year at MIT, he joined the Utah Chemistry faculty in 1971. Jack is the author of more than 320 papers, 5 textbooks, and several web sites on theory ( http://simons.hec.utah.edu/publicatio... ), and he has mentored more than 65 Ph. D. and postdoctoral students at Utah.

Lecture 00-Introduction to Jack Simons Electronic Structure Theory 8:23
Lecture 01-Born-Oppenheimer approximation 1:20:01
Lecture 02-Hartree-Fock 1:02:00
Lecture 03-Dynamical pair correlations 34:47
Lecture 04-Linear combinations of atomic orbitals 50:49
Lecture 05-Basis sets 21:59
Lecture 06-Møller-Plesset perturbation theory 27:46
Lecture 07-Configuration interaction theory 29:03
Lecture 08-Coupled-cluster theory 31:38
Lecture 09-Theory- Metastable anions 46:46
Lecture 10-Theory- Error trends 8:57
Lecture 11-Density functional theory 58:02
Lecture 12-Gradients and reaction paths 1:06:53
Original page of the Electronic Structure Theory lecture series can be found:
http://www.hec.utah.edu/ESTheory/

管理理論與實務 (2015學年)--蕭嬋 / 交大

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source: NCTU OCW    2016年10月25日
本課程是由交通大學管理科學系提供。
本學期“管理理論與實務” 將以Heart CreAction Entrepreneurship (HCE) 為主軸—其主旨乃是邀請一系列創業者做自己真心熱愛的事業,同時又能創造商業價值,並獲得良好營收成效,以這樣的精神鼓勵同學能夠活出真正的自己,追尋心中的熱愛,並體現商業核心價值,並同時獲利營收,讓HCE精神的創業家理念策略與商業模式可以激勵與啓發年輕人,讓這個世界因為創業家所創辦的公司更為美好。管理理論與實務課程希望能藉由HCE管理實務的教育,和同學所學習的管理理論相輔相成,以提升同學實踐商業知識能力,擴展對商業實務運作瞭解。本學期邀請各個領域之新興企業創辦人介紹其創業歷程,或是企業資深經理人分享其經營理念心得,鼓勵即將畢業的學生不僅只有就業這條出路,亦可將創業納為目標,一起為台灣經濟注入心活力與新活力。
課程資訊:http://ocw.nctu.edu.tw/course_detail....
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Lec 02 EZTABLE的創願歷程-演講 (2/3) EZTABLE執行長-陳翰林 1:01:29
Lec 03 EZTABLE的創願歷程-討論 (3/3) EZTABLE執行長-陳翰林 50:02
Lec 04 小鎮文創的創願歷程-引言 (1/3) 小鎮文創創辦人-何培鈞 6:51
Lec 05 小鎮文創的創願歷程-演講 (2/3) 小鎮文創創辦人-何培鈞 52:30
Lec 06 小鎮文創的創願歷程-討論 (3/3) 小鎮文創創辦人-何培鈞 34:08
Lec 07 群聯的創願歷程-引言 (1/3) 群聯電子董事長-潘健成 5:13
Lec 08 群聯的創願歷程-演講 (2/3) 群聯電子董事長-潘健成 1:06:18
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Lec 12 法藍瓷的創願歷程-討論 (3/3) FRANZ創辦人-陳立恆 53:49
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Lec 14 Gogoro的創願歷程-演講 (2/3) Gogoro創辦人-陸學森 1:01:36
Lec 15 Gogoro的創願歷程-討論 (3/3) Gogoro創辦人-陸學森 1:01:57
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Lec 17 麥實創投的創願歷程-演講 (2/3) 麥實管理顧問董事長-方國健 1:25:22
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From Genes to Brains - Liz Tunbridge


source: Oxford BRC     2016年10月19日
Presentation by Elizabeth Tunbridge, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. Liz Tunbridge describes the potential of genetic studies to enhance our understanding of mental health conditions.

Askwith Forums: A Conversation with Jeb Bush


source: HarvardEducation    2016年10月13日
Speaker: Jeb Bush, academic visitor, Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard Kennedy School; founder, president and chairman, Foundation for Excellence in Education; former governor, Florida
Moderator: Martin West, associate professor of education, HGSE; deputy director, Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard Kennedy School
Introduction: James E. Ryan, dean and Charles William Eliot Professor, HGSE
Recent changes in federal policy have put states back in the driver’s seat for ensuring equity and excellence in American education. Drawing on his experience as Florida governor and chairman of the Foundation for Excellence in Education, Governor Bush will address the new opportunities for state leadership on K-12 education policy, what it will take for governors and other state officials to capitalize on those opportunities, and the challenges of maintaining bi-partisan support for education reform in a time of heightened polarization. After brief remarks, Governor Bush will engage in a discussion moderated by Associate Professor Martin West and featuring questions from HGSE faculty members and the audience.