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Children's Holiday Camps: Fascist vs Soviet Era

Compares the architectural and social aspects of children's holiday camps in fascist and Soviet regimes.

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Arctic Exploration: Past and Present

Explores Arctic exploration history, from Vikings to modern decolonization efforts, highlighting challenges faced by indigenous groups.

Avant-garde vs. Planning

Explores the contrast between avant-garde architecture and urban planning in the Soviet Union, focusing on Manfredo Tafuri and Pier Vittorio Aureli's works.

Avant-Garde Architecture: Soviet Constructivism and Its Ideologies

Examines the development of avant-garde architecture in Soviet Russia, focusing on constructivism and its ideological implications from 1917 to 1930.

Lagrange Interpolation

Introduces Lagrange interpolation for approximating data points with polynomials, discussing challenges and techniques for accurate interpolation.

Splines: Least-Squares Method

Explores splines, emphasizing the least-squares method for interpolating splines and demonstrating its application using MATLAB.

Renormalization: AQFT

Covers the concept of renormalization in Algebraic Quantum Field Theory.

The Cold War: Origins, Blocus de Berlin, and Korean War

Explores the origins of the Cold War, blocus de Berlin, and the Korean War, highlighting major events and shifts in power dynamics.

Unweighted Bipartite Matching

Introduces unweighted bipartite matching and its solution using linear programming and the simplex method.

Piecewise Polynomial Interpolation: Splines

Covers piecewise polynomial interpolation with splines, focusing on Lagrange interpolation with Chebyshev nodes and error convergence.

Stochastic Simulation: Rare Events and Crude Monte Carlo

Explores stochastic simulation, rare events, and the Crude Monte Carlo method, emphasizing the importance of thresholds and closed-form expressions.

Gothic Surfaces: Curvature, Development, and Stereotomy

Delves into the geometric principles of Gothic architecture, focusing on surface curvature and stereotomy techniques.

Advanced Analysis II: Integrals and Functions

Covers advanced topics in analysis, focusing on integrals, functions, and their properties.

Statically Indeterminate Systems

Explores statically indeterminate systems, stress concentration, and strain energy in structural mechanics.

Renormalization Group: Basic Structure and Counterterms

Covers the Renormalization Group and perturbation theory breakdown.

Motion in Three Dimensions

Covers motion in three dimensions, including scalar and vector velocities, acceleration, and curvilinear abscissa.

Electric Fields and Particle Motion

Explores charged particle motion in electric fields and cyclotron operation.

Graph Coloring II

Explores advanced graph coloring concepts, including planted coloring, rigidity threshold, and frozen variables in BP fixed points.