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Welcome to the course “Density Functional Theory with Applications in Atomic and Condensed Matter Physics ” 4FY530 - HT23

My name is Shahid Sattar and I work at the Department of Physics and Electrical Engineering, Linnaeus University. My research background is in theoretical condensed matter physics and material sciences using density functional theory. 

The course will be online and the Zoom link is posted on this page. 

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The course offers a critical overview of slavery and slave trade on a global level, surveying the research trends of the last decades. Historical as well as literary perspectives are applied. While slavery has been a fact of life as long as human records exist, an analytic and comparative approach to the phenomenon is relatively late. A great deal of attention has been devoted to the Trans-Atlantic trafficking in humans, and slave labour in the Americas. More recently, slave-based economies in the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean World have come into the limelight. Hitherto neglected groups with a slave-like status, in places like India, China, and Korea, are now being explored. Moreover, the plight of humans in the contemporary world with a bonded and permanently subservient status has called for attention. The course aims to address the “curse of the particular” which has long haunted research on slavery and failed to address connectivities and comparisons between different regions. It also wishes to challenge the Atlantic paradigm that has tended to see slavery from a matrix of European-led employment of slave labour. Attention is put on the great methodological strides in recent decades, where new and innovative uses of the source material has yielded a wealth of information about slavery as a condition and a process, not least illuminating its gendered aspects. During the course the great structural variety of enslavement and degrees of unfree status over the world will be discussed. Economic-historical theories about the rationale of slavery, from early scholars such as Marx and Nieboer to modern ones such as James Warren and Peter Boomgaard, are surveyed. Moreover, the memories and narratives of slavery in literary texts are analyzed.

A norm[1] is defined as a standard, model, or pattern. It also related to human behaviour that is typical and expected from particular social group. In the 2^nd semester of your MFA, our goal is for you to explore the norm-related theories such as norm criticism, norm-critical/creative innovation as a +change approach and do they relate to current sustainability discourses.  (Image reference: https://what-the.studio/what-design-can-do/).

A social norm is "a rule of behaviour such that individuals prefer to conform to it on condition that they believe that (a) most people in their reference network conform to it (empirical expectation), and (b) that most people in their reference network believe they ought to conform to it (normative expectation)" (Bicchieri, 2016, p. 35)

Welcome to Introduction to Health Informatics

Here are some brief information before the beginning of the semester.

The course introduction will take place on Monday 2nd September at 13.00-15.00, (information about room will be added before then). If you need help finding a map, there is a map at lnu.se: https://lnu.se/mot-linneuniversitetet/kontakta-och-besoka/karta/

Get a student account and register: You need a student account to be able to write. At www.lnu.se/nystudent, there is information on how to do it. Registration is required for you to be able to commence the education you have been admitted to.

Course literature:

Sheikh, A., Bates, D., Wright, A. & Cresswell, K. eds (2017). Key Advances in Clinical Informatics Transforming Health Care through Health Information Technology, Academic Press, ISBN: 9780128095232, 334 p.

Are you prevented from participating in the introductory session, please contact the course coordinator 

With kind regards

Tora Hammar, course coordinator

tora.hammar@lnu.se

Dear all,

 I have made a preliminary contents plan for the course as seen below. This is by no means not cut in stone, I will be happy to consider suggestions from students. We will discuss details on Lecture 1, but you are also welcome to (and encouraged to!) drop me an email prior to that, to let me know about your expectations and fields of interest.

 The contents of the course will primarily evolve around Chapters 11-15 of the Milton & Arnold book, with particular focus on the Multiple linear regression model, Factorial experiments and Analysis of variance. Matrix algebra will be used to a large extent throughout the course, and I plan to devote 1-2 lectures on important matrix concepts (matrix multiplication, spectral decomposition, matrix inverse, projections, trace etc) and distributional properties of linear and quadratic forms.

 I urge all students to attend Lecture 1 so that we can discuss and decide on the format and contents of the course together.

Preliminary plan of lectures:

 Lecture 1. Introduction to the course, Matrix algebra I

Lecture 2. Matrix algebra II, quadratic forms

Lecture 3. Correlation, causality, data generating mechanisms, OLS and ML

Lecture 4. The multiple linear regression model, I

Lecture 5. The multiple linear regression model, II

Lecture 6. The multiple linear regression model, III

Lecture 7. Analysis of variance

Lecture 8. Factorial experiments

Lecture 9. Categorical data

Lecture 10. The R-software

Lecture 11. Extra, if needed

Lecture 12. Examination (presentations, discussions, oral exam)

The course deals with the design process from a theoretical and methodological perspective. A deeper knowledge of users and their contexts is derived through lectures and assignments regarding User-Centered Design. In addition, the course transitions from UCD to Humanity-Centered Design - HCD where the student can explore how we as humans interact with the systems around us and how this interaction shapes our behaviour.

This knowledge is practically applied through a set of practical assignments which span from design idea to a formulated design concept.

The final assignment of the course is an individual project where the student articulates his/her own design process and practically implements all parts of this process.

The course 1IK433 is also divided into three modules:

M1 - Design Methods and Processes + Behaviour Change

M2 - User-Centered Design + Humanity-Centered Design

M3 - Individual Project