This course investigates cultural exchanges between China and the world during the past two thousand years. It will cover various topics, including the Silk Road trades, Maritime Silkroad, the receptions of Buddhism, Christianity and Islam by China, the spread of Chinese inventions to the Old World, Admiral Zheng He’s voyages from China to Africa during the 15th century, and etc.

This course aims to improve cross-cultural understandings. It will demonstrate that even though pre-modern China was geographically isolated from the rest of Eurasia by mountains, deserts, and oceans, Chinese civilization managed to engage in important cultural exchanges with other major civilizations via land and ocean routes, and that had significant impacts both to the development of China and the world.

CL025

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This course builds on basic finance theory and economic principles to address topics that are important for managing financial institutions in a rapidly changing international environment. The students are expected to learn not only the theoretical framework to analyze the financial system, risk management and financial crisis, but also to learn how to apply tools and methods learnt in this course to solve problems faced by the banks in the real economy.

This course consists of following topics: Specialness, Risks and Regulations of Financial Institutions; Organization, Structure, Changing Dynamics of Banking Industry and Performance Evaluation of Commercial Banks; Liquidity Risk and Monetary Policy; Interest Rate Risk and Market Risk; Credit Risk.

ECON3513

Students are expected to have some background in basic economic theory (macroeconomics and microeconomics), algebra, differential calculus, statistics, and a disposition to keep themselves informed of current developments in the area of banking and finance. Please also make sure you have adequate background in analytics, linear algebra, statistics, economics and finance. This is a course in finance, with focus on the risk management and quantitative analysis. This course is NOT suitable for students without any training in economics, statistics, analytics or linear algebra.

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Students are introduced to major events of China’s 20th century history from the perspective of Memory Studies. Several topics are covered by this course, and a major thread running through these topics is the impact of the wars (especially the Fourteen-year War, 1931-1945). After completing this course students can understand China’s 20th Century history in a fresher way and be able to apply the analytical tools of Memory Studies to understand a given historical event or phenomenon. Students are expected to read in preparation for every class. Students are expected to actively participate in group tasks, general discussions and debates throughout the course.

HIS8703

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This course introduces advanced data structure such as different type of tree, Hash table and graph, some algorithm will also be revised. Data structure is one of the fundamental courses in Computer Science. It deals with storage and processing technique of data.

The objective of the course is to master the following aspects:

1. Understand the logical relationship between data and processing requirements;
2. How to deal with data storage; 
3. How to process data.

The course will be divided into 5 parts:

1. List, stack and Queue;
2. Binary Tree, Non-Binary Tree;
3. Sorting;
4. Searching: Hashing and other method;
5. Graph.

ICE3402P

Have C++ basis.

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The purpose of this course is to provide an introduction to Lie groups and Lie algebras. This course is divided into two parts taught every Spring semester. The first part presents the basic structure theory of complex semi-simple Lie algebras up to and including the classification by Dynkin diagrams. The second part presents the basic theory of Lie groups starting with elementary properties and going through the standard results up to and including Lie’s Third Theorem.

For the first part, a good knowledge of advanced linear algebra is needed. For the second part, familiarity with manifolds is advised but not necessary since it will be reviewed. The two parts are independent of each other. The basic reference books are Humphries “Introduction to Lie algebras and their representations”, Duistermaat and Kolk “Lie Groups”, Knapp “Lie groups, beyond an introduction”, plus other secondary sources that could serve for additional reading, depending on the tine interests of the students. Depending on the background and interest of the students, the material of the course can emphasize certain topics.

Lie theory is basic to most areas of mathematics, physics, and engineering. The goal is to familiarize the students with this theory so that they can use Lie theory in their own course work and research. In this class, Professor could answer students’ questions in 6 languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian.

MATH4405

Advanced undergraduate mathematical analysis.

Familiarity with calculus on manifolds is helpful but not essential.

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Materials chemistry is the study of the synthesis, structure, properties, and application of solid materials. Our technology-driven world is fuelled by advances in materials chemistry with examples of application in areas such as microelectronics, polymers, and energy technology. This course introduces the materials chemistry of several major categories of materials (metals, ceramics and glasses, semiconductors, polymers, nanomaterials) with the emphasis of materials synthesis. The topics span from traditional extractive metallurgy to more recent development of nanomaterials and biomaterials.

Through the study of this course, students can master the basic knowledge and theory in the field of materials science and chemical preparation in the material industry, understand the industrial status of related fields, research frontiers, and the concepts of environmental protection and sustainable development that may be involved, and learn to analyze and solve problems by applying the basic knowledge and literature study. This course also lays a good foundation of knowledge in materials chemistry and thinking methods for the undergraduate study of materials discipline.

The main contents of this course include the introduction of material chemistry, the theoretical basis of bonding theory and crystal field theory, basic metallurgy methods, the electrochemical methods, preparation methods for inorganic materials (including nanoparticles, thin films, ceramics etc.), synthesis and preparation of polymer materials; the chemistry of organic/inorganic hybrid materials.

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“Fundamentals of Materials Science” is one of the core curriculum for university/college students in the discipline of materials and metallurgy. The fundamentals of materials science is presented by lectures, class discussions, tutorials, laboratory and case studies on particular academic topics.  

In order to investigate the common laws for materials, the focus is on the internal relationships among the processing, structure, properties and performance for three different types of materials: metals, ceramics and polymers.  The course provides guidance for materials design and application and lays a solid theoretical foundation for subsequent advanced courses on materials science and engineering. MSE2606 is the second part of this course, and will cover diffusion, phase diagram and phase transformations.

MSE2606

For students majored in materials science & engineering, mechanical engineering, physics and etc. Prerequisites include calculus and college physics.

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As nations bind together to tackle global climate change, one of the urgent needs is the energy sector’s transition from being fossil-fuel reliant to embracing sustainable carbon-free solutions. Through a multi-national collaboration, this course aims to introduce a redefined perspective of fuel utilisation for the power and transportation sectors, placing emphasis on alternative fuels derived from renewable resources that are essential contributors to the goals of carbon neutrality.

Some of the low or zero-carbon fuels such as hydrogen, ammonia, biofuels and emerging low carbon fuels adaptable to current or new energy systems will be explored in the context of production, utilisation, economics and sustainability. The impacts of future fuels on the environment, resource availability and social well-being need to be holistically considered and supported by diverse solutions, in alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals of Affordable and Clean Energy (SDG 7) and other related SDGs as put forth by the United Nations. From this course, the students will grasp the broad concept of alternative fuel production, application and challenges faced in moving towards a net zero-carbon society.

PJ187

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Both undergraduate and postgraduate students are welcome.

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