Course Information

This page presents information on UBC courses that are offered in the 2011/12 academic year and may be of interest to the IAM students. Please note that the list below is for general orientation only and is not exhaustive. Refer to the UBC Calendar and its comprehensive listing of courses and their schedules or contact the secretary of a specific graduate programme for more details. The links to various UBC and departmental web pages listed below should be helpful in obtaining the desired course information.

UBC Calendar – BIOC course descriptions
UBC Calendar – BIOC course schedules
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology – course information

UBC Calendar – BIOL course descriptions
UBC Calendar – BIOL course schedules
Biology Program – undergraduate courses
Department of Microbiology and Immunology – course information

Selected Courses in Term 1 (Fall 2011):
BIOL 525: Ecological and Evolutionary Biology (pdf) – Michael Doebeli

UBC Calendar – CHBE course descriptions
UBC Calendar – CHBE course schedules

UBC Calendar – CHEM course descriptions
UBC Calendar – CHEM course schedules
Department of Chemistry – graduate courses
Department of Chemistry – undergraduate courses

UBC Calendar – CIVL course descriptions
UBC Calendar – CIVL course schedules

Selected Courses in Term 2 (Fall 2012):
CIVL 541: Environmental Fluid Mechanics – Greg Lawrence

UBC Calendar – courses in the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration

UBC Calendar – CPSC course descriptions
UBC Calendar – CPSC course schedules
Department of Computer Science – course timetable

Selected Courses in Term 1 (Fall 2011):
CPSC 515: Computational Robotics – Ian Mitchell
CPSC 542G: Introduction to Numerical Methods – Uri Ascher
CPSC 590: Research Methods in Computer Science – Ian Mitchell

Selected Courses in Term 2 (Spring 2012):
CPSC 303: Numerical Approximation and Discretization – Ian Mitchell
CPSC 402: Numerical Linear Algebra – Michael P. Friedlander
CPSC 517: Sparse Matrix Computations – Chen Greif
CPSC 535Z: Reproducible Research and Software Carpentry – Ian Mitchell
CPSC 546: Numerical Optimization – Michael P. Friedlander

UBC Calendar – EOSC course descriptions
UBC Calendar – EOSC course schedules
UBC Calendar – ATSC course descriptions
UBC Calendar – ATSC course schedules
Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences – course summary

Selected Courses in Term 2 (Spring 2012):
EOSC 513: Imaging and Estimation with Wavelets – Felix Herrmann
EOSC 579: Dynamic Oceanography – Susan Allen

UBC Calendar – ECON course descriptions
UBC Calendar – ECON course schedules

UBC Calendar – EECE course descriptions
UBC Calendar – EECE course schedules
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering – graduate courses

UBC Calendar – FISH course schedules
Fisheries Centre – course summary

UBC Calendar – courses in the Faculty of Forestry

UBC Calendar – MATH course descriptions
UBC Calendar – MATH course schedules
Department of Mathematics – graduate courses
Department of Mathematics – undergraduate courses

Selected Courses in Term 1 (Fall 2011):
MATH 552: Introduction to Dynamical Systems – Wayne Nagata
MATH 607D: Computational Methods for Simulation Based Optimization – Eldad Haber

Selected Courses in Term 2 (Spring 2012):
MATH 521: Finite Element Methods – Dominik Schötzau
MATH 554: Symmetries and Differential Equations (pdf) – George Bluman
MATH 555: Compressed Sensing – Özgür Yilmaz
MATH 564: Evolutionary Dynamics – Christoph Hauert

UBC Calendar – MECH course descriptions
UBC Calendar – MECH course schedules
Department of Mechanical Engineering – course descriptions

Selected Courses in Term 2 (Spring 2012):
MECH 510: Computational Methods in Transport Phenomena I (pdf) – Carl Ollivier-Gooch
MECH 586: Turbulent Shear Flows – W. Kendal Bushe

UBC Calendar – NRSC course descriptions
UBC Calendar – NRSC course schedules
Graduate Programme in Neuroscience – courses

Selected Courses in Term 2 (Spring 2012):
NRSC 501: Sensory Systems Neuroscience – Nicholas Swindale

UBC Calendar – PHYS course descriptions
UBC Calendar – PHYS course schedules
Department of Physics and Astronomy – course summary

Selected Courses in Term 2 (Spring 2012):
PHYS 529: Topics in Quantum Theory – Gordon Semenoff

UBC Calendar – STAT course descriptions
UBC Calendar – STAT course schedules
Department of Statistics – course information

UBC Calendar – ZOOL course descriptions
UBC Calendar – ZOOL course schedules
Department of Zoology – graduate courses
Department of Zoology – undergraduate courses