[Sorry for the Santa Fe centric question on our much broader list.]
We're looking into advanced studies classes @ the complex. This is
motivated by the lack of higher level offerings with the city's
colleges: SFCC, CSF, and so on.
So my question to you is: What classes would you be interested in that
you cannot find in Santa Fe's current colleges? What would you like
to take from UNM or Highlands or other universities that you cannot
take here in Santa Fe?
To get you started, some of us have talked about this and here are
some ideas:
- Graphics: advanced graphics including your basic transformations,
possibly including GPU programming.
- Computing: Cris Moore's book The Nature of Computing, or a more
traditional Theory of Computation book. Algorithms. Knuth.
- Math: Two areas of importance to much of what we do: Linear Algebra,
Probability and Statistics. A review of undergraduate math like the
wonderful All The Math You Missed But Need For Graduate School by
Thomas Garrity.
- Complexity Topics: Complexity touches on many specialities. These
would be good "special topics" short courses. They'd include Game
Theory, Data Mining, Artificial Life, Graph Theory, Machine Learning,
Stochastic Processes and so on.
So here's your chance! Do you have any classes you'd like to have
that are not available in Santa Fe's colleges? I'd like to collect
topics and people interested in them.
-- Owen
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