Following an introduction of the main plasma properties, the fundamental concepts of the fluid and kinetic theory of plasmas are introduced. Applications concerning laboratory, space, and astrophysical plasmas are discussed throughout the course. ...
Ce cours-atelier traite de l'évolution des technologies du transport en Suisse aux 19e et 20e siècles. Grâce à l'analyse interactive de documents d'époque (sources), l'étudiant-e prend conscience des relations entre le technique et le social et analyse les ...
In this course we will study the cell (minimum unit of life) and its components. We will study several key cellular features : membranes, genomes, channels and receptors. We will apply the laws of physics to develop models to make quantitative and predicti ...
Le cours vise a familiariser les etudiants avec l'histoire de l'environnement et des paysages, et avec la maniere dont les preoccupations environnementales amenent a repenser aujourd'hui le sens et les principes de l'architecture et des disciplines de pr ...
Human and freight mobility in large cities is a complex process with dense population and many transport modes to compete for limited space. New emerging modes of transport, such as on-demand services, and new technologies, such as autonomous vehicles, cre ...
This course considers the multi-scale computational modeling of hard-matter systems, with an emphasis on the physical phenomena of matter transport and emergent macroscopic mechanical properties, and how their microscopic origin is coarse grained to the en ...