Due to Jordi Gali's seminar, Thursday May 19th the class will start at 11:30.
This is a Ph.D. course not a Masters course. As such students are not expected to learn what other people have discovered, but the tools that are needed in order to discover things by themselves. Because of this reason the active work of the students is crucial to achieve the objective of mastering the tools that are described above. This is a course to learn to do things, and, therefore, it requires to do some things.
Every class except the first one we will devote the first twenty minutes or so to students presentations of homeworks. I expect professional competence in this regard.
This is not a course in computer languages so students are responsible to learn to write computer programs. Students are also responsible for learning their way around McNeil computational facilities. I do not expect anybody to have a computer at home or anything like that. It is better to work in McNeill's computer room because you can talk to each other. There are various general classes of computer languages.