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INT 84CC - INTRO HONS SEMINAR - Fall 2023
Contemporary design and art such as sculpture and installation often integrate diverse kinds of 21st century technologies into their creation and execution. Some of those technologies that were once out of the reach of individual or unfunded artists are now becoming ubiquitous. We’ll introduce the class to technological processes, machines, and applications that integrate computer control with creative work by using them to iterate real world objects. We’ll extrapolate how these processes can be used to design studio sized fabrications and structures that are scale-able to large and impressive physical creations.
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INT 186AB - TRNSFR EXP SEMINARS - Fall 2023
Quantum calculations will be applied to problems in Chemistry and Biochemistry using Unix computers. Students will be able to use their Mac or PC computers as terminals to access UCSB Unix computers and supercomputers to carry out the calculations using Molden and Gaussian software packages. John Pople from Northwestern University and Walter Kohn from UCSB received the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of the theory and software for the Gaussian program, which has had an enormous effect on the modern chemistry research (https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1998/summary/). Instruction will use a combination of in-person meetings, Zoom meetings and GauchoSpace web resources to assist students in learning to use the software and gaining a general understanding of the computational and quantum concepts involved in the calculations. The class is well-suited for chemistry and biochemistry majors, but would also be good for some students with majors within MCDB , Physics, and Engineering (like the fields of Chem E and Materials Science).