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Module Outline
The module aims to equip students with advanced knowledge and understanding of a chosen area of study to undertake higher level independent research under guidance from a supervisor. It encourages students to develop their prior knowledge and understanding of art history at a higher level and undertake more focused and independent work. It encourages research skills, the critical application of methodology, and independent thinking. It enables students to make effective use of primary sources, both artistic and textual, in developing and completing a research project. It provides opportunities to develop research and writing.
Sample Syllabus
The Basics: internet / library search tips and strategies
Conducting art historical research
Part I: how to select a topic (objects, monument, spaces)
Part II: how to identify secondary and primary sources (libraries, archives, image banks)
Part III: how to contextualise your findings in terms of the process of creation & meaning
Dealing with the visual: how to look; how to establish the original setting; basics of reconstruction
Module Format
This module is based around seminars and tutorials throughout the term with an emphasis on independent study.
Module Aims
Learn about significant scholarly debates among historians of art and/or architecture, analyse and evaluate their contributions
Identify and evaluate the most frequently used sources (visual and textual) to conduct and complete research on a select project
Engage in the analysis of a body of primary and secondary source material including relevant information technology
Communicate ideas and findings about the topic at hand both orally and in writing at a higher level
Present material effectively in a scholarly written format
Workload
14 contact hours (4 of which as tutorials)
You should carry out a minimum of 20 hours reading and preparation per week for this module.
Assessment
1 x 5,000 word research project due in week 1 of the following term (90%)
Engagement (10%)
Topology is the study of properties of spaces that are invariant under continuous deformations. An often cited example is that a cup is topologically equivalent to a torus, but not to a sphere. In general, topology is the rigorous development of ideas related to concepts such “nearness”, “neighbourhood”, and “convergence”.
This module covers topological spaces and their properties, homotopy, the fundamental group, Galois correspondence, universal covers, free products, and CV complexes.
The course will follow largely the first chapter of
- Allen Hatcher. Algebraic Topology. Cambridge University Press.
An electronic version of the book is freely available on the author’s web page, and a printed version should be available in the library or the campus bookshop.
Overview
There is much active mathematical research into aeroacoustics (the study of sound in aircraft engines). This field is closely followed, and often contributed to (sometimes helpfully) by engineers in both academia and industry (e.g. Airbus, Boeing, NASA, etc). The aim of this course is to give an overview of the mathematical techniques needed to understand the current research problems, and read current papers in the area. This could lead on to several possible PhD projects, including in asymptotics, numerical analysis, and stability theory.
Aims
The application of wave theory to problems involving the generation, propagation and scattering of acoustic and other waves is of considerable relevance in many practical situations. These include, for example, underwater sound propagation, aircraft noise, remote sensing, the effect of noise in built-up areas, and a variety of medical diagnostic applications. This course would aim to provide the basic theory of wave generation, propagation and scattering, and an overview of the mathematical methods and approximations used to tackle these problems, with emphasis on applications to aeroacoustics. The ultimate aim is for students to understand the underlying mathematical tools of acoustics sufficiently to read current research publications on acoustics, and to be able to apply these techniques to current research questions within mathematics, engineering and industry.
Learning Outcomes
- Reproduce standard models and arguments for sound generation and propagation.
- Apply mathematical techniques to model sound generation and propagation in simple systems.
- Understand and apply Wiener-Hopf factorisation in the scalar case.
Approximate Syllabus
- Some general acoustic theory.
- Sound generation by turbulence and moving bodies (including the Lighthill and Ffowcs Williams Hawkings acoustic analogies).
- Scattering (including the scalar Wiener-Hopf technique applied to the Sommerfeld problem of scattering by a sharp edge)
- Long-distance sound propagation including nonlinear and viscous effects.
- Wave-guides.
- High frequencies and Ray Tracing.
Reading List
- D.G. Crighton, A.P. Dowling, J.E. Ffowcs Williams, et al, "Modern Methods in Analyticial Acoustics", Springer 1992.
- M. Howe, "Acoustics & Aerodynamic Sound", Cambridge 2015 (available online through Warwick Library).
- S.W. Rienstra & A. Hirschberg, "An Introduction to Acoustics", (available online).
Overview
There is much active mathematical research into aeroacoustics (the study of sound in aircraft engines). This field is closely followed, and often contributed to (sometimes helpfully) by engineers in both academia and industry (e.g. Airbus, Boeing, NASA, etc). The aim of this course is to give an overview of the mathematical techniques needed to understand the current research problems, and read current papers in the area. This could lead on to several possible PhD projects, including in asymptotics, numerical analysis, and stability theory.
Aims
The application of wave theory to problems involving the generation, propagation and scattering of acoustic and other waves is of considerable relevance in many practical situations. These include, for example, underwater sound propagation, aircraft noise, remote sensing, the effect of noise in built-up areas, and a variety of medical diagnostic applications. This course would aim to provide the basic theory of wave generation, propagation and scattering, and an overview of the mathematical methods and approximations used to tackle these problems, with emphasis on applications to aeroacoustics. The ultimate aim is for students to understand the underlying mathematical tools of acoustics sufficiently to read current research publications on acoustics, and to be able to apply these techniques to current research questions within mathematics, engineering and industry.
Learning Outcomes
- Reproduce standard models and arguments for sound generation and propagation.
- Apply mathematical techniques to model sound generation and propagation in simple systems.
- Understand and apply Wiener-Hopf factorisation in the scalar case.
Approximate Syllabus
- Some general acoustic theory.
- Sound generation by turbulence and moving bodies (including the Lighthill and Ffowcs Williams Hawkings acoustic analogies).
- Scattering (including the scalar Wiener-Hopf technique applied to the Sommerfeld problem of scattering by a sharp edge)
- Long-distance sound propagation including nonlinear and viscous effects.
- Wave-guides.
- High frequencies and Ray Tracing.
Reading List
- D.G. Crighton, A.P. Dowling, J.E. Ffowcs Williams, et al, "Modern Methods in Analyticial Acoustics", Springer 1992.
- M. Howe, "Acoustics & Aerodynamic Sound", Cambridge 2015 (available online through Warwick Library).
- S.W. Rienstra & A. Hirschberg, "An Introduction to Acoustics", (available online).