List of Student Assistants (REGULAR non-honors CLASSES)

T,R 9:50am

Jaime Duque
Gabriela Franco
Jeremiah Duhart
Juan Oramas

T,R 11:15am

Katerina Golubev
Nicole Zambrano
Bayardo Lopez
Sebastian Shironoshita

T, 5:40pm

Kelvin Amaya
Benjamin Alveo
Geoffry Robbins

A student assistant is a person who help his/her classmates. How? a- counseling how to study for the upcoming midterm exam, b- coordinating a phi 2010 review, c- telling as tudent how to execute this or that, d- advising with the final paper, i.e., helping his/her classmates to pass the class and learn the love for philosophy. 

Qualifications: A student assistant is a [B+ - A+] achiever. 
Returns? a- status! (you're a role model) b- prestige (it looks good in your resume), c- your professor's explicit advocacy (yes, I write good letters of recommendation), x-tra points (as if you needed them ;=)

List of student assistants (HONORS CLASSES)

Interamerican Campus 

Ivette Castro-Prieto
Gabriela Herrera
Carlos de la Torre
Mario Álvarez

Wolfson Campus 

MWF 10 AM 
Aidin Alejo
Thomas Thielen (?)
Laura Campos
Stephanie Elmir

 MWF 11AM
Estefany Lopez
Mark Goldberg
Jesus Cruz
Yonah Elorza
Luiza Martinez
Jessica Garcia

A student assistant is a person who help his/her classmates. How? a- counseling how to study for the upcoming midterm exam, b- coordinating a phi 2010 review, c- telling as tudent how to execute this or that, d- advising with the final paper, i.e., helping his/her classmates to pass the class and learn the love for philosophy. 

Qualifications: A student assistant is a [B+ - A+] achiever. 
Return? a- status! (you're a role model) b- prestige (it looks good in your resume), c- your professor's unequivocal advocacy (yes, I write good letters of recommendation), x-tra points (as if you needed them ;=)

the new professional breed: you're better off with a Ph.D. in mathematics

monish shah looks like he's doing just fine (look at his shoes)

in the NYTimes business section.

 Harnessing Ph.D.-- toting mathematicians to the most powerful computers money can buy has become the accepted way for hedge funds and banks to get a trading edge these days, but Jane Street takes this marriage of high tech and high intellect to a new level.

another good reason to study math: you make more money  

received signals from a billion years ago!

gravitational wave's formula 

in the NYTIMES: the paramount importance of science in general (and physics in particular).

While the political displays we have been treated to over the past weeks may reflect some of the worst about what it means to be human, this jiggle, discovered in an exotic physics experiment, reflects the best. Scientists overcame almost insurmountable odds to open a vast new window on the cosmos. And if history is any guide, every time we have built new eyes to observe the universe, our understanding of ourselves and our place in it has been forever altered.

the explanation is pretty good for a newspaper article:

...  each time we wave our hands around or move any matter, disturbances in the fabric of space propagate out at the speed of light, as waves travel outward when a rock is thrown into a lake. As these gravitational waves traverse space they will literally cause distances between objects alternately to decrease and increase in an oscillatory manner.

of course, this baffling fact (now that it has been tested, was it not always a fact only we didn't postulate it?) doesn't belong in the macroworld. our daily lives are not changed by this in any perceptible manner,

In the absence of alcohol, your living room doesn’t appear to shrink and grow repeatedly. But, in fact, it does. The oscillations in space caused by gravitational waves are so small that those ripples in length had never been seen.

here comes the punch:

Yet on Thursday, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, announced that a signal from gravitational waves had been discovered emanating from the collision and merger of two massive black holes over a billion light-years away. How far away is that? Well, one light-year is about 5.88 trillion miles.

what if in a not-so-distant future we could actually observe the gravitational waves from BIG BANG itself? i don't doubt it.

Too often people ask, what’s the use of science like this, if it doesn’t produce faster cars or better toasters. But people rarely ask the same question about a Picasso painting or a Mozart symphony. Such pinnacles of human creativity change our perspective of our place in the universe. Science, like art, music and literature, has the capacity to amaze and excite, dazzle and bewilder. I would argue that it is that aspect of science — its cultural contribution, its humanity — that is perhaps its most important feature.

__________

here for the math oriented.

HONORS CLASSES THIS IS THE POST FOR YOUR PROPOSAL FOR FINAL PAPER

TOPICS HERE.

PROPOSAL SAMPLE HERE.

mind body problem revisited (in detail)

click here for a very detailed account of the mind/body problem from university of berkeley (recommended).

list of movies dealing with AI

Ex Machina (what does post-singularity look like?)

HER (sexy!)

A.I. (compelling and sad study of otherness)

I Robot (interesting for ethical human/A.I. issues)

Blade Runner (a work of art)

THE MATRIX (a movie for philosophers)

Space Odyssey (my favorite science fiction movie)

a note from Kamila Marchante regarding the Human Rights Alliance!

Join Human Rights Alliance for a night of music, dance, spoken word and art as we allow creative expression to convey human rights violations occurring in our community and around the world.

 All proceeds from the event go to our two ongoing initiatives: Invested in the Youth: backpack collection for inner city students of Breakthrough Miami Hope Totes: Comprehensive care packages for sex trafficking survivors for the Life of Freedom Center. 

Tickets can be purchased from members of HRA or online here.

Purchase the VIP pass to have access to henna, mocktails (virgin cocktails), and an entrance into our raffle to win an art piece!

Find the facebook event link here. 

Thank you,