Computer Science and Systems Engineering

This course aims at introducing, from an advanced point of view, the fundamental concepts of probability and statistical inference. Some proofs are sketched or omitted in order to have more time for examples, applications and exercises.
In particular, the course deals with the following topics:

- probability space, random variable, expectation, variance, cumulative distribution function, discrete and absolutely continuous distributions, random vector, joint and marginal distributions, joint cumulative distribution function, covariance,

Teaching contents:

1. Theory of the Firm
2. The system of force in a business organization
3. The balance between efficiency of the production and effectiveness in results
4. Business performance and ways to represent
5. The financial statement
6. How to read and comprehend performances and results
7. Methodology and tools for Balance sheet analysis
8. Prevision versus prediction and business analytics
9. Entrepreneurship and management in complex scenario
10. Neuroscience, decision making process and managerial behavior

This course introduces students to the basic concepts used in quantitative finance, which forms the basis for many applications such as derivatives pricing, financial engineering and asset pricing. Anyone interested in these areas will have to acquire a good grasp of the topics in this course.

- Microdata and Heterogeneity
- Potential Outcome Framework
- Difference-in-difference and treatment effects
- Linear and Static Panel Data Models
- Linear and Dynamic Panel Data Models
- Non-Linear Models
- Categorical variables and count data
- Multinomial models

- Review of Asymptotic Theory
- Theory and Algebra of OLS
- Inference, non-spherical Errors and Clustering
- Structural Models, Identification and Causality
- Simultaneous Equation Models, 2SLS and 3SLS
- Introduction to M-Estimation
- Generalized Method of Moments
- Maximum Likelihood Estimation

The aim of this class is to provide students with R language fundamentals and basic sintax. In particular, lessons will cover the following topics:

- Overview of R features
- The basics (vectors, matrices, objects, manipulation, basic statements)
- Reading data from files
- Probability distributions
- Basic statistical models
- Graphical procedures
- R packages overview

This course aims at introducing to students principles and methodologies of computer programming. Emphasis is on good programming style, techniques and tools that allow efficient design, development and maintenance of software systems. The course focuses on the design of computer applications drawing attention to modern software engineering principles and programming techniques, like object-oriented design, decomposition, encapsulation, abstraction, and testing. A significative case study is used to allow students to experiment with the principles and techniques considered in this course.

This course provides an overview on the theories of contact and fracture mechanics relevant for a wide range of disciplines ranging from materials science to engineering. Introducing their theoretical foundations, the physical aspects of the resulting nonlinearities induced by such phenomena are emphasized. Numerical methods (FEM, BEM) for their approximate solution are also presented together with a series of applications to real case studies.

Teaching contents:

1. The economy of the intangibles
2. Manufacturing and robot
3. Strategy and business model
4. How to model a business
5. How to model a business in a complex scenario
6. What make market emerging? Not only new lands.
7. The Blockchain technology and the future
8. Initial Coins Offering (ICO) compressed between Business plan and White paper
9. Possible value of Blockchain technology for Small and medium Italian sized business
10. A global value chain approach to protect and foster strategic identity

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