Introduction: Postcolonial spaces across forms

Introduction: Hybridity in Contemporary Postcolonial Theory

in postcolonial studies with the exigencies that led to the founding of this academic discipline itself. Such exigencies arose from recognizing and studying situations of stark inequalities, which were held in place and legitimated by the various machinations of, or inherited from, colonialism. That is, in unpacking and examining hybridity today in some of its theoretical versions as well as sp...

Introduction to Cross LAK 2016: Learning Analytics Across Spaces

For the LAK (Learning Analytics and Knowledge) community, it is highly important to pay attention to the development and deployment of learning analytics solutions for blended learning scenarios where students work at diverse digital and physical learning spaces and interact in different modalities. This workshop has been a first attempt in gathering the sub-community of LAK researchers, learni...

Introduction to quadratic forms

I begin with a basic discussion of bilinear forms and quadratic forms. The distinction between the two is particularly important, since I do not generally assume 2 to be invertible. Then I go on to prove versions of theorems about quadratic forms that are independent of the particular coefficient field, except for distinctions based on characteristic. Eventually, I shall be interested only in q...

Introduction: Pre-homogeneous Spaces

This will be a course on arithmetic invariant theory. The goal of the course is to understand orbits of representations of algebraic groups over non-algebraically closed fields and eventually over Z. We will focus on representations that arise “naturally” from number theory, algebraic geometry, Vinberg theory, knot theory etc. 1 Let G be an algebraic group acting “integrally” on a vector space ...

Introduction : New Organizational Forms ± Critical