FIN 801 Problems in Financial Management

Course syllabus for FIN 801A Problems in Financial Management Course description: Covers the problems faced by the financial officer in management of funds in the business firm. Emphasizes developing skills and techniques to implement capital expenditure policies, solving short-term and long-term financing problems, and establishing dividend policies

FIN 436 Options and Futures

Course syllabus for FIN 436A Options and Futures Course description: The study of modern concepts and issues in financial options and future markets. Emphasis on risk management in financial institutions and application in corporate finance and funds management

FIN 301 Principles of Financial Management

Course syllabus for FIN 301A Principles of Financial Management Course description: An examination of the theory and practice of the financial management function in planning the appropriate amount of funds to employees in the firm, raising these funds on the most favorable terms, and directing the efficient allocation of the funds within the firm. Topics discussed include financial analysis and control, the management of current assets, capital budgeting, short-term and long-term financing

FIN 420 Advanced Corporate Finance

Course syllabus for FIN 420 Advanced Corporate Finance Course description: Advanced Corporate Finance focuses on the application of financial management tools and techniques. The case study method is used to cover such topics as profit planning, leverage analysis, working capital management, capital budgeting, and valuation of the firm

FIN 420 Advanced Corporate Finance

Course syllabus for FIN 420B Advanced Corporate Finance Course description: Advanced Corporate Finance focuses on the application of financial management tools and techniques. The case study method is used to cover such topics as profit planning, leverage analysis, working capital management, capital budgeting, and valuation of the firm

FIN 801 Problems in Financial Management

Course syllabus for FIN 801A Problems in Financial Management Course description: Covers the problems faced by the financial officer in management of funds in the business firm. Emphasizes developing skills and techniques to implement capital expenditure policies, solving short-term and long-term financing problems, and establishing dividend policies

FIN 436 Options and Futures

Course syllabus for FIN 436A Options and Futures Course description: The study of modern concepts and issues in financial options and futures markets. Emphasis on risk management in financial institutions and applications in corporate finance and funds management

FIN 801 Problems in Financial Management

Course syllabus for FIN 801A Problems in Financial Management Course description: Covers the problems faced by the financial officer in management of funds in the business firm. Emphasizes developing skills and techniques to implement capital expenditure policies, solving short-term and long-term financing problems, and establishing dividend policies

Observing the Evolution of the Universe

How did the universe evolve? The fine angular scale (l>1000) temperature and polarization anisotropies in the CMB are a Rosetta stone for understanding the evolution of the universe. Through detailed measurements one may address everything from the physics of the birth of the universe to the history of star formation and the process by which galaxies formed. One may in addition track the evolution of the dark energy and discover the net neutrino mass. We are at the dawn of a new era in which hundreds of square degrees of sky can be mapped with arcminute resolution and sensitivities measured in microKelvin. Acquiring these data requires the use of special purpose telescopes such as the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), located in Chile, and the South Pole Telescope (SPT). These new telescopes are outfitted with a new generation of custom mm-wave kilo-pixel arrays. Additional instruments are in the planning stages.Comment: Science White Paper submitted to the US Astro2010 Decadal Survey. Full list of 177 author available at http://cmbpol.uchicago.ed

Status of Muon Collider Research and Development and Future Plans

The status of the research on muon colliders is discussed and plans are outlined for future theoretical and experimental studies. Besides continued work on the parameters of a 3-4 and 0.5 TeV center-of-mass (CoM) energy collider, many studies are now concentrating on a machine near 0.1 TeV (CoM) that could be a factory for the s-channel production of Higgs particles. We discuss the research on the various components in such muon colliders, starting from the proton accelerator needed to generate pions from a heavy-Z target and proceeding through the phase rotation and decay ($\pi \to \mu \nu_{\mu}$) channel, muon cooling, acceleration, storage in a collider ring and the collider detector. We also present theoretical and experimental R & D plans for the next several years that should lead to a better understanding of the design and feasibility issues for all of the components. This report is an update of the progress on the R & D since the Feasibility Study of Muon Colliders presented at the Snowmass'96 Workshop [R. B. Palmer, A. Sessler and A. Tollestrup, Proceedings of the 1996 DPF/DPB Summer Study on High-Energy Physics (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA, 1997)].Comment: 95 pages, 75 figures. Submitted to Physical Review Special Topics, Accelerators and Beam