United States Courses & Certifications

Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra

This course focuses on the algorithms for analyzing and designing geometric foldings. Applications to architecture, robotics, manufacturing, and biology are also covered in this course.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 43 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Society of Mind

This course is an introduction to the theory that tries to explain how minds are made from collections of simpler processes.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 24 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Algorithmic Lower Bounds: Fun with Hardness Proofs

The class focuses on reductions and techniques for proving problems are computationally hard for a variety of complexity classes.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 31 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Graph Theory and Additive Combinatorics

This course examines classical and modern developments in graph theory and additive combinatorics, with a focus on topics and themes that connect the two subjects.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 34 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Introduction to Nuclear Engineering and Ionizing Radiation

This course provides an introduction to nuclear science and its engineering, as well as industrial and medical applications of nuclear science.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 32 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Physics III: Vibrations and Waves

This course will provide you with the concepts and mathematical tools necessary to understand and explain a broad range of vibrations and waves.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Quantum Physics III

This course introduces some of the important model systems studied in contemporary physics, including two-dimensional electron systems, the fine structure of hydrogen, lasers, and particle scattering.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 30 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Early Universe

The first part of the course deals with the classical cosmology, and later part with modern particle physics and its recent impact on cosmology.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 29 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Statistical Mechanics I: Statistical Mechanics of Particles

Statistical Mechanics is a probabilistic approach to equilibrium properties of large numbers of degrees of freedom. In this two-semester course, basic principles are examined.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 36 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Statistical Mechanics II: Statistical Physics of Fields

Basic principles are examined in this class, such as the laws of thermodynamics and the concepts of temperature, work, heat, and entropy.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 35 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Atomic and Optical Physics I

This course is the first of a two-semester subject sequence that provides the foundations for contemporary research in selected areas of atomic and optical physics.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 34 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Atomic and Optical Physics II

This is the second of a two-semester subject sequence beginning with Atomic and Optical Physics I (8.421) that provides the foundations for contemporary research in selected areas of atomic and optical physics.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 36 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Effective Field Theory

Effective field theory is a fundamental framework to describe physical systems with quantum field theory.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 36 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Finance Theory I

This course introduces the core theory of modern financial economics and financial management, with a focus on capital markets and investments.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 25 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How to Win at Texas Hold'em Poker

This short course covers the poker concepts, math concepts, and general concepts needed to play the game of Texas Hold'em on a professional level.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 8 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video