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The phrase 'feminist pedagogy' couples the contemporary and the
traditional, joining current political movements with a concern for
the transmission of knowledge more ancient than the Greek word for
teaching. Now, two decades after the first Women's Studies courses
appeared on campuses, their place in higher education happily needs
little demonstration. Gendered Subjects combines a number of
classic statements on feminist pedagogy from the 1970s with recent
original essays making significant and original contributions to
the field. As the new scholarship on women has changed the content
and structure of knowledge in every field, so this collection aims
to mirror this impact on feminist pedagogy, with articles ranging
from broad theoretical perspectives on the realities of the
classroom to international explorations on how race, gender and
class, and political orientation inform feminist enquiry.
The phrase feminist pedagogy couples the contemporary and the
traditional, joining current political movements with a concern for
the transmission of knowledge more ancient than the Greek word for
teaching. Now, two decades after the first Women s Studies courses
appeared on campuses, their place in higher education happily needs
little demonstration.
Gendered Subjects combines a number of classic statements on
feminist pedagogy from the 1970s with recent original essays making
significant and original contributions to the field. As the new
scholarship on women has changed the content and structure of
knowledge in every field, so this collection aims to mirror this
impact on feminist pedagogy, with articles ranging from broad
theoretical perspectives on the realities of the classroom to
international explorations on how race, gender and class, and
political orientation inform feminist enquiry.
This book is about quantum computing and quantum algorithms. The
book starts with a chapter introducing the basic rules of quantum
mechanics and how they can be used to build quantum circuits and
perform computations. Further, Grover's algorithm is presented for
unstructured search discussing its consequences and applications.
Next, important techniques are discussed such as Quantum Fourier
Transform and quantum phase estimation. Finally, Shor's algorithm
for integer factorization is explained. At last, quantum walks are
explained in detail covering both the discrete and continuous time
models,and applications of this techniques are described for the
design and analyses of quantum algorithms.
The revised edition of this book offers an extended overview of
quantum walks and explains their role in building quantum
algorithms, in particular search algorithms. Updated throughout,
the book focuses on core topics including Grover's algorithm and
the most important quantum walk models, such as the coined,
continuous-time, and Szedgedy's quantum walk models. There is a new
chapter describing the staggered quantum walk model. The chapter on
spatial search algorithms has been rewritten to offer a more
comprehensive approach and a new chapter describing the element
distinctness algorithm has been added. There is a new appendix on
graph theory highlighting the importance of graph theory to quantum
walks. As before, the reader will benefit from the pedagogical
elements of the book, which include exercises and references to
deepen the reader's understanding, and guidelines for the use of
computer programs to simulate the evolution of quantum walks.
Review of the first edition: "The book is nicely written, the
concepts are introduced naturally, and many meaningful connections
between them are highlighted. The author proposes a series of
exercises that help the reader get some working experience with the
presented concepts, facilitating a better understanding. Each
chapter ends with a discussion of further references, pointing the
reader to major results on the topics presented in the respective
chapter." - Florin Manea, zbMATH.
The revised edition of this book offers an extended overview of
quantum walks and explains their role in building quantum
algorithms, in particular search algorithms. Updated throughout,
the book focuses on core topics including Grover's algorithm and
the most important quantum walk models, such as the coined,
continuous-time, and Szedgedy's quantum walk models. There is a new
chapter describing the staggered quantum walk model. The chapter on
spatial search algorithms has been rewritten to offer a more
comprehensive approach and a new chapter describing the element
distinctness algorithm has been added. There is a new appendix on
graph theory highlighting the importance of graph theory to quantum
walks. As before, the reader will benefit from the pedagogical
elements of the book, which include exercises and references to
deepen the reader's understanding, and guidelines for the use of
computer programs to simulate the evolution of quantum walks.
Review of the first edition: "The book is nicely written, the
concepts are introduced naturally, and many meaningful connections
between them are highlighted. The author proposes a series of
exercises that help the reader get some working experience with the
presented concepts, facilitating a better understanding. Each
chapter ends with a discussion of further references, pointing the
reader to major results on the topics presented in the respective
chapter." - Florin Manea, zbMATH.
It is the great glory as it is also the great threat of science
that everything which is in principle possible can be done if the
intention to do it is sufficiently resolute. Peter Medawar, "The
Threat and the Glory" An international symposium on "Cell Signal
Transduction, Second Messengers, and Protein Phosphorylation in
Health and Disease" was held at EI Escorial (Spain) from July 5-9,
1993 as a summer course of the Complutense University in Madrid.
The lectures were delivered by renowned scientists from Europe,
America, and Asia and attended by a large number of young
scientists and graduate students from many countries. During
evolution multicellular organisms have developed the most
sophisticated and heterogeneous signals to maintain in harmony
their multiple functions. The latest and most controversial aspects
and developments in signal transduction were the main focus of this
course. The communication among participants was extremely fluid,
alive, and warm. This allowed the understanding of the key steps in
cellular communication, from their original and historical sources
to the main present hypothesis in the borderline of the latest
scientific discoveries in this field. Without any doubt, the
special atmosphere of the place, the monuments and the old granite
stones, the "patio" with the fountain and the rose garden were
responsible for the cordial meeting. This book comprises the
manuscripts of the participants and we hope it will contribute to
our knowledge of cellular signal transduction and be of value to a
wider scientific community.
This book addresses an interesting area of quantum computation
called quantum walks, which play an important role in building
quantum algorithms, in particular search algorithms. Quantum walks
are the quantum analogue of classical random walks. It is known
that quantum computers have great power for searching unsorted
databases. This power extends to many kinds of searches,
particularly to the problem of finding a specific location in a
spatial layout, which can be modeled by a graph. The goal is to
find a specific node knowing that the particle uses the edges to
jump from one node to the next. This book is self-contained with
main topics that include: Grover's algorithm, describing its
geometrical interpretation and evolution by means of the spectral
decomposition of the evolution operator Analytical solutions of
quantum walks on important graphs like line, cycles,
two-dimensional lattices, and hypercubes using Fourier transforms
Quantum walks on generic graphs, describing methods to calculate
the limiting distribution and mixing time Spatial search
algorithms, with emphasis on the abstract search algorithm (the
two-dimensional lattice is used as an example) Szedgedy's
quantum-walk model and a natural definition of quantum hitting time
(the complete graph is used as an example) The reader will benefit
from the pedagogical aspects of the book, learning faster and with
more ease than would be possible from the primary research
literature. Exercises and references further deepen the reader's
understanding, and guidelines for the use of computer programs to
simulate the evolution of quantum walks are also provided.
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