The course aims to provide students with the knowledge about specific taste active compounds in food, their molecular mechanisms and their industrial applications.

Neuroethics is a rapidly evolving field that explores the ethical implications of neuroscience and neurological technologies. This new discipline delves into the questions raised by our growing ability to understand, map, and even manipulate the human brain. This course will provide a comprehensive exploration of neuroethics, examining key issues such as:

* Mind/Brain relationship.

* Privacy: How do we protect brain data from unauthorized access or manipulation?

* Enhancement: Can we ethically use technology to modulate cognitive function, memory, or emotional well-being?

* Brain-Computer Interfaces: What are the ethical considerations for devices that directly link brain and machine?

* Brain organoids: Could brains grown in a dish develop some form of consciousness? What would their moral status be in that case?

Neuroethics goes beyond simply identifying ethical issues; it delves into the complexities surrounding these issues and offers guidance for navigating them. Here is a closer look at its relevance:

1. Impact on Fundamental Concepts:

* Free Will and Responsibility: Understanding the neural basis of actions challenges traditional notions of free will. Neuroethics explores the legal and ethical implications, particularly in criminal justice or cases involving mental illness.

* Human Identity: If we can manipulate our brains, what does it mean to be human?

Neuroethics examines how advancements might influence our sense of self, perception, and even morality.

2. Broader Societal Implications:

* Mental Health Care: Neuroethics can inform the development of more effective and ethical treatments for mental illness by considering the potential impact on autonomy and privacy.

* Neuromarketing: Understanding how the brain responds to marketing stimuli raises ethical questions about manipulation and consumer protection. Neuroethics can help establish ethical guidelines for this field.

* Social Justice: As neurotechnologies become more prevalent, access and distribution become crucial issues. Neuroethics ensures these advancements benefit all of society and do not exacerbate existing inequalities.

By grappling with these challenges, neuroethics plays a significant role in ensuring that neuroscience advancements benefit humanity and do not compromise our core values. It fosters a future where scientific progress and ethical considerations move hand-in-hand.

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INIZIO DELLE LEZIONI

Martedì 4 marzo 2025

Orario e Aule

Martedì 10.30-12.30 Aula C21 [Colombo C]

Giovedì 10.30-12.30 Aula 4 [Veterinaria Edificio V8]

Email di contatto per ricevimento studenti - irene.bollati@unimi.it

The course aims to provide students with basic notions to understand the strategies developed by plants to interact and respond to the surrounding environment, including biotic or abiotic stress conditions, and how this interaction can influence the overall plant development. Different types of interactions will be analyzed at various levels, including molecular, biochemical and phenotypical. Plant responses and adaptations to the presence of a sudden, or a continuous, stress will be also studied.

Over the past 30 years, there has been a two-thirds reduction in extreme poverty, the fastest progress in history. However, billions of people still lack access to primary healthcare and education; inequality is rising, democracy is backsliding, violence disrupts the security and daily lives of millions, and non-state armed groups govern the lives of many in both urban and rural settings. In light of this, can we truly argue that the world has “developed”? If so, what does development mean? Why are some countries poorer, more violent, and less democratic than others, or even less so than they were a generation ago? How can politicians, bureaucrats, citizens, and international actors promote development? This course evaluates and examines uneven progress in development from a political science perspective.

The course provides a (necessarily broad and selective) overview of the politics of development. Its core thesis is that the distribution of political power and how it is exercised by a multiplicity of state and non-state actors fundamentally shape societies' prosperity and create enormous inequalities worldwide. To empirically account for this, the course adopts a comparative analytical approach to the dynamics of societies in the so-called “Global South.” However, the issues and debates covered are (concerningly) relevant to the study of politics and society in other contexts.

The course seeks to balance conceptual and theoretical debates, real-world issues, and challenges in development politics. The first part, which is more theoretical (and admittedly drier), introduces some of the central concepts and theories of development, explicitly incorporating various research traditions and the voices of authors from the developing world. The second part takes a more empirical approach to explore political issues and challenges critical to political development. These include state formation and state capacity, the legacies of colonialism, the functioning of autocracies and democracies, processes of democratization and democratic regression, the politics of inequality, poverty, and exclusion, political corruption and clientelism, internal armed conflict, and organized crime.

The language of the course is English and Italian. Lectures and readings will be in English, but questions, in-class discussions, and the exam can be done in each student's preferred language.

La teoria della probabilità è oggi applicata in una grande varietà di campi tra cui fisica, ingegneria, informatica, biologia, economia e scienze sociali.
Questo corso è un'introduzione rigorosa alla teoria del calcolo delle probabilità che ha le martingale di Doob e l'introduzione ai processi stocastici come tema di prospettiva.

Dopo una breve panoramica sui fondamenti della teoria di base, si approfondisce l'importante concetto di valore atteso condizionato. Si introducono quindi nel dettaglio i processi stocastici con particolare riferimento alle proprietà di misurabilità e la costruzione dello spazio dei cammini. Si studia a fondo in particolare la teoria di due classi di processi: le martingale sia a tempo discreto che a tempo continuo ed i processi di Markov, sia attraverso le sue caratterizzazioni, sia considerando le catene di Markov a tempo discreto