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Where: Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Prerequisites: General knowledge in Structural Mechanics, use of computer programmes

Objectives: The students of the BME do not need an introduction to the shape, role or importance of steel bridges: the bridges of Budapest offer a unique opportunity for everyone. Constructing bridges requires a wide range of engineering knowledge from foundations and superstructure to the planning of bridge traffic. In this course the subject of steel and iron bridges is presented, summarising the problems of design, detailing, construction, maintenance and refurbishment. This requires a detailed treatment of aspects of both traditional and modern bridges, as modern bridges are to be built and traditional bridges are to be repaired or reconstructed.

Programme: Seven 2-hour lectures:History of Hungarian bridge buildingDesign, construction, maintenance and refurbishment of the bridges of BudapestStatic problems of bridges in BudapestBridge aestheticsRole of bridges in the development of city constructionThree 2-hour exercisesUsing a program from the Internet to design a bridge for given conditionsOne-day visit to Budapest bridges (8 hours)

Exam: - Answering test questions- Evaluation of the bridge made by computer program

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Where: Ecole des Ponts ParisTech

Prerequisites: Connaissances de base de mécanique

Objectives: Ce cours présente un regard pluridisciplinaire sur un chef d’œuvre de l’architecture gothique, la cathédrale de Beauvais. Les étudiants découvriront l’architecture, les matériaux, la structure et les fondations des cathédrales et les conditions dans lesquelles elles furent construites.

Programme: "Le cours comporte une visite de la cathédrale de Beauvais, des conférences sur l’architecture des cathédrales, les techniques de construction de l’époque, les modèles de calcul, les matériaux, les systèmes de fondation et les techniques de surveillance de ces monuments. Le programme est structuré sur cinq journées, consacrées à :- la visite de la cathédrale et à une présentation de son histoire et de son architecture ;- l’histoire sociale, architecturale et technique du temps des cathédrales ;- les matériaux de construction des monuments et les techniques d’études et d’essai correspondantes ;- les fondations des ouvrages, l’estimation de leur capacité portante et les techniques de renforcement de ces fondations ;- les techniques de contrôle non destructif des structures et de surveillance des monuments, et la gestion des pathologies."

Exam: Les élèves remettront dans le mois suivant le cours un rapport personnel présentant une synthèse des exposés ou visites auxquels ils auront assisté durant l’une des journées du cours.

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Where: Télécom Paris

Prerequisites: - Connaissances de base en théorie des graphes et en optimisation combinatoire.- Programmation en C pour les TP.- Un goût pour la modélisation mathématique.

Objectives: Ce cours propose une introduction à la recherche opérationnelle et à l’aide à la décision. Il s’appuie sur deux problèmes liés à l’agrégation de relations binaires. Le premier, issu de la théorie du vote, consiste à savoir comment traduire un ensemble de préférences individuelles en une préférence collective qui reflète le mieux possible ces préférences individuelles ; le second, relevant du domaine de la classification, consiste à savoir comment regrouper des entités en classes telles que deux entités d’une même classe paraissent semblables (par rapport à un ensemble de critères fixés) et, au contraire, pour que deux entités de deux classes différentes apparaissent comme dissemblables. Pendant cette semaine, on modélisera mathématiquement ces problèmes d’agrégation à l’aide de graphes ou sous la forme d’un problème de programmation linéaire en 0/1. On étudiera ensuite sa complexité. Puis on décrira différentes méthodes d’optimisation combinatoire permettant de résoudre ces problèmes de manière exacte ou approchée. Certaines de ces méthodes seront programmées pendant des séances de travaux pratiques qui tiendront lieu de contrôle de connaissances.

Programme: Les différentes séances du cours seront consacrées aux thèmes suivants.- Introduction à la recherche opérationnelle et à l’aide à la décision- Méthodes d’aide à la décision multicritère- Illustrations de paradoxes en théorie du vote- Modélisations mathématiques de l’agrégation de préférences ou de relations d’équivalence à l’aide de graphes ou sous forme de problèmes de programmation linéaire en 0/1 - Méthodes exactes ou approchées d’optimisation combinatoire appliquées aux problèmes précédents : heuristiques et métaheuristiques, relaxation lagrangienne, méthodes arborescentes par séparation et évaluation- Des TP de programmation en C permettront d’illustrer certaines des méthodes précédentes aux problèmes décrits plus haut.

Exam: Le contrôle des connaissances se fera par les TP programmés pendant la semaine et par la présence aux cours.

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Where: Institut d'Optique Graduate School

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of physics, engineering, geometrical optics and Fourier optics (diffraction)

Objectives: Adaptive optics has produced extraordinary results in astronomical observations over the past twenty years. It is now spreading to other fields like high power lasers or ophthalmology. This course at Institut d'Optique Graduate School will be an introduction to that very powerful technique, and at the same time students will become acquainted with the fields of optical instruments, geometrical optics, physical optics and multi-variable digital control. A number of experimental demonstrations and sessions of high-level practical labwork will be proposed.

Programme: -First day: a general introduction to optical instruments. Fourier optics. Wave fronts and Aberrations. Experimental demonstrations-Second day: Labwork on optical instruments: Fourier optics and aberration characterisations.-Third day: A very useful optical instrument: the eye. Adaptive optics applied to vision improvement. Experimental demonstrations.-Fourth day: Adaptative optics application to ophthalmology. Deformable mirrors. An introduction to Optical Coherent Tomography technique associated with adaptive optics.-Fifth Day: Labwork on adaptive optics and wavefront measurements

Exam: Validation of this course will be conditioned by compulsory attendance at every class and labwork session. One labwork report will be required and assessed. It should be sent by email no later than 2 weeks after the end of the course. The mark will also take into account contribution to class and practical work, enthusiasm and experimental skills.

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Where: Télécom Paris

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge on image and sound processing is required as well as notions about automatic classification.

Objectives: Multimedia deals with sounds, images, videos and texts. Considering their growing number in our today lives (music/television records, personal photographies, web search, …) , it is urgent to develop efficient automatic processing to organize these documents, get information about their content and be able to easily retrieve them.During the “Multimedia indexing and retrieval” week, you will discover state-of-the-art techniques concerning multimedia document management. You will also be able to criticize the proposed approaches and develop your own one.

Programme: The week is continuously balanced between highy technical conferences and active learning courses (group projects, practice, discussions).The first day will be dedicated to generalities and classification tools. Groups and projects will be defined during this day.Then each morning of the week is dedicated to a conference about: sound processing, image indexing and retrieval, video processing and EXALEAD point of view. These conferences are delivered by international experts; they will provide you with problematic and solution related to their own media, based on state-of-the-art technologies and research.Afternoons are dedicated to discussions, projects and practices. This will be the occasion to go in deeper details on specific subjects according to your group interest. Practices on classification, sound and image indexing, relevance feedback will be proposed. TELECOM ParisTech multimedia mining platform PLATO will be presented.The last afternoon will be used for evaluations and concluding discussions.

Exam: Oral presentations of the group projects and written reports will be used to evaluate the students work.

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Where: KU Leuven

Prerequisites: Knowledge of C++ is not required, but experience with programming (Fortran, Java, C, Matlab, Python, or other languages) is mandatory.Preliminary knowledge of numerical mathematics is mandatory (e.g. the notion of floating point numbers, the power method, the bisection zerofinder).

Objectives: The goal is to make students familiar with the possibilities of the programming language C++ for the development of mathematical software. The course does not offer a deep study of the programming language itself, but rather focuses on those aspects that make C++ suitable for scientific programming.

Programme: The topics that will be discussed are several aspects of the syntax of C++, with, in particular, an introduction to meta programming, and interoperability with other languages. The software tools used are the GCC compiler and the gdb debugger on a linux PC.The lectures and exercices will be given by the participating professors, with the help of a small didactic team for the exercises.Exercices include small programs for data compression, automatic differentiation, and vector- and matrix-manipulations.

Exam: At the end of the week, the student will solve a small numerical simulation problem of its own choice, or chosen among the list of applications proposed by the lecturer.

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Where: Mines Paris - PSL

Prerequisites: Aucune connaissance spécialisée particulièreUne intervention se déroulera en anglaisAttention, les frais de transport pour le déplacement à Bruxelles s'élèvent à environ 85 euros

Objectives: Faire connaître aux élèves les processus de prise de décisions dans l'Union Européenne d'une façon générale d'abord, puis, en orientant exposés et interventions vers les besoins des entreprises et des hauts fonctionnaires nationaux.Présenter les activités de grands groupes français et étrangers face aux opportunités et enjeux offerts par le développement de l'Union Européenne.

Programme: Des modules successifs et cohérents :- Immersion dans l’UE à Bruxelles, le lundi 19 mars :Visites et présentation des rôles de la Commission, du Parlement Européen, de la Représentation Permanente de la France.- Le labyrinthe communautaire : comprendre pour agir - aspects institutionnels.- Les politiques génériques et les grandes problématiques de l'Union européenne :concurrence, énergie, marché intérieur et régulation financière, transport, recherche, innovation, spatiale, maritime marché unique, défense, armement, budget européen, gouvernance européenne.- Le lobbying .- Synthèse et conclusion politique.Ce module a bénéficié d'une subvention octroyée par la Commission Européenne dans le cadre de l'Action Jean Monnet "Module Européen"

Exam: Examen oral : le vendredi 23 mars

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Where: Universidad Politecnica de Madrid

Prerequisites: It is highly recommendable to have attained a certain level in the following subjects and technologies, as they will not be explained in the classes.•Knowledge representation systems: frames, semantic networks and description logics•Web Technologies: HTML, XML, etc.Java and JDBC

Objectives: The general objective is to provide students with a sound grounding of scientific, methodological and technological fundamentals in the Semantic Web domain that will be later used to build applications that can integrate, combine and infer heterogeneous and distributed information.

Programme: This course is organized in four sections and an oral presentation, with a total of 30 hours. For each section, we specify the amount of time devoted to theoretical lessons and to hands-on activities. Each section is composed of several units.Section 1: Introduction to the Semantic Web (theory: 1 hour)Unit 1.(1 hour) General overview of the semantic web with special emphasis on ontologies and resources annotation (documents, texts, web pages, web services, DBs, etc). Description of the types of problems this technology can be applied to.Section 2: Computational linguistics (theory: 2 hours, hands-on: 2 hours)Unit 2.(1 hour) Introduction to some computational linguistics concepts useful in building ontologies (terminological aspects: concepts, terms, relations between them, definitions, etc). Types of terminological resources (lexicons, thesauri, mono-, multilingual dictionaries, controlled-language vocabularies, terminological DBs, etc.) that can be used as a starting point in ontology building.Unit 3.(1 hour) Multilingual representation in ontologies.Section 3. Ontologies(theory: 10 hours,hands-on: 8 hours)Unit 4.(2 hours) Theoretical aspects: definition, scope, and types of ontologies.Unit 5.(2 hours) Languages used in ontology implementation: (RDF(S) and OWL) as well as query languages (SPARQL).Unit 6.(2 hours) Tools used in building and storing ontologies (Sesame, Jena, Protégé, NeOn toolkit) as well as in ontology reasoning (Pellet, Racer).Unit 7.(2 hours) Development methodologies used in building ontologies and ontology networks through collaborative work.Unit 8.(2 hours) Ontology Mapping (methods, techniques and tools)Section 4. Linked Data(theory: 2,5 hours, hands-on: 2,5 hours)Unit 9.(2 hours) How to create and use linked data.To allow students to consolidate knowledge and skills acquired throughout the course some assignments related to each unit have been designed.Students will work in pairs and all the coursework to be done will be related to a specific domain. That domain will be agreed by the teacher and the students. The aim is to enable students to apply the knowledge acquired in the course in order to face new situations and solve real problems. Thus, students will be well prepared to adapt to the continuous technological evolution in this field.

Exam: Students will be evaluated on the basis of a presentation that they must make of the work that compiles the coursework carried out.We have reserved 2 hours for this activity, in the end of the course.

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Where: Universidad Politecnica de Madrid

Prerequisites: It isn’t necessary but recommended to have some knowledge in communication networks.

Objectives: ·To discuss the last trends in smart homes deployment.·To analyse current and emergent multimodal home services.·To identify key human factors required to provide secure, accessible, affordable and ethical solutions at the home environment.·To understand the technical solutions to solve interoperation problems between the different networks existing at home.To analyse the state of the art in available standards and commercial products.

Programme: ·Introduction to services and technologies in the smart home.·Services in Smart Homes: Multimedia services - Home control services -Communication services·Network and buses: Home Area Networks - Control Buses - Access to public networks.·Devices and interfaces.·Human factors and users experience: Universal Access and Design for All - Ethics, security and privacy - Reliability, disposability and service management.·Ambient intelligence at home.Real deployment on UPM smart home scenario: Immersive experience in a 90 m2 real smart home will be conducted in order to identify and test accessible user interfaces and internetworking solutions to benefit from emerging e-home services - Deploying a real digital home with Lonworks.

Exam: Student will pass a content test. Furthermore practical competence will be evaluated in a living lab. Active participation in the course will be monitorised

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Where: Universidad Politecnica de Madrid

Prerequisites: Basic Knowledge of linear algebra and calculus

Objectives: Symbolic computation provides algorithmic tools and methods that, in one hand are useful to support the learning and understanding of Mathematics and on the other contributes to the resolution of computational aspects arising in engineering.The main goal of this course is to present efficient symbolic algorithms, fast in most cases or in the most relevant ones, to solve mathematic problems and their applications. This will allow the student to use these methods in some real life applications.For this purpose the student will become familiar with the existing symbolic computation software.

Programme: Basic Techniques on Symbolic Computation.Basic Symbolic Arithmetic.Symbolic Linear Algebra.Algebraic Symbolic Elimination Methods.Applications.Although an important part is theoretical the character of the course will be highly practical. This philosophy will be carried out by means of computer lab classes where the teaching of the symbolic concepts will be combined with the use of the symbolic software in an interactive mode.Invited talks presented by experts in the area will be considered as part of the structure of the course.

Exam: Computer lab assignments and finalreport

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Where: Universidad Politecnica de Madrid

Prerequisites: Basic Knowledge of linear algebra and calculus

Objectives: Symbolic computation provides algorithmic tools and methods that, in one hand are useful to support the learning and understanding of Mathematics and on the other contributes to the resolution of computational aspects arising in engineering.The main goal of this course is to present efficient conversion algorithms from parametric representations to implicit representations of rational curves and surfaces, and conversely.This will allow the student to use these methods in some real life applications.For this purpose the student will become familiar with the existing software.

Programme: Basic techniques on symbolic somputation.Implicitization of rational curves and surfaces.Introduction to the parametrization of rational curves.Computation of offsets.Applications.Although an important part is theoretical the character of the course will be highly practical. This philosophy will be carried out by means of computer lab classes, where the teaching of the symbolic concepts will be combined with the use of the symbolic software in an interactive mode.Invited talks presented by experts in the area will be considered as part of the structure of the course.

Exam: Computer lab assignments and finalreport

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Where: Universidad Politecnica de Madrid

Prerequisites: Students of Forest orEnvironmental Engineering and similar careers havingbasicknowledge of Systematic Botany and European phytogeography.

Objectives: ·Provide a proper undestanding of diversity of phytocenoses and vegetal landscapes and the way they are geographically distributed in Spain, with special mention to mediterranean communities (forests, shrublands and grasslands) and singular covers (intrazonal and macaronesic –canarian- islands).·Identification of most significative vegetal units, taking into account botanical composition, vertical and horizontal structures, evolutive dynamics (maturity level, stability) and indicator plants and traits.·Interpretation of causes that have determined and still influence the occurrence and distribution of current landscapes in Spain and the historical dynamics of phytogeographic evolution, highlighting human uses impact.Show different approaches and methodologies for the analysis of vegetation covers and phytosociological relationship.

Programme: Overview of Spanish vegetation. Influential Factors.Landscapes: concepts and case studies.History of Spanish Forests and vegetationHigh Mountain vegetation. The timberline in mountain ranges. Shrublands and endemicityMountain Needle leaved Forests. Distribution. Main species. The case of southernAbiesforestsDeciduous Forests and their domain. Substitution communities: shrublands and plantations. Prairies and pastures. Main species. Some case studies: National Parks.Submediterranean Forests and their domain. Distribution. Importance of lithology. Substitution communities: hedgerows, srhrublands, grasslands. Main speciesEsclerophyll Vegetation. Distribution. Types and varieties. Structures. Main species. Some examples: National Parks.Hyperxerophile vegetation. Distribution. Environmental management problemsIntrazonal vegetation: Rocky, sandy, salty and gypsum soilsRiparian vegetation. Woody communities. Main species. Case studies. RestorationVegetation transects in Spanish mountain rangesPlant selection for ecological restorationThe vegetation in the Canary Islands: Types and Human Impact. Some case studiesLaboratoy sessions:Use of Vegetation MapsIdentification of plant species-Herbarium samplesVisit to ArboretumAField Tripof 10 hrs. may be scheduled. It would consist of visits to several representative sites of vegetation landscapes in Madrid region.Attendants may be asked to pay for the proportional cost of coach or minibus rental (400-550 €, depending on coach size, to be divided into the total number of attending students).

Exam: Written and on-line tests

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Where: Universidad Politecnica de Madrid

Prerequisites: None, but familiarity with Excel would be helpful

Objectives: ·Learn to assess the economical worth of a project in real situations considering the time value of money.·Understand the different techniques used to compare projects and make decisions.·Work out a series of case studies drawn from real situations.·Implement these financial analysis techniques using financial software.

Programme: All the sessions will take place in a computer lab. Each session includes:Presentation of concepts and analysis techniques: 1 hourImplementation of selected case studies on the computer: 2h. 30mDiscussion: 30mStudents will have to complete assignments on their own for a total of 10 hours.Contents relative to each day1.The Time Value of MoneyInterest: Basic Formulas.Cash Flows: Equivalence and TypesNominal and Effective Interest ratesAnalysis of Loans and BondsEffects of Inflation on the Price of Money2.Present Worth AnalysisNet Present ValueNPV Criteria for a Single ProjectSelecting among Mutually Exclusive AlternativesCapitalized Cost3.Annual Equivalent Worth AnalysisAW CriteriaAdvantages of the MethodSelecting among Mutually Exclusive AlternativesUnit Cost/Profit Calculations4.Internal Rate of Return AnalysisInternal Rate of Return: Meaning and CriteriaSimple and Non-simple ProjectsIncremental AnalysisBenefit/Cost AnalysisProjects in the Public SectorB/C RatiosIncremental Analysis5.Developing Cash FlowsCash Flow ElementsEffects of InflationDepreciation, Taxes and FinancingGeneration and Economic Analysis of a Project Cash Flow.

Exam: Generate the cash flow of a project and perform an economic analysis.

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Where: Télécom Paris

Prerequisites: lace prépondérante tant dans le monde de l'industrie, de l'entreprise que dans la vie de tous les jours. Il ne nécessite aucun pré requis.Ce cours s'adresse à toute personne intéressée par la question de la sécurité industrielle et désireuse de s'initier à un domaine qui tient une place prépondérante tant dans le monde de l'industrie, de l'entreprise que dans la vie de tous les jours. Il ne nécessite aucun pré requis.Ce cours s'adresse à toute personne intéressée par la question de la sécurité industrielle et désireuse de s'initier à un domaine qui tient une place prépondérante tant dans le monde de l'industrie, de l'entreprise que dans la vie de tous les jours. Il ne nécessite aucun pré requis.

Objectives: Sensibiliser et initier à la complexité de l'évaluation et de la gestion des risques et des dangers dans l’entreprise. Acquérir les connaissances et méthodes fondamentales complétées d'éléments de réflexion sur le rôle de l'ingénieur. Appréhender la globalité de la gestion des dangers.La société comme les entreprises sont aujourd'hui confrontées à des situations diverses de nature catastrophique ou accidentelle. Il existe des méthodes pour détecter les signaux faibles qui les caractérisent afin de prévenir et gérer ce type d’événement. Il est pour cela nécessaire de définir le concept de crise, d'acquérir des connaissances de bases sur la prise en compte des risques avant de pouvoir mener une réflexion sur la question.

Programme: Jour 1 : L’entreprise face à ses risquesLe cours débute par une introduction à la gestion des risques au sein de l’entreprise. La question des enjeux d’une telle démarche est abordée. Un bref historique retrace l’évolution de la gestion des risques dans l’industrie depuis le début de l’ère industrielle à nos jours. Deux grandes catastrophes industrielles sont ensuite étudiées afin de sensibiliser les participants aux multiples composantes du risque. La journée se termine par une synthèse qui reprend les principaux acquis du cours (démarches et concepts).Jour 2 Les méthodes de l’analyse des risquesLa deuxième journée débute par la sensibilisation, à l’aide d’un cas concret, des élèves à la questionde la prévention des risques au sein de l’entreprise. Elle se poursuit par la présentation des fondements théoriques et méthodologiques de la maîtrise des risques au sein des systèmes industriels (historique, définitions, présentation des différentes approches). Les principales méthodes d’étude et de calcul du danger (analyse préliminaire des dangers, analyse des modes de défaillance et de leurs effets, arbres de causes ...) sont présentées.Jour 3 et 4 L’apprentissage des méthodesCes journées sont consacrées à une étude de cas pour la mise en pratique d’une analyse complète de prévention des risques liés à un site industriel. La journée se termine par une synthèse qui reprend les principaux acquis du cours (analyse des risques et audit technique).Jour 5 L’homme et l’organisationLa cinquième journée traite des aspects juridiques et assurantiels et de la prise en compte des facteurs humains et organisationnels au sein de la démarche de gestion des risques.

Exam: Le rapport rendu lors de l'étude de cas constitue le contrôle de ce module.

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Where: Istanbul Technical University

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge in applied mathematics and digital design.

Objectives: The objective of this course is to provide students with a brief introduction to Global Navigation Satellite Systems principals, time and coordinate systems, observations, orbit determination, processing GPS data: Adjustment and software, absolute and relative positioning, DGPS, static, kinematic, stop and go methods, real time kinematic method, Error sources and elimination, benchmarking, application field of GNSS, Geographic Information System and Sciences principles, components, data sources and data acquisition techniques, data models and data storage methods. International standarts for Geographic Information and GIS.

Programme: DAY TOPICS1Introduction to Space Techniques and GNSS2 GNSS Observable and Mathematical Models3Introduction to Geographic Information (GI)GIS Data Sources and Data Acquisition Techniques4Standards for Geographic Information5 Field & Data Processing & Exam.

Exam: The course examination is performed through projects and written final exam.

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Where: Czech Technical University in Prague

Prerequisites: Sets, relations, oriented graphs, finite automata, regular expressions.

Objectives: Text is the simplest and most natural representation of information in a range of areas. Text is a linear sequence of symbols from some alphabet. The text is manipulated in many application areas: processing of text in natural and formal languages, study of sequences in molecular biology, music analysis, etc.The design of algorithms that process texts goes back at least thirty years. In particular, the 1990s produced many new results. This progress is due in part to genome research, where text algorithms are often used.The basic problem of text processing concerns string matching. It is used to access information and this operation is used very frequently. We have recognized while working in this area that finite automata are very useful tools for understanding and solving many text processing problems. We have found in some cases that well known algorithms are in fact simulators of non-deterministic finite automata serving as models of these algorithms. For this reason the material used in this course is based mainly on results from the theory of finite automata.Because the string is a central notion in this area, Stringology has become the nickname of this subfield of algorithmic research.

Programme: ·Five 3-hour lectures:1.Overview of Stringology, string matching problems, string matching and finite automata.2.Forward string matching, fail function, dynamic programming and bit parallelism.3.Factor automata, subsequence automata, repetition in text.4.Forward string matching, fail function.5.Backward string matching, models of backward string matching, Boyer-Moore algorithm.·Three 1-hour case studies:1.Pattern matching in a two-dimensional text.2.Implementation of factor automata.3.String matching in a compressed text.·Three 2-hour seminars:1.Mastering finite automata: determinisation, union, intersection,e-transitions removal, elimination of more than one initial states.2.Construction of string matching automata, factor and subsequence automata.3.Forward string matching.

Exam: Written exam with the duration of 1 hour, evaluation of the results.

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Where: Czech Technical University in Prague

Prerequisites: General knowledge of the interaction of ionizing radiation with matter is necessary

Objectives: To obtain an overview of the theoretical and experimental background, concerning the application of ionizing radiation and radionuclides in industry and medicine.Depending on the mode of application, information is in most cases obtained through effects of radiation on matter. Detection and evaluation of radiation can give the desired information about these effects.The state of applications will be described and implemented in the laboratory classes and experimental demonstrations.

Programme: Seven 2-hour lectures:-Characteristic of Ionizing Radiation and Radioactivity-X Ray Fluorescence Analysis-Application of Ionizing Radiation in geology and Geophysics-Application of Radiation in Art adn Archeometry-Radon-Problem in radiation Protection-Application of Ionizing Radiation in Medicine-Personal Dosimetry and Radiation ProtectionFour 2-hour experimental exercises:-Polymer-gel dosimetry-Spectrometry of Gamma Radiation with HP(Ge) Detector-X Ray Fluorescence Analysis-Personal Dosimetry- TLDTwo 2-hour experimental demonstrations:-GOLEM- Tocamac thermonuclear installation-Application of Ionizing Radiation in Medicine

Exam: Written exam of 2 hours duration.

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Where: Czech Technical University in Prague

Prerequisites: Basic undergraduate calculus.

Objectives: Game is a mathematical model of any decision situation, the result of which depends on the decision of at leastGame is a mathematical model of any decision situation, the result of which depends on the decision of at least two different individuals. Since such situations can be found in almost all fields related to our lives, the domain of applications of game theory is exceptionally broad and rich. It covers economics, industry, political and social sciences, transportation, warfare, biology, ethics and many other branches. Not only represents game theory an outstanding opportunity to persuade a wide audience of the importance, usefulness and even attractiveness of mathematics, it leads mathematicians and technicians to such fields as ethology, evolutionary biology, social sciences, etc., that would otherwise remain marginal for many of them. The aim of the course is to provide the survey of game theory and its fascinating applications.

Programme: To clarify general concepts,the theoretical exposition is combined with exercises dealing with practical applications. The course covers:1. Classification and mathematical models of decision situations,history2. Utility theory, rational choice theory3. Explicit form games4. Normal form games5. Bimatrix games, methods for equilibrium strategies search6. Repeated games7. Antagonistic conflict, theory of matrix games8. Two-person cooperative games without transferable payoffs9. N-person cooperative games10. Power indices11. Decisions under risk and uncertainty12. Decisions in conflicts against p-intelligent playersMore details and study materials:http://euler.fd.cvut.cz/predmety/game_theory

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Where: Instituto Superior Tecnico Lisboa

Prerequisites: Engineering degree students with courses on programming and physics are recommended.

Objectives: The elab project allows the remote manipulation of scientific experiments trough a WEB interface. Several experiences are already on-line through this technology as seen athttp://elab.ist.eu/.The objective of the course is to provide students with all the knowledge to create their own elab server, including the ability to project and develop robotized experiments.It is expected that students will acquired basic skills on JAVA and C (PIC) programming, which includes a course of Microprocessors and basis of electronic instrumentation.

Programme: PIC Programming: from assembler to CBasics of Electronic InstrumentationGeneral architecture of the elab system:.Video Broadcast and video resolution.The multicast server.The hardware clients.The customizersState machinesAnalog to Digital ConvertersSensors and transducersIntroduction to JAVA programming

Exam: 4 hours laboratory exam.

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Where: Mines Paris - PSL

Prerequisites: Notions de base sur la lumière et les rayonnements

Objectives: Proposer une approche globale de la couleur au travers des sciences physiques et humaines et de ses applications dans les arts et l’industrieLe cours dispose d'un site internet dédié :http://www.ensmp.fr/ingenieurcivil/SitesIC/CAI/

Programme: Lundi:Matin : Yves Charnay, Lionel Simonot, Approche artistique et physique de la lumière et de la couleurAprès-midi : Yves Charnay et Vonnik HertigTP sur l’harmonie des couleursMardi:Matin: Jean Serra, Traitement de l’image numérique couleurFranck Maindon, La restitution des couleurs dans l’image numériqueAprès-midi : Yves Charnay et Vonnik HertigTP sur l’harmonie des couleursMercredi:Matin : Amédée Djémai, L’origine de la couleur dans les minéraux, en parallèle avecSophie Norvez, Corinne Soulié, De la photo numérique au cyanotype de 1842TP par demi-groupeAprès-midi : François Delamare, Colorants et chimie tinctorialeEvelyne Darque-Ceretti, La couleur de l’or sans l’or: application aux céramiques àDécor de lustreJeudi:Matin: Amédée Djémai, L’origine de la couleur dans les minéraux, en parallèle avecSophie Norvez, Corinne Soulié, De la photo numérique au cyanotype de 1842TP par demi-groupeAprès-midi : François Delamare, Du pigment à la peinture d’une carrosserie automobileBernard Monasse, Influence de la mise en forme sur la couleur d’une carrosserieVendredi:Matin : Visite d’application chez un fabricant de peintures pour l’industrieAprès-midi : Contrôle des connaissances

Exam: Questionnaire (questions de réflexion)

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Where: Instituto Superior Tecnico Lisboa

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of: Linear Algebra; Calculus; Probability & Statistics. Basic knowledge of Excel.

Objectives: In a time of competitiveness and scarcity of raw materials, an industrial (indeed, any) system must work in a state not far from its optimum, "small" improvements being sometimes crucial for success or even survival. Operational Research (OR*) supplies specific techniques to optimize and manage, and promotes habits of analysis arising from the inspection of the system model. The central objective of OR isoptimization, i.e., "to do things best under the given circumstances", to the greatest profit or smallest cost. This general concept has many applications: agricultural planning, biotechnology, distribution of goods and resources, engineering systems design, environmental management, health care management, inventory control, manpower and resource allocation, manufacturing of goods, military operations, production process control, sequencing and scheduling of tasks, telecommunications, traffic control.Only some of the applications mentioned will be addressed in the course (see Programme below). The computer and the Internet will be indispensable tools.*”Operations Research” in American English.

Programme: Linear Programming Historical note.Model.Dantzig’s simplex algorithm; matrix method; duality.Computational resolution.Transportation Problem Model. Stepping-stone algorithm. Computational resolution.Monte Carlo simulation Sampling experiments on models.Random number generation.Queueing (waiting line) theory Structure of the models.Poisson arrivals, exponential servicing.Infinite and finite populations.Computational resolution. (This chapter introductorily or if time permits.)Inventory management Models.Uniform demand; random demand.Optimal inventory level.Computational resolution. (This chapter introductorily or if time permits.)Travelling Salesman ProblemRouteoptimization in cycles.Computational resolution. (This chapter introductorily or if time permits.)

Exam: Written exam (on thelast day of course); open book; made on computer; delivered by e-mail.

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Where: Instituto Superior Tecnico Lisboa

Prerequisites: Architecture and Engineering students with basic levelincomputer graphics.

Objectives: In the scope of the creative process, the purpose of the course is to provide students an overview about the potentials of 3d modeling tools (like Rhinoceros),programming tools (like Grasshopper) anddigital fabrication techniques.

Programme: Users are expected to acquire basic modeling and programming skills as well as an introduction to digital fabrication techniques. Therefore the course will be divided into three modules.The modeling task will introduce Rhinoceros and its workflow. The form will be understood and optimized using Grasshopper, a visual programming plug-in for Rhinoceros. After the form is fine-tuning, one of the several parametric models will be produced.Various fabrication techniques are available for fabricating the models, such as additive or subtractive prototyping and laser-cutting.

Exam: Evaluation will be about the set of models produced by students during the course (digital fabrication sessions).

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Where: Czech Technical University in Prague

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of chemistry

Objectives: The main goal of the course is to provide an introduction to practical application of infrared and Raman spectroscopy

Programme: Five 3-hour lectures / morning sessions: 1.Introduction and FTIR measurements. 2. FTIR reflection techniques, VCD technique. 3. Raman microspectroscopy.4. FTRaman spectroscopy. 5. Computer treatment, multivariate data evaluationand interpretation of spectra. Five 3-hour afternoon sessions: practical courses to the morning topics.More details:http://www.vscht.cz/anl/vibspec/

Exam: Final evaluation by means of the evaluation tests.

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Where: Czech Technical University in Prague

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of enterprise management systems and tools.

Objectives: Thecourse deals with selected managerial topics and methodologies. Students have the opportunityto study the selected topicsof enterprise management, e.g. marketing, managerial accounting, cost controland production management. Within the course students also learn fundamentals of entrepreneurship, business plan creation and decision support business model.Problem areas include: Financial Management, production planning and forecasting, decision making, decision support systems, investment projects evaluation,cost control, activity based management, inventory management, just-in-time, lean manufacturing, six sigma and other perspective of the production management approaches.The course objectives are to introduce the student to various classical as well asmodern managerialapproaches and methodologies.

Programme: (30 hours/week):1.Cost control in the Enterprise (3 hours)2.Controlling and Activity Based Management (3 hours)3.Basics of Entrepreneurship (2 hours)4.Business Planning Process and Creation of Business Plan (4 hours)5.Decision Support Systems and Creation of Decision Support Models (4 hours)6.Production Management and production planning and forecasting(4 hours)7.Inventory Management and Control (2 hours)8.Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma philosophy and other perspective approaches in production management (4 hours)9.Marketing Management (2 hours)10.Evaluation of investment projects, static and dynamic methods of investment evaluation(2 hours).

Exam: Evaluation through an evaluation test at the end of the course.

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Where: KU Leuven

Prerequisites: Background in engineering or chemistry

Objectives: To become familiar with the various existing membrane processes - To aquire insight in the fundamentals of these processes (transport, separation) - To select the appropriate membrane process for a given separation problem - To be able to compare membrane separations with classical separation

Programme: The course will give an overview of the fundamentals of the most important membrane separation processes: gas separation, microfiltration, ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, reverse osmosis, dialysis, electrodialysis, pervaporation. This will be done by a combination of lectures exercises and practical work in the laboratory. The practical work will involve the basics of membrane preparation as well as the operation of some membrane processes.

Exam: oral exam with written preparation - 1 open question, 1 calculationlab report

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Where: Czech Technical University in Prague

Prerequisites: General knowledge of fluid mechanics and thermodynamics and matlab.

Objectives: Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is one of the most progressive experimental methods used in fluid mechanics. With the basic set of experimental set up it allows the investigation on 2D flow fields. The extended version can be used for research of 3D flows, or/and in some special cases, temperature or concentration measurement, as well.The course is held in two different options·Course A – theoretical course· Course B – applied courseThe objective of Course A is to inform participants of the principals of PIV method and to show some examples of the wide range of applications in fluid mechanics and machinery.Course B is intended for participants, who want to master the operation of the PIV system and corresponding software.

Programme: Theoretical part for all students: 7 lessons, 90 min. each.1.PIV method, its history and development 2.Contemporary systems – set up for 2D measurement 3.3D measurement 4.Temperature and concentration measurement (PLIV) 5.Special cases –3D and PLIV measurement6.Data evaluation, statistical method used 7.Control system – introduction to the software supportPractical part for all students:7 lessons, 90 min. each1. Demonstration of some typical applications in the laboratory, presentation of results of technical problems solved.2. Demonstration of 2D and 3D set up and calibration with standard PIV system 3. Measurement with LOW COST PIV system 5. Demonstration of time resolved PIV system 6. Data analysis with matlab 7. Comparison of data from matlab and from commercial code.

Exam: The evaluation of the students’ acquired knowledge will be based on regular examinations during the practical part of the course. Student will prepare report from course and from measurement and data analysis

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Where: Mines Paris - PSL

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge in probability theory. Physics and Mechanics of solids

Objectives: Many solid media and materials (composites, granular media, metals, biomaterials, porous media, soils, rocks, etc.) encountered in materials sciences, geophysics, environmental sciences, energetics, hydrogeology,... display microstructures and structures of several length scales, showing often a non-deterministic disorder. A better understanding and prediction of the resulting multiscale and random nature of materials' mesoscopic and/or macroscopic properties requires a modeling approach based on a combination of probabilistic concepts with methods of physics and mechanics. The course, which aims to provide an introduction to this subject, will be given in a self-contained series of lectures and training sessions on computers.

Programme: The main topics of the course are as follows :- Introduction and basic concepts (material variability of mechanical properties at different scales, introduction to applied probability and probabilistic models, morphological characterization of random sets and of random functions, examples of models and simulations of random structures)- Homogenization of random media (linear and non linear properties): bounds and numerical techniques (numerical homogenization by Finite Elements and by FFT)- - Transport in random media. Fracture Statistics models. Reliability.The courses detail the construction of models, their main properties, and their use from experimental data by means of examples of application.A large part of the course is based on training by means of softwares Micromorph developed in CMM and Zebulon developed by CdM.Structure of the course : Five full days in a single week. Lectures (70 %) and practical training on PC computers (30 %).The daily course programme can be consulted some ten days prior to the course, please see : www.ensmp.fr (under the link , Ingénieurs civils)

Exam: The students prepare a written project from data processed durig the training session

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Where: Warsaw University of Technology

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of engineering, physicsand mathematics.

Objectives: Acoustics is a branch of physics and technology related to the sense of hearing. In this course hearing and sound perception will be discussed with reference to physical characteristics of sound, properties of wave propagation, and procedures of sound measurement and analysis. Lectures will cover various dimensions of sound perception (loudness, pitch and time phenomena, binaural hearing), certain hearing models, measurement parameters specifically designed to represent perceived attributes of sound, and basic measurement for predicting the perceptual quantities. A part of the course will be devoted to practicum in acoustical measurements.

Programme: Hearing SystemStructure:External and middle ear, Inner ear, Basic physiological mechanisms of hearing,Hearing:Absolute thresholds, masking patterns, forward masking, frequency selectivity and masking, psychophysical tuning curves, the concept of auditory filter, loudness, equal loudness contours, scaling of loudness, nonlinear distortion, temporal processing in the auditorysystem, pitch perception, timbre perception, localization of sounds, binaural unmasking, models of auditory perceptionSpeech:Production and perception,Noise:Noise control, effects of noise on man, hearing loss, hearing aids.Acoustical measurementsGeneral:Fundamental acoustic quantities, sound wave propagation, waves and vibrations,Sound measuring instrumentation:Microphones, calibration, sound level meters, spectrum analyzers for acoustic signals,Measurements:sound pressure level measurements, sound intensity measurements, psychoacoustical measurement procedures, signal detection theory in psychoacoustical measurements, speech intelligibility measurements, physical measures developed to represent the perceived attributes of sound, sound quality assessment.Selected applicationsAudio coders, assessment of speech intelligibility in communication systems, assessment of the quality of reproduced sound.PracticumIt is expected that practicum will include measurements of perceptual attributes of sound (e.g. loudness, thresholds, masked thresholds), and physical sound quantities (e.g. sound pressure level, sound intensity). Visits to acoustical/sound engineering laboratories are also forseen.Suggested referencesW. Hartmann:Signals, Sound, and Sensation; Springer, 1997.J. Blauert:Communication Acoustics; Springer 2005.D. R. Raichel:The Science and Applications of Acoustics; Springer , 2000.D. C. Emanuel, Tomasz Letowski:Hearing Science; Lippincott, Wiliams and Wilkins; 2009.J. Blauert, Ning Xiang:Acoustics for Engineers; Springer, 2008.T. Rossing (editor):Springer Handbook of Acoustics, Springer, 2007.T. Rossing, Neville H. Fletcher:Principles of Vibration and Sound; Springer, 2004.C.HarrisC.Harris (editor):Handbook of Acoustical Measurements and Noise Control, Mcgraw-Hill, 1997

Exam: Active participation in the course(compulsoryattendance of classes, participation in practical exercises, etc).Evaluation test at the end of the course.

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Where: Warsaw University of Technology

Prerequisites: statistics and probability theory (basic level), linear algebra (basic level), calculus (basic level)

Objectives: The course is aimed at overviewing several state-of-the art metaheuristic methods for global optimization. Each metaheuristic method introduces its own system of concepts and vocabulary which is usually related to its metaphor (which is taken from solid-state physics, evolution, swarm behavior etc.). Therefore a “generic metaheuristic” will be defined using a simple set of concepts, each of them being differently instantiated in known metaheuristic methods, to facilitate their comparative analysis. The lecture will be accompanied with experimental analysis of implementations of several metaheuristics under the R environment.

Programme: Lecture Contents:Taxonomy of optimization tasks – definitions and intuitionDefinition of optimization methods as methods to serialize the search space; benchmarking procedures to compare optimization methodsRelations between the optimization process and learning – predicting position of optima using previously generated pointsFramework of the “generic metaheuristic”; taxonomy of metaheuristics; what is “meta” in metaheuristics?Steepest ascent, Monte Carlo, random walk – intuitions of exploration vs. exploitation, perfectness vs. tolerance, saddle crossing vs. hillclimbingTabu SearchSimulated AnnealingEvolutionary Computation: Genetic Algorithms, Evolution Strategies, Differential EvolutionSampling distribution – definition and simple analysisEstimation of Distribution Algorithms, CMAES methodParticle Swarm Optimization OR Artificial Immune Systems OR Ant Colony Systems (depending on attendants' choice)Metaheuristics for nonstandard representation of solutionsSuggested references:Class website:http://staff.elka.pw.edu.pl/~jarabas/courses.html(coming soon)Recommended reading:S. Luke, Essentials of Metaheuristics. A Set of Undergraduate Lecture Notes, George Mason University, 2011Z.Michalewicz, Genetic Algorithms + Data Structures = Evolution Programs (3rd ed.), Springer, 1996E.-G. Talbi, Metaheuristics: From Design to Implementation, Wiley, 2009J.Arabas, P.Cichosz, “Searching for Intelligent Behavior”, Proc. Conf. Intelligent Information Systems, IIS'2008, pp 3-22, 2008, (available at:http://staff.elka.pw.edu.pl/~jarabas/ALHEZ11/learning.pdf)http://www.r-project.org/

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Where: Télécom Paris

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge on image and sound processing is required as well as notions about automatic classification.

Objectives: Multimedia deals with sounds, images, videos and texts. Considering their growing number in our today lives (music/television records, personal photographies, web search, …) , it is urgent to develop efficient automatic processing to organize these documents, get information about their content and be able to easily retrieve them.During the “Multimedia indexing and retrieval” week, you will discover state-of-the-art techniques concerning multimedia document management. You will also be able to criticize the proposed approaches and develop your own one.

Programme: The week is continuously balanced between highy technical conferences and active learning courses (group projects, practice, discussions).The first day will be dedicated to generalities and classification tools. Groups and projects will be defined during this day.Then each morning of the week is dedicated to a conference about: sound processing, image indexing and retrieval, video processing and EXALEAD point of view. These conferences are delivered by international experts; they will provide you with problematic and solution related to their own media, based on state-of-the-art technologies and research.Afternoons are dedicated to discussions, projects and practices. This will be the occasion to go in deeper details on specific subjects according to your group interest. Practices on classification, sound and image indexing, relevance feedback will be proposed. TELECOM ParisTech multimedia mining platform PLATO will be presented.The last afternoon will be used for evaluations and concluding discussions.

Exam: Oral presentations of the group projects and written reports will be used to evaluate the students work.

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Prerequisites: Maxwell equations

Objectives: Quantum entanglement is the basic ressource for the future quantum relays or repeaters. The objective of this course is to acquire a thorough understanding of this concept from the theoretical definition to the practical implementation of entangled photons states, using non linear optics and to see how it can be used in various quantum communications devices.

Programme: Basic quantum physicsEntanglement, EPR paradox, Field quantization, beamsplittersIntroduction to nonlinear optics (second order nonlinear phenomena)Entangled photons: polarization, time-energy, time-binPhysical implementation of entangled photon pairs sourcesQuantum teleportation, entanglement swappingQuantum cryptography protocols using entangled statesTwo experiments in IOGS:1) Quantum coalescence of identical bosons : two-photon interference effect using pairs of identical photons produced by degenerate spontaneous down-conversion.Identical photons can exhibit a very strange property: when they enter a different input port of a balanced beam splitter, they leave the beam splitter through the same output port. This effect, can be understood as a two-photon quantum interference between two possible paths taken by the photons. The contrast of the interference signal is a measurement of the degree of indistinguishability of the light particles. Recent proposals for the building of a quantum computer rely on the ability to produce indistinguishable photons and rely on this so called HOM interference.2) Quantum mechanics non locality test: violation of Bell's inequalities using polarization entangled photons produced by spontaneous down-conversion.The famous EPR paradox about completeness of quantum mechanics raised by Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen in 1935 [1], initially seen as a philosophical question, became a physical problem when John Bell published an article in 1964 suggesting that it was possible to actually test the hypothesis of local hidden variables [2]. It took ten more years before an experimental implementation of the test could be conducted by Clauser et al. [3], and a little more before a clear and widely accepted demonstration of the Bell's inequality violation, by A. Aspect et al., at Institut d'Optique [4]. This test is now routinely used in labs to measure the quality of entanglement, a fundamental ressource for quantum information processing and communications.

Exam: Daily exercises and the laboratory session

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Where: Télécom Paris

Prerequisites: Since the students will develop their own mobile application, it is important that they feel comfortable with Java, and that they are able to develop desktop applications. The Eclipse development environment will be used, and practicing it in advance will be very beneficial to the students.Students willing to bring and use their own laptop during the class may do so, provided they have installed the Eclipse development environment and the Android SDK (software development kit) before starting the course.

Objectives: Mobile applications (for smartphones, tablets, connected televisions) offer unique possibilities not usually found in desktop computers (e.g., geolocation, touchscreen, ubiquitus connectivity). At the same time, those applications must accommodate extra constraints such as a low energy consumption, disconnected mode, limited input capabilities, or various display sizes and device orientations.This class will focus on the particulars of mobile applications, using Android as a development platform. Throughout the week, students will develop their own mobile application. Mobile devices will be made available to them during the sessions so that they can field test the application.

Programme:  Lifecycle of a mobile application components (activities, views, services, etc.) Adaptation to hardware characteristics and to regional environments Geolocation Interaction with the user (reactivity, small screen space, interface unification) Continuous or sporadic access to Internet and the cloud, data synchronization Software architectures for low memory, low power devices Social and ethical aspects of mobile applications

Exam: The mobile application developed throughout the week will be graded. This grade will be used as the evaluation of the course.

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Where: Istanbul Technical University

Prerequisites: Basic design tools and abilities at urban, architectural, and object design levels.

Objectives: In this course, the Old Galata Bridge will be focused to be re-integrated to urban life and environment in the Historical Peninsula and Galata regions of Istanbul with historic urban development, transportation relations and urban conservation perspectives with local, historic environment andobject design tools relating to the Bridge.

Programme: Seven 2 hour lecturesUrban development process of Istanbul, Historic development and conservation areas of Istanbul, Historical social and architectural structure of Galata in the 19thcentury, Urban transportation and urbanization interaction, Architecture in Cultural Context: Interpretation of Galata Bridge on Behalf of Place,Four 2-hour poster presentation relating to courses

Exam: Presentation of design and assessment results in poster format for different stages of the course.

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Where: Arts et Métiers ParisTech

Prerequisites: The course is an initiation to polymer science and applications and aims at students knowing a little about materials and the mechanics of materials.

Objectives: Polymers have a major influence on our lifes. It isalmost impossible tomention a field which is not affected by polymers. The development of polymers has helped the industry tooffer new and high performance materials such as composites, biopolymers…The use of these materialsrequires a rich and deep knowledge about the properties of the different types of polymers involved in the manufacturing of industrial parts: Physical, thermal and mechanical properties.In this course we try toprovide our young European Engineers with this knowledge.

Programme: During this course different aspects will be developed:basic knowledge of polymers, biopolymers and composites:-molecular structure-different physical states-morphology…properties of polymers, biopolymers and compositespolymers and composites in industrylife time predictioneffect of aging on properties of materials:-physical properties-mechanical propertiespolymers and composites during processing (injection molding, extrusion, rotational molding…)analytical methods:-differential scanning calorimetric-infra-red spectrometry-thermo-mechanical analysis-rheometry…-mechanical tests.

Exam: The students will present a short report on selected topics of the course at the end of program.

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Where: Arts et Métiers ParisTech

Prerequisites: None.

Objectives: Students of this ATHENS course will become familiar with the fundamentals of acoustics and with its use in buildings and in an urban environment.

Programme: Physical acoustics phenomena: sound propagation, noise sources schemes, acoustic radiation,Noise perception: human hearing system, perception of sound,Room acoustics: construction and conception acoustics aspects,Noisy equipments and installations, active control,Techniques and instruments measurements, Signal treatments,Standards and laws concerning traffic noise and building acoustics,Application TP.

Exam: Written examination at the end.

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Where: Télécom Paris

Prerequisites: Participants must have an advanced level of English (level 4 or C1 in the ALTE or Common European Framework of reference).

Objectives: The aim of the course is to become aware of one’s own style of communication and to understand how different management cultures (corporate or national) influence decision-making. Communication in an international context requires determining a common language and common processes which allow one to reach objectives quickly and efficiently whatever the cultural context.Emphasis will be laid on the role of chairing a meeting in a multicultural environment where communication patterns differ, as do expectations with regard to outcome. The chair of the meeting assumes a kind of “leadership” delegated by the groups so as to produce a certain result within the time of the meeting. The objective of the course is to provide theoretical background on intercultural communication as well as general methodology and skills for preparing, running and participating in different types of meetings.The pedagogical approach combines short methodological points, role plays and case studies.

Programme: The work of Hofstede, Trompenaars and Hall will be referred to in order to define dimensions of culture that have an impact on how we communicate in general. Three interactive skills, initiating, clarifying and reacting will be presented and practiced through meetings in which the necessity for agreeing upon clearly articulated processes and their outcomes will be demonstrated. The framing function delegated to the chair of the meeting will be worked on. These concepts will then be applied to the communication process through videos, role plays and case studies. Observation, analysis and discussion will lead to a greater understanding of how communication can be managed in an international context.

Exam: Daily attendance from 9.30am – 12.30pm and from 2 - 5pm is obligatory. Feedback on English language use will focus on effective communication rather than on linguistic errors. Active participation is the main requirement that will be taken into account for the final grade.

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Prerequisites: Basic knowledge in mechanics.

Objectives: This course will be an introduction to the application of the mechanical principles to the study of the biomechanical behaviour of musculoskeletal and articular systems of human body. It will present clinical and mechanical aspects and will include both experimental and numerical approaches. The final aim of the musculoskeletal and articular biomechanics is to better understand the mechanical behaviour of intact, injured, pathologic of restored human body segments, to help in the design of implants and prostheses, and to help the clinicians in therapeutics strategies.

Programme: Introduction to the Musculoskeletal and Articular BiomechanicsFunctional Anatomy: Spine -Shoulder - Hip -KneeClinical Problems and Osteoarticular ImplantsBiomechanical Behaviour of TissuesArticular Kinematics - TheoryArticular Kinematics -In Vivo Experimental Analyses - ApplicationsArticular Dynamics -Segmental Models - ApplicationIn Vitro Experimental Analyses of the Biomechanical Behaviour of Corporal Segments and of ImplantsNormalization of Implants EvaluationBiomechanical Finite Element Models: GeneralitiesBiomechanical Finite Element Models: ApplicationsThe Bone Remodelling Process: Presentation -Simulation - Applications.Visit of the biomechanical experimental and numerical facilities with practical demonstrations.

Exam: Final written test (1 h 30) on Friday afternoon

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Where: Delft University of Technology

Prerequisites: Following this course requires having succesfully completed a first year course in linear algebra (thus being familiar with vector spaces and linear systems of equations, see e.g. David Lay,Linear Algebra and Its Applications); in calculus (thus being familiar with the differention and integration of functions of several variables and analytical methods for solving ordinary differential equations, see e.g. James Stewart,Calculus); and in numerical analysis (thus being familiar with numerical techniques for differentiation and integration of a function in one variable, see e.g. Richard Burden and Douglas Faires,Numerical Analysis). For this course a basic knowledge of English is indespensable.Student input: attendence of the lectures and completion of lab assigments

Objectives: This course provides understanding in the basic principles of the finite element method (FEM) for solving canonical elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations modeling diffusion and transport phenomena. Unlike courses elaborating the mathematical foundations of the FEM on one hand, and those focussing on a particular software package for solving advanced engineering applications on the other end of the spectrum, this course discusses the algorithmic aspects of the FEM. Starting from either a boundary or initial value problem, the variational formulation is derived to be able to subsequentially discretize the problem in space and time. The element-by-element construction of the discrete problem and algorithms to solve it are presented. At the end of this course students will have gained the theoretical knowledge and constructed a software framework enabling them to build their own finite element solver package.

Programme: - Monday:Morning: Model Equation - Preliminaries - Minimization ProblemsAfternoon: Introduction into MATLAB-Tuesday:Morning: Variational Formulation and Differential EquationsAfternoon: Element-by-element assembly-Wednesday:Morning: Galerkin’s Finite Element MethodAfternoon: One-dimensional element matrices-Thursday:Morning: Numerical Methods for time dependent problemsAfternoon: Time-integration-Friday:Morning: Engineering ApplicationsAfternoon: Solving two-dimensional problems / Visit toTATA Steel

Exam: Course exams:reward in accordance with dedication to the lectures and practical assigmentsCourse notes: the lecture notes for this course can be retrieved fromhttp://ta.twi.tudelft.nl/nw/users/domenico/

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Where: Universidad Politecnica de Madrid

Prerequisites: Students coming from Architecture, Sociology, Arts, Design, Philosophy, Economy… or any field of knowledge, but who are interested in collaborative working/thinking on the city.

Objectives: To develop an awareness of urban complexity. Students will explore storytelling as a way to unveil the tensions, potentials and hidden aspects of spatial relations. In the workshop attention will be paid to studying the urban process through the important nuances present in the expression of everyday stories. Students will ultimately reflect on the elaboration of Futures Studies through the role of the narrative imagination • Explore how to elaborate futures studies based on urban complexity • Experience the importance of expression and imagination in articulating complex urban issues • Produce, in collaboration, narrative cartographies that articulate spatial an topological relations • Emanate the results as a process and not as a fixed product

Programme: The act of storytelling, ficton and its relations to situations of disorder. // Cartography as a narrative form: fictional expression beyond words // Mapping as trigger for urban complexity understanding and discussion // Futures studies, narrative imagination and collaborative thinking A series of readings, discussions and visits throughout the city will serve as background for a practical cartographic action to be collaboratively produced over the week.

Exam: Collective evaluation

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Where: Mines Paris - PSL

Prerequisites: Aucun, avoir des notions de logistique, de transport et de politique publique est un plus.

Objectives: L'objectif de ce cours est de former les participants aux contextes du dernier kilomètre en ville. Les participants vont acquérir une base de connaissance sur les problématiques, les enjeux, les solutions actuelles en France et à l'international et sur les perspectives de ce que seront les systèmes de transport de marchandises de demain.

Programme: 1 - Problématique2 - Le fret urbain et les acteurs3 - Évaluation des projets de logistique urbaine4 - Les solutions testées5 - la logistique urbaine internationale6 - Perspectives d'évolution

Exam: 2 heures (QCM +travail personnel) le vendredi.

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Where: Mines Paris - PSL

Prerequisites: No prerequisites, except an interest in current debates and biomedecine

Objectives: The domain of health and medicine is currently confronting a series of transformations: the increasing entanglement between biological sciences and medical practice; the emergence of new actors (patient organizations, health safety agencies) who actively intervene into biomedical activities and health issues; the development of ethical concerns on medical experimentation and research protocols.The course aims at providing an understanding of these transformations, with a particular focus on their economic, social, political and ethical dimensions, both at national and European levels.It addresses the following issues: (i) the development of biomedicine after WWII, and its impact on research and medical practices; (ii) the engagement of patient and user organizations as stakeholders in the governance of medical research and health policies, alongside public institutions and the pharmaceutical and biotech industry; (iii) the increasing importance of ethical considerations in the development and use of biomedical innovations and health technologies.

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Exam: Exam will take place on Friday 23rd March, (format to be announced)

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Where: Delft University of Technology

Prerequisites: Sensitivity to biological phenomena and bring your imaginative skills

Objectives: Learn how to design products and services using bio-mimicry as inspirationExperience the importance for performance of presence and emergence of trustProduce, in collaboration, a viable sustainable product, service or conceptEmanate the results to a larger audience

Programme: 5 day workshop between 9 and 21 hoursMonday start at 11.00 hrs after a plenary introduction with all studentsExcursion will be plannedEveryday, there will be kick-off-sessions and lectures to support you in your design efforts.Friday will be the day that we present the results of a weeks’ workEvaluation will also be executed on fridayCourse is 2 ects

Exam: Presence in the workshop, Demo and Presentation, Individual report/reflection

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Where: Delft University of Technology

Prerequisites:

Objectives: In the area of sustainable development, Industrial Ecology is a relatively new field of research that is rapidly emerging on a global scale. The core concept of the research field is the analogy between ecosystems and systems in society. In other words: processes in nature, where cycles are closed and waste from one process is input for another, are taken as models for industrialprocesses.Industrial ecology encompasses the study of:Natural resources, their renewal and their abundanceTechnologies and systems to transfer these resources into goods and servicesConsumption patterns of these goods and servicesOrganization of these processes along the entire life-cycleProcesses of technological changeProcesses of social political changeSee for more information:www.industrialecology.nl

Programme: In this course module, the students will work on several real-life cases of Industrial Symbiosis around the world. Industrial Symbiosis can be seen as the industrial application of the academic field on Industrial Ecology. During the morning sessions, basic tools are introduced like life cycle assessment, eco-design, and environmental management systems. In the afternoons the students are working together in groups on specific problems contributing to the integral solution of the Industrial Symbiosis cases. On the final day the results are presented and evaluated by the faculty staff members.Monday:morning,introduction to the industrial ecology concept;introduction to the case studies.afternoon,group work – problem statement, research questions and approachTuesday:morning,analysis of industrial systems, environmental impacts,life cycle assessment theory.afternoon,group work – environmental impact assessment, life cycle issuesWednesday:morning,design of industrial systems, eco-design approaches,sustainability metrics and indicators, criteria evaluation.afternoon,excursion to a relevant industrial siteThursday:morning,implementation of sustainability solutions, cleaner production,environmental management systems, innovation trajectories.afternoon,group work – creativity sessions, generation of alternatives,integration of solutions, definition of implementation pathFriday:morning,final presentations

Exam: Assessment on the basis of performance during group project, attendance of lectures and the final presentations.

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Where: Technische Universität München

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of Finite Element Methods, Structural Analysis, Engineering Mechanics and Dynamics

Objectives: The participants should develop an understanding of computational mechanics as the background of simulation methods for modern car body development.

Programme: Introduction into the functional requirements of modern car body structuresReview of Finite Element Methods (FEM) with focus on their usage for car body designFEM 1: NVH simulations (NVH = noise, vibration and harshness)Material modeling (metals, polymers, foams, composites)FEM 2: Crash simulationsOccupant protection (multi body systems and meshless methods)FEM 3: Human models for crashFEM 4: Metal Forming simulationsOptimisation of car body structuresHalf-day visit to a crash test facilityStudent presentationsRemark: Because of the wide range of subjects and corresponding numerical methods, no software training is given in this course. We focus on the underlying theory to enable the understanding of the usage of commercial software.

Exam: Final written test (1 hour) and student presentations.

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Where: Politecnico di Milano

Prerequisites: bachelor degree preferably in architecture

Objectives: To understand the principles behind the contemporary urban architecture in order to face the challenges of the future, with particular reference to the theoretical works of Vitruvio, Alberti, Durand, Schinkel, Semper, Boito, Le Corbusier, Eisemann.

Programme: 1. Discussion of the topic Perception/Imagination/Design helped by the reading of Arnheim and Rowe (in relation to the contributions of Merlau Ponti and Bachelard)2. Review of Precisations e Espace indiscible by Le Corbusier.3. Measures of times and measures of spaces. The Menhir from Bretagne (Le Corbusier) and Vitruvius' gnomone.4. Alberti's theory of composition: drawings and “on site” works.5. Durand's theory of composition and a “Manifesto of urban design through Schinkel's projects in Berlino with reference to Semper's theory of style.6. Boito's theory of style and the image of Milan during the XX Century: Muzio, Ponti…Rossi'd theories and pictures.7. Rossi and Eisemann. The studies about Terragni and Cardboard Architecture with reference to digital design processes

Exam: Final essay about choosen readings with a brief selection of pictures of the city, contemporary architecture and art.

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Where: Politecnico di Milano

Prerequisites: The course is addressed at Civil and Environmental Engineering students with good mathematical background on fluid dynamics and basic numerical analysis, especially numerical methods for ordinary differential equations. Some knowledge of MATLAB/OCTAVE is required in order to be able to participate actively to the practical sessions.

Objectives: The course aims at providing an introduction to the mathematical and numerical tools used in river hydraulics. The fundamental governing equations of river flow will be introduced and the key ideas underlying numerical methods for their approximate solution will be presented. Each theoretical topic will be complemented by practical sessions in which implementations of selected numerical methods in MATLAB or standard commercial codes will be used.

Programme: 1)The de Saint Venant equations for open channel flow. Derivation from the three dimensional equations of free surface flow. Friction models.2) Introduction tofinite difference and finite volume discretizations. Concepts of convergence and stability. Examples of classical numerical methods for the advection diffusion equation.3) The Riemann problem for the de Saint Venant equation: shock waves and rarefaction waves. Steady state solutions in the viscous and inviscid case. Finite difference and finite volume numerical methods for the de Saint Venant equations.4) A realistic application

Exam: Participants will be evaluated on the basis of their results of a final exercise session devoted to a review of the topics covered in the course.

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Where: KU Leuven

Prerequisites: Preliminary knowledgeof analysis and linear algebra (2 years)is requested, knowledge of numerical mathematics is helpful, basic computing literacy is mandatory andMatlab and C programming experience is helpful.

Objectives: Aim of the course is to provide the participants with a strong working knowledge about the methods and applications of dynamic optimization in engineering applications.

Programme: Aim of the course is to provide the participants with a strong working knowledge about the methods and applications of dynamic optimization in engineering applications. Applications as diverse as satellite orbit transfers, optimally operated chemical processes, time optimal robot motions and parameter estimation in biomedical models are treated. The course will consist of lectures, interactive sessions and guided computer exercises.Preliminary knowledge of analysis and linear algebra (2 years) is requested, knowledge of numerical mathematics is helpful, basic computing literacy is mandatory and Matlab and C programming experience is helpful. A tentative list of treated topics is: Dynamic system modelling for optimization, theory of nonlinear programming and optimal control, parameter estimation and nonlinear least squares problems, model predictive control, application in chemical and mechanical engineering. The software tools to be used are IPOPT and MUSCOD-II.Towards the end of the course every participant will be working on formulating and solving a dynamic optimization problem of her/his own choice, so it is encouraged to think about interesting applications of dynamic optimization even before the course. The lectures and exercises will be given by the organizer, Moritz Diehl, supplemented by some invited presentatoins by international top scholars in the field that are currently contacted.

Exam: A short written exam for self-assessment and rehearsal will be held on Wednesday and the last two days are devoted to individual computer projects preformed by the participants.

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Where: Politecnico di Milano

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge about building technologies.

Objectives: The Course has the aim of giving basic information about design and technical issues related to low-energy houses.The theme of sustainable living is of the foremost importance nowadays that the finiteness of energetic resources and the global environmental issues require the definition of new design models.Students will be confronted with many realised examples – also on site – and will be required to design themselves, with the help of teachers, a house that minimises the auxiliary energetic need and makes large use of renewable energy.

Programme: The Course is organised in modules. The first, introductory part concentrates on the problems of sustainable building and on their role in the global environmental issues. The second part analyses in detail the criteria (morphology, technology, installations, site management, structures, economy) for the design of a low-energy house. The third module is a workshop where the students, organised in teams, will be required to develop a design scheme for a low-energy house. The fourth (last) module enlarges the analysis to larger scale buildings (for example offices) and to whole urban settlements (low-energy neighbourhoods), with examples of realised experiences. During the Course, a visit to some examples of Italian houses, which are being built with the techniques studied during this course.The last day of the course is dedicated to a workshop, together with Italian students, aimed at giving the participating students the possibility to apply the techniques studied during the course. This workshop is also the starting point of the development of a project to be submitted for evaluation.Visits to significant ancient and contemporary architectures in Milano will also be organised.

Exam: At the end of the conferences, a project will be submitted by students within the deadline indicated during the course. The students will start developing the project during the third module of the course (workshop).

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Where: Mines Paris - PSL

Prerequisites: Ce cours s'adresse à toute personne intéressée par la question de la sécurité industrielle et désireuse de s'initier à un domaine qui tient une place prépondérante tant dans le monde de l'industrie, de l'entreprise que dans la vie de tous les jours. Il ne nécessite a priori aucun pré-requis. Il est accompagné d'un support de cours et d'une bibliographie.

Objectives: Sensibiliser et initier à la complexité de l'évaluation et de la gestion des risques et des dangers dans l’entreprise. Acquérir les connaissances et méthodes fondamentales complétées d'éléments de réflexion sur le rôle de l'ingénieur. Appréhender la globalité de la gestion des dangers.La société comme les entreprises sont aujourd'hui confrontées à des situations diverses de nature catastrophique ou accidentelle. Il existe des méthodes pour détecter les signaux faibles qui les caractérisent afin de prévenir et gérer ce type d’événement. Il est pour cela nécessaire de définir le concept de crise, d'acquérir des connaissances de bases sur la prise en compte des risques avant de pouvoir mener une réflexion sur la question.L'objectif de ce cours est de sensibiliser et d'initier les étudiants à la complexité de l'évaluation et de la gestion des risques et des dangers au sein de l'entreprise, au travers de les diverses composantes qui le composent :• S'initier à l'observation et à l'analyse de situations de danger, par l'étude de questions d'actualité, de catastrophes passées, de "cas d'école", et ce selon des fondements théoriques et méthodologiques rigoureux.• Acquérir les connaissances et méthodes fondamentales complétées d'éléments de réflexion sur le rôle de l'ingénieur : responsabilité, retour d'expérience, aide à la décision, expertise et négociation, initiation aux méthodes d'évaluation des risques.• Prendre en compte la création de valeur et les récents développements des sciences Forensiques,• S'initier à l’aspect normatif du risque.• Appréhender la globalité de la gestion des dangers et sa complexité liée à la présence de différents niveaux d'organisation : politique et stratégie durisk management, management Hygiène - Sécurité - Environnement, réglementation…Ce cours a pour origine des travaux et des recherches conduites au sein des Écoles des Mines et de l'Institut Télécom. Il s'appuie très largement sur l'expérience de chercheurs et d'ingénieurs qui ont fait des risques et des dangers leur métier. Il se propose d'ouvrir l'accès à un domaine complexe en faisant la part des fondements, des méthodes.

Programme: Matinée Après-midiLundi Introduction à l’analyse des risques Les risques dans la financeMardi Risque et création de valeurs Les indicateurs de suivi et de gestion des risques dans l’entrepriseMercredi Les méthodes, cours et TD Les méthodes, cours et TDJeudi Intelligence économique Sciences ForensiquesVendredi Aspects juridiques de la responsabilité de l’ingénieur Les normes dans le domaine du risque

Exam: Conditions du contrôle des connaissances : Dossier d’analyse à rendre (étude de cas)

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Prerequisites: It is mandatory to have a basic knowledge of linear algebra and calculus, and a basic knowledge in continuum mechanics (stress, strain, linear elasticity)Course is easier for students who have already attended a basic Finite Element course, and who have already manipulated a FE code (not required).Being curious about mechanical problems, having a good knowledge of plasticity theory would be a must, but is not really needed.A good practice of English speaking and reading is mandatory.The course will have a website, that will be updated one week before the course:http://mms2.ensmp.fr/msi_paris/accueil_msi_paris.phpStudents are also invited to navigate on:http://mms2.ensmp.fr/ef_paris/accueil_ef_paris.phpThis last link is a linear FE course (mostly in french). The part of the theory will be smaller in «nonlinear computational mechanics» than for this one.

Objectives: The field of Nonlinear Computational Mechanics has grown very rapidly during the last decade. Due to the dramatic power increase of computers and workstations, research is very active. On the other hand, the development of robust and user friendly engineering softwares allows a wide range of applications in industry. The course presents an overview of the classical models and of the numerical methods used in the area, and shows how they can be applied in practical cases. Theory includes material and geometrical nonlinearities, and the numerical implementation in computer codes. Applications are taken from classical domains like aeronautical, spatial or car industry, but also from microelectronics, the field of energy for sustainable development, biomaterials, etc...More detailed objectivesComputer labs are planned in the cursus. Students will be invited to choose their style: as developers, they will have the opportunity to introduce new features in a selected finite element code; as user, they will have to perform finite element analyses on simple case studies involving material and/or geometrical nonlinearities.After the course, attendants should have a good knowledge of some basic aspects in mechanics of material, including the material constitutive equations, the numerical algorithms and the finite element procedures. They will have the ability :- to choose a material model and the proper procedure to identify the material parameters from experiment;- to perform calculations of the stress or temperature fields in nonlinear cases, and to successfully manage the iterative processes associated to nonlinearities;- to deal with contact problems;- to evaluate the quality of a FE result obtained with a nonlinear computation (mesh sensitivity, numerical integration).

Programme: Basic material models : material modelling, including rheology, plasticity criterion, incremental theory of plasticity, 3D plastic flow, basic hardening rules. Identification procedures, inverse problems.Advanced constitutive equations : cyclic and complex loadings, damage models, models for thermomechanical loadings, hyperelasticity, polymeric materialsFinite element formulation : elementary introduction of the method for thermal and mechanical applications. Newton technique, element assembly, tangent matrix. Integration of the constitutive equations, implicit algorithms.Geometrical nonlinear and contact analysis, stabilization methods. Stability problems. Localization process. Mesh adaptation.Coupled problems (thermal-metallurgical-mechanical interactions).

Exam: During the last afternoon devoted to computer labs, students are requested to show their numerical results in a 20-30 minute oral presentation (prepared by group of 2).

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Where: Delft University of Technology

Prerequisites: 3rdyear engineering Newtonian physics and mathematics; Fluid mechanics

Objectives: TThe lecture is an introduction course to wind turbine rotor aerodynamicsLearning objectives (introductory level):1-The student is able to, by combining previous knowledge in fluid dynamics and Newtonian physics, to design/derive models which can represent the aerodynamics of different rotor configurations.2-The student is able to appraise different models, and criticize on their fidelity.3- The student can analyze complex rotor flows (rotors in yaw, wind farms, etc), not only identifying and summarizing the main fluid phenomena, but also evaluating their interaction and integrate different models to analyze the flow; on this, the student is able to combine the different models, evaluating each sub-model’s limitations and overlap between models.4- The student is able to design a rotor from an aerodynamic perspective

Programme: 1.Introduction to the course: learning objectives, structure, assignments and evaluation.2.Introduction to rotary wing aerodynamics. Applications in aircraft, propulsion, fans and wind turbines3.Conservation laws. Actuator disk/momentum theory and its limitations. Helicopter rotor vertical flight and “windmill brake” state. Figure of merit. Wind turbine Betz limit. Limits of the actuator disk model. Generalization on Lift and drag devices.4.Generation of the wake. The wake as the source of an induction field. Vortex flow. Loads and vorticity. Euler equations. Biot-Savart law. Derivation of the actuator-vortex wake model5.Derivation of potential flow and construction of solutions using potential flow. Circulation and aerofoil aerodynamics. Helmholtz theorems. Discretising the rotor in finite blades. Modelling 3D finite blades using vortex models. Modelling a constant circulation rotor with 2 blades using 3D vortex models. Formulating a system of solution for non-constant circulation distribution. Quiz on wake generation and vortex models.6.Viscous aerofoil aerodynamics. Implementation of viscous effects in rotor vortex model, using a spanwise discretization. Aerodynamic characteristics of airfoils for rotor application. Aerodynamic properties of pitch and stall controlled wind turbine. Wind turbine rotor blade design.7.Derivation of BEM - Blade element–momentum method. Correction for finite nr. of blades and heavily loaded rotors.8.Unsteady aerodynamics. Theodorsen’s Theory. Modelling of the unsteady aerodynamics of an aerofoil in pitch. Trailing and shed vortices. Sources of unsteadiness. Dynamic stall. Modelling dynamic stall on a pitching aerofoil.

Exam: Course assignment + online examination

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Where: Technische Universität München

Prerequisites: Knowledge of general physics and mathematics

Objectives: Apply some non-destructive techniques for measuring material propertiesLectures,Laboratory Training Courses,Section tour Optics in the Deutsches Museum

Programme: Mo.-Thu., 8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.: LecturesMo.-Thu., 1:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.: Laboratory Training CoursesOne afternoon: Section tour Optics in the Deutsches Museum(instead of Laboratory Training Courses)Friday: exam

Exam: written, about 2 hours

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Where: Télécom Paris

Prerequisites: Students who attend this course will be fluent in procedural object-oriented programming (Java, C++, Python or equivalent). They will get some knowledge of Python by themselves before the Athens week.

Objectives: Complex systems are collective entities composed of many similar agents. Though the interactions between agents are too complex to be described, their collective behaviour often obeys much simpler rules. This is known for economy, but it is also observed in evolutionary selective processes, in human social networks and in insect societies. The objective of this course is to describe some of the laws that rule emergent behaviour and allow to predict it.Les systèmes complexes sont composés de nombreux agents à peu près identiques. Bien que les interactions entre agents soient bien trop complexes pour être décrite, leur comportement collectif obéit parfois à des lois parfois simples. On le vérifie dans les processus d’évolution par sélection, dans les réseaux sociaux, chez les insectes sociaux ou dans les phénomènes économiques. L’objectif de cet enseignement est de décrire les lois qui permettent de prévoir et d’utiliser les comportements émergents.

Programme: An ant colony can find the shortest path in a complex environment; a species can solve complex adaptation problems; economic agents may spontaneously reach a locally optimal allocation of resources. Simple individual acts, in each case, produce non-trivial results at the collective level.These observations constitute a rich source of inspiration for innovative engineering solutions, such as optimization using genetic algorithms, or message routing in telecom networks.The emergent behaviour of complex collective systems often goes against intuition. Its dynamics can be described through non-linear models that predict sudden transitions. Emergence is best apparent during those transitions. Its study consists in accounting for the appearance of collective patterns when individual, generally simple, behaviours are given as input.The main techniques studied in this module are:- Genetic algorithms, in which a virtual population evolves and collectively adapts to a particular problem or to a new environment.- Swarm intelligence, as a model of natural phenomena and as a class of collective algorithms. They are used to address problems in which adaptability and robustness are essential.- Emergence of phenomena like morphogenesis, cooperation, segregation through symmetry breaking, and emergence in social networks. We show how these different models can be applied to concrete problems, such as message routing in communication networks, optimal antenna location or the emergence of communication.The notion of emergence is formally defined, as well as concepts like punctuated equilibria, scale invariance, implicit parallelism and autocatalytic phenomena.The pedagogy consists in alternating lectures and practical work on machines. Students can modify the software platform that is provided to them, study emergent phenomena by themselves and develop their own personal project.

Exam: Students will be evaluated based on the following tasks:- Small reports on Lab work sessions- Small open question quiz- Design of a small personal software project during the last practical work session.

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Where: Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Prerequisites: General knowledge in Structural Mechanics, use of computer programs

Objectives: The students of the BME do not need an introduction to the shape, role or importance of steel bridges: the bridges of Budapest offer a unique opportunity for everyone. Constructing bridges requires a wide range of engineering knowledge from foundations and superstructure to the planning of bridge traffic. In this course the subject of steel and iron bridges is presented, summarizing the problems of design, detailing, construction, maintenance and refurbishment. This requires a detailed treatment of aspects of both traditional and modern bridges, as modern bridges are to be built and traditional bridges are to be repaired or reconstructed.

Programme: Seven 2-hour lectures:History of Budapest Danube bridgesDesign, construction, maintenance and refurbishment of the bridges of BudapestStatic problems of bridges in BudapestBridge aestheticsRole of bridges in the development of city constructionThree 2-hour exercisesUsing a program from the Internet to design a bridge for given conditionsOne-day visit to Budapest bridges (8 hours)

Exam: - Answering test questions- Evaluation of the bridge made by computer program

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Where: Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Prerequisites: Connaissance élémentaire de l'architecture

Objectives: Faire connaître aux étudiants le problématique de renouvellement du bati du centre historique de Pest. Le future du centre: réalité ou utopie par rapport le développement durable. Proposer une approche multidisciplinaire et multiculturele

Programme: le lundi 19 novembre:lectures: Histoire de la Hongrie, Croissance urbaine de Budapest, Typologie des immeubles, Politique du renovellement urbain en Hongrie, Développement durable en questionle mardi 20 novembre:visites guidées dans le centre historique –stratégies du renouvellement dans les différents arrondissements (Ve, VIIe, VIIIe, IXe)le mercredi 21 novembre:visite du site de workshop – workshop: définition d’une stratégie d’interventionle jeudi 22 novembre:workshop – travail en équipe de 3-4 personnesle vendredi 23 novembre:présentation orale pour un jury professionel

Exam: Examen oral : le vendredi 23 novembre

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Where: Czech Technical University in Prague

Prerequisites: Basic courses of applied physics and electric circuit theory.

Objectives: To present an overview of modern and perspective methods for precision measurements of electrical quantities, to demonstrate various techniques used in calibrations of electrical measurement instruments and standards.After a brief introduction devoted to fundamental problems ofmetrology, explanation is focussed on facilities and methods for precision measurements of electrical quantities.Possibilities of application ofJosephson arrays and quantum Hall effect devices to precision measurements of current, voltage, resistance and capacitance are discussed.

Programme: Four 4-hour lectures:1. Metre Convention. Measurement units and measurement standards. Quantum standards of voltage and resistance. Thompson-Lampard's capacitance standard. Transfer standards.2. Voltage and current inductive ratio devices and optimization of their metrological parameters.3. Methods for precision measurement of dc current and dc voltage.Josephson potentiometers. Measurements of voltage, power and energy in audiofrequency range.4. Measurements of resistance, capacitance and inductance (bridges and three-voltmeter method).Metrological applications of the quantum Hall effect (QHE).Three2-hour laboratory demonstrations:1. Thompson-Lampard's capacitance standard.2. Frequency performance of resistance standards.3. Calibration of capacitance boxes.4-hour visit to the Czech Metrology Institute:Calibration of digital multimeters, QHE-based calibrations of resistance standards."

Exam: Continuous evaluation through laboratory exercises and an evaluation test at the end of the course.

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Prerequisites: Sets, relations, oriented graphs, finite automata.

Objectives: Modern technologies require processing of larger and larger amount of data while on the other hand smaller and smaller devices appear. These two contradictory requirements lead to increasing importance of data compression.The course presents principles of data compression. The basic data compression methods are presented followed by most popular and frequently used compression algorithms. Students will learn properties of various data compression methods which is very important when designing new information and communication systems.

Programme: Five 3-hour lectures:1. Introduction, entropy, basic methods, coding of integers, Elias codes, Fibonnaci codes2. Statistical methods, Shannon-Fano, Huffman, and arithmetic coding3. Dictionary methods, LZ77, LZ78, LZW4. Context methods, PPM, DCA (Antidictionaries), ACB5. Burrow-Wheeler transformation, searching in compressed text, word-based compressionFour 3-hour seminars with demonstrations:1. Entropy, basic methods, coding integers, Elias codes, Fibonnaci codes2. Statistical methods, Shannon-Fano, Huffman, and arithmetic coding3. Dictionary methods, LZ77, LZ78, LZW4. Context methods, PPM, DCA (Antidictionaries), ACB, Burrow-Wheeler transformation, test

Exam: Written exam with the duration of 1 hour. Evaluation of the results.

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Prerequisites: - An introductory course on probability theory at the level of Probability Essentials by Philip Protter and Jean Jacod.- An introductory course in statistical signal processing, as Digital Processing of Random Signals: theory and methods by B. Porat.- Basic knowledge on Matlab.

Objectives: The use of Monte Carlo methods for nonlinear filtering can be traced back to the early 1970’s. These early attempts were based on sequential versions of the importance sampling paradigm, a technique that amounts to simulating samples under an instrumental distribution and then approximating the target distributions by weighting these samples using appropriately defined importance weights. In the non-linear filtering context, importance sampling algorithms can be implemented sequentially in the sense that, by defining carefully a sequence of instrumental distributions, it is not needed to regenerate the population of samples from scratch upon the arrival of each new observation. This algorithm is called sequential importance sampling (SIS). Although the SIS algorithm has been around for a while, its use in non-linear filtering problems was rather limited at that time. Most likely the available computational power was then too limited to allow convincing applications of these methods. Another less obvious reason is that the SIS algorithm suffers from a major drawback which was not clearly identified and properly cured until the seminal paper by (Gordon, Salmond et al. 1993), who proposed to rejuvenate the set of samples by re-sampling (the samples with high importance weights are replicated, while on the contrary, samples with low weights are removed). The particle filter (Gordon, Salmond et al. 1993) was the first successful application of sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) techniques to the field of non-linear filtering. The attractive feature of SMC is their general applicability, in that they can be applied to nonlinear and non-gaussian dynamic systems. They have been applied in many different fields including motion tracking, sensor fusion, signal processing for communication, speech processing, robotics, computer vision, financial data, etc.This tutorial will review the basic building blocks that are needed to implement a sequential Monte Carlo algorithm, starting with concepts related to the importance sampling approach and then moving by step to particle filtering and then to more sophisticated SMC algorithms including auxiliary filters, mixing Kalman filters, etc.Bibliography Cappé, O., E. Moulines, et T. Rydén. (2005). Inference in Hidden Markov Models. New-York, Springer. Gordon, N., D. Salmond, et al. (1993). "Novel approach to non-linear/non-Gaussian bayesian state estimation." IEE-Proceedings-F 140: 107-113. Haykin, S. and N. deFreitas (2004). "Special Issue on Sequential State Estimation." Proceedings of the IEEE 92(3): 399-400. Ristic, B., M. Arulampalam, et al. (2004). Beyond Kalman Filters: particle filters for target tracking, Artech House.

Programme: ProgramFrom linear to non-linear state space: models and examples;Prediction, Filtering, Smoothing in non-linear state space model;Monte-Carlo and Importance Sampling techniques;The Sequential Importance Sampling algorithm;Choice of the proposal distribution (linearization, extended Kalman Filter, unscented Kalman filter, etc.);Resampling: why, when, how? The particle filter algorithm and its variants;Auxiliary Sampling, Sampling Importance Resampling;The mixture Kalman Filter: the best of the two words;Batch and recursive parameter estimation: how to calibrate models?Applications;Joint MIMO channel tracking and decoding;Bearings-only tracking;Visual tracking.LabsA key feature of this course is the use of practical computational exercises, based on Matlab, in which methods are implemented and evaluated by the students. The intended outcomes of the course are to provide students with the theoretical and practical skills necessary to design, implement and evaluate algorithms.MaterialHard copy of the slides and lecture notes.

Exam: Final grade will be based on laboratory reports (one for each Lab).

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Where: Czech Technical University in Prague

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of numerical mathematics.

Objectives: The main goal of the course is to:1. present selected mathematical and algorithmic structures in MATLABenvironment used for signal analysis and processing2. study fundamentals of discrete Fourier transform and its properties in connection with signal and image analysis and discretization3. analyse principles if digital filtering in the time (FIR, IIR) andfrequency domains for signal de-noising and image enhancement4. discuss selected mathematical methods of signal analysis and topresent fundamentals of wavelet transform in signal decomposition,modification and reconstruction with applications5. summarize basic principles of signal modelling in its prediction usingboth linear and nonlinear methods including neural networks6. present selected applications of signal processing in environmentalengineering, biomedical signal and image processsing and energyconsumption data predictionIt is supposed that course participants will be able to use the MATLAB environment to solve selected problems of the interdisciplinary area of signal and image processing, to use its visualization tools, and to study selected applications of digital signal processing methods.

Programme: Five 3-hour lectures:1. Algorithmization in the MATLAB environment, visualization, programming tools, data processing.2. Principles of the discrete Fourier transform, properties, applications3. Digital filtering using difference equations. Frequency domain filters4. Approximation of functions. Discrete Wavelet transform, basicdefinitions, signal decomposition, de-noising, reconstruction5. Signal prediction, linear models, neural networks, optimizationThree 1 hour case studies:1. Two-dimensional modelling of air pollution data2. Energy consumption data analysis3. EEG signal de-noisingFour 2-hour seminar work:1. Programming in MATLAB, structured data, computer graphics2. Signal acquisition, visualization, analysis3. Digital filters, graphical user interphase4. Discussion of resultsOne 4-hour excursion:Biomedical signal and image acquisition

Exam: Continuous evaluation through laboratory exercises and an evaluation test at the end of the course.

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Where: Czech Technical University in Prague

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of chemistry and environmental sciences.

Objectives: The main goal of the course is to:1. study of fundamentals of biochemical transformations of pollutants2. present selected biotechnological methods used in environmentalprotection3. analyse the main problems of environmental protection in Czech Republicand EU4. discuss economical, energetical and social acpects of environmentalprotection5. summarize basic principles of environmental biotechnology in the airprotection, water and wastewater treatment, water and soilcontamination removal and solid waste treatment

Programme: Five 3-hour lectures:1. Life Cycle Assessment - Environmental impacts of products and services2. Soil and Groundwater Contamination in the Czech Republic(History, Most Polluted Sites, Development of Technological Tools)3.Drinking Water Quality in Europe and Czech Republic.4. Energy Production from Wastewaters and Biowastes5. Biological Wastewater Treatment as a Part of Environmental Protectionin the Czech RepublicThree3-hour case studies:1. Solid Waste Treatment2. Wastewater Treatment A3. Wastewater Treatment BOne 3-hour excursion:Excursion to Prague wastewater treatment plant

Exam: Continuous evaluation through laboratory exercises and an evaluation test at the end of the course.

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Where: Télécom Paris

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge in signal processing, applied mathematics, and probability.

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Prerequisites: Maxwell equations

Objectives: Quantum entanglement is the basic ressource for the future quantum relays or repeaters. The objective of this course is to acquire a thorough understanding of this concept from the theoretical definition to the practical implementation of entangled photons states, using non linear optics and to see how it can be used in various quantum communications devices.

Programme: Basic quantum physicsEntanglement, EPR paradox, Field quantization, beamsplittersIntroduction to nonlinear optics (second order nonlinear phenomena)Entangled photons: polarization, time-energy, time-binPhysical implementation of entangled photon pairs sourcesQuantum teleportation, entanglement swappingQuantum cryptography protocols using entangled statesTwo experiments in IOGS:1) Quantum coalescence of identical bosons : two-photon interference effect using pairs of identical photons produced by degenerate spontaneous down-conversion.Identical photons can exhibit a very strange property: when they enter a different input port of a balanced beam splitter, they leave the beam splitter through the same output port. This effect, can be understood as a two-photon quantum interference between two possible paths taken by the photons. The contrast of the interference signal is a measurement of the degree of indistinguishability of the light particles. Recent proposals for the building of a quantum computer rely on the ability to produce indistinguishable photons and rely on this so called HOM interference.2) Quantum mechanics non locality test: violation of Bell's inequalities using polarization entangled photons produced by spontaneous down-conversion.The famous EPR paradox about completeness of quantum mechanics raised by Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen in 1935 [1], initially seen as a philosophical question, became a physical problem when John Bell published an article in 1964 suggesting that it was possible to actually test the hypothesis of local hidden variables [2]. It took ten more years before an experimental implementation of the test could be conducted by Clauser et al. [3], and a little more before a clear and widely accepted demonstration of the Bell's inequality violation, by A. Aspect et al., at Institut d'Optique [4]. This test is now routinely used in labs to measure the quality of entanglement, a fundamental ressource for quantum information processing and communications.

Exam: Daily exercises and the laboratory session

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Prerequisites: Initiation level in Economics and Management.

Objectives: This course has been designed as an introduction to the basic communication techniques necessary to act as a manager in an international environment regardless of the particular field. In general, each class will be divided into two parts. First, a discussion of a particular management skill (negociations, presentations, meetings, team-building, time management, etc.) then students will have the opportunity to practice the management technique learned, usually in small groups. Each student will be required to participate in a small group project, putting into practice the various techniques and resulting in a short business presentation in front of the class.

Programme: - ICT and the global economy : an overview.- Major trends in the world ICT economy.- International management & communication.- Communication theory/negociations.- Law in an international context : legal systems and legal sources.- Protecting software & inventions trough intellectual property law.- Business presentations & communications.- Team building and management.- ICT and the global economy : the investor/innovator perspective.- The implementation of corporate strategy.

Exam: Written Assignment (1,5 hours)[3 credits]

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Where: Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées

Prerequisites: Connaissances préalables nécessaires:- Niveau 1er cycle: thermodynamique, mécanique des fluides incompressibles, Français.

Objectives: Les choix énergétiques doivent prendre en compte, l'ensemble des impacts sur notre environnement: épuisement des ressources naturelles, rejets thermiques et polluants, sûreté d'exploitation et risque industriel.Plus largement, les décisions concernant nos modes de production et nos manières de consommer sont à partager avec l'ensemble des parties prenantes de la société civile. Elles doivent répondre à leurs attentes et s'inscrire dans une logique de Développement Durable.La question des choix énergétiques doit donc intégrer à la fois les performances des filières et des procédés, l'inventaire des ressources, des besoins et des impacts, l'étude des stratégies possibles et, en perspective, les pistes pour le long terme.Ce nouveau cours destiné à une ouverture européenne, se propose d'éclaircir objectivement ces diverses questions qui sont au cœur de l'actualité et des choix économiques.Planning du cours:Lundi matin: Les ressources énergétiques : enjeux stratégiques.Lundi après-midi: Le nucléaire : situation et perspectives.Mardi matin: Structure d’un parc de production d’électricité.Mardi après-midi: Mérites comparés des différentes filières, les EnR dans les pays en développement.Mercredi matin: Effet de serre et modèles atmosphériques.Mercredi après-midi: Transport automobile – Perspectives d’avenir.Jeudi matin: Impact de l’environnement sur la production d’électricité.Jeudi après-midi: Le coût des impacts environnementaux .Vendredi matin: MDE et Optimisation des systèmes énergétiques dansles bâtiments.Vendredi après-midi: Conclusions et perspectives. Contrôle écrit des acquis.

Programme: Programme Pédagogique:- Les entreprises aucœurdu Développement Durable.- Le partage des ressources- Stratégie de l'énergie, impact sur l'environnement- Filières énergétiques- Les modèlesatmosphèriques

Exam: Contrôle des connaissances : Un écritde 2H sur 2 questions abordées dans les cours

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Prerequisites: Connaissances préalables nécessaires:- Niveau 1er cycle: thermodynamique, mécanique des fluides incompressibles, Français.

Objectives: Les choix énergétiques doivent prendre en compte l'ensemble des impacts sur notre environnement: épuisement des ressources naturelles, rejets thermiques et polluants, sûreté d'exploitation et risque industriel.Plus largement, les décisions concernant nos modes de production et nos manières de consommer sont à partager avec l'ensemble des parties prenantes de la société civile. Elles doivent répondre à leurs attentes et s'inscrire dans une logique de Développement Durable.La question des choix énergétiques doit donc intégrer à la fois les performances des filières et des procédés, l'inventaire des ressources, des besoins et des impacts, l'étude des stratégies possibles et, en perspective, les pistes pour le long terme.Ce cours, destiné à une ouverture européenne, se propose d'éclaircir objectivement ces diverses questions qui sont au cœur de l'actualité et des choix économiques.Planning du cours:Lundi matin: Les ressources énergétiques : enjeux stratégiques.Lundi après-midi: L'effet de serre.Mardi matin: Structure d’un parc de production d’électricité.Mardi après-midi: Mérites comparés des différentes filières.Mercredi matin:Le nucléaire : situation et perspectives.Mercredi après-midi: Transport automobile : perspectives d’avenir.Jeudi matin:Le coût des impacts environnementauxJeudi après-midi: MDE et Optimisation des systèmes énergétiques dans les bâtimentsVendredi matin: Débat questions-réponsesVendredi après-midi: Synthèse des acquis (1H). Contrôle écrit (1H).

Programme: Programme Pédagogique:- Les entreprises aucœurdu Développement Durable.- Le partage des ressources- Stratégie de l'énergie, impact sur l'environnement- Filières énergétiques- L'effet de serre et la modélisation du climat

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Where: Instituto Superior Tecnico Lisboa

Prerequisites: General knowledge of mathematics and statistics.Practicing knowledge of PC's, namely Excel.

Objectives: Quality Control is an indispensable aspect of production, in any domain (industry, commerce, services, health, education), and measurement is necessary to verify whether work is correctly done and the customers' expectations are met or exceeded. The basic techniques of Quality Control are presented, preceeded by a reference to the relationship with the customer.

Programme: I. Quality (Q): what it is. Historical evolution: Shewhart, Deming, Juran, Taguchi. Q control and Q management. Certification; standardization.Continuous improvement. Statistical Q control; interest and application in production and the other activities. Technical, economical and legal aspects.II. Statistical process control (SPC) (in-process) (a) Control charts. Reference to simulation (Monte Carlo method). (b) Measures of location: X-bar (mean) charts. (c) Measures of dispersion: R (range) charts and s (standard deviation) charts. Usual approximations and the exact charts. (d) p (fraction nonconforming or defective) charts; c (number of nonconforming) charts.III. Acceptance sampling by "attributes" (discrete variables) (a) AQL (acceptable Q level) and producer's and consumer's risks. (b) Sampling inspection: criteria, sample size determination. (c) The standard MIL-STD-105D and its ANSI/ASQC and ISO equivalents.IV. Acceptance sampling by "variables" (continuous variables) (a) Goodness-of-fit test; fit to the Gauss distribution. (b) AQL and producer's and consumer's risks. (c) Sampling inspection: criteria, sample size determination. (d) The standard MIL-STD-414 and its ANSI/ASQC and ISO equivalents. (e) Specifications: one, two specification limits.

Exam: Two hour examination, made on PC.

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Prerequisites: Engineering degree students with courses on programming and physics are recommended.

Objectives: The elab project allows the remote manipulation of scientific experiments trough a WEB interface. Several experiences are already on-line through this technology as seen athttp://elab.ist.eu/.The objective of the course is to provide students with all the knowledge to create their own elab server, including the ability to project and develop robotized experiments.It is expected that students will acquired basic skills on JAVA and C (PIC) programming, which includes a course of Microprocessors and basis of electronic instrumentation.

Programme: PIC Programming: from assembler to CBasics of Electronic InstrumentationGeneral architecture of the elab system:.Video Broadcast and video resolution.The multicast server.The hardware clients.The customizersState machinesAnalog to Digital ConvertersSensors and transducersIntroduction to JAVA programming

Exam: 4 hours laboratory exam.

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Where: Chimie ParisTech

Prerequisites: base de la chimie et de la biochimie

Objectives: Sensibiliser les étudiants aux nouveaux concepts utilisés pour obtenir d'une manière plus efficace des substances susceptibles de devenir des médicaments

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Prerequisites: Aucune connaissance particulière, mais une formation ou un intérêt pour les sciences de la nature peuvent être appréciables.

Objectives: Cet enseignement a pour but de faire comprendre comment les activités sociales sont susceptibles de modifier la structure et le fonctionnement des écosystèmes. Il doit conduire l'élève à considérer l'ensemble des impératifs liés à la gestion du milieu naturel comme un facteur supplémentaire à prendre en compte dans toute décision de nature industrielle (ou autre) : il vient se conjuguer aux objectifs économiques, aux contraintes sociales et juridiques, etc..., et contribuer à donner à ces problèmes un éclairage original.

Programme: L'objectif du programme est double :découvrir et comprendre les principaux processus physiques, chimiques et biologiques se déroulant dans les milieux naturels ;prendre conscience sur des cas concrets de l'impact des technologies sur l'environnement et identifier cet impact.Pour ce faire, un enseignement magistral est consacré aux fondements de l'écologie générale, à une initiation au droit et à l'économie de l'environnement, et à divers sujets tels que l'environnement atmosphérique, la modélisation des écosystèmes aquatiques et/ou la gestion des déchets.Un stage et des visites de terrain sont consacrés à l'observation et à l'étude des différents écosystèmes, des perturbations anthropiques qu'ils subissent et des installations correctrices mises en œuvre (stations de traitement et d'épuration, stockage de déchets, etc...).

Exam: Forme du contrôle : rapport de stage.

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Prerequisites: Chimie, physique, biologie, analyse

Objectives: Aborder les stratégies cosmétologiques et thérapeutiques basées sur les connaissances scientifiques et technologiques actuelles - Décrire différentes approches développées dans les laboratoires industriels pour obtenir des produits nouveaux innovants - Informer sur la complexité biologique de la peau et ses liens avec l'environnement

Programme: Introduction : dermatologie et cosmétologie : impact des nouvelles connaissances scientifiques et technologiquesDescription de la physiologie de la peauPathologies dues au rayonnement solairePhysiopathologiesTraitement

Exam: Écrit

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Where: Technische Universität München

Prerequisites: Good knowledge of probability theory is required.The course is suitable for civil and mechanical engineering students. Students must bring a laptop with either Matlap or Octave installed (Octave is freeware).

Objectives: Introduction to modern structural reliability methods for the evaluation of the performance of engineering systems subject to uncertainty and randomness. The course will introduce the theory and applications.This course should enable the student to perform reliability analysis for realistic engineered structures and systems, and to interpret the results of such analyses. At the end of the course, the student will be able to:- Formulate the reliability problem for engineering systems.- Establish the probabilistic model for various loadings and materials.- Compute estimates of the failure probability of engineered systems using various approximate methods.- Assess the relative importance of random variables on the reliability.- Assess the sensitivities of the results to model assumptions.- Update the reliability estimates with observed data.- Construct response surfaces for the reliability analysis of systems that are analyzed with large FEM codes.

Programme: 1. Introduction and brief review of probability theory2. First and Second Order Reliability Method3. Monte Carlo Simulation4. System reliability5. Risk acceptance and target reliabilities6. Importance sampling & Subset simulation8. Responce surface methods (metamodels)9. Advanced topics

Exam: Oral exam at the end of the week & take-home exam.

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Prerequisites: basic knowledge of Linux/Windows operating systemsbasic programming skills (C/C++/Matlab)good knowledge of spoken and written Englishadequate background (Engineering, Mathematics, Physics,…) with strong interest in numerical simulation

Objectives: basics of the numerical simulation pipelineNURBS modeling for numerical simulations -- challenges, advantages, limitationsintroduction to high order approximation schemes (isogeometric analysis, p-version FEM, NURBS-based embedded domain methods) -- refinement, convergence properties, performance analysisimplementation aspectsapplication to engineering problems

Programme: Visit to the High Performance Computing Centre of the LRZ (Leibniz Rechenzentrum) or the TUM CAVE (FRAVE) - virtual reality system

Exam: short presentation & examination at the end of the course

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Where: Czech Technical University in Prague

Prerequisites: A course of introductory / applied physics, basic knowledge of modern physics (e.g. D. Halliday et al.:Physics, Chap. 38 – 45).

Objectives: Introduction to physics of high-energy-density matter : theory, simulation, facilities, experiment,. - Presentation of key applications of high-energy-density physics: x-ray lasers, frontier physics studies, inertial confinement fusion.

Programme: Introduction. - Preludium: Modern Physics: Lasers, Plasmas, Nuclei. -Lab.Visit 1: FNSPE - Dept . of Physical Electronics. Part 1.*Postmodern Physics & Extreme Systems. - Subpicosecond / Superstrong Field Photonics.-Lab.Visit 2: FNSPE – Dept .ofPhysical Electronics. Part 2, Dept. of Nuclear Reactors. *Physics of Extreme States of Matter. - Computational Physics of High-Parameter Plasmas, -Lab. Visit 2: FNSPE - Dept. of Physical Electronics. Part 2; Dept. of Nuclear Reactors .*Physics of Nucleoreactive Plasmas. - X-ray Lasers and Their Applications. - PALS Laboratory & Project ELI Beamlines.-Lab. Visit 2 : AS CR -Inst. of Plasma Physics, PALS .* Lasers & Frontier Physics . -Inertial Confinement Fusion & Thermonuclear Reactors. - Conclusion. - Final Test. -Course Web Site:http://vega.fjfi.cvut.cz/docs/athens12a/

Exam: Final test

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Where: Technische Universität Wien

Prerequisites: No prerequisits required. Hard copy hand-outs of the presentations will be provided for all participants.

Objectives: The students of the ATHENS course „Industrial Archaeology“ will become familiar with the fundamentals of history and scientific methods of industrial archaeology as well as the objectives of industrial monument preservation.

Programme: Terminology, history of industrial archaeology in several European countries, values of industrial monuments, risks for industrial heritage, legal force and public relations, methods of conservation and preservation;Some specials of Austrian industrial archaeology research and industrial monument preservation;Excursion to abondoned industrial areas and reused facilities and sites.

Exam: Written test at the end of the course week.

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Prerequisites: This course requires a basic familiarity with electromagnetic waves and optics, and with semiconductor or quantum physics.

Objectives: This course corresponds to a "hands-on" first approach of optical telecommunication systems. It aims at giving an overview of the main "ingredients" used in the design and the realisation of an optical telecommunication systems: sources, transmission channels, receivers, intermediate components, as well as familiarising students with the basic equipment used in the domain.

Programme: The program is mainly based on laboratory experience. It includes :-- 9 hours of lectures and conferences :Optical systems design and performance.External modulators and integrated optics devices (integrated optical waveguides, electro-optics and electro-absorption effects)Sources for optical communications : LED and laser-diodes. general operation and properties of devices (LED, Fabry-Perot and DFB cavities, homo- and heterojunction, quantum well lasers). Modulation and noise properties.Optical fibres (guiding, attenuation, dispersion properties).-- 21 hours of laboratory exercises :Characterization of optical fibres (attenuation and dispersion measurements).Characterization of laser-diodes.Electro-optics modulators and integrated optics.Characterization of photodetectors and observation of receiver noise.Demonstration of a heterodyne detection system.Characterization of an optical amplifier.Optical systems modelling.

Exam: The evaluation is based on regular examinations during the course laboratory sessions.

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Prerequisites: Basic knowledge in statistics.

Objectives: Motto: “Prediction is very difficult especially of the future” ( Niels Bohr)The objective of this course is to answer the following questions:What is software reliability?Why are the statistical methods necessary?How do you measure and predict the software reliability?A computer is a deterministic machine - why can’t we predict when it will fail next ?If software is such a problem why not build it in hardware?There is evidence that defects have their origin in design errors. It becomes difficult or impossible to ensure that software contains no faults. The software reliability is currently a very sensitive area in telecommunications for example the introduction of new services.The course presents opportunities in the field of prediction of software reliability and the tools allowing to characterize the accuracy and quality forecasts.Various methods and techniques that we approach based on collected data: the software reliability growth models, statistical tests, among which trend tests (graphic and statistics methods).The course is focused on practical applications using software reliability toolkits on real world projects.

Programme: Day 1: Key features of software systems; Trustworthy software; Software Forensics.Day 2: Operational profiling and reliability modelling;Measuring software reliability.Day 3: Models for analysis of the software reliability growth; Reliability of Web services.Day 4: Reliability assessment; Evaluation of software reliability predictions.Day 5: Accuracy and quality of forecasts; Capabilities and limitations; Unanswered Questions; Case studies.Exercises:The students will experience teamwork. Project: Development of a software project by teams of students (usually five of them).Methodological ReferencesAlternation of the exposed paper based on the course support under electronic format with the involvement of the students into debates. The copy of transparencies on CD-ROM and the Web pages:http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/~popentiu/Software_Reliability.html. Also the support of the course is accompanied by video illustrations and case studies with software tools.

Exam: Exam based on a mini-project programmed during the computer based sessions

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Prerequisites: Basic Knowledge in signal or image processing is desirable

Objectives: The course aims at familiarizing the students with medical imaging.This field of medicine has been for several years in spectacular technological changes, notably making use of numerical technologies and image processing.It is a decisive tool in diagnosis as well as in therapy.Using techniques transposable with other applications, it now represents an area of major economic interest.The course will be based on an alternation of theoretical talks and on site visits which will give an outline of the most recent paths of development.Teaching program:- Physical principles and techniques: digital radiology, computed tomography, nuclear medicine, magnetic resonance imaging, echography.- Methods for computing tomographic images.- Methods of visualization of three-dimensional images.- Three-dimensional image processing: why and how.- Introduction to medical robotics.- Visits to a medical imagery company, a research laboratory, and a Department of Radiology.- Examples of applications in diagnosis and therapy.- Picture and communication archiving systems.- Social-economic aspects of the medical imagery.

Programme: Projected Program:day 1: introduction. Physical bases of X-rays and Gamma imageries. Basic tomographic reconstruction. CT, SPECT and PET Technology.day 2: Physical bases and technology of MRI and echography. 2D and 3D visualization. Image processing 1.day 3: (AM): Image processing 2. (PM): visit of Neuroradiology Department (CT, angiography, MRI, PACS); if available visits of a MEG-EEG centre and of a nuclear Medicine department.day 4: visit of a manufacturer (General Electric Medical Systems). XR tube factory. Advanced 3D tomographic reconstruction , and demonstrations.day 5: (AM): PACS. The medical imaging market. (PM): free or laboratory sessions .

Exam: The exam will consist of a short evaluation of presented notions and a report(an analysis of a scientic paper, or research bibliography)

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Prerequisites: Students should be interested in industry as well as finance. Those who have a laptop computer are requested to bring it.

Objectives: Hundreds of millions of dollars are required in capital expenditure, to build and develop projects such oil fields and mines, electric power stations, satellites and telecom, auto-routes and bridges. In return, revenues are highly uncertain. For natural resources such as oil and metals, they depend on commodity prices that fluctuate wildly. Over recent years, the price of crude oil has risen from about $10 per barrel to $135 while gold has risen from $250 to over $1500. Similarly even if tolls can be fixed for new auto-routes, it is difficult to predict the traffic.From a financial point of view, borrowing the funds as a corporate loan would be problematic. Small companies do not have the cash-flows to provide the guarantees required; large companies prefer to develop the projects off their balance sheets in order to keep their ratings high and their interest rates low. This has led to the development of non-recourse project financing.These types of projects are characterised by high capital expenditures, long loan periods (often 10 - 20 years) and uncertain revenue streams. Analysing them requires a sound knowledge of the underlying technical domain as well as financial modelling skills. This is why engineers play a leading role in project finance - both in industry and in banks.Please note that the course does not cover market finance or corporate finance (mergers & acquisitions) etc

Programme: The aim of this course is to introduce students to non-recourse finance in general and to show them how it is applied in several important domains :*0- Mining & Petroleum*1- Satellites & Telecom*2- Infrastructure*3- Power generationSpeakers from industry and from banking will present case studies, from different points of view. As many of the projects are based in developing countries, the special problems of working in these areas will be addressed.A presentation on credit export agencies will cover this topic.The daily course programme will be available about 10 days prior to the course, please see : www.ensmp.fr (under the link , ""Ingénieurs Civils"")."

Exam: During the course, students working in small groups prepare and deliver a powerpoint presentation in English on a topic related to project finance. Afterwards, they are given a 2 week period after the end of the course to submit a written report in English or in French. Marks will be based on the report content and level of understanding of the subject.

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Prerequisites: Connaissances préalables nécessaires :Notions de mécanique des fluides et du solide, excel (TD)Connaissances en architecture navaleNotions de navigation

Objectives: Ce module analyse les différents systèmes de propulsion éolienne, qui a repris une place significative dans l'industrie navale grâce au sport et à la plaisance.Le cours, illustré par l'analyse de projets originaux, présente l'arsenal des méthodes les plus modernes de conception des bateaux à voile. On y aborde également le rôle de la météorologie dans la conception et l'utilisation des systèmes.

Programme: Programme Pédagogique:Lundi matin : Introduction - Equations généralesLundi après-midi : LibreMardi matin : Résistance des coques à l'avancement / ProjetMardi après-midi : Influence de la géométrie des coques sur la performance / ProjetMercredi matin : Appendices (fonctionnement, conception) / ProjetMercredi après-midi : LibreJeudi matin : Aérodynamique des profils minces / ProjetJeudi après-midi : Effet aérodynamiques tridimensionnels / ProjetVendredi matin : ProjetVendredi après-midi : Projet

Exam: Contrôle des connaissances:Sur un travail effectué en travaux dirigés (rapport à remettre)

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Prerequisites: Notions de base sur la lumière et les rayonnements

Objectives: Proposer une approche globale de la couleur au travers des sciences physiques et humaines et de ses applications dans les arts et l’industrie

Programme: Lundi 19 marsMatin : Yves CharnayIntroduction au métier de coloristeDaniel FargueApproche physique de la lumière et de la couleurAprès-midi : Georges Ayats et Lionel SimonotLes catégories de la couleur vues par un peintre et un physicienMardi 20 marsMatin : Amédée DjémaiL’origine de la couleur dans les minérauxAprès-midi : Manufacture nationale de SèvresVisite d'application aux céramiquesMercredi 21 marsMatin : François DelamareLes matériaux de la couleurAprès-midi : Edith CaleauTravaux pratiques de mise en couleur d’un objetJeudi 22 marsMatin : Bernard Monasse et Yves Charnay : sciences de l’ingénieur et choix des couleursAprès-midi : la fabrication de la couleur pour les carrosseries automobiles (visite du technocentre de Renault Guyancourt)Vendredi 23 marsMatin : Manufacture des GobelinsVisite d'application aux teintures de tissusAprès-midi : Jean SerraReprésentations de la couleur en coordonnées polaires adaptées au traitement d'imageContrôle des connaissances

Exam: Questionnaire (QCM et questions de réflexion)

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Prerequisites: Undergraduate knowledge in general physics (magnetism and electricity, mechanics, geometrical and physical optics, thermodynamics), and a basic culture of quantum mechanics and atomistics (wavefunctions, Schrödinger equation, Heisenberg relation, photons, electron spin…)

Objectives: "Nanotechnologies are promised to a bright future, according to many analysts throughout the world. ""There is plenty of room at the bottom"", as prophesied by the famous scientist Richard Feynman at the occasion of his Nobel lecture in 1965. Indeed there are 7 orders of magnitude to gain in objects size when descending from the millimeter length easily accessible to humans, to the sub-nanometer details of atomic structures. Triggered by this visionary speech, a major research effort has then been carried out towards the shrinking of objects, and towards their observation. This has resulted in very much progress especially in the last two decades, both in theoretical, experimental (instruments) and engineering areas. This has come to the point that nanotechnologies are now considered to be the next main development step for our economies, bringing perspectives similar to those of silicon electronics in the sixties.The course mainly adopts the “bottom-up” approach, which consists in starting from microscopic properties of the matter at the atomic or molecular levels, and using these properties for structuring and exploiting nano-objects towards a variety of goals. Beyond a pure academic motivation, the course intends to make students “touch and feel” both the close or distant promises of nanotechnologies in terms of real world applications, and the technical difficulties to attain these goals. It will be delivered by researchers from the French leading laboratories innanotechnologies.

Programme: "Monday morning: Introduction to basics physics knowledge of structure and dynamics in crystalsMonday afternoon: Introduction to nano-structures and their dynamicsTuesday morning and afternoon: Quantum point devices ; carbon nanotubes ; Coulomb blockade ; tunnel effect microscopy ; molecular transistorsWednesday morning: Nanophotonics ; photonic band structures ; optical microcavitiesWednesday afternoon: Visit of a Nanotechnology Laboratory: nano-objects characterization techniques and instruments ; nanolithography ; nanofabrication …Thursday morning and afternoon: Interactions between magnetic moments (spins) ; origin of magnetism, nanomagnetism in engineered multilayers ; giant magnetoresistance ; application to magnetic storage ; spintronicsFriday morning and afternoon: nano-objects ; fabrication of semiconductor quantum dots ; epitaxial growth ; nanofabrication and nanostructuring

Exam: The students will analyse one given subject in the area of nanotechnologies from either the scientific or the application point of view (choice), and write a short report of their understanding and their view about the importance and the perspectives of this subject. They will be given a reasonable delay to deliver their report after the end of the course.

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Prerequisites: − The prerequisite for the course is an undergraduate course in probability theory (random variables, expectation, law of large numbers, etc.).− Knowledge of a programming language (Matlab recommended).

Objectives: The aim of the course is to introduce students to the theory and practice of Monte Carlo (MC) methods.MC Simulation, one of the largest and most important classes of numerical method for computer experiments, can be defined as a method using random sample data to investigate complex systembehavior. Monte Carlo simulation works because the Law of Large Numbers (LLN).Re-invented many times during the last centuries, the MC methods are used nowadays in a enormous range of applications, going from the simulation of galactic formation to chemical process to image processing to traffic flow to finance forecasting.A key feature of this course is the use of practical computational lab works, based on Matlab, in which methods are implemented and evaluated by the students.

Programme: Program− Introduction: first idea, history of the MC methods (from Buffon to Los Alamos), applications of MC methods (simulation, optimization, integration), range of applications.− MC first idea (LLN). Uniform random generation. Non uniform random generation.− MC principles (variance reduction techniques). Importance sampling, Rejection Sampling.− MC Markov Chain (MCMC) : Metropolis-Hastings, Gibbs sampling, simulated annealing.− Sequential MC methods.− Examples in image processing.− Examples in finance.Typical examples of computer labs:− Buffon Needle.− Gibbs sampler. Synthesizing texture.− Evaluation of the probability of ruin.− Particle Filtering: aircraft localization using level map.

Exam: Labwork reports

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Where: Czech Technical University in Prague

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of elementary atomic and nuclear physics

Objectives: To introduce all relevant aspects of radiation protection and the safety of radioactive sources including quantities and units used in radiation protection,dosimetry, health physics and radiation measurements as well as some basic aspects of the measurements and monitoring of these quantities. To understand the use of basic radiation quantities and units for the interpretation of results obtained by dosimeters or radiation monitors based on various types of detectors.

Programme: The lectures will include the following topics:Properties of ionizing radiation,Sources of radiation, Radiation fields and interaction of radiation with matter,Radiation quantities and units,Biological effects of radiation,Monitoring of radiation and radionuclides,Objectives and principles or radiation protection, International recommendations and requirements, Radiation protection standards and their implementation, Radiation and nuclear accidents including the lessons to be learned, Prevention against radiological terrorism

Exam: Written exam with the duration of 1 hour.

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Prerequisites: Ce cours s’adresse principalement à des étudiants n’ayant pas de connaissances préalables sur le sujet. Les élèves sont supposés connaître les opérations mathématiques élémentaires.

Objectives: Les entreprises sont exposées aux fluctuations des paramètres fondamentaux de l’économie comme les taux de change, les taux d’intérêt, les valeurs boursières… et recherchent des moyens efficaces de couverture.Les marchés financiers sont devenus de plus en plus sophistiqués dans leurs différents procédés pour évaluer, isoler, restructurer et transférer les risques.L’objectif de ce cours est de présenter le fonctionnement des marchés dérivés, les principaux produits qui y sont échangés et leurs apports en terme de gestion des risques.

Programme: I - Typologie des risques auxquels sont exposés les entreprises et les établissements financiers.II - Principes généraux d’organisation des marchés financiers.III - Introduction aux marchés dérivés: fonctionnement institutionnel, acteurs en présence, présentation des différents produits dérivés (contrats à terme, swaps, options) et les stratégies de couverture, de spéculation ou d’arbitrage qu’ils permettent.IV - Stratégies sur options à l’échéance et combinaisons d’options.V – Etude de cas pratiques.La pédagogie repose sur un enseignement magistral, des études de cas ou exercices en séance, et sur un examen final des connaissances.

Exam: Le module est validé par un examen final en dernière séance.

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Prerequisites: 1ère année école d'ingénieur

Objectives: Ce cours est une introduction à la mécanique spatiale. Il donne les équations de base du mouvement d’un satellite en orbite autour d’une planète ou d’une sonde dans le système, ainsi que les équations principales de rotation des planètes. Les applications principales de ces équations sont présentées par des spécialistes dudomaine: représentation de trajectoires, analyse et optimisation de missions spatiales (y compris débris spatiaux, et mise en évidence de chaos sur le très long terme), structure et rotation des planètes et petits corps du système solaire. Quelques notions sur le droit spatial sont aussi abordées. Selon les demi-journées, la semaine se déroule sous forme de cours magistraux, conférences, ou Travaux Dirigés avec utilisation de logiciels dédiés.Some lectures are given in English, but not all of them.This lecture is supposed to be a general introduction to space mechanics. It provides the equations of motion of an artificial satellite flying the Earth, or of a s/c orbiting in the solar system, as well as the baselines of the planets and small bodies rotation theories. Several fields of applications are then presented in the framework of an industrial or academic context: parameters to be optimized for space agencies, theoretical parameters to be estimated by scientists…The week is made up of a series of academic lectures, conference-like lectures, and exercices to be completed all together.

Programme: Vues générales sur la dynamique orbitale et l'environnement spatial de la TerreMouvement d'un satellite artificiel de la TerreDétermination de trajectoires interplanétaires, ApplicationsLe cadre juridique des activités spatialesIntroduction à la planétologie (atmosphère planétaires, surfaces et intérieur)Structures et rotations des planètes, effets de marées.La problématique long terme des débris spatiauxAnalyse de mission spatiale. Court terme / long terme.Détermination de champs de gravité et systèmes de référenceMain files:-main principles of orbital dynamics,-the Earth space environment-motion of an artificial satellite flying a central body-interplanetary trajectories-views on space legacy-scientific objectives of planetology-structure and rotation of planets-the space debris situation-space mission analysis (short term, long term)-gravity field and reference system determination.

Exam: Joint Project to be prepared the last part of the week, based on an idea to be developed, or an article to be studied

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Objectives: This introduction to trade port activities and economy is a series of lectures given by professionals. Technical, economic and prospective aspects are covered during the week. A visit to Le Havre port will be proposed to the students during the week.

Programme: Lecture 1 : General port activity in a global trade environmentLecture 2 : Transport by containersLecture 3-4 : Visit of Le Havre port and trade port managementLecture 5 : Competitiveness factors of a harbour6 : Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) terminalsLecture 7 : Port of the futureLecture 8 : Presentation of the case studies

Exam: Group study of a trade port with presentation at the end of the week. Information on the precise subject at the beginning of the week.

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Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of electricity/electronics, materials physics, chemistry, thermodynamics and optics

Objectives: While sustainable energy supply and use are becoming an increasingly pressing issue worldwide, photovoltaic (PV) solar energy is now widely acknowledged as a relevant answer to a significant share of our future energy needs.This 1-week intensive course will provide the students with an overview of PV science and technology as well as its uses, challenges and prospects.

Programme: The following topics will be addressed :- The rise of solar energy : facts and figures. Policy and market status- Solar resource evaluation and prediction- The uses of solar energy- Silicon and thin-film based PV- Emerging technologies- Integration of solar PV into systems and grids- Environmental impact and life-cycle analysis of PV technologies and systems

Exam: At the beginning of the course, the students will form small groups and each group will be given a set of research articles focusing on one particular issue or challenge of photovoltaic science and technology. The students will be evaluated on a short report and a presentation on that topic at the end of the course.

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Prerequisites: 1ère année école d'ingénieur

Objectives: Ce cours est une introduction aux problèmes de l'environnement.

Programme: Ressources en eauxPollution et aménagement des milieux lacustres et marinsTraitement des eaux uséesEstimation des ressources en eaux pluviales et projection climatiquesMilieux poreux: Environnement, Hydrocarbure

Exam: à définir

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Prerequisites: 1ère année d'école d'ingénieurs

Objectives: Ce cours est une introduction aux différentes techniques de production de l'électricité en utilisant les énergies renouvelables (essentiellement solaire et éolienne).

Programme: Enjeux énergétiques et opportunités offertes par les énergies renouvelablesGisement renouvelableImpact socio-économique et environnemental de l’utilisation des énergies renouvelables pour la production électriquePlans solaires locaux et régionauxVoies de production électrique en utilisant les énergies renouvelables:§Photovoltaïque§Eolienne§Solaire à concentrationRéseaux électriques intelligentsTransport de l’électricité renouvelable et impacts sur le réseau.

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Prerequisites: Basic knowledge in networking (TCP/IP, ATM)

Objectives: The OEC2 (Optical Ethernet for Cloud Computing) course aims to investigatetwo major evolutions observed in current carrier’s networks, namely:- The convergence between Ethernet switching and optical transparency- Resource virtualization inherent to Cloud Computing.This modules concludes by three prospective aspects:green networking, smart-Grid and radio resources virtualization.The TPT20 ATHENS cursus is dedicated to the evolution of carriers' networksin the perspective ofCloud services provisioning.As an introduction, the technological and commercial evolution of carrier'snetworksaround the year 2000 is outlined. The progressive replacement of the ATM andSONET/SDH technologiesby optical switching and Ethernet layer-2 formatting is justified. Twokiller applicationswill require for the next ten years anincrease of the end-to-end network capacity and flexibility: HD-TV and Cloudservices.The limits of xDSL technologies being pointed out, the various approachesconsidered for optical accessare presented. The aim of this module is then to provide an overview of theprinciples of Cloud Computing, mainlybased on the concept of resource virtualization. Storage Area Networks (SAN)today widely deployedcan be seen these as a first approach of Cloud service.Thanks to the contribution of several speakers from industry, theimpact of Cloud Computing on private data-centers hardware and softwareconfiguration and usage is investigated.It is also outlined how the multi-tenant nature of Cloud Computing inducesthe specificationof new business models.

Programme: Day 1 - morning:“Evolution of carrier’s networks” (M. Gagnaire, TPT)Day 1 - afternoon:"Cloud Computing: characteristics, new business models, state of the market"(F. Stephan, Thales)Day 2 - morning:"Carrier-class Ethernet" (M. Gagnaire)Day 2 - afternoon:"Optical transparency: benefits and challenges" (M. Gagnaire)Day 3 - morning:"Impacts and trends of Cloud Computing on Information Technology industryand markets" (F. Stephan, Thales)Day 3 - afternoon:"Optical access networks: APON, BPON, GPON, NG-PON" (M. Gagnaire)Day 4 - morning:"Data storage infrastructures: DAS, SAN, NAS" (F. Dève, Crédit Agricole)Day 4 - afternoon:"Private Cloud Computing: data center availability, Virtual Machines andVMware approach" (F. Dève, Crédit Agricole)Day 5 - morning:Case study: the OW2 Open Source Initiative (JP. Lainé, Bull)Day 5 - afternoon :"Prospective: green networks, smart Grid, radio resources virtualization"(M. Gagnaire) + Quizz (90 minutes)

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Where: Technische Universität Wien

Prerequisites: No prerequisits required. A personal laptop is advantageous, because it allows the use of eclectronic document copies of the provided course material. Hard copy hand-outs of the visual presentations will be provided for all participants.

Objectives: The students of this ATHENS course will become familiar with the fundamentals and with all important applications of ultrasound.

Programme: SONAR orientation sense of bat and dolphin; importance of SONAR for the U-boat localisation in world war II; Ultrasound non-destructive material testing; Sono-luminiscence; Ultrasonic separation of suspend particles; Highlights of European Training and Mobility Network "UltraSonoSep" http://eaps3.iap.tuwien.ac.at/www/euss/ ; Acoustic bio-cell filters; Ultrasonic emulsion splitting; Therapeutic and diagnostic ultrasound; Sonothrombolysis; Sonoporation

Exam: Short accompanying sample tests. Written and oral examination at the end.

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Prerequisites: Some knowledge of mathematical modelisation, duality concepts in optimization, an interest in computer science and programming, the ability to use spreadsheets.

Objectives: This course will focus on three important concepts of Optimization and Computer Science theory : linear programming (LP), graph theory and dynamic programming (DP). Its aim is to provide ATHENS students with a solid background in Operations Research so they can tackle real problems in the industry. The domain of applications is spreading from planning, to logistics, from routing and inventory control to revenue management.After a two days "crash-course" in operations research that will focuss on fondamental concepts and techniques, we will work with them on 6 test-cases that can be found in Airlines or Transportation companies, Telecommunication companies, Services and commodities. The goal is then to give some very concrete exemples of "real-life" problems, the way to solve them, and the addede-value for businesses.

Programme: OR Crash-course = two daysLinear ProgrammingDynamic ProgrammingDuality : how it is used in algorithmsInteger and Mixed-Integer ProgrammingGraph Theory : the main modelsHeuristics, Branch & Bound, Column generationAdvanced ModellingApplications = three daysInventory controlPlanning and assignment problemsNetwork optimizationSchedulingRouting, Shortest-Path problemsRevenue Management

Exam: Multiple choice items test plus mini-project or oral exam.

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Prerequisites: This course needs prerequisites in continuum mechanics, heat transfer, thermodynamics and crystallographySpecific conditions:This Course takes place inSophia Antipolis,950km from Paris.Google Maps linkTransport (from Paris to Nice) and accommodation amounts toaround 320 euros.Athens students coming from partner universities abroad shouldgo directly to Sophia Antipolis(they cannot participate in the Paris activities ; they will not be accommodated in Paris, only in Sophia Antipolis). They are expected to arrive on Sunday 13th November (afternoon).

Objectives: Polymer processing represents a growing economic activity. Polymer parts (films, tubes, profiles, bottles, various injection-moulded products for automotive industry or domestic appliance…) require mechanical, optical, barrier properties. The objective of the course is, first, to present the main thermoplastic polymers and their forming tools, then to provide the main rheological, physical and mechanical insights which govern the processes, and finally to apply these knowledges to the most popular polymer forming processes (extrusion, injection, blow moulding…).This course is devoted to students who are interested both in material physics and modelling and who want to improve their knowledges on polymer and polymer forming. We will focus on what is original in structure, properties and forming processes of polymers when compared to other of other materials

Programme: Summary: Thirty slots: lectures, experiments, exercises- Economic and technical aspects of polymer industry- Rheology of molten polymers- Amorphous and semi-crystalline polymers, crystallization kinetics, orientation- Thermal phenomena in polymer forming- Experimental and theoretical investigation of extrusion, injection moulding, blow moulding- Basic principles of polymer processing modelling- Mechanical properties of polymersHalf of the courses will consist in experimental practice: rheology, mechanical properties, crystallization, injection moulding, blow mouldingA detailed program will be available on the Mines ParisTech web site ten days before the course period.

Exam: It consists in a short report on one of the practical work done by the students during the week.

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Prerequisites: Notions fondamentales de lamécanique des milieux continus(déplacements, déformations, contraintes, équations d’équilibre) et deslois de comportement(au moins l'élasticité linéaire). Notions decalcul matriciel et tensoriel.

Objectives: A l’heure actuelle où les structures industrielles (génie civil) et les ouvrages souterrains (travaux miniers et géotechniques) deviennent de plus en plus complexes et où les problèmes d’optimisation et de stabilité se posent avec beaucoup d’acuité, la connaissance des méthodes modernes de calcul des structures est souvent indispensable pour un ingénieur. Le cours de calcul de structures a pour but de familiariser les élèves avec la Méthode des Eléments Finis appliquée au calcul des efforts et des déformations dans les structures réelles, aussi complexes soient-elles.

Programme: Programme pédagogique :La session comprend 20 séances de cours, démonstrations et travaux pratiques.- Rappels des notions fondamentales de la mécanique des milieux continus et des lois de comportement (élasticité linéaire). Théorème des puissances virtuelles.- Méthodes des Eléments Finis (MEF). Principe de la programmation sur ordinateur de la MEF.- Application de la méthode aux milieux élastoplastiques et viscoélastiques ou viscoplastiques.- Présentation du logiciel VIPLEF qui est mis à la disposition des élèves.- Etudes de cas simples choisis et traités par les élèves.Programme détaillé :Le programme journalier du cours sera consultable 10 jours environ avant le début de l'enseignement sur www.ensmp.fr (rubrique Ingénieurs civils)

Exam: Forme du contrôle : projets utilisant le programme mis à la disposition des élèves

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Prerequisites: Savoir lire une partition. Il estindispensablede réviser un manuel de solfège élémentaire avant le début du cours.

Objectives: Faire saisir au travers de l'exemple de la musique, prise dans sa dimension historique, les interactions que peuvent avoir entre elles une pratique artistique et les sciences et techniques qui s’y relient.

Programme: Programme pédagogique:LundiMatin : Samuel Forest, Aude CamusDe la physique au solfège : sons et bruit, propagation du son, gammeS et harmoniques, caractéristiques physiques et instrumentales des notes.Après-midi : Michèle CastellengoPhysiologie, perception et musique.MardiMatin : Thierry ManiguetOrganologie et histoire des familles d’instruments. L'ingénierie dans la facture instrumentale.Après-midi : Sandie Leconte, Stéphane VaidedelichVisite d'application dans les collections du Musée de la musique, par demi groupe, en parallèle avec des TP d'acoustique musicale et voixMercrediMatin :Gaël RichardLe traitement automatique des signaux de musique pour l'indexation sonore : reconnaissance du rythme,des instruments de musique, détection des notes; synthèse des sons musicauxAprès-midi : Jacques Renard, Stéphane VaiedelichL'instrument, du matériau au sonJeudiMatin : Antoine HennionLes théories musicales de Pythagore à RameauAprès-midi : Sandie Leconte, Stéphane VaidedelichVisite d'application dans les collections du Musée de la musique, par demi groupe, en parallèle avec des TP d'acoustique musicaleVendrediMatin : Antoine HennionSystèmes musicaux (gammes, accords, tempéraments)Après-midi : Michèle CastellengoApprendre à écouter la musiqueContrôle des connaissancesProgramme détaillé :Le programme journalier du cours sera consultable 10 jours environ avant le début de l'enseignement sur le site du cours:http://www.mines-paristech.fr/ingenieurcivil/SitesIC/MSH

Exam: Examen sur table (questions issues des cours de la semaine) vendredi .

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Prerequisites: calculus, data structures, working knowledge of two higher-level languages (including one procedural language)

Objectives: Different methods used to build knowledge systems and decision support systems will be presented. Special attention will be given to two application domains: medical informatics and automatic indexing of music. Incomplete information systems, methods used to reveal hidden information, and sanitization methods based on chase algorithms will be presented. Finally, we will describe several strategies for discovering action rules and meta-action rules and their application in decision support systems for medical treatment and in banking industry.

Programme: Lecture Contents:Information systems, query languages and their semantics, query processing.Decision support systems, review of knowledge discovery methods (rules, classification trees), knowledge systems.Rough sets, reducts, granular computing, incomplete information systems of type lambda, null value imputation methods, system ERID (knowledge discovery from incomplete data), chase methods.Distributed knowledge systems, query languages and their semantics, distributed chase.Collaborative systems, collaborative query answering with application of reducts and chase methods.Data security, algorithm SCIKD, data sanitization against chase.Hierarchical information systems, query languages and their semantics, cooperative query answering (Muslea's algorithm).Multi-hierarchical decision system, concept-level query languages and their semantics (expert-based and system-based).System for music automatic indexing and retrieval.Ontology-based exchange of knowledge.Interesting rules and strategies for discovering them.Action rules discovery, review of different methods.Application domains for knowledge systems: medicine, banking industry, and music.Personalization of information (knowledge) systems.Suggested references:Class website:http://www.cs.uncc.edu/~ras/IIPW-2011.htmlThe book and papers recommended for reading (papers are available at:http://www.cs.uncc.edu/~ras/pub.html)"Introduction to Knowledge Systems", Mark Stefik, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., 1995Association Action Rules and Action Paths Triggered by Meta-Actions", A. Tzacheva, Z.W. Ras, in Proceedings of 2010 IEEE Conference on Granular Computing, Silicon Valley, CA, IEEE Computer Society, 2010, 772-776"Tree-based Algorithms for Action Rules Discovery", Z.W. Ras, L.-S. Tsay, A. Dardzinska, in "Mining Complex Data", D. Zighed et al. (Eds.), Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 165, Springer, 2009, 153-163"From Data to Classification Rules and Actions", Z. Ras, A. Dardzinska, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Wiley, Vol. 26, Issue 6, 2011, 572-590"SCIKD: Safeguarding Classified Information from Knowledge Discovery", S. Im, Z.W. Ras, A. Dardzinska, in "Foundations of Semantic Oriented Data and Web Mining", Proceedings of 2005 IEEE ICDM Workshop in Houston, Texas, Published by Math. Dept., Saint Mary's Univ., Nova Scotia, Canada, 2005, 34-39"Mining tinnitus data based on clustering and new temporal features", X. Zhang, P. Thompson, Z.W. Ras, P. Jastreboff, in Learning Structure and Schemas from Documents, M. Biba, F. Xhafa (Eds.), Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 375, Springer, 2011, 227-246"MIRAI: Multi-hierarchical Music Automatic Indexing and Retrieval System", (Invited Paper), Z.W. Ras, X. Zhang, in Proceedings of the Conference on Technologies for Data Processing (KKNTPD'07), September 24-26, 2007, Poznan Univ. of Technology, Poland, 11-22"CHASE-2: Rule based chase algorithm for information systems of type lambda", A. Dardzinska , Z.W. Ras, in the Postproceedings of the Second International Workshop on Active Mining (AM'2003), Maebashi City, Japan, (Eds. S. Tsumoto et al.), LNAI, No. 3430, Springer, 2005, 258-270"Solving Failing Queries through Cooperation and Collaboration", Z.W. Ras, A. Dardzinska , Special Issue on Web Resources Access, (Editor: M.-S. Hacid), in World Wide Web Journal, Springer, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2006, 173-186

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Prerequisites: Physics – electrostatics and magnetostatics. Differential equations, vector calculus.

Objectives: The main objective of the course is to introduce its participants to the contemporary computational electromagnetics (CEM). It opens way to what has been the dream of scientists and engineers for a century: visualisation of electromagnetic fields and power. Those contructs, often considered hypothetical by students, will thereby gain the physical touch.The course will go step by step through typical problems of high-frequency electrical engineering, showing how they are effectively solved on a computer. The students will be expected to grasp fundamentals of popular methods in computational electromagnetics, including their scope of applications, computer effort requirements, accuracy bounds, and methods of accuracy to computer effort improvement. The focus will be on the finite-difference time-domain method, which is especially convenient and powerful for visulisation of electromagnetic phenomena in both steady state and transient regimes. The accumulated knowledge should facilitate future conscious use of commercial software for computational physics.

Programme: LecturesMaxwell equations revisited (3h).Solutions in infinite space – plane waves, cylindrical waves, Gaussian beams. Perpendicular incidence on material boundaries, half- and quarter-wavelength transformers.Waves in transmission lines (4h).Transverse eigenvalue problems and longitudinal deterministic problems. Modes in TEM and quasi-TEM lines (coax, stripline, microstrip, coplanar waveguide). Modes in cylindrical waveguide (rectangular and circular). Discussion of a practical coax-to-waveguide transition. Waves in optical fibres.Introduction to the Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method (3h).Basic concept of finite differences. FDTD formulations in 1D, 2D, and 3D. Accuracy and stability of the method. Mesh generation techniques. Excitation and absorbing boundaries.Antenna and scattering problems (3h).Absorbing boundary conditions, near-to-far field transformation. Extraction of antenna parameters – gain, efficiency, radiation resistance. Axisymmetrical antennas for satellite TV. Can we make a physical object invisible for radars?Overview of numerical methods for CEM (2h).Method of moments, finite element method, finite differences in the frequency domain, transmission line matrix method. Time versus frequency domain. What CEM tools are available on the market? How to look for the right tool?Software and hardware acceleration techniques for CEM (2h).Multithread programming techniques, multiprocessor computers, GPU implementations.Questions and answers: my envisaged problems in electronics and telecommunications (1h).Coupled problems – this is what we in reality need to solve.LaboratoriesComputer lab: Plane waves (3h).Virtual measurements of frequency, wavelength, attenuation, and impedance. Steady state versus transient states. How to make a transparent material plate? How to match two disparate materials?Computer lab: transmission lines (3h).Generate transverse field patterns for several modes of interest (multiconductor TEM lines, rectangular waveguiides). Can you construct a reflection-less bend? Effects of dielectric insets in transmission lines. How is a wave guided in a dielectric waveguide (e.g. an optical fibre)?Computer lab: antennas (3h).The focus will be on axisymmetrical reflector antennas widely used for telecommunication and satelite TV. The students will be watching radiation from a circular waveguide and from a waveguide terminated by a horn. Then forming a beam by a reflector will be shown. Then the reciprocity of antenna operation (operating in radiating and receiving mode) will be shown in simulation.ReferencesM.Celuch, W.Gwarek – Lecture Notes – manuscriptA.Taflove – Computational Electrodynamics: The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method, Artech House 2005.S.Ramo, J.Whinnery, and T.van Duzer, “Fields and Waves in Communication Electronics”, John Wiley & Sons, 1984D.Potter, “Computational Physics” , John Wiley & Sons, 1973

Exam: Theoretical knowledge is validated by means of an exam, scheduled for 2 hours and giving up to 50 points. Laborarories are assessed by laboratory tutors, giving up to 3 x 15 = 45 points. Additonal 5 points can be granted for overall performance during the course. All points are summed up to produce a final mark:A91-110 pointsB+81-90 pointsB71-80 pointsC+61-70 pointsC51-60 pointsD0 -50 points

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Where: Mines Paris - PSL

Prerequisites: Ce cours s'adresse a priori à tous les élèves intéressés par la gestion des risques et désireux de s'initier à une question qui tient une place prépondérante tant dans le monde de l'entreprise, de la fonction publique que dans la vie de tous les jours. Ce cours est également ouvert à la formation permanente. Il ne nécessite a priori aucun pré-requis. Il est accompagné d'un support de cours.

Objectives: L’objectif de cette introduction à la gestion des risques est de sensibiliser les élèves à la complexité de l’évaluation et de la gestion des risques, en vue:- d' acquérir des formalismes de base et des éléments de réflexion sur le rôle de l’ingénieur : responsabilité, retour d’expérience, aide à la décision, expertise et négociation, initiation aux méthodes d’évaluation des risques,- de s’initier à l’analyse des risques, par l’étude de questions d’actualité, de catastrophes passées, de ""cas d'école"" en compagnie des acteurs de la gestion des risques,- d' appréhender la globalité de la gestion des dangers et sa complexité liée à la présence de différents niveaux d’organisation : politique et stratégie du risk management, management Hygiène, Sécurité, Environnement, Audit, Retour d'expérience...Ce cours a pour origine les recherches conduites au sein du CRC des Mines ParisTech et l’expérience d’ingénieurs qui ont fait des sciences des risques leur métier. Il est aussi le reflet d’acteurs de la gestion du risque au quotidien. Il se propose d’ouvrir l’accès à un domaine prometteur, en faisant la part des fondements, des méthodes et des indications sur les questions ouvertes.

Programme: Programme pédagogique :L’enseignement se déroule sous forme d’une période bloquée d’une durée de cinq jours. Il comprend, pour l'essentiel, des cours magistraux et une visite de site. Outre des enseignants-chercheurs des Mines ParisTech, le cours fait appel à des intervenants extérieurs.Lundi : « Risques, gouvernance et responsabilité ». Présentation des fondements historiques, théoriques et méthodologiques de la discipline et du contexte juridique (outils et responsabilité).Mardi : « Outils et méthodes». Présentation du concept de sécurité industrielle et des outils et méthodes développées dans le domaine des risques industriels et naturels, de la sauvegarde maritime.Mercredi : « Les facteurs humains et organisationnels». Contribution de la sociologie à la fiabilité des systèmes industriels. Analyse d’accidents industriels (Tchernobyl, Challenger). L’après-midi est consacrée aux modèles d’analyse des incidents dans une centrale nucléaire, intégrant les facteurs techniques, humains et organisationnelsJeudi : « Gestion de crise». Un exposé relatif aux modalités de gestion de crise est complété par la visite du centre de commandement de la Préfecture de Police de Paris et par l’intervention d’un opérationnel relatant ses expériences de terrain.Vendredi : « Retour d’expérience et synthèse de la semaine ». Cette dernière journée aborde le thème de l’apprentissage par l’expérience. La synthèse des principaux acquis du cours clôt cette semaine de formation.Programme détaillé :Le programme journalier du cours sera consultable 10 jours environ avant le début de l'enseignement sur www.ensmp.fr (rubrique Ingénieurs civils)

Exam: Le contrôle des connaissances s'effectuera en dehors de la période de cours. Il s'agira d'une épreuve écrite sous la forme d'un devoir à rendre.

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Where: Arts et Métiers ParisTech

Prerequisites: The course is an initiation to polymer science and applications and aims at students knowing a little about materials and the mechanics of materials.

Objectives: Polymers have a major influence on our lifes. It isalmost impossible tomention a field which is not affected by polymers. The development of polymers has helped the industry tooffer new and high performance materials such as composites, biopolymers…The use of these materialsrequires a rich and deep knowledge about the properties of the different types of polymers involved in the manufacturing of industrial parts: Physical, thermal and mechanical properties.In this course we try toprovide our young European Engineers with this knowledge.

Programme: During this course different aspects will be developed:basic knowledge of polymers, biopolymers and composites:-molecular structure-different physical states-morphology…properties of polymers, biopolymers and compositespolymers and composites in industrylife time predictioneffect of aging on properties of materials:-physical properties-mechanical propertiespolymers and composites during processing (injection molding, extrusion, rotational molding…)analytical methods:-differential scanning calorimetric-infra-red spectrometry-thermo-mechanical analysis-rheometry…-mechanical tests.

Exam: The students will present a short report on selected topics of the course at the end of program.

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Where: Arts et Métiers ParisTech

Prerequisites: None.

Objectives: Students of this ATHENS course will become familiar with the fundamentals of acoustics and with its use in buildings and in an urban environment.

Programme: Physical acoustics phenomena: sound propagation, noise sources schemes, acoustic radiation,Noise perception: human hearing system, perception of sound,Room acoustics: construction and conception acoustics aspects,Noisy equipments and installations, active control,Techniques and instruments measurements, Signal treatments,Standards and laws concerning traffic noise and building acoustics,Application TP.

Exam: Written examination at the end.

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Where: Arts et Métiers ParisTech

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge in mechanics.

Objectives: This course will be an introduction to the application of the mechanical principles to the study of the biomechanical behaviour of musculoskeletal and articular systems of human body. It will present clinical and mechanical aspects and will include both experimental and numerical approaches. The final aim of the musculoskeletal and articular biomechanics is to better understand the mechanical behaviour of intact, injured, pathologic of restored human body segments, to help in the design of implants and prostheses, and to help the clinicians in therapeutics strategies.

Programme: Introduction to the Musculoskeletal and Articular BiomechanicsFunctional Anatomy: Spine -Shoulder - Hip -KneeClinical Problems and Osteoarticular ImplantsBiomechanical Behaviour of TissuesArticular Kinematics - TheoryArticular Kinematics -In Vivo Experimental Analyses - ApplicationsArticular Dynamics -Segmental Models - ApplicationIn Vitro Experimental Analyses of the Biomechanical Behaviour of Corporal Segments and of ImplantsNormalization of Implants EvaluationBiomechanical Finite Element Models: GeneralitiesBiomechanical Finite Element Models: ApplicationsThe Bone Remodelling Process: Presentation -Simulation - Applications.Visit of the biomechanical experimental and numerical facilities with practical demonstrations.

Exam: Final written test (1 h 30) on Friday afternoon

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Where: Instituto Superior Tecnico Lisboa

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of:Linear Algebra; Calculus; Probability & Statistics; Programming (such as Fortran90).Basic knowledge of Excel.

Objectives: In a time of competitiveness and scarcity of raw materials, an industrial (indeed, any) system must work in a state not far from its optimum, "small" improvements being sometimes crucial for success or even survival.Operational Research (OR*) supplies specific techniques to optimize and manage, and promotes habits of analysis arising from the inspection of the system model. The central objective of OR isoptimization, i.e., "to do things best under the given circumstances", to the greatest profit or smallest cost.This general concept has many applications: agricultural planning, biotechnology, distribution of goods and resources, engineering systems design, environmental management, health care management, inventory control, manpower and resource allocation, manufacturing of goods, military operations, production process control, sequencing and scheduling of tasks, telecommunications, traffic control.Only some of the applications mentioned will be addressed in the course.The computer and the Internet will be indispensable tools.*”Operations Research” in American English.

Programme: LinearProgrammingHistorical note.Model.Dantzig’s simplex algorithm; matrix method; duality.Computational resolution.Transportation ProblemModel.Stepping-stone algorithm.Computational resolution.Monte Carlo simulationSampling experiments on models.Random number generation.Queueing (waiting line) theoryStructure of the models.Poisson arrivals, exponential servicing.Infinite and finite populations.Computational resolution.Inventory managementModels.Uniform demand; random demand.Optimal inventory level.Computational resolution.Travelling Salesman ProblemRoute optimization in cycles.Computational resolution.

Exam: Written exam (on thelast day of course); open book; made on computer; delivered by e-mail.

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Where: Arts et Métiers ParisTech

Prerequisites: The course is an initiation to polymer science and applications and aims at students knowing a little about materials and the mechanics of materials.

Objectives: Polymers have a major influence on our lifes. It isalmost impossible tomention a field which is not affected by polymers. The development of polymers has helped the industry tooffer new and high performance materials such as composites, biopolymers…The use of these materialsrequires a rich and deep knowledge about the properties of the different types of polymers involved in the manufacturing of industrial parts: Physical, thermal and mechanical properties.In this course we try toprovide our young European Engineers with this knowledge.

Programme: During this course different aspects will be developed:basic knowledge of polymers, biopolymers and composites:-molecular structure-different physical states-morphology…properties of polymers, biopolymers and compositespolymers and composites in industrylife time predictioneffect of aging on properties of materials:-physical properties-mechanical propertiespolymers and composites during processing (injection molding, extrusion, rotational molding…)analytical methods:-differential scanning calorimetric-infra-red spectrometry-thermo-mechanical analysis-rheometry…-mechanical tests.

Exam: The students will present a short report on selected topics of the course at the end of program.

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Where: Arts et Métiers ParisTech

Prerequisites: None

Objectives: Innovation is a process that is nurtured and not the outcome of a decision. Innovation has more to do with the special relationship with one’s environment than to the use of a management toolbox. Therefore, in order to boost the creativity of his/her teams, a manager must reflect first on his/her own personal creative process. The goal of this course is to discover the path that leads from fundamental creativity (individual) to applied creativity (producing ideas in teams) that ultimately fuels a genuine innovation culture.

Programme: The seminar will tackle the followingtopics:·How to promote creativity:Øindividually,Øin a team.·How the brain works; impact on the creative process,·Fundamental and implied creativity: attitude and development,·Applied creativity: basics on ideas production techniques, (e.g. diverging/converging, CPS process®),·Mind Mapping as a booster,·Fertile questioning as an enabler,·Innovation culture – how to seed innova[c]tors,Educational methods:·Numerous exercises and experiments,Øindividually,Øas a whole team or in sub-teams,·relation with the background (e.g. cognitive sciences),·extensive reference to non-verbal communication and use of one’s fives senses.The course will be held in English.

Exam: The evaluation mark will take into account two criteria:·level of personal involvement in exercises and experiments,·a written exam (a mind-map of the learnings of the week)

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Where: Mines Paris - PSL

Prerequisites: Notions de base de recherche opérationnelle souhaitées, mais non indispensables.

Objectives: 1. Présenter les principales approches de la gestion industrielle et de la logistique : stratégie et planification industrielle, MRPII, ordonnancement, juste-à-temps, simulation, outils de la qualité, maintenance, outils de la logistique, ERP, APS,...2. Compléter cette initiation à la gestion industrielle et à la logistique par une analyse concrète de mises en oeuvre par des industriels ayant mené des expériences significatives et par des consultants internationaux qui valident ces méthodes.

Programme: Le cours est articulé en trois grandes parties.Dans un premier temps, le cours aborde les grandes décisions stratégiques et tactiques en matière de gestion de la production : choix de «sourcing» ; décisions relatives à la capacité; puis à l'organisation de la production. Le cours traite ensuite des principes de planification de la production et de l’ordonnancement. Enfin la dernière partie du cours est consacrée aux approches de productivité (kanban, smed, qualité...) et au supply chain managementLe cours est assuré par des enseignants chercheurs de Mines Paristech, mais également par des intervenants industriels et des consultants de haut niveau.Programme détaillé:Le programme journalier du cours sera consultable 10 jours environ avant le début de l'enseignement sur www.ensmp.fr (rubrique Ingénieurs civils).

Exam: Le contrôle se déroule sous la forme d'un QCM et d’un problème destiné à tester l’acquisition des connaissances du "noyau dur" de l’enseignement. Il a lieu à la fin de la semaine. Les documents sont autorisés.

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Where: Technische Universität Wien

Prerequisites: School Mathematics, basics of Higher Mathematics

Objectives: To provide a survey of the main lines of development of mathematics up to the 21st century; To provide a history of ideas of selected mathematical topics; To support a deeper understanding of the basic concepts of mathematics; To give insight in the changes in mathematical thinking and rigor.

Programme: Chapter I. Survey of the main lines of mathematical developmentChapter II. The development of infinitesimal calculusChapter III. Arithmetic and the development of the concept of numberChapter IV. The solution of algebraic equations - a historical surveyChapter V. The importance of mathematics to the travels of Christopher Columbus

Exam: Either writing an essay on a given topic (selection from a list) within three weeks after comletion of the course or oral exam at the end of the course (Friday afternoon)

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Where: Istanbul Technical University

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge in applied mathematics and digital design.

Objectives: The objective of this course is to provide students with a brief introduction to Global Navigation Satellite Systems principals, time and coordinate systems, observations, orbit determination, processing GPS data: Adjustment and software, absolute and relative positioning, DGPS, static, kinematic, stop and go methods, real time kinematic method, Error sources and elimination, benchmarking, application field of GNSS, Geographic Information System and Sciences principles, components, data sources and data acquisition techniques, data models and data storage methods. International standarts for Geographic Information and GIS.

Programme: DAY TOPICS1Introduction to Space Techniques and GNSS2 GNSS Observable and Mathematical Models3Introduction to Geographic Information (GI)GIS Data Sources and Data Acquisition Techniques4Standards for Geographic Information5 Field & Data Processing & Exam.

Exam: The course examination is performed through projects and written final exam.

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Where: Mines Paris - PSL

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge in probability theory and in stochastic processes

Objectives: The aim of this course is to give an introduction to usual methods developed in Geostatistics and in Mathematical Morphology to model and to simulate random sets and functions (scalar and multivariate).These models are useful in many physical situations with heterogeneous media, for which a probabilistic approach is required. We can mention for instance problems of fracture statistics of materials, the composition of permeabilities in porous media, scanning or transmission electron microscopy images (including multispectral images), rough surfaces or multicomponent composites, but also some biological textures. On a more macroscopic scale, these models are used in the case of orebody deposits, of oil reservoirs, and even to simulate some data in astronomy. They also generate textures to be used for image coding and synthesis. The common feature of these random structures is their domain of definition in R3, or even in Rn (with n > 3), which requires the use of more general models than standard Stochastic Processes

Programme: The main topics of the course are as follows :- introduction to the theory of random sets,- models of random space tesselations, boolean random sets and functions, space-time random sets and functions (dead leaves and alternate sequential models, reaction - diffusion).The courses detail the construction of models, their main properties, and their use from experimental data by means of examples of application.A large part of the course is based on training by means of software Micromorph developed in CMM.Structure of the course : Five full days in a single week. Lectures (50 %) and practical training on PC computers (50 %).The daily course programme can be consulted some ten days prior to the course, please see : www.ensmp.fr (under the link , Ingénieurs civils).The dates of this course are 19 au 23 November 2012.

Exam: The students prepare a written project from data obtained on simulations.

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Where: AgroParisTech

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Objectives: - faire le point sur les connaissances relatives aux différents critères conditionnant tout processus de décontamination par voie biologique - présenter les différentes techniques avec une description de leur mise en œuvre, leurs performances, leur état de développement, leurs coûts, les domaines d’application et leurs limites - rencontrer des professionnels du domaineContexte : La biodépollution est un ensemble de techniques biologiques visant à éliminer les polluants du milieu. Elles permettent en utilisant les capacités de biodégradation de certains organismes et microorganismes de dégrader la matière organique et/ou d’éliminer du sol, de l’eau les substances polluantes. Dans bon nombre de situations, elles peuvent s’avérer être une bonne solution technique et économique.

Programme: - La place des organismes vivants par rapport au devenir des substances polluantes dans l’environnement (nature et source de polluants) - Evaluation du risque toxicologique des déchets et des sites pollués- Compostage de la matière organique - Phytoremediation des sols pollués (phytostabilisation, phytodégradation…) - Bioremediation des effluents gazeux - Traitement biologique des eaux uséesMéthodes pédagogique :Cours et visites18h Cours Magistraux, 6h visite, 3h TD, 3h exposés étudiants

Exam: Travail personnel bibliographique et exposé

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Where: Mines Paris - PSL

Prerequisites: Notions de base de recherche opérationnelle souhaitées, mais non indispensables.

Objectives: 1. Présenter les principales approches de la gestion industrielle et de la logistique : stratégie, organisation et planification industrielle, ordonnancement, juste-à-temps, simulation, outils de la qualité, maintenance, outils de la logistique, ERP, APS,...2. Compléter cette initiation à la gestion industrielle et à la logistique par une analyse concrète de mises en oeuvre par des industriels ayant mené des expériences significatives et par des consultants internationaux qui valident ces méthodes.

Programme: Le cours est articulé en trois grandes parties.Dans un premier temps, le cours aborde les grandes décisions stratégiques et tactiques en matière de gestion de la production : choix de «sourcing» ; décisions relatives à la capacité; puis à l'organisation de la production. Le cours traite ensuite des principes de planification de la production et de l’ordonnancement. Enfin la dernière partie du cours est consacrée aux approches de productivité (kanban, smed, qualité...) et à la gestion de la chaîne logistique. Dans la mesure du possible, les situations sont illustrées par des vidéos ou des simulations.Le cours est assuré par des enseignants chercheurs de Mines Paristech, mais également par des intervenants industriels, des professeurs de Business School et des consultants de haut niveau.Programme détaillé:Le programme journalier du cours sera consultable 10 jours environ avant le début de l'enseignement sur www.ensmp.fr (rubrique Ingénieurs civils).

Exam: Le contrôle se déroule sous la forme d'un QCM de questions ouvertes et d’un problème destiné à tester l’acquisition des connaissances du "noyau dur" de l’enseignement. Il a lieu à la fin de la semaine. Les documents sont autorisés.

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Where: Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées

Prerequisites: None

Objectives: Le cours propose une introduction à la performance théâtrale. A l’aide de vidéos et de support iconographiques, nous étudierons le langage théâtral et performatif et ses règles: espace, temps, relation entre acteur et spectateur, techniques de jeu. En particulier, nous analyserons les techniques théâtrales propres à la vie publique et politique.Le cours prévoit également une partie pratiqueconsacrée au langage du corps, avec des exercices sur les techniques du geste et de la voix et leurs effets sur l’auditoire. L’objectif des séances pratiques est d’expérimenter et de prendre consciencede l’expressivité involontaire inscrite dans la posture et l'organisation corporelles.Les exercices permettront aux étudiants de maîtriser l’expressivité non-verbale et donneront aux participants les moyens de s’exprimer devant un public.

Programme: Le cours présente aux étudiants les outils critiques indispensables pour l’analyse d’une pratique théâtrale ou performative. Plusieurs formes performatives et spectaculaires sont examinées: analyse de l’espace, du temps, éléments fondamentaux du langage théâtral, éléments du jeuet improvisation.La deuxième partie du coursétudie les aspects théâtraux et performatifs présents sur la scène publiqueet politique contemporaine, et met en exergue les techniques et les modèles. Les séances pratiques sont consacrées au langage du corpset prévoient une série d’exercices visant àmaîtriser l’expressivité non-verbale(perception et conscience du geste;maîtrise de la voix; rythmique;travail sur lemouvement et l’espace;exercices de relaxation; techniques de base de la communication orale).

Exam: Examen écrit lors de la dernière séance.

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Where: KU Leuven

Prerequisites: Minimum knowledge of electrical energy technology:-Basic knowledge of electrical power conversion (motors and drives, batteries)-Basic knowledge of electrical power systems

Objectives: This course discusses the different types of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles. The essential components are treated, such as motors and drives, power electronic convertors and the storage systems with a focus on batteries and the charging methods. The charging problem is given special attention with a discussion of the EV’s role in the smart grid and smart city of the future.

Programme: The programme consist of a series of lectures (total est. at 18h) on1.Electrical energy systems and electricity grids2.Overview of electrical motors and drives, including basic power electronic circuits3.Storage of electricity for mobile applications4.Electric and plug-in hybrid vehicle types5.Charging methods6.Smart grids integration: the EV as an intelligent electrical load7.The role of the EV in a sustainable smart city8.Lessons learnt and on-going EV projectsIn addition, lab demo’s and short hands-on sessions are foreseen.

Exam: Part 1: short written open-book exam on FridayPart 2: group assignment, to be presented on Friday to whole group of participants

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Where: Ecole des Ponts ParisTech

Prerequisites: Intérêt pour les questions abordées. Maîtrise du français.

Objectives: "Se familiariser avec les enjeux, les mécanismes et la complexité des relations Nord-Sud ; Appréhender la pluridisciplinarité du développement, la diversité des tiers-monde ; Dépasser la présentation et l’analyse purement économique pour s’intéresser aux questions d’environnement, de géopolitique, de culture.Le cycle est organisé au tour de trois objectifs :1 – Se doter d’une grille de lecture et d’analyse de la complexité des questions de développement international (unité des questions / diversité des situations)2 – Identifier et développer une analyse critique des grands types de réponses proposées / mises en œuvre depuis les années 60 par les différents types d’acteurs.3 – Accroître le niveau d’information et stimuler la réflexion sur les différents enjeux liés au développementJOUR 1Présentation de la semaine et aspects pratiquesModèles et acteurs de développementExercice introductif sur la définition du développement et du tiers - monde. Séance participative centrée sur l’analyse et le choix de projets de développement. Identification des modèles et acteurs de développement.JOUR 2 - GROUPE ADéveloppement durableCette séance permettra de clarifier la notion de développement durable ; d’approfondir la connaissance et la réflexion des participants sur l’interdépendance Nord-Sud et les enjeux du développement durable.JOUR 2 - GROUPE BEconomie de la drogueCette séance permettra d’aborder l’étude de la production, de la transformation agro-industrielle, de la distribution et la consommation de drogues illicites. Elle permettra de comprendre les logiques et les contextes de ces productions illicites, d’en analyser les mécanismes géopolitiques et économiques, de mesurer les enjeux sociaux et politiques et leurs interactions sur l’économie licite. Elle sera aussi l’occasion de développer l’analyse des notions de compétitivité économique, d’économie informelle, d’intégration économique et de projet de développement alternatif à travers l’étude de situations réelles au Pérou, en Bolivie, en Birmanie et au MarocJOUR 3 - GROUPE ADéveloppement durableCette séance permettra de clarifier la notion de développement durable ; d’approfondir la connaissance et la réflexion des participants sur l’interdépendance Nord-Sud et les enjeux du développement durable.JOUR 3 - GROUPE BEconomie de la drogueCette séance permettra d’aborder l’étude de la production, de la transformation agro-industrielle, de la distribution et la consommation de drogues illicites. Elle permettra de comprendre les logiques et les contextes de ces productions illicites, d’en analyser les mécanismes géopolitiques et économiques, de mesurer les enjeux sociaux et politiques et leurs interactions sur l’économie licite. Elle sera aussi l’occasion de développer l’analyse des notions de compétitivité économique, d’économie informelle, d’intégration économique et de projet de développement alternatif à travers l’étude de situations réelles au Pérou, en Bolivie, en Birmanie et au Maroc.JOUR 4Culture(s) et développementCette séance a pour objectif de nourrir la réflexion des participants autour des questions concernant les situations de contacts de cultures :La prise en compte du pluralisme, de la diversité culturelle dans les actions de développement ;La compréhension des phénomènes d’emprunts et de résistance culturels ;JOUR 5La question du développementDéfinir le développement ; l’approche libérale traditionnelle ; l’approche structuraliste ; la remise en cause du développement.Les problèmes de développement économiqueDéveloppement équilibré ou déséquilibré ; agriculture ou industrie ; la question du secteur traditionnel ; le financement du développement.Clôture de la semaineL’évaluation du cours sera faite sous la forme d’un travail de commentaire d’articles de presse sur un thème en lien avec le contenu du module."

Programme: Cette activité est composée de 5 unités indépendantes, mais liées entre elles. Le caractère universel de l’ensemble des matières abordées (de l’économie à l’anthropologie en passant par l’écologie et l’agriculture) limite forcement leur approfondissement. En revanche, il n’est pas toujours évident pour ceux qui se sont spécialisé dans un domaine particulier, de percevoir et de distinguer clairement quels sont les liens, voire quels sont les relations de cause-Ã-effet entre leurs thématiques et d’autres matières apparemment très différentes et éloignées.En guise d’illustration nous ne citerons que trois ou quatre exemples :- Pourquoi les campagnes pour la protection de l’environnement des Nations Unies incluent de plus en plus des actions de lutte contre la pauvreté ? Quelle est la relation pauvreté-environnement ?- Quel est le rapport entre les subventions agricoles octroyées par les pays industrialisés à leurs agriculteurs et la production de drogues dans certains pays du sud ?- Le commerce international stimule ou affaibli le développement économique et/ou l’environnement local ?- -Quelle est la relation entre la législation fixant les conditions de tenure des terres et l’environnement (sols, érosion, couverture végétale) ?- La production des biens et de services suffit-elle à développer un pays ? Quel est le rôle des mesures visant la distribution (partage) des bénéfices parmi la population ? Ce partage se fait de la même façon dans une communauté pré-capitaliste (ex : villages quéchuas des Andes) que dans une société salariée (ex : banlieue de Toulouse ?Il est important de percevoir ces cinq modules Nord/Sud comme faisant partie d’une activité transversale et polyvalente.Transversale car une même problématique va être déclinée à partir de divers approchesPolyvalente car nous ferons appel à des disciplines et des compétences très différentes et variées pour comprendre des réalités qui apparaissent isolées.Il est clair donc que les étudiants qui s’intéresseront à ce module ne devront pas s’attendre à devenir économistes du développement ou anthropologues des sociétés rurales d’Afrique . Ce ne sera pas non plus le lieu pour ceux qui, étudiant l’environnement, le droit ou l’agronomie, voudraient discuter les subtilités juridiques ou techniques fines du Protocole de Kyoto ou voudraient approfondir les nuances de la nouvelle PAC.Une fois cette mise au point étant faite, nous pourrions résumer l’intérêt de ces modules disant qu’ils apportent une lecture et une analyse cohérente et intégrée à des problématiques spécifiques, souvent présentées de façon éparse et sans rapport entre elles.

Exam: Note de synthèse à partir d’un dossier de presse (travail qui pourra être réalisé en équipe). A rendre dans un délai de 15 jours à Mme Evelyne Thiechart-Poupon - ENPC

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Where: Université Catholique de Louvain

Prerequisites: - Level: Bac + 4- Advanced knowledge in biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics. - Advanced knowledge of environmental systems, in particular soil and water systems.- Basic knowledge of soil physical and geophysical processes.- Mastering basic computer modelling techniques in Ms-Windows based modelling environments.- Mastering English

Objectives: This course envisage to introduce and train students in the modern techniques of modelling and characterizing physical transport phenomena in soil systems. The course intends to summarise principles of water flow and chemical transport in soils. It also intends to train students in a series of modern modelling and characterization tools allowing to describe flow and transport in quantitative terms. For the modelling, focus is put on analytical (standmod) and numerical modelling techniques (Hydrus). For the characterization, emphasis is put on hydrogeophysical techniques such as TDR, ERT, GPR. Course instructors belong to top international institutes and propose to teach the most advanced and recent applications currently available.

Programme: Day 1: Lecture 1: Conceptual and mathematical description of variably-saturated water flow and solute transport processes, root-water uptake, nonequilibrium transport, decay chains, initial conditions, boundary conditions; Lecture 2. Analytical modeling of solute transport in the subsurface, equilibrium and nonequilibrium transport models, parameter estimation.Computer session 1: Modeling subsurface solute transport using the STANMOD code; direct and inverse application. Lecture 3: Review of numerical methods for solving the variably-saturated water flow and solute transport equations; Application of finite element method to 1D flow and transport; The HYDRUS-1D software package – model structure and examples.Computer session 2: Application of HYDRUS-1D to simple one-dimensional problems. Lecture 4: Review of the hydraulic properties of unsaturated porous media; measurement, description, parameter estimation. Computer session 3: Analyzing/estimating hydraulic properties with the RETC and Rosetta codes. Lecture 5: Inverse modeling; application of HYDRUS-1D to laboratory and field experiments. Computer session 4: Advanced one-dimensional forward and inverse problems with HYDRUS-1D. Evaluation of day 1.Day 2: Lecture 6: Application of finite element method to 2D variably-saturated water flow and solute transport; The HYDRUS-2D software package – model structure, examples; Pre-and post-processing with HYDRUS-2D using the finite element mesh generator. Computer session 5: Application of HYDRUS-2D to simple one-dimensional problem. Computer session 6: Application of HYDRUS-2D to simple two-dimensional problem. General session: Other applications; discussion. Evaluation of day 2.Day 3: Computer session 7: Application of HYDRUS-2D to complex two-dimensional problem A. Computer session 8: Application of HYDRUS-2D to complex two-dimensional problem B.Visit of soil physical research facilities at the Université Catholique de Louvain. Evaluation of day 3 Day 4: Characterizing, analysing and modelling flow and transport by means of TDR. Characterizing, analysing and modelling flow and transport by means of ERT. Evaluation of day 4. Day 5: Characterizing, analysing and modelling flow and transport by means of GPR. Modelling soil –crop interactions. Evaluation of day 5.

Exam: At the end of each day, the course instructor introduces an assignment. The students are requested to report the solution within a delay of 5 days to the course instructor. These reports will be the basis for the evaluation by the instructors.

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Where: Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées

Prerequisites: Pas de prérequis.

Objectives: Nous étudierons comment l’évolution des théories physiques impose des transformations à notre conception du monde, que ce soient des « découvertes philosophiques négatives », pour reprendre l’expression de Maurice Merleau-Ponty, au sens où les résultats scientifiques peuvent rendre caduques certaines métaphysiques, ou de manière positive, quand la science fait émerger des questions inédites. La philosophie doit donc réviser constamment sa méthode pour demeurer contemporaine des sciences de son temps.La première partie du séminaire sera consacrée aux fondements philosophiques de la physique quantique actuelle, la deuxième partie à la philosophie des techniques et de la technologie, et la troisième partie aux questions éthiques que soulèvent lesnouvelles technologies, en particulier les nanotechnologies et la biologie de synthèse.La seconde partie sera consacrée, d’une part, aux fondements philosophiques de la physique quantique actuelle, d’autre part, à la philosophie des techniques et de la technologie.

Programme: Quatre demi-journées de cours en anglaisCinq demi-journées de cours en français

Exam: Il sera demandé aux étudiants de rédiger un “mini-essai”, qu’ils devront remettre dans les jours qui suivront le cours.

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Prerequisites: Dynamics

Objectives: The objective isto give an overview ofprinciples of automotive systems and vehicle dynamics.Students will be introduced to theconcepts of vehicle dynamics and automotive mechanics.Because this is an introductory level course, complicateddetails of vehicle dynamics will be avoided.Upon completion of the course, students willbe able to apply theirknowledge ofmechanics acquired throughout their study of mechanical engineeringto calculate the performance and stabilityof a vehicle, and to understand basic mechanisms behind automotive subsystems such as differential, transmission, steering, suspension, clutch etc.

Programme: Components of the Automobile : Types of Drives,Clutch,Transmission,Differential,Internal Combustion Engine,Basic Calculation of Power,Power Curve-Torque CurveVehicle Longitudinal Motion and Modeling of the Vehicle :Motion of ideal vehicle,Rolling Resistance,Gradient Resistance,Air Resistance,Inertial ResistanceMaximum speed and acceleration calculations :Power Limited Acceleration,Traction Limited Acceleration,Selection of a proper transmission for a car,Resistance and Power Curves,Determination ofGear RatiosWheels and Tires :Geometry,Tire Specifications,Effect on Vehicle Performance,Tire Forces and Moments,Performance of tires on wet surfacesBrakes :Major Types ofBrake Systems,Introduction to Braking Mechanics,Calculation of Braking Distribution,Wheel Lock2D Vehicle Model:Yaw Motion and Lateral Motion,Equations of Motion in Yaw and Lateral Directions,Steady State Handling Characteristics,Neutral Steer, Understeer, Oversteer,Lateral Acceleration, Yaw Rate

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Prerequisites: Connaissances de base de mécanique

Objectives: Ce cours présente un regard pluridisciplinaire sur un chef d’œuvre de l’architecture gothique, la cathédrale de Beauvais. Les étudiants découvriront l’architecture, les matériaux, la structure et les fondations des cathédrales et les conditions dans lesquelles elles furent construites.

Programme: "Le cours comporte une visite de la cathédrale de Beauvais, des conférences sur l’architecture des cathédrales, les techniques de construction de l’époque, les modèles de calcul, les matériaux, les systèmes de fondation et les techniques de surveillance de ces monuments. Le programme est structuré sur cinq journées, consacrées à :- la visite de la cathédrale et à une présentation de son histoire et de son architecture ;- l’histoire sociale, architecturale et technique du temps des cathédrales ;- les matériaux de construction des monuments et les techniques d’études et d’essai correspondantes ;- les fondations des ouvrages, l’estimation de leur capacité portante et les techniques de renforcement de ces fondations ;- les techniques de contrôle non destructif des structures et de surveillance des monuments, et la gestion des pathologies."

Exam: Les élèves remettront dans le mois suivant le cours un rapport personnel présentant une synthèse des exposés ou visites auxquels ils auront assisté durant l’une des journées du cours.

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Prerequisites: Intérêt pour les questions abordées. Maîtrise du français.

Objectives: "Se familiariser avec les enjeux, les mécanismes et la complexité des relations Nord-Sud ; Appréhender la pluridisciplinarité du développement, la diversité des tiers-monde ; Dépasser la présentation et l’analyse purement économique pour s’intéresser aux questions d’environnement, de géopolitique, de culture.Le cycle est organisé au tour de trois objectifs :1 – Se doter d’une grille de lecture et d’analyse de la complexité des questions de développement international (unité des questions / diversité des situations)2 – Identifier et développer une analyse critique des grands types de réponses proposées / mises en œuvre depuis les années 60 par les différents types d’acteurs.3 – Accroître le niveau d’information et stimuler la réflexion sur les différents enjeux liés au développementJOUR 1Présentation de la semaine et aspects pratiquesModèles et acteurs de développementExercice introductif sur la définition du développement et du tiers - monde. Séance participative centrée sur l’analyse et le choix de projets de développement. Identification des modèles et acteurs de développement.JOUR 2 - GROUPE ADéveloppement durableCette séance permettra de clarifier la notion de développement durable ; d’approfondir la connaissance et la réflexion des participants sur l’interdépendance Nord-Sud et les enjeux du développement durable.JOUR 2 - GROUPE BEconomie de la drogueCette séance permettra d’aborder l’étude de la production, de la transformation agro-industrielle, de la distribution et la consommation de drogues illicites. Elle permettra de comprendre les logiques et les contextes de ces productions illicites, d’en analyser les mécanismes géopolitiques et économiques, de mesurer les enjeux sociaux et politiques et leurs interactions sur l’économie licite. Elle sera aussi l’occasion de développer l’analyse des notions de compétitivité économique, d’économie informelle, d’intégration économique et de projet de développement alternatif à travers l’étude de situations réelles au Pérou, en Bolivie, en Birmanie et au MarocJOUR 3 - GROUPE ADéveloppement durableCette séance permettra de clarifier la notion de développement durable ; d’approfondir la connaissance et la réflexion des participants sur l’interdépendance Nord-Sud et les enjeux du développement durable.JOUR 3 - GROUPE BEconomie de la drogueCette séance permettra d’aborder l’étude de la production, de la transformation agro-industrielle, de la distribution et la consommation de drogues illicites. Elle permettra de comprendre les logiques et les contextes de ces productions illicites, d’en analyser les mécanismes géopolitiques et économiques, de mesurer les enjeux sociaux et politiques et leurs interactions sur l’économie licite. Elle sera aussi l’occasion de développer l’analyse des notions de compétitivité économique, d’économie informelle, d’intégration économique et de projet de développement alternatif à travers l’étude de situations réelles au Pérou, en Bolivie, en Birmanie et au Maroc.JOUR 4Culture(s) et développementCette séance a pour objectif de nourrir la réflexion des participants autour des questions concernant les situations de contacts de cultures :La prise en compte du pluralisme, de la diversité culturelle dans les actions de développement ;La compréhension des phénomènes d’emprunts et de résistance culturels ;JOUR 5La question du développementDéfinir le développement ; l’approche libérale traditionnelle ; l’approche structuraliste ; la remise en cause du développement.Les problèmes de développement économiqueDéveloppement équilibré ou déséquilibré ; agriculture ou industrie ; la question du secteur traditionnel ; le financement du développement.Clôture de la semaineL’évaluation du cours sera faite sous la forme d’un travail de commentaire d’articles de presse sur un thème en lien avec le contenu du module."

Programme: Cette activité est composée de 5 unités indépendantes, mais liées entre elles. Le caractère universel de l’ensemble des matières abordées (de l’économie à l’anthropologie en passant par l’écologie et l’agriculture) limite forcement leur approfondissement. En revanche, il n’est pas toujours évident pour ceux qui se sont spécialisé dans un domaine particulier, de percevoir et de distinguer clairement quels sont les liens, voire quels sont les relations de cause-à-effet entre leurs thématiques et d’autres matières apparemment très différentes et éloignées.En guise d’illustration nous ne citerons que trois ou quatre exemples :- Pourquoi les campagnes pour la protection de l’environnement des Nations Unies incluent de plus en plus des actions de lutte contre la pauvreté ? Quelle est la relation pauvreté-environnement ?- Quel est le rapport entre les subventions agricoles octroyées par les pays industrialisés à leurs agriculteurs et la production de drogues dans certains pays du sud ?- Le commerce international stimule ou affaibli le développement économique et/ou l’environnement local ?- -Quelle est la relation entre la législation fixant les conditions de tenure des terres et l’environnement (sols, érosion, couverture végétale) ?- La production des biens et de services suffit-elle à développer un pays ? Quel est le rôle des mesures visant la distribution (partage) des bénéfices parmi la population ? Ce partage se fait de la même façon dans une communauté pré-capitaliste (ex : villages quéchuas des Andes) que dans une société salariée (ex : banlieue de Toulouse ?Il est important de percevoir ces cinq modules Nord/Sud comme faisant partie d’une activité transversale et polyvalente.Transversale car une même problématique va être déclinée à partir de divers approchesPolyvalente car nous ferons appel à des disciplines et des compétences très différentes et variées pour comprendre des réalités qui apparaissent isolées.Il est clair donc que les étudiants qui s’intéresseront à ce module ne devront pas s’attendre à devenir économistes du développement ou anthropologues des sociétés rurales d’Afrique . Ce ne sera pas non plus le lieu pour ceux qui, étudiant l’environnement, le droit ou l’agronomie, voudraient discuter les subtilités juridiques ou techniques fines du Protocole de Kyoto ou voudraient approfondir les nuances de la nouvelle PAC.Une fois cette mise au point étant faite, nous pourrions résumer l’intérêt de ces modules disant qu’ils apportent une lecture et une analyse cohérente et intégrée à des problématiques spécifiques, souvent présentées de façon éparse et sans rapport entre elles.

Exam: Note de synthèse à partir d’un dossier de presse (travail qui pourra être réalisé en équipe). A rendre dans un délai de 15 jours à Mme Evelyne Thiechart-Poupon - ENPC

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Prerequisites: Calculus (differentiate a function, plot a curve …).Basic ideas

Objectives: Some ideas change the world, they change Society, they change Technology, they upset commonly accepted knowledge and challenge common sense. The following prophecy of Laplace (An essay the Theory of Probability, 1814) is now known to be disputable :We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future. An intellect which at a certain moment would know all forces that set nature in motion, and all posi­tions of all items of which nature is composed, if this intellect were also vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in a single formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the tiniest atom; for such an intellect nothing would be uncertain and the future just like the past would be present before its eyes.Predictability is, in principle, without limit. Uncertainty, then, refers to uncertain knowledge of Nature.Las ! We have evidence today that you can know all the laws and all the practical ini­tial conditions, the future will obstinately remain hidden.Bye bye determinism ? The limited predictability of Science, an emerging idea of the latest century, is mainly due to Poincaré. This renouncement, at variance with the long lasting construc­tion of Science is due to two major revolutions :1. At atomic scales, unpredictability appears as an intrinsic property of Nature, as we understand it today. Quantum Mechanics is the theory which describes such a surprising result. Solving a quantum problem is, basically, computing probabili­ties. From Quarks to Galaxy clusters, its predictive power seems without limit. We shall introduce the major ideas of this theory and we shall describe its major social and technological issues.2. The ideas and the applications of Non-linearities, leading to Chaos, have spread in many disciplines, giving an universal character to this new grid for reading our universe. Quantum mechanics is in this respect more ordered than Classical Mechanics, since it cannot, at least in principle, be chao­tic. Now, simply stated problems of Mechanics cannot be solved exactly, what­ever your effort, if you are a human being and whatever your power if you are a computer.It is remark­able that structurally simple systems can exhibit a profusion of compli­cated behav­iours and, reciprocally, that Complex Systems can exhibit an overall beha­viour simple to describe. The identification and the description of the evolution of a given sys­tem are at the origin of active research, important progress and substantial applica­tion.Unpredictability can emerge from the iteration of simple rules, while predictive computation is impossi­ble; the only thing you have to do is to run the real process.Is there a link between those three subjects ? Perhaps ; who knows ? Some people think that physi­cal rules are an illusion, you just need stupid automata, with local meaningless rules to perform any computable job.The aim of the session are to introduce these ideas, in an operational manner.

Programme: Morning : Generally Quantum Oriented.Afternoon : Generally non linear and chaotic orientedDay 1 : Basics of Classical unpredictability I : Quantum and ClassicalAM : Introduction to the history and to the ideas of Quantum Physics.PM : From linear to non linear, from stability to instability. Examples.Day 2 : Basics of Classical unpredictability II : Quantum and ClassicalM : Barriers and Potentials in Quantum mechanicsPM : Attractors, regular and strange, bifurcations, exponents.Day 3 : Assisted Personal Research.Day 4 : Operational concepts in Quantum MechanicsM : Oscillators, Spin, Intricate pairs. Lorentz model. Harmonic oscillator. Barriers. Lorenz Model. Autosimilar­ity, dimensions, examples of fractal setsPM : preparing the presentations of the Assisted Personal Research.Day 5 : Super day : Presentations, comments and all that

Exam: On day 2, a presentation will be made of topics alluded to, but not dealt with in depth. Documentation will be provided. The stu­dents will choose a spe­cific topic, corresponding to their skills, projects, general interests, or intellectual prefer­ences. The topics will be applied or theoretical.On day 3 and the afternoon of day 4 we shall prepare work. I shall be present, as a supervisor. The students, in international groups, will be asked to write a short memo on their chosen topic and to present a diaporama reporting the research of the team.Day 5 is the Super day of the presentations ; The duration is modulated by the number of talks.

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Prerequisites: Bon niveau en français et en anglais.Bon niveau scientifique

Objectives: COURSE IN PATNERSHIP WITH l'Ecole des Ingénieurs de la Ville de Paris (EIVP)COURS EN PARTENARIAT AVECl'Ecole des Ingénieurs de la Ville de Paris(EIVP)La résilience est la capacité d’un système à se remettre d’une perturbation par un processus de récupération, reconstruction, remise en service.La résilience urbaine est la capacité d’une ville à faire face à un évènement potentiellement destructeur en minimisant les dommages subis. L’histoire montre que la ville est un système qui présente des capacités de reconstruction importantes après un évènement destructeur (incendie, cyclone, inondation, tremblement de terre).On examinera les concepts de vulnérabilité, de robustesse et d’adaptabilité pour aboutir à celui de résilience.La question de la mesure de la résilience urbaine sera examinée avec des notions de magnitude maximale de l’aléa et de durée de retour à l’équilibre.Différents types de risques seront examinés: inondations, perturbations climatiques, mais aussi les risquessociaux tels que le terrorisme.Les formes physiques de résistance des bâtiments, des quartiers et des services publics seront étudiées en particulier dans le cas des inondations.Les intervenants sont issus du monde académique et du monde professionnel.

Programme: ·Lundi: introduction, présentation des participants et du programme et définition du concept de résilience urbaine·Mardi: inondations·Mercredi matin: construction,urbanisme·Mercredi après midi: discussion ettravail en groupe.·Jeudi : études de cas.·Vendredi matin : point de vue de responsables publics.·Vendredi après midi: présentation du travail en groupe.

Exam: Les travaux dirigés en groupe detrois étudiantsdu mercredi après-midi feront l'objet d'une présentation par chaquegroupe le vendredi après-midi.C'est cette présentation qui sera évaluée pour attribuer une note aux élèves.

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Prerequisites: Introductory courses in Numerical Methods in Engineering (ideally finite elements), Structural Mechanics, Material modelling..

Objectives: Objective is to understand current design methods for vehicular crashworthiness in an industrial context.The course concentrates on automotive crashworthiness but aspects from truck/bus/train/ and aircraft crashworthiness are included

Programme: History of safety for car body design; safety in current product development processes; car body structures; general crashworthiness; regulations and test procedures; belts and airbags; dummies and human models; car-to-car compatibility; pedestrian protection; numerical simulations (Finite Element Methods, meshless methods, optimization); materials and manufacturing; new vehicle concepts.Five days of lectures, problem solving sessions,group workHomeworkHalf-day visit to a crash test area or similar.

Exam: Final written test (1 hour).

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Prerequisites: English level : fluent or good.

Objectives: COURSE IN PATNERSHIP WITH AGROPARISTECH ENGREFPresentation ofa few contrasted cases of territorial organisation and management formulas, and information aboutattempts by managers and reflections by academics on sustainable strategies. For each country or group of countries we will try to find out what are the main drivers of sustainability among the 4 following dimensions: - long term asset renewal and maintenance - environmental and health concerns - consumer equity and social tariff issues - new forms of governance needed.Now that water services are quasi-universalised in most European countries, elements of a new crisis appear, with the need for long term maintenance of a heavy and costly infrastructure, but with no more subsidies; this leads to serious price increases, in addition to the general inclusion of sewage collection and treatment in the water bill. Urban stormwater management, the attempt to control agriculture diffuse pollution in well head areas, and flood control, lead large cities to reconsider their relationships to water resources, and to try to replace technological solutions by territorial ones. Last but not least, the new trend in water consumption decrease, which appears in numerous cities, adds up to the sustainability issue: if it develops too fast, recipes do not match expenses and the financial balance is threatened..

Programme: Representatives from water management in Europe will be there.Teachers and researchers will provide a critiqueDebates with students

Exam: Presence, participation, work in small groups with final presentation

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Prerequisites: Good Level in English

Objectives: Everyone negotiates on a daily basis, but what about doing it responsibly? Faced with projects, contracts, conflicts or crises, coping with people, problems and process, how can negotiators lever the right reflections and actions? How can they optimize utility for themselves and for others?This course provides concepts, observations and suggestions to improve analytical and operational negotiation skills; but it also addresses negotiation foundations on how to do first things first, i.e. how to make the right moves at the right time in order to reach the right decisions and to achieve proper implementation.Negotiators can model the right moves. They can ensure quality relationships, before any other action, putting people first. They can structure an effective process before and during problem solving. They can prepare before meetings and debrief afterwards, managing the mandate and implementing deals with principals and teams. Their communication can further information sharing and common understanding, with active listening and questioning to increase empathy, before active speaking and persuasive arguments to assert their needs. If cooperation prevails, negotiators can also enlarge the pie for more joint value – economic, social, etc. –, before capturing their fair share.Members of this class will embark on a common reflection on how to act as more responsible negotiators.

Programme: §Increasing awareness about negotiation responsibility to achieve fair deals and settlements.§Becoming better analysts of negotiation, theirs and others’.§Assessing their personal negotiation approaches.§Giving themselves general objectives for improvement.§Improving relationships, with subordinates, peers, superiors, and all stakeholders.§Broadening their negotiation repertoire.§Furthering the cause of peaceful resolution and coexistence.§Crafting better deals and contracts.§Learning how to really learn from experience.

Exam: Attendance and active participation are compulsory, as well as the completion of all assignments. Validation marks take into consideration the following criteria:§20%: Class Participation (class interactions, participation in discussions)§40%: Two Individual Preparation Briefs§40%: Group Assignments (2 group preparation brief, 8 post negotiation reports)

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Prerequisites: For Physicists and Material Science students ; basic notions of Electromagnetism, Acoustics, Quantum Mechanics and Optics are necessary : wave propagation and Maxwell's equations, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.

Objectives: This five day course includes 16 hours of lectures and 10 hours of experimental laboratory work and/or visits of different laboratories involved in non destructive evaluation.Non-destructive evaluation is essential to the fabrication of reliable products, and to their control during operation. A wide range of methods can be used, which call upon variousdisciplines in physics and material science, since different physical phenomena ar involved in the excitation, signal acquisition and analysis.The sophistication of these method has increased in order to meet ever rising demands of industry and research.This course is an introduction to the techniques used for non-destructive evaluation, focusing on the most common methods, but also on recent emerging techniques.

Programme: - Industrial and medical use of X-Rays.- Ultrasonics : transducers - principle of time reversal method - generation and optical detection and examples of applications.- Infrared radiometry, passive and active.- Charge measurement in dielectric materials.- Eddy currents

Exam: Evaluation will be made on the basis of a twenty minute oral presentation of one of the techniques studied during the laboratory portion of the course.

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Prerequisites: Basic knowledge on - Electrical engineering - Telecommunication systems- Digital communications, modulation and coding- Data networks (LAN, OSI layers, MAC, LLC, IP)Some notions on 2G (GSM) and 3 G (UMTS R99) systems will be helpful.

Objectives: The main objective of the course is to present new radio interfaces providing high data rate services (HSDPA, WiMAX) on cellular networks (3G, and B3G).A special interest is put on MAC layer comparisons, packet HO, link adaptation, scheduling, and some overall system performance.

Programme: - Cellular networks : an overviewfrom speech to multimedia servicesfrom circuits to packetsevolution of cellular functions roaming and handover in data network - From UMTS towards HSDPAarchitectures and core network evolutions, channelizationradio interface, MAC\RLC, HSDPA, MAChs, HARQ, scheduling- WiFi and WiMAX standards, comparison for High Data Rate Servicesbasic features, overview of different versions, MAC layers- Conference from Industry - Radio resource allocation and scheduling (Max SIR, RB, PF, …)- Sensor networksbasic features and standards

Exam: A written exam on the final day.A limited number of special projects will be proposed to motivated students.

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Prerequisites: Cet enseignement s’adresse à un public varié ayant des connaissances de bases en chimie, biochimie ou procédés.

Objectives: - Montrer comment des stratégies de valorisation innovantes de la biomasse végétale se mettent en place à partir des procédés agro-industriels traditionnels.- Evaluer l’impact de ces stratégies sur les ressources humaines, l’environnement et l’organisation de l’outil de production, la recherche (niveau régional, national et européen)- Illustrer le concept de bioraffinerie et ses spécificités à travers l’étude d’un cas concret de terrain.- Conduire un travail en équipe pour analyser le fonctionnement d’un système agro-industrielContexte : Avec la mise en place de nouvelles stratégies d’utilisation du végétal, on assiste depuis une vingtaine d’année à une évolution du paysage agro-industriel impliquant l’évolution des industries traditionnelles de fractionnement du végétal (sucrerie, amidonnerie, papeterie, …). L’une de ces évolutions repose sur l’intégration sur un même site de ces industries de transformation de façon à produire molécules pour la chimie, ingrédients pour alimentation humaine et animale, biocarburants, biomatériaux et énergie. Cette intégration vise à maximiser la valeur ajoutée tout en respectant les enjeux économiques, sociétaux et environnementaux du développement durable. Elle passe par une optimisation des interactions entre unités de production et de transformation (gestion des flux de matière et d’énergie) et par un choix raisonné des filières d’approvisionnement et des différentes voies de valorisation des produits et co-produits (alimentation humaine / alimentation animale / énergie / synthons pour la chimie /ingrédients fonctionnels pour les cosmétiques

Programme: Le cours débute à Paris.Puisdépart à Reimslundi après-midi et retour vendredi pour arriver à Paris en début de soirée. Le déplacement à Reims et l'hébergement sont entièrement organisés et pris en charge financièrement par le département de la Marne.Cours-conférences sur sites + 1 séance d’appui au travail personnel (TD) + visites de sites (4 à 5 demi-journées)

Exam: Participation à l’enseignement + réalisation d’un dossier synthétique sur les entreprises visitées et leurs interactions (chaque étudiant enquêtera plus spécifiquement sur un thème transversal de son choix lors des visites). Une séance de travaux dirigés est prévue à mi-parcours afin d’aider les étudiants dans la préparation de ces dossiers.

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Objectives: Contexte : Les problèmes socio-économiques posés par les changements climatiques et les enjeux liés à la transition vers une société bas carbone, sollicitent de nombreux champs disciplinaires, tant parmi les sciences dites dures (sciences physiques, sciences du vivant) que parmi les sciences sociales, en particulier en économie de l'environnement. Plus précisément, l'enjeu central face au défi climatique et à la raréfaction des ressources fossiles réside dans l'accompagnement par les politiques publiques de la transition vers une société bas-carbone et des changements importants en matière de styles de vie ou encore des systèmes de production énergétiques, alimentaire et urbain liés.L'objectif de ce module est de transmettre un contenu scientifique articulé autours des problématiques de l'économie des changements climatiques qui couvre une diversité de domaines (systèmes énergétiques, ville, eau, agriculture, usage des sols) ; de mettre en évidence les enjeux socio-économiques du problème ; d'identifier les contreverses scientiques majeures et des besoins futurs de recherche pour comprendre les mécanismes à l'oeuvre ; enfin de cerner les marges de manoeuvre et des modalités éventuelles de l'intervention publique. Ce module viseégalementà donner aux étudiants une vison intégrée des problématiques et des mécanismes qui sont au coeur de la transition vers une société bas-carbone en privilégiant une démarche prospective. Une initiation modélisation prospective énergie/climat(processus de décisions publics et privés)sera proposée.Il s’appuie à la fois sur des ressources provenant du milieu des scientifiques-experts et sur des intervenants des sphères politique et administrative

Programme: Conférences courtes d'un large ensemble de spécialistes du changement climatique, suivies de séances de questions.Contenu : Connaissances et incertitudes sur le climat, Enjeux et dommages potentiels d'un changement climatique, les politiques climatiques.

Exam: Dissertation individuelle sur une question transversale et posée en début de module

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Objectives: Comprendre les enjeux de la réhabilitation urbaine avec les diverses contraintes de la ville et comment on met en oeuvre ces éco-quartiers en alliant sciences et sociétés.Contexte : Un éco-quartier est un quartier urbain dont la construction (ou la réhabilitation) doit entrer dans un schéma de développement durable visant à la fois à réduire l’impact sur l’environnement, à favoriser le développement économique, l’intégration sociale et la qualité de vie pour ceux qui vont s’y installer., Cet objectif général se décline en différents aspects qui devront être pris en compte : - La gestion de l’eau et des déchets - Le bilan énergétique - L’utilisation de critères environnementauxpour la conception - La mise en place de modes de déplacements adaptés - La mixité sociale - La création d’infrastructures accessibles - La protection des paysages et de la biodiversité - La durabilité économique et financière

Programme: Introduction enjeux de l'éco-conception, Présentation d'études de cas, Biodiversité, TD mini-projet 1 (biodiversité)Transports, visite du site, TD mini-projet 2 (transports)Aspects sociaux, gestion de l'eau et des déchets, énergétique des bâtiments.Analyse de cycle de vie, TD mini-projet 3 (énergie et ACV)Finalisation du mini-projet et présentations.

Exam: Les élèves travailleront par groupe et auront un travail spécifique à présenter en fin de semaine.

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Where: Politecnico di Milano

Prerequisites: Good MATLAB skills, basic courses on Calculus, Numerical Methods and Ordinary Differential Equations

Objectives: The course will present advanced time discretizationtechniques that allow for an efficient numerical solutionof large systems of ordinary differential equationsresulting from the spatial discretization of PDEs.All the theoretical topics will be complemented by practicalsessions based on the application of MATLAB implementationsof the various algorithms presented in the course.Reference literature and the course notes will be made available.

Programme: 1) Review of fundamental concepts on numerical methods for time discretization of evolutionary problems. Examples of classical multistage and multistep methods for the solution of ODE systems. Some model problems.2) Implicit methods and robust techniques for stiff systems: BDF, Rosenbrock-Wanner methods.3) Methods for second order ODE systems: the Newmark and the generalized alpha-method.4) Introduction to Runge Kutta and Rosenbrock exponential integrators.

Exam: Small programming project in MATLAB for the solution of relevant test problems by the methods introduced in the course.

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Prerequisites: Elementary geometry, trigonometry, geometric transformations,linear algebra, analytic geometry, calculus.

Objectives: Discrete and Geometric Tomography represent the geometric approach to the inverse problem of Computerized Axial Tomography, concerning the reconstruction of a body by means of X-rays.The purpose of the course is to outline, from a theoretic and geometric point of view, some of the topics usually considered, such as reconstruction algorithms, uniqueness problems and stability of reconstructions.

Programme: The course is organized on lectures in the morning and interactive sessions (such as exercises, answer to questions or seminars) in the afternoon. Useful references are1)Richard Gardner,Geometric Tomography,Cambridge University Press, New York, second edition, 2006.2)Gabor T. Herman and Attila KubaEds., Advances in discrete tomography and its applications,Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis.Birkhäuser Boston, Inc., Boston, MA,2007.Outline and provisional schedule:A brief history of CAT. Qualitative description of the Radon transform. The origin of Geometric Tomography. Hammer’s problem and related uniqueness problems. Discrete Tomography an related problems. Continuous and discrete parallel X-rays. Continuous and discrete point X-rays. An overview of geometric transformations in the plane. Projective transformations. Cross-ratio for collinear points and for line in a pencil.Radiographies of lattice sets with discrete parallel X-rays The reconstruction problem in Discrete Tomography. Description of some algorithms and examples of applications. Switching components. Mid-point construction.U-polygons.Stability of reconstruction and uniqueness problem.Uniqueness results by means of radiographies of convex bodies with continuous parallel X-rays.The theorem of Gardner-McMullen in the Euclidean plane. Uniqueness results for classes of lattice sets by means of discrete parallel X-rays. The results of Gardner and Gritzmann in the integer lattic.Radiographies of convex bodies with point X-rays. The theorem of Volcic in the Euclidean plane. P-polygons. Some results and examples in the lattice.Final examCorrections and valuations

Exam: The final exam is scheduled on Friday morning. It consists of a written test organized in a few questions with open answers. A possible additional oral examination could be considered to clarify someworks

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Objectives: Contexte : La technologie sucrière met en oeuvre un grand nombre d’étapes (lavage des betteraves, extraction du sucre par diffusion, épuration calco-carbonique des jus, concentration par évaporation multiple effet, cristallisation multi-étagé, séchage des pulpes, production d’électricité), avec un très haut niveau de technicité et d’automatisme et des capacités de traitement importanteL’objectif est double. D’une part de comprendre l’ensemble du procédé de fabrication du sucre à partir de betteraves. D’autre part, au travers de l’étude de cette filière très riche au niveau de la diversité des sciences mises en oeuvre (génie des procédés-opérations unitaires, microbiologie, chimie, thermique, automatisme, traitement des rejets, maîtrise de la qualité), d’associer l’ensemble de ces sciences pour aboutir à la production de sucre de qualité avec des performance élevées.

Programme: L’ensemble comprendra des présentations sur le fonctionnement de chaque atelier de l’usine en considérant pour chacun d’eux les aspects flux et bilans thermiques, biochimiques et de régulation. Les aspects environnement et microbiologiques seront également traitésMéthode : Des présentations en salle et une visite de sucrerie en fin de l'UE.

Exam: Un travail personnel sur un atelier de l'usine en lien avec le site visité

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Prerequisites: Il n'y a pas de prérequis particuliers. Le module s'adresse aux étudiants qui souhaitent avoir une vision large, combinant des sciences géopolitiques à des sciences plus techniques, pour comprendre la complexité de la gestion de l'eau.

Objectives: Penser dès à présent une gestion prospective de l’eau : maîtriser la ressource et sa qualité, programmer une utilisation durable, partager entre les différentes activités économiques, gérer de façon plus propre et économe les utilisations agricoles, réhabiliter l’environnement et les espaces (sols, écosystèmes, zones écologiques, plans d’eau, etc.), limiter les effets des évènements catastrophiques. L’enseignement cherche à délivrer, à partir de quelques bases théoriques, les éléments de connaissance utile pour analyser les situations actuelles, pour prévoir, compte tenu des pressions anthropiques, le sens des évolutions probables et finalement proposer des modes de gestion plus durablesContexte :compte tenu de l’augmentation de la population mondiale et de l’amélioration nécessaire du niveau moyen de l’alimentation humaine et en général du niveau de vie, une situation de crise s’est développée dans de nombreux pays et la plupart des zones continentales, où l’eau deviendra plus que jamais une ressource commune limitée, souvent rare et de qualité de plus en plus dégradée. On comprend donc qu’il soit nécessaire de partager et gérer collectivement cette ressource. Prendre connaissance du cycle de l’eau, de ses évolutions anthropiques et climatiques à long terme, comme de l’état actuel de nombreuses situations est essentiel

Programme: L’enseignement comprendra les principaux point suivants : • Les bases relatives au cycle de l’eau et à l’évaluation des ressources renouvelables, dans un contexte régional donné et dans une perspective de changements globaux. • Les bases d’une réflexion régionale comprenant la mobilisation de ressources internes propres à la zone ou transportées d'une zone externe largement bénéficiaire, la gestion des divers usages et leurs aspects socio-économiques : principalement la gestion de l’irrigation à des fins de production alimentaire, les usages domestiques, les besoins environnementaux en particulier dus aux divers systèmes écologiques. • Une analyse diagnostique basée sur différents cas nationaux (Beauce, Coteaux de Gascogne,…) et internationaux (Mer d’Aral, Egypte…) • La modélisation d’un large bassin (fleuve) avec diverses approches : (i) analyse et amélioration de la qualité, et (ii) analyse, aménagement et gestion des risques. • Les aménagements de l’espace pour maîtriser les ressources (qualité, quantité) et les risques (érosion, inondation,…)L'enseignement est essentiellement fondé sur des conférences données par des experts dans le domaine. Il s'agit pour la plupart d'experts nationaux ou internationaux.

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Objectives: 1/ présenter le contexte et les enjeux de l’imagerie spatiale2/ développer les concepts et les méthodes d’analyse spatiale inhérents à la surveillance géographique de l’environnement3/ aborder les méthodes de traitement numérique et d’interprétation des données d’imagerie spatiale.Contexte : Trente-neuf ans après le lancement du premier satellite civil Landsat, les engins d’observation en orbite se sont imposés comme des outils indispensables de connaissance et de protection de la planète. Google Earth, site d’information géographique en ligne, connaît un succès remarquable qui repose sur la vulgarisation de l’imagerie spatiale. Les systèmes d’information dévolus à la gestion des ressources naturelles, au géomarketing, à la gestion des risques, aux études d’impact, gagnent à ce que la dimension spatiale, issue notamment de l’imagerie spatiale, leur soit ajoutée. La maîtrise de l’information géographique est donc un enjeu majeur pour la surveillance géographique de l’environnement et la réalisation des zonages.

Programme: • L’imagerie spatiale : historique, acquisitions, état de l’art. Acteurs de l’imagerie spatiale aux échelons local, national et international. Bases physiques et comportement spectral des objets. La couleur, la vision, les émulsions.• Surveillance géographique de l’environnement : l’imagerie spatiale dans les systèmes d’information à référence spatiale et sa répétitivité temporelle. Concepts et méthodes d’analyse spatiale. Mise en œuvre des zonages. Validité des zonages, qualité des données et prise de décision. Les exemples donnés seront variés, et en particulier relatifs à la gestion des ressources naturelles et agricoles : on peut citer, notamment, le suivi du réchauffement climatique sur les régions de glaciers, la mise en évidence de l’assèchement de la mer d’Aral depuis 1972, la surveillance des inondations, ou la cartographie des risques d’incendies de forêts.• Géotraçabilité. Définitions, enjeux et exemples.• Traitement numérique des images, classifications, interprétations.Cours, conférences, intervenants professionnels et/ou visites. Quizd'évaluation formative en cours d'UV.Acquisition des connaissances par la pratique : traitement d’une image satellitale avec l’un des outils informatiques les plus récents (ENVI4.7®).

Exam: Mini projet de traitement d'images (diverses images et sujets proposés) qu'ils présenteront oralement à l'issue de la semaine.

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Prerequisites: Aucune connaissance préalable en programmation n'est nécessaire.

Objectives: L'objectif de ce cours est de montrer comment l'informatique peut modéliser facilement et simplement des aspects complexes du vivant.Pour cela, les étudiants auront à créer des petits programmes visuels montrant par exemple la croissance d'un plante, l'évolution d'un ensemble de cellules artificielles, la diffusion d'agents pathogènes, les mouvements de bancs de poissons ou de vols d'oiseaux, l'évolution des espèces.La simplicité des programmes permettant d'engendrer une grande diversité possède une relation forte avec la «beauté» de la nature.L’objectif de ce cours est d’introduire des concepts clés de l’informatique: notion de code, de calcul, de récursivité, de compétition, de diffusion sur des graphes, de mémoire, d’apprentissage et d’évolution qui sont aussi des outils conceptuels puissants pour la modélisation de nombreux aspects du vivant. Ce cours est donc un cours d’informatique destiné à familiariser les futurs ingénieurs avec certains de ses concepts fondamentaux. C’est aussi un cours destiné à faire expérimenter de nouvelles voies de compréhension des processus du vivant.En informatique, tout calcul peut être considéré comme un processus d’interaction entre différentes entités, de transformation et de production. Cette science permet d'aborder de très nombreux phénomènes dynamiques. Parallèlement, le vivant est considéré comme étant fondé sur des codes et sur les processus qui les utilisent dans un grand ballet de décodage, duplication, recodage, transformation, évolution et interaction.Le but de ce cours est d'utiliser les concepts développés en informatique pour revisiter et mieux comprendre, notamment à travers des simulations graphiques, certains des processus du vivant : morphogenèse, génétique des populations, évolution des espèces, diffusion d'agents pathogènes, adaptation individuelle et collective.

Programme: Un peu d’informatique de base:oNotion de codeoNotion de calcul§Notion de coût§Notion de complexité§Itération§RécursivitéInformatique et vivant: codes, calculs, évolution, mémoireoGraphes et épidémieoItérations et systèmes dynamiques§Automates cellulaires, Jeu de la VieoFormes de la vie et récursivité§L-systèmes, fractales, modélisation des formes du vivant (et morphogénèse)oProgrammation dynamique§Alignement de séquences génomiquesoModélisation de l’évolution des espèces§Espace de séquences et paysage de fitness§Algorithmes génétiques§La co-évolutionoThéorie des jeux, information incomplète,compétition, coopération§Eco-systèmes et modèles proies-prédateursoInteraction individu - environnement§Agents simulés et comportements de groupes (Boids, Flocks, …)§Apprentissage par renforcement (généralisation du modèle Pavlovien)L'enseignement s'articule autour de grandes notions qui sont exposées en cours puis donnent lieu à des études de cas et des expériences informatiques par binômes en utilisant un langage simple de programmation permettant des simulations graphiques.

Exam: Le contrôle des connaissances repose sur les exercices/travaux dirigés sur les sujets traités en cours et sur le mémoire issus du travail personnel. La qualité de la participation et l'assiduité aux cours interviennent également dans l’évaluation.

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Objectives: L'embryon humain est au coeur de nombreux enjeux pour la société : enjeux de santé lorsque l'embryon in vitro permet de traiter l'infertilité ou d'obtenir des cellules souches, enjeux de connaissances lorsque l'embryon devient modèle d'étude, enjeux éthiques. En outre, l'embryon animal est également devenu un outil indispensable en sélection.Grâce à l'intervention de chercheurs, médecins, juristes et philosophes, on dressera sous plusieurs angles un état des lieux des biotechnologies appliquées à l'embryon humain et animal: procréation médicalement assistée, cryoconservation, génotypage, cellules souches embryonnaires, voire clonage et transgenèse. On s'interrogera sur les multiples enjeux de ces nouvelles biotechnologies.

Programme: L'UE apportera des connaissances biologiques tout autant qu'un regard critique sur ces connaissances. Parmi les apports techniques : FIV, ICSI, cryoconservation, diagnostic pré-implantatoire, génomique fonctionnelle appliquée à l'embryon, cellules souches, transplantation. Pour l'analyse critique : table ronde autour de philosophes, juristes et acteurs de la recherche et de la réflexion bioéthique sur l'embryon..Cours, conférences, visite d'un laboratoire de biologie de la reproduction.(observation et manipulation d'embryons bovins)

Exam: Présentation orale d'un travail de synthèse à réaliser par groupe de 2 ou 3 sur un sujet d'actualité en lien avec l'UC.

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Prerequisites: Elementary knowledge of physics

Objectives: In the modern view of the cosmos the huge objects the macrocosm (stars, galaxies, clusters, universe) and tiny objects of the microcosm (atoms, nuclei, elementary particles) are intimately connected. This is especially true for the discipline of nuclear astrophysics. For instance, stars are more than 20 orders of magnitude larger than atomic nuclei. The connection between stars and nuclei is twofold. On one side nuclear processes produce the energy so that the stars including our Sun shine. On the other side and still more interestingly deep in the stars the elements ranging from carbon to uranium are created in stars. Literally almost everything around consists of the elements produced in stars. For instance, all the carbon in the DNA and proteins, the calcium in our bones, the iron in our blood, the oxygen in the water in rivers and oceans, and the silicon in stones were created in stars.The lecture starts with an introduction on the basics of particle and nuclear physics as well as on the structures and evolution of the Universe starting from the Big Bang. The main part of the lecture is devoted to the creation of the elements in the Big Bang, in stars and interstellar matter (primordial, stellar and interstellar nucleosynthesis). Finally we discuss the fantastic fine tuning in our Universe with respect to the existence of life including its cosmological and philosophical implications.Samples of the chemical elements (with the exception of a couple of radioactive ones) in highly pure form will be available for the students. Technical applications and basic science applications of the elements will be discussed. Furthermore, differences in physical properties of the elements depending on sample size (bulk vs. nanoparticles) will be tought (e.g. gold, which is inert in bulk form, but a catalyst as soon as the particle size is below a certain threshold).

Programme: 1. Introduction to modern astrophysics and cosmology2. Elementary particle and nuclear physics3. Structure and evolution of the Universe4. Birth, life and death of stars5. Origin of the elements in the Big Bang, interstellat matter and stars6. Fine-tuning aspects of the Universe7. Physical properties of the elements8. Element sample demonstration (touch and feel)

Exam: Examination in written form on last course day

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Prerequisites: Ce courss'adresse principalement à des étudiants de formation scientifique qui n'ont pas de connaissance préalable dans le domaine de la finance. Quelques notions de base en économie sont bienvenues mais pas strictement indispensables. Les mathématiques utilisées dans cet enseignement sont élémentaires pour des élèves ingénieurs.

Objectives: Comprendre les principes de base de tous les marchés financiers (marchés sous-jacents et marchés dérivés, organisés ou de gré-à-gré).Contexte : L'économie contemporaine est fortement influencée par le développement desmarchés financiersetla compréhension de leur fonctionnement est devenue un impératif pour analyser et interpréter les grandes évolutions économiques contemporaines

Programme: 1)Les principes généraux d'organisation des marchés financiers 2)Les marchés "sous-jacents": marchés d'actions, marchés obligataires, marchés monétaires, marchés des changes 3)Les marchés dérivés: marchés à terme, marchés d'options, marchés des swapsCours sur la base d'un polycopié. 3 ou 4 conférences.

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Objectives: 1 Se préparer à intervenir comme ingénieur ou comme chercheur dans les médias : émissions télévisées ou radiodifusées, presse écrité, internet2 Se préparer à faire appel aux médias dans les stratégies de projets scientifiques, économiques, associatifs ou publics3 se préparer aux évolutions de l'internet et des technologies numériques ayant des conséquences sur les relations entre les organisations et le grand publicContexte : Les bouleversements économiques et technologiques que connaît actuellement la presse incitent ingénieurs, scientifiques et organisations (association, entreprises, administrations) à adapter leurs méthodes de communication et leurs modes de dialogue avec les journalistes. Une réflexion de fond accompagnée de rencontres avec des professionnels et d'ateliers de mise en application permet aux étudiants de ne pas se retrouver démunis face aux questions soulevées par la société à propos de l'amélioration des connaissances fondamentales, des évolutions techniques et des changements sociétaux. Par ailleurs, mieux communiquer avec la vidéo, l'écrit et l'Internet constitue de nos jours un impératif essentiel.

Programme: Conférences-débats avec des experts et praticiens reconnus sur la gestion des relations science-action-communication Présentation de techniques de communication et mise en oeuvre: media training, blogs, vidéo numérique... Mise en oeuvre par les élèves ingénieurs sur un projet multi-facettes de cette contribution aux médiasLa pédagogie est adaptée à la participation d'un nombre important d'étudiants étrangers s'inscrivant à cette formation. Les objectifs poursuivis sont atteints grâce à une progression associant aux conférences débats diverses modalités pédagogiques : - une visite de France Télévision - des ateliers de mise en situation (presse imprimée, reportage vidéo, critique d'émissions) - des ateliers d'apprentissages de techniques (média-training, blogs, vidéo numérique)

Exam: Les acquis en matière de connaissances et de savoir-faire mobilisés seront évalués en contrôle continu sur la base du projet développé.

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Prerequisites: Il n'y a pas besoin de connaissances particulières sur la création de sites.

Objectives: - Comprendre les mécanismes à la base du fonctionnement d'un site Web.- Savoir appliquer une méthodologie dans la conception d'un site.- Etre capable de créer et faire vivre un site Web non marchand correspondant à une petite structure, et de participer au pilotage de la mise en place d'un site Web de plus grande envergure.Contexte : Cette unité d'enseignement vise à l'acquisition d'une méthodologie en vue de la création d'un site sur la Toile (Web) dans un cadre scientifique ou non marchand. Elle s'adresse à des personnes n'ayant pas ou peu d'expérience en la matière. Au-delà des bases sur les techniques de création d'un site, l'enseignement apporte des connaissances sur la méthodologie de conception adaptée et comprend une étude minimale de la programmation et des outils utilisés à ce niveau. Le projet permet de concrétiser les notions présentées à l'aide de la création de la maquette d'un site, sur un sujet proposé par l'enseignant ou préparé par les participants. .

Programme: ·Réseau Internet et publication électronique·Bases de la création d'un site (écriture en HTML et CSS, mise en ligne, administration, ...)·Programmation associée du côté du navigateur (Javascript, CGI)·Principaux outils de gestion d'un site (Wiki, Spip, blogs, gestion de contenus, ...)·Conférences par des professionnels (vie d'un site, création graphique, ergonomie, ...)·Méthodologie de conception d'un site·ProjetLe transfert de connaissances s'effectue par les cours accompagnés de travaux dirigés et complétés par des conférences de professionnel du milieu scientifique ou de l'édition. Le travail individuel fourni lors de la réalisation du projet assure l'acquisition d'un savoir-faire minimum.

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Objectives: Montrer l’intérêt de modèles animaux pour l’étude de pathologies humaines. Aborder les notions d’épigénétique. Faire réfléchir à l’utilisation de l’animal par l’homme. Sensibiliser à des questions de recherche d’actualité.Contexte :De nombreux modèles animaux sont disponibles afin, d'approcher des états pathologiques humains (diabète de type I, maladie d’Alzheimer, mucoviscidose, problèmes cardiovasculaires…), de mieux comprendre leur étiologie, ou de proposer des traitements. L’utilisation de ces modèles pose des questions éthiques.

Programme: Après une introduction générale sur les différents types de modèles animaux de pathologies humaines (intérêts et limites), des exemples seront choisis chez les mammifères (rongeurs, ruminants, primates, chiens…) et les insectes (drosophile), et seront illustrés à partir de conférences et de visites de laboratoires en région parisienne. Les aspects éthiques et philosophiques seront abordés dans le cadre d’une conférence et la réglementation sur l’expérimentation animale sera présentée.Méthode : Cours, conférences, visites

Exam: réalisation d'une affiche à partir d'un article scientifique et présentation devant tous les étudiants

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Objectives: Montrer, par une approche essentiellement expérimentale, la diversité des performances sensorielles du corps humain etmieux appréhender les conséquences de cette diversité sur nos actes quotidiens. Donner la possibilité de relativiser ces capacités humaines au regard du reste du monde animal. Envisager l'évolution future de ces performances au regard d'ouvrages d'anticipation (science fiction) et de découvertes et réalisations scientifiques récentes liées à ces prospectives.Contexte : Tous les produits (alimentaires ou autres) que nous utilisons et consommons sont ressentis et perçus par l'intermédiaire de nos systèmes sensoriels. Or, la diversité des performances sensorielles du corps humain, qui est encore mal appréhendée par l'industrie, a des conséquences directes sur nos actes.

Programme: L'enseignement repose essentiellement sur l'approche pratique et expérimentale des possibilités et performances des systèmes sensoriels du corps humain.Méthode : Cette approche expérimentale sera introduite par un nombre limité de cours-conférences et sera complétée par un travail de recherche et d'analyse documentaire. Les étudiants seront répartis en binômes et chaque groupe aura en charge l'approche et la réalisation expérimentale de deux thématiques liées à la perception sensorielle. Les étudiants auront à choisir l'un de leurs thèmes expérimentaux parmi une liste préétablie, l'autre thématique étant fixée au choix des étudiants après validation par l'enseignant.

Exam: Des expérimentations pratiques mises en place et des réalisations associées - L'exposé oral qui les conclut

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Prerequisites: Bon niveau d'anglais - A relatively good knowledge of the English language is required to follow this UV.

Objectives: There has been a dramatic development and specialisation of animal farming in Western countries. Now that Europe is self-sufficient in agricultural products, society has changed in the waythat it looks at animal farming and its practice. In addition to the constant requirement for low cost animal productts, the demands of consumers have diversified, amongst them: product quality, food safety, respect of animal welfare, environment friendly agriculture, energy saving systems, protection of biodiversity, the right to question the use of certain forms of biotechnology etc. are becoming more important. Moreover, the animal occupies an increasing place in leisure activities and as a companion animal. Finally, the use of genetic selection, cloning and the production of GM animals can improve production efficiency and open the way for the use of animals in other domains (medicine and human health). Indeed, certain species of farm animal are used as models for biomedical research.ObjectivesThe objectives of this UV are, using selected examples:-To illustrate the numerous roles of animals today and the new challenges in animal science-To give basic information on the different aspects of animal production-To acquire a basic animal science vocabulary

Programme: Listed below are some of the subjects which could be presented (the list is not exclusive):-The role of animals in a sustainable agriculture-The role of animal products in human health- Management of animal genetic resources- Animal models of human disease-Farm animal bio-security-Cloning and transgenesis-Farm animal genomics-Organic farming-Animal welfare-…Teaching methodsAll the lectures and conferences will be conducted in English. The objectives will be achieved through lectures given by English speaking AgroParisTech lecturers and conferences by guest speakers. At the end of the UV, a mini-symposium (3 hours) will be held in which posters based on a scientific paper will be presented by groups of students. Around 6 hours will probably be necessary to design the poster (3 hours will be included in the time table).

Exam: Two aspects will be taken into account to establish the final mark::.Enthusiasm and participation-Poster presentation

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Prerequisites: Connaissances de bases en biologie

Objectives: L’objectif de cette UV est de comparer chez l’homme et chez l’animal les différents processus d’homéostasie permettant à l’organisme de s’adapter à des situations particulières ou critiques, telles que les situations d’effort, de synthèse intense ou de la sous alimentation et du jeûne. Dans ces situations la disponibilité des substrats devient limitante par rapport aux besoins et leur valorisation ainsi que leur distribution doit être optimisée. Certaines stratégies nutritionnelles sont alors susceptibles de favoriser cette optimisation.Contexte : Les phénomènes d’homéostasie concernent différentes fonctions et métabolismes. Ils sont particulièrement importants à considérer dans le domaine de la nutrition de l’homme et des animaux en raison de leurs nombreuses implications physiologiques, pathologiques et zootechniques. L’objectif de cette UV est de comparer chez l’homme et chez l’animal les différents processus d’homéostasie permettant à l’organisme de s’adapter à des situations particulières ou critiques, telles que les situations d’effort, de synthèse intense ou de la sous alimentation et du jeûne. Dans ces situations la disponibilité des substrats devient limitante par rapport aux besoins et leur valorisation ainsi que leur distribution doit être optimisée. Certaines stratégies nutritionnelles sont alors susceptibles de favoriser cette optimisation.

Programme: Les thèmes suivants seront abordés : Dynamiquedigestive et mise à disposition des nutriments (monogastriques, polygastriques);Nutrition et efforts (chiens de traîneau, sportifs de haut niveau, treck....) ;Epargne et déposition musculaire : de l’alimentation au dopage;Adaptation à une production intense (production laitière);Adaptation à la sous alimentation (sous alimentation dans les zones desertiques, jeûnes spirituels, jeûnes protestataires…)Méthode :L’enseignement se fera sous forme de cours associant enseignants de nutrition animale et de nutrition humaine, et des intervenants extérieurs. Une visite dans le centre de l’INSEP est prévue en fonction de la possibilité d'accueil durant cette semaine

Exam: Devoir sur table avec documents, permettant de synthétiser et d'intégrer l'ensemble des cours abordés pendant la semaine

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Objectives: Comprendre les justifications économiques et politiques des soutiens publics à l’agriculture et la logique des réformes des politiques agricoles entreprises en Europe et aux Etats-Unis.Présenter le fonctionnement, les résultats et les perspectives de la PAC face à l’élargissement à l’Est, aux négociations du cycle de Doha à l’OMC et aux débats sur la future PAC. Comparer avec l'évolution de la politique agricole américaine.

Programme: • La PAC dans la construction européenne (historique). • Les principes fondateurs de la PAC et l’organisation des marchés agricoles. • L’évolution structurelle et productive de l’agriculture française et européenne, place sur les marchés agro-alimentaires mondiaux. • Les réformes de la PAC : quotas laitiers en 1984, réforme de 1992 (baisse des prix et aides directes compensatoires) et de 2003 (découplage et conditionnalité des aides) et leurs résultats. • Les enjeux actuels : intégration des pays de l’Est et négociations à l’OMC. •Historique de la politique agricole américaine outils et résultats • Les perspectives de la PAC après 2013 et les enjeux pour l’agriculture française et européenne.Cours, débats

Exam: Questions de synthèse à traiter par écrit

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Objectives: Dans les sociétés industrialisées, le consommateur est de plus en plus exigeant en ce qui concerne la qualité des produits qu'il consomme et notamment la qualité organoleptique à laquelle il est confronté en premier lieu. L'aliment, outre ses propriétés nutritionnelles, hygiéniques, de service, doit aussi présenter certaines caractéristiques sensorielles, qu'il soit destiné à une alimentation de festivité ou à la consommation courante. En outre, les qualités sensorielles ont un rôle dans le déterminisme des préférences qui vont varier suivant les consommateurs (adolescents, adultes...). La connaissance des mécanismes qui déterminent la perception sensorielle et des méthodes d'évaluation de cette perception est donc indispensable pour appréhender la qualité d'un aliment voire ses débouchés.L'objectif dece coursest une sensibilisation à la problématique de la qualité organoleptique des aliments.

Programme: TP d'analyse sensorielle réalisé à Grignon (1 journée) donc limité à 20 étudiantsL'enseignement, de caractère pluridisciplinaire, s'effectuera sous forme de cours, de conférences par des intervenants extérieurs et de travaux pratiques.Le programme comprendra :- une présentation des bases physiologiques et psychologiques de la perception- une introduction théorique aux différentes méthodes utilisées en analyse sensorielle- une sensibilisation à la dégustation et une mise en pratique de quelques techniques d'analyse sensorielle- l'examen d'autres méthodes (ex : mesures physico-chimiques) d'évaluation de la qualité organoleptique des aliments

Exam: étude d'un cas pratique

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Objectives: - Initier à l’approche « matériau alimentaire » lorsque l’on fait référence au produit alimentaire- Savoir définir un « matériau » alimentaire en terme de structure- Comprendre le rôle des caractéristiques de structure : apparence, texture, stabilité…- Apprendre à identifier les relations entre paramètres de composition et du procédé, d’une part, structure des produits, d’autre part.Contexte : Les caractérisations d’un produit alimentaire sont définies, pour une large part, à partir de propriétés de structure et de descripteurs sensoriels. Elles ne se limitent donc pas à de simples paramètres de composition. Une approche rationnelle de l’élaboration d’un produit nouveau s’appuie sur l’établissement préalable d’un cahier des charges, compilation d’un ensemble de caractéristiques de structure et de texture notamment que l’on se fixe comme autant d’objectifs à atteindre. Cette approche est également utilisée pour établir les bases du contrôle de qualité ou pour copier un produit existant.

Programme: Présentation des différents types de structure des matériaux alimentaires selon les familles de produits, ingrédients et procédés utilisés. Cas concrets menés dans le cadre de l’horaire réservé à l’enseignement :- Etude bibliographique : chaque binôme traite le cas de la structuration d’un produit type (par ex : sauce salade, fromage frais, produit extrudé, pâte à pain…)- Travaux expérimentaux : fabrication d’un produit au laboratoire (par ex : génoise, crème dessert) et discussion sur la contribution de chaque ingrédient et des différentes étapes du procédé de fabrication sur la structuration.Méthode : Cette UV d’initiation est largement basée sur les travaux pratiques (9h) et sur le travail personnel et l’étude, principalement descriptive, de cas (7 h).Documents utilisés :Planches du cours introductif, poly de TP, résumés F et GB des exposés + biblio

Exam: Présentation orale des cas concrets (coefficient 1)TP (travail au laboratoire et rapport (coefficient 1).

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Where: Technische Universität München

Prerequisites: - Basic knowledge of Linux operating system- Good knowledge of programming language C or C++- Good knowledge of spoken and written English-Adequate background (engineering, mathematics, physics, ...) with strong interest in computational sciences and parallel computing

Objectives: Introduction to parallel programming; message-coupled systems; numerical solution of systems of linear equations; programming with MPI; examples of parallel (numerical) algorithms; supercomputers and grid computing; practical MPI programming; programming of a parallel CFD simulation (in groups); high-performance computing

Programme: Visit to the Leibniz Computing Centre

Exam: Written examination at the end of the course

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Prerequisites: The level required corresponds roughly to the fourth year of any scientific studies. However,textbook knowledge of the basic concepts of physical opticswould be needed. See for instanceoSaleh / Teich, “Fundamentals of Photonics,” chapters 1+2;ohttp://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/.We will provide a reading list for students wishing to prepare the course

Objectives: The objective of the course is to familiarise the students with advanced optical methods used for biomedical applications. The course will be taught by members of several leading French laboratories in the field ; the lectures will be heldatthe laboratories and will comprise laboratory visits and practical sessions.

Programme: oIntroduction to optical imaging / Optical microscopyoOptical coherence tomographyoOptical TweezersoFluorescence techniquesoNon-linear microscopy / Super-resolution imagingoLight propagation in tissuesoAcousto-optical methods for biological imagingoHolographic microscopy / Optics of ocular tissues

Exam: Written exam

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Prerequisites: Ce courss'adresse principalement à des étudiants de formation scientifique qui n'ont pas de connaissance préalable dans le domaine de la finance. Quelques notions de base en économie sont bienvenues mais pas strictement indispensables. Les mathématiques utilisées dans cet enseignement sont élémentaires pour des élèves ingénieurs.

Objectives: Comprendre les principes de base de tous les marchés financiers (marchés sous-jacents et marchés dérivés, organisés ou de gré-à-gré).Contexte : L'économie contemporaine est fortement influencée par le développement des marchés financiersetla compréhension de leur fonctionnement est devenue un impératif pour analyser et interpréter les grandes évolutions économiques contemporaines

Programme: 1)Les principes généraux d'organisation des marchés financiers2)Les marchés "sous-jacents": marchés d'actions, marchés obligataires, marchés monétaires, marchés des changes3)Les marchés dérivés: marchés à terme, marchés d'options, marchés des swapsCours sur la base d'un polycopié. 3 ou 4 conférences.

Exam: Examen sur table sous forme de questionnaire

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Objectives: 1 Se préparer à intervenir comme ingénieur ou comme chercheur dans les médias : émissions télévisées ou radiodifusées, presse écrité, internet2 Se préparer à faire appel aux médias dans les stratégies de projets scientifiques, économiques, associatifs ou publics3 se préparer aux évolutions de l'internet et des technologies numériques ayant des conséquences sur les relations entre les organisations et le grand publicContexte : Les bouleversements économiques et technologiques que connaît actuellement la presse incitent ingénieurs, scientifiques et organisations (association, entreprises, administrations) à adapter leurs méthodes de communication et leurs modes de dialogue avec les journalistes. Une réflexion de fond accompagnée de rencontres avec des professionnels et d'ateliers de mise en application permet aux étudiants de ne pas se retrouver démunis face aux questions soulevées par la société à propos de l'amélioration des connaissances fondamentales, des évolutions techniques et des changements sociétaux. Par ailleurs, mieux communiquer avec la vidéo, l'écrit et l'Internet constitue de nos jours un impératif essentiel.

Programme: Conférences-débats avec des experts et praticiens reconnus sur la gestion des relations science-action-communication Présentation de techniques de communication et mise en oeuvre: media training, blogs, vidéo numérique... Mise en oeuvre par les élèves ingénieurs sur un projet multi-facettes de cette contribution aux médiasLa pédagogie est adaptée à la participation d'un nombre important d'étudiants étrangers s'inscrivant à cette formation. Les objectifs poursuivis sont atteints grâce à une progression associant aux conférences débats diverses modalités pédagogiques : - une visite de France Télévision - des ateliers de mise en situation (presse imprimée, reportage vidéo, critique d'émissions) - des ateliers d'apprentissages de techniques (média-training, blogs, vidéo numérique)

Exam: Les acquis en matière de connaissances et de savoir-faire mobilisés seront évalués en contrôle continu sur la base du projet développé.

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Prerequisites: Les données de biologie sur le fonctionnement général du système nerveux seront rappelées en début de module

Objectives: Les cours sont destinés à familiariser les élèves avec les connaissances récentes en neurobiologie des systèmes sensoriels et cognitifs et les modèles théoriques développés pour décrire leur fonctionnement.Contexte : Les neurosciences bénéficient d'un effort de recherche considérable et les connaissances évoluent très vite dans ce domaine. Ces connaissances ont un impact dans de nombreuses disciplines proches des sciences de l'ingénieur, notamment en informatique et en robotique, et rejoignent des interrogations scientifiques et philosophiques fondamentales (systèmes complexes, problème de la conscience).

Programme: En prenant pour point de départ la connaissance du fonctionnement des systèmes sensoriels comme l'olfaction, le goût et la vision, nous étudierons comment l'information est intégrée dans les centres supérieurs du système nerveux central, en mettant l'accent sur les méthodes et les approches expérimentales. Ces données expérimentales seront mises en perspective en explicitant quelques modèles théoriques du fonctionnement du système nerveux central. Enfin, nous explorerons les conséquences de ces connaissances sur les conceptions que nous avons de la conscience en confrontant le point de vue du neurobiologiste avec ceux de la médecine et de la philosophie.Méthode : Conférences et analyse de documents scientifiques

Exam: Les élèves seront évalués sur la base de leur participation ainsi que de leurs réponses à un questionnaire en fin de module.

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Prerequisites: Des bases minimales en comptabilité d’entreprise seront utiles.

Objectives: Cette unité de valeur a pour objectif de faire découvrir ce qu’est concrètement la création d’une entreprise. Des créateurs divers, y compris des entrepreneurs sociaux, témoignent de leur expérience. Il s’agit aussi d'initier les étudiants aux outils et connaissances qui favorisent grandement le succès d’une création, et de leur faire connaître les structures d’appui et les aides auxquelles un créateur peut avoir recours.La création d'entreprise permet de créer de l'emploi. Elle est un vecteur de la transformation de nos économies à travers l'innovation. Les personnalités des créateurs sont diverses, mais souvent c'est le besoin de mettre en oeuvre, de concrétiser une idée utile qui les anime et leur donne l'énergie nécessaire.

Programme: - Notions et outils de base: entreprise, innovation, processus d'innovation, analyse de marché, positionnement concurrentiel, propriété industrielle, positionnement dans la chaîne de valeur et business plan.- Témoignages de créateurs d’entreprises qui exposent leur démarche, leur projet et leur questionnement- Un nombre réduit de cours pour initier aux notions et aux outils de base. - Plusieurs témoignages de créateurs d’entreprises. Interviendront des créateurs innovants de divers secteurs économiques. - Un travail en petits groupes sur certains des projets de création d’entreprise, à partir d’un questionnement du créateur lui-même: réflexion sur l’une des problématiques du business model et formulation de propositions. La problématique étudiée pourra relever de domaines variés : marketing, analyse concurrentielle, stratégie industrielle, développement de produits, etc….

Exam: Les travaux des étudiants en groupes restreints, sur des thèmes donnés par les créateurs, font l’objet de restitutions orales et écrites qui sont notées. En outre la présence en cours et la qualité de la participation en séance sont prises en compte dans l'évaluation.

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Where: Delft University of Technology

Prerequisites: 3rdyear engineering Newtonian physics and mathematics; Fluid mechanics

Objectives: The lecture is an introduction course to wind turbine rotor aerodynamicsLearning objectives (introductory level):1-The student is able to, by combining previous knowledge in fluid dynamics and Newtonian physics, to design/derive models which can represent the aerodynamics of different rotor configurations.2-The student is able to appraise different models, and criticize on their fidelity.3- The student can analyze complex rotor flows (rotors in yaw, wind farms, etc), not only identifying and summarizing the main fluid phenomena, but also evaluating their interaction and integrate different models to analyze the flow; on this, the student is able to combine the different models, evaluating each sub-model’s limitations and overlap between models.4- The student is able to design a rotor from an aerodynamic perspective

Programme: 1.Introduction to the course: learning objectives, structure, assignments and evaluation.2.Introduction to rotary wing aerodynamics. Applications in aircraft, propulsion, fans and wind turbines3.Conservation laws. Actuator disk/momentum theory and its limitations. Helicopter rotor vertical flight and “windmill brake” state. Figure of merit. Wind turbine Betz limit. Limits of the actuator disk model. Generalization on Lift and drag devices.4.Generation of the wake. The wake as the source of an induction field. Vortex flow. Loads and vorticity. Euler equations. Biot-Savart law. Derivation of the actuator-vortex wake model5.Derivation of potential flow and construction of solutions using potential flow. Circulation and aerofoil aerodynamics. Helmholtz theorems. Discretising the rotor in finite blades. Modelling 3D finite blades using vortex models.6.Derivation of BEM - Blade element–momentum method. Correction for finite nr. of blades and heavily loaded rotors

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Prerequisites: BSc/MSc (4thyear study) in Biochemical engineering, Chemical engineering, Life Science & Technology or Biotechnology

Objectives: To understand the role of design as valorisation tool between research and industry.To learn and apply key methods and tools for product and process design in the (bio)chemical and life science industries.To practice working on team design assignments in a international settingTo present team design results.AdditionalThis 1-week design course is offered by staff members of the TU Delft post-MSc Designer Programmes. These post-MSc PDEng programmes employ thirty (salaried) PDEng trainees every year. These PDEng trainees are recruited from high performing (inter)national MSc graduates in the fields of (bio)chemical engineering and Life Science & Technology.Traineeships engineering design - PDEng programmesThe design-traineeships of Delft University of Technology train you to translate academic developments in Life Sciences and (Bio)Chemical Engineering to real-life applications and industrial products, working to meet the industry’s demand for new technologies. A design-traineeship (PDEng-position) offers an application-focused alternative to a PhD position and provides you with a solid basis for an accelerated start in an industrial career. The programmes are a joint initiative of and are sponsored by the Dutch Life Sciences and (Bio)Chemical industry and the Dutch government.Currently, TU Delft offers 3 PDEng-programmes:Process and Equipment DesignDesigner in Bioprocess EngineeringBioProduct DesignChemical Product DesignAs a trainee in one of our designer programmes, you develop yourself into a visionary team-player with a state-of-the-art background in life sciences or (bio)chemical engineering, prepared for innovative product and process design. You are trained to develop and apply an independent attitude, a critical approach, creativity, and a focus on innovative applications in these interdisciplinary fields.The first year consists of a tailor-made programme of advanced coursework in the relevant science and engineering disciplines, project management, intellectual property and economics. You gain experience in teamwork, multidisciplinary problem-solving and conceptual design. You learn to apply a systematic, quantitative design methodology in a variety of science disciplines. You implement your knowledge in the Group Design Project at the end of the first year.In the second year you apply your skills in the Industrial Design Project in industry, developing creative solutions for real-life problems, based on the latest developments in the Life or Chemical Sciences. After successful completion of your training, you receive the ‘Professional Doctorate in Engineering’ degree, or PDEng. The 3TU School Stan Ackermans Institute offersmore information on the PDEng-degree.The expertise gained in this programme is in great demand and leads to excellent prospects for a professional career in the Dutch and international industry.The design-traineeships are offered in close collaboration with industrial partners, like Shell, Akzo Nobel, DSM, TNO, ECN, Centocor, DOW Chemical, Promega, Octoplus, Johnson&Johnson, Nestle and Unilever.See also:www.pdeng.tudelft.nl

Programme: Monday 19 Nov 2012:·Introduction TU Delft, post-MSc PDEng Designer Programmes·Product & Process Design versus Research·DelftDesign Methodologies – part IDelftTemplate for Conceptual Designteam formation, team roles, project planningstrenght/weakness, personalities analysis tools, creativity & creativity methods.Tuesday20 Nov 2012:·DelftDesign Methodologies – part IIProduct Design methodology (general, bioproducts, chemical products)From Customer Needs to Quantitative Product Specifications·Project work: team assignments; presentationsWednesday 21 Nov 2011:·DelftDesign Methodologies – part IIILife Cycle of a Process: From Process Concept to Plant DemolitionProcess Design Methodology, emphasis on quality factors, design problem definition·Project work: team assignments; presentationThursday 22 Nov 2012:·Company Visit·Company WorkshopProject Work: team assignmentsFriday 23 Nov2012:·Project work·Individual written test and final group presentations

Exam: Individual written exam and project Group presentation

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Prerequisites: None

Objectives: Medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) represent a relatively new area of education with considerable interest.Emphasis has been focused on establishing a fundamental understanding of the tradition and science that envelops medicinal and aromatic plant materials and building foundations in horticulture, ethnobotany, chemistry, plant identification, and applications related to medicinal and aromatic plants.The course provides the BASSIC knowledge of medicinal plants, drugs, their active principles and relative extraction, identification and stability, together with the skills for the management, transformation and use of officinal plants and their derivatives.

Programme: UNIT 1. Introduction. Classification of MAPs.UNIT 2.Raw material.Cultivation and Processing.Cultivation, harvesting, drying and transformation of raw materialUNIT 3.Active Principles in MAPs.Essential oils.Extracts Alkaloids, Glycosides, Bitter compounds, Tannins, Terpenes, Resins, Mucilage, Pectin, Carotenes.UNIT 4.Chemical Analysis of MAPs. Quality control. Distillation. Extraction. Gas and Liquid Chromatography.UNIT 5. Industrial utilization of MAPs. Pharmacology. Phytotherapy.Homeopathy. Aromatherapy. Wine and spirits. Perfumery and cosmetics.UNIT 6. MAPs from tropical forests of Africa and South america

Exam: Course AssitanceWritten exam at the end of the course.

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Prerequisites: Upper intermediate level of English is a must. Students with a lower level will be uanble to follow the classes.

Objectives: In this seminar we will analyse the dark side of technology, as it is presented in science fiction movies and othe popular culture artifacts. Science fiction usually portrays technology as trying to destroy or enslave humanity and, consequently, serves as a good indicator of the social responses to new technologies, and of the arising anxieties.From Fritz Lang’sMetropolisto the Wachowski’sThe Matrixor Stanton’sWall-E, many Sci-Fi movies present in different ways the problematic sideeffects brought about by the new technologies and the ethical, political, and existential questions they pose. The latent anxiety expresses a technophobic fear of losing our human identity, our freedom, our emotions, our values, and our lives to machines.So instead of disregarding this way of being with technology as primitive, we will inquire into the reasons which provoke such uneasiness.

Programme: Every topic presented will be illustrated with a particula movie which will be followed by a class discussion. During the four first sessions, the sequence wil be: (1) Introduction, (2) Film watching, (3) class discussion, and (4) conclusions.The last day will be devoted to oral presentations or final test.

Exam: class participation 50%, final presentation or test 50%

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Prerequisites: Engineer, Geographer, Architect, Urbanism, Anthropologist, Environmental, Photographer…

Objectives: Focusing on the coastal landscape sites located within natural, rural or cities in development coastal areas around the world, the course will:- To identify past and new trends in coastal strategies- To establish planning to avoid the negative impact- To learn to appreciate and value the beauty of/in the coast

Programme: - Identify past and new trends in coastal planning by case studies examples- Establish planing to avoid the negative impact by the students groups– Define methodological test to evaluate the subjective value of beauty of the coast. If there is funds available there will be a trip to the coast.

Exam: Group work, oral presentation, class participation

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Prerequisites: It is highly recommendable to have attained a certain level in the following subjects and technologies, as they will not be explained in the classes.•Knowledge representation systems: frames, semantic networks and description logics•Web Technologies: HTML, XML, etc.Java and JDBC

Objectives: The general objective is to provide students with a sound grounding of scientific, methodological and technological fundamentals in the ontology engineering field. These fundamentals will be later used to build applications that can integrate, combine and infer heterogeneous and distributed information.

Programme: This course is organized in four sections and an oral presentation, with a total of 30 hours. For each section, we specify the amount of time devoted to theoretical lessons and to hands-on activities. Each section is composed of several units.Section 1: Introduction (theory: 1 hour)Unit 1.(1 hour) General overview of the ontology engineering field and description of the types of problems the semantic technology can be applied to.Section 2: Computational linguistics (theory: 2 hours, hands-on: 2 hours)Unit 2.(1 hour) Introduction to some computational linguistics concepts useful in building ontologies (terminological aspects: concepts, terms, relations between them, definitions, etc). Types of terminological resources (lexicons, thesauri, mono-, multilingual dictionaries, controlled-language vocabularies, terminological DBs, etc.) that can be used as a starting point in ontology building.Unit 3.(1 hour) Multilingual representation in ontologies.Section 3. Ontologies(theory: 11 hours,hands-on: 10 hours)Unit 4.(2 hours) Theoretical aspects: definition, scope, and types of ontologies.Unit 5.(2 hours) Languages used in ontology implementation: (RDF(S) and OWL) as well as query languages (SPARQL).Unit 6.(2 hours) Tools used in building and storing ontologies (Sesame, Jena, Protégé, NeOn toolkit) as well as in ontology reasoning (Pellet, Racer).Unit 7.(2 hours) Development methodologies used in building ontologies and ontology networks through collaborative work.Unit 8.(3 hours) Ontology Mapping (methods, techniques and tools)Section 4. Linked Data(theory: 1 hour, hands-on: 1 hour)Unit 9.(1 hour) How to create and use linked data.To allow students to consolidate knowledge and skills acquired throughout the course some assignments related to each unit have been designed.Students will work in pairs and all the coursework to be done will be related to a specific domain. The aim is to enable students to apply the knowledge acquired in the course in order to face new situations and solve real problems. Thus, students will be well prepared to adapt to the continuous technological evolution in this field.

Exam: Students will be evaluated on the basis of a presentation that they must make of the work that compiles the coursework carried out.We have reserved 2 hours for this activity, in the end of the course.

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Where: Universidad Politecnica de Madrid

Prerequisites: Students of Engineering, Physics, etc. A minimum background on Fluid Mechanics is important to enjoy the course.

Objectives: The objectives of this course are to provide a practical introduction to the use of CFD codes in Engineering. First, a brief introduction about Fluid Mechanics and computational methods will be the first part of the course. After this,a commercial CFD software with a wide range of applications (STAR-CCM+ from ADAPCO) will be used as the basic tool for the rest of the course.The students willacquire skills in modelling and meshing 3D geometries, fluid solvers, turbulence models, boundary conditions, etc…More information about the course as well as previous editions satisfaction surveys results can be found in the following link:http://canal.etsin.upm.es/CFDWORKSHOP

Programme: PART 1. INTRODUCTION TO CFD.1) Navier-Stokes equations.2) Time discretization.3) space discretization.4)Computational fluid dynamics.PART 2. FINITE ELEMENTS, FINITE VOLUME (STAR-CCM+)5) 2D viscous flows.6) 2D flows with a free surface.7) 3D flows

Exam: The students’ marks will be based on their ability to do the exercises proposed during the workshop. Active attendance to the sessions will be compulsory. If a student misses more than three hours of the course, this student will officially fail the course.

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Where: Universidad Politecnica de Madrid

Prerequisites: None, but familiarity with Excel would be helpful

Objectives: 1)To provide an overview of the concepts and techniques used in the financial analysis of investment projects2) To learn hot to carry out a financial analysis of an investment project

Programme: Basic accounting conceptsDiscounted cash flow analysisNet Present Value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR)Cost of CapitalCapital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)Risk AnalysisSensitivity Analysis

Exam: Based on:Active participation during lectures;A practical exercise.Attendance is required every day.

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Where: Universidad Politecnica de Madrid

Prerequisites: One semester of basic electromagnetism

Objectives: Introduction to sensor application from their physic principles to the built-in devices. The course is focused in electric properties of the materials and shows a wide range of applications

Programme: Electric fields in materials: macroscopic approachElectric fields in materials: A nanosize point of viewElectric properties of real materialsPrinciples of sensorsSensor applications

Exam: Short tests of every topic

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Where: Universidad Politecnica de Madrid

Prerequisites: Students of Forest orEnvironmental Engineering and similar careers havingbasicknowledge of Systematic Botany and European phytogeography.

Objectives: ·Provide a proper undestanding of diversity of phytocenoses and vegetal landscapes and the way they are geographically distributed in Spain, with special mention to mediterranean communities (forests, shrublands and grasslands) and singular covers (intrazonal and macaronesic –canarian- islands).·Identification of most significative vegetal units, taking into account botanical composition, vertical and horizontal structures, evolutive dynamics (maturity level, stability) and indicator plants and traits.·Interpretation of causes that have determined and still influence the occurrence and distribution of current landscapes in Spain and the historical dynamics of phytogeographic evolution, highlighting human uses impact.Show different approaches and methodologies for the analysis of vegetation covers and phytosociological relationship.

Programme: Overview of Spanish vegetation. Influential Factors.Landscapes: concepts and case studies.History of Spanish Forests and vegetationHigh Mountain vegetation. The timberline in mountain ranges. Shrublands and endemicityMountain Needle leaved Forests. Distribution. Main species. The case of southernAbiesforestsDeciduous Forests and their domain. Substitution communities: shrublands and plantations. Prairies and pastures. Main species. Some case studies: National Parks.Submediterranean Forests and their domain. Distribution. Importance of lithology. Substitution communities: hedgerows, srhrublands, grasslands. Main speciesEsclerophyll Vegetation. Distribution. Types and varieties. Structures. Main species. Some examples: National Parks.Hyperxerophile vegetation. Distribution. Environmental management problemsIntrazonal vegetation: Rocky, sandy, salty and gypsum soilsRiparian vegetation. Woody communities. Main species. Case studies. RestorationVegetation transects in Spanish mountain rangesPlant selection for ecological restorationThe vegetation in the Canary Islands: Types and Human Impact. Some case studiesLaboratoy sessions:Use of Vegetation MapsIdentification of plant species-Herbarium samplesVisit to ArboretumAField Tripof 10 hrs. may be scheduled. It would consist of visits to several representative sites of vegetation landscapes in Madrid region.Attendants may be asked to pay for the proportional cost of coach or minibus rental (around 25 or 30 €, depending on coach size,).

Exam: Written and on-line tests

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Prerequisites: Students of Architecture SchoolsGood Knowledge of the followings programsAutocad o similar and photoshop (panel assemblyprograms)Knowledge of building designOwn computer

Objectives: Providecritical review andbasic methodology for analyzing architectural solutions of recognized architects based on the suitability of its buildings to the differentenvironmental conditions in which they occur.Apply this methodology for an existing housing project

Programme: 5 days from Monday to Fryday Schedule class 9 to 15.00 pm3+3 workshop

Exam: Realization ofpanels at the endof the course

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Prerequisites: Students with at least 3 years experience in Architecture, Urban Planning, Art, Film or CommunicationBeginners or intermediate levelknowledge of the following programs:photoshop (panel assemblyprograms), Adobe Premier…Starting with a simple video player, you will explore the tools and techniques needed to blend an image in space.Own computer

Objectives: The main activity will be free animation and motion graphics, using collage film techniques. You will also be exploring the use of sound within narrative.This practical program will take video references, documentary and short narrative films, from traditional and also present day creators.The final objective will be for students to produce their own creative project.

Programme: 5 days from Monday to Friday Schedule class 9.00 to 15.00 h3+3 workshop

Exam: Produce a free animation to be submitted at the endof the course.

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Prerequisites: 4º, 5º year in Architecture. Final years in ArchitectureStudents of Architecture, Urban Studies, Art, Cinema and Audiovisual Communication.Basic knowledge in any type of animation software and video edition.

Objectives: Discuss new ways to live, narrate and design space.This practical program will use videos, documentary and short narrative films from both past and present day creators as references.The final objective is for each student to produce a personal and creative proposal (Using graphic or photographic images in movement) that explains one of the following themes: Cinematic Space, Liquid Space or Liquid Architecture

Programme: 5 days from Monday to Friday Schedule class 12.00 to 18.00 h3+3 workshop

Exam: Creation of a practical work in video formatto be submitted at end of course

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Prerequisites: Basic remote sensing class, some statistics backgroundRemote sensing course. Statistical course

Objectives: To familiarize the students with thecapabilities of imaging spectroscopy data and remote sensing time series for environmantla studies

Programme: 1.Physical basis of remote sensing2.Information content of spectral signatures3.Remote sensing information in the temporal domain4.Basis for environmental monitoring using remote sensing time series5.Basis of statistical analysis of remote sensing time series6.Overview of applications for environmental monitoring

Exam: Practical exercises

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Where: Delft University of Technology

Prerequisites: Following this course requires having succesfully completed a first year course in linear algebra (thus being familiar with vector spaces and linear systems of equations, see e.g. David Lay,Linear Algebra and Its Applications); in calculus (thus being familiar with the differention and integration of functions of several variables and analytical methods for solving ordinary differential equations, see e.g. James Stewart,Calculus); and in numerical analysis (thus being familiar with numerical techniques for differentiation and integration of a function in one variable, see e.g. Richard Burden and Douglas Faires,Numerical Analysis). For this course a basic knowledge of English is indespensable.Student input: attendence of the lectures and completion of lab assigments

Objectives: This course provides understanding in the basic principles of the finite element method (FEM) for solving canonical elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations modeling diffusion and transport phenomena. Unlike courses elaborating the mathematical foundations of the FEM on one hand, and those focussing on a particular software package for solving advanced engineering applications on the other end of the spectrum, this course discusses the algorithmic aspects of the FEM. Starting from either a boundary or initial value problem, the variational formulation is derived to be able to subsequentially discretize the problem in space and time. The element-by-element construction of the discrete problem and algorithms to solve it are presented. At the end of this course students will have gained the theoretical knowledge and constructed a software framework enabling them to build their own finite element solver package.

Programme: - Monday:Morning: Model Equation - Preliminaries - Minimization ProblemsAfternoon: Introduction into MATLAB-Tuesday:Morning: Variational Formulation and Differential EquationsAfternoon: Element-by-element assembly-Wednesday:Morning: Galerkin’s Finite Element MethodAfternoon: One-dimensional element matrices-Thursday:Morning: Numerical Methods for time dependent problemsAfternoon: Time-integration-Friday:Morning: Engineering ApplicationsAfternoon: Solving two-dimensional problems / Visit toTATA Steel

Exam: Course exams:reward in accordance with dedication to the lectures and practical assigmentsCourse notes: the lecture notes for this course can be retrieved fromhttp://ta.twi.tudelft.nl/nw/users/domenico/

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Where: Université Catholique de Louvain

Prerequisites: Only a basic training in engineering at the university level is required. To have a sufficient maturity to follow this course fruitfully, it is nevertheless required to be registered at least in the 3th university study year.

Objectives: Lighting is the technique of production and use of the visible light, mainly in relation with human visual tasks. The actual interest for this discipline is that the professional sector of lighting knows a fast growth due to diverse factors as the prodigious expansion of new lighting sources, techniques of light control, an increasing concern for security and comfort, rational use of energy, European normalisation. One of theattractions for such a course at the university level is its multidisciplinary charactersince it is at the convergence of numerous scientific domains as physics, optics, physiology, electricity, electronics, optoelectronics, metrology, informatics.The course aims at a scientific and technologic introduction to this discipline.Not only the visual perception of radiation will be considered but also its energetic aspect (radiometry).An engineer approach will be emphasized keeping in mind the constraints linked to the industrial requirements (the research applications in the laboratory are thus not aimed). Thequantitative evaluation of light related quantities will be considered, which implies an appropriate metrology (the photometry and its corollary the colorimetry). Furthermore, through the continuous reflection it proposes regarding the phenomenon and the objects of perception, the course educates the participant, as for the music lover, to have a better understanding and therefore a new and enriched sight of the visual world. In this respect, the practical training in the laboratory and the technical visit of Wednesday are essential.The course is proposed for the eigth consecutive year. It is addressed to every student having a general training in engineering and a sufficient maturity requiring at least to be in a thirth university year. He must be motivated to acquire in one week and in an international context, a basic knowledge in the discipline of lighting often little taught in her/his own institution. A few professionals of the lighting sector will also attend this course as refreshing training : their experience on the field will constitute a supplementary richness of the course.

Programme: N.B. The course starts on Monday 19 March 2007 at 9:00 h and ends on Friday 23 March at 18:00 h.Module 1 (Monday) : BASICS : Quantities, units, geometrical laws, optical properties of materials, eye and vision, modes of light production, exercises.Module 2 : PHOTOMETRY (Monday), COLORIMETRY (Tuesday) plus laboratory training (Tuesday and Thursday afternoon).Module 3 : LIGHT SOURCES AND LUMINAIRES (Wednesday morning)Module 4 : APPLICATIONS TO INTERIOR LIGHTING (Thursday morning)Module 5 : TECHNICAL VISIT (Wednesday afternoon) : Philips factory in Turnhout Belgium : HID lamps.Friday is free for preparing the exam of Friday late afternoonSyllabus: complete pedagogic documents of the course will be furnished.Venue: UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve. Wednesday is spent at Philips-Tunrhout factory. Transfer by coach from Louvain-la-Neuve

Exam: Short individual evaluation at the end of the week plus grouped (+/-4 students) report on the practical laboratory training done during the week, to deliver by e-mail at late 2 weeks after the course

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Where: Czech Technical University in Prague

Prerequisites: General knowledge of the interaction of ionizing radiation with matter is necessary

Objectives: To obtain an overview of the theoretical and experimental background, concerning the application of ionizing radiation and radionuclides in industry and medicine.Depending on the mode of application, information is in most cases obtained through effects of radiation on matter. Detection and evaluation of radiation can give the desired information about these effects.The state of applications will be described and implemented in the laboratory classes and experimental demonstrations.

Programme: Seven 2-hour lectures:-Characteristic of Ionizing Radiation and Radioactivity-X Ray Fluorescence Analysis-Application of Ionizing Radiation in geology and Geophysics-Application of Radiation in Art adn Archeometry-Radon-Problem in radiation Protection-Application of Ionizing Radiation in Medicine-Personal Dosimetry and Radiation ProtectionFour 2-hour experimental exercises:-Polymer-gel dosimetry-Spectrometry of Gamma Radiation with HP(Ge) Detector-X Ray Fluorescence Analysis-Personal Dosimetry- TLDTwo 2-hour experimental demonstrations:-GOLEM- Tocamac thermonuclear installation-Application of Ionizing Radiation in Medicine

Exam: Written exam of 2 hours duration.

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Prerequisites: Sets, relations, oriented graphs, finite automata, regular expressions.

Objectives: Text is the simplest and most natural representation of information in a range of areas. Text is a linear sequence of symbols from some alphabet. The text is manipulated in many application areas: processing of text in natural and formal languages, study of sequences in molecular biology, music analysis, etc.The design of algorithms that process texts goes back at least thirty years. In particular, the 1990s produced many new results. This progress is due in part to genome research, where text algorithms are often used.The basic problem of text processing concerns string matching. It is used to access information and this operation is used very frequently. We have recognized while working in this area that finite automata are very useful tools for understanding and solving many text processing problems. We have found in some cases that well known algorithms are in fact simulators of non-deterministic finite automata serving as models of these algorithms. For this reason the material used in this course is based mainly on results from the theory of finite automata.Because the string is a central notion in this area, Stringology has become the nickname of this subfield of algorithmic research.

Programme: ·Five 3-hour lectures:1.Overview of Stringology, string matching problems, string matching and finite automata.2.Forward string matching, fail function, dynamic programming and bit parallelism.3.Factor automata, subsequence automata, repetition in text.4.Forward string matching, fail function.5.Backward string matching, models of backward string matching, Boyer-Moore algorithm.·Three 1-hour case studies:1.Pattern matching in a two-dimensional text.2.Implementation of factor automata.3.String matching in a compressed text.·Three 2-hour seminars:1.Mastering finite automata: determinisation, union, intersection,e-transitions removal, elimination of more than one initial states.2.Construction of string matching automata, factor and subsequence automata.3.Forward string matching.

Exam: Written exam with the duration of 1 hour, evaluation of the results.

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Prerequisites: General knowledge of fluid mechanics and thermodynamics and matlab.

Objectives: Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is one of the most progressive experimental methods used in fluid mechanics. With the basic set of experimental set up it allows the investigation on 2D flow fields. The extended version can be used for research of 3D flows, or/and in some special cases, temperature or concentration measurement, as well.The course is held in two different options·Course A – theoretical course· Course B – applied courseThe objective of Course A is to inform participants of the principals of PIV method and to show some examples of the wide range of applications in fluid mechanics and machinery.Course B is intended for participants, who want to master the operation of the PIV system and corresponding software.

Programme: Theoretical part for all students: 7 lessons, 90 min. each.1.PIV method, its history and development 2.Contemporary systems – set up for 2D measurement 3.3D measurement 4.Temperature and concentration measurement (PLIV) 5.Special cases –3D and PLIV measurement6.Data evaluation, statistical method used 7.Control system – introduction to the software supportPractical part for all students:7 lessons, 90 min. each1. Demonstration of some typical applications in the laboratory, presentation of results of technical problems solved.2. Demonstration of 2D and 3D set up and calibration with standard PIV system 3. Measurement with LOW COST PIV system 5. Demonstration of time resolved PIV system 6. Data analysis with matlab 7. Comparison of data from matlab and from commercial code.

Exam: The evaluation of the students’ acquired knowledge will be based on regular examinations during the practical part of the course. Student will prepare report from course and from measurement and data analysis

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Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of chemistry

Objectives: The main goal of the course is to provide an introduction to practical application of infrared and Raman spectroscopy

Programme: Five 3-hour lectures / morning sessions: 1.Introduction and FTIR measurements. 2. FTIR reflection techniques, VCD technique. 3. Raman microspectroscopy.4. FTRaman spectroscopy. 5. Computer treatment, multivariate data evaluationand interpretation of spectra. Five 3-hour afternoon sessions: practical courses to the morning topics.More details:http://www.vscht.cz/anl/vibspec/

Exam: Final evaluation by means of the evaluation tests.

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Where: Télécom Paris

Prerequisites: Pre-requisites: Java programming, basic algorithmics, basic knowledge of Web technologies a plus.

Objectives: The goal of this class is to present core principles and technologies on which rely many of today’s modern Web applications, in search, social networks, micro-blogging, crowdsourcing, Web marketplaces and e-commerce. Specifically, the class is an introduction to some selected topics that form the larger picture of Web data management, including information retrieval, the PageRank algorithm, search personalization, social search, collaborative filtering - recommendation, computational advertising algorithms.

Programme: ·Web search, information retrieval·PageRank and similar algorithms·Recommender systems·Computational advertising·Social networks and social search, crowdsourcing

Exam: continuous evaluation and laboratory work.

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Where: Technische Universität Wien

Prerequisites: Understanding of the laws of physics, knowledge of basic equations (largely mechanics, thermodynamics on the level of introductory courses of technical/natural science studies)

Objectives: Becoming familiar with innovative, surprising or unusual applications of science. To this goal, virtualscenarios from physics / mechanics or technical settings taken from science fiction are discussed. The ability of critical interpretation of SF texts will be improved.Students will read selected SF stories allegedly based on physics, and prove or disprove the authors' claims by calculations based on physical laws. As a by-product, studentslearn about prognostics in science and SF, about supernovae, black holes, the role of constants in nature, similarity theory and dimensional analysis.

Programme: Reading of selected textsCritical discussionsElaboration of the scientific basicsEstablishment of the salient equationsNumerical calculationsStatement as to the authors' claims

Exam: Analysis of a given SF text (as described above), oral presentation(in small groups of 3-5 persons)

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Where: Instituto Superior Tecnico Lisboa

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of: Linear Algebra; Calculus; Probability & Statistics. Basic knowledge of Excel.

Objectives: In a time of competitiveness and scarcity of raw materials, an industrial (indeed, any) system must work in a state not far from its optimum, "small" improvements being sometimes crucial for success or even survival. Operational Research (OR*) supplies specific techniques to optimize and manage, and promotes habits of analysis arising from the inspection of the system model. The central objective of OR is optimization, i.e., "to do things best under the given circumstances", to the greatest profit or smallest cost. This general concept has many applications: agricultural planning, biotechnology, distribution of goods and resources, engineering systems design, environmental management, health care management, inventory control, manpower and resource allocation, manufacturing of goods, military operations, production process control, sequencing and scheduling of tasks, telecommunications, traffic control.Only some of the applications mentioned will be addressed in the course (see Programme below). The computer and the Internet will be indispensable tools.*"Operations Research" in American English.

Programme: Linear Programming Historical note.Model.Dantzig’s simplex algorithm; matrix method; duality.Computational resolution.Transportation Problem Model. Stepping-stone algorithm. Computational resolution.Monte Carlo simulation Sampling experiments on models.Random number generation.Queueing (waiting line theory) Structure of the models.Poisson arrivals, exponential servicing.Infinite and finite populations.Computational resolution. (This chapter introductorily or if time permits.)Inventory management Models.Uniform demand; random demand.Optimal inventory level.Computational resolution. (This chapter introductorily or if time permits.)Travelling Salesman ProblemRouteoptimization in cycles.Computational resolution. (This chapter introductorily or if time permits.)

Exam: Written exam (on thelast day of course); open book; made on computer; delivered by e-mail.

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Prerequisites: Physics or engineering degree students; the students should have completed courses on programming and general physics.

Objectives: This course is intended to provide to students all the knowledge in how to execute experiments in the e-lab laboratory and to use several techniques and software tools to analyze and process the acquired data.It is expected that students acquire basic skills in Octave or MatLab, namely FFT, SVD (singular value decomposition) and advanced fitting techniques.At the end of the course the students should:(i) Run and acquire data from a remote experiment;(ii) Handle data and do their numerical analysis;(iii) Learn how live-video is broadcast;(iv) Understand how a physic apparatus could be converted into a remote laboratory.The course has a total duration of 35 hours divided in 4 major blocks. Theoretical classes will be laboratory oriented as most of the course will be practice. Some topics will be given as seminars.The students’ assessment consists in two different tasks by each group of two students:(i) To do a presentation based on a given experiment and show a) how the apparatus works, b) how to gather the data, and c) do all the data analysis and processing based on the acquired data.(ii) Choose another experimental apparatus and produce media content that they find relevant and interesting concerning that experiment, which can be included in an online wiki-style site.

Programme: -e-lab presentation;-Data fitting and analysis tool;-An applied e-lab experience: (i) Determination of standard gravity with latitude; (ii) Adiabatic compression; (iii) Heat conductivity; (iv) Plasma physics;-Introduction to data analysis (SVD and advanced data fittings);-Transducers and sensors;-Commercial available sensors;-Video Broadcast.

Exam: 4 hours laboratory exam.

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Where: KU Leuven

Prerequisites: Knowledge of fluid mechanics, structural mechanics, and electrical drives and generators

Objectives: The course gives a broad overview of engineering aspects related to the harvesting of wind energy, focusing on large horizontal-axis wind turbines. The aspects which are covered include the aerodynamic aspects of turbines, electricity generation, electronics and control, mechanical design, and theintegration of wind energy in the global electricity network and market. At the end of the course, students are able to explain the different aspects of wind energy, and are aware of the current challenges in this domain. They are also able to situate the engineering design tools which are commonly used in the wind-energy sector.

Programme: The course consists of 16 hours of lectures, split into 5 parts. They cover different aspects of electricity generation by wind turbines, taught by professors from Mechanical and Electrical Engineering:1. Introduction, general principles related to wind energy, situation in Europe (2h): J. Meyers2. Aerodynamics of horizontal-axis wind turbines (4h): J. Meyers3. Electrical aspects of turbines (generators, control, connection to grid) (2h): J. Driesen4. Challenges and approaches in the mechanical design of sustainable (multi-megawatt) wind turbines (4h): W. Desmet5. Integration of wind energy in the electrical energy system (4h):-Balancing & reserves seen from power plant point of view (2h): Erik Delarue- Transmission grid requirements and power flows (on a European scale) of massive incorporation of wind energy (2h): Erik Delarue

Exam: The course has a written exam (in English), which consists of two questions randomly picked from the different topics covered during the lectures.

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Prerequisites: No special prerequisites. Normally any student from any 4th year of (bio)engineering onward should be able to participate without problem. The examples given during the course might however be of some more interest to mechanical and chemical engineering students than to those of other engineering disciplines.

Objectives: Safety - in its many different aspects - is very important for the successful operation of industrial processes. However, many engineering graduates are confronted for the first time with the importance of safety issues when they start to work as a professional, since in many educational engineering programmes the subject is either not presented at all, or taught only minimally.This short course on safety engineering - a "cruise" through some of the important subfields - should give engineering students some insights into why things (can) go wrong and what can be done about it.

Programme: The first 4 lecture days (Day 1-4) will be structured as follows: 3 hours morning session + 2 hours afternoon session.1. Day 1- General introduction to safety engineering, incidents and major accidents in the process industries and their consequences (J. Van Peteghem, P. Smedts)- Prevention policy and safety management systems (J. Van Peteghem, P. Smedts)2. Day 2- Chemical and biological product safety (K. Bernaerts, T. Cattoor)- Process safety engineering (G. Vercruysse, P. Smedts)3. Day 3- Explosion prevention and protection (F. Verplaetsen, F. Van den Schoor)4. Day 4- Overview of qualitative and quantitative risk analysis techniques (G. Boogaerts, F. Van den Schoor)The last Day 5 will be devoted to laboratory demonstration (afternoon session, 2.5 hours)5. Day 5- Demonstration of explosion safety, and of product safety at the Laboratory for Industrial Safety (LIV).- Flame propagation, light and heavy gases, liquid flash point, dust explosion.(Labo Industriele Veiligheid, F. Verplaetsen and F. Van den Schoor)

Exam: Evaluation will be done on a permanent basis during the course lectures themselves:during or at the end of each session, there will be a small / short test to evaluate students' understanding of the material presented. The final grade will be obtained as an average result over all these tests.

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Where: Delft University of Technology

Prerequisites: Introductory courses in physical chemistry and thermodynamics

Objectives: Introduction to experimental techniques and application of theoretical issues in colloid science as applied in industry.The course consists of an extended experiment, some lecture and problem solving sessions. The experiment is a “laboratory without assistance”, where groups of students work on the synthesis of nanoparticles by means of microemulsion templating. What we wish to achieve is a more thorough understanding of the time scales involved in nanoparticle synthesis so that eventually upscaling becomes feasible.

Programme: Five days of experiment, lectures, problem solving sessions and presentation of the results on the final dayCourse set-up and organizationSession will on Monday 19 march 2007 at9:00 am. Ask porter for the room. Krishna Kowlgi will be participating in the teaching of the course.Monday 19/3/07Tuesday 20/3/07Wednesday 21/3/07Thursday 22/3/07Friday 23/3/07Theory session and microemulsion synthesis.Theory session and characterization techniques.Sol synthesis and characterizationNanoparticle synthesis and characterization. Formulation of student research question.Experiment to answer student research question.

Exam: Assessment on the basis of performance during experiments and working classes.

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Prerequisites: @font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }Since the students will develop their own mobile applications, it is important that they feel comfortable with an object-oriented programming language such as Java or C++ with classes, and that they are able to develop desktop applications.Students need not have prior experience with Objective-C or Xcode, but should have experience with a development environment such as Eclipse, Netbeans, or Visual Studio.Studentsmustprovide their own Mac laptop running at least Mac OS X Lion (10.7.0).They should have already installed Xcode before the start of the course.Freeaccess to the Apple Developer Program will be provided for the purposes of this course.

Objectives: Mobile applications (for smartphones, tablets, connected televisions) offer unique possibilities not usually found in desktop computers (e.g., geolocation, touchscreen, ubiquitus connectivity). At the same time, those applications must accommodate extra constraints such as a low energy consumption, disconnected mode, limited input capabilities, or various display sizes and device orientations.This class will focus on the particulars of mobile applications, using iOS as a development platform. Throughout the week, students will develop their own mobile application.

Programme:  Lifecycle of a mobile application components (activities, views, services, etc.) Adaptation to hardware characteristics and to regional environments Geolocation Interaction with the user (reactivity, small screen space, interface unification) Continuous or sporadic access to Internet and the cloud, data synchronization Software architectures for low memory, low power devices Social and ethical aspects of mobile applications

Exam: The mobile application developed throughout the week will be graded. This grade will be used as the evaluation of the course.

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Where: Télécom Paris

Prerequisites: Participants must have an advanced level of English (level 4 or C1 in the ALTE or Common European Framework of reference).

Objectives: The aim of the course is to become aware of one’s own style of communication and to understand how different management cultures (corporate or national) influence decision-making. Communication in an international context requires determining a common language and common processes which allow one to reach objectives quickly and efficiently whatever the cultural context.Emphasis will be laid on the role of chairing a meeting in a multicultural environment where communication patterns differ, as do expectations with regard to outcome. The chair of the meeting assumes a kind of “leadership” delegated by the groups so as to produce a certain result within the time of the meeting. The objective of the course is to provide theoretical background on intercultural communication as well as general methodology and skills for preparing, running and participating in different types of meetings.The pedagogical approach combines short methodological points, role plays and case studies.

Programme: The work of Hofstede, Trompenaars and Hall will be referred to in order to define dimensions of culture that have an impact on how we communicate in general. Three interactive skills, initiating, clarifying and reacting will be presented and practiced through meetings in which the necessity for agreeing upon clearly articulated processes and their outcomes will be demonstrated. The framing function delegated to the chair of the meeting will be worked on. These concepts will then be applied to the communication process through videos, role plays and case studies. Observation, analysis and discussion will lead to a greater understanding of how communication can be managed in an international context.

Exam: Daily attendance from 9.30am – 12.30pm and from 2 - 5pm is obligatory. Feedback on English language use will focus on effective communication rather than on linguistic errors. Active participation is the main requirement that will be taken into account for the final grade.

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Where: Télécom Paris

Prerequisites: o Bases d’électronique :o logique combinatoire, logique synchrone, pipe-lineso machines à états finis,o connaissance d’un HDL (Verilog ou VHDL)o Bases d’architecture des processeurs :o ALU, cache, bus, hiérarchie mémoireo exécution des instructions, pipe-line

Objectives: Les flots traditionnels de conception des circuits électroniques ne sont plus en mesure de prendre en compte la complexité des systèmes à concevoir. Pour remédier à cela, de nouveau langages de description et de modélisation de matériel ont été inventé, dont le plus répandu est SystemC.Ce langage permet de décrire en C++ un circuit électronique (microprocesseur, SoC multi-processeur, …) et de gadrer ce même langage tout au long du flot de conception : spécifications, codage d’algorithme, partitionnement logiciel / matériel, co-simulation logicielle / matérielle, synthèse.Ce cours a pour objectif d’enseigner les bases de SystemC. A la fin de ce cours, les étudiants seront en mesure de modéliser un système complet à base de cœurs de processeurs, de simuler son comportement, et d’en déduire des information cruciales sur ses performances (cache hits, cache miss, latences, …).

Programme: 1. Introduction à SystemC, rappels sur les HDL et les techniques de simulation2. Modélisation SystemC :a. types de donnéesb. éléments structurels : interfaces, ports, canaux, modulesc. éléments comportementaux : processus, événementsd. contrôle des simulation3. Mise en pratiquea. introduction à SocLibb. modélisation d’un système à base de SPARC v8c. simulation du système et extraction des performances

Exam: Le travail demandé sera la modélisation et la simulation d'un système multi-processeur complexe en SystemC.On devra extraire de la modélisation les performances du système.On notera le code du système modélisé et l’extraction de ses performances.

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