Academic year 2021-2022

Manifesto of studies a.y. 2021-2022

PhD students must obtain 15 credits from institutional courses + 15 credits from other activities (see Credits recognition section for further details).

See in the bow download the Manifesto of studies a.y. 2021-2022 approved by the School Committee on 28.10.2021.

Click on the individual courses for further info about programs and registration details. Attendance of 75% for all courses is requested. NB: the schedule may change, courses require a minimum entrolment of 3 students. In case of no link on the course title, it means that the course has not been activated yet.

Period: November - December 2021
Lecturers: Paolo Scardi (DICAM)
Course: Molecular Dynamics: a primer with elements of statistical mechanics*
Location: DICAM
Hours: 16
Credits: 2

Period: 22-25 November 2021
Lecturers: Felipe P. J. de Barros, Associate Professor - University of Southern California
Course: An Introduction to Groundwater Flow and Transport Physics
Location: DICAM
Hours: 8
Credits: 1

Period: 22 November - 2 December 2021
Lecturers: Davide Bigoni (DICAM)
Course: Topics in continuum and structural mechanics
Location: DICAM
Hours: 16
Credits: 2

Period: 14 December 2021 - 23 February 2022
Lecturers: Sara Favargiotti (DICAM); Rocco Scolozzi (Dep. Sociology and social research)
Course: The City and the Futures. Perspectives and Experiences for Resilient Communities
Location: DICAM
Hours: 24
Credits: 3

Period: 20-22 December 2021 - 10-14 January 2022
Lecturers: Riccardo Rigon(DICAM); Giuseppe Formetta (DICAM)
Course: GEOframe Winter School GWS2022 *
Location: DICAM
Hours: 64
Credits: 8

Period: 17- 28 January 2022
Lecturers:Vincenzo Casulli (DICAM)
Course: Winterschool part I - Advanced numerical methods for free-surface hydrodynamics *
Location: DICAM
Hours: 30
Credits: 4

Period: 31 January – 04 February 2022
Lecturers: Michael Dumbser (DICAM); Firas Dhaouadi(DICAM)
Course: Winterschool part II - Advanced numerical methods for hyperbolic conservation laws *
Location: DICAM
Hours: 40
Credits: 5

Period: 08-25 February 2022
Lecturers: Alberto Valli (Dep. Maths)
Course: Mathematical Methods for Engineering - theoretical part
Location: DICAM
Hours: 34
Credits: 4 (type B)

Period: 7-18 February 2022
Lecturers: Michael Dumbser (DICAM); Luigi Fraccarollo(DICAM); Lorenzo Giovannini (DICAM); Sebastiano Piccolroaz (DICAM); Marco Toffolon (DICAM); Nadia Vendrame(DICAM); Dino Zardi (DICAM)
Course: Understanding turbulence dynamics by simulations and measurements *
Location: DICAM
Hours: 32
Credits: 4

Period: 21-25 February 2022
Lecturers: Colin Rogers (McGill University - Canada)
Course: Steel design for seismic and gravity loads
Location: DICAM
Hours: 24
Credits: 3

Period: 21- 24 June, July 2022
Lecturers: Luca Deseri (DICAM); Angelo R. Carotenuto (University of Napoli-Federico II)
Course: Introductory nonlinear mechanics of soft biological tissues *
Location: DICAM
Hours: 33
Credits: 4

Period: 7-11 March 2022
Lecturers: Paolo Zatelli (DICAM); Alfonso Vitti (DICAM); Marco Ciolli (DICAM)
Course:Environmental data management and analysis with GIS
Location: DICAM
Hours: 40
Credits: 5

Period: 15 March - May 2022
Lecturers: Stefano Siboni (DICAM)
Course: Statistical methods and data analysis
Location: DICAM
Hours: 36
Credits: 4,5

Period: 3-6 May 2022
Lecturers: Paolo Scardi (DICAM)
Course: X-ray Diffraction applied to the study of polycrystalline materials: theory and practice*
Location: DICAM
Hours: 36
Credits: 4,5

Period: April 2022
Lecturers: Andrea Pompigna (Engineer, Assistant Freelancer)
Course: Models and Applications for Transportation Systems Analysis
Location: DICAM
Hours: 18
Credits: 2

Period: 2-6 May 2022
Lecturers: HIT - Hub Innovazione Trentino - Fondazione
Course: Research to business: a technology transfer approach
Location: c/o HIT, Povo Trento
Hours: 24
Credits: 3

Period: 4-8 July 2022
Lecturers: Alfonso Vitti (DICAM)
Course: Advanced geomatics and remote sensing for environmental applications*
Location: DICAM
Hours: 20
Credits: 2,5

Period: 20-24 June 2022 (postponed)
Lecturers: Guido Zolezzi (DICAM); Walter Bertoldi (DICAM); Annunziato Siviglia (DICAM)
Course: Integrated river eco-morphodynamics*
Location: DICAM
Hours: 32
Credits: 4

Period: 9 May - 7 June 2022
Lecturers: Glenn Tootle (University of Alabama); Giuseppe Formetta (DICAM)
Course: Hydro Climatology and Paleohydrology
Location: DICAM
Hours: 30
Credits: 4

Period: 27 June – 15 July 2022
Lecturers: Simona Bordoni (DICAM); Andrea Bisignano(DICAM); Lorenzo Giovannini(DICAM); Dino Zardi (DICAM)
Course: Numerical Modelling of Weather and Climate *
Location: DICAM
Hours: 53
Credits: 6

Period: 13 - 17 June 2022
Lecturers: Nicola Anselmi (DICAM), Andrea Massa (DICAM), Giacomo Oliveri (DICAM), Lorenzo Poli (DICAM), Paolo Rocca, Marco Salucci (DICAM)
Course: Advanced Sampling and retrival Methods - The Compressive Processing Paradigm
Location: DICAM
Hours: 32
Credits: 4

Period: 29 August - 2 September 2022
Lecturers: Marco Broccardo (DICAM), Marco Salucci (DICAM)
Course: Machine Learning & AI Methods - Theory, techniques, and Advanced Engineering Applications
Location: DICAM
Hours: 32
Credits: 4

Period: 20-24 June 2022
Lecturers: Andrea Massa (DICAM), Lorenzo Poli (DICAM), Paolo Rocca (DICAM)
Course: Global Optimization Methods - Theory, Techniques, and Advanced Engineering Applications
Location: DICAM
Hours: 32
Credits: 4

Period: 25-29 July 2022
Lecturers: Nicola Anselmi (DICAM), Andrea Massa (DICAM), Giacomo Oliveri (DICAM), Lorenzo Poli (DICAM), Paolo Rocca (DICAM), Marco Salucci (DICAM)
Course: Inverse Problems (Ill _posedeness and Regularization): Theory. Techniques, and Engineering Applications
Location: DICAM
Hours: 32
Credits: 4

Period: 27 June - 1 July 2022
Lecturers: Giacomo Oliveri (DICAM), Marco Salucci (DICAM)
Course: Multiphysics Metamaterials - Theory and Engineering Applications
Location: DICAM
Hours: 32
Credits: 4

Period: 2-4 May 2022
Lecturers: Francesco Dal Corso (DICAM), Federico Bosi (UCL), Miguel Bessa (TU Delft), Massimo Penasa (CAEmate srl)
Course: LIGHTEN Second Training School Computational mechanics and data-driven design of materials and structures
Location: DICAM
Hours: 24
Credits: 3

Period: 20-30 June 2022
Lecturers: Costanza Armanini (Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE)
Course: Theoretical modeling of soft robotics systems: from continuum mechanics to neural networks
Location: online
Hours: 8
Credits: 1

Period: 4-8 July 2022
Lecturers: Giuseppe Abbiati (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Course: Hybrid Testing for Civil Engineering Structures
Location: DICAM
Hours: 20
Credits: 2,5

Period: 30 May - 1 June 2022
Lecturers: Luca Prakash Argani (DICAM)
Course: Advanced aspects of geothecnical modelling
Location: DICAM
Hours: 12
Credits: 1,5

⃰⃰ Courses of the Honours Programme “Modelling & Simulation”: all courses of the Honour Programme "Modelling & Simulation” are part of the educational offer a.y. 2021-2022

Other courses - Soft Skills:

Period: first semester (November 2021 - February 2022) / second semester (March - May 2022)
Lecturers: Felicity Anne Hope (CLA); Matthew James Millward (CLA)
Courses: Technical Scientific English
Hours: 24 or 16
Credits: 3 or 2 type B

Period: November 2021 - January 2022
Lecturers: UNITN health and safety officers and consultants
Courses: Laboratory health and safety (LHS)
Hours: 4 + 8
Credits: no credits

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