Printable versionAcademic year 2023-2024
Manifesto of studies a.y. 2023-2024 (didactic offer)
PhD students must obtain 15 credits from institutional courses + 15 credits from other activities (see Credits recognition section for further details).
See in the box download the Manifesto of studies a.y. 2023-2024 approved by the Doctoral Programme Committee on 25.10.2023. After the approval, there can be changes in the timetables, and new courses can be added to the offer.
In the box download you can find also the Short Guide for PhD Students prepared by the central PhD Office S&T Area, in which you can find the answers to many of your doubts or questions about the UniTrento PhD Programmes in general.
Please refer to this web page to find all the updated information.
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 enrolment of 3 students.
Period: November 6 - 16, 2023
Lecturer: Anna M. Pandolfi (Politecnico di Milano)
Course: An Introduction to Nonlinear Solid Mechanics
Location: PoliMI and online
Hours: 28
Credits: 5
Period: 5 - 7 December 2023; 8 - 12 January 2024
Lecturers: Giuseppe Formetta (DICAM); Riccardo Rigon (DICAM)
Course: GEOframe Winter School GWS2024
Location: DICAM
Hours: 64
Credits: 8
Period: 15 - 26 January 2024
Lecturer: Vincenzo Casulli (DICAM)
Course: Winterschool part I - Advanced numerical methods for free-surface hydrodynamics
Location: DICAM
Hours: 30
Credits: 4
Period: January 29 – February 2, 2024
Lecturers: Michael Dumbser (DICAM); Laura Del Rio (DICAM)
Course: Winterschool part II - Advanced numerical methods for hyperbolic equations
Location: DICAM
Hours: 40
Credits: 5
Period: 5 - 16 February 2024
Lecturer: Prof. Henk Dijkstra (DICAM/Utrecht)
Course: Tipping Behavior in the Climate System
Location: DICAM
Hours: 18
Credits: 2
Period: February 27 - March 22, 2024
Lecturers: Alberto Valli (Dept. Mathematics); Ana Maria Alonso Rodriguez (Dept. Mathematics)
Course: Mathematical Methods for Engineering
Location: DICAM
Hours: 50
Credits: 6
Period: after February 2024 (the course held by prof. Pandolfi is a prerequisite for this class)
Lecturer: Luca Deseri (DICAM)
Course: Multiscale nonlinear continuum mechanics of solids undergoing disarrangements
Location: DICAM
Hours: 20
Credits: 4
Period: 11 - 15 March 2024
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: 4 - 8 March, 2024
Lecturer: Maria F. Pantano (DICAM)
Course: Microelectromechanical systems: from established engineering applications to research platforms
Location: DICAM
Hours: 20
Credits: 2,5
Period: 8 - 10 April, 2024
Lecturer: Dr. Gianluca Rizzi (Technical University Dortmund, Germany)
Course: Generalized continua as a means to model metamaterials
Location: online
Hours: 8
Credits: 1
Period: 15 - 24 April 2024
Lecturer: Luca Caracoglia (Northeastern University, Boston MA, USA and visiting professor at DICAM)
Course: Emerging Wind Engineering and Energy Technologies at Multiple Scales: From Large Wind Turbines to Miniature Harvesters
Location: DICAM
Hours: 18 + 2
Credits: 2,5
Period: April 2024
Lecturer: Andrea Pompigna (Engineer, Assistant Freelancer)
Course: Models and Applications for Transportation Systems Analysis
Location: DICAM
Hours: 18
Credits: 2
Period: postponed to next academic year
Lecturers: Rossano Albatici (ICAM), Simone Torresin (ICAM)
Course: Soundscape in the built environment: theory, methods, and application to the field of building ventilation
Location: DICAM
Hours: 16
Credits: 2
Period: 3 editions: January 29- February 2, 2024 and February 26 - March 1, 2024 and 13 - 17 May 2024
Organizer: HIT - Hub Innovazione Trentino - Fondazione
Course: Research to business: a technology transfer approach
Location: c/o HIT, Povo Trento
Hours: 25
Credits: 3
Period: 17 - 19 April 2024
Lecturers: Oreste S. Bursi (DICAM), Francesco Dal Corso (DICAM), Vinicius Fonseca Dal Poggetto (DICAM), Giacomo Oliveri (DICAM) and Andrea Massa (DICAM)
Course: Waves in metamaterials and periodic structures
Location: DICAM
Hours: 16
Credits: 2
Period: May 2 - to the end of the month 2024
Lecturer: 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: 7 - 16 May 2024
Lecturer: Gianluca Maracchini (DICAM)
Course: Life Cycle Assessment for the built environment: theory, methods, and applications
Location: DICAM
Hours: 16
Credits: 2
Period: May 15 – 31, 2024
Lecturers: Ilya Peshkov (DICAM); Annunziato Siviglia (DICAM)
Course: Advanced numerical methods for environmental modeling
Location: DICAM
Hours: 80
Credits: 3
Period: postponed to October 2024
Lecturers: Gianni Andreottola and Marco Ragazzi (DICAM)
Course: Environmental Sustainability (advanced)
Location: DICAM
Hours: 10
Credits: 1 type B
Period: from May 27 to June 7, 2024
Lecturers: dr. Firas Dhaouadi (DICAM); Luigi Fraccarollo(DICAM); Lorenzo Giovannini (DICAM); Sebastiano Piccolroaz (DICAM); Marco Toffolon (DICAM); Nadia Vendrame (DICAM); Dino Zardi (DICAM)
Course: Turbulence in environmental flows
Location: DICAM
Hours: 60
Credits: 3
Period: 3, 4 and 6 June 2024
Lecturer: Dr. Panagiotis Koutsogiannakis (DICAM)
Course: Variational principles in structural mechanics, numerical solution strategies and advanced topics
Location: DICAM and online
Hours: 8
Credits: 1
Period: 10, 11 and 13 June 2024
Lecturer: Matthew Becker, Ph.D., California State University Long Beach
Course: Introduction to Fiber Optic Distributed Sensing for Environmental Applications
Location: DICAM
Hours: 12
Credits: 1,5
Period: 13 - 14 June 2024
Lecturers: Nicola Tondini (DICAM), Luca Possidente (UCL), Patrick Covi (DICAM)
Course: Advanced nonlinear analysis of steel structures subjected to fire and fire following earthquake scenarios
Location: DICAM
Hours: 16
Credits: 2
Period: postponed to next academic year
Lecturers: Glenn Tootle (University of Alabama); Giuseppe Formetta (DICAM)
Course: Hydro Climatology and Paleohydrology
Location: DICAM
Hours: 30
Credits: 4
Period: 17 - 21 June 2024
Lecturers: Marco Tubino (DICAM); Francesco Dal Corso (DICAM); Niccolò Ragno (DICAM)
Course: Perturbation methods: theory and applications (River Morphodynamics and Structural Mechanics)
Location: DICAM
Hours: 32
Credits: 4
Period: 17 - 19 June 2024
Lecturers: Raimondo Betti, Columbia University
Course: Vibration-based Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and Damage Assessment (DA) for Civil and Mechanical Systems
Location: DICAM
Hours: 12
Credits: 1,5
Period: 24 - 28 June 2024
Lecturers: Walter Bertoldi (DICAM); Annunziato Siviglia (DICAM); David Vetsch (ETH Zurich)
Course: Integrated river morphodynamics
Location: DICAM
Hours: 32
Credits: 4
Period: 1 - 10 July 2024
Lecturers: Simona Bordoni (DICAM); Lorenzo Giovannini(DICAM)
Course: Numerical Modelling of Weather and Climate
Location: DICAM
Hours: 36
Credits: 4,5
Period: 1-5 July 2024
Lecturers: Giacomo Oliveri (DICAM), Aaron Angel Salas Sanchez (DICAM)
Course: Surface Electromagnetics for Wireless Communications and Sensing
Location: DICAM
Hours: 32
Credits: 4
Period: 22 - 26 July 2024
Lecturer: Alfonso Vitti (DICAM)
Course: Advanced geomatics and Earth observation for environment
Location: DICAM
Hours: 20
Credits: 2,5
Period: 19 - 23 July 2024
Lecturers: Sara Favargiotti (DICAM); Camilla Pezzica (Cardiff University, UK); Giovanna A. Massari (DICAM); Chiara Chioni (DICAM)
Course: Collaborative approaches for the digital documentation, representation and design of territories and landscapes
Location: DICAM
Hours: 16
Credits: 2
Period: 22 - 26 July 2024
Lecturers: Nicola Anselmi (DICAM), Andrea Massa (DICAM), Marco Salucci (DICAM)
Course: Inverse Problems and Imaging
Location: DICAM
Hours: 32
Credits: 4
Period: 29 July - 2 August 2024
Lecturers: Nicola Anselmi (DICAM), Giacomo Oliveri (DICAM), Paolo Rocca (DICAM)
Course: Radar Systems and Technologies
Location: DICAM
Hours: 32
Credits: 4
Period: 2 - 6 September 2024
Lecturers: Andrea Massa (DICAM), Paolo Rocca (DICAM), Marco Salucci
Course: Electromagnetic Field Theory and Applications
Location: DICAM
Hours: 32
Credits: 4
Period: suspended - new dates will be available soon (2 - 6 September 2024)
Lecturers: Sara Favargiotti (DICAM), Giuseppe Formetta (DICAM), Lorenzo Giovannini (DICAM), Alessandra Marzadri (DICAM), Anna Codemo (DICAM)
Course: On water. Designing climate-responsive landscape and infrastructure
Location: DICAM
Hours: 32
Credits: 4
Period: 16 September - 4 October 2024
Lecturers: Nicola Anselmi (DICAM), Andrea Massa (DICAM), Paolo Rocca (DICAM)
Course: Phased Array Antenna Analysis and Synthesis
Location: DICAM
Hours: 60
Credits: 3
Period: postponed to next academic year
Lecturer: Paolo Scardi (DICAM)
Course: Molecular Dynamics: a primer with elements of statistical mechanics
Location: DICAM
Hours: 16
Credits: 2
Period: 7 - 25 October 2024
Lecturers: Aaron Salas (DICAM), Marco Salucci (DICAM)
Course: Ground Penetrating Radar for Civil and Environmental Inspections
Location: DICAM
Hours: 60
Credits: 3
Period: next academic year (end of 2024)
Lecturers: Marco Broccardo, Marco Salucci
Course: Machine Learning & AI Methods - Theory, techniques, and Advanced Engineering Applications
Location: DICAM
Hours: 32
Credits: 4
Other courses - Soft Skills:
Period: classes timetable 2023-24 (first semester) is available here. Check the Syllabus on the dedicated wep-page of CLA
Lecturers: Felicity Anne Hope (CLA)
Courses: Technical Scientific English
Hours: 24
Credits: 3 type B
Period: November 2023 - January 2024
Lecturers: UNITN health and safety officers and consultants
Courses: Laboratory health and safety (LHS)
Hours: 4 + 8
Credits: no credits
