Printable versionAcademic year 2024-2025
Manifesto of studies a.y. 2024-2025 (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. 2024-2025 approved by the Doctoral Programme Committee on 29.10.2024. 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.
Other courses offered within the Master M3 – Multifunctional Metamaterials and Metastructures will be added starting from January 2025.
Period: November 7 - 14, 2024
Lecturer: Anna M. Pandolfi (Politecnico di Milano)
Course: An Introduction to Nonlinear Solid Mechanics
Location: PoliMI and online
Hours: 28
Credits: 5
Period: November 28 and 5 and 12 December 2024; 9, 16 and 23 January 2025 (2 hours each day)
Lecturers: Gianni Andreottola (DICAM); Marco Ragazzi (DICAM); Luca Adami (DICAM)
Course: Fundamentals of Environmental Sustainability
Location: DEM (Department of Economics)
Hours: 12
Credits: 1,5
Period: November 25 - December 13, 2024
Lecturers: Marco Broccardo, Marco Salucci
Course: Machine Learning & AI Methods - Theory, techniques, and Advanced Engineering Applications
Location: DICAM
Hours: 32
Credits: 4
Period: 2 - 4 December 2024; 7 - 10 January 2025
Lecturers: Giuseppe Formetta (DICAM); Marialaura Bancheri (CNR-ISAFOM (Istituto per i Sistemi Agricoli e Forestali del Mediterraneo)); (Riccardo Rigon (DICAM)
Course: GEOframe Winter School GWS2025
Location: DICAM
Hours: 64
Credits: 8
Period: 20 - 31 January 2025
Lecturer: Vincenzo Casulli (DICAM)
Course: Winterschool part I - Advanced numerical methods for free-surface hydrodynamics
Location: DICAM
Hours: 30
Credits: 4
Period: January 2025
Lecturer: Rosa Di Maggio (DICAM)
Course: Nonequilibrium and Metamaterials thermodynamic
Location: DICAM
Hours: 12
Credits: 1,5
Period: 20-21 January 2025
Lecturers: Giovanni Migliaccio and Francesco d'Annibale (University of L'Aquila)
Course: Applications of Perturbation Methods to Structural Dynamics
Location: online
Hours: 8
Credits: 1
Period: January 27 - February 7, 2025
Lecturer: Prof. Henk Dijkstra (DICAM/Utrecht)
Course: Stochastic Dynamical Modeling
Location: DICAM
Hours: 18
Credits: 2
Period: 3 - 7 February, 2025
Lecturers: Michael Dumbser (DICAM); Firas Dhaouadi (DICAM); Eleuterio F. Toro (DICAM)
Course: Winterschool part II - Advanced numerical methods for hyperbolic equations
Location: DICAM
Hours: 42
Credits: 5
Period: 5, 12 and 19 February 2025 (4 hours each day)
Lecturers: Gianni Andreottola (DICAM); Marco Ragazzi (DICAM); Luca Adami (DICAM)
Course: Environmental Sustainability - Advanced
Location: DICAM/DEM (Department of Economics)/online
Hours: 12
Credits: 1,5
Period: 17-21 February 2025 (to be confirmed)
Lecturer: Kelly E. Gleason (Associate Professor in Environmental Science - Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA)
Course: Snow Hydrology: Processes, Measurement, and Modeling
Location: DICAM
Hours: 24 or 32
Credits: 3 or 4
Period: 10-28 February 2025
Lecturers: Ana María Alonso Rodríguez (UNITN/Dept. of Mathematics), Simone Pezzuto (BEM), Robert Nürnberg (FEM)
Course: Mathematical Methods for Engineering
Location: DICAM/Povo 1
Hours: 40
Credits: 5
Period: 24 February - 14 March 2025
Lecturers: dr. Firas Dhaouadi (DICAM); Luigi Fraccarollo(DICAM); Lorenzo Giovannini (DICAM); Sebastiano Piccolroaz (DICAM); Marco Toffolon (DICAM); Nadia Vendrame (DICAM); Massimo Cassiani (DICAM)
Course: Turbulence in environmental flows
Location: DICAM
Hours: 60
Credits: 3
Period: 8-16 March 2025
Lecturers: Glenn Tootle (University of Alabama); Giuseppe Formetta (DICAM)
Course: Hydro Climatology and Paleohydrology
Location: DICAM
Hours: 30
Credits: 4
Period: 10 - 14 March 2025
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: 27-28 March 2025
Lecturers: Oreste S. Bursi (DICAM); Marco Broccardo (DICAM)
Course: Reliability and randomized metamaterials
Location: DICAM
Hours: 15
Credits: 2
Period: March-April 2025
Lecturers: Claudia Battaino (DICAM); Claudia Sansò (DICAM)
Course: Instruments and methodologies for architectural design research
Location: DICAM
Hours: 12
Credits: 1,5
Period: April - May 2025
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: April 2025 (to be confirmed)
Lecturer: Andrea Pompigna (Engineer, Assistant Freelancer)
Course: Models and Applications for Transportation Systems Analysis
Location: DICAM
Hours: 18
Credits: 2
Period: 8-9 May 2025
Lecturers: Oreste S. Bursi (DICAM); Daniele Bortoluzzi (DII)
Course: Design of linear and nonlinear metastructures
Location: DICAM
Hours: 15
Credits: 2
Period: first half of May 2025
Lecturer: Simone Torresin (DICAM)
Course: Soundscape in the built environment: theory, methods, and application to the field of building ventilation
Location: DICAM
Hours: 16
Credits: 2
Period: May 2025 (to be confirmed)
Lecturer: Gianluca Maracchini (DICAM)
Course: Life Cycle Assessment for the built environment: theory, methods, and applications
Location: DICAM
Hours: 16
Credits: 2
Period: 2 editions: January 2025 and April 2025
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: one week in summer 2025
Lecturers: Guido Zolezzi (DICAm); Walter Bertoldi (DICAM); David Vetsch (ETH Zurich); Annunziato Siviglia (DICAM)
Course: Integrated river morphodynamics
Location: DICAM
Hours: 32
Credits: 4
Period: June 2025
Lecturer: Marco Toffolon (DICAM); Sebastiano Piccolroaz (DICAM); Marina Amadori (DICAM)
Course: Applied Limnology: A Practical Introduction to Monitoring and modelling of lakes
Location: DICAM
Hours: 30
Credits: 4
Period: June-July 2025
Lecturers: Simona Bordoni (DICAM); Lorenzo Giovannini(DICAM); Massimo Cassiani (DICAM)
Course: Numerical Modelling of Weather and Climate
Location: DICAM
Hours: 36
Credits: 4,5
Period: July 2025 (to be confirmed)
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: late July 2025
Lecturer: Alfonso Vitti (DICAM)
Course: Advanced geomatics and Earth observation for environment
Location: DICAM
Hours: 20
Credits: 2,5
Period: summer or autumn 2025
Lecturer: Paolo Scardi (DICAM)
Course: Molecular Dynamics: a primer with elements of statistical mechanics
Location: DICAM
Hours: 16
Credits: 2
Period: September 2025
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: September 2025 (to be confirmed)
Lecturer: Luca Deseri (DICAM)
Course: Introduction to the mechanics of multiscale disarranged continua through structured deformations
Location: DICAM
Hours: 10
Credits: 2
Period: spring 2025
Lecturers: Giacomo Oliveri (DICAM), Aaron Salas (DICAM)
Course: Surface Electromagnetics for Wireless Communications and Sensing
Location: DICAM
Hours: 60
Credits: 3
Period: autumn 2025
Lecturers: Andrea Massa (DICAM), Giacomo Oliveri (DICAM)
Course: Inverse Problems and Electromagnetic Diagnostics for Environment
Location: DICAM
Hours: 60
Credits: 3
Period: spring 2025
Lecturers: Giacomo Oliveri (DICAM), Paolo Rocca (DICAM)
Course: Radar Systems and Technologies
Location: DICAM
Hours: 60
Credits: 3
Period: summer or autumn 2025
Lecturers: Andrea Massa (DICAM)
Course: Electromagnetic Field Theory and Applications
Location: DICAM
Hours: 32
Credits: 4
Period: autumn 2025
Lecturers: Nicola Anselmi (DICAM), Andrea Massa (DICAM), Paolo Rocca (DICAM)
Course: Phased Array Antenna Analysis and Synthesis
Location: DICAM
Hours: 60
Credits: 3
Period: autumn 2025
Lecturers: Aaron Salas (DICAM), Marco Salucci (DICAM)
Course: Ground Penetrating Radar for Civil and Environmental Inspections
Location: DICAM
Hours: 60
Credits: 3
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 2024 - January 2025
Lecturers: UNITN health and safety officers and consultants
Courses: Laboratory health and safety (LHS)
Hours: 4 + 8
Credits: no credits
