WSEAS/NAUN/IEEEAM International Courses March 2012 - August 2012 Technically Co-Sponsored by EUROSIAM and EUROPMENT

WSEAS and NAUN organise an active programme of short courses and distribute many books published by Springer Verlag, Elsevier and other international publishers.

The courses are aimed at both industry and academia. Attracting international participants, the courses are presented by well known specialists from around the world. NAUN offer various 3-days' and 4-days' courses by eminent scholars and the registration fees are 100 EUR per day. You can make registration for 1 or 2 or 3 days. The level of the Short Courses are post graduate and several universities support and sponsor them. Should you want the certification of the Short Course, you have to pass a written examination certified by the particular University at the last day of the course. At the moment collaborations with Professors from the Univ. of Cambridge, Univ. of Milano, Univ. of Roma, ETH Zurich have been established.
On-line courses are also scheduled for 2012 and 2013. The cost for on-line course is 50 EUR per day.
Should you interested, send an email to info @ europment.org until February 25, 2012

Upcoming Short Courses
* Non-Linear Systems, 6-8 March, 2012
* Fuzzy Engineering, 13-15 March, 2012
* Neural Networks, 16-18 March, 2012
* Evolutionary Computing-Genetic Algorithms, 19-21 March, 2012
* Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers, 12-14 May 2012
* Engineering Mathematics, 19-22 May 2012
* Probability and Statistics for Scientists and Engineers, 26-28 May 2012
* Decision Support Systems for Scientists and Engineers, June 2-4, 2012
* Marketing and Finances, June 9-11, 2012
* Environmental Protection, June 16-18, 2012

Non-Linear Systems, Marathon Beach, Attica, March 6-8, 2012
Course Description: This course provides an introduction to nonlinear systems, including differences between linear and nonlinear systems; mathematical preliminaries; equilibrium points of nonlinear systems; phase plane analysis and limit cycles; stability definitions for nonlinear systems; Lyapunov's indirect and direct methods; stability of autonomous and non-autonomous systems; describing function analysis; nonlinear control design including sliding-mode, adaptive, and nonlinear robust control; and applications of nonlinear control design. Course Objectives: The first major goal is to introduce the student to nonlinear systems and to classify them for further analysis. Also, issues of stability are discussed with respect to nonlinear systems and the various forms of stability are discussed. The second major goal is to introduce the student to nonlinear controls techniques, up to and including adaptive, sliding-mode and nonlinear robust control. * By the end of the course, students should be able to: -- Understand issues related to nonlinear systems and why linear techniques to analyze stability may not be sufficient. -- Understand controls design techniques involving feedback linearization and input-state linearization. -- Understand Lyapunov stability analysis and design which will allow the student to apply the techniques and also understand technical papers and articles on the subject. Course Programme: Mathematical Background Phase Plane Analysis Lyapunov Theory Control Design Based on Lyapunov's Direct Method Advanced Stability Theory Stability of Non-Autonomous Systems Describing Function Analysis Feedback Linearization Input-State Linearization of SISO Systems Input-Output Linearization of SISO Systems Sliding-Mode Control Adaptive Control Nonlinear Robust Control Control of Physical Systems Study Meterials: * Jean-Jacques Slotine, Weiping Li "Applied Nonlinear Control" * L. C. To, Moses O. Tade "Robust Nonlinear Control of Industrial Evaporation Systems, Implementation of Differential Geometry" Course Structure: Each day is subdivided into four sessions and will commence at 9.00 am and finish at 5.00 pm. Lunch break is from 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm. Coffee will be served during the breaks. Please note that the course will start at 9.15 am on the first day. Course Materials The course fee of 300 Euros includes all working materials, three lunches, coffee, tea and all computer facilities used, where applicable. WSEAS and NAUN reserve the right to make changes to the programme that may prove necessary. It includes also the examination test and certification. Cancellations: Participants who cancel their registration due to special circumstances can only transfer their payment to some future WSEAS or IEEEAM or NAUN conference or course. Venue and Accommodation: The course will take place at the Marathon Beach Villagelocated in Marathon, Attica, Greece. It is 30 minutes by bus from the Athens international airport. This region is a well-known site, since it is the place where the famous battle of Marathon between the Greeks and the Persian army took place in 490 BC. The story says that after the bloody battle, a messenger named Pheidippides ran the 42 km that divided Marathon from Athens to announce the victory of the Greeks, and died from exhaustion right after spreading the news. This story is what started the marathon foot race in witch today runners follow the same Pheidippides route. At 8 km from the town of Marathon you will find the Lake Marathon, which is faced with a huge Pentelic marble dam (50m high and stretching for 300m), the same marble used to build the Parthenon. This lake used to be the unique water source of Athens until 1956. The beautiful ruins of the Doric Temple of Nemesis (435 BC), goddess of retribution as well as the 6 th-century small temple of Themis , goddess of justice and law, are located nearby. The Archaeological Museum of Marathonas will keep you into the archaeological mood. This interesting region also has some little rocky inlets with clean and nice water, very agreeable to visit, as well as the big and beautiful beach of Schinias. For more information on how to find Marathon Beach Village and to arrange accommodation during the course please contact us Photos from the area
Fuzzy Engineering, Marathon Beach, Attica, March 13-15, 2012
Course Description: This course provides an introduction to fuzzy logic, fuzzy sets and fuzzy systems. Fuzzy Relation, Fuzzy Graphs, and Fuzzy Arithmetic. Fuzzy If-Then Rules. Fuzzy Logic Applications. Control Systems. Decision Making Systems. Pattern Recognition. Neuro-Fuzzy. Genetic Algorithms and Fuzzy Logic Microcontrollers and Fuzzy logic Course Objectives: In the end of the course student is expected to be able to - apply fuzzy systems in engineering environment - apply function approximation methods with fuzzy systems - model and solve control problems and apply neuro-fuzzy systems. Course Programme: Fuzzy sets and relations, fuzzy functions and rule-based systems, Mamdani fuzzy system and Sugeno-Tagaki fuzzy system, universal approximators, fuzzy modelling, fuzzy control, fuzzy controllers in applications, aggregation operators, fuzzy screening systems, averaging operators and modifier operations. Neuro-Fuzzy systems. Suitable also for postgraduate studies. Study Meterials: * Full?r, R.: Introduction to Neuro-Fuzzy Systems, Physica-Verlag, 2000. * Kosko, B.: Fuzzy Engineering, Prentice-Hall, 1996. * Passino, K.M., Yurkovich, S.: Fuzzy Control, Addison-Wesley, 1998. Course Structure: Each day is subdivided into four sessions and will commence at 9.00 am and finish at 5.00 pm. Lunch break is from 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm. Coffee will be served during the breaks. Please note that the course will start at 9.15 am on the first day. Course Materials The course fee of 300 Euros includes all working materials, three lunches, coffee, tea and all computer facilities used, where applicable. WSEAS and NAUN reserve the right to make changes to the programme that may prove necessary. It includes also the examination test and certification. Cancellations: Participants who cancel their registration due to special circumstances can only transfer their payment to some future WSEAS or IEEEAM or NAUN conference or course. Venue and Accommodation: The course will take place at the Marathon Beach Villagelocated in Marathon, Attica, Greece. It is 30 minutes by bus from the Athens international airport. This region is a well-known site, since it is the place where the famous battle of Marathon between the Greeks and the Persian army took place in 490 BC. The story says that after the bloody battle, a messenger named Pheidippides ran the 42 km that divided Marathon from Athens to announce the victory of the Greeks, and died from exhaustion right after spreading the news. This story is what started the marathon foot race in witch today runners follow the same Pheidippides route. At 8 km from the town of Marathon you will find the Lake Marathon, which is faced with a huge Pentelic marble dam (50m high and stretching for 300m), the same marble used to build the Parthenon. This lake used to be the unique water source of Athens until 1956. The beautiful ruins of the Doric Temple of Nemesis (435 BC), goddess of retribution as well as the 6 th-century small temple of Themis , goddess of justice and law, are located nearby. The Archaeological Museum of Marathonas will keep you into the archaeological mood. This interesting region also has some little rocky inlets with clean and nice water, very agreeable to visit, as well as the big and beautiful beach of Schinias. For more information on how to find Marathon Beach Village and to arrange accommodation during the course please contact us Photos from the area
Neural Networks and Applications, Marathon Beach, Attica, March 16-18, 2012
Course Description: This course provides an introduction to Neural Networks (NN) methodologies and advanced topics on Theory and Applications of NN Course Objectives: In the end of the course student is expected to be able to - apply NN in engineering environment - apply NN on Control, Signal Processing, Differential Equations solution, System Identification, Large Systems Reduction and Control and approximation - model and solve control problems and apply neuro-fuzzy systems. Course Programme: Fundamentals Data Preprocessing Single Layer Perceptron Multi Layer Perceptron Training & Testing Error Function Hidden Layer Weights Backpropagation Algorithm Variations on the Backpropagation Algorithm Kohonen's Neural Network Kohonen's SOM II Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ) Variations on LVQ Cluster Analysis Radial Basis Function (RBF) Networks RBF First Training Phase RBF : Second Training Phase Autoassociative Networks Autoassociative Networks II Reinforecement Learning Boltzmann Machine and ART NN Neural Networks for Optimization Neural Networks for Differential Equations Neural Networks for Data Processing Neural Networks for Filtering Neural Networks for Spectral Estimation Neural Networks for Moving-Target Detection Neural Networks for Signal Reconstruction Neural Networks for Array Signal Processing Neural Networks for Automatic Control Neural Networks for System Identification Neural Networks for Reduction of Large Systems Neural Networks for Signal Compression Neuro-Fuzzy Systems Study Meterials: * Neural Networks: A Comprehensive Foundation by Simon Haykin * Neural Networks and Learning Machines by Simon Haykin * Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition by Christopher M. Bishop * Neural Networks for Optimization and Signal Processing by A.Cichochi and R. Unbehaunen * Applied Neural Networks for Signal Processing by Fa-Long Luo and Rolf Unbehaunen Course Structure: Each day is subdivided into four sessions and will commence at 9.00 am and finish at 5.00 pm. Lunch break is from 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm. Coffee will be served during the breaks. Please note that the course will start at 9.15 am on the first day. Course Materials The course fee of 300 Euros includes all working materials, three lunches, coffee, tea and all computer facilities used, where applicable. WSEAS and NAUN reserve the right to make changes to the programme that may prove necessary. It includes also the examination test and certification. Cancellations: Participants who cancel their registration due to special circumstances can only transfer their payment to some future WSEAS or IEEEAM or NAUN conference or course. Venue and Accommodation: The course will take place at the Marathon Beach Villagelocated in Marathon, Attica, Greece. It is 30 minutes by bus from the Athens international airport. This region is a well-known site, since it is the place where the famous battle of Marathon between the Greeks and the Persian army took place in 490 BC. The story says that after the bloody battle, a messenger named Pheidippides ran the 42 km that divided Marathon from Athens to announce the victory of the Greeks, and died from exhaustion right after spreading the news. This story is what started the marathon foot race in witch today runners follow the same Pheidippides route. At 8 km from the town of Marathon you will find the Lake Marathon, which is faced with a huge Pentelic marble dam (50m high and stretching for 300m), the same marble used to build the Parthenon. This lake used to be the unique water source of Athens until 1956. The beautiful ruins of the Doric Temple of Nemesis (435 BC), goddess of retribution as well as the 6 th-century small temple of Themis , goddess of justice and law, are located nearby. The Archaeological Museum of Marathonas will keep you into the archaeological mood. This interesting region also has some little rocky inlets with clean and nice water, very agreeable to visit, as well as the big and beautiful beach of Schinias. For more information on how to find Marathon Beach Village and to arrange accommodation during the course please contact us Photos from the area
Evolutionary Computing - Genetic Algorithms Marathon Beach, Attica, March 19-21, 2012
Course Description: This course brings together the computer techniques, mathematical tools, and research results that will enable both students and practitioners to apply genetic algorithms to problems in many fields. Major concepts are illustrated with running examples, and major algorithms are illustrated by Pascal computer programs. No prior knowledge of GAs or genetics is assumed, and only a minimum of computer programming and mathematics background is required. Finally a comprehensive introduction to new approaches in artificial intelligence and robotics that are inspired by self-organizing biological processes and structures is given. Course Objectives: In the end of the course student is expected to be able to - apply EC- GA in engineering environment - apply EC- GA for a variety of Optimization Problems - model and solve control, signal processing, applied mathematics problems using EC- GA Course Programme: --What is Evolutionary Computation? -- Historical perspective. -- Major classes of Evolutionary Algorithms. -- Local vs global search methods. --Simple genetic algorithms and simple evolution strategies: basic principles. --Genetic programming. Problem difficulty and the NFL theorem. --Representations. Design of operators. --Constraint handling. Finding multiple optima. Multi-objective optimization. --Basic GA theory. Limitations of simple EAs. Goldberg's decomposition for competent GAs. --Parameter setting in EAs. Using problem specific information. --Estimation of Distribution Algorithms. --Other Biologically Inspired Methods of Optimization and Computing Study Meterials: *Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning by David E. Goldberg *Introduction to Evolutionary Computing (Natural Computing Series) by Agoston E. Eiben * Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence: Theories, Methods, and Technologies (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents series) by Dario Floreano * A Field Guide to Genetic Programming by Riccardo Poli , William B. Langdon , Nicholas Freitag McPhee Course Structure: Each day is subdivided into four sessions and will commence at 9.00 am and finish at 5.00 pm. Lunch break is from 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm. Coffee will be served during the breaks. Please note that the course will start at 9.15 am on the first day. Course Materials The course fee of 300 Euros includes all working materials, three lunches, coffee, tea and all computer facilities used, where applicable. WSEAS and NAUN reserve the right to make changes to the programme that may prove necessary. It includes also the examination test and certification. Cancellations: Participants who cancel their registration due to special circumstances can only transfer their payment to some future WSEAS or IEEEAM or NAUN conference or course. Venue and Accommodation: The course will take place at the Marathon Beach Villagelocated in Marathon, Attica, Greece. It is 30 minutes by bus from the Athens international airport. This region is a well-known site, since it is the place where the famous battle of Marathon between the Greeks and the Persian army took place in 490 BC. The story says that after the bloody battle, a messenger named Pheidippides ran the 42 km that divided Marathon from Athens to announce the victory of the Greeks, and died from exhaustion right after spreading the news. This story is what started the marathon foot race in witch today runners follow the same Pheidippides route. At 8 km from the town of Marathon you will find the Lake Marathon, which is faced with a huge Pentelic marble dam (50m high and stretching for 300m), the same marble used to build the Parthenon. This lake used to be the unique water source of Athens until 1956. The beautiful ruins of the Doric Temple of Nemesis (435 BC), goddess of retribution as well as the 6 th-century small temple of Themis , goddess of justice and law, are located nearby. The Archaeological Museum of Marathonas will keep you into the archaeological mood. This interesting region also has some little rocky inlets with clean and nice water, very agreeable to visit, as well as the big and beautiful beach of Schinias. For more information on how to find Marathon Beach Village and to arrange accommodation during the course please contact us Photos from the area
Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers Marathon Beach, Attica, May 12-14, 2012
Course Description: PDEs are used to describe a variety of natural phenomena like the propagation of sound or heat, electrostatics, electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, fluid flow, elasticity, mathematical biology, strength of materials. We develop methodologies and computational tools to solve a variety of PDES by classifying them into various categories and finding each time the appropriate methodology/tool. Course Objectives: In the end of the course student is expected to be able to - apply these methodologies (see below) in scientific/engineering environment - apply these methodologies and computational tools for a variety of PDEs' Problems - model and solve natural phenomena like the propagation of sound or heat, electrostatics, electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, fluid flow, elasticity, mathematical biology, strength of materials etc... Course Programme: Introduction Existence and uniqueness Heat equation in one space dimension Wave equation in one spatial dimension Generalised Heat-like equation in one space dimension Spherical waves Laplace equation in two dimensions Connection with holomorphic functions A typical boundary value problem Euler?Tricomi equation Advection equation Ginzburg?Landau equation The Dym equation Initial-boundary value problems Vibrating string Vibrating membrane Classification Equations of first order Equations of second order Systems of first-order equations and characteristic surfaces Equations of mixed type Infinite-order PDEs in quantum mechanics Analytical methods to solve PDEs *Separation of variables *Method of characteristics *Integral transforms *Change of variables *Fundamental solution *Superposition principle Methods for non-linear equations *Lie Group Methods Numerical methods to solve PDEs Finite Differences' Method Finite Element Method Finite Volume Method Boundary Elements Method Study Meterials: Courant, R. & Hilbert, D. (1962), Methods of Mathematical Physics, II, New York: Wiley-Interscience. Evans, L. C. (1998), Partial Differential Equations, Providence: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 0821807722. Ibragimov, Nail H (1993), CRC Handbook of Lie Group Analysis of Differential Equations Vol. 1-3, Providence: CRC-Press, ISBN 0849344883. Jost, J. (2002), Partial Differential Equations, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 0387954287. Petrovskii, I. G. (1967), Partial Differential Equations, Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Co Pinchover, Y. & Rubinstein, J. (2005), An Introduction to Partial Differential Equations, New York: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521848865. Polyanin, A. D. (2002), Handbook of Linear Partial Differential Equations for Engineers and Scientists, Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, ISBN 1584882999. Polyanin, A. D. & Zaitsev, V. F. (2004), Handbook of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, ISBN 1584883553. Polyanin, A. D.; Zaitsev, V. F. & Moussiaux, A. (2002), Handbook of First Order Partial Differential Equations, London: Taylor & Francis, ISBN 041527267X. Solin, P. (2005), Partial Differential Equations and the Finite Element Method, Hoboken, NJ: J. Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0471720704. Solin, P.; Segeth, K. & Dolezel, I. (2003), Higher-Order Finite Element Methods, Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, ISBN 158488438X. Course Structure: Each day is subdivided into four sessions and will commence at 9.00 am and finish at 5.00 pm. Lunch break is from 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm. Coffee will be served during the breaks. Please note that the course will start at 9.15 am on the first day. Course Materials The course fee of 300 Euros includes all working materials, three lunches, coffee, tea and all computer facilities used, where applicable. WSEAS and NAUN reserve the right to make changes to the programme that may prove necessary. It includes also the examination test and certification. Cancellations: Participants who cancel their registration due to special circumstances can only transfer their payment to some future WSEAS or IEEEAM or NAUN conference or course. Venue and Accommodation: The course will take place at the Marathon Beach Villagelocated in Marathon, Attica, Greece. It is 30 minutes by bus from the Athens international airport. This region is a well-known site, since it is the place where the famous battle of Marathon between the Greeks and the Persian army took place in 490 BC. The story says that after the bloody battle, a messenger named Pheidippides ran the 42 km that divided Marathon from Athens to announce the victory of the Greeks, and died from exhaustion right after spreading the news. This story is what started the marathon foot race in witch today runners follow the same Pheidippides route. At 8 km from the town of Marathon you will find the Lake Marathon, which is faced with a huge Pentelic marble dam (50m high and stretching for 300m), the same marble used to build the Parthenon. This lake used to be the unique water source of Athens until 1956. The beautiful ruins of the Doric Temple of Nemesis (435 BC), goddess of retribution as well as the 6 th-century small temple of Themis , goddess of justice and law, are located nearby. The Archaeological Museum of Marathonas will keep you into the archaeological mood. This interesting region also has some little rocky inlets with clean and nice water, very agreeable to visit, as well as the big and beautiful beach of Schinias. For more information on how to find Marathon Beach Village and to arrange accommodation during the course please contact us Photos from the area
Engineering Mathematics Marathon Beach, Attica, May 19-22, 2012 (**** 4 days ****)
Course Description: This course brings together the computer techniques, mathematical tools, and research results that will enable both students and practitioners to apply computational techniques, mathematical tools, algorithms to problems in many fields. Course Objectives: In the end of the course student is expected to be able to - apply computational techniques, mathematical tools, algorithms to problems in science - apply computational techniques, mathematical tools, algorithms to problems in engineering Course Programme: Introduction Existence and uniqueness Heat equation in one space dimension Wave equation in one spatial dimension Generalised Heat-like equation in one space dimension Spherical waves Laplace equation in two dimensions Connection with holomorphic functions A typical boundary value problem Euler?Tricomi equation Advection equation Ginzburg?Landau equation The Dym equation Initial-boundary value problems Vibrating string Vibrating membrane Classification Equations of first order Equations of second order Systems of first-order equations and characteristic surfaces Equations of mixed type Infinite-order PDEs in quantum mechanics Analytical methods to solve PDEs *Separation of variables *Method of characteristics *Integral transforms *Change of variables *Fundamental solution *Superposition principle Methods for non-linear equations Numerical methods to solve PDEs Finite Differences' Method Finite Element Method Finite Volume Method Boundary Elements Method Computer Science Simulation Applied logic, Computer algebra Combinatorics. Operations research Applied probability Applied statistics Study Meterials: Courant, R. & Hilbert, D. (1962), Methods of Mathematical Physics, II, New York: Wiley-Interscience. Evans, L. C. (1998), Partial Differential Equations, Providence: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 0821807722. Pinchover, Y. & Rubinstein, J. (2005), An Introduction to Partial Differential Equations, New York: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521848865. Polyanin, A. D. (2002), Handbook of Linear Partial Differential Equations for Engineers and Scientists, Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, ISBN 1584882999. Polyanin, A. D. & Zaitsev, V. F. (2004), Handbook of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, ISBN 1584883553. Polyanin, A. D.; Zaitsev, V. F. & Moussiaux, A. (2002), Handbook of First Order Partial Differential Equations, London: Taylor & Francis, ISBN 041527267X. Solin, P. (2005), Partial Differential Equations and the Finite Element Method, Hoboken, NJ: J. Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0471720704. Solin, P.; Segeth, K. & Dolezel, I. (2003), Higher-Order Finite Element Methods, Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, ISBN 158488438X. Kallenberg, O. (2005) Probabilistic Symmetries and Invariance Principles. Springer -Verlag, New York. 510 pp. ISBN 0-387-25115-4 Kallenberg, O. (2002) Foundations of Modern Probability, 2nd ed. Springer Series in Statistics. 650 pp. ISBN 0-387-95313-2 Olofsson, Peter (2005) Probability, Statistics, and Stochastic Processes, Wiley-Interscience. 504 pp ISBN 0-471-67969-0. Course Structure: Each day is subdivided into four sessions and will commence at 9.00 am and finish at 5.00 pm. Lunch break is from 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm. Coffee will be served during the breaks. Please note that the course will start at 9.15 am on the first day. Course Materials The course fee of 400 Euros includes all working materials, three lunches, coffee, tea and all computer facilities used, where applicable. WSEAS and NAUN reserve the right to make changes to the programme that may prove necessary. It includes also the examination test and certification. Cancellations: Participants who cancel their registration due to special circumstances can only transfer their payment to some future WSEAS or IEEEAM or NAUN conference or course. Venue and Accommodation: The course will take place at the Marathon Beach Villagelocated in Marathon, Attica, Greece. It is 30 minutes by bus from the Athens international airport. This region is a well-known site, since it is the place where the famous battle of Marathon between the Greeks and the Persian army took place in 490 BC. The story says that after the bloody battle, a messenger named Pheidippides ran the 42 km that divided Marathon from Athens to announce the victory of the Greeks, and died from exhaustion right after spreading the news. This story is what started the marathon foot race in witch today runners follow the same Pheidippides route. At 8 km from the town of Marathon you will find the Lake Marathon, which is faced with a huge Pentelic marble dam (50m high and stretching for 300m), the same marble used to build the Parthenon. This lake used to be the unique water source of Athens until 1956. The beautiful ruins of the Doric Temple of Nemesis (435 BC), goddess of retribution as well as the 6 th-century small temple of Themis , goddess of justice and law, are located nearby. The Archaeological Museum of Marathonas will keep you into the archaeological mood. This interesting region also has some little rocky inlets with clean and nice water, very agreeable to visit, as well as the big and beautiful beach of Schinias. For more information on how to find Marathon Beach Village and to arrange accommodation during the course please contact us Photos from the area
Probability and Statistics for Scientists and Engineers Marathon Beach, Attica, May 26-28, 2012
Course Description: This course covers quantitative analysis of uncertainty and risk for engineering applications. Fundamentals of probability, random processes, statistics, and decision analysis are covered, along with random variables and vectors, uncertainty propagation, conditional distributions, and second-moment analysis. System reliability is introduced. Other topics covered include Bayesian analysis and risk-based decision, estimation of distribution parameters, hypothesis testing, simple and multiple linear regressions, and Poisson and Markov processes. There is an emphasis placed on real-world applications to engineering problems. Course Objectives: In the end of the course student is expected to be able to - apply probability and statistics in a variety of problems in science - apply probability and statistics in a variety of problems in engineering Course Programme: Events and their Probability, Elementary Operations with Events, Total Probability Theorem, Independence, Bayes' Theorem Random Variables and Vectors, Discrete and Continuous Probability Distributions Functions of Random Variables and Derived Distributions Expectation of Random Variables and Functions of Random Variables Moments of Variables and Vectors Conditional Second Moment Analysis Selected Distribution Models: Normal, Lognormal, Extreme, Multivariate Normal Distributions Time-invariant Second-Moment Reliability Analysis and Time-Invariant Full-Distribution Reliability Analysis Point Estimation of Distribution Parameters: Methods of Moments and Maximum Likelihood, Bayesian Analysis Simple and Multiple Linear Regression Study Meterials: Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists Ronald E. Walpole, Raymond H. Myers, Sharon L. Myers, Keying E. Ye Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences Jay L. Devore Course Structure: Each day is subdivided into four sessions and will commence at 9.00 am and finish at 5.00 pm. Lunch break is from 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm. Coffee will be served during the breaks. Please note that the course will start at 9.15 am on the first day. Course Materials The course fee of 300 Euros includes all working materials, three lunches, coffee, tea and all computer facilities used, where applicable. WSEAS and NAUN reserve the right to make changes to the programme that may prove necessary. It includes also the examination test and certification. Cancellations: Participants who cancel their registration due to special circumstances can only transfer their payment to some future WSEAS or IEEEAM or NAUN conference or course. Venue and Accommodation: The course will take place at the Marathon Beach Villagelocated in Marathon, Attica, Greece. It is 30 minutes by bus from the Athens international airport. This region is a well-known site, since it is the place where the famous battle of Marathon between the Greeks and the Persian army took place in 490 BC. The story says that after the bloody battle, a messenger named Pheidippides ran the 42 km that divided Marathon from Athens to announce the victory of the Greeks, and died from exhaustion right after spreading the news. This story is what started the marathon foot race in witch today runners follow the same Pheidippides route. At 8 km from the town of Marathon you will find the Lake Marathon, which is faced with a huge Pentelic marble dam (50m high and stretching for 300m), the same marble used to build the Parthenon. This lake used to be the unique water source of Athens until 1956. The beautiful ruins of the Doric Temple of Nemesis (435 BC), goddess of retribution as well as the 6 th-century small temple of Themis , goddess of justice and law, are located nearby. The Archaeological Museum of Marathonas will keep you into the archaeological mood. This interesting region also has some little rocky inlets with clean and nice water, very agreeable to visit, as well as the big and beautiful beach of Schinias. For more information on how to find Marathon Beach Village and to arrange accommodation during the course please contact us Photos from the area