Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: giovanni@liverpool.ac.uk (Mr G. Interi)
Subject: Short Courses at IASC, Liverpool University, Great Britain
Organization: The University of Liverpool
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 14:15:45 GMT
Message-ID: <D3BrMA.IGv@liverpool.ac.uk>


                                    
              Institute of Advanced Scientific Computation
                                    
                                  1995
                                    
                              Short Courses

These courses form part of the Institute's modular M.Sc degree in
Advanced Scientific Computation.  
They can be taken as stand-alone short courses or they can be used to build
up credits towards a formal qualification at Certificate, Diploma, or Degree 
level.

OPTIMISATION TECHNIQUES FOR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING    

A five day course, March 13th - 17th, 1995
Course Fee:    575.00 (discounts available)

This course provides an introduction to techniques for constrained 
optimisation, including applications modelling; linear programming 
techniques; sensitivity analysis; network models; discrete problems and 
integer programming; simulation and system dynamics

NEURAL NETWORKS
A four day course, May 15 - 18, 1995
Course Fee:    475.00 (discounts available)

This course provides the theoretical basis of the operation of the most 
common neural network algorithms, examples of their use in practical 
applications, and some aspects of the practical implementation of neural 
computing to real world problems.

STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES FOR SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION
A five day course, May 1 - 5, 1995
Course Fee:    575.00 (discounts available)

This course provides an introduction to statistical methods and
the interpretation of statistical data through the use of statistical 
software, and to Monte Carlo methods.

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE DESIGN AND PROGRAMMING OF 
PARALLEL COMPUTERS
A three day course, April 3rd - 5th, 1995
Course Fee:  350.00 (discounts available)

This course provides an overview of several aspects relating to parallel 
computers and parallel processing.  A general introduction to the field of
parallel computing is given. 
Many of the issues which affect the design and programming of parallel 
computers are described.





DISTANCE LEARNING

IASC offers the following courses as distance learning packages:

Mathematical Techniques using MAPLE
Introduction to Linear Algebra using MATLAB
Scientific Programming 

For further information please contact

Sheila Bilton, 
I.A.S.C., 
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX
Telephone:     051 794 4710
Fax:      051 794 4754
e-mail:   iasc@liv.ac.uk

www:   http://supr.scm.liv.ac.uk/

