Announcements

Number of credits: 3 ECTS; Approx. number of lecture hours: 18-20; Tentative dates: June 25 – July12, 2013

The broad objective of this course is to study the theory and hands-on practice of applied parallel/distributed computing and its applications with a special focus on current and ongoing research challenges for compute and data-enabled science and engineering. The course will focus on the Cloud computing and practices, data-intensive scientific computing and energy efficiency as well as the intersection of these topics. The second goal of the course is to provide students with experience in research, reading and reviewing papers, and making technical presentations.

This seminar is given under the support of the European Commission, EACEA agency, Erasmus Mundus Scholars programme.

The course presents the fundamentals of scientific work and scientific methods, both from Social sciences/Economics and Engineering/Computer Science. Particular attention is given to underlying principles and concepts of computer-assisted research methods in social sciences, simulation as a research method and questions of modeling socio-economic contexts.  3 ECTS (can be adjusted to 2). Tentative dates: 17 to 26 of June.

DSG is holding weekly meetings to create an space for researchers to learn and discuss about their latest findings in the area.

The EMDC Master offers substantial Erasmus Mundus scholarships for international students. More information at the UPC web and the consortium web.