Monday, March 12, 2012

IIITM-K Summer School on Environmental Informatics


IIITM-K Summer School on Environmental Informatics
Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala (IIITM-K) is pleased to announce its Summer School on Environmental Informatics from 9 to 13 April 2012.
This programme provides an occasion for intensive training in the different facets of the interdisciplinary subject and is targeted at postgraduate, doctoral, postdoctoral researchers and working professionals in the field of ecology, environmental science and allied disciplines.
Lecture sessions will be complemented by hands-on training to reinforce the contents. List of topics that will be covered are as below:
1. Environmental informatics: the need, relevance and directions.
2. The natural capital.
3. Carrying capacity.
4. Understanding global change: A thermodynamic perspective.
5. Numerical techniques for environmental research (Statistical – R package).
6. Numerical techniques for environmental research (Mathematical – Matlab).
7. Geospatial web technologies and standards for environmental scientists.
Grants are available to support travel and accommodation of 20 participants. For details and online application, please visit www.iiitmk.ac.in

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