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• CSC Summer School in High-Performance Computing - June 24 - July 3, 2013, Espoo, Finland.
  
  The 4th CSC Summer School brings together undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from various fields of computational science, featuring lectures and hands-on training on necessary skills in scientific software development. The school takes place at Nuuksio, Espoo, Finland.
  
  The school covers the following topics:
  • Fortran 95/2003 and C programming languages
  • Basics of parallel programming with the message-passing interface (MPI) and OpenMP paradigm
  • More advanced topics in MPI and hybrid MPI+OpenMP parallel programming
  • Improving application parallel scalability and serial performance
  • Parallel programming tools, compilers and libraries
  • Software engineering of real-world HPC application suites
  
  Read more and register by March 31 at http://www.csc.fi/courses/archive/summerschool2013.


• February 21, 2012 - Intensive course on Advanced Monte Carlo methods - computational challengies - Prof. Ivan Dimov, IICT-BAS, Department of Parallel Algorithms - Abstract
  
  
  • First lecture
  • Second lecture
  • Third lecture
  • Forth lecture - first part
  • Forth lecture - second part
  • Tutorial - first part
  • Tutorial - second part
  • Information about "the Buffon's needle"
  • Executable file to demonstrate experiments with "the Buffon's needle"
  • Demonstration of "a quick sort" algorithm
  • Definitions


• SEVENTH SUMMER SCHOOL ON SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS - July 3 - 6, 2012, Ispra, Italy
  
  The school illustrates the motivations to conduct sensitivity analysis and offers an accessible treatment to the techniques used in global sensitivity analysis. The program begins with the first principles of sensitivity analysis and guides the student through the full range of recommended practices with exercises and application examples.
  
  Candidatures to the school have to be sent to sensitivity-analysis at jrc.ec.europa.eu by 15 February 2012. The school can accomodate up to 25 participants. The evaluation of candidates will be done in March. Successful candidates will be informed not later than April 2nd.
  
  The instructors are Andrea Saltelli (JRC), William Becker (JRC), Stefano Tarantola (JRC), Bertrand Iooss (EDF, France), Emanuele Borgonovo (Bocconi University) and Sergei Kucherenko (Imperial College London).
  
  The tariff will be approximately 550€ and includes four nights accommodation with breakfast, 4 lunches, 7 coffee breaks. The draft program is available through this link: http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/events.php?idx=41.