Education, Master Class, Topics 1997/1998

Master Class 1997/1998


Operations Research and Spatio-Temporal Patterns

In 1997-98 the following courses will be offered:


Operations Research

• Combinatoral Optimization I (A.M.H. Gerards, W. Kern)
  
• Stochastic Operations Research I (H.C. Tijms, L.C.M. Kallenberg)
  
• Mathematical Programming (U. Faigle)
  
• Seminar on Probabilistic Algorithms (U. Faigle, W. Kern)
  
• Combinatorial Optimization II (J.K. Lenstra, C.P.M. van Hoesel)
  
• Stochastic Operations Research II (J. Wessels, O.J. Boxma)
  
• Mathematical Statistics (W. Albers, W.C.M. Kallenberg)
  
• Seminar on Reliability Theory (D.P. Kroese)
  

Spatio-Temporal Patterns

• Interacting Particle Systems (R. Meester)
  
• Reaction - Diffusion Equations (A. Doelman, O. Diekmann)
  
• (Non-)Linear Statistical Analysis of Processes in Space and Time (H. Dehling, T.M. Mikosch, F. Takens)
  
• Numerical Analysis: models-properties-solutions (O. Axelsson)
  

Mini-Courses

Plus a number of mini-courses and one-day seminars on the following topics:

• electrical discharges
  
• fluid flow
  
• oceanography
  
• metereology
  
• turbulence
  
• empirical orthogonal functions
  
• morphodynamics of rivers
  
• epidemic spread
  
• ecology
  
• immunology
  
• heart fibrilation
  
• epilepsy
  
• cellular automata
  
• wavelets
  
• coupled map lattices
  
• dynamical systems
  
• ergodic theory
  
• numerical bifurcation tools
  
• variational methods
  
• visualisation
  
• image analysis
  

In the mini-courses and seminars there will be many contributions by specialists in the natural sciences and mathematicians from outside the MRI.