Computational Geosciences is implementing a new course on Data Mining & Practical Machine Learning techniques for geoscientists, including a practical lab.

Description: The course shall present to participants, by means of tutorials and hands-on sessions, tools and techniques to capture and store vast quantities of data; find patterns, trends and anomalies in large datasets; summarize data with simple quantitative models; automatically extract models from data, and validate the extracted models. 

Contents (not exhaustive): Structural patterns, Machine Learning and statistics, introduction to concepts, instances and attributes, knowledge representation, decision trees, algorithms (Bayesian models, association rules, instance-based learning, linear models and clustering), evaluation, implementations and transformations. A JAVA-based Graphical-User-Interface software is being planned for the practical labs.

Pre-requisites: Basic knowledge of statistics is required, and you will profit the most from the course if you bring experience with data analysis from your research. The course is primarily intended for Master students and/or Doctoral candidates.

Schedule: Please check course availability and schedule in KLIPS 2.0

Contact: Please contact Dr. Eric Parteli (eric.parteli(at)uni-koeln.de) if you want to attend to the course, thereby informing: Institute, working group, title of research, highest academic degree, know differentiation / integration (yes/no), know any programming language (if yes, which?).

Description: The tutorial provides a platform for students from the entire Department to discuss mathematical and numerical methods in Computational Geosciences that are relevant for their research projects. The discussions will take place in small groups and may be complemented with short courses offered by the lecturer in Computational Geosciences.

Pre-requisites: The student should be involved in at least one research activity within the Department, and the aim of using the Computational Geosciences method(s) should be to solve a specific problem in the scope of the student's research activity(ies). Please note that in this tutorial, the themes of the discussion rounds and the courses will vary according to the computational methods and the research topics. Therefore, please send an email to eric.parteli(at)uni-koeln.de with a short description of your computational geosciences problem *in advance* for appropriately scheduling your participation.

Literature: Lecture notes as well as textbooks depending on the computational method

Location / time: Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology, room 3.159 / Wed, 14:00 - 18:00

Language: German, English

To register: see above

Description: Any measurement, however careful and scientific, is subject to some uncertainties. This course aims at providing the students with knowledge of mathematical techniques to study and evaluate these uncertainties. In particular, the main functions of the error analysis are to estimate how large the uncertainties in a given measurement or calculation are and to evaluate what can be done to reduce these uncertainties, when necessary. In the course, particular focus shall be given to error propagation and tests of statistical significance of experimental data. The course will cover enough derivation to justify and understand the equations, but will emphasize methods and examples more than theory. Examples in lectures and exercises shall focus on geoscientific applications. The students shall acquire the ability to successfully apply error analysis in their research activities and scientific works in the Department of Geosciences. Detailed list of contents is available in KLIPS 2.0.

Pre-requisite: Knowledge of partial differentiation and multiple integration, and knowledge of programming in MATLAB (minimum is knowledge of how to program for loops, as well as operations with vectors and matrices).

Literature: Bevington, P.R., Keith Robinson, D., Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences, McGrawHill, 3rd edition (2002); Taylor, J.R., An Introduction to Error Analysis: The Study of Uncertainties in Physical Measurements, University Science Books, 2nd edition (1997), among others.

Language: English

Location / time: Please check course availability and schedule in KLIPS 2.0.

To register:

Registration for students of the Master "Physics of the Earth and Atmosphere" via KLIPS 2.0

GSGS students can register via email to eric.parteli(at)uni-koeln.de.

Description: This course offers an introduction to the programming environment R and its applications for data analysis and statistics. The course consists of lectures and practical labs (hands-on sessions), and will address the following topics:

• getting started in R
• data manipulation, loops and conditional execution
• descriptive statistics
• regression and correlation analysis
• multivariate statistical methods
• significance tests
• graphics and visualization of large/multivariate data sets

The lectures will cover a brief theoretical introduction that is essential to understand the different statistical methods, but emphasis in the course will be given to implementation/application of these methods with R, examples from different geoscientific areas, and interpretation. Interested participants will be offered a project on correspondence analysis and seriation for geochronology.

Pre-requisites: All members of the Graduate School of Geosciences (GSGS), Cologne, who are interested in using R for statistics and data analysis can participate. However, some experience with basic statistics is important to follow the course. This experience may have been gained, for instance, from a bachelor/master course that involved basic aspects of statistics.

Language: English

Location:

Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology
Pohligstr. 3, 3rd floor
room 3.134 (CIP)

Schedule:

• Please check course availability in KLIPS

To register: Please register your interest in this course by sending an e-mail to gsgs-admin@uni-koeln.de with your name and the course code (2017_T12R). Please note that the maximum number of participants is 20.

See also: http://www.geosciences.uni-koeln.de/training0.html

This course consists of an introduction to numerical simulations by means of the Discrete-Element-Method (DEM), practical exercises and project. The course includes training in High Performance Computing to perform the DEM simulations.

Pre-requisite: The participant should have knowledge of at least one programming language.

Literature: Lecture notes and scientific publications related to the project topic

Language: German / English

Location / time: please check course availability and schedule in KLIPS 2.0

To register: email to eric.parteli(at)uni-koeln.de

KLIPS 2.0: Fachgruppe Geowissenschaften / VO / LV-Nr: 14892.0230

Pre-requisite: Lecture "Statistik und mathematische Verfahren" (Dannenberg, Institute of Geography)

Literature: Bahrenberg, G., Giese, E., Mevenkamp, N., Nipper, J., Statistische Methoden in der Geographie, Band 2: Multivariate Statistik, Borntraeger, 3., neubearbeitete Auflage (2008)

Language: German

Location / time: Please check course availability and schedule in KLIPS 2.0

Computational Geosciences contributes a lecture on Quantitative Methods in Environmental Archaeology for the Master Dialog in Environmental Archaeology.

Language: English

Location / time: Please check course availability and schedule in KLIPS 2.0

KLIPS 2.0: Fachgruppe Geowissenschaften / VO / LV-Nr: 14892.0230

Pre-requisite: Lecture "Statistik und mathematische Verfahren" (Dannenberg, Institute of Geography)

Literature: Bahrenberg, G., Giese, E., Mevenkamp, N., Nipper, J., Statistische Methoden in der Geographie, Band 2: Multivariate Statistik, Borntraeger, 3., neubearbeitete Auflage (2008)

Language: German

Location / time: Please check course availability and schedule in KLIPS 2.0

The Lecturer in Computational Geosciences (Dr. Eric Parteli) offers to Bachelor and Master students, as well as to doctoral candidates at the entire Department, supervision or co-supervision of theses and dissertations that are focused on computational methods discussed in the lectures. The thesis or dissertation is developed in association with one of the research groups of the Department of Geosciences, and should aim at contributing either to the development (improvement) of a computational geosciences method, or to establish the application of modern simulation or modeling tools in the scientific activities of the Department. 

Support to student assistants and doctoral candidates in the Computational Geosciences group (head of the group is Dr. Eric Parteli) is provided from third-party funds raised within the Computational Geosciences programme. The webpage of the group provides a list of open positions and recent publications resulting from the activities of the group members.