We’ll have three short courses on Sunday, September 24th.

Registration Fees:

Registration fees have been waived. Please register at the link below for the courses you are interested in participating, either a single course or a combination of two.
Deadline for registration for the short courses is September 8th. If the minimum number of participants is not reached by that date, we will need to cancel the courses, so please register early!

Thanks for your interest on the Short Courses. Registration ended on September 8th.

Course Descriptions:

SHORT COURSE 1: 

Title: Advanced flow diagnostic techniques and data analysis

Description:

This workshop provides an overview of advanced flow diagnostic techniques applicable to water and air environments and explores various data reduction methods. Participants will gain hands-on experience analyzing in-situ data from laboratory experiments conducted within Prof. Chamorro’s research group. The workshop covers various flow diagnostic techniques, including intrusive and non-intrusive approaches for single-point, planar, and volumetric measurements. The data analysis focuses on turbulence characterization, high-order statistics, fundamental characterization of deterministic and random data, and treatment of a range of signal types. This includes signals containing multiscale processes and those exhibiting compact support. 

Requirements: Enrolled students should bring their laptop with Matlab installed if possible.

Instructor: 

Leonardo P. Chamorro, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering , University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Dr. Chamorro is an Associate professor in the Dept. of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is affiliated with the Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Geology. His research interests include turbulence, particle dynamics, boundary layer processes, aerodynamics, turbulence and structure interaction, wind energy, marine, and hydrokinetic energies, and the development of advanced flow diagnostics. He has published 120 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, has participated in over 140 presentations in technical symposia, and serves as the fellowship panel’s scientific chair on Energy, Electrical Eng, Electronics and Mechanics (W&T7) at the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) in Belgium and the board of directors of the UMERC (University Marine Energy Research Community). Chamorro is Associate Editor of Renew and Sust Energy, Front Energy Research, the J Energy Eng, and an academic editor and editorial board member of Energies. He has been a reviewer of forty peer-reviewed journals. He leads the Renewable Energy and Turbulent Environment group, which uses a versatile experimental approach that combines state-of-the-art techniques, including 2D/3D particle image velocimetry, computer vision, and 3D particle tracking velocimetry.

SHORT COURSE 2: 

Title: Introduction to the I-GUIDE Platform. 

Description:

NSF Institute for Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment (I-GUIDE) enables transformative discovery and innovation for tackling fundamental scientific and societal challenges that are at the cusp of achieving significant breakthroughs by harnessing the vast, diverse, and ever-growing corpus of geospatial data. As most challenging sustainability and resilience problems today require expertise from multiple domains and geospatial data science, I-GUIDE plays a central role in successfully spanning domains, leveraging its multidisciplinary collaboration team and partnerships to achieve geospatial data-intensive discovery and innovation.

In addition to an overview of I-GUIDE, this workshop will introduce the participants to the I-GUIDE Platform; a community oriented integrative discovery environment. The platform provides streamlined and user-friendly access to advanced cyberinfrastructure and cyberGIS capabilities with an integrated software stack for computationally reproducible and data-intensive geospatial analytics. The session will allow the participants to discover and execute interactive geospatial workflows implemented as Jupyter notebooks.

Requirements: Enrolled students should bring their laptop.

Instructors:

Dr. Furqan Baig, Research Programmer, CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Dr. Anand Padmanabhan, Research Associate Professor Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science and CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Dr. Shaowen Wang, Professor and Head of the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science; Founding Director CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies.   

Dr. Furqan Baig is a Research Programmer at the CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital & Spatial Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, and received his M.S. in Computer Science at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. He majored in computer science during his undergraduate study at the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan. His research interests include Parallel & Distributed Computing, Spatio-Temporal Data Management, and cyberGIS. 

Dr. Anand Padmanabhan is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He holds a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Iowa and has research interests in advanced cyberinfrastructure, geographic information science and systems (GIS), cyberGIS, distributed and high-performance computing, and geospatial data science. At the CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies at UIUC, he leads the spatial algorithms and systems team to develop and operate cyberGIS capabilities and services to harness advanced cyberinfrastructure for geospatial discovery and innovation. He has served as an investigator for several projects funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and Environmental Protection Agency. He has published many peer-reviewed papers and is an author of a number of cyberGIS software tools.

Dr. Shaowen Wang is Professor and Head of the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science; and Affiliate Professor of the Department of Computer Science, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, and School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He is a Faculty Fellow of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation at UIUC. He has served as Founding Director of the CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies at UIUC since 2013. He served as Associate Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications for CyberGIS from 2010 to 2017. His research interests include geographic information science and systems (GIS), advanced cyberinfrastructure and cyberGIS, complex social and environmental problems, computational and data sciences, geospatial science and technology, high-performance and distributed computing, and spatial analysis and modeling. He has received research funding from several U.S. federal and state agencies (e.g., CDC, DOE, Illinois EPA, NASA, NIH, NSF, USDA, and USGS) and industry, and served as the Principal Investigator (PI) of more than $30 million competitive research grants. He currently serves as the PI and Director of the NSF Institute for Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment (I-GUIDE). He has published over 180 peer-reviewed papers & reports and edited or co-edited several books and proceedings. He has served as an action editor of GeoInformatica, associate editor of SoftwareX, and guest editor or editorial board member for multiple other journals, book series, and proceedings.

SHORT COURSE 3: 

Title: High Resolution Sonar Mapping for River and Coastal Environments

Description:

NORBIT is a global provider of tailored technology to selected niches, solving challenges through sustainable and innovative solutions, in line with its mission to Explore More. This includes specializing in ultra-compact and high performance multibeam sonars for subsea and surface platforms. NORBIT designs and develops wideband multibeam sonars for mapping and forward-looking applications in coastal, river and other marine environments. Their solutions are based on the latest in analogue and digital signal processing and our products provide wide coverage monitoring combined with high sensitivity and accuracy.

Instructors:

Dr. Matt Holland, VP Sales, NORBIT Subsea, Canada