Join the 2025 edition of the master course:
Title: Optimization Methods for Electromagnetic Diagnostics of Civil Infrastructures (OMCI)
Date: 15 September – 19 December 2025 (5 h/week)
Teachers: MASSA Andrea, ROCCA Paolo
Website: https://www.eledia.org/eledia-unitn/course/omci/
How can we solve complex inverse problems by mimicking the behavior of birds in flight?
Through Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) — a nature-inspired algorithm that lets simple agents collectively find optimal solutions!
The Master Course is taught in 🇬🇧️ ENGLISH and is offered
- On-site
- On-line (synchronous and asynchronous)
Video recordings, hand-outs, etc. of the lectures will be available off-line!
In this course, you will learn:
- How swarms, without leaders or maps, navigate complex search spaces
- The PSO algorithm: velocity updates, attraction to best solutions, and convergence mechanics
- How PSO can escape local minima and handle non-convex, nonlinear cost functions
- Applications to electromagnetic diagnostics and inverse problems
- Hands-on exercises in modeling, tuning, and applying swarm intelligence techniques
Whether you’re working with structural health monitoring, sensor-based diagnostics, or AI-driven optimization, this course shows how collective intelligence leads to smarter solutions!
Teaching Activities:
- Theoretical Lessons
- e-Xam Self Assessment (each teaching class or periodically)
- MATLAB Hands-On
- e-Xam Final Assessment
Fees:
UniTN Students: FREE
EXTERNAL Students:
- 216€ : First course
- 180€ : Every course from the second one
The fees include the course teaching, slides/material, and video recordings.
Discover our didactic offer at:
https://www.eledia.org/eledia-unitn/course_degree/degree-master/
Questions? Reach us at: didattica@eledia.org
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