Short Term Courses and Seminars

During the year short term courses and seminars are offered by the departments at the Faculty of Life Sciences.

Please contact the department or the course coordinators regarding enrollment and guidance.

On this page you can find a list of short term courses taught in English:

• Design of experiments
• Fluorescence spectroscopy
• NIR spectroscopy
• Basic Chemometrics
• Multiway Analysis
• A day of 100 Methods

Week 38: Monday and Tuesday, September 16th-17th

Design of experiments

Background: Proper analysis of data and efficient planning of experiment is (or should be!) a part of every scientist’s toolbox. In this short course, an outline of different terms within Design of experiments and the theory behind when to use what are given. After a reminder on the basics of statistics and populations required for experimental planning (sampling, univariate linear regression, etc.) we will look at the setup and analysis of designed experiments and statistical inference from designed data (Designs, ANOVA, etc.). Furthermore we will discuss efficient planning and performance of fixed pattern and sequential optimizations techniques useful in e.g. yield optimization in production processes or instrumental optimization in analytical chemistry procedures.

Software: JMP (SAS) and/or MODDE (Umetrics) can be used during exercises.

Audience: The course is intended for people handling problems where using Design of Experiments can be an advantage when setting up the experiments or people who have general interest in knowing how to setup and use experimental designs. Simple mathematical and statistical terms will be used in the course and the theory will be accompanied by computer exercises.

Lunch and coffee will be included. If you have special dietary needs, please let us know by enrollment.

Lectures and notes are in English.

Teacher: Frans van den Berg

Type: Short Course

When: Monday and Tuesday, September 16th-17th 2013

Price: 3.500 DKK per day.

Enrollment: Enroll to Carl Emil Eskildsen (carle@life.ku.dk) September 2nd 2013 at the latest. Please provide e-mail address so last minute details can be provided. Cancellations must be made no later than four days in advance or a fee of 500 DKK will be charged.

Week 38: Friday, September 20th

Fluorescence spectroscopy

Background: The aim of this course is to make the participants familiar with the basic concepts of fluorescence spectroscopy utilized for quality control in the modern industry. The course is designed to give the participants an introduction to the basic theoretical background, hands-on experience with fluorescence spectroscopy and the subsequent data analysis of fluorescence data.

The course will provide the students with an initial introduction to:

• understand fluorescence spectroscopic methods (electron spectroscopy)
• understand advantages and disadvantages of fluorescence measurements
• operate spectroscopic fluorescence equipment
• suggest and apply fluorescence monitoring equipment and sampling
• read fluorescence spectroscopic expert and research literature
• use multivariate data analysis for handling fluorescence data
• obtain knowledge about applying multi-way chemometrics to fluorescence data

Audience: The course is of importance to engineers working e.g. in the food and medicinal industry engaged in quality control and on-line process monitoring. The course will provide a general overview of the requirements and resources needed in order to implement fluorescence.

Lunch and coffee will be included. If you have special dietary needs, please let us know by enrollment.

Lectures and notes are in English.

Teacher: Anders Juul Lawaetz

Type: Short Course

When: Friday, September 20th 2013

Price: 3.500 DKK per day.

Enrollment: Enroll to Carl Emil Eskildsen (carle@life.ku.dk) September 2nd 2013 at the latest. Please provide e-mail address so last minute details can be provided. Cancellations must be made no later than four days in advance or a fee of 500 DKK will be charged.

Week 41: Thursday, October 10th

NIR spectroscopy

Background: The aim of this course is to make the participants familiar with the basic concepts and physics of non-destructive NIR sensors utilized for in-, on- and at-line process monitoring and quality control in the modern food and medicinal industry. The course is designed to give the student an introduction to the basic theoretical background, hands-on experience with NIR spectroscopy and the subsequent multivariate data analysis of NIR data.

The course will provide the participants with the necessary background knowledge:

• To understand NIR spectroscopic methods (vibrational spectroscopy)
• To understand advantages and disadvantages of NIR measurements
• To operate spectroscopic NIR equipment
• To choose NIR equipment and sampling
• To read NIR spectroscopic expert and research literature
• To use multivariate data analysis for handling NIR data

Audience: The course is of importance to engineers and technologists working e.g. in the food and medicinal industry engaged in on-line process monitoring. The course will provide an overview of the requirements and resources needed in order to implement NIR.

Lunch and coffee will be included. If you have special dietary needs, please let us know by enrollment.

Lectures and notes are in English.

Teachers: Søren Balling Engelsen and Frans van den Berg

Type: Short Course

When: Thursday, October 10th 2013

Price: 3.500 DKK per day.

Enrollment: Enroll to Carl Emil Eskildsen (carle@life.ku.dk) September 26th 2013 at the latest. Please provide e-mail address of course participants so last minute details can be provided. Cancellations must be made no later than four days in advance or a fee of 500 DKK will be charged.

Week 43: Monday and Tuesday, October 21st–22nd

Basic Chemometrics

Background: Chemometrics (or multivariate data analysis) can be used to solve problems involving large amounts of data. This is relevant within fields such as development, research, process monitoring and control, and laboratory analysis. In these fields, the use of single variables is often inadequate to describe, differentiate or classify objects/samples. Looking at more variables at a time ensures that interactions, patterns and correlations are taken into consideration. Combined with superior data visualization, chemometrics is a needed tool for proper data analysis.

As participant you will be introduced to the multivariate way of thinking and learn how to explore your data properly and how to set up a multivariate calibration/regression model. The course is a mixture of lectures and exercises. In the exercises, you will use the chemometrics tools and from this be able to navigate through the raw data to interpretation of model parameters on your own. Exercises will be performed in groups of two. During this course you will NOT be able to work with your own data.

Software: LatentiX will be used during exercises.

Audience: The course is intended for people handling problems where chemometrics can be applied or people who have a general interest in learning more about chemometrics and its applications. Some mathematical and statistical expressions will be used in the course and a variety of data (e.g. sensory and spectroscopic data) will be used as examples.

Lunch and coffee will be included. If you have special dietary needs, please let us know by enrollment.

Lectures and notes are in English.

Teachers: Thomas Skov, Maja Kamstrup-Nielsen and Carl Emil Eskildsen

Type: Short Course

When: Monday and Tuesday, October 21st-22nd 2013

Price: 3.500 DKK per day.

Enrollment: Enroll to Carl Emil Eskildsen (carle@life.ku.dk) October 8th 2013 at the latest. Please provide e-mail address so last minute details can be provided. Cancellations must be made no later than four days in advance or a fee of 500 DKK will be charged.

Week 44: Tuesday and Wednesday, October 29th-30th

Multiway Analysis

Background: Multiway Analysis is a follow up to the Basic Chemometrics course. The participant will gain knowledge about advanced multiway techniques such as multilinear-PLS and PARAFAC. The methods are useful in classification, calibration and prediction.

Audience: The course is intended for people handling problems where multiway analysis can be applied or people who have general interest in learning more about multiway analysis and its applications. Some mathematical and statistical expressions will be used in the course and a variety of data (e.g. fluorescence and GC-MS data) will be used as examples.

It is assumed that the participants have certain knowledge about the basic chemometric tools such as PLS and PCA.

Software: Demonstrations are given in matlab using PLS_Toolbox. Course participants have to be familiar with this software.

Lunch and coffee will be included. If you have special dietary needs, please let us know by enrollment.

Lectures and notes are in English.

Teacher: Rasmus Bro

Type: Short Course

When: Tuesday and Wednesday, October 29th-30th 2013

Price: 3.500 DKK per day.

Enrollment: Enroll to Carl Emil Eskildsen (carle@life.ku.dk) October 15th 2013 at the latest. Please provide e-mail address so last minute details can be provided. Cancellations must be made no later than four days in advance or a fee of 500 DKK will be charged.

Week 50: Monday, December 9th

A day of 100 Methods

Background: The purpose of this course is to give the course participants a good overview of a large number of methods within chemometrics and data analysis. Each topic will be covered by a 15 min. presentation. The presentations will naturally not go into the details, but will include the basic concepts behind the method and its applications. This way, the presentations will give enough information to assess if the presented subject could be of relevance to the attendant.

Topics:

Fuzzy Analysis (Rasmus Bro)
Independent Component Analysis (Rasmus Bro)
Coclustering (Rasmus Bro)
Feed Forward Neural Networks (Åsmund Rinnan)
Second order calibration (Thomas Skov)
ANOVA-simultaneous Component Analysis (ASCA) (Åsmund Rinnan)
Sparsity and Sparse PCA (Morten Rasmussen)
Multi-block methods (Morten Rasmussen)
Clinical Specificity and Sensitivity (Morten Rasmussen)
Kohonen/SOM (Frans van den Berg)
Correlation Analysis (Anna Klimkiewicz)
Building user interfaces in MATLAB (Carl Emil Eskildsen)
Orthogonalization (Carl Emil Eskildsen)
Bootstrapping (Hamid Babamoradi)
Jackknifing (Hamid Babamoradi)
Support Vector Machines (Rikke Tange)
Gaussian Process Regression (Wangdong Ni)
Multivariate Curve Resolution (José Manuel Amigo)
Fourier Transform (Parvaneh Ebrahimi)

Audience: This course is intended for people working within chemometrics and data analysis who wants an introduction to more advanced and related methods.

Lunch and coffee will be included. If you have special dietary needs, please let us know by enrollment.

Lectures and notes are in English.

Type: Short Course

When: Monday, December 9th 2013

Price: 3.500 DKK per day.

Enrollment: Enroll to Carl Emil Eskildsen (carle@life.ku.dk) November 18th 2013 at the latest. Please provide e-mail address so last minute details can be provided. Cancellations must be made no later than four days in advance or a fee of 500 DKK will be charged.