On Saturday, August 4, 2001, a Post-Conference Short Course will be offered. The Short Course comprises two sets of lecture topics:

 

Meshless Methods

This course will be given by Prof. Wing Kam Liu of Northwestern University, Prof. Hirohisa Noguchi of Keio University, and Prof. J.S. Chen of the University of Iowa.
An outline of the course, in pdf form, can be obtained here.

 

Design Optimization

This course will be led by Prof. Zafer Gurdal of Virginia Tech and Uwe Schramm, of Altair Engineering, Inc.

An outline of the course, in PDF form, can be obtained here.

 

The short course will start at 8:30 AM and conclude by 3:30 PM.

 

Registration Fee

Participants	Students
$125.00	$75.00

The Registration fees includes the course materials, breaks and lunch.

 

A PDF file of the meshless methods course can be obtained by clicking here. The zip file is 8.6 MB. This will download a zipped file containing the PDF file of the slides presented by Profs. Liu, Chen, and Noguchi. This zipped file is password protected. If you were registered for the short course, you will have received the password via email.

PDF files of the design optimization course can be obtained by clicking here. The zip file is 32.8 MB. This will download a zipped file containing several PDF files of the slides presented by Prof. Gurdal and Dr. Schramm. The presentation by Dr. Schramm has been divided into pieces due to its size. This zipped file is password protected. If you were registered for the short course, you will have received the password via email.