The course will be taught as an intensive course of duration of three weeks, with a total time of 45 h of lectures, 45 h of exercises and a final assignment of 2 weeks of work for those of you who wish to receive 7 ECTS credits for the course. The total load, with the additional project to be handed in later, will be approximately 160-170 hours, corresponding to 7 ECTS in Europe.

The final assignment will be graded with marks A, B, C, D, E and failed for Master students and passed/not passed for PhD students.

A course certificate will be issued for students requiring it from the University of Trento. This certificate states that you have completed the equivalent of 7 ECTS at the graduate level. We plan also to issue a certificate for those of you who have attended the course but did not want to do the final project. This certificate will most likely correspond to 4 ECTS at the graduate level.

The organization of a typical course day is as follows: