Uncertainty Quantification Training Course
3rd - 5th April 2017
Institute for Risk and Uncertainty, University of Liverpool
In collaboration with the Institute for Risk and Uncertainty (UK) and Institut für Risiko und Zuverlässigkeit (Germany), we are offering a 3-day training course on Uncertainty Quantification using COSSAN Software.
Structure of the training programme
Each day focuses on a specific topic. This allows the participants to attend a specific training day.
Aims and Learning outcomes
You will learn the main techniques available for dealing with Risk Analysis and Uncertainty Quantification through an easy to use, yet powerful computational software.
Main Concepts and techniques
- Random Variables and Random Variables Sets
- Monte Carlo simulation and advanced simulation techniques (Subset simulation, Line Sampling, Importance Sampling, Latin Hypercube Sampling)
- Global and Local Sensitivity analysis
- Global optimization techniques
- Surrogate Models (Artificial Neural Networks, Response surface, Kriging)
- Reliability based and robust design
Details:
| Location: | Welcome and registration will be at the Institute for Risk and Uncertainty (See map).
Room CTL-6-PCTC-BLUE PC Teaching Centre First Floor: Blue Zone University of Liverpool |
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| Registration: | Registration is now closed Fees: £50 Includes: Lunch and Tea/Coffee Breaks |
Programme
Day 1: 3rd April 2017
| Time | Activity Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Registration | Welcome session. Let's start the training course with a proper breakfast (Seminar Room, Institute for Risk and Uncertainty) |
| 09:45 | Lecture | Introduction to COSSAN-X (Main features and capabilities, toolboxes and wizards) |
| 10:15 | Lecture | Introduction to uncertainty quantification and modelling of uncertainties |
| 10:45 | Practical session | Installing the software |
| 11:00 | Tutorial | Getting started and familiarisation with the software. Define Random Variables and construct a stochastic model |
| 12:30 | Lunch break | |
| 13:30 | Tutorial | Design of experiment and UQ of a simple Cantilever Beam |
| 14:30 | Tutorial | Applications and Exercises |
| 15:00 | Coffee and Tea | Only a short break... |
| 15:15 | Practical session | OpenCOSSAN: Installation and initialisation |
| 15:30 | Tutorial | Solving Tutorial Cantilever Beam in OpenCOSSAN |
| 16:00 | Wrapping up | Summary of the day |
Day 2: 4th April 2017
| Time | Activity Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30 | Lecture | Welcome and presentation of the day |
| 09:45 | Tutorial | Implementation of the Buffon Experiment to estimate pi |
| 11:00 | Lecture | Introduction to Advanced Monte Carlo methods (Importance sampling, Line Sampling, Subset Simulation) |
| 11:30 | Tutorial | Using advanced Monte Carlo methods |
| 12:30 | Lunch break | relax... |
| 13:30 | Lecture | Connect COSSAN with 3rd party solvers |
| 14:00 | Turorial | Connect COSSAN with your model |
| 15:00 | Break | Coffee and Tea |
| 15:15 | Lecture | Very short overview of optimisation methods |
| 15:30 | Lecture | Optimisation of the cantilever beam |
| 16:00 | Wrapping up | Summary of the day |
Day 3: 5th April 2016
| Time | Activity Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30 | Welcome | Presentation of the day |
| 09:45 | Lecture | When the desktop is not enough (Introduction to HPC from Cliff Addision,UoL) |
| 10:15 | Lecture | Introduction to HPC (basic concepts, submitting a job) from STFC Hartree Centre |
| 10:30 | Turorial | Excercises on HPC, remote access to Hartree HPC |
| 12:30 | Lunch | Another lunch break |
| 13:30 | Lecture | COSSAN software on HPC |
| 13:45 | Tutorial | Using COSSAN on HPC |
| 14:45 | Break | your last coffee... (or tea) |
| 15:00 | Demo | Advanced tools (Meta-models, Robust design and Reliability based optimisation, Solution sequence) |
| 15:30 | Q/A | What do you want to know? |
| 15:45 | Wrapping up | Summart of the day |