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Winter School on Total Quality Management

“Six Sigma. Principles, Methodologies and Applications”

Palermo, Italy
November 10-14, 2008

The updated program is online:

www.unipa.it/ws6s

Extended application deadline: October 22, 2008

This International Winter School on Total Quality Management is the result of a collaboration among the Universities of Palermo and the Swedish Universities of Linköping and Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg).
The School is a course of advanced studies of the University of Palermo. Its title “Six Sigma. Principles, Methodologies and Applications” identifies a field which is today of considerable interest to the business community and the scientific and technological research.
The main objective of the course is to provide participants with the opportunity to analyze and discuss problems related to the principles, the methodologies and the applications of Six Sigma, from an international perspective.
It will also give the chance to identify a European approach to handling problems related to the development of products and services.
The course will take place at the ISIDA School of Business, from 10th to 14th November 2008.
The program is designed as an intensive workshop, combining theory and practice.
Official language: English.

The course is designed for Italian and foreign attendees:
a)      who have already completed a bachelor program and are attending the second year of a second level graduate program (no more than five exams to the end);
b)      who have completed a second level graduate program;
c)      Ph.D students;
d)      Ph.Ds;
e)      academic researchers and lecturers;
f)        Black Belt managers and public and private company researchers (no more than twenty-five admissions).
Admission is limited to fifty participants.
Attendants shall complete all required coursework and will undergo a final examination. All attendants will get a Certificate of Attendance if they will have fulfilled the attendance requirements. The Certificate of Attendance is worth 5.5 ECTS. A final grade will be given based on the coursework and the final examination results.
A limited number of rooms in the newly restored University residence “Casa del Goliardo” are available. For further information and update, please visit the school website: www.unipa.it/ws6s

Optimal design of experiments course in Antwerp

On September 15 and 16, Peter Goos will again teach an introductory course on optimal design of experiments at the Faculty of Applied Economics of the University of Antwerp (Belgium).

The target audience for the course is starting Ph.D. students and anyone else who would like a primer on optimal design. Prerequisites for the course are knowledge of basic statistics and regression analysis. Familiarity with classical design of experiments is not required.

The course will start with an intuitive introduction of the topic and will gradually build up to more complicated situations. The attention will not be restricted to optimal design for linear regression models, but Bayesian optimal design and minimax designs for nonlinear regression models will also be discussed. The strengths and weaknesses of optimal design will be illustrated, and some remedies to overcome some of the problems will be given.

The venue for the course is in the Antwerp city center. The Antwerp city center is easy to reach by train, and there is an hourly bus service from and to Brussels National Airport.

Details about registration can be found at www.ua.ac.be/peter.goos