*NBIC PhD Course Pattern Recognition (3rd edition)* Date: 21-25 January 2013 Location: Amsterdam Course Coordinator: Perry Moerland (AMC)<http://www.nbic.nl/education/nbic-phd-school/course-schedule/optimisation-techniques/> Website:http://www.nbic.nl/education/nbic-phd-school/course-schedule/pattern-recogni... Registration: http://www.nbic.nl/education/nbic-phd-school/enrolment/ On Jan 21-25, 2013 the NBIC PhD School organises the third edition of the PhD Course 'Pattern Recognition' in Amsterdam. The course aims at PhD students with a background in bioinformatics, computer science or a related field. The course introduces basic techniques from the fields of pattern recognition and machine learning to solve bioinformatics problems. After having followed this course, a student should have an overview of basic pattern recognition techniques and be able to recognize what method is most applicable to classification problems (s)he encounters in bioinformatics applications. This course is part of the Education Programme of the NBIC PhD School. The PhD School offers training and education for PhD students in bioinformatics. More information about the NBIC PhD School can also be found on the NBIC website (www.nbic.nl <http://www.nbic.nl> -> Education -> NBIC PhD School). For more information about the course you can contact Celia van Gelder (NBIC Education) at education@nbic.nl -- Dr. Celia W.G. van Gelder Coordinator Education CMBI Projectleader Education NBIC tel. +31-(0)24-3666120 e-mail:C.vanGelder@cmbi.ru.nl websites:www.cmbi.ru.nl,www.nbic.nl Postal address: CMBI 260 Radboud University Nijmegen-Medical Centre /NCMLS PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen The Netherlands