NBIC/BioSB Course Pattern Recognition (4th edition) Date: 23-27 March, 2015 Location: Amsterdam Course Coordinator: Perry Moerland (AMC) Website: http://biosb.nl/education/course-portfolio/pattern-recognition/ Registration: http://biosb.nl/education/enrollment-pattern-recognition-course-4th-edition/ On March 23-27, 2015, NIBC/BioSB organises the fourth 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. The course is aimed at PhD students with a background in bioinformatics, computer science or a related field; a working knowledge of basic statistics and linear algebra is assumed. Preparation material on statistics and linear algebra will be distributed before the course, to be studied by students missing the required background. This course is part of the Education Programme of BioSB, the Netherlands Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Research School, which offers training and education for in bioinformatics and systems biology. More information about BioSB can be found at www.biosb.nl. Best regards Celia van Gelder Dr. Celia W.G. van Gelder Education Manager NBIC/BioSB Coordinator Education CMBI Programme Manager Learning DTL/ELIXIR-NL tel. +31-(0)24-3666120 e-mail: Celia.vanGelder@radboudumc.nl<mailto:C.vanGelder@umcn.nl> websites: www.nbic.nl<http://www.nbic.nl/>, www.biosb.nl, www.cmbi.ru.nl<http://www.cmbi.ru.nl/>, www.dtls.nl Postal address: CMBI 260 Radboud University Nijmegen-Medical Centre PO Box 9101 6500 HB Nijmegen The Netherlands Het Radboudumc staat geregistreerd bij de Kamer van Koophandel in het handelsregister onder nummer 41055629. The Radboud university medical center is listed in the Commercial Register of the Chamber of Commerce under file number 41055629.