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Reach the school

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The University Residential Center is located at Via Frangipane, 6 in Bertinoro (see the map below).

Bertinoro lies approximately half-way between Bologna and the Adriatic coast town of Rimini.  Below the instructions for reaching the school.

plane By PLANE:

the nearest major airport is the Bologna Guglielmo Marconi International Airport (BLQ) which has good connectivity to many major European locations and it is about 90Km far from Bertinoro. You may also want to check for flights either to the Rimini (RMI) Federico Fellini Airport (about 48Km from Bertinoro ) or the Forlì (FRL) Luigi Ridolfi Airport (about 11Km from Bertinoro) reachable from several European cities via low cost companies.

If you arrive in Bologna Airport or Rimini Airport you should reach the train station and take a train (see the train section for more details).

If you arrive at Forlì airport, probably the easiest option for reaching Bertinoro is to hire a taxi.

If you arrive to one of the two Milan airports, then proceed to the Milan Central Train Station and take a train to Forlì.

 

By TRAIN:

From Bologna train station: numerous trains run between Bologna and Forlì. The trip takes 30-45 minutes depending on the train type. If you take a regional train you can stop at the Forlimpopoli station (5Km from Bertinoro), otherwise you should stop to Forlì station (about 13Km from bertinoro). From here you should take a bus or a taxi.

From Rimini train station: numerous trains run between Rimini and Cesena (or Forlì). The trip takes 20 minutes depending on the train type. If you take a regional train you can stop at the Forlimpopoli station (5Km from Bertinoro), otherwise you should stop to Cesena station (about 13Km from bertinoro). From here you should take a bus or a taxi.

From Rimini train station: take a train to Forlì/Forlimpopoli (notice that Bologna is between Milan and Forlì so the train also stops at the Bologna station), then follow the advices in the first bullet.

 

taxi By TAXIi:

From Bologna train station: it takes about 90 minutes and it is going to cost you about 140€, including highway tolls, but it becomes an affordable option if you share it with a group of 3-4 people.

From Forlimpopoli station: it takes about 10 minutes and it is going to cost you about 15€

From Forlì or Cesena station: it takes about 20 minutes and it is going to cost you about 25€

 

bus By BUS:

From Forlimpopoli station: it takes about 15 minutes. The bus number is the 121 or 134 to Bertinoro;

From Forlì station: The simplest way to reach Bertinoro from Forlì is to take a bus. The bus station (located in “via Oriani”) is about 200 mt. from the train station. Buses run from 07.10 (09.10 on Sundays) to 19.35 (19.10 on Sundays). The trip takes around 25 minutes. Bus number (134, or 92 to Forlimpopoli then 121 or 134 to Bertinoro);

From Cesena station: it takes about 25 minutes. The bus number is the 92 to Forlimpopoli and then 121 or 134 to Bertinoro.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The buses 121 and 134 are not available on sunday and have a very sparse service (few times per day)

 

car By CAR:

From Bologna or Rimini: exit highway A14 at Cesena-Nord and merge onto E45 towards Rome. Take exit Cesena Ovest and turn right onto SS9 – Via Emilia towards Forlì/Bologna. Pass the town of Capocolle, turn left at the traffic-light and follow the directions for Bertinoro.
The distance between the highway and Bertinoro is approximately 12 Km.

Refer to this page for more details.

Certified Final Exam

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At the end of the school it will be possible to take a certified exam. In case of positive result, the certification can be used by students to obtain the corresponding ECTS from their PhD courses, or to comply to any other requests by their home university.

How to apply and fees

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The registration consists of a two-step procedure:

  1. Pre – registration
    • 5th June 2016: Fill in the form before this deadline to submit your application to the school.
    • School coordinators will examine applications to avoid overbooking.
    • 15th June 2016: You will receive a acceptance/rejection communication by email and instructions for the final registration.
  2. Registration
    • 26th June 2016: deadline for final registration, with the payment of the fee.

 

Partecipants are required to fill out and submit the form (due for the 5th of June) in order to send their candidature to the Phd school.
Notice that this is a binding request.

Below the link to the form:

 

 

The fee includes:

  • the registration to the School,
  • the accommodation (half-board, i.e. breakfast and lunch),
  • the social dinner.

The fee:

  • 500.00 €, in double room, arrival on July 11th, departure on  July 16th
  • 630.00 €, in single room, arrival on July 11th, departure on  July 16th.
  • Although non-encouraged, it is possible to register for only one of the two modules of the School; in this case, the registration fee is 330.00 € (double room) or 430.00 € (single room).

Venue

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The S.I.D.R.A. PhD Summer School will be held in Bertinoro, Forlì-Cesena, Italy. More in detail it will take place at the University Residential Centre of Bertinoro (Ce.U.B.), a vocational training centre of the University of Bologna that provides the school with conference and lodging facilities. The centre is located in a unique architectonical and environmental setting.

The classes will be held in the modernize Ravelin room, nearby the ancient Bishop’s Fortress that overlooks the historic center of Bertinoro from the top of the hill.

Tourist information about Bertinoro:

WELCOME1

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The S.I.D.R.A. PhD Summer School is a one-week annual event organized by S.I.D.R.A., the Italian Control Systems Society, that takes place in Bertinoro, Forlì-Cesena, Italy.

Since the first year, in the 1997, the school has been a meeting place for PhD students, post-graduate students, and researchers, to be introduced to classical as well as emerging control theory, enriched by practical case studies and applications.

Besides the learning experience, the school also has the ambition of providing a stimulating environment for PhD students to meet and establish professional relationships, collaborations, and know-how exchanges.

Every year, two hot topics related to control systems theory/applications are presented, and the partecipants to the school have the opportunity to suggest the topics for the next year.

The summer school is primarily intended for, but not restricted to, PhD, post-graduate, and researcher candidates in the Control Systems and Automatica fields. Students coming from other disciplines may also benefit from the school depending on the topics discussed.
The school success encountered in these recent years and the distinguished international guests, involved a progressive internationalization of the school that now opens up to receive applications from all the European PhD students.

The two themes presented this year are “Robust and constrained control”, coordinated by professors Franco Blanchini (University of Udine) and Patrizio Colaneri (Polytechnic Univ. of Milan), and “Distributed Control and its applications”, coordinated by professors Ruggero Carli (University of Padova) and Luca Schenato (University of Padova).

The “Robust and constrained control” course will provide an updated view and development of the Liapunov theory for stability, performance improvements and control of linear dynamical systems with ancertainties parameters and constraints (on inputs and states).
The lecturers for this course will be: Franco Blanchini (University of Udine), Patrizio Colaneri (Polytechnic Univ. of Milan).
Click here for reading the full program.

The “Distributed Control and its applications” course will give a background in distributed algorithms for estimation, control and optimization for next-generation engineering systems, both from a theoretical and applicative perspective.
After an introduction that motivate the use of distributed systems, showing also the main scenarious where they are used, the focus will move on different engineering fields where the contribute of distributed approches has been relevant:
– Consensus and Sensor Networks applications (flocking, load balancing, distributed sensor calibration, distributed parameter identification, distributed clock synchronization, etc);
– Distributed Optimization algorithms;
– Distributed Control in Smart Grids (background, modeling and problems like transmission loss minimization, voltage support and reactive power control will be addressed);
– Distributed Control in Robotics (multi-agent robotics challenges, state-of-the-art in coverage, map-building and cooperative localization problems).
The lecturers for this course will be: Ruggero Carli (University of Padova), Marcello Farina (Polytechnic Univ. of Milan), Giuseppe Notarstefano (University of Salento, Lecce), Luca Schenato (University of Padova)
Click here for reading the full program.

A brief guide to surf the site:

Click on the main menu item “More Info” to have information about the venue, the accomodation, the instruction for reaching the school, the instructions for applying to the school and the requested fee.
Click on the main menu item “Course Outline” to have a look at the school programmes
Click on the main menu item “Course Material” to download the material of the school and the homeworks. These last will be available at the end of the school for taking a certified exam if required by the home university
Click on the main menu item “Contact Us” to communicate directly with the Centro Universitario di Bertinoro, that manage the centre where the school take place (only for questions not answered on this site)
On the right column the email addresses of the coordinators of the school, Prof. Claudio Melchiorri and Prof. Maria Elena Valcher, and of the contact person at the Centro Universitario di Bertinoro, Monica Michelacci.

For questions related to accommodation and logistics: {source} {/source}
For questions related to the School and the courses: Prof. Claudio Melchiorri or Prof. Maria Elena Valcher