"Breaking the Surface 2013" marine robotics and applications hands-on training workshop

Breaking the Surface 2013 (http://bts.fer.hr/)

Murter, Croatia, 30th September - 6th October 2013

BtS serves as a meeting place of experts and students of marine control engineering and signal processing and the marine robotics application areas in various types of ocean science. We are the world’s first successful, multi-year field training program that combines academic topics in marine robotics and robotics application areas and hands-on working experience in the sea, doing remote sensing and sampling for various ocean sciences. We are also unique in that we put strong emphasis on the participation of principal investigators and established research group leaders from across the globe, catering not only to the EU or USA research communities.

The program is organized along four program tracks of the event:

• Marine robotics (MAROB);
• marine biology and marine nature protection (MARBIO);
• maritime security, naval and coast guard operations (MARSEC);
• maritime, nautical and ship archaeology (MARCH). 

The programme consists of 16 plenary talks, a number of tutorials, and 3 days of fieldwork for all participants. The fieldwork provides an opportunity for all participants to receive hands-on training in marine robotics operations.

LOCATION

Hotel Colentum, Murter, Croatia

DATES
30th September - 6th October, 2013

ORGANIZERS
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, LAboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies (http://labust.fer.hr/)

TOPICS
This Ph.D. School is intended for Master and PhD students from all over the world. The list of plenary speakers, tutorials and hands-on training is available in the attached second acnnouncement. 

HOW TO APPLY

For information and applications, visit the BtS website http://bts.fer.hr/, our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/BtSCroatia or email us at  bts.orgcom@fer.hr .

Early bird student registration is 350 EUR and it lasts until 1st July and it includes:

• lodging with three meals per day in single rooms (for regular participants) or double rooms (for students) in a three-star hotel for 8 nights (29th September through 7th October),
• the full technical programme (lectures, tutorials and hands-on field trials), and
• the full social programme.