Nowadays, piling up a considerable cultural and technical debt is a matter of no time. Think of the rapid developments in climate-change science, Earth observation and computer science as examples
When maintaining a high degree of quality and variety, having reasoned concerns for the effects of passing time is wise. The remedy is learning as a truly lifelong path
The mission of Watermotion (advance, clarify, devise, enrich) naturally applies to Watermotion itself, prior to and beyond project execution — This results from the commitment to embrace and deploy sound knowledge, uphold scientific integrity, and deliver well-thought value with agility
Pathfinder
The training and learning initiatives of Watermotion revolve around four key themes
• computer science
• data analysis and management
• physics of flows and climate change
• engineering flow dynamics methods and techniques
that are often intercorrelated one to another
The most prominent initiatives are listed per theme below
Why continuous learning
As a one-man company, Watermotion truly embodies the freedom of play and the genuine joy of continuous learning. Watermotion invests in maintaining a complete and broad knowledge base. The emphases are laid on
being future-ready
filling gaps (admittedly and unashamedly)
placing fragmented and incidental knowledge under the attending overarching themes
Swift librarianship is key. Structured learning makes subject retrieval and deployment easier at the point of need — In this way, the right mix of breadth and depth can be marshalled from an organized repository of notions
Which continuous learning
This consists of +massive open on-line courses, advanced courses, and conferences with highly-qualified keynote speeches
Watermotion has embraced the MOOC revolution in public education wholeheartedly, with 15 courses successfully completed since 2014, worth more than 100 weeks of learning — The completion certificates are linked to in the respective headings below
Also, scroll the Twitter timeline embedded at this page’s side for an fine-grained overview of events, milestones and happenings
Moreover, a lot of informal and non-formal knowledge tapped from ancillary disciplines and behavioural sciences is left beyond description here — See the +LinkedIn profile for details on this
Theme 1 — computer science
MOOCs (5)
2018 | +Intermediate C++ • Microsoft • 4 weeks
Syllabus Pointers • Reference types • Managing memory in C++ • Splitting classes • Constructors and destructors • Scope in classes • Inheritance • Encapsulation and protected access • Virtual functions and abstract classes • Stream I/O • Processing files • Strings
2015 | +Introduction to Linux • The Linux Foundation, US • 18 weeks
Syllabus The Linux Foundation • Linux philosophy and concepts • Linux structure and installation • Graphical interface • System configuration from the graphical interface • Command line operations • Finding Linux documentation • File operations • User environment • Text editors • Local security principles • Network operations • Manipulating text • Printing • Bash shell scripting • Advanced bash scripting • Processes • Common applications
2015 | +Introduction to cloud computing • IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, US • 4 weeks
2014 | +Introduction to computational thinking and data science • The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US • 8 weeks
Syllabus Plotting • Simulations and random walks • Probability and hashing • Stochastic programming and statistical thinking • Monte Carlo simulations • Using randomness to solve non-random problems • Curve fitting • Knapsack problem • Graphs and graph optimization • More on graphs • Machine learning • More on machine learning • Statistical fallacies
2014 | +Introduction to computer science and programming using Python • The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US • 8 weeks
Syllabus Introduction to computation • Core elements of programs • Simple algorithms • Functions • Recursion • Objects • Debugging • Assertions and exceptions • Efficiency and order of growth • Memory and search • Classes • Object-oriented programming • Trees
Courses (6)
2022 | GPU programming • Netherlands eScience Center, NL • 1 day
2022 | Parallel programming with Python • Netherlands eScience Center, NL • 2 days
2022 | Hands-on machine learning for fluid dynamics • von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, BE • 5 days
2018* | Introduction to programming with MPI • Delft University of Technology, NL • 1 day
2018* | Introduction to using OpenFOAM for CFD analysis • Delft University of Technology, NL • 1 day
2017 | Introduction to programming on the GPU with CUDA • Delft University of Technology, NL • 2 days
1999 | Eighth summer school on parallel processing • CINECA, IT • 2 weeks
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Theme 2 — data analysis and management
MOOCs (5)
2021 | +Delivering research data management services • The University of Edinburgh, Digital Competence Service, UK; Research Data Netherlands, NL • 5 weeks
Syllabus A case for RDM and case studies • Gap analysis and using RISE • DMP web pages and services • Repositories, metadata and legal issues • Roadmaps to implementation
2015 | +The analytics edge • The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US • 9 weeks
Syllabus Introduction to analytics • Linear regression • Logistic regression • Trees • Text analytics • Clustering • Visualization • Linear optimization • Integer optimization
2015 | +Going places with spatial analysis • ESRI – Environmental Systems Research Institute, US • 6 weeks
Syllabus Understanding and comparing places • Determining how places are related • Finding the best locations and paths • Determining and quantifying patterns • Gravity methods and spatial statistics
2014 | +Exploring statistics with R • Karolinska Institutet, SE • 5 weeks
2014 | Tackling the challenges of big data • +MIT Professional Development, US • 4 weeks
Syllabus Introduction and use cases • Big data collection (data cleaning and integration, hosted data platforms and the cloud) • Big data storage (modern databases, distributed computing platforms, noSQL newSQL) • Big data systems (security, multicore scalability, user interfaces for data) • Big data analytics (fast algorithms, data compression, machine learning tools, information summarization, applications to medicine and finance)
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Theme 3 — physics of flows and climate change
MOOCs (4)
2016 | +Monitoring the oceans from space • EUMETSAT, EU • 5 weeks
Syllabus Oceans and climate • Weather prediction • Ocean transport • Living oceans • The oceans and us
2016 | +Tsunamis and storm surges: introduction to coastal disasters • Waseda University, JP • 7 weeks
Syllabus Tsunami disasters • Storm surges disasters • Basis mechanisms • Mechanisms of disasters • Numerical prediction methods and future predictions • Disaster mitigation and the protection of residents
2014 | +Introduction to water and climate • Delft University of Technology, NL • 6 weeks
Syllabus Global water cycle • Water systems • Water and climate change • Interventions • Water in the world • Challenges
2014 | +Global warming science • The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US • 12 weeks
Syllabus Introduction and history of the Earth’s climate • A little climate physics • Paleoclimate • Instrumental record of the Earth’s climate • Composition of the atmosphere • Basic climate physics • Radiative heat transfer • Convective heat transfer and radiative-convective equilibrium • Atmospheric circulation • Clouds, aerosols, and climate • Oceans and climate • The carbon cycle and geochemistry of radiatively-active trace gases • The global climate system and climate modelling • Forcings and feedbacks in the climate system
Advanced courses (5)
2020 | Turbulence • +JM Burgerscentrum (JMBC) Research School for Fluid Mechanics, NL • 4 days
2015 | +Physics of the climate system • University of Utrecht, NL • 2 weeks
Syllabus Climate in the atmosphere • Ocean’s role in the climate system • Radiation in the Earth’s atmosphere • Diabatic processes in the atmosphere • Glaciers and climate change • Governing equations • Large-scale ocean circulation • Biogeomorphology in the coastal zone • Stratified flow and thermal winds • The general circulation in the atmosphere • Potential vorticity • Rossby waves • IPCC and climate change • Hydrofluorocarbons and ozone layer • Boundary layers
2015 | +Mixing and dispersion in flows dominated by rotation and buoyancy • CISM, IT • 1 week
Syllabus Introduction in geophysical and environmental fluid dynamics • Lagrangian dispersion of particles in turbulence • Turbulence and mixing in flows dominated by buoyancy • Mixing and transport in stratified turbulence (atmospheric boundary layer) • Mixing and transport in rotating turbulence • Mixing in stratified lakes and reservoirs • Density and turbidity currents with applications to geophysical and environmental flows
2004 | Geophysical and environmental fluid dynamics summer school • University of Cambridge, UK • 2 weeks
Syllabus Large-scale atmosphere-ocean dynamics • Geological fluid mechanics • Ocean circulation • Fundamentals of fluid mechanics • Buoyancy-driven flows • Stability of vortices in stratified rotating fluids • Stratified flows past topography • Solar variability and climate • Magma dynamics • Mixing in very stable flows • Environmental e-science
2001 | Environmental fluid mechanics: theory, application and experiments • IAHR • 2 weeks
Syllabus Turbulent diffusion and mixing • Stratified flows • Lakes and reservoirs • Rotational effects • Coastal processes • Jets and plumes • Sediment transport • Shallow lakes • Atmospheric diffusion and transport processes • Outfalls
Recent conferences (13)
2017 | +4th International Symposium on Shallow Flows • Eindhoven University of Technology, NL • 3 days • 1× speaker, 2× presentations, 1× session chair
2022, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 | NCK days • +Netherlands Centre for Coastal Research
2015 | +Applied coastal research • University of Florence, IT • 3 days
2015 | Workshop on modelling mixed-sediment river morphodynamics • Delft University of Technology, NL • 3 days
2015 | +International conference on turbulence and interactions in marine systems • INOGS, IT • 3 days
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Theme 4 — engineering flows dynamics, methods and techniques
MOOCs (1)
2016 | +Building with nature • Delft University of Technology, NL • 5 weeks
Advanced courses (15)
2022 | Hands-on machine learning for fluid dynamics • von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, BE • 5 days
2019 | Experimental techniques • +JM Burgerscentrum (JMBC) Research School for Fluid Mechanics, NL • 4 days
2018* | Advanced PETSc course • +Delft Centre for Computer Science and Engineering (DCSE), NL • 3 days
2018* | Particle-based modelling techniques • +JM Burgerscentrum (JMBC) Research School for Fluid Mechanics, NL • 1 week
2016 | Computational fluid-structure interaction • International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM)+, IT • 1 week
2016 | +Computational acoustics • International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM), IT • 1 week
2015 | +Particles in wall-bounded turbulent flows: deposition, re-suspension and agglomeration • CISM, IT • 1 week
2015 | +Dynamics of bubbly flows • CISM, IT • 1 week
2014 | OpenDA (data assimilation) • Deltares, NL • 1 day
2014 | ↓ Smoothed particle hydrodynamics • University of Manchester, UK • 2 days
2011 | Advanced SWAN course • Deltares, NL • 2 days
2008 | Delft3D introductory course • Deltares, NL • 2 days
2003 | Application of particle image velocimetry: theory and practice • +ERCOFTAC, DE • 1 week
2003 | Post-processing of experimental and numerical data • +Von Kármán Institute for Fluid Mechanics, BE • 1 week
2002 | Introduction to computational fluid dynamics • +Von Kármán Institute for Fluid Mechanics, BE • 1 week
Recent conferences (14)
2022 | +16th SPHERIC international workshop on smoothed particle hydrodynamics • Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia + Università di Catania, IT • 4 days
2021 | +15th SPHERIC international workshop on smoothed particle hydrodynamics • New Jersey Institute of Technology, US • 3 days
2019* | +14th SPHERIC international workshop on smoothed particle hydrodynamics • University of Exeter, UK • 4 days
2018* | +4th DualSPHysics users’ workshop • University of Lisbon, PT • 3 days
2018* | +13th SPHERIC international workshop on smoothed particle hydrodynamics • National University of Ireland Galway, IE • 4 days
2017 | +3th DualSPHysics users’ workshop • University of Parma, IT • 3 days
2021, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014 | +Delft Software Days • Deltares, NL • 2 weeks • 2× presentations, 2× speaker
2015 | ↓ 10th International workshop on smoothed particle hydrodynamics • +University of Parma, IT • 4 days
2014 | +Symposium on EurOtop • UNESCO-IHE, NL • 1 day
2014 | ADCP workshop • Aquavision, NL • 2 days
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* as research associate at the Delft University Technology
More competencies
∧ competency pathfinder
∨ education and career — from civil engineering to civilised engineering
∨ languages — languages for people and for computers
∨ awards and publications — award-winning articles in peer-reviewed journals • conference contributions • posters • infographics
where to go? you are in the competencies — the factsheet on lifelong learning
go on • education • languages • learning • publications
go up • the vision and solutions • the knowledge base • the track records • the testimonials
go out • +google scholar • +linkedin • +twitter • +youtube • reach Watermotion
last edited October 2021 · authored by Giordano Lipari
2018* | Introduction to programming with MPI • Delft University of Technology, NL • 1 day
2018* | Introduction to using OpenFOAM for CFD analysis • Delft University of Technology, NL • 1 day
2017 | Introduction to programming on the GPU with CUDA • Delft University of Technology, NL • 2 days
1999 | Eighth summer school on parallel processing • CINECA, IT • 2 weeks
back to theme index
Theme 2 — data analysis and management
MOOCs (5)
2021 | +Delivering research data management services • The University of Edinburgh, Digital Competence Service, UK; Research Data Netherlands, NL • 5 weeks
Syllabus A case for RDM and case studies • Gap analysis and using RISE • DMP web pages and services • Repositories, metadata and legal issues • Roadmaps to implementation
2015 | +The analytics edge • The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US • 9 weeks
Syllabus Introduction to analytics • Linear regression • Logistic regression • Trees • Text analytics • Clustering • Visualization • Linear optimization • Integer optimization
2015 | +Going places with spatial analysis • ESRI – Environmental Systems Research Institute, US • 6 weeks
Syllabus Understanding and comparing places • Determining how places are related • Finding the best locations and paths • Determining and quantifying patterns • Gravity methods and spatial statistics
2014 | +Exploring statistics with R • Karolinska Institutet, SE • 5 weeks
2014 | Tackling the challenges of big data • +MIT Professional Development, US • 4 weeks
Syllabus Introduction and use cases • Big data collection (data cleaning and integration, hosted data platforms and the cloud) • Big data storage (modern databases, distributed computing platforms, noSQL newSQL) • Big data systems (security, multicore scalability, user interfaces for data) • Big data analytics (fast algorithms, data compression, machine learning tools, information summarization, applications to medicine and finance)
back to theme index
Theme 3 — physics of flows and climate change
MOOCs (4)
2016 | +Monitoring the oceans from space • EUMETSAT, EU • 5 weeks
Syllabus Oceans and climate • Weather prediction • Ocean transport • Living oceans • The oceans and us
2016 | +Tsunamis and storm surges: introduction to coastal disasters • Waseda University, JP • 7 weeks
Syllabus Tsunami disasters • Storm surges disasters • Basis mechanisms • Mechanisms of disasters • Numerical prediction methods and future predictions • Disaster mitigation and the protection of residents
2014 | +Introduction to water and climate • Delft University of Technology, NL • 6 weeks
Syllabus Global water cycle • Water systems • Water and climate change • Interventions • Water in the world • Challenges
2014 | +Global warming science • The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US • 12 weeks
Syllabus Introduction and history of the Earth’s climate • A little climate physics • Paleoclimate • Instrumental record of the Earth’s climate • Composition of the atmosphere • Basic climate physics • Radiative heat transfer • Convective heat transfer and radiative-convective equilibrium • Atmospheric circulation • Clouds, aerosols, and climate • Oceans and climate • The carbon cycle and geochemistry of radiatively-active trace gases • The global climate system and climate modelling • Forcings and feedbacks in the climate system
Advanced courses (5)
2020 | Turbulence • +JM Burgerscentrum (JMBC) Research School for Fluid Mechanics, NL • 4 days
2015 | +Physics of the climate system • University of Utrecht, NL • 2 weeks
Syllabus Climate in the atmosphere • Ocean’s role in the climate system • Radiation in the Earth’s atmosphere • Diabatic processes in the atmosphere • Glaciers and climate change • Governing equations • Large-scale ocean circulation • Biogeomorphology in the coastal zone • Stratified flow and thermal winds • The general circulation in the atmosphere • Potential vorticity • Rossby waves • IPCC and climate change • Hydrofluorocarbons and ozone layer • Boundary layers
2015 | +Mixing and dispersion in flows dominated by rotation and buoyancy • CISM, IT • 1 week
Syllabus Introduction in geophysical and environmental fluid dynamics • Lagrangian dispersion of particles in turbulence • Turbulence and mixing in flows dominated by buoyancy • Mixing and transport in stratified turbulence (atmospheric boundary layer) • Mixing and transport in rotating turbulence • Mixing in stratified lakes and reservoirs • Density and turbidity currents with applications to geophysical and environmental flows
2004 | Geophysical and environmental fluid dynamics summer school • University of Cambridge, UK • 2 weeks
Syllabus Large-scale atmosphere-ocean dynamics • Geological fluid mechanics • Ocean circulation • Fundamentals of fluid mechanics • Buoyancy-driven flows • Stability of vortices in stratified rotating fluids • Stratified flows past topography • Solar variability and climate • Magma dynamics • Mixing in very stable flows • Environmental e-science
2001 | Environmental fluid mechanics: theory, application and experiments • IAHR • 2 weeks
Syllabus Turbulent diffusion and mixing • Stratified flows • Lakes and reservoirs • Rotational effects • Coastal processes • Jets and plumes • Sediment transport • Shallow lakes • Atmospheric diffusion and transport processes • Outfalls
Recent conferences (12)
2017 | +4th International Symposium on Shallow Flows • Eindhoven University of Technology, NL • 3 days • 1× speaker, 2× presentations, 1× session chair
2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 | NCK days • +Netherlands Centre for Coastal Research
2015 | +Applied coastal research • University of Florence, IT • 3 days
2015 | Workshop on modelling mixed-sediment river morphodynamics • Delft University of Technology, NL • 3 days
2015 | +International conference on turbulence and interactions in marine systems • INOGS, IT • 3 days
back to theme index
Theme 4 — engineering flows dynamics, methods and techniques
MOOCs (1)
2016 | +Building with nature • Delft University of Technology, NL • 5 weeks
Advanced courses (14)
2019 | Experimental techniques • +JM Burgerscentrum (JMBC) Research School for Fluid Mechanics, NL • 4 days
2018* | Advanced PETSc course • +Delft Centre for Computer Science and Engineering (DCSE), NL • 3 days
2018* | Particle-based modelling techniques • +JM Burgerscentrum (JMBC) Research School for Fluid Mechanics, NL • 1 week
2016 | Computational fluid-structure interaction • International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM)+, IT • 1 week
2016 | +Computational acoustics • International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM), IT • 1 week
2015 | +Particles in wall-bounded turbulent flows: deposition, re-suspension and agglomeration • CISM, IT • 1 week
2015 | +Dynamics of bubbly flows • CISM, IT • 1 week
2014 | OpenDA (data assimilation) • Deltares, NL • 1 day
2014 | ↓ Smoothed particle hydrodynamics • University of Manchester, UK • 2 days
2011 | Advanced SWAN course • Deltares, NL • 2 days
2008 | Delft3D introductory course • Deltares, NL • 2 days
2003 | Application of particle image velocimetry: theory and practice • +ERCOFTAC, DE • 1 week
2003 | Post-processing of experimental and numerical data • +Von Kármán Institute for Fluid Mechanics, BE • 1 week
2002 | Introduction to computational fluid dynamics • +Von Kármán Institute for Fluid Mechanics, BE • 1 week
Recent conferences (14)
2021 | +15th SPHERIC international workshop on smoothed particle hydrodynamics • New Jersey Institute of Technology, US • 3 days
2019* | +14th SPHERIC international workshop on smoothed particle hydrodynamics • University of Exeter, UK • 4 days
2018* | +4th DualSPHysics users’ workshop • University of Lisbon, PT • 3 days
2018* | +13th SPHERIC international workshop on smoothed particle hydrodynamics • National University of Ireland Galway, IE • 4 days
2017 | +3th DualSPHysics users’ workshop • University of Parma, IT • 3 days
2021, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014 | +Delft Software Days • Deltares, NL • 2 weeks • 2× presentations, 2× speaker
2015 | ↓ 10th International workshop on smoothed particle hydrodynamics • +University of Parma, IT • 4 days
2014 | +Symposium on EurOtop • UNESCO-IHE, NL • 1 day
2014 | ADCP workshop • Aquavision, NL • 2 days
back to theme index
* as research associate at the Delft University Technology
More competencies
∧ competency pathfinder
∨ education and career — from civil engineering to civilised engineering
∨ languages — languages for people and for computers
∨ awards and publications — award-winning articles in peer-reviewed journals • conference contributions • posters • infographics
where to go? you are in the competencies — the factsheet on lifelong learning
go on • education • languages • learning • publications
go up • the vision and solutions • the knowledge base • the track records • the testimonials
go out • +google scholar • +linkedin • +twitter • +youtube • reach Watermotion
last edited November 2022 · authored by Giordano Lipari
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