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Raleigh/Durham Area Summer Workshops

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Summer 2011 Workshops


Durham County Public Schools
Determinstic and Probablity combined - June 14, 15 and 21,22, 23
Contact Dr. Karen Keene for workshop details and registration information at karen_keene@ncsu.edu

For all school districts : Workshop will be held at NC State University Friday Institute

Deterministic Modeling: August 1-4

Probability for Decision Making: August 5, and Aug 8-10

  • What: Deterministic Modeling and Probability for Decision Making Workshops
    Teachers can attend one or both workshops.
  • Time: 9:00 AM- 5:00 PM Daily

  • Description: Teachers can choose to take one or both workshops. Preference will be given to teachers coming with a colleague from their school.

    • The Deterministic Workshop is a 4-day course that will cover Multi-Attribute Utility Theory, Linear Programming, Location problems and Integer Programming. Other Deterministic topics may also be covered time permitting.
    • The Probabilistic Workshop is a 4-day course that will cover Decision Trees, Basic Probability, Binomial, Geometric and Normal Distributions. May also include Quality Control, Bayes Theorem, PERT, Markov and Queuing if time permitting. The Probabilistic Workshop will be an abbreviated version of the Probabilistic Workshop offered at UNCC.

  • Teacher Benefits: Teachers will earn CEU’s by attending the workshops.

  • Application Procedure: Please contact Dr. Molly Purser at mfpurser@ncsu.edu
  • For more information contact: Dr. Karen Keene at karen_keene@ncsu.edu