Modelling Applications for Environmental and Cultural Heritage Physics

The course gives insights into the application of models of widespread use in Environmental and Cultural Heritage Physics. The student is provided with advanced modelling competences useful for his/her future both in research and as professional in environmental or cultural heritage fields.
The course is structured using both frontal lessons and practical exercises. Frontal lessons recall physical and mathematical concepts at the basis of the models, and the aims of models application to answer to open issues in environmental (e.g. pollutants source apportionment) or cultural heritage (e.g. material characterization) fields. Practical exercises provide informatics tools for models application and will allow the student to gain experience in results interpretation.

At the end of the course, the student:
- Knows the presented modelling approaches, their physical and mathematical bases, their importance in environmental and cultural heritage fields, and the main informatic tools for their application;
- Is able to identify the most suitable model to be applied to answer to specific questions in environmental or cultural heritage fields, also depending on the available data. He/she is able to identify and use the most suitable informatic tools to elaborate the available data using the chosen model;
- Can critically interpret the model results to answer to specific questions;
- Can support his/her model choice and can discuss the results in the frame of the open issues in environmental and cultural heritage fields;
- In autonomy, he/she can gain deeper insights into the topics of the course and can approach different programming languages.