Matlab and Data Analysis

Course dates: Four afternoons,

- Tuesday September 22,

- Thursday September 24,

- Tuesday September 29,

- Thursday October 1, 2026,

-> 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM German time as online meeting in Microsoft Teams.

The parts of the course strongly build on each other. Participation at all days is therefore absolutely necessary. All participants will need to have installed Matlab on their own computer. Installation instructions will follow with the confirmation of registration. If your institution does not have a license for Matlab, you can get access to the license of Saarland University.

Matlab is:

• A calculator for interactive calculations

• A programming language that also provides complex functions with one command

• A tool for simple and complicated calculations with large amounts of data

• A platform to summarize and automate different steps of the data evaluation (e.g. read in data,

summarize, statistically evaluate, create graphics and save)

• A Swiss Army Knife for data analysis and simulations

Course contents:

• Interactive calculations with Matlab

• Automation for repeated tasks, e.g. the similar analysis of several data sets

• Fundamentals of programming: functions, loops, if statements

• Graphical representation of data/simulations/results

• Basic statistics with Matlab

• Import of data from file