Finnish Graduate School in Computational Sciences FICS / Laskennallisten tieteiden tutkijakoulu
Finnish Graduate School in Computational Sciences, FICS (in Finnish: Laskennallisten tieteiden tutkijakoulu) is a doctoral program jointly offered by 22 departments in 9 universities in Finland.
Computational science forms a new "third pillar" of scientific inquiry, complementing theory and experimentation.
FICS brings together the core methodological topics and important fields of application of computational sciences:
(1) Computational Statistics and Information Technology
(2) Numerical and Applied Mathematics
(3) Computational Physics
(4) Computational Biology
(5) Future Computational Sciences (economics, medicine, agriculture, humanities, ecology, neuroscience etc.)
FICS acts as a channel for cooperation in research and thesis supervision. It organizes courses, summer schools, research visits etc. FICS offers funded and non-funded positions for excellent doctoral students for a maximum of 4 years. The call for applications for student positions starting on August 1, 2010 has closed and we are now processing the applications.
WHAT'S NEW:
- New students have been selected
- FICS summer school for all students and supervisors: August 16-20 in the Helsinki region. More information will follow. Note: we will start on Aug 16 already, with innovation & entrepreneurship training
FICS is coordinated at Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Aalto University School of Science and Technology (formerly known as Helsinki University of Technology). The director of FICS is professor Samuel Kaski and the coordinator is Dr. Ella Bingham.
