Finnish Doctoral Programme in Computational Sciences FICS / Laskennallisten tieteiden tohtoriohjelma
Finnish Doctoral Programme in Computational Sciences, FICS (in Finnish: Laskennallisten tieteiden tohtoriohjelma) is a network of 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. and gives travel stipends. FICS offers funded and non-funded positions for excellent doctoral students for a maximum of 4 years.
WHAT'S NEW:
- FICS Winter Meeting on January 13, 2012, for students, supervisors and mentors
- FICS supervisors Nikolay Kuznetsov and Gennady Leonov and FICS student Vladimir Vagaytsev from University of Jyväskylä have solved a famous problem in chaos theory
- Doctoral dissertation of FICS student Olga Kuznetsova, "Lyapunov Quantities and Limit Cycles in Two-dimensional Dynamical Systems: Analytical Methods, Symbolic Computation and Visualization" at University of Jyväskylä in November 2011, congratulations!
- Doctoral dissertation of FICS student Petri Hiltunen, "Regularization methods for diffuse optical tomography" at Aalto University School of Science in November 2011, congratulations!
- Doctoral dissertation of FICS student Antti Solonen, "Bayesian Methods for Estimation, Optimization and Experimental Design" at Lappeenranta University of Technology in November 2011, congratulations!
- Doctoral dissertation of FICS student Lauri Oksanen, "Inverse problem for the wave equation : partial data and novel boundary sources" at University of Helsinki in December 2011, congratulations!
- Doctoral dissertation of FICS student Jussi Kajala, "Expansion Dynamics in Fermionic Quantum Gases" at Aalto University in December 2011, congratulations!
- Doctoral dissertation of FICS student Pekka Parviainen, "Algorithms for Exact Structure Discovery in Bayesian Networks" at University of Helsinki in February 2012, congratulations!
FICS is coordinated at Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Aalto University School of Science (formerly known as Helsinki University of Technology). The director of FICS is professor Samuel Kaski and the coordinator is Dr. Ella Bingham.
