Organization and Administration: Steering group, Departments

FICS started in January 2010 as a multidisciplinary initiative, combining together the core methodological topics and important application areas 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.)

The existing graduate school ComBi was merged into FICS as of January 1, 2010.

Coordination

Director of FICS: Professor Samuel Kaski, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Aalto University School of Science
Coordinator of FICS: Dr. Ella Bingham, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Aalto University School of Science
FICS is coordinated at Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT which is a joint institute of Aalto University and University of Helsinki.

Steering group

The steering group works with the director in planning and executing annual action plans and budgets. It decides on the student application review process and student admissions. Each of the five fields of FICS is represented in the Steering group, with an extra representative from the ComBi graduate school.

• Tapio Ala-Nissilä, Prof., Dept. of Applied Physics, Aalto Univ. (Computational Physics). Deputy: Prof. Mikko Alava
• Mats Gyllenberg, Prof., Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Univ. Helsinki (Vice Chairman; Computational Biology). Deputy: Prof. Jukka Corander
• Samuel Kaski, Prof., Dept. of Information and Computer Science, Aalto Univ. (Chairman; Future Computational Sciences). Deputy: Prof. Harri Lähdesmäki
• Antti Penttinen, Prof., Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Univ. Jyväskylä (Computational Statistics and IT). Deputy: Prof. Kaisa Miettinen
• Keijo Ruotsalainen, Prof., Dept. of Electrical and Information Engineering, Mathematics Division, Univ. Oulu (Numerical and Applied Mathematics). Deputy: Prof. Timo Eirola
• Esko Ukkonen, Prof., Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. Helsinki (Computational Biology). Deputy: Prof. Veli Mäkinen

Supervisors

All students have a computational sciences expert as a supervisor, and usually also a supervisor in the application field. If your supervisor is not listed in the board of advisors, contact a member of the board of advisors before making the application. An preliminary list of other potential supervisors is here.

Participating universities and departments

The individual departments at universities are the basic units of education. The universities grant the degrees, and they are the employers of the students.

• Aalto University, School of Science
  • Department of Information and Computer Science
  • Department of Applied Physics
  • Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science
  • Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis
  • Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT
• University of Helsinki
  • Department of Mathematics and Statistics
  • Department of Computer Science
  • Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences
  • Institute of Biotechnology
  • Institute of Biomedicine
  • Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT
• University of Jyväskylä
  • Department of Mathematics and Statistics
  • Department of Mathematical Information Technology
• University of Oulu
  • Department of Electrical and Information Engineering
  • Department of Chemistry
• Tampere University of Technology
  • Department of Signal Processing
  • Department of Physics
  • Department of Mathematics
• University of Eastern Finland, Department of Physics and Mathematics

• University of Tampere, Institute of Medical Technology

• Lappeenranta University of Technology, Department of Mathematics and Physics

• University of Turku, Department of Mathematics

Strategic Committee

The Strategic Committee of FICS represents the main partner and co-operating organizations, including industry and graduate schools. It makes strategic motions in particular about collaboration.

Page created by Ella Bingham, firstname.lastname@hiit.fi
Acknowledgements to Dr. Greger Linden for some of the material displayed on FICS pages.