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.
WHAT'S NEW:
FICS is coordinated at Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Aalto University. The director of FICS is professor Samuel Kaski and the coordinator is Dr. Ella Bingham.