General info ============ Course meetings --------------- - 9:30-16:30, May 14-18 in room D211, Exactum Class attendance is mandatory and any absences must be cleared by the instructors prior to the start of class that day. Instructors ----------- * Lars Kaislaniemi * Office: D422, Exactum * Email: *firstname.lastname@helsinki.fi* * Phone: +358 (0)2 941 51587 * David Whipp * Office: D430, Exactum * Email: *firstname.lastname@helsinki.fi* * Phone: +358 (0)2 941 51617 Course website -------------- ``_ Course completion methods ------------------------- - Computer programming exercises - Attendance of at least 80% of course lectures/exercises - Optional research project/paper Suggested background studies ---------------------------- Students taking this course should have - Basic knowledge of geodynamic processes in the lithosphere (stress and strain, elasticity, viscous flow, plasticity, heat transfer, etc.) - Familiarity with basic computer programming concepts (loops, conditional statements, etc.) - General understanding of calculus (derivatives, integrals, etc.) It is not required, but you will also benefit from having some knowledge of programming in Python.