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 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.