# General info

## Course meetings

- 9:00-16:00, May 25-29 on Zoom

Zoom meeting attendance is mandatory and any absences must be cleared by the instructor prior to the start of class that day.

## Instructor

- David Whipp

    - Office: C417, Exactum
    - Email: *firstname.lastname@helsinki.fi*
    - Phone: +358 (0)2 941 51617

## Course website

[https://introgm.github.io](https://introgm.github.io)

## Course completion methods

- Computer programming exercises
- (Online) 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.