Lecture courses were given in 1995 on applied mathematics and computer science in three levels for undergraduate students. Topics of the courses were programming in C and in Fortran, applications for microcomputers, operating systems, numerical methods, optimization methods, graphical interfaces, artificial intelligence, scientific computing, mathematical algorithms, numerical solution of partial differential equations (the finite element method), simulation, convex analysis, control theory and digital image processing. Several new courses in telecommunications were started. The main subjects provided for the students are scientific computing, telecommunications and software engineering.
A part of the courses for undergraduate and graduate students were given in English by foreign visitors. Professor M. Rudnicki talked about genetic and neural computing, professor C.A. Marinov about signal processing and professor Yu.A. Kuznetsov lectured about substructuring preconditioners for elliptic FE-problems on nonmatching grids.
Moreover, six 30 hour high level courses in the area of applied mathematics and three 20 hour high level courses in the area of computer science were included in the 5th International Summer School of the University of Jyväskylä. Prof. G.F. Carey lectured about the finite element method for partial differential equations and prof. D. Tiba gave lectures about the optimal control of elliptic systems and applications. Prof. E. Oja talked about neural networks and pattern recognition, prof. J. Norbury about nonlinear dynamical systems, fractals and chaos, and prof. A. Kirjanen lectured about the stability and control of dynamical systems. In addition, prof. M. Consens gave lectures about resource discovery in global information systems, ass. prof. S. Conger talked about object-oriented analysis and design, and prof. C. Rolland lectured about modelling methodologies.
Jyväskylä Graduate School in Computing and Mathematical Sciences (COMAS) was founded in 1994. COMAS is a doctoral programme in computing and mathematical sciences offered by the University of Jyväskylä. COMAS programme provides scientifically high-quality education and a convenient research environment. The programme is jointly organized by three departments: the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, the Department of Statistics, and the Department of Mathematics.
Scientific computing is one of the four research programmes of COMAS. The others are software engineering, information systems, and statistics. The main areas of software engineering are management of software production, object-oriented methods and programming languages, document management, and computer-aided software engineering (CASE).
The information systems (IS) programme contains education and research of organizational and managemental IS applications. The main areas are information systems methodologies and tools (e.g., computer-aided methodology engineering, selection of IS development tools, exception handling in ISs, and introduction of information technology), IS management and evaluation, and applications of ISs (e.g., multimedia ISs, computer supported co-operative work (CSCW), and executive ISs).
The main areas in statistics are spatial and computationally intensive statistical methods, statistics for data obtained through complex sampling, analysis of longitudinal data, and industrial statistics.
The COMAS programme provides wide international research co-operation. It is already involved in about 10 projects financed by the European Community. The students study in research projects, in close contact with professors and post-doctoral researchers. The participating departments have 15 professors or associate professors. Each student has one main advisor and two other advisors (from Finland or abroad). The COMAS programme consists of 60-70 full-time doctoral students.
The director of the COMAS Graduate School is professor Kalle Lyytinen (Department of Computer Science and Information Systems), and the vice director is docent Antti Penttinen (Department of Statistics).
There are eleven post-graduate students and twelve doctoral candidates in the area of scientific computing (including COMAS).
Four Licentiate degrees and four doctor's degrees were completed in 1995.
