In the year 1996, the main research areas in the Laboratory of Scientific Computing have been the foundations of computational methods, computational mechanics and physics, control and identification, computational methods for large-scale systems, operations research and neural networks. Two new professors, Pekka Orponen and Pasi Koikkalainen, have joined the research team.
The scientific work in the laboratory has been productive: three monographs, ten journal papers, and 37 other publications have been published. Moreover, four doctoral degrees and one licentiate degree have been completed.
Scientific computing is one of the four research programmes of the Jyväskylä Graduate School in Computing and Mathematical Sciences (COMAS). COMAS is a doctoral programme, jointly organized by the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, the Department of Statistics, and the Department of Mathematics at the University of Jyväskylä. Currently, there are seven doctoral theses in scientific computing under preparation.
The international collaboration has been active in 1996. We had 32 foreign visitors and the members of the staff made 46 trips to conferences and colloquia abroad. Professors J. Haslinger, Yu. A. Kuznetsov and J. Periaux, our part-time foreign professors, visited several times.
Our national sponsors have been the University of Jyväskylä, the Academy of Finland, TEKES (Technology Development Centre of Finland) and some enterprises as well as some research and cultural foundations.
Jyväskylä, December 1996
Raino A.E. Mäkinen
Head of the Laboratory