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. 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. The director of the COMAS Graduate School is docent Antti Penttinen (Department of Statistics).
COMAS seeks to offer scientifically world-class education on the highest level of academic studies in the fields of an increasing importance. The four COMAS doctoral programmes are: Scientific Computing, Information Systems, Statistics and Software Engineering.
The Scientific Computing programme covers all the essential steps needed in computational modelling of real life phenomena. The main research areas are mathematical modelling, discretization methods (FEM), efficient solution methods (fast solvers, domain decomposition, parallelization), optimization and optimal control, and neural computing. It is anticipated that the research related to telecommunication will have an important role in the near future. The head of the programme is professor Pekka Neittaanmäki.
The COMAS programme provides wide international research co-operation. It is already involved in about 10 projects financed by the European Union. The students study in research projects, in close contact with professors and post-doctoral researchers. The participating departments have 17 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.
In 1996, the laboratory organized several courses in the framework of the ISS, the sixth International Summer Semester of the University of Jyvaskylä. The course given by M. Fremond (CNRS, Champs sur Marne) concentrated on modelling of phase transitions. Numerical aspects of parabolic free boundary problems were treated by A. Schmidt from Freiburg and by C. Verdi from Milan. Finally, I. Adan and J. van der Wal from Eindhoven introduced difference and differential equations arising from Operations Research.
Erkki Häkkinen: Neural Networks
Jonne Itkonen: Programming Environments
Sergey Korotov: Finite Element Method for Problems in Electromagnetics
Dimitri Kuzmin: Free Boundary Problems in Chemical Reactions
Kari Kärkkäinen: Free Fluid Surfaces
Mika Laitinen: Radiation Heat Transfer
Anssi Lensu: Neural Networks
Janne Mäkinen: Optimization
Tapani Ristaniemi: Telecommunications
Tomi Suviola: Modelling and Simulating Peat Drying
Mika Wikström: Optimization of Data Communication Networks
Erkki Heikkola: Fictitious Domain Methods in Acoustics and Electromagnetics
Aarni Lehtinen: The Problem of Optimal Choice
Reijo Pietikäinen: Modelling of Copying Behaviour of Paper
Tuomo Räisänen: Mathematical Modelling of Multiphase Systems
Kari Saarinen: Modelling and Simulation of IR-measurement of Humidity (ABB-Strömberg Inc.)
Lioudmila Seioukova: Free Boundary Problems in Chemistry
Jari Toivanen: Fictitious Domain Methods Applied to Shape Optimization
One licentiate degree and four doctor's degrees were completed in 1996.
PhLic
Iiris Suutarinen: Älykäs opastus opetusohjelmissa (Intelligent Guidance in Teaching Programs)
PhD
Jari Järvinen: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Simulation of Czochralski Silicon Crystal Growth
Antti Niemistö: Finite Element Approximation of Unconstrained Optimal Control Like Problems
Pekka Risku: A Computer-based Mathematics Learning Environment in Engineering Education
Tuomo Rossi: Fictitious Domain Methods with Separable Preconditioners