THE LABORATORY OF SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING


The laboratory was founded in January 1992 to provide surroundings and support for researchers in the areas of applied mathematics and computing at the University of Jyväskylä. The laboratory has about 40 employees including over 20 doctoral students or post-doctoral researchers.

The main research areas are foundations of computational methods (e.g., the finite element method, domain decomposition methods, nonsmooth and multiobjective optimization), computational mechanics and physics, control and identification, computational methods of large-scale systems, telecommunications and software engineering.

International collaboration

The international collaboration is considered extremely important for the laboratory. Annually, the laboratory is visited by about 40 researchers from abroad, not to mention the Finnish visitors. The staff participates actively international conferences and colloquia and gives presentations.

Research projects

The main research areas of the Laboratory are:

The different areas have a fairly common mathematical background which makes the communication possible also between projects in different areas. Moreover, much effort has been invested in the common computational environment which on one hand reduces the routine work in the projects, and on the other hand makes it easier for the projects to communicate with each other.

The active research projects of the laboratory are described in the Annual Report 1997.


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