General info#

Course meetings#

  • 9:15-15:45 on May 18-22 in D104, Physicum

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

Instructor#

David Whipp

  • Office: D426, Exactum

  • Email: firstname.lastname@helsinki.fi

Course website#

https://introgm.github.io

Course completion methods#

  • Computer programming exercises

  • 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.)

You will also benefit from having at least basic knowledge of programming in Python.