The Kumpula Campus (, ) is a science

campus A campus traditionally refers to the land and buildings of a college or university. This will often include libraries, lecture halls, student centers and, for residential universities, residence halls and dining halls. By extension, a corp ...

of the

University of Helsinki The University of Helsinki (, ; UH) is a public university in Helsinki, Finland. The university was founded in Turku in 1640 as the Royal Academy of Åbo under the Swedish Empire, and moved to Helsinki in 1828 under the sponsorship of Alexander ...

. The campus is located some four kilometres from the centre of

Helsinki Helsinki () is the Capital city, capital and most populous List of cities and towns in Finland, city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About people live in the municipali ...

, in the Kumpula district. Completed in 2005, it currently provides study and research facilities for about 6,000 students and 1,000 teachers/researchers.

Departments of the Faculty of Science

The University of Helsinki departments housed on the campus are: * Department of

Chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...

* Department of

Computer Science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...

* Department of

Geosciences Earth science or geoscience includes all fields of natural science related to the planet Earth. This is a branch of science dealing with the physical, chemical, and biological complex constitutions and synergistic linkages of Earth's four spheres ...

and

Geography Geography (from Ancient Greek ; combining 'Earth' and 'write', literally 'Earth writing') is the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. Geography is an all-encompassing discipline that seeks an understanding o ...

* Department of

Mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

and

Statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ...

* Department of

Physics Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...

Other institutions

A number of related or independent institutions are housed on the campus, e.g.: * The Finnish Institute for Verification of the Chemical Weapons Convention (VERIFIN) * The Finnish Museum of Natural History Dating Laboratory * The Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) * The Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT) * The Institute of

Seismology Seismology (; from Ancient Greek σεισμός (''seismós'') meaning "earthquake" and -λογία (''-logía'') meaning "study of") is the scientific study of earthquakes (or generally, quakes) and the generation and propagation of elastic ...

* The Luma Centre * The Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) * Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) The Kumpula Science Library provides scientific library services for the campus.

Buildings

The campus consists of the following buildings: * Chemicum (Dept. of Chemistry; VERIFIN) * Physicum (Depts. of Physics, Geography, and Geology; Science Library; Dating Lab.; HIP) * Exactum (Depts. of Computer Science and Math & Statistics; I. of Seismology; HIIT) * Dynamicum (FIMR, FMI, ICOS) * Accelerator Laboratory * Kumpula manor * Sport Center The Kumpula Botanical Garden is located adjacent to the campus.

External links

Faculty of Science

Information about The Kumpula Campus

Kumpula Campus Library

The Journey Planner of Helsinki Metropolitan Public Transport Authority
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