| Description |
The Pythagoras Graduate School is funded by the Finnish Ministry of Education and the Academy of Finland.
It is a collaboration between several Finnish universities where music-related research is conducted. The
Pythagoras School provides a forum where doctoral students from different universities and with different
backgrounds (e.g. engineering, musicology, music theory, mathematics, psychology) meet and learn from each other and from their
supervisors. The school meets about four times a year, usually in Jyväskylä, Helsinki or Espoo. The students give
presentations on their research, and they get feedback from the others. A multi-disciplinary forum like
this teaches scientific communication skills to cope with audiences with limited and different prior
knowledge on their topic. Supervisors provide short tutorial talks on their field. In some meetings,
respected researchers from other universities or from abroad are invited to give lectures or short courses.
The research topics of the Pythagoras doctoral students vary from computer music and music technology
to brain research of music cognition.
|
