There will be two one day Elmer courses taking place in May. Elmer basic course on monday the 18th and Elmer advanced course on tuesday the 19th. The basic course is independent while the advanced course assumes some background information.

Elmer Basic course is intended for persons with no or little prior knowledge of Elmer but some background on the solution of partial differential equations. The emphasis on the course will be on the use of Elmer through its new graphical user interface, ElmerGUI. After the course the participants should be able to solve basic modeling problems themselves and have basic knowledge on the features of Elmer software.

http://www.csc.fi/english/csc/courses/archive/elmer_basic_may09

Elmer advanced course is intended for people who want to go beoynd the graphical user interface and know more about program architecture, parallel computation, basic programming, for example. It is assumed that the users have some background in Elmer and finite elements. Participation in the Elmer basic course the day before gives sufficient starting point for people with some background in numerical methods.

http://www.csc.fi/english/csc/courses/archive/elmer_advanced_may09

Note that if you want to join both courses remember also to register to both of them. The deadline for registration (and cancelation) is May the 8th. If you want to discuss or work with some specific modeling problems it will help if you inform of it in advance.