About Us

Physics of Earth and Complex Systems (PECS) Research Division at Institut Teknologi Bandung was founded in 1978. The group concern on complexity of the physical system and its response. By imposing the central paradigm namely complex system to the physical concepts, common tolls such as numerical methods, expert system and symbolic manipulation, nonlinearity and robust prediction, as well as fuzzy logic and artificial neural network are applied to solve the related problems. Recently, the main research activities focused on the two main issues concerning the national energy survival and mitigation of the natural disaster. Those include electromagnetic technology for exploration, fluid dynamics and rock physics, as well as seismicity.

Our Curriculum 2024

We offer several elective courses that are in-phase with the state of the art research on geophysics, environmental physics, econophysics, dynamics of complex system, and computational physics. Students from the Department of Physics, as well as students from another departments of ITB, can choose these elective courses as part of their study. In Physics Department, students must follow their respective core curriculum made by the each Study Program.

1. The core curriculum / required courses for the undergraduate (BS/S.Si) degree are shown here.
2. The core curriculum / required courses for the graduate – Master (MS/M.Si) degree are shown here.
3. The core curriculum / required courses for the graduate – Master in Physics Teaching (MS/MPFis.) degree are shown here.
4. The core curriculum / required courses for the graduate – Doctoral (Dr.) degree are shown here.

Elective Courses for Undergraduate Degree:

In this strata we offer 9 classes that students could choose for their degree completion

1. FI3161 Fisika Batuan dan Karakterisasi Lubangbor (2 c.u)
2. FI3162 Fisika Gunung api dan Panas bumi (2 c.u)
3. FI3163 Geosains untuk Fisika Bumi (2 c.u)
4. FI3161 Ekonofisika dan Sosiofisika (2 c.u)
5. FI3262 Eksplorasi Elektromagnetik Kebumian (2 c.u)
6. FI3264 Pencitraan Reservoir, Seismik dan Resistivitas (2 c.u)
7. FI4161 Inversi, Pemrosesan Sinyal dan Citra (2 c.u)
8. FI4262 Mekanika Deformasi Batuan dan Geohazard (2 c.u)
9. FI4263 Kuliah Lapangan Metode Fisika Bumi (3 c.u)

Elective Courses for Graduate Degrees:

In this strata we offer 5 classes that students could choose for their degree completion.

1. FI5161 Pencitraan Dinamika Bawah Permukaan Bumi (2 c.u)
2. FI5162 Fisika Batuan dan Karakterisasi Reservoir (2 c.u)
3. FI5261 Pemodelan dan Inversi Fisika Bumi (2 c.u)
4. FI6161 Vulkanologi dan Geotermal (2 c.u)
5. FI6261 Kapita Selekta Fisika Bumi dan Sistem Kompleks (2 c.u)

Recommended Electives from the Department:

FBSK Students from undergraduate and graduate levels are also encouraged to take the following electives for their degree completion

1. FI3091 Internship (2 c.u) – for undergraduate students
2. FI3092 Independent Study (2 c.u) – for undergraduate students
3. FI6003 Scientific Writing (2 c.u) – for undergraduate and graduate student
4. FI6004 Physical Data Processing (2 c.u) – for undergraduate and graduate students
5. FI6091 Independent Study I (2 c.u) – for graduate student
6. FI6092 Independent Study II (2 c.u) – for graduate student
7. FI8001 Scientific Writing and Publication (2 c.u) – for doctorate student

Summer School 2019

Our research group in collaboration with World Class University (WCU) ITB will commence the “3rd Summer School on Computaional Modeling in Geosciences” from August 12th to the 23rd 2019 in Institut Teknologi Bandung. Details regarding the summer school can be found in the folowing link. Documentations and activities from the 2nd summer school in 2018 can be found in the following site.

hmahardi; March 9th, 2025