Thursday, September 21
MS11
Computational Science Education
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
New Hampshire 1
As computation has become ever more pervasive in science and engineering research, new educational programs are being developed to prepare students to work in computationally-oriented, interdisciplinary environments. The speakers in this minisymposium will highlight a number of innovative new educational programs in computational science at the high school, undergraduate, and post graduate levels.
Organizer: Michael T. Heath
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
- 2:00-2:25 Computational Science and the Center for Computational Research
- E. Bruce Pitman, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA
- 2:30-2:55 Computational Science in an Undergraduate Liberal Arts Environment
- Ignatios E. Vakalis, Capital University, USA
- 3:00-3:25 The Swedish National Graduate School in Scientific Computing
- Sverker Holmgren, Uppsala University, Sweden; and Anders Ynnerman, Linköping University, Sweden
- 3:30-3:55 The Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship Program
- James Corones, Krell Institute, USA