News Article:
- Computing program approved, UB Reporter, June 22, 2000.
An Advanced (Graduate) Certificate in Computational Science
The State Education Department and the Chancellor of the State University of New York have approved an Advanced (Graduate) Certificate in Computational Science at the University at Buffalo. Computational Science is an emerging discipline, uniting ideas in mathematics and computer science together with applications arising in science and engineering. Because it complements theoretical and experimental investigations, Computational Science is often referred to as "the third science". The Certificate recognizes a student's special training in scientific computing and applications. This Certificate is a cooperative program involving the Center for Computational Research and the Departments of Mathematics, Physics, Chemical Engineering and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; other departments have expressed an interest in joining the program.
The Certificate requires a total of 15 hours of graduate coursework (usually 5 courses). A two-semester course in High Performance Computing is common for all students in the program; the remaining nine hours consists of options chosen from computing and applications courses specific to each participating department. By exposing students to some of the fundamental methods in computational science, while also providing them with an understanding of the application of computing within their chosen discipline, the requirements highlight the interdisciplinary nature of computational science.
The University at Buffalo has made a significant investment in creating the Center for Computational Research, a facility that provides leading edge computing and visualization resources to the University and Western New York communities. The Certificate Program and the new courses in High Performance Computing were designed to help train UB students in the methods of scientific computing on modern computing hardware available at CCR.
Examples of previous student work:
- A Molecular Dynamics Simulation of 2D Flow Around a Cylinder, by Gang Pan, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
- Direct Simulation Monte Carlo for Rayleigh Flow, by Cosmin Safta, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
- Numerical Simulation of Blood Flow in a Blood Vessel with an Aneurysm by Constantin Nichita, Department of Mathematics.
