Graduate Studies
Over thirty graduate students from different FSU departments are currently working with SCS faculty, enjoying SCS computational resources and interdisciplinary environment.
In addition, the school has developed new graduate programs in computational science; these include both M.S. and Ph.D. programs. The Master's program started in the 2006, and the Ph.D. program was recently approved to start in 2007. Both programs are now accepting students for the fall of 2007. The Ph.D. program allows specialization in the following areas:
- atmospheric science
- biochemistry
- biological science
- geological science
- materials science
- physics
as well as in aspects of
- computational mathematics
- computer science
relevant to computational science.
The master's degree program has a track which meets the criteria for the Sloan Foundation's Professional Science Master's degree, which is geared towards students who want to work in industry or government after completion of a master's degree.
The goal of the Ph.D. program in Computational Science is to train graduate students to have extensive knowledge in computational science and to allow them to acquire expertise in one or more areas of applied science or engineering. Thus the degree provides the student with breadth as well as depth. Graduates should be able to successfully collaborate with scientists in other disciplines. Ideally, students should learn to develop, use and analyze new computational procedures that can be utilized in a variety of fields.
The goal of the Professional Science Master's Program (PSM) is to train students to be technically adept in computational science, to acquire knowledge of an applied science discipline, to manage a project, work in teams, and to effectively communicate ideas and results.
M.S. in Computational Science (including PSM)
