Overview of Graduate CSE Education in Europe

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Overview of Graduate CSE Education in Europe

• Lennart Edsberg
• Numerical Analysis Department
• CSC,KTH,Stockholm
• Sweden

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Contents

• Example of a CSE program development KTH
  1990-2009
• Increasing diversity of CSE programs in Europe
  specializations
• Where in Europe?
• Erasmus Mundus
• Vision of future graduate CSE programs
• Double degree program

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• CSE is well-established as a discipline in its
  own right with research centers, departments, and
  education programs around the world. We are now
  witnessing how CSE forms a new platform for great
  scientific progress.

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Example of a CSE program development SciComp
Master Program at KTH, Sweden

• 1990 Specialization within the Engineering
  Physics Program initiated by prof Germund
  Dahlquist with courses taken from existing
  curriculum
• 1997 International Master Program 1.5 years
  initiated by prof Björn Engquist with courses
  specially designed for SciComp
• 2006 Bologna process Program extended to 2 years
  
• 2006 First attempt to make an Erasmus Mundus
  program together with Delft, Berlin and Erlangen
• 2007 Specializations within the Program
  introduced CFD and Biocomputing
• 2008 Double degree Program with University of
  Erlangen one year at each university gives
  double degrees
• 2008 Plans to start a Bachelor program in SciComp
  at KTH
• Important with a research environment At KTH we
  have PDC, KCSE
• 
  and CIAM

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CSE education how and when did it start in
Europe?

• Around 1970 and later research institutes in
  applied and industrial mathematics were founded.
  Education in what was to become CSE started at a
  few technical universities.
• In 1980 Univ of Kaiserslautern started a Diploma
  program in Techno-Mathematics
• In 1986 ECMI European consortium for
  mathematics in industry was established with a.o.
  education in industrial mathematics at Master
  level.
• In 1997 three CSE International Master programs
  started in Europe
• 1) Erlangen/Nuremberg, 2) ETH, 3)
  KTH
• Around 2005 the Bologna system 323 started at
  most universities in EU. CSE Master programs
  become more and more frequent.

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Increasing diversity and specializations in the
award of degrees

• General (non-specialized) Master degree in
• SciComp CompSci CompSciEngn CompEngn
  CompEngnSci
• Also narrow specializations in CSE such as Master
  degree in
• Comp mechanics Visualization
• Comp chemistry Image processing
• Comp mathematics High performance
  computing
• Comp physics
• Comp biology bioinformatics
• or nearby names such as
• Mathematical modeling, Industrial
  mathematics, Applied and computational
  mathematics, etc

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Universities in Europe offering Master degree in
CSE and/or Comp X

• Austria 3
• Denmark 1
• Finland 1
• Germany 16
• France 4
• Irelend 1
• Italy 3

• Netherlands 5
• Norway 2
• Poland 1
• Spain 1
• Sweden 4
• Switzerland 2
• United Kingdom 7

There is a listing of universities in the US
giving undergraduate and/or graduate CSE-type
programs in session MS16 by Charles Swansson.
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Erasmus Mundus

• A European educational organization for creating
  excellent
• clusters of universities offering Master and PhD
  programs.
• Started in 2004.
• Less than 10 of the applications get through.
• Attractive since scholarships are given to those
  students who
• are accepted.
• Today two programs (of about 100) are of
  CSE-type
• Industrial Mathematics Eindhofen,
  Kaiserslautern, Linz
• Computational Mechanics Barcelona, Swansea,
  Stuttgart,
• Nantes

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Future development of CSE graduate education in
Europe

• Global competition from US, East Asia and other
  upcoming countries
• The CSE education should be based on expertize
  involving both bredth and depth, e.g. by
  combining skills from several universities and/or
  research centra
• - educational networks
• - double degree programs
• - Erasmus Mundus cluster programs
• Recognize CSE as an independent discipline and
• organize departments where competence from
  all CSE
• fields are gathered to a group with enough
  critical mass

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FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg KTH
Stockholm
Double-Degree Master Program

• Core courses (taught at both
  universities)
• 15 ECTS Numerical
  Analysis
• 15 ECTS
  Applied Mathematics
• 15 ECTS
  Scientific Computing

Workshop in depth advising the students to
prepare for transfer
15 ECTS preparatory courses for specialization
(partly given by guest professor from KTH)
15 ECTS preparatory courses for specialization
(partly given by guest professor from FAU)
Transfer
Specialization in 15 ECTS Visualization and Image
Processing OR 15 ECTS High Performance
Computing AND 15 ECTS Electives
Specialization in 15 ECTS Bio-modeling OR 15 ECTS
CFD AND 15 ECTS Electives
30 ECTS Master
Thesis
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Typical(?) curriculum for a CSE Master Program

• Prerequisites BSci, BEngn (or similar) with at
  least 180 ECTS
• Mathematics (solid
  background), Computer science,
• Numerical analysis,
  courses in 1-2 CSE applications
• Core courses Numerical analysis, advanced level
• Numerical
  algebra
• ODEs, PDEs
  with FD, FEM, FV
• Numerical
  optimization
• Applied mathematics
• Mathematical
  models and modeling
• Analytical
  tools, e.g. asymptotic expansions, singular
• 
  perturbations etc
• Computer science for
  scientific computing
• HPC,
  visualization, parallel algorithms and computing
• Specializations Comp X, where X fluid
  dynamics, chemistry, molecular dynamics,
  electromagnetics, biology, material science, etc
• Master Thesis