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The Department ofComputationaland Data
SciencesBob Weigel
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About

• Formed during re-organization of the School of
  Computational Sciences
• Approximately 100 graduate students
• New undergraduate program

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Graduate Courses

• General core course requirements. 12 credits
  from the following
• A. CSI 700 Numerical Methods
• B. CSI 701 Foundations of Computational Science
• C. CSI 702 High Performance Computing D. CSI 703
  Scientific and Statistical Visualization
• E. CSI 710 Scientific Databases

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Graduate Focus Areas

• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Computational Learning
• Computational Materials and Chemical Sciences
• Computational Mathematics
• Computational Physics
• Computational Statistics
• Quantum Information Science
• Space Sciences and Computational Astrophysics
• Computational Remote Sensing

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Undergraduate Courses

• CDS 101 Introduction to Computational and Data
  Sciences
• CDS 301 Scientific Information and Data
  Visualization
• CDS 302  Scientific Data and Databases
• CDS 401 Scientific Data Mining
• CDS 410 Modeling and Simulation I 
• CDS 411 Modeling and Simulation II

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Undergraduate Focus Areas

• Physics
• Chemistry
• Biology

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Research Focus Areas
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Modeling Chemical Weapon Releases
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Launching the Space Shuttle
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Flow past a submarine
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Waves from an Armada of Ships
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Blood Flow in the Brain
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Galaxy Collisions
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NCAR-related

• Magnetosphere
• Ionospheric conductance influence on geomagnetic
  responsiveness
• Radiation belt storm prediction
• Solar and beyond
• Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) detection
• Simulation of large-scale structure of heliosphere