Computational Sciences voltijd

Would you like to confront a tornado in virtual reality and predict its path of destruction? Or understand the behaviour of financial markets?

What is Computational Science?
Computational Science seeks to explain the complex world we live in using technological simulations. By collecting data and creating computer models, computational scientists can make predictions on varying problems such as how to influence the flow of traffic, how an epidemic will spread or the probability of individuals in society becoming addicted to drugs. The curriculum relies heavily on algorithmic-driven procedures (step-by-step procedure for solving a problem in a limited number of steps), but also involves lots of mathematics and logic. Students will learn to apply this knowledge to different research areas in the natural sciences.

In the Master's you will learn:
to build computational models from real-life observations;
to develop skills in turning these models into computational structures and perform large-scale simulations;
theory that gives you a firm basis for the analysis of complex simulations;
to analyse the results of your simulations in a virtual laboratory using advanced numerical algorithms;
to control the power of the largest supercomputers.