Education, Master Class, Topics 2001/2002

Master Class 2001/ 2002


Scientific Computing

Scientific Organisation: R.P. Stevenson
Period: September 2001 - June 2002

Program

The contents of the courses offered in this Master Class can be found here.

Scientific Computing

One of the fastest growing areas in contemporary mathematics is the field of Scientific Computing. Based on solid mathematical and physical foundations, it aims
to model large and complex processes from various origin,
to develop computational tools for their implementation, and
to draw conclusions from the output obtained.
In this Master Class, specialists from the MRI universities of Groningen, Nijmegen and Utrecht highlight, in a number of courses, a spectrum of topics ranging from abstract approximation theory to practical parallel implementation on supercomputers. Roughly speaking, Scientific Computing concerns the transformation of abstractly formulated relations between variables into qualitative pictures and quantitative tabulars that make those relations visible. For example, given a complicated set of coupled partial differential equations that -at least theoretically- describes the evolution of atmospherical processes, produce a weather prediction for tomorrow - under the conditions that these computations do not take more than a day! Due to the ongoing increase in computing power of modern computers and the development of better numerical algorithms, the role of computer simulations is getting more and more important in science and engineering.


Brochure

Here is this year's brochure.

Participants

Here is a list of the foreign participants of the Master Class.