Is Computational Science the study for me?

Would you like to confront a tornado in virtual reality and predict its intentions? Or understand the behaviour of financial markets? What if you could simulate the outcome of a surgical procedure before it is put into practice?

Computational science is a relatively new discipline that has established itself as the third pillar of modern science (alongside theoretical and experimental science), and involves the modelling, simulation and analysis of world phenomena through computation. This has opened up new windows onto the physical and social sciences, earth sciences and life sciences at many levels of scale.

Studying Computational Science at the University of Amsterdam

The programme is centred at Science Park in Amsterdam, where several leading scientific institutes have teamed up with the UvA to create this programme. This gives you unique opportunities for conducting your graduation research. Cooperating organisations are:

• The National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands (CWI),
• The Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (UvA/HIMS),
• The Astronomical Institute