Graduate Program: Interdisciplinary Units: Computational and Applied Mathematics

The Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics (PACM) attracts students interested in the application of modern mathematical techniques to problems in engineering, chemistry, and physics. PACM administers both an undergraduate certificate program as well as a graduate program which confers a Ph.D. in Applied and Computational Mathematics, providing a core of Ph.D. students with interests in the area. Graduate students in Chemical Engineering benefit from interaction with PACM Ph.D. students; from the undergraduate and graduate courses taught through PACM; and through the establishment of superior computational facilities for research.

Towards this last end, Princeton has recently created the Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering (PICSciE), an interdisciplinary computational science and engineering institute in research, education, and service. One of PICSciE's roles is to establish, administer, and renew powerful central computational facilities on campus.

The Program in Integrative Information, Computer and Application Sciences (PICASso) provides integrative research and education training to graduatestudents in all stages of the computational pipeline, from applications through models and methods to scalable parallel and distributed computing, storage and visualization. In addition to weekly seminar series where students learn about computationally-oriented research occurring in many different disciplines, PICASso offers full courses spanning a range of computational topics, as well as shorter hands-on tutorials focusing on practical skills such as parallel programming and scientific visualization.