Advanced mathematical modeling and high performance methods in numerical simulations open new perspectives for science, research and economy. Exploiting the capabilities of modern supercomputers, increasingly complex problems can be tackled – covering a very broad spectrum of disciplines, from exact and natural sciences to economics and social sciences, including biomedical, environmental, materials, and engineering sciences.

The ICS (Institute of Computational Science) provides a unique research environment, where strong competences in modeling, simulation and information science come together in an open and application oriented atmosphere. 

One of the main priorities of the ICS is to provide a quality education in the area of computational science on bachelor, master and PhD level.  Application-oriented curriculum in computational science combines the most relevant topics of informatics, applied mathematics, high performance computing with key elements and concepts from such application areas as computational biomechanics, molecular physics, climate/weather research and computational finance. Special emphasis is on understanding of the most relevant mathematical and methodological concepts as a universal bridge between the real world processes and informatics.

Our field of studies offer the possibility to learn a strongly interdisciplinary method for solving problems, still focusing either more on the mathematical or the informatics aspects of the discipline. Throughout the studies, the student will continuously work on projects, in close collaboration with ICS partners such as CSCS and SUPSI.