MSc in Computational Science
Learn how to use computational science to do research in chemistry, chemical biology, biophysics and chemical physics.
Duration
TBA
Starting Date
TBA
Tuition Fee
ZAR TBA
Location
Cape Town, South Africa
About the programme
The Masters in Computational Science is designed to prepare students in the methodology needed to do research in chemistry, chemical biology, biophysics and chemical physics using computational science.
These academic disciplines have a critical dependence on computer simulation and large-scale data analysis to understand observed phenomena and advance disciplinary knowledge.
By focusing on either computation or informatics, students of the course will complete a combination of in-house and online training short courses in:
- Scientific computing
- High-performance computing
- Computational methods for data analysis
- Data management
- R Programming
- Quantum mechanics
- Statistical mechanics
Aims
Learn how to apply scripting, mathematical modelling and informatics to:
- Chemistry
- Chemical biology
- Glycobiology
- Genomics
- Glycomics
- Biophysics
- Chemical physics
Structure
- Perform research and complete a dissertation solving a modelling or informatics problem in the domain of sciences. Produce scientific computer code using C++, Fortran and C, design computational models using Python or PERL, and apply or design analytics methods using R, SQL, MATLAB, or MAPLE.