With the support of the Provost and the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, the FSU Board of
Trustees, at its June meeting, approved the formation of the new Department of
Scientific Computing. The fifteen founding faculty of the new department are drawn
from the School of Computational Science; these faculty formerly were
affiliated with the Departments of Biological Sciences, Chemical and Biomedical
Engineering, Chemistry, Geological Sciences, Mathematics, Mechanical
Engineering, and Physics. Eppes Professor Max Gunzburger will serve as the
first chair of the new department. The new department also inherits the
graduate degree programs previously offered by the School of Computational
Science.
The creation of the new department recognizes the central importance of
computations in scientific inquiry and technological design. The missions of
the new department are, in short, to perform cutting-edge interdisciplinary
research in computational science, to offer innovative degree programs that
address the pressing need to train the next generation of computational
scientists, and to support environments for high-performance computing on the
FSU campus.