Our first event, Interdisciplinary Science, will be held on Tuesday, 2/28, 4pm in SCI 278 with panelists Mala Radhakrishnan (Chemistry), Orit Shaer (Computer Science), Brian Tjaden (Computer Science), and Michelle Ferreirae ’13. The discussion will delve into:
- The power of computational science as a tool for helping to solve today’s important global issues.
- Examples of using computational science to analyze large amounts of data and to model or simulate real-world processes.
- How Human-Computer Interaction research enhances innovation in bio-design, genomics, and phenology.
- The importance of interdisciplinary skills in successfully using science to tackle complex problems, and why and how computational and mathematical literacy could be better integrated with literacy in the sciences and global issues, both in pedagogy and in research.
