COSC 150: Science Using Computation Instructor: Dr. Xenia Mountrouidou 1

2 Who am I? Dr. X – Computer Scientist PhD at North Carolina State University – Optical networks performance Worked at IBM – Software Performance Engineer Post doc at College of William and Mary – research on performance and power savings for hard disk drives Assistant professor at Jacksonville University Assistant professor at Wofford College! Scuba diver, manga comics collector, science fiction reader, …hacker

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Topics Who are you and what are you looking from this course? Syllabus and Policies Group activities on Syllabus What is Computer Science? What do Computer Scientists study? What do they actually do? 4

Syllabus Activity What do you think we will be doing in this class? What do you think we will not be doing in this class? What do you dread most? What do you hope most? 5

About this course It is not about just coding… It is not about just science… It is about using computation for scientific problem solving content/uploads/2015/07/hybrid-cars-1.jpg 6

What is computer science? “Computers are to computer science what telescopes are to astronomy.” – E. Dijkstra The study of what can be computed Computer scientists… (what do they do, what do they look like?) Computer scientists 7

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Science and Computation What is Science? What is Computation? What is Simulation? 10