Fields of Study

DOE CSGF participants use math and computers to conduct doctoral research within a broad array of fields, including:

We invite you to review the work of our fellows and alumni for a more comprehensive look at fields of study supported by the DOE CSGF program.

DOE CSGF: A Truly Interdisciplinary Community

Computational science is an interdisciplinary approach that uses algorithms, mathematics and computers to analyze and solve scientific and engineering problems.

The DOE CSGF community is helping to create a new breed of interdisciplinary researchers who may reside in departments of science, mathematics, engineering or computer science.  The common thread in their research is the use of computing and mathematical methods. An important way in which the DOE CSGF program nurtures a solid interdisciplinary foundation is through the program of study.

Above all, the DOE CSGF program helps computational scientists from a wide array of disciplines develop a sense of community that is often difficult to obtain in a single academic department.  This sense of community is carried through the practicum assignment at a DOE laboratory, where interdisciplinary research teams are structured very differently than in academic departments.

The annual conference also highlights the benefits of an interdisciplinary community.  Often, a fellow will be inspired by work completed by another student in a seemingly unrelated area, or, will develop ideas about new ways to approach his or her own research problems.

Plot of plasma mass density created from curved target (Mark Berrill, fellow)		A gene-activated fluorescent protein superimposed over images of a growing three-dimensional colony of E. coli cells (Tal Danino, fellow)		Image for testing image deblurring and super-resolution imaging algorithms (Julianne Chung, alumna)