Well, it can't avoid improving my tenure chances, since I'm at the moment not on the tenure track, and the department as it is/was only had five possible slots, and they're filled.
My department's one in computational science, that is, not so much how to program computers as to how to efficiently solve mathematics or physics or biochemistry problems on computers. Sometimes that's by straightforward numerical problem-solving, but often it's by simulation and numerical experiment. As you can see, it's necessarily multidisciplinary (it even, here, branches across two faculties of the school). It also, maybe, was a more obviously needed department 20 years ago, when numerical experimentation was rarer and more skeptically viewed. These days only a handful of people doubt the need for numerical experimentation.
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Date: 2005-06-29 10:21 am (UTC)Well, it can't avoid improving my tenure chances, since I'm at the moment not on the tenure track, and the department as it is/was only had five possible slots, and they're filled.
My department's one in computational science, that is, not so much how to program computers as to how to efficiently solve mathematics or physics or biochemistry problems on computers. Sometimes that's by straightforward numerical problem-solving, but often it's by simulation and numerical experiment. As you can see, it's necessarily multidisciplinary (it even, here, branches across two faculties of the school). It also, maybe, was a more obviously needed department 20 years ago, when numerical experimentation was rarer and more skeptically viewed. These days only a handful of people doubt the need for numerical experimentation.