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University Establishes Computational Physics Lab
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Kunal Das, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, recently set up
Fordham University’s first Computational Physics Lab in Room 107 at
Freeman Hall on the Rose Hill campus. The facility will allow
undergraduate students to gain hands-on experience with numerical
computation software widely used in scientific and engineering
applications.
The computers in the lab are equipped with Mathematica, Matlab and
Fortran programs. Das has already incorporated the Mathematica program
into his course, “Mathematical Methods in Physics,” and he hopes to
eventually add a computer computation component to several of the
University’s physics courses. The goal, Das said, is to make Fordham’s
undergraduate science students more professionally competitive.
“Simply learning how to do calculations on paper is not enough,” Das
said. “Students need to demonstrate proficiency and knowledge of
current software and programming methods when they apply for technical
positions or graduate programs in scientific disciplines.”
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