Applied Math and Computational Science Phd

[neohio]

a friend of mine was asking about these types of programs. i was at a loss. anyone shed any light on whether people coming from this background make it in the industry?

 

[kwlmy]

This is a wide area - could be numerical analysis, computational, physics/mechanics-related, algorithms, etc. Could be done in engineering, physics, mathematics, computer science, etc. I have seen some people in this area who moved to finance. I believe Sylvain Raynes did computational (fluid dynamics) research in grad school:

http://www.quantnet.com/interview-with-sylvain-raynes/

 

[Uncle Max]

Surprisingly many people in the industry come from Aerospace Engineering (aka Fluid Dynamics). Probably because it involves a lot of very heavy math and computations.