Questions tagged [career-development]

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Is it possible to have a career in SciComp without contributing to arms research?

I am at an international conference (ICIAM2019) about numerical methods and am surprised by the prevalence of applications directly relatable to arms research. examples: One award winner holds his talk about the mathematical problem of radar…
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SciComp Modeling Jobs

The meta seemed to suggest that career advice is ok . . . so here goes. I have a couple of close friends in the ML and mathematical modeling fields just finishing PhD's and starting out on the job hunt. While both are quite qualified and talented,…
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What can a computational scientist do in the fourth industrial revolution?

This question is neither scientific nor technical but more career related. I am at a junction in my professional life where I need to make a decision with regard to the future of my career. At the moment I am an R&D manager and my job is very…
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How to position oneself, if one has little practical engineering background or function, but may have a broader insight into mathematical modeling?

How to position oneself, if one has little practical engineering background or function, but may have a broader insight into mathematical modeling? Or, lets say: I could write models to prove properties about the thing perhaps, but I wouldn't…
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What are the "job programming languages" for computational science?

What are the "job programming languages" for computational science? What are their use cases? C obviously. But what standards, and what are some central use cases? C++? But what standards, some particular subset? Fortran. How relevant is this…
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