Computational Science Lab Information

The Computational Science Lab (CSL) is a research group within the Informatics Institute at the University of Amsterdam. CSL focuses on the information processing of complex and dynamic natural systems. A complex natural system can be a flock of birds, the traffic in a city or the spreading of a virus in the human body. All these systems consist of individual entities – birds, vehicles, cells - that interact with each other and the environment. They have mechanisms and rules by which they operate, but it is very hard to predict their behaviour. You need computational techniques to simulate the process and understand future behaviour. The predominant question the group tries to answer: How can you use computational techniques to make complex natural systems tractable?