Can a Computer Science Degree Enhance a Physicist's Computational Skills?

[Robert Mak]

Can a computer science degree help a physicist?

 

[theperthvan]

Maybe if his computer is broken.

 

[leright]

absolutely.

 

[kant]

i am sure there are subfields in physics that fit your particular expertise.

 

[Crosson]

Programming skills are more important for a physicist than is a knowledge of theoretical computer science, but because all the best programmers have this knowledge, you are in good shape.

 

[Soveraign]

I would have to say a C.S. degree would be very valuable to a computational physicist. I worked briefly with COSMOS (a hydrodynamics simulator) and the code base was quite large. Understanding how to plan and organize your code is necessary to efficiently manage such a project.