Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 4:00 pm

Hosted by: Peter Wanderer

KAUST is a graduate research institution with research thrusts in energy, environment, food, and water for a sustainable planet, and supporting thrusts in core capabilities (modeling, simulation, analytics, software, and hardware). Created as a 21st century 'House of Wisdom' in the tradition of the ancient Bayt al Hikmah that gave the world much of its modern mathematics, physics, chemistry, and medicine , KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) has been endowed with world-class facilities and has recruited a world-competitive research faculty. KAUST awards degrees in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, Bioscience, Chemical Science, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Computer Science, Earth Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Environmental Science and Engineering, Marine Science, Materials Science and Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. Currently, KAUST enrolls students from 47 different countries, and the language of instruction is English. KAUST is seeking ambitious, academically talented, and highly motivated [students] from the world's leading institutions to be trained in sustainable technologies and the enabling sciences, to participate in discovery and delivery in pursuit of MS and PhD degrees. KAUST has a special dual degree program with students of UCAS. (The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service is the British admission service for students applying to university and college.) The Dean of the Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division will present KAUST's programs and world-class programs from the perspective of a graduate student seeking to compare her or his opportunities there in to those of the leading universities of the United States.