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YSP 2024 – Open for Applications

Northeastern University

This 6 week summer research program will run from June 24 to August 1 and will involve research in various fields of STEM such as chemistry, biology, pharmaceutical sciences, computer engineering, chemical engineering, and bioengineering with faculty and graduate student mentors.

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Quantum Computing

STEMe

What is quantum computing? Quantum computing refers to computers that solve complex problems that high performance computers, or supercomputers, can’t solve. Quantum computers can resolve the laws of quantum theory and other problems involving elementary particles and microscopic physics. WRITTEN BY CONNOR WHITE.

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Are you looking for a high-paid career in STEM?

Futurum

Software engineer. Software engineers design and maintain the software behind all computer systems and applications. As we rely so heavily on technology these days, software engineers are responsible for keeping modern society functioning. Chemical engineer.

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List of 75+ STEM Careers, Jobs & Occupations

STEM Sport

Analytical Chemist The Role: Analytical Chemists use their knowledge of chemistry, instrumentation, computers, and statistics to solve problems in almost all areas of chemistry. They must consider many factors in their designs, from the costs and expected lifetime of a project to government regulations and potential environmental impacts.

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Concrete change: the innovative chemistry of sustainable cement

Futurum

In line with global climate commitments, governments are investing in ways to reduce CO 2 emissions, and the cement industry is a prime area of interest. We incorporate knowledge from chemistry, physics, mathematics and biology with chemical engineering to help address society’s most pressing challenges. “I Prospects.ac.uk

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

Futurum

Scientific simulations — an advanced type of computational model that not only represents a real-world phenomenon, but aims to predict how the phenomenon might change under different conditions or parameters. Software — a set of instructions, scripts or programmes that are used to operate computers and perform specific tasks.

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A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. But it wasn’t long before I started hearing mentions that somewhere at the school there was a computer. I’d seen a computer in real life only once—when I was 10 years old, and from a distance. How Did We Get Here?

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