The goal of the Computer Simulation Column is to bring new ideas in research to the attention of advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and a broad spectrum of scientists and engineers in academia, government labs, and industry.

The column focuses on applications to a wide range of systems (for example, magnetic systems, fluids, earthquakes, polymers, neurons, and membranes), new ideas (for example, fractals and self-organized critical phenomena), new techniques (for example, Gibbs ensemble Monte Carlo and conformal optimization), and techniques supplemental to simulations (for example, the Bethe Ansatz, wavelets, and series expansions).

The Computer Simulation column, formerly published in Computers in Physics, now appears in the bimonthly journal, Computing in Science and Engineering.

Please send suggestions for future columns or comments to jant@kzoo.edu or hgould@clarku.edu.

Updated 16 March 2000.